Episodes

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! My guest is Eden Spring. From Oneness Pentecostalism to Torah: Eden Spring’s Testimony on Sabbath, Dreams, and Returning to Covenant Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews Eden Spring, who shares her journey from growing up Oneness Pentecostal in Indiana, leaving church to live a partying lifestyle, and later being drawn back to God through prayer, Scripture, and vivid dreams. Eden describes dedicating her son after a night of intense intercession t...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! My guest is Rachel Amidei. Confronting Antisemitism in the Church and Reading Scripture in Its Jewish Context Stephanie and Rachel discuss recognizing and rejecting antisemitism within the church, stating they have no tolerance for antisemitic comments and arguing that someone cannot claim to be Christian while hating Jews, since Jesus is Jewish and will return as a Jewish king with his throne in Israel. They emphasize that the Bible is a Jewish ...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! My guest today is Hope Egan from First Fruits of Zion. Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews Hope Egan—realtor, author of Holy Cow! What the Bible Says About Eating Meat, associate producer of the Messiah podcast, and outreach coordinator at First Fruits of Zion—about her testimony and work. Egan describes growing up Reform Jewish, developing disordered eating, and finding help through Overeaters Anonymous, which prompted prayer, repentance-oriente...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Stephanie Pavlantos hosts Max Bonilla of Ultra Truth Ministry to discuss his coming to Messianic belief at age 14 through Bible study and concern over moral decline. They argue many church problems, including abuse and lax morality, stem from departing from God’s law and treating Jesus as having abrogated the Torah. Bonilla contends Paul is misunderstood and must be read in first-century context alongside Acts and the Gospels, addressing claims t...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Host Stephanie Pavlantos welcomes guest Jen Dubey to discuss key takeaways from their January–April Romans class and common misunderstandings of Paul. They emphasize reading Romans with historical, Jewish, and Hebraic context, arguing Paul remained a Torah-observant Jew and did not renounce the Law of Moses, citing Acts and Romans passages and explaining Paul’s use of a “straw man” argument. They contrast “grace and Torah” rather than “grace vers...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! My guest is Danielle Lockett. Host Stephanie Pavlantos welcomes guest Danielle Lockett (Deep N Word on TikTok/YouTube), who describes how her ministry began in 2021 on Zoom with friends and family, then expanded to Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok after Holy Spirit prompting. Danielle shares how a failed real-estate mentorship in 2019 led to depression, a call to read the Bible chronologically, and deeper study including Hebrew word lookups, which ...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews Kelly Hawley, founder and executive director of Warrior Bride Ministries, a donation-based ministry serving survivors of childhood sexual exploitation and severe trauma. Kelly shares her own history of abuse, family brokenness, addiction, and recovery, and explains how her earlier involvement in healing weekends for abused women led her to launch Warrior Bride about six and a half years ago when churches lacked...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! My guest is Dr. Douglas Hamp on God’s Divorce, Israel’s Restoration, and Rethinking Rapture Theology Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews Dr. Douglas Hamp, lead pastor of The Way Congregation and author, about his journey from Baptist dispensationalism to Torah study and the thesis of his book "God’s Divorce." Hamp describes how studying at Hebrew University, debating an anti-missionary Jewish caller at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, and reexamining d...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Host Stephanie interviews Rico Cortez of Wisdom in Torah Ministries, who describes learning Torah since 1998 as a “cheat code” that brought structure, healing, and a clearer way to please God after painful church experiences. He explains how his background in professional baseball, scouting, coaching, and decades of martial arts shaped his teaching discipline, humility, and shift away from competition and “conspiracy” topics toward helping others...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Host Stephanie Pavlantos welcomes Bible teacher and Bible in Order podcast host David Doty, who shares his late conversion at 26, rapid entry into pastoring, and current family life. Doty explains how a daily devotional evolved into his podcast and led him to start a five-days-a-week Zoom prayer gathering inspired by Acts 2:42, emphasizing consistent discipleship, mutual care, shared participation, and reported answers to prayer including a heali...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Reading the Bible Without Fear: Ancient Context, Community, and Maturity with Ryan White Host Stephanie Pavlantos welcomes Ryan White of Faith of Messiah, a founder of a Saturday church community, teacher, content creator, and nurse, to discuss his membership site and courses aimed at helping people “read the Bible without fear” as its ancient authors intended. White explains his focus on ancient Near Eastern context and how new information outsi...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! My guest is Kinsey Joy Langen. Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews TikTok creator, author, and teacher Kinsey Largen about studying Scripture in its original languages through a Torah-rooted, Hebraic framework and challenging teachings that silence women. Largen argues that Paul’s letters must be read with their historical context (e.g., Ephesus, Roman household codes) and linguistic details (including the Greek “submit” vs. “obey,” and mutual su...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! My guest is Matthew Janzen. Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews Georgia pastor-teacher Matthew Janssen of Ministers of the New Covenant about his testimony and Torah observance. Raised Pentecostal, Janssen began learning Torah through his father-in-law in the sacred name movement, adopting dietary laws, Sabbath-keeping, and using the Creator and Messiah’s Hebrew names; he later took over and grew a small assembly. He argues believers must trust Y...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! My guest today is Angie Sickler! Host Stephanie Pavlantos welcomes returning guest Angie Sickler, author of The Father’s Love Language, to discuss how Hebrew words and letters carry fuller meanings than English translations and how studying them deepens understanding of Scripture, including examples from Isaiah 11, Noah and grace, and word families connecting encampment with grace, mercy, and training. They emphasize seeking intimacy with God rat...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews Ken Rank, an elder at Beit Minorah and longtime Hebraic-leaning Christian, about reading the whole Bible with first-century Jewish context and how New Testament writers frequently draw from the Old Testament. They discuss division and toxicity in Hebrew roots and sacred-name debates, urging patience, humility, and focusing on weightier matters. Ken addresses whether Yeshua/Jesus is in the Old Testament, pointin...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! My guest is Melissa Schilling Smith! Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews Melissa Schilling Smith (“God’s Little Hummingbird”), a Bible/Torah teacher and content creator, about her testimony and the Hebrew-roots/Torah movement. Melissa describes Levite (Cohen) family history, Jewish identity hidden through persecution, and a turning point involving severe illness after eating shellfish, followed by fasting, study in Leviticus and Jeremiah, and con...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews researcher, author, and Biblical Hebrew instructor Jeff Benner. Jeff is the founder of the Ancient Hebrew Research Center and the membership site Excavating the Bible, which offers tiered masterclasses from “Bible reader” to “Bible translator.” Benner argues the Bible is best understood through the language and concrete worldview of its Hebrew authors and says translations often “pave over” Hebraic nuance. He g...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Host Stephanie Pavlantos welcomes returning guest Sarah Williams of Wind of Change Torah Ministry to discuss Israel, Romans 11, and what it means to be “grafted in.” They emphasize Paul’s Jewish background and reliance on Torah, noting Romans 11 begins by rejecting the idea that God has rejected His people and includes a “straw man” argument style. Sarah traces “Israel” to Jacob’s renaming in Genesis 32 and explains the divided kingdom (House of ...

Welcome to Grafted Jewish Roots of Christianity! Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews Will Turner, a Messianic content creator and plumber, about interpreting Scripture in context, focusing on common readings of 2 Corinthians 5:8 and Philippians 1:23. Will argues these passages are often used to teach immediate conscious life in heaven after death, but in context refer to the future resurrection and receiving an imperishable body, drawing on 2 Corinthians 5:1–7, 1 Corinthians 15:50–58, Philippian...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Host Stephanie Pavlantos welcomes returning guest Shauna Manfredine. Shauna is an author, artist, teacher, and speaker with Lighted Way Ministries, which broadcasts each Shabbat and hosts annual feasts and retreats. Manfredine discusses her focus on archeoastronomy, arguing the heavens contain Yahweh’s intended story and that paganism distorted original constellation meanings tied to Scripture, the twelve tribes, and prophecy. She describes traci...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews author and teacher Dr. Dinah Dye about her book, The Greatest Exodus: A Divine Warrior Tradition, which she describes as a culmination of 45 years of studying Scripture. Dye explains how the Exodus and Passover story functions as a thread running through the entire Bible, reframing themes like creation, order and chaos, kingship, temple patterns, and God’s return of presence to His people. She discusses “combat...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! Host Stephanie Pavlantos interviews author, teacher, and pastor Jeff Brannan about his testimony, Torah-rooted teaching, and writing. Jeff recounts coming to faith as a teen during his parents’ divorce, decades of ministry, and later intense study in Genesis—especially Genesis 6 and the Nephilim—which led him into Torah practice and cost him many ministry relationships. He describes his fiction series beginning with "Nephilim: A Giant Walkthrough...

Welcome to Grafted: Jewish Roots of Christianity! I'm excited to share my latest podcast episode featuring Crisi! Dive into a journey of faith, personal growth, and humor. Tune in to hear about Torah observance, art, and the beauty of community. You won't want to miss this heartfelt conversation! Crisi A.K.A. Yael S. Worth is the creative voice behind Hebrew Hahas and Shema Shoppe. Yael a follower of The Way, wife, and mother of four who processes life (and big biblical ideas) with equal parts r...