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Marcie Walker
Marcie Walker is a Christian, African-American blogger. She is the creator of the blog and Instagram feed, Black Coffee with White Friends, a blog that chronicles her experiences as a black woman navigating white-dominant spaces.
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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson is an international speaker, leadership consultant, author diversity and mentoring coach with nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the military, federal government, church, seminary, and nonprofit sectors.
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Carolyn Custis James
Carolyn Custis James is an award winning author who thinks deeply about what it means to be a female follower of Jesus in a postmodern world. As a cancer survivor, she is grateful to be alive and determined to address the issues that matter most.
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Emmy Kegler
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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Sarah Bessey
Sarah Bessey is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed books “Jesus Feminist” and “Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith.” Her latest book “Miracles and Other Reasonable Things” was just released Oct. 2019. Sarah is a sought-after speaker at churches, conferences, and universities around the world. She is the co-curator and co-host of the annul Evolving Faith Conference and she also serves as chair of the board for Heartline Ministries in Haiti. In this episode, Sarah and I talk about evolving faith, leaving the church, finding Jesus, women’s role in ministry/the church and why it matters, and making more room at the table for those on the margins.
