Found in Translation

12/19/2025

I so enjoyed joining the conversation with Rev. Kamal Hassan and Brad Sanders. It was an honor to be their guest, and I hope you'll give it a listen.

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08/19/2025

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🗿 Anti-Caesar coding throughout the story;
🤩 how much better the gospel is apart from Christian supremacism;
🔆 how to understand the great commission through a liberation & inclusion hermeneutic;
🐕 identifying the inclusive center in the literary structure of Matthew;
💗 empathy and compassion are central to the gospel...

Our returning guest co-host today is Kalie Hargrove (she/her). Kalie is a writer, theologian, and activist who lives in the greater-Atlanta area with her partner and two kids. She is currently writing a commentary on the Gospel According to Matthew using the LIT Bible. Kalie has been part of LGBTQ+ activism bringing awareness of the legalized discrimination q***r and trans students face at religious universities. She received her Master of Divinity from United Theological Seminary of Twin Cities.

Kalie is Director of Digital Outreach at the Center for Prophetic Imagination, which seeks to connect the intersection of socio-spiritual discernment and radical justice in our world.

08/16/2025

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🤷‍♂️ Pilate and the banality of evil;
🔫 The enduring temptation of revering the violent;
👩‍🦽‍➡️ Disability injustice in the church and the Bible;
🫂 Solidarity is central to salvation;
🌀 Manipulating crowds into bloodlust is as old as time;
🐐 Scapegoating vibes on Good Friday;
🪾 Jesus' crucifixion was (like) a lynching;
✝️ The varying reasons for Jesus' crucifixion;
👮‍♂️ The meaning Jesus seemed to ascribe to his state murder;
✡️ Resisting antisemitism as a core hermeneutical commitment.

Our returning guest co-host today is Mae Forrest Barnes! She is completing her PhD on disability justice in the church, cohosts The Anarchodox Podcast, and can be found on Bluesky -maeforrest.bsky.social

08/01/2025

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💗 The Eucharist is about an ever-widening belonging in God, and Matthew structured his entire gospel around it.
😵‍💫 The challenge of soothing nerves when confronting state violence.
🔄 The cyclical nature of domination and liberation in the Bible and history.
✡️ Resisting the antisemitic lure of seeing the Pharisees as the baddies, not just one set of antagonists.
🙄Jesus behavior amid a sham trial and a frothed-up Lynch mob.
🔫 The synergy between various kinds of domination power...
Our guest co-host today is Brian G. Murphy (he/him). Brian is the co-host of the Q***r Theology Podcast and is the co-creator of Legalize Trans, an artistic and educational movement to advance gender justice. He has been doing LGBTQ activism and education for over a decade with organizations. Brian is also a certified relationship coach, working with folks to open up their relationship and navigate the issues that come with open relationships and polyamory. His upcoming book is Love Beyond Monogamy.
📢 Find him everywhere as and here at / creativereduction

07/18/2025

We have officially applied to present on the podcast stage at the QCF conference! We're so excited at the prospect. If you feel inspired, you can help make it a reality by "recommending" Found in Translation at the link in the comments!
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07/18/2025

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☝️"I understand that reference" – How Jesus used loads of metacultural nods to embellish his alarm toward his neighbors' self-destructive nationalism;
💒 the intersection of the Black church and Anabaptism;
🥉 the Bible is holy because it is a library of testimonies of the losers;
🤲 Jesus' advice for getting through apocalyptic times;
⛓️‍💥 immigrant-love as a defining mark of Christian witness;
🙉 exasperation with revolutionary violence; and
👀 where to see Jesus every day.

Our guest co-host today is Pastor Trey Ferguson (he/him). Trey is a minister and public theologian who serves as the pastor of The Intention Church, an intentionally online church community built on the historic Black Church and the Anabaptist/Mennonite traditions. Trey also serves as the Executive Pastor at the Refuge Church in Homestead, Florida where he lives.

You can check out Trey's wordplay on his Substack (The Son Do Move) and his podcasts, the New Living Treyslation and Three Black Men.

He's on all the socials with the handle .

07/11/2025

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🖕 What Jesus knew would get him killed;
🤷‍♂️ Why he was fiercest to those – the Pharisees – with whom he was most theologically aligned;
💔 The similar anger we find in ourselves toward evangelicalism going after Christian nationalism;
🙈 The importance of rebuking the temptation to read these passages antisemitically;
🎭 Why religious fakers pi**ed Jesus off so much;
💩 How truthfulness and no-bullsh*t vibes became central to Jesus' social vision;
🏳️‍🌈 Why Jesus would be so irate at Christians antagonizing LGBTQ folk in his name;

Our guest co-host today is Jenna DeWitt (she/her pronouns). Jenna is a writer, editor, and resource curator, working primarily in q***r Christian spaces and centering aromanticism and asexuality. You can find her work at The Invisible Cake Society or on Substack, Threads, or BlueSky.

07/05/2025

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👩‍🎤 The q***r theology anthem that happened to be Jesus' favorite song lyric
🌴 Jesus' street pageantry entering Jerusalem parodying the imperial occupation;
🫣 Merch tables in the part of the temple dedicated to hosting outsiders;
😖 Jesus' mounting sense of his looming lynching;
👏 Jesus' G**O clapbacks;
and much more.

Our guest co-host is Naphtali Renshaw (she/they). Naphtali is the director of the BeLonging Space, a United Methodist ministry which resources faith communities to support LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-led liberation groups as acts of solidarity and reparations, including as de-escalators at Pride events. They are also the on-site support for the Maxwell Community Hub, a UMC building reimagined for neighborliness and q***r liberation.

07/04/2025

This week's episode will be a few hours late – but trust us, it's a banger.

06/27/2025

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💍 Why did Jesus' thoughts on divorce and marriage cause his disciples to question whether anyone can get married?
💁 Why did Jesus respond with this thing about three kinds of eu**chs?
💖 Does being a not-dickish partner render someone a kind of eu**ch in the eyes of patriarchy?
🔨 Does Jesus reinforce patriarchal ideas of marriage or deconstruct them?
🍑 How sexually engaged were eu**chs in Jesus' day?
♾️ How do our inherited gender binaries get in the way of interpreting these stories?
🤑 Who is the more prominent antagonist in the Bible: the devil or the rich?

🎙️ Our guest co-host is Kalie Hargrove (she/her). Kalie is a writer, theologian, and activist who lives in the greater-Atlanta area with her partner and two kids. She has been part of LGBTQ+ activism bringing awareness of the legalized discrimination q***r and trans students face at religious universities. She received her Master of Divinity from United Theological Seminary of Twin Cities.

Kalie is Director of Digital Outreach at The Center for Prophetic Imagination which seeks to connect the intersection of socio-spiritual discernment and radical justice in our world.

06/20/2025

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😾 Why is Jesus so reactive to his students' difficulty with understanding his vocation? He seems grumpy at times.
✊ How does Jesus plan to escalate his confrontation with the Roman Empire and their local enablers?
🏳️‍🌈 How is Jesus' strong words against harming children a fierce rebuke to q***rphobic parents?
and more!

Our guest cohost is Avery Arden (they/ze). Avery is a genderq***r autistic minister in Atlanta whose work proclaims the holiness and agency of trans and disabled people. Drawing from both Catholic and Reform traditions, their theology is incarnational, Trinitarian, and rooted in breaking binaries. And of course, you've heard Avery many times on The Word in Black and Red.