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Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church

著者： Kristen A. Brock
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Jesus, Justice & Mercy
Bold faith, radical love, and justice for the church.

Welcome to Jesus, Justice & Mercy — a podcast for Christians who sense that justice matters but feel the tension between Jesus and much of what they see practiced in the church.

If you’re wrestling with inherited faith, questions that don’t have easy answers, or the growing gap between the Gospel and the world we’re navigating, you’re not alone.

I’m your host, Kristen Brock, rooted in the church and committed to following Jesus with honesty, courage, and compassion. Each season, we engage Scripture, history, and lived experience to explore the intersections of faith, justice, and discipleship. We talk about race, trauma, power, civic responsibility, and the ways faith has been both a source of harm and a force for healing.

Whether you’re deconstructing, rebuilding, or simply learning to ask better questions, this is a space for thoughtful reflection, faithful wrestling, and a faith shaped by justice, deeply rooted in Scripture.

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  • You Can't Discover Someone's Home | Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Stuck Brains, and the Faith We Learned as Kids

    You Can't Discover Someone's Home | Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Stuck Brains, and the Faith We Learned as Kids
    2026/10/13

    You Can’t Discover Someone’s Home | Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Stuck Brains, and the Faith We Learned as Kids

    In this pop-in episode between seasons, Kristen honors Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the nations who were on this land long before Columbus and who are still here today. Columbus landed here, yes. But how does anyone discover a place where people had already lived for thousands of years? That question opens a bigger one: why do our brains hold so tightly to what we learned as kids, even when new information tells a fuller story?

    In this episode:

    • Three simple reasons our brains resist changing our minds: we’re wired to save energy, we treat a threatened belief like a threatened body, and our beliefs are tied to our belonging
    • Why the tight stomach we feel when history gets bigger isn’t proof the new information is wrong
    • The Doctrine of Discovery: how church documents in the 1400s gave Christian rulers permission to claim inhabited land, how that logic reached U.S. law in Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823), and why the Vatican didn’t formally repudiate it until 2023
    • How we do the same thing with what we learned about God in Sunday school, and why questioning it can feel like betrayal even when we’re moving toward Jesus
    • Metanoia, Romans 12:2, and Peter in Acts 10: Scripture expects us to change our minds
    • Honoring the Indigenous peoples of this land, whose story didn’t end in 1492

    Reflection question: What’s one thing you learned as a kid, about history or about God, that your body defends before your mind has a chance to weigh it?

    Share your answer with me on Threads or Substack. Find the post for this episode (86) and join the conversation there.

    Whose land are you on? Text your zip code to (907) 312-5085 to learn which Indigenous nation’s land you live on. Then go learn directly from Indigenous voices, not just about them.

    Referenced: Kaplan, Gimbel & Harris (2016); the Doctrine of Discovery (Dum Diversas, 1452; Inter Caetera, 1493); Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823); Vatican statement on the Doctrine of Discovery (2023); Acts 10:34; Romans 12:2

    For women who stayed small and called it faithfulness : a reading list to start finding your way back. Get it here!

    If this episode was meaningful for you, the best way to help others find the show is to:

    • Text this episode to a friend who might need it
    • Leave a 5-star rating and review
    • Subscribe so you don’t miss future episodes
    • Wrestling with faith and justice and not sure where to start?
    • Grab my free theological reading list, Beyond Faith as Usual, HERE!

    Here’s to a faith that tells the truth, refuses silence in the face of harm, and follows Jesus all the way into healing and justice.

    RESOURCES:

    www.kristenabrock.com
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  • Plot Twist | You Were the Ekklesia All Along

    Plot Twist | You Were the Ekklesia All Along
    2026/09/17

    Thirteen weeks. Thirteen words. And it turns out the whole season was pointing somewhere you didn't see coming, including a plot twist in the fall schedule. This finale walks the season backward, word by word, from where it landed to where it started, and lands on something none of the thirteen words could say alone. Then: the honest reason Season 4 | The Reckoning Season isn't dropping this month, and what's actually coming between now and the new year.

    Theology Unleashed is a summer series of short Greek and Hebrew word studies from Jesus, Justice + Mercy. Justice-rooted, seminary-informed, and considerably less scripted than usual. Dogs present.

    See the full series at kristenabrock.com/theology-unleashed

    For women who stayed small and called it faithfulness : a reading list to start finding your way back. Get it here!

    If this episode was meaningful for you, the best way to help others find the show is to:

    • Text this episode to a friend who might need it
    • Leave a 5-star rating and review
    • Subscribe so you don’t miss future episodes
    • Wrestling with faith and justice and not sure where to start?
    • Grab my free theological reading list, Beyond Faith as Usual, HERE!

    Here’s to a faith that tells the truth, refuses silence in the face of harm, and follows Jesus all the way into healing and justice.

    RESOURCES:

    www.kristenabrock.com
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  • Ekklesia | Not Church Building. Political Assembly

    Ekklesia | Not Church Building. Political Assembly
    2026/09/10
    Your Bible says “church.” Ekklesia (ἐκκλησία) is the Greek word behind it, and it never meant a building. In Greek city-states, an ekklesia was the assembly of citizens, summoned to show up and decide the city’s actual business: war, law, and money. Luke uses the same word for a rioting mob and for the “real, lawful” assembly that a town clerk redirects them to; instead, in the same scene in Acts 19, the same word is used for two very different gatherings. The Greek Old Testament translates qahal, Israel’s own word for assembly, as ekklesia, including the assembly gathered at Sinai to receive the Law, a link Stephen makes explicit in Acts 7:38. When Jesus first says the word (Matthew 16:18), he’s standing at Caesarea Philippi, a city built around Roman emperor worship, declaring a rival assembly, not a prayer group. And the earliest ekklesia never met in a building at all, it met in homes, repeatedly run by women: Lydia, Nympha, Chloe, Phoebe, and Junia, whose name English Bibles quietly turned male for centuries.This is the last of the 13 word studies! Thank you for showing up all season. Next week: a wrap-up episode, pulling it all together and talking about what’s coming next.Theology Unleashed is a summer series of short Greek and Hebrew word studies from Jesus, Justice + Mercy. Justice-rooted, seminary-informed, and considerably less scripted than usual. Dogs present.See the full series at kristenabrock.com/theology-unleashedFor the Word Nerds• Ekklesia comes from ek (“out of”) + kaleō (“to call”), but resist the popular “called-out ones” reading. In everyday Greek, it was simply the ordinary word for a formally summoned public assembly, not a term loaded with “set apart from the world” theology.• It appears around 114 times in the New Testament, almost entirely in Acts, the letters, and Revelation. Only twice in the Gospels (Matthew 16:18 and 18:17).• In the Septuagint, it appears 77 times, almost always translating the Hebrew qahal, Israel’s own word for assembly.• The English word “church” isn’t even related to ekklesia. It comes from a different Greek word, kyriakon (“the Lord’s house”), which began to be attached to buildings around the 3rd century. The building sense was baked into English before translators ever got to the Greek text.• For centuries, many English Bibles rendered the name in Romans 16:7 as the male “Junias” rather than the female “Junia”; there’s no manuscript basis for the change. Paul calls her “outstanding among the apostles.”Bible Verses & Passages Covered• Matthew 16:18 — “I will build my church,” spoken at Caesarea Philippi, a center of Roman emperor worship.• Matthew 18:17 — a dispute brought “to the church” for an actual decision.• Acts 7:38 — Stephen calls wilderness Israel at Sinai “the ekklesia in the wilderness.”• Acts 19:32, 39, 41 — the Ephesus riot; ekklesia used for both a civic assembly and a rioting mob.• Deuteronomy 4:10; 9:10; 18:16 — Israel’s assembly (qahal) at Horeb, rendered ekklesia in the Septuagint.• Acts 16:14–15, 40 — Lydia’s house church.• Colossians 4:15 — “the church in her house” (Nympha).• 1 Corinthians 1:11 — Chloe’s household reports a church dispute to Paul.• Romans 16:1 — Phoebe, deacon, likely courier of the letter to the Romans.• Romans 16:7 — Junia, “outstanding among the apostles.”Archive CallbacksChoose This Day Who You Will Serve: Faith at the Altar of Power (S2 E8) The Comfort We Called Holy: How White Christian Nationalism Formed Us (S3 E6) Pulpit Fiction: The Women They Renamed, Silenced, and Forgot (S3 E18) For women who stayed small and called it faithfulness : a reading list to start finding your way back. Get it here!If this episode was meaningful for you, the best way to help others find the show is to:Text this episode to a friend who might need itLeave a 5-star rating and reviewSubscribe so you don’t miss future episodesWrestling with faith and justice and not sure where to start? Grab my free theological reading list, Beyond Faith as Usual, HERE!Here’s to a faith that tells the truth, refuses silence in the face of harm, and follows Jesus all the way into healing and justice.RESOURCES:www.kristenabrock.com
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