Introducing: The Beautiful Kingdom Builders Podcast!

This has been in the works for a while and I am so excited to launch with a little teaser episode today, with a full episode coming next week! You can listen to it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and more!

Coming soon: interviews with Becky Buck (co-founder of our blog and FB page so many moons ago!), Jenna Dunn (Bible study author at Ezer Bible), Amber Jones (author of Sacred), Scott Harris (missionary), and Dr. Roy Ciampa. You can comment here or email me suggestions for future episodes at ruthperry@thebeautifulkingdombuilders.com.

Transcript:

Welcome to The Beautiful Kingdom Builders podcast. I’m your host, Rev. Ruth Perry. This is a space for redemptive dialogue on gender, justice, abuse, and healing within the Christian faith.

This short teaser episode is here to introduce the podcast and give you a glimpse of what’s coming in the weeks, and maybe years, ahead.

More than ten years ago, my friend Becky Buck and I created The Beautiful Kingdom Builders Facebook page as a place to share what we were learning— and unlearning—about God’s dream for women and girls in His Church. Over time, that community grew and expanded into conversations on racism, abuse, Christian Nationalism, and many other issues that affect the Church in America.

I believe those conversations matter deeply. But posting articles and memes has always felt incomplete. I’ve longed for a space where we can explore these topics with more depth, nuance, and compassion. That’s what this podcast will do, I hope.

I’ll be talking with friends, mentors, authors, theologians, pastors, and activists—people who have been influential in shaping my faith and helping me to obey Jesus’ greatest commands, to love God with all my heart, mind, and strength, and to love my neighbor as myself.

There are so many beautiful expressions of Christianity—shining examples of what it looks like to follow Jesus faithfully. And there are also expressions that have, frankly, become bad news for many of our neighbors. The American Church has hemorrhaged 40 million people in the last 25 years, the fallout of her culture wars. Let’s talk to some of those folks, too.

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that loving our neighbors well starts with listening to them well. And so I invite you to listen in as I host these conversations.

God is love and God’s grace and power to save are bigger and better than we’ve ever imagined. God’s kingdom is beautiful, and God is moving in powerful ways to heal and redeem the world. It is our deepest purpose as his followers to partner with God in that redeeming work.

I’ve already recorded several episodes and I have a hundred more in mind. These first conversations have been life-giving, challenging, and so much fun for me. I cannot wait to share them with you.

Please subscribe, share with your friends, find The Beautiful Kingdom Builders on all the socials, and join me as we imagine and build more beautiful expressions of Christianity—expressions that reflect God’s heart and God’s will, for earth as in heaven.

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