Who Actually Gets Invited to the Table
Every community has a guest list — and every guest list has an unspoken logic about who makes the cut. Tochi digs into why we default to inv...
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The Table Church
This podcast is a ministry of The Table Church in Washington, DC.
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20 of 478 episodesWho Told You That You Couldn't Dream Big?
Why do so many of us secretly believe there are things we're not allowed to want — a school, a job, a kind of joy — because of who we are? A...
What Happened After the Black Squares
Remember 2020? The marches, the black squares, the sense that everything was about to change? Six years later, a lot of that momentum has qu...
Joy Is Not the Opposite of Justice
We're taught that changing the world costs everything: burning out, giving until it hurts, treating joy as a distraction from the work that...
When Being 'Wise' Means Leaving Someone Behind
In the summer of 1969, two completely different visions of the future played out at the same time — one aimed at the moon, the other rooted...
Gatekeeper or Gate Breacher? You Decide.
There's an old story about a rich man who feasts every day while a man named Lazarus lies hungry right outside his gate. The rich man knows...
Someone Else's Win Isn't Your Loss
Ever feel resentful when someone else gets a break you had to earn the hard way? This episode digs into why rest, time, and success can feel...
Imagination Is a Battleground, Not a Hobby
We're living in what feels like a dystopian novel — and Octavia Butler saw it coming in 1993. Her Parable of the Sower imagined a world of c...
Fear Is Not How You Steward Anything
Description: Most of us were handed a set of rules about sex before we were ever given a framework for thinking about it — and for many peop...
Everyone Wants a Village, Nobody Wants the Bill
Most of us want the benefits of community — safety, belonging, mutual support — but bristle at the friction that actual community requires....
Losing Your Grip to Find Your Life
Most of us carry more than we realize — not just stuff, but the anxiety that comes with it. The drive to accumulate, to secure, to hold on t...
The Gifts at the Bottom of the Bag
What if one of the most important things we're carrying is something we forgot we had? In this week's installment of "Everything We Carry,"...
The Version of Power Nobody Taught You
Most of us learned that power means control — over people, outcomes, situations. But what if that definition is exactly what's breaking us,...
The River's Edge: Seeing What You Could Ignore
Most of us know we have some form of privilege — racial, economic, positional — but knowing it and actually doing something with it are very...
You Can't Rebuild What You Won't Grieve
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...
47 Seconds Is All We Give Anything
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...
Your Ordinary Life Is Not Too Small
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...
Jesus Didn't Come to Keep the Peace
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...
The Third Option Nobody Talks About
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...
Buy the Field Anyway: A Case for Stubborn Hope
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...