The Unfinished Church

religion, spirituality, christianity, society, culture · EN

The church's work is not done, and the Holy Spirit is never done with us.The Unfinished Church is a podcast about the church still on its way: going on to perfection, as the Wesleyan tradition puts it, not as a claim of arrival but as a prayer and a posture. Each season, Host Bishop Gregory Vaughn Palmer sits down with leaders, scholars, and practitioners from across the church for honest conversations about what it looks like to follow the Spirit to the edges, where the church is most visibly unfinished and most urgently needed.This series traces a single question: what does it mean to be a church that is still becoming? Palmer's guests bring that question to life from radically different vantage points. A historian who reads the Methodist past as spiritual formation. The president of the only historically Black seminary in the UMC. A theologian who leads a seminary from the margins inward, having planted a Hispanic church in Eastern Durham and started a course of study for minister