This week we get to meet a new friend, Char Mansfield.

Char Mansfield, co-founder of the public theology podcast Barefoot to Emmaus, is a Princeton Seminary MDiv and soon to be Rutgers University MSW. They plan to use the two master's to pursue a bivocational ministry of pastoral leadership and psychotherapy. Char is an anarchist in the style of the first church, with their deepest convictions surrounding the centrality of interdependent community and renunciation of private property to the Christian calling.

https://barefoot2emmaus.weebly.com/

https://www.instagram.com/barefoot2emmaus/

Barefoot2emmaus@gmail.com

This week we get to talk to the delightful Jennifer C. Martin.

Jennifer C. Martin is a writer, editor, and speaker living in Richmond, VA, with her two partners and two children. She writes, reads, and speaks about religion, politics, polyamory, sexuality, culture, entertainment, and more. When she's not trolling on social media or updating her Substack blog, Dirtbag Christian, she's in the kitchen making baked goods, doing yoga, editing, writing, gaming, gardening, or going to therapy. Raised in the Church of God denomination in a conservative home, she is now a member of the United Church of Christ and a communist.
website: https://jennifercmartin.com/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/notreallyjcm.bsky.social
Substack: https://dirtbagchristian.substack.com/

This week we are talking to my friend Aaron Epperson.
Aaron Epperson is a writer, social services worker, and a lover of Oregon's wild places. He has a BA in Conflict Resolution from Portland State and spent years working in the tech industry before pivoting to social services where he helps families through difficult circumstances.

aaronepperson.com

Bluesky: @tacojolly