
Welcome to Madang Podcast.
Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renown authors, leaders, public figures and scholars on religion, culture and everything in-between.
This has been a dream of mine for many years and now it is a reality. Please join me at Madang Podcast hosted by the Christian Century.
This is the 36th episode of Madang where I converse with David P. Gushee on his book, "Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies". David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia. He also serves as chair in Christian social ethics at Vrije Universiteit and senior research fellow at International Baptist Theological Study Centre, both in Amsterdam. His many other books include Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: Genocide and Moral Obligation.
On this episode, Gushee talks with me about "Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies", patriotism, nationalism, and ultranationalism, Authoritarian Reactionary Christianity and whiteness and so much more.
You can also listen to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast
I am grateful to Homebrewed Christianity, Eerdmans Publishing and Wild Goose Festival for their sponsorship of this episode. Please check out their website for their work, events and to donate.
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Jan 23, 2024
1 hr 7 min

Welcome to Madang Podcast.
Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renown authors, leaders, public figures and scholars on religion, culture and everything in-between.
This has been a dream of mine for many years and now it is a reality. Please join me at Madang Podcast hosted by the Christian Century.
This is the 35th episode of Madang where I converse with Kwok Pui Lan on her book, The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective. Kwok is Dean’s Professor of Systematic Theology & Special Advisor to the Dean for Strategic Changes at Candler School of Theology. Kwok is the former William F. Cole Professor of
Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School. Kwok’s research focuses on Asian feminist theology and postcolonial theology. She has written or edited 23 books in English and Chinese, including Postcolonial Politics and Theology and The Hong Kong Protests and Political. Her current research focuses on the practice of postcolonial theology.
On this episode, Kwok talks with me about The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective. the Anglican church, forgiveness, women’s ordination, Desmond Tutu and so much more.
You can also listen to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
I am grateful to Homebrewed Christianity, Candler School of Theology and FACE, for their sponsorship of this episode. Please check out their website for their work, events and to donate.
Please reach out to me if you would like to sponsor the next episode of Madang podcast. Or simply support me here.
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Dec 20, 2023
59 min

Welcome to Madang Podcast.
Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renown authors, leaders, public figures and scholars on religion, culture and everything in-between.
This has been a dream of mine for many years and now it is a reality. Please join me at Madang Podcast hosted by the Christian Century.
This is the 34th episode of Madang where I converse with Mitri Raheb on his book, Decolonizing Palestine. Raheb is founder and president of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, Palestine. Raheb is the most widely published Palestinian theologian to date, including his Orbis books Faith in the Face of Empire and, with Suzanne Henderson, The Cross in Contexts: Suffering and Redemption in Palestine. He received the 2017 Tolerance Ring
Award from the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 2015 Olof Palme Prize, the 2012 German Media Prize just to name a few. He holds a doctorate in theology from Philipps University, Germany, and an honorary doctorate from Concordia University, Chicago.
On this episode, Raheb talks with me about Decolonizing Palestine, Christian Zionism, settle colonialism, Biblical interpretation and so much more.
You can also listen to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
I am grateful to Homebrewed Christianity, Orbis Books, Bright Starts of Bethlehem and Garrett Seminary for their sponsorship of this episode. Please check out their website for their work, events and to donate.
Please reach out to me if you would like to sponsor the next episode of Madang podcast. Or simply support me here.
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Nov 22, 2023
1 hr 7 min

Welcome to Madang Podcast.
Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renown authors, leaders, public figures and scholars on religion, culture and everything in-between.
This has been a dream of mine for many years and now it is a reality. Please join me at Madang Podcast hosted by the Christian Century.
This is the 33rd episode of Madang where I converse with Kaitlin Curtice on her book, Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day. Curtice is a poet, author and public speaker.She is an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi Nation and has grown up in the Christian faith. Kaitlin has contributed to OnBeing, Religion News Service, USA Today and Sojourners, among others, and was interviewed for the New Yorker on colonization within Christian missions. In 2018 she was featured in a documentary with CBS called “Race, Religion and Resistance,” speaking on the dangers of colonized Christianity, and was also named as one of Sojourners Magazine’s 10 Christian Women to Watch in 2018.
On this episode, Curtice talks with me about Living Resistance, embracing cyclical thinking, resistance, art, deconstructing faith, Mother Earth and so much more.
You can also listen to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
I am grateful to Homebrewed Christianity and Garrett Seminary for their sponsorship of this episode. Please check out their website for their work, events and to donate.
Please reach out to me if you would like to sponsor the next episode of Madang podcast. Or simply support me here.
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Nov 22, 2023
59 min

Welcome to Madang Podcast.
Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renown authors, leaders, public figures and scholars on religion, culture and everything in-between.
This has been a dream of mine for many years and now it is a reality. Please join me at Madang Podcast hosted by the Christian Century.
This is the 32nd episode of Madang where I converse with Robert P. Jones on his book, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy. Jones is is the president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). His writing on religion, culture, and politics has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, and Religion News Service. He is the author of White Too Long and The End of White Christian America. He writes a regular Substack newsletter at robertpjones.substack.com.
On this episode, Robert talks with me about The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy, Doctrine of Discovery, 1619 Project, 1920 lynching of three Black men, divine entitlement of European chosenness, racism and so much more.
You can also listen to the podcast on Spotify:
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I am grateful to Homebrewed Christianity and Garrett Seminary for their sponsorship of this episode. Please check out their website for their work, events and to donate.
Please reach out to me if you would like to sponsor the next episode of Madang podcast. Or simply support me here: https://anchor.fm/grace-ji-sun-kim
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Sep 19, 2023
57 min

Welcome to Madang Podcast.
Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renown authors, leaders, public figures and scholars on religion, culture and everything in-between.
This has been a dream of mine for many years and now it is a reality. Please join me at Madang Podcast hosted by the Christian Century.
This is the 31st episode of Madang where I converse with Bill McKibben on his book, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened. Bill McKibben is an educator, environmental activist and author of more than a dozen books. He is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont.
In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the `alternative Nobel,' in the Swedish Parliament. He's also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities.
On this episode, Bill talks with me about The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon, climate change, wealth gap, racial justice, hyper-individualism, spiritual formation, and 350.org., and so much more.
This is a special Madang Podcast episode as it was recorded live at the Wild Goose Festival.
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I am grateful to Homebrewed Christianity and GreenFaith for their sponsorship of this episode. Please check out their website for their work, events and to donate.
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Aug 25, 2023
50 min

Welcome to Madang Podcast.
Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renown authors, leaders, public figures and scholars on religion, culture and everything in-between.
This has been a dream of mine for many years and now it is. reality. Please join me at Madang hosted by the Christian Century.
This is the 30th episode of Madang where I converse with Dr. Terence Lester on his book, All God's Children.
Dr. Terence Lester is a minister, speaker, community activist, author, and founder of Love Beyond Walls, a not-for-profit organization focused on poverty awareness and community mobilization. He received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Union Institute and University.
He campaigns on behalf of the poor, including #LoveSinksIn, have been featured in USA Today, Black Enterprise Essence, and Reader's Digest. They have been viewed by millions of people globally on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS News, NBC, Upworthy, and "The Bright Side" with Katie Couric. His books include When We Stand, I See You, Getting Past Stuck, Simple Prayers for Hurting People, and Identity Theft.
Today, Dr. Lester shares his latest book, All God's Children, racial solidarity, implicit bias, God is justice, Critical Race Theory and so much more.
I am thrilled to announce that Madang podcast is hosted by the Christian Century. Please visit their website for the latest Madang podcast as well as current articles on Christianity, culture and society.
You can also listen to the podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0fSZ… and
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast…
I am grateful to Homebrewed Christianity, Fuller Seminary, Garrett Seminary, InterVarsity Press for their sponsorship of this episode. Please check out their website for their work, events and to donate. Please reach out to me if you would like to sponsor the next episode of Madang podcast. Or simply support me here: https://anchor.fm/grace-ji-sun-kim
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Jul 20, 2023
54 min

Welcome to Madang Podcast.
Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renown authors, leaders, public figures and scholars on religion, culture and everything in-between.
This has been a dream of mine for many years and now it is. reality. Please join me at Madang.
This is the 29th episode of Madang where I converse with Zack Hunt on his book, Godbreathed.
Zack Hunt is a popular blogger, writer, and ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. His writing has appeared in Huffington Post, Christianity Today, and Relevant, and he has been cited in places including The Boston Globe and New York Magazine. Hunt is a graduate of Yale Divinity School. He lives in Tennessee with his wife and two daughters. Connect with him at ZackHunt.net.
Today, he shares about his book Godbreathed, God as She, imperfections/contradictions in the Bible, Council of Trent, Ezekiel and dry bones and so much more.
I am thrilled to announce that Madang podcast is hosted by the Christian Century. Please visit their website for the latest Madang podcast as well as current articles on Christianity, culture and society.
You can also listen to the podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0fSZ… and
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast…
I am grateful to Homebrewed Christianity, Herald Press, Wild Goose Festival and Faith Across Borders-podcast, for their sponsorship of this episode. Please check out their website for their work, events and to donate. Please reach out to me if you would like to sponsor the next episode of Madang podcast. Or simply support me here: https://anchor.fm/grace-ji-sun-kim
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Jun 27, 2023
53 min

Welcome to Madang!
Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renown authors, leaders, public figures and scholars on religion, culture and everything in-between.
This has been a dream of mine for many years and now it is. reality. Please join me at Madang.
This is the 28th episode of Madang where I converse with Beth Allison Barr on her book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood.
Beth Allison Barr is the James Vardaman Endowed Professor of History at Baylor University. Her specialties include European women, medieval and early modern England and church history. She earned her PhD in Medieval History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the bestselling author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. She is also a pastor’s wife and mom of two great kids.
Today, she shares about being a pastor’s wife, what led to writing her bestselling book, Paul’s letters about women, Christian household codes, Reformation theology about women and so much more.
I am thrilled to announce that Madang podcast is hosted by the Christian Century. Please visit their website for the latest Madang podcast as well as current articles on Christianity, culture and society.
You can also listen to the podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0fSZ… and
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast…
I am grateful to Homebrewed Christianity, Watchfire Media and JL Consulting for their sponsorship of this episode. Please check out their website for their work, events and to donate.
Please reach out to me if you would like to sponsor the next episode of Madang podcast.
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May 11, 2023
52 min

Welcome to Madang!
Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renown authors, leaders, public figures and scholars on religion, culture and everything in-between.
This has been a dream of mine for many years and now it is. reality. Please join me at Madang.
This is the 26th episode of Madang where I converse with Robert Ellsberg on his editions of Dorothy Day “On Pilgrimage: The Sixties” and “On Pilgrimage: the Seventies”.
Robert Ellsberg who is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Orbis Books, where he has served for over 35 years. From 1975-80 he was part of the Catholic Worker community in New York City, working with CW founder Dorothy Day for the last five years of her life. For two years he served as managing editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper. He studied religion and literature at Harvard College and later earned a ThM degree in theology from Harvard Divinity School,
before joining Orbis in 1987. He has continued to promote the work and legacy of Dorothy Day, editing five volumes of her writings, including The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, and All the Way to Heaven: Selected Letters of Dorothy Day. Robert has written and edited 25 books, including six books on saints and holiness. For over 10 years he has written a daily entry, “Blessed Among Us” for “Give Us This Day” (Liturgical).
This special episodes celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Catholic Worker on May 1, 2023! What a great celebration.
I am thrilled to announce that Madang podcast is hosted by the Christian Century. Please visit their website for the latest Madang podcast as well as current articles on Christianity, culture and society. I have written several pieces for the Christian Century and welcome this new partnership. https://www.christiancentury.org/madang
You can also listen to the podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0fSZ...
and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast...
I am grateful to Homebrewed Christianity and Orbis Books for their sponsorship of this episode. Please check out their website for their work, events and to donate.
Please reach out to me if you would like to sponsor the next episode of Madang podcast.
Or simply support me here: https://anchor.fm/grace-ji-sun-kim
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Apr 11, 2023
53 min
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