Pastors Tim and Tuhina sat down with newly-elected Bishop of the North Carolina Synod of the ELCA, the Rev. Emily Hartner, to dive in deep on preaching in an Easter season still rife with the markings of Good Friday. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/bqskjbm.

Pastors Tim and Tuhina sat down with newly-elected Bishop of the NC Synod, ELCA, the Rev. Emily Hartner, to dive in deep on preaching in an Easter season still rife with the markings of Good Friday. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/bqskjbm – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.

This week, Hashcast is back in biblical storytelling mode. Here we find disciples hiding away in a locked room, Jesus showing up anyway, and a Thomas who trusted enough to come back and see for himself. It's a story meant to be told. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/dsnb3fg.

Tuhina and Jason sat down with Professor Caryce Chepchirchi Tirop to talk about what we all need to hear from the pulpit...whether or not we regularly preach. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/tmdtzbt – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.

Tim, Tuhina, and Jason – the AC Three – got together in-person to dive head-first into the lectionary for a few weeks. How can we encounter these stories anew, especially if they suffer from that deadly theological malady called Familiarity? Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/djkght6.

We sat down with Abbie Haug to talk about how religious pluralism is at the bedrock of what this country has always strived for (yet rarely achieved), and how it surrounds us today even if we don't recognize it. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/vbksnz3.

We sat down with the brilliant Dr. Allison Ralph to talk about how we're more like starlings than you might think, and how God is more like compost than we might assume. Life is as messy as it is holy. And it's worth staying in. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/pb6xzb3

Tuhina, Tim, and Jason – the AC Three – are back to discuss how epiphanies are still happening amidst the dumpster fire of today, and what it means for preachers who seek a word in the midst of it all. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/vhfpcmc – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.

@crazypastor.bsky.social and @tvrasche.bsky.social sat down with brilliant poet-author, speaker, and soul, @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social, to talk about liminal spaces, generational resilience, and how everything is a story. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/8w4wyhw.

We live among far too many worlds which were built doomed from the start. Consider all the systems held together only by nightmares. We deserve more. New dreams of hope deserve to breathe free. If only we can care for all of us, not just some of us.

In this throwback episode (one of our first!), the AC Three (Pastors Tim, Tuhina, and Jason) talk about this high holy day (err...night), and how we can look at it anew. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/cndyggc – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and we feel....conflicted? The AC Three go off-lectionary to talk about this faith-filled topic – to wrestle with it and explore how facing it head on offers a new way of seeing the world *today*. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/883ft8h

The incomparable James Baldwin again reminds us that we're all caught up with one another. We are profoundly intertwined, whether we like it or not. Whether we recognize it or not. Whether we believe it or not.

Love does many things. It is the "greatest of these," according to St. Paul. It also guards our hearts against the bottomless abyss – leave it to a musician to speak so poetically on love.

The AC Three – Pastors Jason, Tuhina, and Tim – talk about the Lutheran high holy day of Reformation, how its liberating focus often gets lost, and why "All Panic, No Disco" is not at all a bad title for the day. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/shcxznk

In a new segment on Hashcast, Pastor Jason goes on a story journey through the Gospel text this week – Jesus and the Ten Lepers – with the inspiration of the incomparable Tom Boomershine (and his seminal work). Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/spnfcqg

Goodness is more complicated than evil – it takes conscious dedication to embrace the former instead of succumbing to the latter.

Tim, @crazypastor.bsky.social, and @tvrasche.bsky.social talk about citizenship, especially considering we live in a time when birthright citizenship is under assault. What are we called to do as citizens of the commonwealth of God? Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/cqnj5tf

@tvrasche.bsky.social and @crazypastor.bsky.social sit down with the thoughtful, deliberate, brilliant professor Travis West to talk about his striking new book – and how Sabbath breaks all our rules around capitalism, possession, ownership, and beyond. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/y67gxyt

@crazypastor.bsky.social and Tim Brown sit down with writer, filmmaker, podcaster, speaker, and educator @derricklweston.bsky.social to talk about how God is a terrible shepherd (but an amazing savior). Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/srvdn3n

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) reminds us that truth isn't malleable based on our own whims. In other words: facts don't care about our feelings.

@tvrasche.bsky.social, Tim, and @crazypastor.bsky.social go off-lectionary to discuss Luther's theology of the cross. What does it mean to trust the evidence of your eyes and ears in a world which sometimes encourages suspicion of both? anamcara.subspla.sh/gr7d5tq

@crazypastor.bsky.social and @lovebigcoach.bsky.social sit down with the Rev. Joann Lee to talk about a God who loves food, a God who topples any rigid structures we might create, and what it means to stay awake in a world committed to keeping people asleep. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/p5g7t3x

"What is to give light must endure burning." Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), Austrian neurologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, naming a deep truth for all times.

The AC Three are back, off-lectionary, to talk about all things resiliency, and what it means to embrace the meme, "This is fine." Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/h9c2wx3

bell hooks coming in with her trademark honesty, cutting to the heart of the matter.

May we open our ears and eyes – our hearts, even – to the world around us, while trying our best to abstain from judging that very same world. May we be led with curiosity instead of contempt. For observation on its own is a powerful, holy thing.

Human ingenuity and technology has given us better weapons and more inventive ways to kill each other – but still we wait for similar upgrades when it comes to how we relate to each other.

May tomorrow's sunrise find us doing the work we've always been called to.

The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we can be. So we hide the poor and kill the prophets. –Philip Berrigan Christianity has failed every test when it comes to the poor and the prophets. We can do better. We MUST do better.

True story: if you understood fascism and began to resist it *before* the U.S. entered the Second World War against Nazi Germany, you were designated by the government as being "prematurely anti-fascist." Because it's only appropriate to be against fascism when the U.S. wants to be against it.

We sat down with the Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters to talk about the multifaceted, multilayered story that often suffers from familiarity: the Day of Pentecost from Acts 2. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/6p2y8nx.

Pastors Tim and Jason go off-lectionary and sit down with the Rev. Kenneth Wheeler to talk about his book – US: The Resurrection of American Terror. What would it look like if this country actively worked to dismantle its white supremacist foundations? Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/j6n2cnz.

The question is: can we hold both together? Life IS death, but it's not only that. Where have you found joy today?

Rest well, dear servant. "As often occurs in periods of deep crisis which require bold decisions, we are tempted to think that what is happening is not entirely clear..." Pope Francis I (1936-2025)

We sat down with the fantastic Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow to talk about the entryway into Holy Week, what it means to usher in peace, and how Jesus consistently redefines things we thought we knew. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/4k8bprj – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.

The AC Three discuss one of the more timely and relevant movies ever made, especially as it pertains to the church: Conclave (2024) – what does it say about power, about our leaders, about how we live in community with one another, and about where true authority lies? anamcara.subspla.sh/6tgwc4n

We sat down with the brilliant Rev. @keatsmileswallace.com to talk about the wholly trans nature of the Transfiguration story. It's past time, liturgically, but the conversation still hits. Check it out: anamcara.subspla.sh/8rsrg35

@tvrasche.bsky.social and @crazypastor.bsky.social finish up their conversation with Dr. James Hill, tarrying with this powerful scripture for the sixth Sunday after the Epiphany. anamcara.subspla.sh/6hq4z47

@tvrasche.bsky.social and @crazypastor.bsky.social talk with Dr. James Hill about the haunting nature of Jesus' words on Epiphany 6. We're releasing this conversation in two parts – we need extra time to tarry with the good Doctor's words. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/78xpyc8

A word from David Lynch (1946-2025) to all those who persist with ignorance and hate. As John the Baptizer would say: "Bear fruits worthy of repentance!" May your name be a blessing, good sir.

As we honor the life of Dr. King this week, let us not be lulled into complacency with words of his taken out of context – one of the honored pastimes of white America – but instead, let us dive deeper into the unsettling wisdom he shared with us.

@crazypastor.bsky.social & @tvrasche.bsky.social sat down with @revtdanderson.bsky.social to talk about how Bible stories can be funny, the ontological Blackness of Jesus, & what it means that Jesus' first public sign is shown first to those on the margins. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/5hcs9xh

Pastors Tim, Tuhina (@tvrasche.bsky.social), and Jason – the AC Three – discuss amongst themselves what it means to preach in perilous times, and how best to approach this sacred task in today's world. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/c2ph243

In this Advent season culminating in Jesus' birth, we primarily hear stories surrounding his death. Life is full of change, and in every change we witness the death of a part of ourselves (however small, however hoped-for). Life, then, is full of death. We must hold both together.

Where do you see glimmers?

@crazypastor.bsky.social and guest host @danielledenise.bsky.social welcome the brilliant Rev. @miheekimkort.bsky.social to discuss Advent 1 – and how the beginning of the church year is paradoxically full of endings. anamcara.subspla.sh/6sfvqxk

God is trans.

Preaching this Sunday? Pastors Tim and Jason sit down with the lovely and thoughtful (and former seminary classmate!) Rev. Matt Keadle to talk about a few different ways to approach this tricky day, including: Reject the Premise. 🙂 Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/2t5bxhw.

Light is fallen all around us. What we need is the patience to see it, to recognize it, to nurture it.