The Zeitcast with Jonathan Martin

On today’s Zeitcast with returning guest Stephanie Tait, Jonathan and Stephanie discuss the unique moment we’re in, traversing through a global pandemic, what it really means to DO Church, and how listening to the voices of marginalized people can help lead us forward. This is a vital conversation for us in this season of time, full of life, joy, pain, and reality- we know you’ll love this special conversation. Stephanie is an Author, speaker, disability advocate, and trauma survivor. Stephanie has harnessed her experience, writing her intimate understanding of pain into messages that foster healing within the Kingdom of God. Her commitment to equity, justice, honesty, and the theology of suffering make hers a vitally refreshing viewpoint in an industry often overrun with relentlessly positive affirmations. Her book ,The View from Rock Bottom is available everywhere fine books are sold. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiwwPlease rate, review, share, and subscribe!Edited and produced by Joel Everson

What does the book of Exodus, and particularly the women of Exodus, have to do with us today? Is there something from these stories we can apply to our lives today?On today’s Zeitcast with Kelley Nikondeha we discuss her new book Defiant:What The Women Of Exodus Teach Us about Freedom.Kelley describers herself as a practical theologian shaped by education and experience, by rhetoric and theology, by the luminous beaches of the California coast and the vibrant rhythms of Burundian drummers. She serves as the theologian-in-residence for SheLoves Magazine. As the co-director of Communities of Hope in Burundi, Kelley works to shape the theological foundation and push for deep congruence between our Biblical thinking and development practices..In this Episode Kelley and Jonathan discuss how the women of Exodus invite us in a beautiful pattern for finding our identity, addressing patriarchy, and finding liberation in the midst of empirical oppression. Kelley beautifully weaves together the similarities and connection to the word we live in today. Join us for this beautiful and empowering episode.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiwwPlease rate, review, share, and subscribe!Edited and produced by Joel Everson

In this special episode Jonathan sits down for a powerful conversation with returning guest Malika Cox to discuss how to find truth in the age of conspiracy theories. Malika is the Pastor of Justice and Spiritual Formation at The Table OKC. Malika has a deep background working with churches and non-profits specifically in regards to justice and advocacy. She specializes in peacemaking and reconciliation. Originally recorded as an Instagram live chat, we could not think of someone with whom we’d rather discuss this timely and weighty topic. Malika has a wonderful ability to bring a fresh energetic energy to this topic, while holding the necessary tenderness for so many impacted by the seriousness of this moment and all it holds. We know you will love this Table Chat episode as such as we did. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiwwPlease rate, review, share, and subscribe!

Join us for part 2 of Jonathan’s conversation with Rachel Held Evans recorded from her home in Dayton Tennessee last February.*Producers Note-We offer these episodes with a sense of tentative reverence. Tentative because they are so special, close, and tender. This is a glimpse into Jonathan and Rachel’s relationship, which is so much more than “content.” Reverence because these conversations feel just as vital, poignant, and brimming with the hope that Rachel exuded as the day they were recorded. This was a sacred moment, and we desire to treat it as such. As we listen together, we pray it meets you where you are, and helps you along the journey-as Rachel always did

Today is the one year anniversary of when my friend Rachel Held Evans left this world and joined the great cloud of witnesses. Today’s episode, previously aired on the Son Of A Preacher Man Podcast, is from February of last year when I went to see her and Dan and the kids at their home in Dayton, TN just before I moved from Nashville to OKC; and spent the most magical day there.Rachel did the same thing for me that she did for so many of us: created space. People who were not a people, became a people. I like to say it is like all these disparate characters written into some southern gothic novel, and she actually did “write us in”—into the gospel story her very life embodied. And that circle is ever widening, ever expanding, even now. We found that we didn’t need to leave The Story, just to reclaim it from the forces who said we had no place in it. Rachel wrestled for that reclaiming…for all of us. She wouldn’t let anybody take Jesus from her, take her Bible from her. She didn’t run away from the angry religious mob, nor from difficult texts. She was willing to fight for her faith; she was willing to fight for all of us.And I am so grateful. I literally see her legacy playing out every single day in my own community, in the lives of people who decided to keep the faith—and in some cases decided not to take their lives—because of Rachel Held Evans. She did all of this without institutional support, without some pre-existent platform, using only the tools of impossible curiosity, fierceness, empathy, and a blue collar commitment to the craft of writing we creatives often lack. And with these, she literally created a space that actually did not exist before. -Jonathan Martin*Producers Note-We offer these episodes with a sense of tentative reverence. Tentative because they are so special, close, and tender. This is a glimpse into Jonathan and Rachel’s relationship, which is so much more than “content.” Reverence because these conversations feel just as vital, poignant, and brimming with the hope that Rachel exuded as the day they were recorded. This was a sacred moment, and we desire to treat it as such. As we listen together, we pray it meets you where you are, and helps you along the journey-as Rachel always did

Reba Rambo’s classic album Confessions is being rereleased today, on its 40th anniversary! She’s lived such an operatic life—the daughter of gospel legend Dottie Rambo, she was first known from her years in the Singing Rambos, before carving out a career as a best-selling solo artist, going on to earn 4 Grammy nominations & win a Dove award. Confessions is her most vulnerable record, & also felt like the perfect title for this episode—as this is an especially vulnerable conversation, as she talks about reinventing after divorce, how we find God in our broken places, finding her voice again. We also debut an unreleased song she co-wrote with Jonathan, “At this table we say grace.”Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiwwPlease rate, review, share, and subscribe!

Welcome to Season 2! Jonathan sits down for a powerful conversation with film Producer Scott Budnick. Scott is known for his work on the Hangover Franchise and most recently the devastatingly beautiful film, Just Mercy. Scott shares regarding his journey and work regarding criminal justice reform and racial equality.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiwwPlease rate, review, share, and subscribe!

Jonathan gives you 15 films that he truly loves to help you survive the quarantine. Not a pretentious list of all respectable movies, mind you, these are the films he most loves from the gut, and watches most often. Let us know yours! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe!

What if sometimes you have to lose your faith in order to find it? What if sometimes you have to leave the temple/institution/Jerusalem, in order to get to Jesus? What if God walks with you, even on the road away from God? Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sonofapreacherman/ Visit Jonathan's Website: http://www.jonathanmartinwords.com/ Watch The Zeitcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHzTuNKhTK-AZjfmkxQiww Please rate, review, share, and subscribe!

A combustible exchange that Jonathan has described as one of his immediate favorite conversations with anybody on or off a podcast, there is so much heat on this one it almost feels like it needs a warning label! Speaking openly about the false prophets of our time during this "revelation of the real," but also the ways in which all of us are having to grapple with our essential human frailty, being forced to acknowledge we have really never been in control of our lives. And yet "the truth shall set you free," and there's nothing but liberation in this fiery conversation between friends!