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This podcast is a ministry of The Table Church in Washington, DC.

We all carry things we don't talk about — grief, shame, exhaustion, ambivalence about money and power. Most of us walk into rooms and put on...

You check your phone every 47 seconds. You say yes to everything and mean none of it. You refresh the news looking for a sign that something...

How do you keep living your regular life when the news is genuinely catastrophic? It's not denial — it's one of the most disorienting feelin...

What if the deepest problem isn't your worst habits or biggest failures — but your fear of death? And what if that fear is quietly behind al...

When things feel out of control, most of us do one of two things: we retreat to what's familiar, or we come out swinging. But what if both o...

What do you do when everything around you is collapsing — your community, your faith, your sense of home — and someone tells you to act like...

Something is wrong, and a lot of us are carrying it alone. Whether it's personal loss, political exhaustion, or the weight of watching your...

What do you do when you've hardened — when grief, exhaustion, or the weight of the world has calcified something in you that used to feel th...

What do you do when something breaks and can't be fixed? Not reshaped — actually shattered. Most of us build entire identities around those...

Most of us have learned to protect ourselves from pain by shutting down — closing off, going through the motions, settling for less than we...

Many of us carry complicated feelings about prayer — maybe it was weaponized against us, maybe it felt hollow, or maybe we prayed hard for s...

You've been showing up, doing the work, trying to live with integrity—and the results aren't there. Policies get worse. People leave. Relati...

When the ground beneath our feet feels unstable, how do we stay true to ourselves while adapting to a world that keeps shifting? Many of us...

Does the future feel inevitable to you? With authoritarianism, deportations, and relentless bad news, it's easy to believe everything is alr...

What happens when the promises of progress turn into frustration? When the institutions we've trusted prove unfaithful? Drawing on MLK's les...

Most of us feel like we missed the day in fourth grade when everyone else learned how to be enough. We know how to deconstruct harmful belie...

Fear has a way of convincing us that silence and compliance will keep us safe—but what happens when staying quiet means cooperating with har...

What does biblical manhood actually look like? Spoiler: it's not what you've been told. This sermon explores the story of Joseph—a carpenter...

Not all fear is the same. Some fear protects you from real danger—and if you've experienced religious trauma or spiritual abuse, those fears...

What do you do when giving up feels simpler than keeping going? When even the people you admire most are questioning whether any of this mat...

What do you do when you've buried your hopes because holding onto them hurt too much? When the world feels so dark that giving up seems like...

What if the book of Revelation isn't about escaping the world, but about resisting it? Drawing from visits to the 16th Street Baptist Church...

For centuries, Western Christianity has taught that hell means eternal conscious torment—but what if that's based on a mistranslation? This...

We've been told Revelation is about predicting the future or achieving the right political outcomes. But what if it's actually about somethi...

What do you do with biblical texts that depict God pouring out bowls of cosmic destruction? For those of us who believe in a nonviolent, lov...

Why does doing the right thing seem to cost everything while everyone else appears to be thriving? And when resistance feels futile, is conf...

We all participate in systems that harm people—it's nearly impossible not to. Your credit card, your phone, your morning coffee: all connect...

Ever wonder why the Bible ends with dragons, cosmic battles, and a woman giving birth in space? Turns out, Revelation 12 isn't trying to pre...

What does it mean to witness suffering without becoming bitter or indifferent? Can you stare directly at systemic injustice and still believ...

Ever wonder why the Bible is so hard to understand? It's not just because it's old—it's because we're missing the cultural references. Just...

The U.S. government recently issued a directive targeting groups that show "anti-American" or "anti-capitalist" tendencies. Early Christians...

How do you resist injustice without becoming what you despise? In times when hope feels scarce and violence seems to win, many of us struggl...

How do you stand up to injustice without letting anger consume you? How do you fight systems of oppression without becoming the very thing y...

Many of us carry shame about our faith - shame about questions we've asked, people we've hurt, or feeling like we don't fit the "good Christ...

Ever feel like you're the only one who cares? Like you have to fix every injustice or no one will? Many of us cycle between doing too much,...

We all hit walls—whether it's career ambitions that feel out of reach, relationships that drain us, or dreams that seem impossible. But what...

Do you exhaust yourself trying to fix everyone around you? Civil rights lawyer and pastor Antonio explores why our need to be everyone's sav...

Whether you're fighting for justice or just trying to make it through tough times, burnout is real. This conversation explores an honest que...

Most of us carry experiences that overwhelmed our ability to cope—trauma that literally rewires our brains and makes safe things feel danger...

Ever notice how one person's stress can spiral through an entire family, workplace, or friend group? This talk explores why anxiety is "vira...

Ever feel like you're finally independent, only to realize you're still making decisions based on what you're rebelling against? This talk e...

What if your life isn’t “off track”—just on a longer, more winding route than you expected? For anyone wrestling with job loss, big transiti...

Ever feel like you're making major life decisions based on dreams about cats? You're not alone. In this honest conversation about discernmen...

Many of us feel stuck between who we think we should be and who we actually are. Whether you're questioning your purpose, feeling unworthy o...

Ever feel like you're constantly performing the "right" version of yourself while your authentic self gets buried under endless expectations...

We live in a culture that glorifies the grind, where every moment must be productive and every silence filled. But what if our constant busy...

We've all been there—desperately trying to figure out what we're supposed to do with our lives, maybe even resorting to flipping open the Bi...

We all curate the best parts of ourselves for public consumption – but what about the messy 90% beneath the surface? Using Moses' 40-year wi...

We're told constantly to level up, hustle harder, and become the best version of ourselves. But what if this relentless pursuit of self-opti...

What happens when the faith you grew up with doesn't have room for who you're becoming? Pastor Heidi Mills shares her personal story of movi...