Love, The Goal - Episode 05 - Cristin Cooper

Love, The Goal - Episode 06 - Rachel Billups

Episode #6 of the "Love, the Goal" podcast, featuring Rev. Rev. Rachel Billups, Lead Pastor at New Albany UMC in Ohio. The author of "Be Bold - Find Your Fierce," and An "Unlikely Advent," Rachel has a heart for loving Jesus and doing something about it. In this interview, Chris and Rachel explore what it looks like to put the love of Jesus into practice, including through self-care, ministering across racial/ethnic boundaries, conflict management, and owning who God has created you to be.

Love, The Goal - Episode 05 - Cristin Cooper

Episode #5 of the "Love, the Goal" podcast, featuring Rev. Cristin Cooper, founder of Coop's Soups, a social enterprise that makes soup to build bridges and get to know neighbors. In this interview, Cristin shares about her efforts to help people fight loneliness, build community, and share food while helping others in need as an expression of God's love.

Love, The Goal - Episode 04 - Tim Merrill

Episode #4 of the "Love, the Goal" podcast, featuring Rev. Tim Merrill, pastor and social activist in Camden, NJ. In this episode, host Rev. Chris Heckert asks Tim about his own journey of putting the love of Jesus into practice while working with young people in Camden to help them flourish and thrive in the face of adver. Love the Goal is a production of Two Pews Media, Executive Producer: Chris Heckert; Edited by Phil Fizur and Megan Martin.

Love, The Goal - Episode 03 - Dr. Ashley Boggan

Listen to Episode #3 of the "Love, the Goal" podcast, featuring Dr. Ashley Boggan, General Secretary of the General Commission on Archives and History. Today we learn about Dr. Boggan’s role in which she ensures that The UMC understands its past in order to envision a more equitable future for all Methodists.

Love, The Goal - Episode 02 - Shane Claiborne

Our guest today is an amazing human being. His name is Shane Claiborne. Shane founded The Simple Way, which is a community in, North Philly, and he's going to tell a little bit of that story in the podcast today. Shane founded Simple Homes, an effort to put folks, into an affordable house in that neighborhood, as well as Raw Tools, a project where they literally melt down guns and turn them into tools for for nurturing life instead of, weapons that can take life. Shane is the author of a whole host of books including Jesus for President, Red Letter Revolution, Common Prayer, Follow Me to Freedom, Jesus, Bombs and Ice Cream, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, Executing Grace, his classic The Irresistible Revolution, Beating Guns, and his newest book, Rethinking Life,