The Cross and the Lynching Tree: Finding Jesus in What We Ignore

In this first episode of The Dusty Needle Gospel, Jamin Bradley explores James H. Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree to ask a dangerous question: what if Jesus is still being crucified in front of us—and we’ve trained ourselves not to see it?

From lynching trees to the cross, from Jesus’ flight to Egypt to modern refugees, this episode confronts how Christianity has often been shaped to excuse suffering rather than resist it. We talk about racial desensitization, selective empathy, modern racism, and how faith that refuses to wake up inevitably collapses. If we let the Holy Spirit open our eyes, we will see the prophetic right in front of us.