We’re shifting the perspective on Jesus, what He taught, and why it matters.

What does it actually look like to love your neighbor? And have you ever wanted to love well but realized you didn't quite know how?

Jesus said love your neighbor as yourself. He didn't say love your neighbor from a safe distance, with good intentions, when it's convenient. So what does real, costly, cross-cultural neighborliness actually look like? And why is the church still struggling to get there? Our guest, Chanté Griffin, not lonly lives this work, she literally wrote the book on it. 

Chanté is a literary artist, journalist, actor, and author of Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us. Her work sits at the intersection of racial equity, faith, and communal wellness, and she brings all of it to this conversation with warmth, wit, and a willingness to go there. 

In this episode, Chanté and Christine dig into the Good Samaritan not as a familiar Sunday school story, but as a radical, costly, cross-cultural act of love that Jesus held up as the standard. They talk about what keeps well-meaning white Christians stuck, why healing has to start inside the church before it can speak to the culture, and what it actually looks like to show up in a new community without making people your project.

This conversation is an invitation to learn, to receive, and to love the way Jesus did.

What if misreading women’s stories in scripture means we’ve been missing something essential about the heart and character of God?

Dr. Sandra Glahn — theologian, professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, and author of the forthcoming A Woman's Place Is in the Story — joins Christine for a conversation that is equal parts scholarship and soul care. Dr. Glahn has spent decades asking the questions most people are afraid to ask: Where are the women in Scripture not coming through in translation? Where have they been vilified, minimized, or missed entirely? And what does it cost us — men and women alike — when we get the story wrong?

In this episode, Christine and Dr. Glahn revisit specific biblical women's stories with fresh eyes and explore how reclaiming women’s stories doesn’t just dignify women — it restores our picture of the Storyteller himself.

This one is for the recovering legalist, the wounded churchgoer, the woman who's wondered why God seems to have more to say to everyone else than to her. Because as Christine promises, “The deeper we dig, the gooder God gets.”

What if the thing you've been trying to avoid is the very thing that heals you?

We don't know how to grieve. Not really. We've been taught to hurry our grief, spiritually bypass lament, and sanitize our suffering — leaving a lot of us with an “emaciated theology of suffering,” and no place to take our pain.

In this honest and tender conversation, Bible teacher, author, and award-winning broadcaster Rebecca Carrell joins me to talk about what it means to grieve well. We dig into why deep grief is not a lack of faith but an alignment with the Holy Spirit. We walk through what Jesus's response to Mary and Martha teaches us about showing up for people in pain. We talk about why a good ugly cry is one of the most healing things you can do. And we wrestle together with one of the hardest truths about grief: that it isn't one loss. It's a thousand small ones, stacked inside each other, resetting every time you wake up.

If you've ever been told you're too tender, too emotional, or too slow to heal — this episode is for you. If you've ever stood at the edge of someone else's grief and not known what to do — this one is for you too.

Grief is not the enemy of faith. It never was. Let's make the holy shift.