The Raceless Gospel Podcast
Welcome to "The Raceless Gospel" podcast, where Word meets flesh. Rev. Starlette Thomas of Good Faith Media is your podcast pastor, hosting multiple seasons and special series, sharing stories of where that word, race, met our own, when its meanings were rubbed into our skin, why it gets under our skin, how current events fit in and what the Church in North America can do about it.
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Season 5 Episode 7: Balance the Books
In this episode, we discuss the need for an audit, which is to say a reckoning. Guest: Andrew Wilkes.
35 min
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Season 5 Episode 6: Pick Up the Tab
In this episode, we discuss the early church model of "sharing all things in common" and why everyone can’t have a seat at the table. Guest: Leah Grundset Davis.
29 min
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Season 5 Episode 5: Flat Broke
In this episode, we discuss the broken institution seemingly on its last leg, the increase in church closures and what it means to gather as Christian believers. Guest: Maria Francesca French.
37 min
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Season 5 Episode 4: Highway Robbery
In this episode, we flip over tables trying to get to it while discussing “cheap salvation” and the currency of faith. Guest: Justin Cox.
30 min
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Season 5 Episode 3: Quick Buck
In this episode, we discuss the going rate for right-standing with God and the money laundered to give filthy rag-righteousness a good scrubbing. Guest: Xavier Johnson.
33 min
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Season 5 Episode 2: Money Talks
In this episode, we discuss our introduction to money and what the North American church says about the Benjamins. Guest: Yamie Barnett.
44 min
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Season 5 Episode 1: Cash Cow
In this episode, we discuss the North American church as big business and American empire-adjacent. Guest: Greg Jarrell.
25 min
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Season 5 Trailer: A Love Offering
Join Rev. Starlette Thomas, your podcast pastor, for season five of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast. Seven episodes will drop weekly on Wednesdays, beginning September 4.
1 min
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Advent 2023 Episode 4: Walk Together Children
Mary doesn’t know the feeling and neither does her cousin Elizabeth, but they will waddle about together.
5 min
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Advent 2023 Episode 3: I Got My Ticket
Mary has received word of her calling and hits a high note.
4 min
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Advent 2023 Episode 2: Take Me to the Water
John the Baptist is ahead of Jesus, but he doesn’t get ahead of himself.
5 min
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Advent 2023 Episode 1: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
When the sky looks empty and cosmic power is shaky, here comes Jesus, making a grand entry.
5 min
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Advent 2023 Trailer: Your 'Kin-dom' Come
Jesus, our Elder Brother, will come not to rule with an iron fist but to remind us that we are next of kin, that we are all God’s children, that we are family.
1 min
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Season 4 Episode 5: Body/Building
In episode 5 with Tamice Spencer-Helms, Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas wonders what it will take for the church -- a body of believers -- to come together.
20 min
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Season 4 Episode 4: Toes
In episode 4 with Miguel De La Torre, Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas asks: With prophets and apostles as its foundation, the North American church should have solid footing, right?
18 min
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Season 4 Episode 3: Knees
In episode 3 with Justin Fung, Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas asks: Does the North American church have bad knees?
36 min
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Season 4 Episode 2: Shoulders
In episode 2 with Ben Boswell, Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas asks: If the body has a good head on its shoulders, here being Christ, then why do questions remain?
26 min
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Season 4 Episode 1: Head
In episode 1 with Bren Dubay, Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas asks: Is the church in over its head?
27 min
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Season 4 Trailer: Body/Building
Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast. Season four, "Body/Building," starts Wednesday, July 12, 2023.
1 min
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Lent 2023 Episode 7: Beat the System
Rev. Starlette Thomas delivers Episode 7 ~ "Beat the System" ~ of this short Lenten podcast series from Good Faith Media.
8 min
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Lent 2023 Episode 6: The Loyalty Test
Rev. Starlette Thomas delivers Episode 6 ~ "The Loyalty Test" ~ of this short Lenten podcast series from Good Faith Media.
7 min
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Lent 2023 Episode 5: Entrance Exam(en)
Rev. Starlette Thomas delivers Episode 5 ~ "Entrance Exam(en)" ~ of this short Lenten podcast series from Good Faith Media.
6 min
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Lent 2023 Episode 4: Change the Subject
Rev. Starlette Thomas delivers Episode 4 ~ "Change the Subject" ~ of this short Lenten podcast series from Good Faith Media.
8 min
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Lent 2023 Episode 3: Testing the Limits
Rev. Starlette Thomas delivers Episode 3 ~ "Testing the Limits" ~ of this short Lenten podcast series from Good Faith Media.
8 min
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Lent 2023 Episode 2: Testing God
Rev. Starlette Thomas delivers Episode 2 ~ "Testing God" ~ of this short Lenten podcast series from Good Faith Media.
6 min