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“Christ Is King” is everywhere right now and that’s exactly why we needed to slow down and ask what we’re actually confessing. We’re recording during Holy Week, and we feel the tension: the Resurrection is the center of Christian faith, but the name of Jesus keeps getting pulled into arguments about power, violence, and national identity. So we put the slogan on the table and ask whether it’s being used as comfort, as a threat, or as a shortcut to baptize the politics of empire.

We discuss imprecatory psalms, the difference between the oppressed crying out for justice and an empire asking God to bless its weapons. Also, are there prayers that God ignores? Does God listen to the prayers of the wicked? The Pope recently warned that God doesn't listen to those who wage war.

We also take a look at our Mail Bag and there is one consistent theme.... $ Hope you enjoy! Keep writing in!

Sho Baraka & Malcolm's Good Culture in an Empire Event - April 17th! Get your tix.

Resources discussed

Power Over vs. Power Under in Two-Kingdoms by Greg Boyd

The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church by Greg Boyd

Pete Hegseth's Prayer

Terrible tweets:

"the worst of the worst"

Robert Morris released

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“Christian socialism” can sound like a contradiction if you’ve been taught that Christianity and capitalism belong together. We slow the whole thing down and ask a better question: what does the gospel actually announce, and what kind of economic life should that announcement produce? Along the way, we respond to a debate clip that tries to shrink the gospel into “Jesus’ finished work” while treating justice as merely an implication. We argue that the good news is bigger, more public, and more demanding than that, without turning works into a way to earn salvation.

Then we get honest about how systems shape souls. Capitalism is not just private property and Starbucks choices. It’s a moral formation built around profit motive, endless growth, and “voluntary exchange” that often isn’t voluntary when it involves housing, healthcare, wages, and survival. We connect modern wealth to empire history, including the doctrine of discovery and the long chain of dispossession that set the table for today’s inequality. If the top owns staggering wealth while the poor are crushed, the question isn’t only “did you personally exploit?” but “what does it mean to retain excess while your neighbor suffers?”

We also define socialism in plain language, talk about why so many “failed socialism” examples ignore U.S. intervention, and bring the conversation back to Scripture: Jubilee, debt forgiveness, gleaning, Acts 2, and Acts 4. Our bottom line is not blind faith in the state but a call for the church to offer a real economic witness in the shadow of empire, so there are no needy among us.

Books, Articles, and Notes:

John Perkins Stood Almost Alone - (Russell Moore) The civil rights leader treated love of God and love for others as inseparable.

Tax the Rich: How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich even Richer

It's Basically Just Immoral to Be Rich

Malcolm's Debate

Thaddeus Williams RECAP of the debate.

The Case for Christian Socialism

Christianity and Capitalism are Incompatible

Institute for Christian Socialism

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Is this it? Are we now living in the endtimes? Has America kicked off Armageddon? Recently some commanders are framing this war as part of God’s endgame. We take a hard, careful look at how Armageddon is being invoked to bless violence and ask what Revelation 16 actually means. Drawing on Israel’s story at Megiddo in Judges 4–5, we show how John’s apocalyptic imagery points to God’s pattern of deliverance, not a geopolitical countdown. Along the way we confront the claim that any person is “anointed” to light the fuse of history, and we return to Jesus’ own warning: no one knows the day or hour.

From failed predictions and culture-war sermons to modern war rhetoric, we map the through-line: when power borrows God’s name, people get hurt. We contrast the mountain of Armageddon with the hill of Calvary, where God’s power looks like self-giving love, not shock and awe. Then we pivot to practice—how communities can protect immigrants, rebuild trust, and recover moral credibility before chasing policy wins. The real battle is not a theatrical showdown in the Middle East; it’s the daily war within our hearts against pride, greed, anger, and fear.

Come for the scripture, stay for the honesty. If you’re weary of end-times hype and hungry for a faith that resists empire and clings to Christ, this conversation is for you.

Terrible Tweets:

Iran is God's plan to start Armageddon

John Haggee's framing...

Marco Rubio on Radical Clerics leading a nation...

Paula White's Prophecy over Trump

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