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Welcome to Shoulder to Shoulder, a podcast where a pastor and a rabbi get to the heart of issues that matter to people of faith.

Mar 30, 2022

So Christian media is all pro-Israel, right? Wrong. Doug and Pesach sat down to talk with Dr. Tricia Miller, a Senior Research Analyst monitoring Christian organizations and media related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Dr. Miller shared her personal story of being raised in a passionately Christian Zionist home, her...


Mar 23, 2022

The Book of Esther is the only book in the Bible that does not mention God even once, and yet... it's in the Bible! How can we explain God's absence from the story? What does "Purim" even mean, and why is the holiday named after an almost irrelevant detail of the story? Doug and Pesach unpack the recently celebrated...


Mar 16, 2022

Three separate and unconnected people all asked Pesach to explain the same difficult passage in Exodus 4 in the span of a few weeks. This led to a deep dive into the meaning of this confusing Biblical story. Why did God want to kill Moses? Which child was circumcised? How did Zipporah know how to solve the problem?...


Mar 9, 2022

This is a second part to a discussion on Islam as Pesach and Doug explore the possibilities of peace and similarities between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Speaking with Rabbi Yakov Nagen who is an expert and specializes in Jewish-Islamic relations, we dive into what unites us rather...


Mar 2, 2022

Recent years have seen a drastic increase in the persecution of Christians all over the world. According to recent reports, 2021 was the worst year on record. Almost all of the most dangerous places for Christians today are Muslim countries. Raymond Ibrahim is an author, historian, and journalist who has written...