Liberation Bible Study Alex Patchin McNeill

In this episode, host Rev. Alex Patchin McNeill is joined by MLP Board Member Rev. Lydia Tembo as they discuss Easter through the lens of discovery. What new thing do we discover through the Easter story? How do we care for one another as resurrected people?
Episode originally recorded April 8, 2020.

In this episode, host Rev. Alex Patchin McNeill is joined by the Rev. Jessica Vazquez Torres as they discuss Good Friday text of John 19: 16-30 through the lens of ending. How do we move through an abrupt change, when our source of hope seems gone?

In this seventh and final episode of a special mini-season of Abolitionist Lent Bible Study, Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, author of Activist Theology joins Rev. Alex Patchin McNeill to explore John 18:1-12 a portion of the Good Friday text, through the theme of faithfulness in the small things. As they examine closely Jesus' arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane they wonder how betrayal reveals a lack of relationship. What are the necessary conditions for deep relationships to exist and how is that related to the work of abolition?
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In this episode, host Rev. Alex Patchin McNeill is joined by Myles Markham as they discuss the Passion Sunday text: Matthew 26:14-30 through the lens of Family and Betrayal. How do we deal with betrayal, when do we harm others, intentionally or not, and how do we respond when we do? How do we claim ourselves and find liberation when our families are the ones who betray us?

In this sixth and final episode of a special mini-season of Abolitionist Lent Bible Study, Rev. Amantha Barbee, pastor at Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, GA, joins Rev. Alex Patchin McNeill to explore the Easter Sunday text John 20: 1-18 , through the theme of emptiness. Who stops to notice Mary weeping by the Tomb? What do her tears have to tell us about the empty tomb? Where are the empty places in our lives we have not yet seen the resurrection? How does abolition call us to sit with the weeping world where we might catch a glimpse of God's liberating vision?
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In this episode from March 2020, Rev. Dr. Justin Sabia-Tanis, professor at United Theological Seminary and author of "Transgendered Ministry, Theology and Communities of Faith" joins Rev. Alex Patchin McNeill to discuss the Palm Sunday story in Matthew 21:1-11 through the theme of visibility. They explore how Pride, as an act of visibility, functions as spiritual preparation to help us face the homophobia and transphobia that LGBTQIA+ folks face daily. How is Jesus' parade into Jerusalem an act of resistance as he prepares for what is to come in the days ahead?