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Created in the Image of God

Tune in every Tuesday for an inspiring journey on Created in the Image of God: Building Vibrant Communities. Wade Fransson and his distinguished guests explore the essence of human nature and the transformative power of unity in diversity through live-streamed discussions rooted in the Independent Investigation of Reality. This series advocates for authentic connections among individuals to foster thriving, inclusive communities. Anchored in spiritual truths and a collective quest for understanding,

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Good Samaritan Medicine with Kosti Psimopoulos |...

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2026/04/15

Healthcare conversations easily drift into policy, budgets, and systems. Constantine “Kosti” Psimopoulos insists the place to begin is with a wounded traveler on the side of the road. An Orthodox Christian, Harvard‑trained kinesiologist, and bioethicist, Kosti works at the intersection of medicine, spirituality, disability, and ethics—shaping training for scientists and clinicians at Harvard Medical School and the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and directing the Division of Bioethics at the

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Peacemaking in a Polarized World with Najeeba Syeed |...

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2026/04/13

Before she held titles like “executive director,” “chair,” or “professor,” Najeeba Syeed was a little Muslim girl on a school bus in southern Indiana whose family simply needed halal meat. Her father, a grad student at Indiana University, struck up an unlikely partnership with her Christian bus driver, Mrs. Anderson, who invited him to her farm so he could perform ritual slaughter in line with Islamic dietary law. For Najeeba, that story has become a lens on what real interfaith life often looks

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Purim, Persia & the Present with Jennifer Rosner |...

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2026/04/08

For many Christians, Purim is a minor feast attached to a familiar children’s story about Esther. For Jennifer Rosner—and for Jewish communities around the world this year—it became something far more immediate. As Jews read again about a plot to annihilate their people in ancient Persia, they did so while watching breaking news from modern‑day Iran: the Ayatollah, a declared enemy of Israel, killed just days before the holiday. The overlap was hard to ignore. Jen, a theologian who has spent years

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Making Scripture Simple with Dan Nichols | Created In...

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2026/04/06

Dan Nichols has lived both sides of the modern church story. On one hand, he planted Restored Church in Wilkes‑Barre, PA from the ground up, started the Northeast Leadership Summit, and launched the Northeast Collaborative to equip churches across a region often described as “spiritually hard soil.” On the other, he now serves as pastor of Grace Christian Fellowship in Cortland, NY—a 225‑year‑old church founded when Thomas Jefferson was president. Moving from entrepreneurial church planting to

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74:41

The Salt and Light Express with Lee Ann Walling |...

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2026/04/01

What happens when the life you built around love, faith, and routine suddenly falls apart—and the country outside your front door feels just as fractured? In The Salt and Light Express, Lee Ann Walling follows an older woman who sets out alone in a small RV after the death of her long‑time partner. The journey takes her through the physical landscape of a divided America and the inner terrain of grief, anger, and spiritual disorientation. Along the way, she revisits Episcopal congregations from her

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52:08

The Great Deception with Don Britton | Created In The...

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2026/03/30

For many believers, “church” has become the measure of spiritual life: the services attended, the prayers repeated, the doctrines affirmed. Don Britton’s story cuts across that assumption. After decades as a businessman and church‑going Christian, his life fell apart when adultery led to the end of his second marriage. Broken and out of answers, he turned to God not for another religious routine, but with a desperate question: what does Scripture actually require of me? That search led him and his

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61:51

What Do U.S. Latinos Believe? with Arlene...

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2026/03/25

Ask what Latinos in the United States believe, and you’ll often hear quick answers: “mostly Catholic,” “becoming more evangelical,” “socially conservative but….” Arlene Sánchez‑Walsh has spent her career showing why those shortcuts miss the story. As a historian of Latino/a religion and author of Latino Pentecostal Identity, she has traced how faith, migration, race, class, and culture combine to produce a landscape where people can believe “nothing and everything” at once.In this episode, Arlene

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Heart Healing with Jesus with Shea Odom | Created In...

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2026/03/23

From the outside, Shea Odom’s story could be summarized as “a heart patient who survived.” Born with a congenital heart defect, undiagnosed until heart failure at six weeks old, she underwent her first open‑heart surgery as an infant in Atlanta. Childhood took her from a German compound in Saudi Arabia—playing with neighbors from Pakistan, Austria, and beyond—back to North Florida, where cardiology checkups, growth‑hormone studies, and the watchful eye of specialists became a normal part of life. As

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52:13

Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower with Tom...

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2026/03/18

For many people, “secular” and “Jesus” sound like opposites. Tom Krattenmaker’s life doesn’t fit that script. Raised in a Catholic context in Minnesota, he never really took to church life—but the stories and teachings of Jesus stayed with him. The teenager who sat restlessly through Mass found himself captivated by a figure who measured character by how we treat those with the least, and who chose suffering, not domination, at the decisive moment of his story. Over time, that fascination led Tom

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61:23

Strength of Scars with Avonley Lightstone | Created...

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2026/03/16

Some stories feel almost too heavy to tell. Avonley Lightstone’s childhood was one of them: a house fire at age three, the loss of her mother, and years of abuse that followed after adoption. The pain did not come in a single moment, but in waves that seemed determined to erase any sense of safety, belonging, or worth. Yet even in those dark years, Avonley carried a fragile but persistent sense that God was with her—and that somehow, there was more to her story than what others had done.In this

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71:41

The Surplus & the Saints with Roger Wheeler | Created...

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2026/03/11

When the apostle Paul gathered collections for the poor saints in Jerusalem, he described it as a matter of “fairness”—those with plenty supplying the needs of those in want. Roger Wheeler has taken that vision to heart in a very specific way. A real estate agent and missionary, he founded Shoulder 2 Shoulder to help address food insecurity in Zambia, a nation of roughly 20 million people where an estimated five million live with some level of starvation or malnutrition. For Roger, Zambia is not

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From NFL to New Creation with Derwin Gray | Created...

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2026/03/10

For years, Derwin Gray went by “Dewey,” the kid from San Antonio whose sanctuary was a football field. Growing up around violence, substance abuse, and unspoken trauma, he learned early to stay on high alert. Football promised a different world: clear rules, hard work, and a sense of control his home life never gave. By high school he had transformed his undersized frame into a recruitable body; by college he was an All‑American at BYU; by his mid‑twenties he was a team captain in the NFL. But along

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Temple Keepers with Matthew & Leah Headden | Created...

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2026/03/05

Many Christians talk about the body as “the temple of the Holy Spirit,” but few know what it looks like to live that out in the middle of trauma, addiction, and everyday stress. Matthew Headden’s story brings the language down to ground level. Raised in a loving Southern Baptist home but never quite fitting the mold, he bounced between church leadership and rebellion—kicked out of school even as he led worship and graduated valedictorian. After enlisting in the military just days before 9/11, he

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Grace in the Grind with Wanda Thibodeaux | Created In...

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2026/03/02

Joy can feel like a luxury when life is heavy. For Wanda Thibodeaux, it became a lifeline. Growing up in a small rural community in Michigan, she walked through trauma, confusion about her worth, and seasons where the loudest messages around her were anything but kind. That journey pushed her into psychology, music, and writing—eventually becoming a Christian author, ghostwriter, and host of the Faithful on the Clock podcast.In this episode, Wanda talks candidly about how words—both spoken and

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59:49

God, Mammon & Exchange with Devin Singh | Created In...

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2026/02/25

Most believers know the warning about serving two masters—God and Mammon—but few have traced how closely those two have traveled together in Western history. In this episode, Dr. Devin Singh, associate professor of religion at Dartmouth College, unpacks the long, complicated relationship between Christian theology and economic life. From early doctrines of debt and sacrifice to modern ideas about markets, value, and sovereignty, he shows how religious concepts have quietly shaped the financial

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53:49

Beloved with Lorraine Hess & Erica Strong | Created...

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2026/02/23

Many faith conversations stay abstract, far from the messy places where people actually live. Lorraine Hess and Erica Strong are trying to close that gap. As co-hosts of the Beloved podcast, they sit down each week to talk about the things most people are really dealing with—loss, gratitude, parenting, calling, discouragement—and then ask what those stories look like when seen through the eyes of faith.In this episode, Lorraine and Erica reflect on how two women from different backgrounds—a Catholic

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79:39

Ubuntu & Justice with Marlena Graves | Created In The...

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2026/02/18

In a moment when nearly every issue becomes a battlefield, Marlena Graves offers a different starting point: we belong to each other. Drawing on the Southern African concept of Ubuntu—“I am because we are”—and the teachings of Jesus, she argues that genuine spiritual formation cannot be separated from the pursuit of justice. Our well-being, she insists, is tied to the flourishing of those we might be tempted to ignore: the poor, the immigrant, those outside our tribe, and even those we see as

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Behavior & Hope with Megan Rosselot | Created In The...

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2026/02/16

From the outside, Megan Rosselot looked like a teenager who just wasn’t trying hard enough. Inside, she was fighting a very different battle. Undiagnosed learning disabilities turned school into a constant struggle; while her younger sisters seemed to glide through academics and activities, Megan failed tests, stumbled in sports, and absorbed the labels that came her way. Resentment and shame slowly deepened into anxiety, depression, and even suicidal thoughts, all fed by a relentless inner voice

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Hope Elevation with Scorpio Lamonte | Created In The...

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2026/02/12

On the surface, many men look successful—solid job, decent income, life “under control.” Underneath, the story can be very different: numbness, quiet resentment, or the sense of living someone else’s script. Scorpio Lamonte calls this mediocrity a social disease, and he has built his life’s work around confronting it. As an identity mentor and founder of Hope Elevation, he helps men and young people turn back toward the person they were meant to be, rather than the role they’ve drifted into.In this

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53:39

Choose Freedom with Rose Ann Forte | Created In The...

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2026/02/09

Wanting to quit and knowing how to quit are two very different things. Rose Ann Forte understands that gap from the inside. After years in corporate leadership and a private battle with alcohol, she reached a breaking point that became a turning point. What followed was a season of surrender, rebuilding, and discovering how Scripture and neuroscience together could support real, lasting transformation.In this episode, Rose Ann explains how her own experience led to the Choose Freedom® Program and a

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