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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Advent 2025 Episode 4: Bear Witness
Will you "Bear Witness" with Rev. Starlette Thomas, your podcast pastor, in the fourth episode of the 2025 Advent installment of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast?
6 min
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Advent 2025 Episode 3: Get the Message
"Get the Message" from Rev. Starlette Thomas, your podcast pastor, in the third episode of the 2025 Advent installment of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast.
6 min
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Advent 2025 Episode 2: Preaching Up a Hissy Fit
Consider "Preaching Up a Hissy Fit" from Rev. Starlette Thomas, your podcast pastor, in the second episode of the 2025 Advent installment of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast.
7 min
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Advent 2025 Episode 1: A Wake-Up Call
Get "A Wake-Up Call" from Rev. Starlette Thomas, your podcast pastor, in the first episode of the 2025 Advent installment of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast.
4 min
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Advent 2025 Trailer: "Bear Witness"
Join Rev. Starlette Thomas, your podcast pastor, for "Bear Witness," the 2025 Advent installment of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast.
2 min
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Season 6 Episode 5: "Sweet Dreams" with Tecca T...
In this episode, we discuss the power of refusal, the divine right to rest and the liberation experienced by closing one’s eyes. Guest: Tecca Thompson.
31 min
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Season 6 Episode 4: "Snooze Button" with Daniel...
In this episode, we discuss rest as resistance and napping as a next step in the social justice movement. Guest: Danielle Castillejo.
32 min
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Season 6 Episode 3: "Sleep On It" with Robert C...
In this episode, we discuss the “joy of missing out” on manufactured social strivings, strategically choosing instead to sleep on it.
31 min
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Season 6 Episode 2: "Give It A Rest" with Curti...
In this episode, we discuss why the peddlers of the hand me down talking points of human hierarchy should give it a rest.
56 min
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Season 6 Episode 1: "Stay Woke?" with Wendell G...
In this episode, we discuss the African American community’s decision to refuse to participate in performative democracy, reclaim the word and embody it in the dream space.
30 min
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Season 6 Trailer: Stay Woke?
Join Rev. Starlette Thomas, your podcast pastor, for season six of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast. The question is: "Stay Woke?" Five episodes will drop weekly on Wednesdays, beginning September 3.
2 min
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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