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Rethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith That Formed UsEpisode 8- Lessons Learned, Implications, and Next StepsIn this final episode of our Rethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith that Formed Us Erna Kim Hackett and Barnabas Lin reflect on what they’ve learned and what comes next.They trace how unexamined evangelical theology shaped their early views of Israel, and how new frameworks of history, faith, and justice helped them see Palestine more clearly. Together they explore Palestinian Liberation Theology and the conviction that no one’s liberation can depend on another’s oppression.Erna shares her growing sense of responsibility to speak back to the evangelical world that formed...
2025-11-2440 minRethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith That Formed UsEpisode 7- Learning History, Undoing MythsIn this episode, Erna shares how digging into history after Oct 7 reshaped her evangelical frameworks—and made Palestinian lives, losses, and resistance visible. From the Nakba to the Oslo Accords to the separation wall, we trace the events and ideas that formed today’s reality and ask what faithful ethics require now.Story snapshotsIqrit (Iqrīt): A Christian Palestinian village ordered to evacuate; residents won a court ruling to return—then the army demolished the village on Christmas Eve, 1951. Families still hold weddings and Christmas Mass among the ruins, waiting for a right...
2025-11-171h 06Rethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith That Formed UsEpisode 6- Didn't God Give the Land to the Jews?Episode 6 · “Didn’t God Give the Land to the Jews?”For many Christians shaped by American evangelicalism, the phrase “God gave the land to the Jews” feels like a complete thought. In this episode, Barnabas Lin helps us expand how we think about that statement by asking: Why did God give the land to the Jewish people?From Genesis through the prophets, Barnabas traces how the Old Testament tells a much fuller story—one where the gift of land comes with a vocation: to live justly, care for neighbors, rest the earth, and re...
2025-11-101h 03Rethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith That Formed UsEpisode 5- Why Is It So Hard to Learn About What is Happening?In this candid conversation, hosts Erna Kim Hackett and Barnabas Lin unpack the blocks that Erna encountered while trying to understand Gaza and the broader Israel/Palestine context after October 7. Together they trace how biases, limited U.S. frameworks, and deeply embedded evangelical formation can hinder our learning. Erna names the specific narratives she had to push through—about the Middle East being too complex, about who is marginalized, and about biblical claims to land—while Barnabas offers tools for lowering “learning anxiety,” holding grief without dehumanizing anyone, and moving toward peacemaking. This is the f...
2025-11-031h 19Rethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith That Formed UsEpisode 4- Witnessing Trip to the West Bank Part 2Erna Kim Hackett and Barnabas Lin continue sharing what they witnessed in the West Bank (March 2025) with the Palestinian-led organization Sabeel. In Ramallah, they meet a multi-generational family of resisters—including Ahed—whose accounts of imprisonment, administrative detention, and psychological warfare confront the hosts with challenging moral clarity about colonialism, complicity, and courage. They also experience spaces of life and joy: a youth circus school, a park full of picnicking families, and a dance studio where Dabke becomes cultural memory and resistance. The episode contrasts West Jerusalem’s ease with the walled-in reality of Bethlehem—checkpoints, permits, separate roads—and reflec...
2025-10-271h 01Rethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith That Formed UsEpisode 3- Witnessing Trip to the West Bank- Part 1Erna Kim Hackett and Barnabas Lin share what they saw and learned on a March 2025 witnessing trip to the West Bank with Palestinian-led organization Sabeel. They trace how personal encounters—an educator who helped end child marriage in her village, a family farm near Bethlehem, international accompanier teams, and advocates for children—reshaped their assumptions about safety, “holy land” tourism. The hosts share their experience of learning about how everyday systems—water, roads, permits, and IDs—shape life for Palestinians in the West Bank. A faith-rooted conversation about grief, perseverance, and telling the truth without dehumanizing anyone.Send questio...
2025-10-2056 minRethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith That Formed UsEpisode 2- Barnabas's StoryIn this episode, Barnabas shares his story of encounter, unlearning, and renewal—how friendship with Jewish and Palestinian folks, led to a fellowship at Auschwitz the summer of 2024, and a witnessing trip to the West Bank in the Spring of 2025. His honesty gives us permission to take responsibility for the ways Christians have caused both Jewish and Palestinian suffering.Rather than offering answers, this conversation invites us into patience and repair—sitting with hard history, unlearning anti-Jewish readings, and recovering a faith concerned with land, justice, and right relationship. It’s an invitation to let Scripture expand our mor...
2025-10-141h 01Rethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith That Formed UsEpisode 1- Erna's StoryIn this first episode, Erna shares her story of confusion, defensiveness, and awakening—how she came to see that her beliefs about Israel and Palestine were shaped by assumptions she had never thought to question. Her honesty opens space for all of us to name our own uncertainty and begin untangling what we’ve been taught from what is true.Rather than offering answers, this episode invites listeners into learning, tension, and humility—exploring what happens when our theology collides with our sense of justice, and how that collision can be a catalyst for growth.You ca...
2025-10-0647 min
Reclaiming My Theology...From Empire: State Religion w/ Erna Kim Hackett and Barnabas LinIn this epsiode Brandi is joined by Barnabas Lin and Erna Kim Hackett to talk about state religion and the ways that empires (throughout history) take on religious identities, co-opt them, and twist exploit them for power, privilege, and influence. This conversation was inspired by a recent trip they took to the West Bank and work that Brandi has been doing to learn about the genocide in Gaza and the current reality of the West Bank. The imperial ideas that shape the U.S. are exported, refined and given back to us, creating cycles of structural violence. Th...
2025-10-011h 25Rethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith That Formed UsIntroducing- Rethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith That Formed UsIn this episode you will meet cohosts Erna Kim Hackett and Barnabas Lin. In this episode, you’ll meet co-hosts Erna Kim Hackett and Barnabas Lin as they introduce themselves, explain who this series is for, and preview the topics covered in future episodes. From personal stories to theology, history, and on-the-ground experiences, this episode sets the stage for rethinking Israel, Palestine, and the faith that shaped us.Follow us on Instagram @rethinking_palestineVisit www.rethinkingpalestine.comEmail us at RethinkingPalestine@gmail.com
2025-09-2509 min
City Church Long Beach SermonsSoul Care with David and GoliathWeek three of our Soul Care series | 1 Samuel 17:33-40 | Erna Kim Hackett
2024-11-3039 minReclaiming My Theology...Purity Culture: Season Finale Q and A pt. 1 (w/ Erna Kim Hackett)This episode part one of a two part Q and A session as we close out this series on purity culture. In this part, we discuss questions about attraction, sexual exploration, what the point of marriage and sex are, some questions about asexuality and the myriad of things that dovetail between. Next episode, we will talk about dating while older, parenting, and healing. You can find Erna's work at Liberatedtogether.com and online everywhere at @ernakimhackettIf you like what you hear you can subscribe, rate, review, or tell others about the show. You can...
2024-07-311h 06
Bethel Community SermonsRadical Solidarity and Radical Mothering: The Legacy of Yuri Kochiyama (Erna Kim Hackett)Guest Preacher, Erna Kim Hackett, shares a special Mother's Day and AANHPI Month reflection on Yuri Kochiyama's legacy of radical solidarity and radical mothering. How might Yuri's life and witness point us to a God of justice, and teach us how to live in these days?
2024-05-1326 min
Bethel Community SermonsSurrounded by the Cloud (Hebrews 12:1) - Erna Kim HackettGuest Preacher, Erna Kim Hackett, continues our Lenten series by examining what it means to be surrounded by the "Great cloud of witnesses" and sharing more about her journey to explore, expand, and reclaim the cloud of witnesses around her. Through her sermon and her invitation to build a community altar, she reminds us that the cloud of witnesses is so much more expansive than we could imagine.
2024-02-2627 minReclaiming My Theology...From Purity Culture: Virginity w/ Erna Kim HackettIn this episode, Brandi is joined by Erna Kim Hackett (@liberatedtogether) to explore the concept of virginity, its cultural implications, its theological roots and how it separates us from ourselves, others, and inhibits our relationship with God...maybe just not how we thought it would. Erna Kim Hackett is the founder and leader of Liberated Together where she creates community for Women of Color, Queer WOC, and non-binary folks who have been shaped by Christianity to explore liberated and embodied theology, decolonized approaches to social justice, and radical solidarities across ethnic lines. If you l...
2024-02-141h 24Reclaiming My TheologyReclaiming Our Theology w/ Brandi Miller (and guest host Erna Kim Hackett)In this episode the tables are turned as Erna Kim Hackett (@liberatedtogether) dialouges with Brandi, the host of Reclaiming My Theology about what the last three years of this work have meant, what we have learned together, how Creator has shown up, and where we are going. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe, leave a review, or tell a friend about the show. You can also support us on patreon at patreon.com/reclaimingmytheology. Reclaiming My Theology is recorded, edited, and produced by Brandi Miller- our music is by Sanchez Fair T...
2023-06-1453 min
Bethel Community SermonsJourneying with the Magi (Matthew 2:1-12)- Erna Kim HackettGuest preacher, Erna Kim Hackett, shares her reflections on the Magi for Epiphany Sunday. By reflecting on the Magi's unexpected journey toward Jesus, she invites us to reclaim cultural practices, embrace community, and be gentle with our own evolution while reckoning with the undeniable opposition that will come from Empire as we journey.
How might we make more room for stars and dreams and unknowns as we search for Jesus, knowing that we, just like our pursuits, are sacred and beautiful?
2023-01-0931 minReclaiming My Theology...From Patriarchy: "The One" w/ Erna Kim HackettIn this episode, Brandi is once again joined by Erna Kim Hackett to talk about the idea of "the one" and how this emphasis on a mystical figure who will fulfill all your needs embeds itself in our theology, our desires, as well as our systems and structures. Happy Valentines Day...I guess. If you like what you hear, subscribe, rate, review and tell your friends about us. You can join our patreon at patreon.com/brandinico. Reclaiming My Theology is recorded, edited, and produced by Brandi Miller, our music is by Sanchez Fai...
2022-02-151h 15
Bethel Community SermonsBodies Birthing Newness (Luke 1:39-45)- Erna Kim HackettErna Kim Hackett joins us for the 3rd Sunday in Advent to reflect on the lives, leadership, and bodies of both Elizabeth and Mary. How do these two women remind us of the joy-filled community that is forged among unlikely and marginalized bodies? How do they invite us to attend to our bodies in this season with gentleness and kindness?
Erna is the founder of Liberated Together- a space for women of Color followers of Jesus to build community, learn liberative theology, and sustainable approaches to social justice. She lives in the Bay Area and loves her do...
2021-12-1423 minReclaiming My Theology...From Patriarchy and Purity Culture: Christian Patriarchy 101 w/ Erna Kim HackettIn this foundational episode for this season, Brandi and Erna talk about how Christian patriarchy uniquely damages our sense of God, self, and others as well as ways that we might pivot toward health and wholeness. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, and review or join us financially at patreon.com/brandinicoReclaiming My Theology is recorded, edited, and produced by Brandi Miller, our music is by Sanchez Fair. Taking our theology back from ideas and systems that oppress. @reclaimingmytheology
2021-11-301h 28Reclaiming My Theology...From White Supremacy: Anti-Blackness w/ Erna Kim HackettIn this episode, Brandi is joined by Erna Kim Hackett of Liberated Together to have a timely conversation about anti-blackness. They talk about where it comes from, how it is maintained, and how unlearning it can make us all more free and empathetic. They reference the four pillars of white supremacy that you can learn about here, as well the anti-blackness imposed on Dr. Chanequa Walker Barnes that can be found here. If you want to keep the show going, you can join us on patreon at patreon.com/Brandinico and can help us out b...
2021-04-151h 00
Resetting The TableOn Anger (After Atlanta)Trixie, Céline, and Maria respond to the Atlanta shootings, especially in embracing anger as a just and generative force “in the teeth,” in Audre Lorde’s words, of racism, misogyny, and white supremacy. We didn’t plan this episode extensively, so the conversation is free-flowing and organic, with some raw emotion. We conclude with a guided grounding practice for our listeners.
Transcript available here: https://resettingthetablepodcast.blogspot.com/2021/04/episode-6-on-anger-after-atlanta.html
A note on language: After the episode aired, we were very lovingly reminded by someone that using the term ‘female body’ can present various level...
2021-03-301h 11
City Chapel Radio PresentsRest - with Erna Kim Hackett (Part 2)This is part 2 of our conversation with Erna Kim Hackett (www.liberatedtogether.com) about our experience with rest and how Christians in America can respond to all the chaos and pain that's all around us and within us.
2020-11-2928 minCity Chapel Radio PresentsRest - with Erna Kim Hackett (Part 1)In this episode we sit down with Erna Kim Hackett (www.liberatedtogether.com) to talk about our experience with rest and how Christians in America can respond to all the chaos and pain that's all around us and within us. This episode is part 1 of a 2 part series with Erna focusing on rest.
2020-11-1325 min
The Ignite Institute : CHANGE HAPPENS NOW!Why culturally empowered expressions of leadership are needed today more than everOn this episode, we are joined by the fabulous Dr. Joyce Del Rosario, an assistant Professor on the practice of ministry at Pacific School of Religion, and a second Generation Filipino American whose current research is with an affectionately named group of Filipino American religious scholars called the "Theo Adobo Collective". She’s run programs in various cultural and economic communities for over 20 years and launched The Wedge, A Videocast series a for Asian Americans about Asian Americans doing social justice work. Here she shares more about the potluck approach to leadership and why culturally empowered expressions of leadership are...
2020-09-3034 min
WildWords: Sermons from Wildwood Mennonite ChurchAugust 30, 2020 - LoveOur guest speaker from the internet this week is Erna Kim Hackett, with a sermon on Psalm 139. Most of us have heard that we are "fearfully and wonderfully made," but do we let that awareness permeate and transform the way we see ourselves? And do we let that knowledge shape our relationships with everyone and everything else? Grab some knitting needles and join us!
You can watch Erna Kim Hackett's sermon titled "Love" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g29ihatalm8.
2020-08-2837 min
ExistentialEpisode 41 (You're Not Esther) with Erna Kim HackettIn this episode, Corey talks to Erna Kim Hackett who is a preacher, writer, and founder of "Liberated Together" - a cohort for women of color doing justice work.
This conversation is about whether or not the Christian faith is useful in public discourse and social interaction, justice work, and the Asian American community's role in resisting anti-blackness.
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2020-08-2542 min
Know Grow ShowEsther - Admit your brokenness. God can make you beautiful.
Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Church, North Gower, Ontario.
www.knowgrowshow.ca
To listen on your favourite podcast provider (Spotify, Stitcher, Apple or Google) visit knowgrowshow.ca and click on the podcast tab.
Grapple and Grow: Family Discussion
The One Thing: Admit your brokenness. God can make you beautiful (Lessons from Xerxes)
The Passage: Isaiah 61:1-3, Esther 3:7-10, Psalm 1, 1 Cor 15:33-34, James 1:19-21, Romans 3:23-24
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K1 Have you ever had a song that you’ve sung, perhaps for years, and then one day you say “Wait a minute…!” and you realize you’ve been singing...
2020-06-2830 min