Episode 47: Cheryl Allison

She grew up a good Baptist girl, singing in the youth choir, only to realize eventually that she was gay. How did that effect her relationship to the church and to God? Listen to Cheryl Allison talk about all this and more on this episode of Good God. 

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Episode 46: Pastor Andy Stoker Part 2

The United Methodists made a historic decision last week about LGBTQ people. This episode of Good God was recorded late spring of 2018. George talks with pastor of First United Methodist Church of Dallas Andy Stoker about the expected events in the upcoming year and how he hoped it would go:

"My hope and prayer for Methodism is that we don't have to vote congregationally. My hope and prayer for Methodism is that it becomes a denominational decision where we together are deciding what an open table really means."

Listen to their conversation and hear more about what Andy means by the church being an open table, as well as the church's role in the City of Dallas.

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Episode 45: Sports Personality Matt Mosley Part 2

George Mason and Sports Personality Matt Mosley talk about the ever-changing world of journalism. At center of this fascinating conversation is Matt’s journey from print journalism at the The Dallas Morning News to a contributor online at Dallasnews.com and from a weekday show on 103.3 ESPN radio to his ventures in podcasting with Ed Werder and The Doomsday Podcast and Brent Musberger and "You Are Looking Live." Matt reveals how his faith, friends, family and church uplifted him through difficult decisions he had to make along the way.

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Episode 44: CitySquare's CEO Larry James Part 2

George Mason and Larry James from CitySquare talk about how faith leads people to address poverty and into a relationship with the poor.

James shares with us some surprising statistics about the impact that being housed can have on a person’s life: “87% of the homeless people on the streets today can largely stabilize on their own if they had permanent supportive housing.” His organization, CitySquare, takes the housing first approach and has seen remarkable transformations in the community.

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Episode 43: Sharon Groves of Auburn Theological Seminary

In this episode of Good God, George Mason talks to Sharon Groves about her work in the world of progressive social justice activism. The hunger for faith and religion is strong in this sphere. Faith teaches us how to cross divides--social, political, and religious divides--to find true healing.

Sharon speaks about her personal journey to find faith, as a lesbian in the midst of a post 9/11 anti-war movement. She spent a decade working for the Human Rights Campaign, bringing faith leaders into that space. She now works at Auburn Theological Seminary, bringing people of moral courage together to create change in our communities.

George shares about his experience leading his congregation to become fully affirming of our LGBTQ friends, and how that has led to more openness to others' experiences of pain, love and faith.


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Episode 42: D Magazine Publisher Wick Allison, Part 2

In the second part of George Mason’s conversation with D Magazine publisher Wick Allison, they talk about how political language like conservative, progressive and liberal have broken down political ideologies and have divided us as a country. How can we use our shared experiences to come together for our common good and what role does religion play in this? Also learn why Wick describes himself as a Hindu Catholic. All this and more on this week’s episode of Good God.


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Episode 40: Anti-Racism Leader Tim Wise

Today on Good God, George sits down with Tim Wise at a New Baptist Covenant gathering to talk about racial justice activism as white people. How are good intentioned white people complicit in a culture of racism and white supremacy? How can they do something about it?


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Episode 35: Miguel Solis

What do you do when your newborn daughter is born with a life-threatening heart condition? Do you turn to faith? That's exactly what Miguel Solis and his wife Jacqueline did. Listen to his amazing story on this week's episode of Good God.

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Episode 33: Tony Campolo

Are you a Baptist, Presbyterian, Evangelical or a non-denominational Christian? Our denominations have transformed over he last 20 years, George and renowned minister/speaker/sociologist Tony Campolo discuss this in the latest segment of God God.

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Episode 32: Dr. Brian Williams

Brian Williams was a surgeon on call at Parkland Hospital on July 7, 2016 and operated on the victims of the Dallas police shooting that launched the Back the Blue campaign. Hear how that night and its trauma, combined with the tragedies of the previous two days--the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile--positioned him to be a spokesperson and activist for racial justice. 

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