This week’s episode is a heartfelt one. After six transformative years, Telos’ Director of Communications and Christian Engagement, David Katibah, joins us for one final conversation before he steps into a new chapter. David has left an indelible mark on Telos—shaping our mission, growing our story, and living out the work of peace and justice with clarity and conviction. In this farewell episode, he reflects on the journey: what he’s learned, what he’s holding onto, and what it means to stay...
Jun 24, 2025
32 min
This month marks five years since 2020 and a summer of protest across the world for Black lives, dignity, and justice. There was a lot of hope during that summer—hope that our communities would begin to ask questions about our history; pursue lasting, structural changes to our society; and begin to take serious steps towards true repair. In the years since, we’ve worked hard at Telos to create space for this work through our ReStory US Program. In this episode, we have a conversation in revie...
May 27, 2025
48 min
We have a new ambassador in town. Earlier this month, the US Senate confirmed former Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, as US Ambassador to Israel. As Ambassador, Huckabee is expected to endorse policies that forcibly promote Israeli government priorities. He has been quoted saying, “there is no such thing as a Palestinian” and that the West Bank is “Judea and Samaria,” a term used by Israeli settlers (and increasingly American Christian leaders) who claim ownership of the land based ...
Apr 22, 2025
51 min
What does US history have to tell us about what's happening in Israel/Palestine? Last month, a cadre of four Palestinian theologians—the next generation of scholars and activists and social scientists—joined us in an exploration of US history and how its legacies carry us to the present. These legacies exist as both currents of deep injustice, and as the wellsprings of joy that sprung out of the communities who resisted that injustice and emerged with their humanity intact. In this epis...
Apr 15, 2025
57 min
In the past year, Telos has launched a new peacemaking travel experience in Ireland & Northern Ireland, to see what we can learn from the history, movement, and current reality of the conflict in Northern Ireland, and how we can support the work of true justice and peace in the area. While we’re still in the early stages of this program, we traveled with 5 different groups in 2024—and there’s already a lot we’ve learned. In this episode, we hear from Eli Philip, our staff member who...
Apr 8, 2025
40 min
Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident and green-card holder, was arrested without charge or warrant on private grounds for his activism during last year’s encampments in protest of the genocide in Gaza. He is currently detained in Louisiana, alongside a number of other legal residents and foreign national scholars who have also been arrested and detained without charge—including Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student of Tufts University who was arrested by plain clothes officers in plain sight over the...
Apr 1, 2025
35 min
Since January 19th, when the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect, a lot has continued to unfold on the ground. While for the first time in 15 months a path out of the horrific violence seems possible, we know it is far from the end of the road towards a sustainable future of peace and justice for Israelis and Palestinians. Since the ceasefire we’ve seen violence expand across the West Bank, a new US Administration take power, and laws negatively impacting humanitarian ai...
Feb 13, 2025
29 min
Telos recently led a ReStory US trip to the city of Charleston, South Carolina. Through our ReStory program we are working together to repair our home by knowing, owning, and writing a more honest American story. This conversation with Dr. DeSean Dyson and Dr. Otis Pickett unpacks some of the unique history of Charleston, and lessons, insights, and stories that can help our work of ReStorying our own communities, regardless of where we live. Our conversation touches on the history of Ch...
Feb 11, 2025
55 min
Cities across America have boulevards named after him. The nation celebrates his life and legacy every year in January. Washington, D.C. boasts a massive monument of his likeness. Even so, most Americans have no idea that Martin Luther King Jr. was widely despised during this life and decades after his death. On this MLK Jr. Day, it's important to go "beyond the quotable King," as historian and author Jemar Tisby, PhD compels us. In this conversation, Jemar unpacks that history and his newest...
Jan 20, 2025
50 min
What roles can and should women play in peacemaking movements? How can we connect the struggle for justice across contexts in a way that furthers the work of mutual flourishing and collective liberation? What does it mean to be an effective ally, advocate, and friend? This week, we are joined by our friend, author, preacher, trainer, liturgist, activist Sandra Van Opstal. Sandra is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Chasing Justice, a movement led by people of color to mobilize a lifest...
Jan 7, 2025
43 min
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