Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Jesus, Justice & Mercy
Bold faith, radical love, and justice for the church.
Welcome to Jesus, Justice & Mercy — a podcast for Christians who sense that justice matters but feel the tension between Jesus and much of what they see practiced in the church.
If you’re wrestling with inherited faith, questions that don’t have easy answers, or the growing gap between the Gospel and the world we’re navigating, you’re not alone.
I’m your host, Kristen Brock, rooted in the church and committed to following Jesus with honesty, courage, and compassion. Each season, we engage Scripture, history, and lived experience to explore the intersections of faith, justice, and discipleship. We talk about race, trauma, power, civic responsibility, and the ways faith has been both a source of harm and a force for healing.
Whether you’re deconstructing, rebuilding, or simply learning to ask better questions, this is a space for thoughtful reflection, faithful wrestling, and a faith shaped by justice, deeply rooted in Scripture.
Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Fault Lines: When Religion Fails Us and God Shows Up Anyway
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
What do you do when the ground shifts beneath your faith?
When the system that taught you about God starts to crack?
When the people meant to protect the vulnerable instead protect their own power?
This week, we turn to Jeremiah, the prophet who didn’t command attention or seek power. He wept.
Jeremiah steps into a collapsing world: corrupt leaders, religious rituals masking injustice, a nation convinced the temple would save them even as everything fell apart. He names what’s broken and teaches us what honest faith sounds like when the pressure finally gives way.
And right in the middle of the ruins, Jeremiah hears God promise something new, a covenant written not on stone, but on hearts.
Centuries later, Jesus picks up that promise and completes the story.
In this episode, we’ll explore:
- Why lament isn’t weakness, it’s the beginning of truth
- How Judah’s “false confidence in the temple” echoes today
- Jeremiah’s imprisonment and courage when truth cost everything
- Babylon’s strategy of exile and what it reveals about modern empires
- The “Book of Consolation” and God’s promise of restoration
- How Jesus fulfills Jeremiah’s hope and rebuilds faith from within
- What to do when religion fails you and God meets you anyway
This episode is for anyone carrying church hurt, wrestling with inherited faith, or standing in the rubble wondering if anything good can come from what’s been lost.
God is still writing.
Even in the fault lines.
For women who stayed small and called it faithfulness : a reading list to start finding your way back. Get it here!
If this episode was meaningful for you, the best way to help others find the show is to:
- Text this episode to a friend who might need it
- Leave a 5-star rating and review
- Subscribe so you don’t miss future episodes
- Wrestling with faith and justice and not sure where to start?
- Grab my free theological reading list, Beyond Faith as Usual, HERE!
Here’s to a faith that tells the truth, refuses silence in the face of harm, and follows Jesus all the way into healing and justice.
RESOURCES:
Holy Disruption: Reclaiming a Justice-Rooted Faith course info and interest list
Justice Coaching options!