Jesus, Justice + Mercy

About Jesus, Justice + Mercy

Jesus, Justice & Mercy Bold faith, radical love, and justice for the church. Welcome to Jesus, Justice & Mercy — a podcast for Christians who sense that justice matters but feel the tension between Jesus and much of what they see practiced in the church. If you’re wrestling with inherited faith, questions that don’t have easy answers, or the growing gap between the Gospel and the world we’re navigating, you’re not alone. I’m your host, Kristen Brock, rooted in the church and committed to following Jesus with honesty, courage, and compassion. Each season, we engage Scripture, history, and lived experience to explore the intersections of faith, justice, and discipleship. We talk about race, trauma, power, civic responsibility, and the ways faith has been both a source of harm and a force for healing. Whether you’re deconstructing, rebuilding, or simply learning to ask better questions, this is a space for thoughtful reflection, faithful wrestling, and a faith shaped by justice, deeply rooted in Scripture.

Publisher

Kristen A. Brock

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Sept 2022

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

86 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   You Can't Discover Someone's Home | Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Stuck Brains, and the Faith We Learned as Kids

   You Can’t Discover Someone’s Home | Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Stuck Brains, and the Faith We Learned as Kids In this pop-in episode between seasons, Kristen honors Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the nations who were on this land long before Columbus and who are still here today. Columbus landed here, yes. But how does anyone discover a place where people had already lived for thousands of years? That question opens a bigger one: why do our brains hold so tightly to what we learned as kids, even w...

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Plot Twist | You Were the Ekklesia All Along

   Thirteen weeks. Thirteen words. And it turns out the whole season was pointing somewhere you didn't see coming, including a plot twist in the fall schedule. This finale walks the season backward, word by word, from where it landed to where it started, and lands on something none of the thirteen words could say alone. Then: the honest reason Season 4 | The Reckoning Season isn't dropping this month, and what's actually coming between now and the new year. Theology Unleashed is a summer se...

3. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Ekklesia | Not Church Building. Political Assembly

   Your Bible says “church.” Ekklesia (ἐκκλησία) is the Greek word behind it, and it never meant a building. In Greek city-states, an ekklesia was the assembly of citizens, summoned to show up and decide the city’s actual business: war, law, and money. Luke uses the same word for a rioting mob and for the “real, lawful” assembly that a town clerk redirects them to; instead, in the same scene in Acts 19, the same word is used for two very different gatherings. The Greek Old Testament translates q...

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4.9 / 5

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

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