My guest is Sunita Viswanath. She is a life-long organizer and activist, a founder of a nation-wide activist organization, and a Hindu. In New York City, you’ll always see Sunita in the demonstrations for immigration right’s, Black Lives Matter

LDT106 - Nichola Torbette

Jul 30th, 2018 48m 16s

——————————————————– A month ago, I was in the San Francisco Bay Area for my sort-of-annual visit to the place where I lived for 37 years, to connect with lots of old friends. As usual, I attended the church where I had been a member for a long

ZERO TOLERANCE FOR RACIST CRUELTY!! – US Immigration System is Cruel and Immoral [LDT105]

Jun 25th, 2018 52m 50s

—————————————————————————— All Rights for All, Without Boarders Last week, the Trump administration launched what they call a “deterrents” program, on the Mexican board, of separating children from their families as they process hopeful immigra

THE SPIRIT of THE CITY – New York Faith Leaders Offer a Different View the City’s Priorities [LDT104]

Mar 8th, 2018 45m 42s

It’s still pretty early in the year and all over the country we’re seeing mayors and governors (and even the president) deliver very official “State of” speeches that take a look at the accomplishments of the past year and spell out what the

REPAIR THE WORLD? REALLY! – A Talk With Jewish Activist, Diane Steinman [LDT103]

Feb 22nd, 2018 40m 36s

Have you ever felt that somehow you personally were responsible for repairing this crazy world we live it. That this world where kids are murdered in their school, where Nazis march around chanting hateful slogans, in this world where millions

WHY DOES A WHITE THEOLOGIAN HAVE TO COME TO AN AFRICAN COUNTRY TO TELL BLACK PEOPLE THAT GOD IS BLACK? – a talk with The Rev. Karyn Carlo, PhD, on her recent teaching stint in Liberia [LDT102]

Jan 24th, 2018 49m 29s

I hope that everyone has listened, at least once, to last week’s program with historian and author, Dr. Nancy MacLean on her very important book, DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (episode 101

DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America – with historian Dr. Nancy MacLean [LDT101]

Jan 13th, 2018 1h 6m

—————————————————— As you Lovers certainly know, this podcast is focused on the apparent crumbling of what we have called for the last few hundred years, The Church. Congregations are shrinking, the influence of churches is ebbing, and churches

THE POD FATHER, Tripp Fuller, Helps Russ Celebrate Love in a Dangerous Time’s 100th Episode [LDT100]

Dec 4th, 2017 56m 21s

……. Russ talks with Tripp Fuller, host of Homebrewed Christianity, the podcast that started the whole progressive Christian podcast niche. His show is focused on real theology, and real theologians. What a way to celebrate the 100th episode of

INTERFAITH IN THE CITY – with The Rev. Dr. Chloe Breyer, executive director of The Interfaith Center of New York. [LDT099]

Nov 28th, 2017 36m 54s

Interfaith Work in New York, with The Rev. Dr. Chloe Bryer Hey, Lovers – This is Russ and I want to welcome you to Love in a Dangerous Time, where we look at The Church, and the profound changes it’s going through in these Dangerous Times. We’v

THAT’S HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN – Commemorating the Yahrzeit of Leonard Cohen with Dan Nadel & Shira Averbuch [LDT098]

Nov 7th, 2017 59m 58s

…………………………… (Music sections have been re-edited) In the past many years, almost every recording artist has sung Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. It’s an extremely poetic look at the mess the world that resolves at the end into an affirmation of hope

THEOLOGICAL DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN FAITH and WHITE SUPREMACY – A talk with Rev. Trey Lyon & Writer/Activist, Lisa Sharon Harper [LDT097]

Oct 30th, 2017 1h 12m

This show was supposedto be released on October 23, but my computer has been completely out of commission for three days, and here I am, publishing this very important program (and it really is an important one) a week late on October 30. My ap

TRUE CALLING – Kristen & Russ Look at this Christian Process and Kristen Has an Announcement [LDT096]

Oct 16th, 2017 50m 52s

When a Christian truly feels that God want her to do something in particular, like become a minister, start a homeless shelter, become a tutor, paint a mural on the church playground wall, or read the Bible cover-to-cover, we say that we are “C

SAVE THE CHURCH? OR JOIN GOD IN SAVING THE WORLD? – A Conversation with Rick Ufford-Chase & Brian McLaren [LDT095] #Church2B

Oct 10th, 2017 1h 15m

Our guests today are Rick Ufford-Chase, the author of Faithful Resistance: Gospel Visions for the Church in a Time of Empire (interviewed in episode 76 of Love in a Dangerous Time) and Brian McLaren, most recently the author of The Great Spiri

BUSHWICK ABBEY – Rev. Nell Archer & Rev. Vince Anderson about music, art, and gentrification in Brooklyn, NY [LDT094]

Sep 25th, 2017 1h 1m

There’s a lot of church planting going on these days. And many of these plants are flourishing as alternative worshiping communities, made up of people who usually wouldn’t be caught dead in church. Kristen spoke with the two leaders of this e

A Jew and A Gentile Walked Into a Bar …. Mitzvah – Co-hosts are special guests on our good friends’ podcast [LDT093]

Sep 18th, 2017 1h 3m

For the first time, Lovers, we have been invited onto another podcast. Our good friends, Charles Bretan and Chris Henson (the very Jew and Gentile who walked into that Bar …. Mitzvah) invited Kristin and me onto their podcast to have a rich and

RE-THINKING THE CHURCH BEFORE IT WAS COOL – Wisdom from church pioneer Rev. Frank Dew [LDT092]

Aug 31st, 2017 47m 49s

In 1985, Rev. Frank Dew planted a small Presbyterian church in Greensboro, NC called “New Creation” that focused on relationships, community, and social justice. For over 30 years, this diverse group of people has come together to discuss the

IF WE LOSE SIGHT OF THE IMPERITIVE OF LOVE, THEN WE’RE JUST LOST – an open ended discussion with Nkosi Anderson re Nazis and the like [LDT091]

Aug 22nd, 2017 1h 13m

This episode has no agenda other than to talk through some of the big issues that arose this week with the emergence of organized and armed racists folk in Charlottesville, VA. Neo-Nazis, The Klan, The Alt-Right – lots of racists – lots of anti

THE SERVANT LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: A Model For Grounding Activism in Faith (and vice versa) – a talk with Director Ruth D. Anderson [LDT090]

Aug 14th, 2017 52m 53s

This week, with the violence and terror that has descended on Charlottesville, VA, we are reminded of the importance of continuing the work of dismantling systemic oppression by effectively engaging systems of power through nonviolent forms of

CONVERSION(S): AT THE BOTTOM – I’M GOING TO DO THIS – The Story of Co-Host Kristen Leigh [LDT089]

Aug 7th, 2017 54m 49s

For the past year or so, we’ve occasionally done an interview series called “Conversion(s)”, in which very active people of faith tell their stories about how they got there. The idea is that there are many moments of conversion in each of our

THE POOR WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US??!!! – What Jesus Really Said About the Poor – a talk with Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis [LDT088]

Aug 1st, 2017 56m 20s

How many times have you heard someone try to stand in the way of work to end poverty by saying, “The poor will always be with us”? It’s as if they are saying that God wants a certain percentage of us to be living in poverty. We have heard quite

ARE YOU A WILD GOOSE? PROBABLY! – A Chat With Goose Producer, Jeff Clark and Introducing New Co-Host, Kristen Leigh [LDT087]

Jul 24th, 2017 49m 17s

Lovers! In this episode, you’ll meet the newest addition to the Love in a Dangerous Time team. You may know Singer/Songwriter Kristen Leigh. Russ did an episode with her in February of 2016 (episode 54) where she talked about her music and her

LOVE IS WHAT MATTERS!!: A Talk With Father Louie Vitale About His Life Of Nonviolent Activism

Jul 9th, 2017 58m 58s

On Easter Sunday of this year (2017) I arrived at Canticle Farm (www.canticlefarm.org), an urban food growing and spiritual center in Oakland, California. I was a little early for the service and I couldn’t find anybody. I had been told by my f

RABBI STEVEN BLANE: Two New Albums [LDT085]

Jun 10th, 2017 1h 2m

About a year ago, I interviewed Rabbi Steven Blane, mostly about his online Sabbath services every Friday night. Pretty interesting stuff. We mentioned that Steve is also a singer-songwriter, and has some albums out there. In the time since tha

A PILGRIMAGE INTO RACISM: Tour of the South, with Bishop Raymond Blanchette & Michelle Alexander MD [LDT085]

May 29th, 2017 1h 14m

Lots of us, both Black and white, who live in the north and the far west, actually believe that the gains of the civil rights movemen t actually did the deal, and that now we live in a country where racism is pretty much under control and that

CONVERSION(S): Rev. Dr. KARYN CARLO: “It Matters What Side You’re On.” [LDT084]

May 22nd, 2017 1h 9m

For a year or so, we’ve had a series-within-a-series, called Conversion(s) it’s basically people’s journeys though life as a person of faith. We’ve had some interesting stories. Today’s story is one of the most interesting. Rev. Dr. Karyn Carlo