Ep50.2 Seven Last Words: "Today, you will be with me..." with Laura Jean Truman

Ep50.2 Seven Last Words: "Today, you will be with me..." with Laura Jean Truman

To celebrate 50 episodes of the Love Rinse Repeat podcast, Liam interviewed seven guests about Jesus' seven last words from the cross.

Here, Laura Jean Truman discusses Jesus' words to the man next to him on the cross, "today, you will be with me in paradise" and importantly the words of the two criminals preceding this promise. Repentance, solidarity, welcome, and a strange kind of presence are all concepts illuminated and provoked in this most powerful scene.

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Ep50! Seven Last Words with Seven Great Guests

Ep50! Seven Last Words with Seven Great Guests

To celebrate 50 episodes of the Love Rinse Repeat podcast, I interviewed seven guests about Jesus' seven last words from the cross. We discuss what we hear in these words, and how Christ’s final words might speak to a church distanced, isolated, and disrupted.

Guests: Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Laura Jean Truman, Tau'alofa Anga'aelangi, David W. Congdon, Sean Winter, Lauren R.E. Larkin, and W. Travis McMaken.

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Ep22. Enchantment & Authenticity: a word for the church, Laura Jean Truman

Ep22. Enchantment & Authenticity: a word for the church, Laura Jean Truman

Are Millennials killing the church?

In a special episode of Love Rinse Repeat, co-presented with Insights (the magazine of the Uniting Church in Australia’s Synod of New South Wales and the ACT) I spoke with Laura Jean Truman about Millenials (Gen Y) and the Church. We talk about her journey and work as a writer, itinerant chaplain, and bartender; before exploring the complicated relationship between Millenials and the Church. We go on to talk about ministry (inside and outside of church), community (inside and outside the church), and spiritual life (inside and outside the church). Laura Jean offers the helpful suggestion that the church must focus on enchantment and authenticity if it is to meet the needs of the contemporary world and Gen Y. Listen in iTunes // Watch on YouTube

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