An Incomplete Field Guide to Ministry

Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware discuss mass shootings, preaching, and anti-Asian racism in the United States. What's the role of our words as Christian leaders before and after mass shootings? What historical threads connect to the shooting in Atlanta on March 16?
Our guest today is Rev. Charles M. Straight of Faith United Methodist Church in Dolton, Illinois. He is also chair of the People’s Lobby Faith Liberation Movement.
Mentioned this episode:

• Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and the Problem of Asian American Identity
  by Ki Joo Choi
• The Faith Liberation Movement is hosting an action on Saturday, April 17 at the Cook County Jail (26th and California in Chicago) from Noon to 1PM, highlighting the particular injustices related to COVID and COVID relief spending in and around the jail.

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Our music is by Keith “Doc” Hampton. Thanks to Frantisek Janak and Michael Liotus for technology support. This episode was edited by Eric Fowler.
This podcast was made possible by the Lyn C. and Stewart W. Herman Jr. Fund for Innovation in Theological Education.

Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware tackle a series on Overwhelm. How do we anchor ourselves while caring for trauma in the midst of trauma? What strategies do we turn to? And what joys do we turn to in order to nurture ourselves? Whether it's travel, baking and making croutons with the mistakes, or reading Star Wars books and playing video games, we cannot ignore care for self and others. Our call is important. So is our care.
Our guest today is 2nd year M.Div LSTC student Katie Mueller, who brings compassionate skepticism, laughter, and a deep commitment to our ecological interconnections to her studies and life.
We'd love to hear from you! Send your questions or feedback to [email protected].
Our music is by Keith “Doc” Hampton. Thanks to Frantisek Janak and Michael Liotus for technology support. Our producer and editor is Eric Fowler.
This podcast is brought to you by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America that seeks to build up the Body of Christ and work for a world of peace and justice that cares for the whole creation.

Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware discuss church and society, community organizing, and power. What's so scary about power anyway? Where does it show up in Christian community? And how can preachers approach politics in sermons? (Can sermons even be apolitical?)
Mentioned this episode:

• Rita Nakashima Brock

We'd love to hear from you! Send your questions or feedback to [email protected].
Our music is by Keith “Doc” Hampton. Thanks to Frantisek Janak and Michael Liotus for technology support. Our editor is Eric Fowler.
This podcast was made possible by the Lyn C. and Stewart W. Herman Jr. Fund for Innovation in Theological Education.

Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware continue their multi-week conversation about the pandemic, reflecting particularly on work. How has our labor changed, and not changed, during the pandemic? What does that have to do with our faith or relationships?
Our guest today is Will Tanzman, Executive Director at the People's Lobby. He also serves as Council President at First Lutheran Church of the Trinity in the Bridgeport.
Mentioned this episode:

• The Sabbath by Abraham Heschel
• Illinois' Pretrial Fairness Act

We'd love to hear from you! Send your questions or feedback to [email protected].
Our music is by Keith “Doc” Hampton. Thanks to Frantisek Janak and Michael Liotus for technology support. This episode was edited by Eric Fowler.
This podcast was made possible by the Lyn C. and Stewart W. Herman Jr. Fund for Innovation in Theological Education.

Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware talk about modeling care and justice, preaching hard messages, and resisting white supremacy.
Our first guest today is not a guest! Marvin Wickware takes the guest seat to discuss his research into white supremacy, race relations, and what makes racial reconciliation work succeed and fail.
Our second guest is Vicar Carolyn Lawrence, an LSTC student on her final year internship in Upstate New York.
Lifted up today:

• Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US by Lenny Duncan
• Surviving a Dangerous Sermon by Frank A Thomas
• Writings from Lenny Duncan, including a 5 part series on "Why the ELCA Needs to Start a Reparations Process."
• Visit lstc.edu/events for information on the upcoming Vine Deloria Jr. Theological Symposium, November 17-18th.

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Our music is by Keith “Doc” Hampton. Thanks to Frantisek Janak and Michael Liotus for technology support. This episode was produced and edited by Eric Fowler (Halvorson).
This podcast was made possible by the Lyn C. and Stewart W. Herman Jr. Fund for Innovation in Theological Education.