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Pod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog16 - Should pastors speak out about politics?Episode 16 (recorded 10 June 2021). Bishop Jack Lumanog discusses pastors speaking out about politics. Touched off by what was supposed to be a benign post on social media with a call to prayer for Myanmar and an observation that some Republicans are calling for a similar bloody military coup in America, Bishop Lumanog deals with some fallout about speaking out about politics.
Even with audio and video evidence of Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and a growing chorus of Trump supporters and this sudden interest in Myanmar by Republicans who seem to be hoping for a similar...2021-06-1040 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog15 - Anglican Church of Kenya's new bishop and GAFCONEpisode 14 (recorded 13 January 2021). Bishop Jack Lumanog discusses the announcement from the Anglican Church of Kenya on 12 January 2021 that they will be going to be the second Gafcon (Global Anglican Future Conference) province to consecrate a woman as a bishop. The Rev. Dr. Emily Onyango has been appointed Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Bondo in the Anglican Church of Kenya and affirmed by the Kenyan House of Bishops. What are the implications for Gafcon and member provinces with this announcement from the Anglican Church of Kenya?
It seems to me that Gafcon mostly...2021-01-1348 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog14 - Eric Metaxas and committing his life to dying for President TrumpEpisode 14 (recorded 11 December 2020). Bishop Jack Lumanog shares his perspective on an interview that mild mannered conservative Episcopalian Eric Metaxas had with President Trump. Metaxas publicly commits his life to Donald Trump and vows that he would die in the fight to keep President Trump in office. This is a disturbing example of Trumpism not only taking over the Republican Party, but also what used to be sensible wings of the evangelical movement within Christianity. Metaxas's publicly committing Jesus Christ to the coup against the Constitution and a democratically elected President, encouraging Christians to pray to...2020-12-1151 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog13 - Heartbreak and HopeEpisode 13 (recorded 5 November 2020). Bishop Jack Lumanog shares unscripted from the heart about his heartbreak about the 2020 presidential election results. In light of mismanaging a global pandemic, insulting veterans and Gold Star families, undermining the democratic process, cozying up with foreign dictators and domestic white supremacists, he and his children treating The White House as their own personal enterprise, and dismantling the various parts of the governmental infrastructure through his Cabinet secretaries and breaking just about every presidential norm -- that still quite so many Americans voted for President Trump. This was NOT a repudiation...2020-11-0600 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog12 - The Curious Case of Kyle RittenhouseEpisode 12 (recorded 30 August 2020). Bishop Jack Lumanog examines the curious case of Kyle Rittenhouse -- a 17 year old Illinois boy who killed two and shot a third person in Kenosha, Wisconsin is peacefully taken into custody. However, the flashpoint for the unrest that brought Rittenhouse from Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin was Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, being shot by police 7-8 times in the back while trying to break up a fight between two women outside a home. At issue is the disproportionate violence against Black people by police officers which has come to the fore...2020-08-3147 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog11 - Trump fact checked by Fox News and will Evangelicals be bothered to care about it anymore?Episode 11 (recorded 19 July 2020). You know you're having a bad day when you are getting fact checked by Fox News. Bishop Jack Lumanog breaks down President Trump's off the rails interview with Chris Wallace from Fox News and even Fox gets called "fake news" by Trump. And even with the President's insistence that things are going great - even though they are so clearly not - with his lack of leadership or even grasp of basic facts on Coronavirus, Chris Wallace calls out President Trump for claiming "good" mortality numbers and that Vice President Joe Biden wants...2020-07-2052 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog10 - Trump more pro-Confederacy than anti-CoronavirusEpisode 10 (recorded 11 July 2020). President Trump's remarks on July 4th in Washington, D.C. in his "Salute to America," he seems more preoccupied with preserving the Confederacy than defeating Coronavirus (listen to Episode 9: "Time for some new statues and monuments!" for a discussion of his July 3rd speech at Mount Rushmore).
After a disjointed speech that was supposed to commemorate our Independence Day, President Trump equated Iwo Jima with the Confederate "heroes" of the Civil War and his commitment to preserve this "legacy of heroes."
Meanwhile, following President...2020-07-1255 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog9 - Time for some new statues and monuments!Episode 9 (recorded 4 July 2020). Following President Trump's speech at Mount Rushmore on 3 July 2020, Bishop Jack Lumanog responds to the President's tone deaf rhetoric and his odd commitment to preserving "our" heroes, "our" values, "our" most sacred memorials. The Bishop discusses the history of Stone Mountain (outside of Atlanta) and proposes taking down every Confederate statue and monument and offers his suggestions for their replacements: General and 18th President Ulysses S. Grant, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, The Greensboro Four, The Little Rock 9 (especially depicting 15 year old Elizabeth Eckford), Rosa Parks, The Freedom Riders (especially Congressman John Lewis). ...2020-07-0447 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog8 - DACA, DREAMers and Evangelicals - with Matthew SoerensEpisode 8 (recorded 26 June 2020). -- Bishop Jack Lumanog sits down for his first ever interview for Pod Bless Us! 8 days before today's recording, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 blocking the Trump administration from going ahead with its plan, announced in 2017, to end a program called DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). For an Evangelical point of view following this recent Supreme Court decision and an in-depth discussion on how to think biblically about immigrants and refugees, Bishop Jack talks with Matthew Soerens, the US Director of Church Mobilization for World Relief and...2020-06-2645 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog7 - Are Bibles props, churches as circus tents and Evangelicals just pawns for President Trump?Episode 7 (recorded 24 June 2020). -- Are Bibles props, churches as circus tents and Evangelicals just pawns to President Trump? It would certainly seem so. "Kung Flu!" shouted President Donald Trump on 23 June 2020 at a rally held at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona. The President made racist jokes and the crowd went wild inside a Phoenix megachurch. Bishop Jack Lumanog also takes us back to 1 June 2020 where peaceful protestors from Lafayette Square were met with militaristic tactics so that the President could have his 5 minute photo op in front of St. John's Episcopal Church...2020-06-2432 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog6 - Bishop Jack Lumanog on Hosea chapter 6Episode 6 (recorded 21 June 2020). -- First, Bishop Jack Lumanog shares some important notices about "Pod Bless Us." Be sure to visit the website at www.podbless.us to support and get in contact with us! Then, Bishop Jack shares his sermon from today in its entirety from Hosea 5:15-6:6, "Mercy -- Not Sacrifice." It's not every day that the Old Testament prophet Hosea comes up in the Sunday readings, so this was a great opportunity to share this message!
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Trinity Sunday gives us the Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20) and Bishop Jack Lumanog also reminds us about the Great Commandment (Mark 12:30-31). "GC squared" can help us bridge the divide between the races and other differences that face us within and without the Church. Bishop Lumanog shares his experiences of "white-splaining" which happened to him as a person of color being told how to feel...2020-06-1431 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog2 - "I Can't Breathe" Come, Holy Spirit and RIP George Floyd.Episode 2 (recorded 13 June 2020). -- Even though the Church is in the season of Pentecost, celebrating the Holy Spirit breathing on the Church for mission, Bishop Jack Lumanog shares that he is having trouble breathing this promised power of God. Especially in light of yet another unarmed black person killed and on video for the world to see. What is the Church to do? How are we to respond? Bishop Jack discusses the most recent deaths of unarmed black civilians: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. And here is the Bishop's prayer: "...2020-06-1423 minPod Bless Us with Bishop Jack Lumanog1 - "Pod Bless Us" with Bishop Jack Lumanog - PromoPromo episode for "Pod Bless Us" with Bishop Jack Lumanog. Aiming to be a podcast at the intersection of faith, culture, politics and leadership.
Our host is Bishop Jack Lumanog, an Anglican Bishop and the leader of The Anglican Diocese of St. Ignatius Loyola. A pastor and evangelist at heart, Bishop Jack Lumanog has planted, revitalized and pastored churches, traveled internationally to teach pastors and church planters and was a denominational leader for 7 years with executive level oversight for over 1,000 congregations in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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