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Faith Unfiltered Podcast
Welcome to Faith Unfiltered— a raw, real, and radically inclusive space rooted in the mission and message of Community of Christ, where Christ-centered faith meets authentic conversation, and peace is something we practice, not just pray for.
Episodes
1180 episodes
842 | Coffee to Go | Proper 5 | Year A
As the church enters Ordinary Time, Paul’s letter to the Romans invites us to wrestle with a timeless question: Is faith about following rules, or responding to grace? Karin and Blake explore Paul’s winding theological argument, uncovering how ...
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841 | Grounds for Peace | A Letter to the Michigan Mission Center
Courageous compassion, prophetic witness, and faithful engagement in a hurting world are all a part of being a disciple of Jesus, the Peaceful One. Join Blake Smith and Linda Stanbridge in a conversation that explores difficult questions surrou...
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A48 | Awaken to God's Presence | Pride | RE-POST
This episode of Awaken to God’s Presence offers a guided practice for connecting with the divine during troubled times. Host Robin Linkhart, leads listeners in a prayer recognizing Pride Month, which honors the LGBTQ community and its contribut...
840 | Coffee to Go | Trinity Sunday | Year A
Trinity Sunday invites us into one of Christianity’s most profound and challenging ideas: God as divine community. In this episode, Karin Peter and Blake Smith explore how our language for God shapes our understanding of the sacred, the importa...
REPOST | 513 | Grounds for Peace | UN International Day of Peace
How can we work for Peace in Israel/Palestine? This series is co-sponsored by the Community of Christ World Peace and Justice Team. Andrew Bolton and Steve Kellogg are members of the Israel/Palestine sub-team of the Wor...
839 | Coffee to Go | Pentecost | Year A
What does Pentecost have to say in a world shaped by division, nationalism, and fear of difference? In this episode of Coffee to Go, Karin Peter and Blake Smith explore the story of Acts 2—not as a tale of spectacle, but as a radical v...
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838 | Grounds for Peace | CMEP Advocacy Summit '26
What happens when people of faith move beyond conversation and step into advocacy? In this episode of Grounds for Peace, participants from the Churches for Middle East Peace Joint Advocacy Summit reflect on lobbying in Washington, DC, interfait...
837 | Coffee to Go | Ascension Sunday | Year A
Wait. Rest. Bless. As Easter gives way to Ascension Sunday and the anticipation of Pentecost, this episode of Coffee to Go explores what it means to be “story bearers” of hope, love, and Christ’s witness in the world. Reflecting on Jes...
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836 | Grounds for Peace | Israel Palestine and Zionism | REPOST
Several members of Community of Christ recently attended the Churches for Middle East Peace Conference, and we're going to run a set of episodes covering the topic ... some looking back and some looking forward. We're setting the stage by repos...
957 | Coffee to Go | Sixth Sunday of Easter | Year A
Sometimes we have to wrestle with tough passages and/or themes in scripture. The only option is to avoid them, and that’s never good. They’re in there for a reason. Join hosts Karin Peter and Blake Smith on this sixth Sunday in the Easter seaso...
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956 | Second Cup | Episode 3 | Hope
What does it really mean to be a “good person,” and is that the same thing as being Christ-like? In this thoughtful and deeply human conversation, Jack Hindle and Shannon McAdam wrestle with questions of faith, community, belonging, evangelism,...
A56 | Awaken to God's Presence | Asian Pacific Island Awareness
In the midst of troubling times, we invite you to find a moment of peace. Join us for a special guided meditation honoring the lives and contributions of Asian and Pacific Islander communities. Let go of assumptions and tension as we reflect on...
955 | Coffee to Go | Fifth Sunday of Easter
Don’t put away your Easter decorations yet!! In this Easter-season reflection on the Gospel of John 14, Karin Peter and Blake Smith wrestle with one of Jesus’ most quoted—and often misunderstood—statements: “I am the way, the truth, and the lif...
954 | Climate Brewing | Lamoni Green Team Action | Lorrie Long
If loving nature and the environment makes us “tree huggers,” then so be it! In this episode of Climate Brewing, host Susan Oxley sits down with Lorrie Long, whose lifelong love of the natural world has grown into a deep commitment to ...
953 | Coffee to Go | Fourth Sunday of Easter | Year A
Shepherds, and bandits and gates ... Oh my! In this Easter-season episode of Coffee to Go, Karin Peter and Blake Smith explore Jesus’ words in Gospel of John 10, where shepherds, bandits, and gates become powerful images for discerning...
952 | Reclaim | Jenny Lowndes
Something new is brewing at Faith Unfiltered, and this is it... Reclaim with host Jessica Pycior. In this premier episode of Reclaim, Jessica invites listeners into a deeply embodied and expansive vision of faith through the l...
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951 | Coffee to Go | Third Sunday of Easter | Year A
The road to Emmaus, a familiar story opens into a deeper invitation: what if Christ is already walking beside us, unrecognized? In this Easter reflection, Karin Peter and Blake Smith explore how divine encounters often come disguised in ordinar...
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950 | Brewed Awakenings | Second Cup | Episode 2
What does it really mean to be religious—and who gets hurt when belief goes unexamined? In this thought-provoking episode, Jack and Shannon dive into big, uncomfortable questions about faith, power, and the real-world impact of theology. From c...
949 | Coffee to Go | Second Sunday of Easter | Year A
Step into the second week of the Easter season with Coffee to Go as Karin Peter and Blake Smith step out of the gospels and into the weekly lectionary scripture being used by Community of Christ as a focus for worship. This week, they ...
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948 | Fair Trade | Mary Cusack | Part 2
In this meaningful second half of the conversation between host Robin Linkhart and her guest, Mary Cusack, Mary shares a deeply personal journey through grief, faith, and the search for belonging—ultimately discovering a spiritual home that cel...
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A55 | Awaken to God's Presence | April | New Life
All around us, creation is coming to life as spring breaks forth. In this episode of Awaken to God’s Presence, host Robin Linkhart, encourages participants to find calm through deep breathing and reflection on new life emerging in earl...
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947 | Coffee to Go | Easter | Year A
Step into the quiet mystery of Easter morning as this episode of Coffee to Go explores the resurrection story from Gospel of John 20:1–18. Beginning in the darkness before dawn with Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb, the conversation re...
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946 | Coffee to Go | Holy Saturday | Year A
Time seems to slow to a crawl when we find ourselves waiting for something ... even when we know it will come. Again, we imagine what it would have been like for those whose hopes had seemingly been crushed by the crucifixion of the one in whom...
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945 | Coffee to Go | Good Friday | Year A
Everything in his life and ministry brought him to this day... and the opposition thought they had won. But we know the story doesn’t end here, and we can call it Good Friday. Unfortunately, for those who were present on that day, there w...
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944 | Coffee to Go | Maundy Thursday | Year A
It’s the night before the Passover... the last night that Jesus will have with the disciples ... to be their leader and to give them advise ... and instead of a lecture, he takes off his outer robe, kneels in front of them and washes their feet...
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