A serious look at how sacred values can become organizing power.
Aaron Stauffer treats religion as both a center of community and a source of tension, shaped by a small town in Kansas where the church was where people got things done.

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The Podcast of the Religion and Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Faith meets organizing here, with historically grounded conversations about housing, education, racial justice, and the moral claims behind collective action.
Religious Socialism Podcast keeps asking what faith looks like once it leaves abstraction and enters public life. Ralph leads interviews and a live panel that connect religious conviction with organizing, economic inequality, housing justice, theological education, and socialist…
From Debs's house to eviction court, your faith gets asked for more than good intentions.
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A serious look at how sacred values can become organizing power.
Aaron Stauffer treats religion as both a center of community and a source of tension, shaped by a small town in Kansas where the church was where people got things done.
A measured look at how process theology moves from sermons into congregational practice.
The episode follows Jeff Wells as he connects Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God to a pastoral interest in process theology and to a worship series that brought those ideas into the congregation in 2021.
A museum visit becomes a clear-eyed conversation about Debs, labor, and religion as solidarity.
The episode turns a visit to the Eugene V. Debs Museum into a sharp look at where faith, labor politics, and organizing meet in one American life.
A steady case for theological education that answers to communities, not markets.
Heart of a Heartless World uses its conversation with Tim Condor and Daniel Rhodes of the Black Mountain School of Theology and Community to make a clear case for theological education that answers to real communities instead of market pressures.
Faith, housing, and tenant power are treated as one practical struggle.
The piece moves between religious language and plain housing-justice work, and it stays strongest when it keeps its feet on the ground: eviction court watching, tenant organizing, and the credibility that comes from showing up.
Icons, solidarity, and the moral work of seeing.
Kelly Latimore's conversation treats icons as a way of looking at the divine and, maybe more uncomfortably, at ourselves. He connects that view to an evangelical childhood, then moves through images that place George Floyd, refugee families, and Dorothy Day in the same moral…
A serious panel on Black social gospel, justice, and enough for all.
Dorothy Benz, Gary Dorian, and Andrew Wilkes anchor a serious conversation about Black social gospel, liberation, and social and economic equality in the United States and around the world.
A careful conversation about faith, philosophy, and social responsibility that keeps the ideas close to lived reality.
Tripp Fuller comes across as a pastor's kid from rural North Carolina, shaped by parents who gave him a Baptist church with room for women and a respect for science.






Kelly Lattimore starts with inherited Christianity.
Host Ralph interviews Jeff Wells, pastor and co-editor of 'Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God,' exploring his journey from socialist radical to Methodist clergy.
Ralph sits down with Tripp Fuller for a conversation about the path that made him.
Fran Quigley joins Heart of a Heartless World for a conversation about housing justice, tenant organizing, and the religious stakes of eviction and homelessness.
Heart of a Heartless World opens with a live panel from earlier this year featuring Dorothy Benz, Gary Dorian, and Andrew Wilkes.
This interview with Allison Duerk, director of the Eugene V.
Kelly Latimore discusses the challenges of public speaking, code switching across different life domains, and the repetitive nature of his talking points in a bonus podcast conversation.
Tim Conder and Daniel Rhodes discuss the failures of market-driven theological education and propose democratized, community-based alternatives inspired by Black Mountain College.
Heart of a Heartless World welcomes Aaron Stouffer.
Chas Howard joins Heart of a Heartless World for a conversation about religion, calling, and purpose.