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CulturalSavage

CulturalSavage

By: Aaron J Smith
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We are exploring a Christian spirituality of being human. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culturalsavage/supportAaron J Smith Christianity Spirituality
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  • Elle Dowd-Baptized in Teargas
    Jun 16 2025

    Friends, welcome once again.

    This week, we're talking to Elle Dowd.

    Elle Dowd (she/they) is an author, activist, and pastor.She is currently PhD student at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

    Elle has pieces of their heart in Sierra Leone, where their two children were born, and in St. Louis where they learned from the radical, queer, Black leadership during the Ferguson Uprising.

    She was formerly a co-conspirator with the movement to #decolonizeLutheranism and served as a board member of the Euro-Descent Lutheran Association for Racial Justice, does community organizing in her city as a board member of SOUL, serves on the Clergy Advocacy Board for Planned Parenthood, and facilitates workshops in both secular conferences and Christian spaces. In 2021 she published a book with Broadleaf, Baptized in Teargas, about her conversion from a white moderate to an abolitionist is available now in print, e-book, or audiobook.

    To get in touch with Elle and to keep up with updates, you can visit their website www.elledowd.com and subscribe to their newsletter.


    You can also see her online ministry via Facebook.com/elledowdministry

    or follow her on Twitter/SnapChat/Insta @hownowbrowndowd

    or on TikTok @elledowdministry and @ELCAYoungAdults


    And order their book Baptized in Teargas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist here https://bit.ly/2YICjBf


    Or download the audiobook here https://christianaudio.com/baptized-tear-gas-elle-dowd-audiobook-download

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    57 mins
  • Ell-Jesus Was a Union Man
    Jun 6 2025

    Hello friends!

    This week, we are talking to a new friend, Ell.

    Ell is a co-host for The Word in Black and Red podcast, a member of the IWW, and a board member at her church. She was raised Presbyterian, sent to catholic school as an atheist, and then graduated with a BA in anthropology and classics. She’s worked in various industries and is a passionate advocate of intersectional workers rights and building community solidarity.TWIBAR

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    51 mins
  • Micah- We Belong To Each Other
    May 17 2025
    This week, we get to talk to Micah.Micah is a queer leftist minister who was raised in a fundamentalist cult, read the Bible for themselves, and realized they had to choose between the religion they were raised in or a radical new faith. You can join their alternative church for folks left on the outside at The Llama Pack or listen to them on the leftist Bible study podcast The Word in Black and Red.Podcast: The Word in Black and RedLlama Pack Discord: https://discord.gg/SzvGVXf4yTWIBAR Discord: https://discord.gg/gubtf4QF
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    1 hr and 7 mins
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