Friends, welcome once again.

This week, we're talking to Elle Dowd.

Elle Dowd (she/they) is an author, activist, and pastor.She is currently PhD student at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Elle has pieces of their heart in Sierra Leone, where their two children were born, and in St. Louis where they learned from the radical, queer, Black leadership during the Ferguson Uprising.

She was formerly a co-conspirator with the movement to #decolonizeLutheranism and served as a board member of the Euro-Descent Lutheran Association for Racial Justice, does community organizing in her city as a board member of SOUL, serves on the Clergy Advocacy Board for Planned Parenthood, and facilitates workshops in both secular conferences and Christian spaces. In 2021 she published a book with Broadleaf, Baptized in Teargas, about her conversion from a white moderate to an abolitionist is available now in print, e-book, or audiobook.

To get in touch with Elle and to keep up with updates, you can visit their website www.elledowd.com and subscribe to their newsletter.

You can also see her online ministry via Facebook.com/elledowdministry

or follow her on Twitter/SnapChat/Insta @hownowbrowndowd

or on TikTok @elledowdministry and @ELCAYoungAdults

And order their book Baptized in Teargas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist here https://bit.ly/2YICjBf

Or download the audiobook here https://christianaudio.com/baptized-tear-gas-elle-dowd-audiobook-download

Hello friends!

This week, we are talking to a new friend, Ell.

Ell is a co-host for The Word in Black and Red podcast, a member of the IWW, and a board member at her church. She was raised Presbyterian, sent to catholic school as an atheist, and then graduated with a BA in anthropology and classics. She’s worked in various industries and is a passionate advocate of intersectional workers rights and building community solidarity.TWIBAR

Hello Friends.

This time, we are talking to Adam Ericksen.

Adam Ericksen is....The Pastor Clackamas United Church of Christ in Milwaukie, Oregon who is always posting provocative church signs calling out injustice, rebuking police brutality, standing up for rights of refugees, the humanity of Muslims, and the dignity of trans people...you know, like Jesus would.Bluesky: Pastor Adam

Instagram: Adam Ericksen

This week we get to meet a new friend, Char Mansfield.

Char Mansfield, co-founder of the public theology podcast Barefoot to Emmaus, is a Princeton Seminary MDiv and soon to be Rutgers University MSW. They plan to use the two master's to pursue a bivocational ministry of pastoral leadership and psychotherapy. Char is an anarchist in the style of the first church, with their deepest convictions surrounding the centrality of interdependent community and renunciation of private property to the Christian calling.

https://barefoot2emmaus.weebly.com/

https://www.instagram.com/barefoot2emmaus/

Barefoot2emmaus@gmail.com

This week we get to talk to the delightful Jennifer C. Martin.

Jennifer C. Martin is a writer, editor, and speaker living in Richmond, VA, with her two partners and two children. She writes, reads, and speaks about religion, politics, polyamory, sexuality, culture, entertainment, and more. When she's not trolling on social media or updating her Substack blog, Dirtbag Christian, she's in the kitchen making baked goods, doing yoga, editing, writing, gaming, gardening, or going to therapy. Raised in the Church of God denomination in a conservative home, she is now a member of the United Church of Christ and a communist.
website: https://jennifercmartin.com/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/notreallyjcm.bsky.social
Substack: https://dirtbagchristian.substack.com/

This week we are talking to my friend Aaron Epperson.
Aaron Epperson is a writer, social services worker, and a lover of Oregon's wild places. He has a BA in Conflict Resolution from Portland State and spent years working in the tech industry before pivoting to social services where he helps families through difficult circumstances.

aaronepperson.com

Bluesky: @tacojolly

This week on All Things Made New, we're talking with Marc Alan Schelske about his new book, Walking Otherward.

Marc Alan Schelske is a happily recovering fundamentalist praying for the restoration of all things. He writes and teaches about spiritual maturity, emotional growth, and the other-centered, co-suffering way of Jesus. He is a small-church pastor nearing thirty years of experience as a big design and technology geek and sometimes musician.

Marc earned a Bachelor's in Theology at Walla Walla University and a Master’s in Theology and Culture at St. Stephen’s University. He is the author of several books, including The Wisdom of Your Heart and Journaling for Spiritual Growth. Marc serves as the teaching elder at Bridge City Community Church in Milwaukie, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, where he lives with his nearly-adult children, Emerson & Lucas, his partner, Christina, as well as an aging mutt, Jackson, and a vindictive once-feral cat named Bellatrix, who demands affection at knife-point twice a day.
Preorder the book here.