Accidental Tomatoes

Musician and podcaster Brandon Wood (Hey Mom, Everything's Alright, brandonwoodmusic.com) sits down with Joe to talk about surviving spiritual abuse, thriving and creating through deconstruction, and making music in all kinds of places. Hear the world premier of Brandon's new single "Not My Home Anymore" and stick around for a special announcement at the end of the episode!

In this episode, Joe talks with disability advocate Rev. Chris Wylie about his experiences with ableism and how disability narratives in scripture can change our individual and cultural perspectives.

Rublev's Trinity is one of the, well, most iconic of Russian Orthodox icons. In this episode Joe talks with Rev. Dr. John Smith about his book on Rublev's Trinity, his work with Orphan's Tree in Russia, and how iconography can help people in spiritual deconstruction rediscover an experience of the divine.

In this episode cross-posted from Social Thread, we invite you to drop in on a conversation between Accidental Tomatoes host Joe Webb and Social Thread hosts Rob Rynders and Robert Payne about the new, non-traditional types of faith communities they're imagining and creating and Rob's research into what motivates people in various religious contexts. (This episode was originally aired on the Social Thread Podcast in October 2019.)

In this episode Joe has a conversation with Charleston WV Rabbi Victor Urecki about the importance of interfaith dialogue and how it can help people of all faith backgrounds better understand their own traditions and sacred texts, and how a robust interfaith conversation can benefit the common good for our society.

Helen Ryde is the Southeastern Regional Organizer for the Reconciling Ministries Network, a group of United Methodists seeking justice for LGBTQ+ people across all the intersections they inhabit. In this episode, Joe talks with Helen about their own faith journey, the work of RMN, and the importance of intersectionality in justice work.

Generations of oppression and exploitation have left the coalfields of central Appalachia among the most economically & socially depressed areas of the world. In this episode, Joe talks with coalfield justice advocate Brad Davis about how systemic dehumanization has affected the region and how his vision for a contextualized "Holler Gospel" can help restore individuals, families, and communities.

David Finnegan-Hosey, author of Christ on the Psych Ward and Grace is a Pre-Existing Condition talks with Joe about mental health stigma, the politics of healthcare, and how the language of Jesus helps us reframe our conversations.

Joe continues his conversation with innovator Jenny Williams about how we can begin to imagine new paradigms for faith communities to exist outside the molds and models of traditional institutional Christianity.

Rev. Jenny Williams is an innovator in ecclesiology, seeking new expressions of faith communities built around intersections of relationships and social justice. In this two-part episode, Joe talks with Jenny about how justice is the truest expression of the gospel and about how we can recapture and redeem troublesome and confusing language to help communities work for justice in their contexts.