GracePointe Church | Nashville, TN

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Progressive Christianity with a public conscience.

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GracePointe Church | Nashville, TN is a progressive Christian show built from sermons, readings, and conversations. Its recent episodes move through crucifixion theology, Easter, inherent union with God, deconstruction, community, and faithful responses to injustice.

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About GracePointe Church | Nashville, TN

GracePointe Church | Nashville, TN presents progressive Christianity as a living practice rather than a slogan. The show is part sermon, part theological conversation, and part community reflection. It has room for Easter jokes, Roman imperial history, and a donkey compared to a Huffy. Then it turns toward the serious question underneath: what does God do about injustice? Recent episodes return again and again to the meaning of Jesus' death and resurrection. They question older frameworks of sin, separation, wrath, and shame. They also offer a different emphasis: belovedness, inherent union with God, healing, and resurrection hope. The tone is conversational and direct. It does not hide the stakes behind polished religious language. Palm Sunday becomes a way to think about protest, empire, violence, humility, and imagination. Easter becomes a challenge to the idea that victory belongs to the powerful. Conversations bring in named voices including Stan Mitchell, Doug Padgett, Kat Armas, Shannan Martin, and Brian Recker. Those exchanges connect theology to neighbors, community kitchens, deconstruction, safe churches, public crisis, and faithful conscience. The show is especially attentive to people carrying inherited religious harm. It does not treat doubt as failure. It treats interpretation as part of faith. Beauty, rest, food, gardening, and embodied delight sit beside grief, politics, and broken systems. That balance gives the show its texture. It is tender without becoming vague. It is political without dropping its theological center. GracePointe offers Christian reflection for people who want Scripture, justice, and love held in the same room.

Made for: Suits a listener who wants Christian theology that can question inherited doctrines, speak about justice, and still use the language of Jesus, Scripture, prayer, and resurrection.

What sets it apart: The show sets itself apart by pairing church teaching with candid conversations, moving from crucifixion theology to neighbors, shame, trans dignity, bombing, and community life without treating those as separate subjects.

In their own words

The GracePointe community is leading the theological development and practice of Progressive Christianity. This is at the core of what makes us distinct, and is far from a simple label change for a modern repackaging of traditional beliefs.

Why you'd press play

Jesus on a Huffy, Pilate in a tank: your Palm Sunday assumptions may need a tune-up.

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  • to ask whether shame, rather than sin, is what makes God feel far away
  • to see the crucifixion through a question about power and who gets called victorious
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Episodes

  1. 1

    GracePointe 201: Jesus

    ·43m
  2. 2

    Christ Crucified: Palm Sunday

    ·43m
  3. 3

    Christ Crucified: A Conversation

    ·49m
  4. 4

    Meeting Paul Again: What Do We Do with Paul Today?

    ·29m
  5. 5

    Meeting Paul Again: Romans

    ·42m
  6. 6

    Meeting Paul Again: Philippians

    ·37m
  7. 7

    Meeting Paul Again: 2 Corinthians

    ·33m
  8. 8

    Meeting Paul Again: Philemon

    ·38m
  9. 9

    Celebrating a Decade of Lessons and Grace (With Stan Mitchell)

    ·41m
  10. 10

    Christ Crucified: Did Jesus Die for Our Sins?

    ·46m
  11. 11

    Christ Crucified: Did Jesus HAVE to Die?

    ·45m
  12. 12

    The (Actual) State of the Union with Doug Pagitt

    ·41m
  13. 13

    Christ Crucified: Putting the Cross in Its Place

    ·44m
  14. 14

    Ashes and Dust: An Introduction to Lent and Ash Wednesday

    ·34m
  15. 15

    Epiphany : Stan Mitchell

    ·35m
  16. 16

    Epiphany : Calming the Storm

    ·32m
  17. 17

    Epiphany : Feeding the 5,000

    ·28m
  18. 18

    Epiphany : The Baptism of Jesus

    ·34m
  19. 19

    Epiphany : The Visit of the Magi

    ·46m
  20. 20

    Epiphany : God is a Verb

    ·42m
  21. 21

    Advent : O Little Town of Bethlehem

    ·37m
  22. 22

    Advent : Joy to the World

    ·45m
  23. 23

    Hell Bent with Brian Recker

    ·43m
  24. 24

    Advent : O Come, O Come Emmanuel

    ·34m
  25. 25

    Liturgies for Resisting Empire

    ·45m
  26. 26

    Cultivate : Gratitude

    ·32m
  27. 27

    Cultivate : Compassion

    ·36m
  28. 28

    Cultivate : Patience

    ·33m
  29. 29

    Cultivate : Mystery

    ·28m
  30. 30

    Cultivate : Community

    ·40m
  31. 31

    Cultivate : Faith

    ·40m
  32. 32

    Cultivate : Love

    ·39m
  33. 33

    Cultivate: Preparing the Soil

    ·44m
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    Cultivate: Preparing the Soil

    ·44m
  35. 35

    Inherent Union with God - Stan Mitchell

    ·44m
  36. 36

    GracePointe 201: Church

    ·44m
  37. 37

    Easter: What Does God Do About Injustice?

    ·36m
  38. 38

    GracePointe 201: God

    ·45m
  39. 39

    GracePointe 201: The Bible

    ·35m
  40. 40

    The Afterlife - Stan Mitchell

    ·41m
  41. 41

    Grab Bag: Question + Response

    ·42m
  42. 42

    Grab Bag: Kat Armas

    ·36m
  43. 43

    Grab Bag: The Beatitudes

    ·43m
  44. 44

    Grab Bag: Salvation (Part Two)

    ·49m
  45. 45

    Pride Sunday

    ·38m
  46. 46

    Grab Bag: Is Jesus Our Savior?

    ·35m
  47. 47

    Grab Bag: The New Testament

    ·42m
  48. 48

    Grab Bag: The Hebrew Bible

    ·36m
  49. 49

    *BONUS* An Evening with Dan McClellan

    ·1h 20m
  50. 50

    Grab Bag: The Council of Nicaea

    ·46m
  51. 51

    Grab Bag: Faith and Citizenship

    ·50m
  52. 52

    Grab Bag: The Book of Revelation

    ·37m
  53. 53

    Guest Speaker: Colby Martin

    ·40m
  54. 54

    Easter

    ·32m
  55. 55

    Palm Sunday

    ·41m
  56. 56

    Sharpies and Pencils: Taking Inventory | GracePointe Church

    ·48m
  57. 57

    We Become What We Belove | Advent Series

    ·26m
  58. 58

    Joy to the World | Advent Series

    ·27m
  59. 59

    Mary / Peace | Advent Series

    ·20m
  60. 60

    Joseph / Hope | Advent Series

    ·27m
  61. 61

    GracePointe Gives Thanks | GracePointe Church

    ·34m
  62. 62

    Q+R | Unlearning Series

    ·54m
  63. 63

    A Liturgy of Lament | GracePointe Church

    ·33m
  64. 64

    On the Brink: Responding to the 2024 Election | GracePointe Church

    ·34m
  65. 65

    Skip Collins | GracePointe Church

    ·36m
  66. 66

    Hell | Unlearning Series

    ·35m
  67. 67

    Prayer | Unlearning Series

    ·29m
  68. 68

    Brit Barron & April Ajoy | GracePointe Church

    ·46m
  69. 69

    Exclusivism | Unlearning Series

    ·31m
  70. 70

    Atonement | Unlearning Series

    ·34m
  71. 71

    Original Sin | Unlearning Series

    ·29m
  72. 72

    Labor Day | Unlearning Series

    ·18m
  73. 73

    Hope | Unlearning Series

    ·38m
  74. 74

    Chapter 16 | The Meaning(s) of Easter in Mark

    ·37m
  75. 75

    Joy | Unlearning Series

    ·31m
  76. 76

    The Journey | Unlearning Series

    ·38m
  77. 77

    Community | Unlearning Series

    ·32m
  78. 78

    Faith | Unlearning Series

    ·41m
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    Despair | Unlearning Series

    ·35m
  80. 80

    Evilness of Flesh | Unlearning Series

    ·37m
  81. 81

    God's Wrath | Unlearning Series

    ·29m
  82. 82

    God and Country | Unlearning Series

    ·37m
  83. 83

    Pride Conversations | GracePointe Church

    ·28m
  84. 84

    God Has a Plan | Unlearning Series

    ·19m
  85. 85

    God: The Man Upstairs | Unlearning Series

    ·31m
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    Reconstructing, Reimagining, Replanting | Unlearning Series

    ·27m
  87. 87

    The Spirit of Pentecost | Pentecost Series

    ·37m
  88. 88

    Doubting Thomas | Pentecost Series

    ·33m
  89. 89

    Josh Scott + Stan Mitchell

    ·42m
  90. 90

    Sin and Progressive Christianity | GracePointe Church

    ·28m
  91. 91

    Reimagining Tradition | GracePointe Church

    ·1h 21m
  92. 92

    Bloom | GracePointe Church

    ·1h 25m
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    Chapter 11 | Palm Sunday

    ·28m
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    Chapter 10 | Jesus and the Rich Man

    ·31m
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    Chapter 9 | The Metamorphosis of Jesus

    ·37m
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    Chapter 7 | That Time When Jesus Changed His Mind

    ·41m
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    Chapter 6 | Together in This

    ·37m
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    Chapter 5 | What Do We Do About the Empire

    ·53m
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    Chapter 4 | The Parable of the Mustard Seed

    ·48m
  100. 100

    Discovering Your Internal Universe

    A pastor introduces himself and praises Grace Point church in Nashville, comparing it to his own church in Atlanta.

    ·34m
  101. 101

    Kat Armas + Shannan Martin in Conversation

    Hidden gem

    Kat Armas interviews Shannan Martin about Counterweights, a book built around her father’s lesson that a heavy burden can be carried more steadily with an equally heavy weight in the other hand.

    Apr 13, 2026·46m·3 clips
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    Kat Armas + Shannan Martin in Conversation

    Hidden gem

    At GracePointe Church in Nashville, Kat Armas interviews Shannan Martin about Counterweights, a book built around carrying unavoidable suffering alongside chosen acts of goodness.

    Apr 13, 2026·46m·3 clips
  103. 103

    Easter: What Does God Do About Injustice?

    Hidden gem

    GracePointe Church’s Easter sermon asks what God does about injustice after Jesus is executed for proclaiming a just and generous social order.

    Apr 6, 2026·36m·2 clips
  104. 104

    Christ Crucified: Palm Sunday

    Hidden gem

    GracePointe Church pastor John presents Palm Sunday as a planned protest against Roman power, contrasting Jesus’s donkey procession with Pontius Pilate’s imperial entrance into Jerusalem.

    Mar 30, 2026·43m·3 clips
  105. 105

    Christ Crucified: A Conversation

    Hidden gem

    GracePointe Church | Nashville, TN centers “Christ Crucified: A Conversation” on John 3:16, salvation, and the meaning of the cross.

    Mar 23, 2026·49m·3 clips
  106. 106

    Christ Crucified: Did Jesus Die for Our Sins?

    Mar 16, 2026·46m
  107. 107

    Christ Crucified: Did Jesus HAVE to Die?

    Mar 8, 2026·45m
  108. 108

    The (Actual) State of the Union with Doug Pagitt

    Pastor Josh interviews Doug Pagitt about the current state of the world and how people of faith can respond to crises like war and anti-trans legislation.

    Mar 1, 2026·41m
  109. 109

    Christ Crucified: Putting the Cross in Its Place

    Feb 23, 2026·44m
  110. 110

    Ashes and Dust: An Introduction to Lent and Ash Wednesday

    Feb 16, 2026·34m
  111. 111

    Epiphany : Stan Mitchell

    Feb 12, 2026·35m
  112. 112

    Epiphany : Calming the Storm

    Feb 1, 2026·32m
  113. 113

    Epiphany : Feeding the 5,000

    Jan 25, 2026·28m
  114. 114

    Epiphany : The Baptism of Jesus

    Jan 20, 2026·34m
  115. 115

    Epiphany : The Visit of the Magi

    Jan 12, 2026·46m
  116. 116

    Epiphany : God is a Verb

    Jan 4, 2026·42m
  117. 117

    Advent : O Little Town of Bethlehem

    Dec 21, 2025·37m
  118. 118

    Advent : Joy to the World

    Dec 16, 2025·45m
  119. 119

    Hell Bent with Brian Recker

    Brian Recker expresses gratitude to Grace Point Church for their thoughtful, Jesus-centered approach to Christianity and encourages them to continue their impactful work.

    Dec 9, 2025·43m
  120. 120

    Advent : O Come, O Come Emmanuel

    Dec 1, 2025·34m
  121. 121

    Liturgies for Resisting Empire

    Nov 24, 2025·45m
  122. 122

    Cultivate : Gratitude

    Nov 17, 2025·32m
  123. 123

    Cultivate : Compassion

    Nov 10, 2025·36m
  124. 124

    Discovering Your Internal Universe

    Nov 3, 2025·34m
  125. 125

    Cultivate : Patience

    Oct 27, 2025·33m
  126. 126

    Cultivate : Mystery

    Oct 21, 2025·28m
  127. 127

    Cultivate : Community

    Oct 14, 2025·40m
  128. 128

    Cultivate : Faith

    Oct 6, 2025·40m
  129. 129

    Cultivate : Love

    Sep 29, 2025·39m
  130. 130

    Cultivate: Preparing the Soil

    Sep 23, 2025·44m
  131. 131

    Cultivate: Preparing the Soil

    Sep 23, 2025·44m
  132. 132

    Inherent Union with God - Stan Mitchell

    Stan Mitchell discusses the shift from the belief in inherent separation from God to inherent union, where all humans are born as beloved children of God.

    Sep 15, 2025·44m
  133. 133

    GracePointe 201: Church

    Sep 8, 2025·44m
  134. 134

    GracePointe 201: Jesus

    Aug 25, 2025·43m
  135. 135

    GracePointe 201: God

    Aug 17, 2025·45m
  136. 136

    GracePointe 201: The Bible

    Aug 11, 2025·35m
  137. 137

    The Afterlife - Stan Mitchell

    Aug 4, 2025·41m
  138. 138

    Grab Bag: Question + Response

    Jul 28, 2025·42m
  139. 139

    Grab Bag: Kat Armas

    Jul 21, 2025·36m
  140. 140

    Grab Bag: The Beatitudes

    Jul 14, 2025·43m
  141. 141

    Grab Bag: Salvation (Part Two)

    Jul 7, 2025·49m
  142. 142

    Pride Sunday

    Jun 30, 2025·38m
  143. 143

    Grab Bag: Is Jesus Our Savior?

    Jun 23, 2025·35m
  144. 144

    Grab Bag: The New Testament

    Jun 16, 2025·42m
  145. 145

    Grab Bag: The Hebrew Bible

    Jun 9, 2025·36m
  146. 146

    *BONUS* An Evening with Dan McClellan

    A progressive Christian church hosts an evening with Dan McClellan, discussing his work on the Data Over Dogma podcast and his impact on Bible scholarship.

    Jun 5, 2025·1h 20m
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    Grab Bag: The Council of Nicaea

    Jun 3, 2025·46m
  148. 148

    Grab Bag: Faith and Citizenship

    May 27, 2025·50m
  149. 149

    Grab Bag: The Book of Revelation

    May 19, 2025·37m
  150. 150

    Guest Speaker: Colby Martin

    Apr 28, 2025·40m