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Marcie Alvis-Walker & Cha Sears-Barefield
In this weekend bonus episode I am joined once again by Marcie Alvis-Walker from Black Coffee with White Friends and special guest, Cha Sears-Barefield from the ever popular The Cha Show.In this conversation, Marcie shares about her newest endeavor, “Black Eyed Bible Study” and what led her to create this unique study that dives into popular bible verses and stories, biblical translations, bible history, biblical language and culture all from a Black woman’s point of view. We also talk about the “Womanist Book Club” starting this month that Marcie and Cha are teaming up to lead. But as you will hear in this conversation, this isn’t your usual book club. Marcie and Cha…
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Meghan Tschanz
Meghan Tschanz is a writer, speaker, podcast host, and former missionary who is passionate about empowering women and reclaiming feminism for the Christian faith. For years she worked as a missionary with sexually exploited and oppressed women. After befriending them and hearing their stories, they taught her what no one else could have: how to take a stand. As she spoke out against the atrocious injustices they endured, ranging from rape to being beaten within an inch of their lives to worse, she started to notice a link. Their oppression, while more life-threatening and extreme, had the same roots as her own.⠀In Meghan’s new book, “Women Rising” she shares her personal…
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Grace Kingsley Miller
In this special bonus 'Mother’s Day’ Episode, I sit down for a conversation with my 18 year-old daughter, Grace Kingsley Miller. Grace spent her formative years growing up in the Bible belt and being raised in the conservative, white evangelical church. But at some point in her journey, she questioned all that she had been taught to believe about faith and politics. In this candid conversation, Grace and I talk about 'what happened' to our family as we opened our hearts up to stories and voices from the margins that completely shifted our faith and politics. Grace shares her story of growing up in the Bible Belt and the damaging…
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Kellie Haddock
Kellie Haddock is a singer, songwriter, wife and mom. A former widow, Kellie has lived through tragedy and found hope and joy on the other side. Her music draws from real-life stories of beauty, heartache, hope and the celebration of life. The Thank You Project, a short film featuring Kellie’s story of gratitude after tragedy, has attracted more than 150 million views and has been featured on The TODAY Show, The Huffington Post, and Cosmopolitan among other national and international media outlets. Kellie Haddock has performed in Iraq, Israel, China and across the U.S., - in stadiums for up to 10,000 - in people's homes and everything in between - offering music that engages the soul in all of its beauty…
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Emily Joy Allison
Emily Joy Allison is a queer author, artist, public speaker and yoga teacher from Nashville, TN. Her passion and work focuses on fighting sexualized violence and purity culture in Christian communities. In November of 2017, Emily took to Twitter to share her story of being groomed for an abusive relationship by a church youth leader when she was in her teens, and the #ChurchToo movement was born to expose the culture of sexual abuse and assault utterly rampant in Christian churches in America. In her debut book, #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing, Emily turns over the rocks of the church's sexual dysfunction. She reveals just what makes sexualized…
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Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young
Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young is an author, speaker, podcaster, former news reporter, and coach. She is passionate about helping women discover God’s glory on life’s unexpected paths and flourish in their God-given callings. In this episode, Dorina shares the most painful part of her story she would never have written for herself and three young daughters. In 2003 Dorina and her husband, Ericlee, started a life together with hopes of having children and serving in ministry. Everything seemed to be going according to plan, until at and the height of their ministry in Haiti, Ericlee was given a devastating diagnosis. Just three months later, Dorina found herself living as a widow raising three young daughters without…
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Reissue: Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a clinical psychologist, public theologian, and minister whose work focuses upon healing the legacies of racial and gender oppression. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Miami and her Masters of Divinity from Duke Divinity School and is currently an associate professor at Mercer University. Dr. Chanequa is the author of Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength, and her most recent book: I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation which recognizes the complexity of racism and centers the conversation on those it victimizes most: women of color. She blends her unique background to…
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Michelle Reyes, PhD, Grace P. Cho, Tasha Jun & Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young
In this special episode Michelle Reyes, PhD, Grace P. Cho, Tasha Jun, and Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young all join me for a vulnerable conversation about the Atlanta Massacre and the Anti-Asian hate/violence in this country. As Asian American Christian women, they share what that means especially in this time of increased hate and violence aimed at Asian-American bodies. In this conversation we talk about the impact of being erased and silenced as an Asian American woman and how that has affected their lives as mothers, leaders, and creatives. We also take an honest look at what justice means to them for their community and what they need from the faith communities right now. Finally, we talk…
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Tiffany Bluhm
Tiffany Bluhm is an East Indian born, author, speaker, podcaster, and adoptive parent who is passionate about the restoration of marginalized people groups. As a minority, immigrant woman with a interracial family, she cares deeply about women's equality, justice, and dignity. Tiffany’s story includes serving as an Outreach Pastor at an urban mega church where she engaged parishioners with marginalized individuals. But there is another party of Tiffany’s story she wishes wasn’t hers to tell. Like many women today, Tiffany’s story has led her to take action against sexual harassment and sexual assault. In our conversation and her new book, “Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can…
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Tasha Hunter
Tasha Hunter’s story is nothing short of a miracle. A survivor in the truest sense, Tasha has overcome child abuse, incest, and an attempted suicide attempt that should have destroyed her life. Through her years of struggling with issues of abandonment and post-traumatic stress, her story brings to life her search for meaning, acceptance, and love. As a mental health advocate who now specializes in the treatment of PTSD, she provides a unique perspective on the importance of building relationships with one's self, with others, and with God. Tasha’s mission is to spread awareness about complex trauma and to give survivors a safe space to heal. Her story validates the…
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Marcie Alvis-Walker, Tasha Hunter & Lettie Shumate
In this final episode of the four-part series celebrating Black Women, I am joined once again joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker from @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends and special guests: author and therapist; Tasha Hunter, and Historian; Lettie Shumate from @sincerely.lettie. In this conversation, we continue our discussion about Black women throughout our history focusing on Black women as our first ladies of democracy. From Fannie Lou Hammer to Michelle Obama to Kamala Harris, we discuss the the role of black women in the White House and how America has typecast the roles they can and can not play in our democracy. But as we share in this episode, once again Black women have broken through that…
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Marcie Alvis-Walker, Patricia Taylor, Lettie Shumate & Tasha Hunter
In episode three of a four-part series during Black History Month, we celebrate BLACK WOMEN. I am joined once again by Marcie Alvis-Walker from @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends and special guests Patricia Taylor from the popular blog and instagram account ‘Some Thoughts from Your Black Friend’; author and therapist Tasha Hunter and Historian Lettie Shumate from @sincerely.lettie. In this conversation, we continue our discussion about distorted ideas and images of Black women throughout history; from the asexual mammy image to the hypersexual jezebel stereotype to black women as the backbone of society. This episode is not for young ears, and for those of you who have sexual trauma as part of your story should…
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Marcie Alvis-Walker, Patricia Taylor and Tasha Hunter
In episode two of a 4-part series during Black History we celebrate BLACK WOMEN. Once again I am joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker from @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends and special guests Patricia Taylor from the popular blog and instagram account "Some Thoughts from Your Black Friend" and author and therapist, Tasha Hunter. We pick up where we left off in our last conversation and discuss the origins of distorted ideas and images of Black women vs their actual roles in our history. My guests share their thoughts on the movie "The Help" and why it is not an accurate portrayal of the stories of Black women. We dive into the stories of the real life Black women to be…
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Marcie Alvis-Walker
In this special episode I am joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker. This month Marcie joins me each with as we celebrate Black Women in American History. We talk about the stories of Black women who are often overlooked or hidden from our mainstream History lessons—from the Kitchen to the White House. In this particular episode we talk about “The Jemima Code” and celebrate how from the beginning of our country’s history, Black women have excelled as chefs, cook and running the households they were put in charge of. We also talk about the integration of food in America and the story behind some of our favorite foods and recipes.
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Chandra Crane
Chandra Crane is an author, speaker and multi-multi-ethnic specialist who is passionate about diversity and family. Growing up in a multi-ethnic home, she has too often felt the otherness of never quite fitting in. Her own mixed multiethnic and multicultural background includes a Thai birth father, a European American mother, and an African American father who adopted her when she was five. In her newest book, Mixed Blessing, Chandra explores what scripture and history teach us about ethnicity and how we can bring all of ourselves to our sense of identity and calling.
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Gigi Khanyezi
By integrating theology, sociology, and psychology, Gigi Khanyezi has devoted her life to healing, equipping, and mobilizing people to seek racial justice. She is the Founder/Director of Jesus and Justice, where she is a writer, artist, activist, and speaker and where she facilitates the groundbreaking Jesus and Justice Course with an emphasis on healing racial trauma. After growing up in E. Oakland, 30 years in the US as a Latina woman of color activist, Gigi relocated to Soweto, South Africa for ten years. Living in a beautiful, entirely African community of five million in the most racially polarized country in the world, she was considered WHITE. It was the greatest…
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Michelle Reyes
Michelle Reyes (PhD) is the Vice President of the Asian American Christian Collaborative and the Editorial Director at Pax. She is also the Scholar-in-Residence at Hope Community Church, a minority-led multicultural church in East Austin, Texas, where her husband, Aaron, serves as lead pastor. In this conversation Michelle shares her story of growing up as a 2nd generation Indian-American in predominantly white spaces. She shares how her experiences shaped her narrative and her own cultural identity that led to her passion for building lasting connections across cultures. We also talk about the importance of making space for multiculturalism as we celebrate the birth of Christ.
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Diana Oestreich
Diana Oestreich heard God’s call to love her enemies in the most unlikely place: on the battlefield of Iraq. She’s now a soldier turned peacemaker and author of “WAGING PEACE”. Diana is also an activist who shares her story and passion with others. Speaking across the country she empowers us to identify our own rural, urban, political and religious divides to cross our own “enemy lines” to remake the world and heal all that’s tearing us apart.
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Marlena Graves
Marlena is a writer, pastor, deep thinker, and speaker who is passionate about the eternal implications of our life in God. She is a lover of beauty and a seeker of justice seeker. Marlena deeply believes that spiritual formation and justice should never be separated. She is most concerned with those who profess to follow Jesus but speak and behave so unlike him. As a Puerto-Rican influenced by many streams of the faith, she feels as if she dwells on the borderlands of Evangelicalism.
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Patricia Taylor
Patricia Taylor is the woman behind the blog, "Some Thoughts From Your Black Friend” where she seeks to cultivate a space in which difficult yet necessary topics can be shared and discussed with grace, truth and love. She is a thirty-something wife, mom and California native turned Georgia peach who believes in Jesus, loving all of our neighbors, and having critical conversations around racial justice. As a passionate advocate and anti-racism educator, she wants her heart to break for what breaks the Lord’s.
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Beth Silvers
Beth Silvers co-hosts Pantsuit Politics, a bipartisan podcast focused on nuanced and grace-filled dialogue about the toughest issues we face as a nation. In our conversation, Beth shares her story that led her to the role she now has of talking politics and the passion she has for grace-filled political conversations. She shares how the last 4 years have shifted her political leaning and the role stories have played in her evolution. We talk about how to move forward with friends and family in this time of such political division and if it is possible to still have grace filled political conversations with folks who may have voted differently than…
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Jamie Grace: Finding Quiet
Jamie Grace is a two-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and actress. Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, OCD, ADHD, and anxiety at a young age. At 19 years old, Jamie was nominated for a Grammy for a song she wrote in college, and her career skyrocketed in a matter of months. Among several other nominations, Jamie won the Dove Awards New Artist of the Year, a lot happened, fast. While these are dream scenarios for any aspiring musician, they collided with the symptoms of Jamie’s diagnosed illnesses – a tendency to overanalyze decisions, ongoing social worry, fear, periods of reclusiveness, a never-ending cycle of ruminating on choices and situations, anxious thoughts which turn into…
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Gabes Torres: Colonialism, Healing & Hope
Gabes Torres is an anti-oppressive researcher, decolonized psychotherapist, artist, speaker, and seer. Gabes was born and raised in the Philippines, and is a descendant of the Aeta Indigenous tribes of the Luzon and Mindanao islands. She comes from an ancestral lineage of nomadic healers, musicians & poets, theologians, educators, and revolutionists. Gabes has been active in the work of antiracism and decolonization, particularly in the fields of mental health, education, spirituality, music, and community organizing. She is a racial and migration trauma-informed psychotherapist, and intends to decolonize the therapeutic space by politicizing it — especially since the world of mental health is not excluded from having origins and cultures of white supremacy and racism.…
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Marcie Walker: I’m Not OK and You Shouldn’t be Either
Marcie Walker joins me again for another honest chats about racism, faith and current events Marcie is a Christian, African-American writer and creator of the blog and Instagram feed, Black Coffee with White Friends, where she chronicles her experiences as a black woman navigating white-dominant spaces. Marcie is also the creator of “Mocking Bird History Lessons” where she researches, writes and shares the missing narratives of our country’s history. In this episode Marcie shares why “she’s not ok and you shouldn’t be either” with all that is going on in this country. We talk about the Breonna Taylor ruling, Black Lives Matter and the church’s complacency in all of it.
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Reissue: Karen González
Karen González is seeking to see and love her neighbors as God does. She is a speaker, writer, and immigrant advocate, who herself immigrated from Guatemala as a child.
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Jessica Goudeau
Jessica Goudeau’s life was forever changed in 2007 when she volunteered and met a group of Burmese refugees. Since then she has spent more than a decade working with refugees in Austin, TX. As an author and activist, Jessica has a passion to ethically and authentically bring the stories of people who have become vulnerable because of war, persecution, and oppressive systems that keep them from being able to speak out to an audience that needs to hear who they really are and what really happened.
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Dr Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a clinical psychologist, public theologian, and minister whose work focuses upon healing the legacies of racial and gender oppression. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Miami and her Masters of Divinity from Duke Divinity School and is currently an associate professor at Mercer University. In my conversation today Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes shares her story of growing up as a Black girl in the south with an early awareness of racism. She shares about her faith journey and her passion to fight for justice when she was still young. Much of our conversion focuses on the crucial need to bring the…
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Nikole Lim
Nikole Lim is a speaker, educator, and consultant on leveraging dignity through the restorative art of storytelling. She is the founder and international director of Freely In Hope, a nonprofit organization dedicated to equipping survivors and advocates to lead in ending sexual violence through their rewritten stories. With a background in photography and film making, Nikole has the ability to see the world through paradox which provides surprising insight into our world full of pain and joy, brokenness and beauty, despair and hope, suffering and love. Liberation is Here shares her story with honest introspection—capturing empowering and heart-wrenching stories that have transcended into her experience.
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COMING SOON: Season Three
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Real Talk: Women’s Suffrage Movement and Voting Rights in the US
Lettie Shumate is a Black woman, historian, anti-racism educator, and racial justice advocate with a passion for breaking down and sharing true History. In this episode Lettie shares the real story behind the 19th amendment and who actually got the right to vote when it was passed. She also breaks down the racist history of many of the early white women suffragists and perhaps most importantly we talk about the Black women suffragists that history often ignores.
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Cara Meredith
Author and speaker Cara Meredith grew up in a colorless world. From childhood, she didn't think issues of race had anything to do with her, and she was ignorant of many of the racial realities (including individual and systemic racism) in America today. A colorblind rhetoric had been stamped across her education, world view, and Christian theology.That all changed Cara met and fell in love with the son of black icon, James Meredith. After she married and their family grew to include two mixed-race sons, Cara knew she would never see the world through a colorless lens again.
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Justice, Race & Friendship
In this episode of the HerStory Speaks podcast, Osheta Moore, Marcie Walker and Cara Meredith join me for an honest conversation about peacemaking, racial reconciliation and friendships between Black and white women. Toward the end of the episode they share what is bringing them joy right now and what they are reading. You don’t want to miss this truth telling episode mixed with hard topics and some light hearted fun along the way.
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Patrice Gopo
Patrice Gopo was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and she is the child of Jamaican immigrants. Drawing on her experiences, Patrice enjoys exploring racial identity formation, race relations, and the search for a sense of belonging. Her essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including Catapult, Creative Nonfiction, and online in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her essay collection, All the Colors We Will See, was a Fall 2018 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. When she’s not writing, Patrice enjoys speaking to groups about the power of personal storytelling. She believes sharing personal stories help us both see our commonalities and honor our differences. These actions ultimately can contribute to a more…
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Emmy Kegler (REISSUE)
We are revisiting an episode from the fall of 2019. Emmy Kegler is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, a small servant-hearted neighborhood congregation in Northeast Minneapolis focused on feeding the hungry and community outreach. Emmy has a Master’s in Divinity from Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minn., and is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She was raised in the Episcopal Church and spent some time in evangelical and non-denominational traditions before finding her home in the ELCA. Her first book, One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins, tells her story as a queer Christian called to ordained ministry and how it formed her relationship with Scripture.
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Marcie Walker on Monuments, Memorials and History
Marcie Walker joins me again for our monthly chat. In this episode we talk about all things U.S. monuments and memorials and the recent controversies to take them down. Marcie gives her wisdom and insight from a biblical, historical and justice perspective. We end our convo with a message of hope and encouragement that even in these times of racial tensions and pandemic, there are still glimmers of hope and joy that can be found.
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Lettie Shumate
Lettie Shumate is a Black woman, historian, anti-racism educator, and racial justice advocate living near Wilmington, North Carolina. Not only is breaking down history one of Lettie’s passions, but leading anti-racism work, facilitating conversations in anti-racism workshops and programs, and continuing to inform others about the larger issues that must be confronted to dismantle white supremacy culture in America, all encompass her purpose. Her podcast, ”Sincerely, Lettie" dives deep into true history, anti-racism, racial justice, and more. Breaking down history to connect the past to today, and encompassing anti-racism work is Lettie’s passion and she doesn’t hold back when it comes to tough conversations.
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Marcie Walker
Marcie Walker joins me again for this bonus episode. Marcie is a Christian, African-American writer and creator of the blog and Instagram feed, Black Coffee with White Friends, where she chronicles her experiences as a black woman navigating white-dominant spaces. Marcie is also the creator of “Mocking Bird History Lessons” where she researches, writes and shares the missing narratives of our country’s history.
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Lisa Bevere
Lisa Bevere is a New York Times best-selling author and speaker who is known for her powerful and passionate teaching style. She’s been teaching from the stage for more than 30 years, inspiring women to follow her example and to become the women God calls them to be. In her new 90-day devotional, Strong, Lisa takes her teachings one step further, inspiring women to embark on a journey to grow deeper in their relationships with God in order to become the strong, powerful, passionate women they were created to be
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Khristi Lauren Adams
Khristi Lauren Adams is a speaker, author, youth advocate and ordained Baptist minister. She is passionate about youth advocacy and committed to work that affirms the wholeness and self-worth of black girls and women. She is the author of Parable of the Brown Girl, released February 2020. The book highlights the cultural and spiritual truths that emerge from the lives of young black girls. In this episode, Khristi joins me to discuss her new book and her passion behind sharing stories of girls of color that are often overlooked, unseen, and ignored rather than valued and heard. She also shares her story of growing up as a black girl surrounded by…
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Myisha T.
Myisha T is an awesome and sometimes exhausted mom to 3 different-ability children. She is an anti-racism guide, mental health activist, speaker, and entrepreneur who is passionate about women’s mental wellness and empowerment. A passionate advocate for mental wellness, Myisha T believes that when people get real, they can begin to heal. She founded the “Check Your Privilege” (CYP) movement, an online community, and a series of workshops that support women all over the world in exploring their relationships with power, privilege, and racism.
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D.L. Mayfield
D. L. Mayfield is a writer and activist who has spent over a decade working with refugee communities in the United States. She has written for places as varied as Christianity Today, Image journal, and The Washington Post. Her book of essays, Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith was released in 2016. Her second book, The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety and Power released May of 2020. D.L. examines the central values of the American dream and asks us to take a deep look at if they compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves
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Emily Joy
Emily Joy Allison is an author, poet, and yoga teacher. In November of 2017, as the #MeToo hashtag was going viral, Emily came forward with her own story of abuse at the hands of her church and launched the #ChurchToo movement overnight. She has been writing and speaking about religious sexualized violence and its theological underpinnings ever since. Her work takes place where faith, sexuality, and healing collide. Her debut book about #ChurchToo will be published with Broadleaf Books in 2021. Emily lives in Nashville with her dog Harley and her partner Caitlin, and she works at a church in her spare time.
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Ruth Everhart
Ruth Everhart is an ordained Presbyterian Pastor who has been serving the church for more than twenty-five years. She been writing about sexual abuse and faith since 2012, when she authored her memoir, Ruined, that tells her deeply personal story of being raped at gunpoint at age 20. We talk about this and her decade-long journey to build a new faith in the aftermath of that horrific night. Ruth’s newest book, The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church’s Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct, shines light on the prevalence of sexual abuse and misconduct within faith communities. Ruth shares how far too often, churches have been complicit in protecting abusers, reinforcing patriarchal power dynamics, and creating…
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Rozella Haydée White
Rozella Haydée White is the #LoveBigCoach, one who believes that love and Revolutionary Relationships can heal the world and bring us back to ourselves and to each other. She is the owner of RHW Consulting, which provides life and leadership coaching, retreats, inspirational speaking, and writing that accompanies people as they create and live their most meaningful lives. Rozella actively works to restore hearts to wholeness so that all can not simply survive, but thrive. As a writer, teacher, speaker, and public theologian, Rozella boldly engages issues of faith, justice, self-care, mental illness, and the radical and transformative love of God as embodied in the person of Jesus.
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Kathy Escobar
Kathy Escobar co-pastors The Refuge, a Christian community and mission center in North Denver. Her passion is creating safe and brave spaces for transformation and healing in a variety of contexts. A speaker, spiritual director, group facilitator, and organizational consultant, she is author of several books including her most recent, Practicing: Changing Yourself to Change the World as well as founder of the non-profit #communityheals--Making Spaces for Transformation Accessible for All. More at kathyescobar.com. In this episode we talk about walking through grief and a global pandemic, evolving faith during hard times and the concept of Friday/Saturday/Sunday living as we approach the Easter holiday.
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Kelley Nikondeha
Kelley Nikondeha is the co-director and chief storyteller for Communities of Hope, a community development enterprise in Burundi, Africa. She is the co-founder of Amahoro Africa, a conversation between theologians and practitioners within the African context.
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Kathy Khang
Kathy Khang is a writer, speaker, activist and yoga teacher. Kathy was a newspaper reporter in Green Bay and Milwaukee, WI before spending more than two decades in vocational ministry where she focused on leadership development and training leaders in diversity and justice. In today’s episode we talk about the importance of learning to use your voice, recognizing your privilege and how to stay engaged in difficult conversations to build community.
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Stephanie Tait
Stephanie Tait is a author, speaker, trauma-survivor and disability advocate with Lyme Disease. In the fourteen years it took her to get a diagnosis, she struggled with miscarriages, medical indifference and sexism, and the birth of her two sons. Her book, The View from Rock Bottom, is a tale of her struggles with chronic illness along with messages about faith, pain, suffering, joy, and hope.
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Sheila Walsh
Sheila Walsh is a powerful communicator, bible teacher, co-host of LIFE TODAY and a best-selling author with over 5 million books sold. Her international ministry has reached millions of women by combining honesty, vulnerability, and humor with the transforming power of God’s Word. In today's episode, Sheila candidly shares the heartaches of her early family life and how she struggled to prove herself worthy of God’s love. We also talk about her journey through grief, shame, healing and the power of prayer.
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Rebekah Charleston
Rebekah Charleston is passionate about the crime of human trafficking. She is the Executive Director of Valiant Hearts, a ministry dedicated to eradicating sexual exploitation. At the age of 17 Rebekah became a victim of sex trafficking when she ran away from home. She remained a victim for more than 10 years with multiple traffickers. She was able to escape when the federal authorities finally became involved. As a survivor, Rebekah has wisdom to impart and a story that will help give understanding to the crime of human trafficking as well as shed light on what happens here in America. She is an advocate for victims of human trafficking, a consultant with the National…
