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FEB 3

Episode 150: How a church from the 1920s is still ahead of its time in the 2020s (Harold Shank)

How many Church of Christ congregations in the United States baptized 8,000 people in their first 20 years? Central Church of Christ in Nashville, Tennessee, did. Forming in 2025, the Central Church of Christ did not choose to assemble in the desirable, fast-growing, upwardly-mobile parts of Nashville. Rather, the congregation chose to put down roots in the highest-crime, highest-poverty part of town. Backed by philanthropist A.M. Burton, Central Church of Christ activated a dazzling array of community services and ministries that would seem ahead of their time even today. Led by minister E.H. Ijams, the congregation operated from the belief that announcing the kingdom of God and practicing neighbor love are one and the same. In this episode, Ijams's protege and student, Harold Shank, talks about the legacy of Central Church of Christ and what congregations around the world today can learn from it today. Link to The Christian Chronicle's archive of coverage of the Central Church of Christ Link to It's All About God, Harold Shank's book about E.H. Ijams and the Central Church of Christ Donate to support this ministry of "information and inspiration" at christianchronicle.org/donate Send your comments, ideas, and suggestions to podcast@christianchronicle.org Healing Hands International will give you or your congregation a community and a direction to put the life and work of Jesus into practice. Learn more at hhi.org.

Feb 3

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34 min
12/22/2025

Episode 147: Church of Christ history for the next generation (Luke Dockery and Jared Pack)

Kids and young adults growing up in congregations with "Church of Christ" signs on their buildings have honest questions: "Who are we? How did we become who we are? Why do we do what we do?" These are important questions for young Christians trying to decide whether to remain with the church of their upbringing or strike out in search of something different. And, if "restoration" truly is essential to Christians who identify with the Church of Christ, then it must be a fresh practice for each new generation. These are the reasons why Church of Christ youth ministry veterans Luke Dockery and Jared Pack wrote Origin Story: Churches of Christ and the Restoration Movement. The book, which uses comic book illustrations and fast-moving, punchy language, seeks to orient a new generation to Church of Christ history. In this episode, the authors discuss why church history beyond the New Testament is still crucial for present-day Christians to learn and study. They also make their case that restoring the New Testament church is always a present and future pursuit and never a past-tense accomplishment. Thus, restoration demands both an awareness of history and an orientation toward emerging generations. Link to Zack Martin's Christian Chronicle review of Origin Story Link to Origin Story: Churches of Christ and the Restoration Movement Donate to support this ministry of "information and inspiration" at christianchronicle.org/donate Send your comments, ideas, and suggestions to podcast@christianchronicle.org Healing Hands International will give you or your congregation a community and a direction to put the life and work of Jesus into practice. Learn more at hhi.org.

12/22/2025

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35 min
JAN 22

Episode 149: How the church can make peace in a world that seems to want war (Tryce Prince)

These days, the heat and wind of the political environment is kindling even in some Christians what seems to be an appetite for rage, revenge and violence. When the church of Christ allows itself to be set ablaze by politics, how can it demonstrate the grace and peace of the kingdom of God? How can it bear witness to the reconciling and redemptive work of Jesus Christ? How can it be a refuge for those who are exhausted and wounded by the acrimony of our times? Recorded in late 2025, this conversation with Tryce Prince addresses these questions head-on. Prince is director of the Carl Spain Center on Race Studies and and Spiritual Action at Abilene Christian University, contributes to the Good Culture Show podcast and writes at the First Sunday Substack. He recently published an essay, "Fighting Fire with Plants" in Christianity Today. As the church searches its soul and tries to find solutions to the crises of these times, Prince points to a branch of the Christian family tree from recent history. The Black church in the United States responded to hateful and violent circumstances in the 19th and 20th centuries by cultivating a "beloved community" of proactive and purposeful love and peace-making. Donate to support this ministry of "information and inspiration" at christianchronicle.org/donate Send your comments, ideas, and suggestions to podcast@christianchronicle.org Healing Hands International will give you or your congregation a community and a direction to put the life and work of Jesus into practice. Learn more at hhi.org.

Jan 22

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44 min
JAN 15

Episode 148: Church of Christ congregations and ICE may be on a collision course in Chicago

Lakeview Church of Christ and Northwest Church of Christ, both in Chicago, have long histories ministering to their neighbors and welcoming strangers into their pews. For decades, migration trends mean that many of their members and neighbors are from countries beyond the United States. For both Lakeview and Northwest, embracing and supporting these newcomers has always been a simple matter of obedience to the Great Commission of Jesus Christ and the laws of the kingdom of God as the Gospel of Matthew 25:31-46. Changes in attitudes among some U.S. voters, however, led to a new federal administration that promised to deport 10 million illegal immigrants in 2025. Federal law enforcement is now deploying personnel and tactics that are affecting Lakeview and Northwest members and neighbors. Which raises difficult questions for congregational leaders. What will they do when obedience to the Christ could bring them to not comply or not cooperate with the U.S. government? What will they do if law enforcement tries to enlist, search or surveil their congregations? In this episode we hear from Chicago ministers Walter Pierce (Lakeview Church of Christ) and Carlos Estrada and Patrick Odum (Northwest Church of Christ). Link to an archive of The Christian Chronicle's coverage of Lakeview Church of Christ Link to an archive of The Christian Chronicle's coverage of Northwest Church of Christ Donate to support this ministry of "information and inspiration" at christianchronicle.org/donate Send your comments, ideas, and suggestions to podcast@christianchronicle.org Healing Hands International will give you or your congregation a community and a direction to put the life and work of Jesus into practice. Learn more at hhi.org.

Jan 15

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1 hr
12/15/2025

Episode 146: How can our Christian colleges keep margins from replacing mission? (Joshua Travis Brown)

Declining birthrates in the United States will drive down college enrollment over the next 15 years. Some experts predict that hundreds of small private colleges and universities will close. Of the 14 colleges and universities in the Church of Christ family tree, as many as ten of them have characteristics that put them at higher risk in the new higher education market. Many of these schools are innovating in ways that cut costs, increase operating margins and revenue and at least give them a chance to grow or maintain enrollment enough to survive. But will a necessary focus on margins lead to less focus on mission? Dr. Joshua Travis Brown, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and research fellow with the Center for Skills, Knowledge and Organizational Performance at the University of Oxford, shares what he found when he researched how small private colleges are managing tradeoffs between margins and mission. That research appears in his book, Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went From Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed (Oxford Press). Donate to support this ministry of "information and inspiration" at christianchronicle.org/donate Send your comments, ideas, and suggestions to podcast@christianchronicle.org Healing Hands International will give you or your congregation a community and a direction to put the life and work of Jesus into practice. Learn more at hhi.org.

12/15/2025

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35 min
06/28/2023

Episode 24: Mike Cope on the present and future of preaching

For almost 40 years, Mike Cope preached in Church of Christ congregations from North Carolina to Arkansas to Texas. Now at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, he directs the annual Bible lectures, leads church relations efforts, and takes on the challenge of educating and forming a new generation of ministers and preachers. In this episode, Cope talks about the state of preachers and preaching in the Church of Christ tradition, the headwinds congregations and ministers face together in the 21st century, and what gives him hope and inspiration for the future of those preaching gospel. Link to church relations (featuring Mike Cope) at Pepperdine University Link to the Lilly Endowment Link to archive of Christian Chronicle stories featuring Mike Cope Link to archive of The Christian Chronicle’s “Sacred Calling” series View the full archive of stories at christianchronicle.org Donate to The Christian Chronicle at christianchronicle.org/donate Send comments, ideas, and questions to podcast@christianchronicle.org Healing Hands International will give you or your congregation a community and a direction to put the life and work of Jesus into practice. Learn more at hhi.org.

06/28/2023

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49 min
07/12/2023

Episode 25: Is money the cause (or solution) of the minister shortage? We go there.

If the jobs section of The Christian Chronicle is any proof, more Church of Christ congregations in North America have open ministry positions than there are ministers able, ready, and willing to fill them. What is the cause of this "minister shortage"? In this episode, Christian Chronicle correspondents Cheryl Mann Bacon, Jeremie Beller, and Calvin Cockrell plunge into the "ick" of money as a factor in how few (or how many) Christians choose to become congregational ministers and whether congregations can hire and keep them. Read Cheryl Mann Bacon’s report on why fewer Christians are choosing to be ministers Read Jeremie Beller’s editorial, “Viewing ministry not as a career, but a calling Read Calvin Cockrell’s report on the cost of Bible and ministry education Read the full archive of The Christian Chronicle’s “Sacred Calling” series View the full archive of stories at christianchronicle.org Donate to The Christian Chronicle at christianchronicle.org/donate Send comments, ideas, and questions to podcast@christianchronicle.org Full-time ministry, minister, shortage, preacher shortage, preacher training, “Sacred Calling,” calling, career, minister, ministry, congregational minister, congregational ministry, Jeremie Beller, Oklahoma Christian University, Bible education, Christian colleges and universities, Church of Christ colleges and universities, preacher schools, Calvin Cockrell, minister pay, minister benefits, Cheryl Mann Bacon, Abilene Christian University, BT Irwin Healing Hands International will give you or your congregation a community and a direction to put the life and work of Jesus into practice. Learn more at hhi.org.

07/12/2023

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1h 7m
06/21/2023

Episode 23: Babies, moms, families, and the Church of Christ community one year after Dobbs (Audrey Jackson, Jerry Callens, Verlon Johnson)

When the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case on June 24, 2022, it overturned two cases, Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), that established the federal right to an abortion. For decades in the United States, many, if not most, Church of Christ members prayed, volunteered, and voted in hope that the Supreme Court would do what it finally did on June 24, 2022. In this episode, we find out how the Dobbs decision a year ago is either helping or hindering the efforts of Church of Christ members and ministries to help people choose life. SEGMENT ONE: What has happened since June 24, 2022? (Audrey Jackson) Link to Audrey Jackson’s coverage of the Dobbs decision in June 2022 Link to The Christian Chronicle’s editorial board’s response to the Dobbs decision (June 2022) Cheryl Mann Bacon’s Christian Chronicle op-ed in response to Dobbs (June 2022) SEGMENT TWO: How have things changed and what is next? (Jerry Callens) Link to Christian Chronicle stories featuring Jerry Callens Link to Christian Family Services SEGMENT THREE: How have things changed and what is next? (Verlon Johnson) Link to Christian Chronicle stories featuring Verlon Johnson TAGS Abortion, abortion rights, anti-abortion, pro-choice, pro-life, Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Supreme Court, SCOTUS, U.S. Supreme Court, unborn, babies, moms, mothers, health care, family care, pregnancy, crisis pregnancy, adoption, foster care, foster parents, adoptive parents, foster home, foster kids, ministry, Medicaid, Christian Family Services, Gainesville, Florida, Audrey Jackson, Jerry Callens, Verlon Johnson, Matteson Church of Christ, Matteson, Illinois Healing Hands International will give you or your congregation a community and a direction to put the life and work of Jesus into practice. Learn more at hhi.org.

06/21/2023

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1h 1m
12/03/2025

Episode 145: How might the church care for parents of special needs kids? (Gigi Khonyongwa-Fernandez)

Parents of special needs kids face a special kind of grief and a special kind of struggle. Yet, so often their needs go overlooked and unmet in their own churches. Gigi Khonyongwa-Fernandez, author of From Rollercoasters to Carousels: An Emotional Support Guide to Healing for NICU, Bereaved and Special Needs Parents, shares her story and the emotions she and other NICU, bereaved and special needs parents experience. In this episode, she opens up about how parents like her deal with ongoing grief and trauma. Among the points that come up in this discussion are: How we are all close to someone who experiences trauma, most of all in our churchesNICU, bereaved and special needs parents struggle to allow themselves to feel their emotionsSometimes, churches do not make space for those who are grieving to grieve as fully and as long as they needHow might the church come alongside NICU, bereaved and special needs parents? Links for this episode: BT and Gigi reference both 2 Corinthians 1:4 and Proverbs 27:14 The Christian Chronicle's feature on Khonyogwa-Fernandez: https://christianchronicle.org/connector-in-chief-trauma-informed-coach-brings-the-world-together/ Donate to support this ministry of "information and inspiration" at christianchronicle.org/donate Send your comments, ideas, and suggestions to podcast@christianchronicle.org Healing Hands International will give you or your congregation a community and a direction to put the life and work of Jesus into practice. Learn more at hhi.org.

12/03/2025

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29 min
FEB 18

Grappa 101 For Whiskey Lovers

Send a text A bowling alley debrief turns into a full‑on flavor expedition as we line up four grappas—two store‑bought and two homemade, barrel‑aged bottles from an Italian cousin—and see what happens when whiskey palates meet pomace brandy. We set the scene with Detroit’s spring drinking season (Pączki Day, St. Patrick’s parades, and Opening Day) and then dive into what grappa really is, why it can smell volatile, and how a good barrel can turn rough edges into something honeyed, floral, and unexpectedly smooth. We start with two clear bottles at 80 proof and get our first lesson fast: nose isn’t destiny. One shows a minty finish and light texture; the other wafts acetone but drinks like white grape juice with more charm than you’d guess. Then the homemade, barrel‑aged pair arrives, and everything changes. The aroma softens, the heat recedes, and we find notes that drift toward mead and stone fruit, though not everyone is convinced. That disagreement is the point. Palate is part memory and part map—shaped by bad scotch holidays, beloved bourbons, and the drinks your grandparents swore by. Between sips, we chase Olympic obsessions (curling scuffles, Super‑G chaos, judged sports drama) and take stock of Detroit bar news, including a beloved tiki spot closing and what that says about glassware costs, flaming garnishes, and $23 cocktails in a post‑covidian world. If you’re Italy‑bound, we share practical moves: try grappa as an ammazzacaffè after espresso, consider caffè corretto if you like a spike, and don’t be shocked if a small family bottle outperforms the label you know. By the final toast, we’ve built a compact guide to tasting grappa like a pro: understand the pomace origin, respect the heads‑and‑tails reality, taste past the first whiff, and appreciate how cask time can coax out rounder flavors. Not every sip will be your forever pour, but curiosity pays off when a glass carries a place, a family, and a story. If you’re a whiskey fan eyeing new terrain—or just grappa‑curious—this ride is for you. Enjoyed the show? Subscribe, leave a quick review, and share this episode with a friend who needs a new after‑dinner ritual. Support the show https://linktr.ee/ManCaveHappyHour www.ManCaveHappyHour.com Jamie Flanagan @DJJamieDetroit Matt Fox @fox_beazlefox August Gitschlag @rawgusto Merch www.WearingFunny.com

Feb 18

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52 min

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