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The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  For this episode, we're returning to the the Abundant Community Conversation from October 26 where Amy Howton speaks with Parker Palmer and Peter Block. Checkout the first part of the conversation here. This event was produced in partnership with Designed Learning, Abundant Community, Faith Matters Network and Common Change. These conversations happen on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme.The recited poem: Everything Falls Away by Parker PalmerCredit to Portraits in Faith for picture of ParkerResources Referenced:Stand in the Tragic GapPockets of Possibility in Thirteen Ways of Looking at CommunityQuotation from Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation - “Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them them than we are of breathing."This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

Shakiyla's Bio:   As the vice president of organizational culture, I am tasked with leading efforts to foster a culture that is spiritually grounded, reflective of a community of freedom, diverse and inclusive, organizationally agile, and growth-oriented. My work has both an internal aspect, with our wonderful staff, and an external component that connects with our partners. This is exciting to me as I have been exploring for myself and others how we build our individual and collective capacity to meet the life and societal demands of the 21st century, which require new ways of being, knowing, and acting.   I have an eclectic mix of training and experience that grounds me in my work to support personal and collective growth within and through relationship. I have a master's degree in public health from Emory University and a doctorate in adult education with a focus on organizational development from the University of Georgia. Prior to joining Fetzer, I have worked in the areas of violence prevention research, program development and evaluation, and research administration for more than 15 years both within academia and the federal government. I have a background in fundraising and intercultural education, having lived and worked in Southern Africa coordinating immersive study abroad programming. I also work with individuals and groups as an action researcher interested in the evolution of consciousness in adults, adult development, and adaptive and collaborative learning using the method of action inquiry. I am a trained yoga and meditation instructor, energy medicine (reiki) practitioner, and facilitator of deeper learning and transformation.   I am a proud tree hugger and enjoy being in nature and exploring new places and dimensions of myself. I love reading, writing, indoor roller skating (with four wheels), and dancing—the balance between action and reflection.   Additionally, I'll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest's choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Faith Matters Network. Any and all donations make a difference! You can connect with Shakiyla on: Coaches Rising Podcast: https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/adult-development-theory-today-with-valerie-livesay-shakiyla-smith-and-dana-carmen/ Fetzer Institute: https://fetzer.org/community/ssmith LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shakiyla-smith-7486b1ba/ To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. https://calendly.com/mike-trugman/15min LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-trugman-37863246/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mytrugofchoice/?hl=en   Website - https://miketrugmancoaching.com/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUPyP3vEWc-oDlGASe2XIUg Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts! - https://podcasts.apple.com/vg/podcast/mike-s-search-for-meaning/id1593087650?utm_source=Mike+Trugman&utm_campaign=dcbd0b11b0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_03_08_12_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_33d78ffe68-dcbd0b11b0-510678693   Resources/People Mentioned: Doing Imago Relationship Therapy - Harville Hendrix Rest Is Resistance - Tricia Hersey The Big Leap - Gay Hendricks Ted Lasso Show Faith Matters Network Tao Te Ching - Stephen Mitchell Audre Lorde Octavia Butler bell hooks Bill Torbert Bob Kegan Brene Brown Laughter Yoga

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  This episode is a snapshot from the Abundant Community Conversation on October 26 where Amy Howton speaks with Parker Palmer and Peter Block. This event was produced in partnership with Designed Learning, Abundant Community, Faith Matters Network and Common Change. These conversations happen on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme.The recited poem: Everything Falls Away by Parker PalmerThis episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  This episode is the Abundant Community Conversation from September 14 where Troy Bronsink speaks with David Brooks and Peter Block about David's new book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. This event was produced in partnership with Designed Learning, Faith Matters Network, Abundant Community and Common Change. These conversations happen on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme.The next conversation is on October 26 with Parker Palmer. You can register here.The recited excerpts came from Reverend Ben McBride's book, Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging. You can also check out our previous conversation with Ben here.Peter also has a new book coming out in November that you can pre-order now. It's called Activating the Common Good: Reclaiming Control of Our Collective Well-Being.This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.   For this episode, I speak with Reverend Sushama Austin-Connor, DMin about Faith Matters Network, which envisions communities rooted in wisdom, spiritual practice, & healing. FMN is a womanist-led organization that equips justice leaders and heals the healers. Also, Sushama will be the host for the upcoming series of Abundant Community Conversations with Peter Block, David Brooks, Parker Palmer and many more.The next Abundant Community conversation is on September 14 with David Brooks. You can register here.The recited poem was "Poetry Should Ride the Bus" by Ruth Forman.This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

As we turn the calendar page to March, celebrated as Women's History Month, this week on State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance's weekly radio show and podcast we're excited to be speaking with Rev. Jennifer Bailey, founder and executive director of Faith Matters Network. Nowadays, there are endless opportunities for connecting along intersecting identities and priorities. […] The post March 4, 2023 – Rev. Jen Bailey, Creating Community Across Divisions first appeared on State of Belief.

The Reverend Jen Bailey is an ordained minister, author, and a national leader in the multi-faith movement for justice. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Faith Matters Network. The Rev. Bailey believes love is *the* animating force that will make the difference between a future of uncertainty and division and one of deep belonging. She is ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

In this episode of Solarpunk Presents, nonfiction co-editor Ariel Kroon sits down for a virtual chat with Gabrielle Gelderman, an Edmonton, Alberta-based climate grief chaplain and climate justice organizer. They talk about what climate grief chaplaincy even is, the necessity of holding communal safe spaces for grieving especially for organizers, the necessity of feeling grief in order to feel more positive emotions, and climate despair as a corollary of solarpunk hope.Links:Gabrielle's Instagram: @theclimatechaplainGabrielle's LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/gabthechaplainClimate Justice Edmonton (CA)Faith Matters Network (US)Sunrise Youth Organization (US)*Note: During the interview, Ariel mentions episode 4.30 of Secret Feminist Agenda; the name of the theorist she cites is Eugenia Zuroski.Connect with Solarpunk Magazine at solarpunkmagazine.com and on Twitter @solarpunklitmagConnect with Solarpunk Presents Podcast on Twitter @SolarpunkP or Mastodon @solarpunkpresents@climatejustice.rocksConnect with Ariel at her blog, on Twitter at @arielletje, and on Mastodon @arielkroon@wandering.shopConnect with Christina at her blog, on Twitter @xtinadlr, and on Mastodon @xtinadlr@wandering.shop Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“In the moment of pause, there is something sacred.”  This week, we're excited to share an invitation to pause and appreciate the beauty around us from Reverend Jen Bailey, Founder of Faith Matters Network and Co-founder of The People's Supper.  What feels sacred to you? How might you pause to honor it this week?   

This is Five and Nine, a podcast newsletter at the intersection of magic, work and economic justice. Welcome to Season 1, Episode 5. We are pleased to share we are now available on Apple Podcasts.Listen to the podcast now, or read the transcript below, or both!ResourcesDream of the Mountains, composed by August Labitzky and performed by the Victor Orchestra in 1906.Daring Compassion Movement Chaplaincy Training, by the Faith Matters Network and hosted on the School of Global CitizenryTranscriptThe meditation that we offer today on this new moon is a blending or connection between metta practice, which is loving-kindness meditation in the Buddhist tradition, and tarot. Before we begin, we invite you to find a comfortable place to sit, lie down, or even stand and to arrange your space in a way that is soothing and comfortable for you—that might be lighting incense, burning some candles, etc. There's an optional tarot practice within this meditation, and we invite you to keep your tarot deck nearby. But if you don't have one, it's not necessary.We'll start by taking a deep breath in for 5 seconds.And hold for 5 seconds.And a deep breath out for 5 seconds.A deep breath in.And a deep breath out.Notice the sensations of the breath in the nostrils, the chest, the belly, being grateful for this breath, sitting in this moment.If you have a tarot deck in front of you, I invite you to shuffle the deck and draw one card. Place that card in front of you, look at it, examine it. What does it bring up for you? What does it make you think of? This card represents you in this moment. Listen to the thoughts that arise, acknowledge them, and let them pass.This card before you is here to bring insight into your state of mind about yourself and who you are in this moment. The next time you draw a card, it will be a different card in a different moment and a different expression of who you are.Placing a hand on your heart center, I invite you to extend the feeling of warmth and love to your heart and to yourself. Extend that feeling of warmth and love to fill your torso, extending down your legs, to your arms and your neck, up into your head, breathing outward, breathing inward, as you extend this feeling of love to yourself.I invite you to recite these lines of metta, or loving-kindness. You can speak them aloud or just follow along in your mind.May I be happy and at peaceMay I find rest and community careMay I honor rituals that ground and center meMay I listen without fixingMay I be at ease and comfortableMay I be free from burnout and frustrationMay I build the world of justice I seekMay I know that world is often out of reachMay I be safe from harm and dangerMay I be happy and at peaceI now invite you to think of a friend, someone you've been thinking about lately who could benefit from some loving-kindness right now.If you have a deck in front of you, I invite you to draw another card. This card represents the person you're thinking of. It might be a joyful card, sorrowful card, a neutral or practical card. Place one hand on your heart center and extend the other one outward towards the card that represents your friend or loved one.Imagine your friend, this loved one, on the other side. I invite you to either think or recite these metta messages.May you be happy and at peaceMay you find rest and community careMay you honor rituals that ground and center youMay you listen without fixingMay you be at ease and comfortableMay you be free from burnout and frustrationMay you build the world of justice you seekMay you know that world is often out of reachMay you be safe from harm and dangerMay you be happy and at peace Now, if you have your deck in front of you, I invite you to draw a third and final card. This card represents something you can bring to the world right now. It might be a skill, a mindset, a perspective, maybe just kind words, maybe just sitting in silence.This is what you can bring in this moment to anyone who's suffering, anyone who's struggling. I invite you to place two hands on your heart center, as we extend metta outward to all beings.May all beings be happy and at peaceMay all beings find rest and community careMay all beings honor rituals that ground and center themMay all beings listen without fixingMay all beings be at ease and comfortableMay all beings be free from burnout and frustrationMay all beings build the world of justice they seekMay all beings know that world is often out of reachMay all beings be safe from harm and dangerMay all beings be happy and at peace Looking at this spread in front of you — one card represents you. One card represents the person that you've been thinking of. And one card represents something you can bring to the world right now.We bow to ourselves, our loved ones, and to all those who are suffering and struggling in this moment.And we bow to this moment.Ana: This meditation was something I wrote as part of a final project for a class on movement chaplaincy, or chaplaincy for social movements, hosted by the Faith Matters Network and the School of Global Citizenry.I'd like to thank the network and the TA's for giving feedback. I hope it's brought a little bit of ease and benefit to your world right now.

Throughout the month of March we've been taking on the issue of unity. Today, host Paula Felps is joined by Reverend Jennifer Bailey, who, in addition to being named one of the 15 Faith Leaders to Watch by the Center for American Progress, is the founder of Faith Matters Network. She's also co-founder of The People's Supper, which brings people together to engage constructively on issues affecting their communities. This project has brought together thousands of people to create a space for collective healing … all while enjoying a nourishing meal and civil conversation. She's here today to share some of the tools she uses for bridging our differences.  In this episode, you'll learn: Why getting curious can help build a bridge. The role of radical hope in bridging our differences. The benefits of spending time with “senior saints and playground prophets.”

Shawn Troy is a family man whose commitment to care extends not just to his relatives, but his community as well. As funeral director at Troy's Funeral Home in Mullins, South Carolina, he cares for the deceased and their loved ones. With the pandemic, Shawn had to grapple not only with a rising number of deaths due to COVID, but also how to properly honor those losses with social distancing in place. Roundtable guests: Reporter, Producer & host of the Better Together podcast, Maria Menounos, and author and founder of the Faith Matters Network, Reverend Jen Bailey. Learn more about Better Together with Maria Menounos: https://mariamenounos.comLearn more about To My Beloveds and Faith Matters Network: https://www.reverendjen.comEpisode Transcript: https://app.trint.com/editor/mKl9aAooRP-8f1bR_-zOeA Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If Reverend Jen Bailey could share one message with her church it would be that: “They are beloved, no matter what they've done or where they've been. They are loved because of who they are.” Founder of Faith Matters Network and Co-founder of the People's Supper, Reverend Jen is a compassionate voice in the new dawn of religion and spirituality. We delve into her book, To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hope, to explore what it means to live into our faith and experience God in the tiny and the vast because “the sacred exists in all of it.” She believes that “the great question of the twenty-first century is the question of how we “be” together.” We reflect on taking care of each other as an embodiment of love and ideate a new definition for sustainable strength, imbued by the radical hope that “we have the deep ability to transform the world in the here and now.” 

Today's guest is Rev. Jen Bailey, an ordained minister, public theologian, and national leader in the multi-faith movement for justice. She is also the founder and executive director of the Faith Matters Network,  a Womanist-led organization equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment. This episode explored the life cycles of justice work, the need for seasons of rest,  the lost art of letter writing and Jen's new book titled To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss and Radical Hope.  The book is available for purchase here. 

“I'm entering into this next phase… with a great deal of curiosity and perhaps tenderness, wanting to hold each other tight, because I think that there are ramifications of last year that have yet to be felt.” Rev. Jen Bailey is a wise young pastor and social innovator, and a “friend of a different generation” of Krista. This conversation is a loving adventure in cross-generational mapmaking and care. Jen is a leader in a widening movement that is “healing the healers” — sustaining individuals, organizers, and communities for the long, life-giving transformations ahead.Jen Bailey is Founder and Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network and serves on the staff of Greater Bethel AME Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Her first book, to be published in October 2021, is called, To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss and Radical Hope.This conversation came about in partnership with Encore.org. It is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Jen Bailey — What We Inherit & What We Send Forth." Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.

“I'm entering into this next phase… with a great deal of curiosity and perhaps tenderness, wanting to hold each other tight, because I think that there are ramifications of last year that have yet to be felt.” Rev. Jen Bailey is a wise young pastor and social innovator, and a “friend of a different generation” of Krista. This conversation is a loving adventure in cross-generational mapmaking and care. Jen is a leader in a widening movement that is “healing the healers” — sustaining individuals, organizers, and communities for the long, life-giving transformations ahead.Jen Bailey is Founder and Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network and serves on the staff of Greater Bethel AME Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Her first book, to be published in October 2021, is called, To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss and Radical Hope.This conversation came about in partnership with Encore.org.Find the transcript at onbeing.org.

The Justice Doula Micky ScottBey Jones joins Jacqui for this episode of Love. Period. sharing what she has learned from grief and loving herself and others well. Micky accompanies people as they birth more love, justice and shalom into our world. As a womanist, faith rooted, contemplative activist, movement chaplain, and nonviolence practitioner, Micky supports students, clergy, activists and everyday leaders in a variety of roles - speaker, writer, facilitator, pilgrimage guide and teacher. She is the Director of Resilience and Healing Initiatives with Faith Matters Network & visionary leader of the Daring Compassion Movement Chaplaincy Project, which has already trained hundreds of people in accompaniment, healing & resilience building in social change movements. Micky earned a M.A. in Intercultural Studies from NAIITS/Portland Seminary and is a trained and certified Enneagram teacher. She is featured in two multi-authored books - Becoming Like Creoles: Living and Leading at the Intersections of Injustice, Culture and Religion and Keep Watch With Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers.  Connect with us: We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, or feedback. Send us an email. Rev. Jacqui Lewis Ph.D.: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Micky ScottBey Jones: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Center for Action and Contemplation: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at cac.org/podcastsupport Thank you!

In collaboration with the Ad Council, COVID Collaboration, and Values Partnerships, Candice is proud to partner with the "It's Up To You" Campaign. In this episode, Candice talks with Micky ScottBey Jones, Director of Resilience and Healing Initiatives with Faith Matters Network, about losing her mother to COVID-19 and the virus' totalizing effect on Black families. She also shares her transformation as a former anti-vaxxer and why she believes the COVID-19 vaccine is necessary. 

Co-hosts Lisa Greenwood and Casper ter Kuile talk with Rev. Jen Bailey, 2021 Locke Innovative Leader Award Winner, about her womanist-led Faith Matters Network, whose mission is to catalyze personal and social change by equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment. Jen, founder and executive director, discusses how the organization has focused on “healing the healers” of transformative social movements through a variety of programs. Jen discusses the role partnerships play in innovation. She also explains the term “composting religion” as taking the best of the old to create something new that meets the needs of today. This conversation is rich with insight about leading a start-up organization whose work at the intersection of spiritual tradition, social healing and social justice requires continual discernment and collaboration.    QUOTES “I think what unites us is the sense that what we're doing is a continuation of a story, not a brand new story we're starting ourselves.” -Jen Bailey [23:08] “But the reality is we exist in a space that is right there in the inbetween. My worldview is inherently influenced by what I would call the spiritual, even as I'm operating in ‘secular' spaces. And I think what is also true for me is that I am most impactful in some of those non-explicitly religious spaces when I'm authentic to who I am.” -Jen Bailey [29:26]   TIMESTAMPS [00:00] Intro [01:35] Meet Jen Bailey [03:54] Significant moments that has shaped Jen [11:47] Her work with Faith Matters Network [15:57] People's Supper [22:27] The continuation of a story [27:16] When sacred and secular intersect [32:45] Three rapid fire questions [36:29] A blessing [37:31] Outro   RESOURCES & RELEVANT LINKS If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts / iTunes? For information about our co-host Casper ter Kuile, visit his website: caspertk.com and check out the work of Sacred Design Lab at sacred.design For information about Faith Matters Network, where Jen Bailey serves as Executive Director, click here. Find Faith Matters Network on Instagram and Facebook @faithmattersnetwork or follow them on Twitter @faithmattersnet Follow Jen Bailey on Instagram and Twitter @revjenbailey This season features Wesleyan Investive's 2021 Tom Locke Innovative Award winners. The award honors spiritual entrepreneurs who have envisioned a broader mission field and have taken risks to make their God-sized dreams a reality. For more information about the award and the recipients, visit award.wesleyaninvestive.org. “God Has Work for Us To Do” music and lyrics by Mark Miller. Visit Mark's website at markamillermusic.com or find him on YouTube at youtube.com/c/markismusic67. This podcast is brought to you by the Leadership Ministry team at TMF and Wesleyan Investive. Leadership Ministry connects diverse, high capacity leaders in conversations and environments that create a network of courage, learning, and innovation in order to help the church lean into its God-appointed mission. For more information and to support Leadership Ministry, visit tmf-fdn.org/leadership-ministry.

Mason chats with Micky ScottBey Jones about her work as womanist caring for the souls of people in activist movements. They chat about movement chaplaincy, womanism, and much more. Guest Bio/Info: Micky ScottBey Jones is a womanist, justice doula, author, speaker, and director of Healing and Resilience Initiatives at Faith Matters Network. Find Micky here: faithmattersnetwork.org Twitter: @iammickyjones Instagram: @electric_lady_msj Facebook: facebook.com/MSJSpeaks Special music by Rev. Sekou: Spotify: Rev. Sekou Instagram: @revsekou Get connected to Mason: masonmennenga.com Patreon: patreon.com/masonmennenga Twitter: @masonmennenga Facebook: facebook.com/mason.mennenga Instagram: masonmennenga

Leaders often give everything they have to their team and their cause. But who takes care of the leaders? That’s exactly what the Reverend Jen Bailey and her team at Faith Matters Network are working to do. Jen is an accomplished leader with a lot of wisdom to offer. In this episode, Jen shares her insights about what leaders need most, what faith looks like after the pandemic, and reflections nearly a year after George Floyd’s murder.-----Connect with John T. Meyer Follow Leadmore on Instagram Subscribe to the Leadmore newsletter Join the Leadmore Community 

What if instead of seeking safe spaces, we worked to create brave spaces, spaces where we could bring our deepest selves, our deepest vulnerabilities to the table in a way that might make real transformation possible? Rev. Jen Bailey, founder of the Faith Matters Network joins us to explore the possibility of building trust across our deepest and most intractable lines of difference, recognizing that all social change happens at the speed of trust.

Micky ScottBey Jones she/diva- the Justice Doula - accompanies people as they birth more love, justice and shalom into our world. As a womanist, contemplative activist, movement chaplain, certified Enneagram coach and trainer and nonviolence practitioner, Micky supports students, clergy, activists and everyday leaders in a variety of roles - speaker, writer, facilitator, pilgrimage guide, consultant and teacher. She is the Director of Resilience and Healing Initiatives with Faith Matters Network and the visionary leader of the Daring Compassion Movement Chaplaincy Project focused on infusing movements for social change with accompaniment, care, healing and resilience. Micky was a core team member with The People’s Supper who gathered more than 10,000 people around tables after the 2016 U.S. election for bridging and healing conversations. A lifelong learner, Micky has a B.S. in Consumer and Family Sciences and a M.A. in Intercultural Studies from NAIITS/Portland Seminary and is constantly taking a new class or reading a new book. A believer in the power of stories and empathy, she is also a facilitator and Master Practitioner Candidate with Narrative 4. She is the author of Keep the Fires Burning: Conquering Stress and Burnout as a Mother-Baby Professional and contributing author of Becoming Like Creoles: Living and Leading at the Intersections of Injustice, Culture and Religion and Keep Watch With Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers.Featured by the Nobel Women’s Initiative’s #16DaysOfBoldChange, racial justice fellow for Christians for Social Action and named one of the Black Christian leaders changing the world in Huffington Post, Micky is known worldwide for exploring peacemaking and justice movements in different contexts, across continents, crafting experiences for brave space, transformation and revolutionary love, compelling storytelling, engaging in authentic conversations - and most importantly - never passing up a dance floor.She has been a contributor on many platforms including Christians For Social Action, The Porch Magazine, Sojourners, Our Bible App, and Red Letter Christians, and many podcasts including CTZNWELL, The Liturgists, Lord Have Mercy and Homebrewed Christianity. Micky dropped knowledge about:- Healing Work for Movement Builders- Burnout and How to Prioritize Self-Care- Being Instead of Doing- The Year of Covid-19 - Dreaming and Working During Crisis- How Families Have Been Impacted by the Loss of Loved Ones Due to Covid-19- How we Cannot Meditate Covid-19 Away- The Value of Consistent Check Ins with Community - The Importance of Teachers and Mentors - A Commitment to Not Dying on the Altar of Justice You can find more about her work at www.faithmattersnetwork.org and check out her social media on Facebook and Twitter.The Daring Compassion Program at Faith Matters Network has trained 100s of folks worldwide in movement chaplaincy. We are currently accepting registrations for the Summer cohort and will have a Fall cohort as well. My vision is accompaniment, healing and resilience building woven into our movements for social change so that we might thrive as we resist and create new futures!Brave Space PoemTogether we will create brave space.Because there is no such thing as a “safe space” —We exist in the real world.We all carry scars and we have all caused wounds.In this spaceWe seek to turn down the volume of the outside world,We amplify voices that fight to be heard elsewhere,We call each other to more truth and love.We have the right to start somewhere and continue to grow.We have the responsibility to examine what we think we know.We will not be perfect.This space will not be perfect.It will not always be what we wish it to be.ButIt will be our brave space together,andWe will work on it side by side.Podcast music by Charles Kurtz+ Read transcript

This episode is from a three-part series called “How We Get Through: Collective Resilience in a World on Fire” from our friends at Faith Matters Network. It aired in the Fall of 2020 which was a time in our country where we were literally on fire - California and other parts of the country were raging during the time of this series. But we were also amidst many pandemics at once - the pandemic of covid, the pandemic that is structural and cultural racism, the pandemic of record inequality and of course the pandemic that is climate change. And what is different about this series - besides the fact that it features brilliant movement leaders - is that it explores not just what we DO in the face of this fire but how we BE together; how we keep going and meet whatever comes next so that we can bring about the future that we all deserve. This particular conversation featuring Kazu Haga, Xan West, the organizers from the chilean movement La Coordinadora Feminista 8M and Carinne Luck explores how movements in and of themselves are healing - how healing has been woven in from building relationships in small teams to exploring how to create containers for rage and healing in the streets and bring in intentional joy. It is a provocative conversation about reclaiming our power to heal ourselves and one another. Connect with Kazu HagaFollow Kazu on FacebookBuy his book Healing Resistance Check out East Point Peace Academy Connect with Xan West: Follow Xan on Instagram Check out their work at One Life InstituteConnect with LCF8M: Check out their websiteConnect with Carinne Luck: Follow Carinne on TwitterConnect with Faith Matters: Follow them on instagram @faithmattersnetworkCheck out the Daring Compassion CourseDonate to their Nurture Brave Space fundraising campaignIf this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @kkellyyoga, @carinne luck @XanWest @eastpointpeaceacademySubscribe to CTZN PodcastJoin CTZNWELL on PatreonFollow CTZNWELL on InstagramSign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD(Link to transcription)

This episode comes from a series hosted by our friends at Faith Matters Network called How to Get Through: collective resilience in a world on fire. It was designed to prepare social justice movements to weave healing and care into our lives and work before, during and after crises and big “movement moments” like this one. This first conversation with Sidney Morgan, adrienne maree brown, Prentis Hemphill and Micky Scottbey Jones is about how we actually do the work of being human together - flawed and all, mistakes, conflict and pain included. How do we survive these times? How do we navigate conflict? How do we live into accountability? How do we take care of each other along the way. It is a powerful and brave exploration of the practice of being change, not just doing change. And it is essential medicine for this moment. Enjoy. Connect with adrienne: Follow her on Instagram at @adriennemareebrownBuy her books: Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, We Will Not Cancel UsCheck out her websiteConnect with Prentis: Follow them on Instagram @prentis.hListen to their podcast Finding Your Way Check out their website Connect with Sydney: Check out her websiteConnect with Faith Matters: Follow them on instagram @faithmattersnetworkCheck out the Daring Compassion CourseDonate to their funding drive If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @kkellyyoga, @electricladymsj, @adriennemareebrown @prentis.h Subscribe to CTZN PodcastJoin CTZNWELL on PatreonFollow CTZNWELL on InstagramSign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD+ Transcription(read transcription here)

In this post-election episode, we talk with Margaret Ernst, program manager for Faith Matters Network. When we planned this interview, we knew we would talk about post-election resilience and what it means to be a white clergy leader in movement spaces. We didn’t know that Walter Wallace, her neighbor in Philadelphia, would be killed by police just days before our conversation. So you may hear the anxiety and heartbreak in our voices.   In this conversation, Margaret lays out a timely call to action for white faith leaders. We talk about movement chaplaincy, the labor of spirit care work, and Margaret’s parent Carla - and Carla’s wisdom always to imagine themself forward. Margaret, who began her career in faith-rooted organizing with Faith in Action affiliate POWER Interfaith, is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a program manager with Faith Matters Network. Show Notes: The Role of Movement Chaplaincy in Social Change, by Micky ScottBey Jones and Hilary Allen  a 30-Day Wellbeing and Survival Plan https://bit.ly/2JnoaoB "Kyle Rittenhouse, Whiteness, and The Responsibility of White Faith Leaders: Notes from Conversations with Ruby Sales"  from Radical Discipleship 

Rev. Jen Bailey is an ordained minister, public theologian, and national leader in the multi-faith movement for justice. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network, a Womanist-led organization equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment. Jen comes to this work with nearly a decade of experience at nonprofits combating intergenerational poverty. Rev. Bailey is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and serves locally on the staff of Greater Bethel A.ME. Church in Nashville, Tennessee. This episode was recorded pre-COVID. Please use health and safety guidance regarding the use of physical spiritual spaces referenced in this conversation. Editing by Wazi Maret and David Beasley. Production by Dan Greenman and Nora Rasman. Transcription help from Kolenge Fonge. Learn more, find transcript and more episodes at https://auburnseminary.org/fortification/.

Phoning It In is BACK. More inspiring conversations with people we didn’t think would say yes. Perfect for the bullshit that is pandemic-era zoom church. Join us every other week this summer to hear from amazing guests about what inspires them, keeps them going, allows them to keep creating — especially when they’ve already done so much. On Sunday, July 26th, Administrative Queen & Party Person Rihannon Dawson interviewed Micky ScottBey Jones, the Justice Doula (dang). Micky is a perpetual learner, communicator, facilitator, mama/sister/friend and “contemplivist” (contemplative activist) living just south of Nashville, TN. At academic gatherings, conferences, through blogs and podcasts, Micky hosts & facilitates conferences, trainings and online conversations, writes & speaks on a variety of topics including burnout, race & justice, theology from the margins, and curates contemplative spaces/activities. Recently named one of the Black Christian leaders changing the world in Huffington Post, Micky is the Director of Healing Justice with Faith Matters Network and the Associate Fellow of Racial Justice with ESA. She also leads pilgrimages and speaks around the world about Brave Space, resilient activism and leadership and faith rooted organizing. Have a friend who could use a dose of rejuvenation for the long work of justice? Invite ‘em! And share the link. (You’ll find it in your weekly email.) If you msg us in a way that doesn't seem troll-y or Zoom bomb-y, we'll also just give it to you. .Follow her work and read more about Micky over on her page, Micky ScottBey Jones - The Justice Doula --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gilead-chicago/support

This week we are diving into the grief, loss, intimacy, and possibility available in the unknown - all the time, and especially now in this moment of pandemic forcing great transition. How may we engage with this time as a rite of passage? You'll hear from Roshi Joan Halifax; a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care; along with Reverend Jennifer Bailey & Carinne Luck of Faith Matters Network. Transcript, further resources, & full show notes at www.irresistible.org/podcast/63 ---- Thanks to Zach Meyer for production, Josiah Werning & Alyson Thompson for design and social media, and Ana Cecilia for music. Irresistible is sponsored by Kalliopeia Foundation: Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Learn more at kalliopeia.org

This podcast is a collaboration between Religica and United Religions Initiative (URI).   Named one of "15 Faith Leaders to Watch" by the Center for American Progress, Rev. Jennifer Bailey is the Founder and Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network. An Ashoka Fellow, Aspen Ideas scholar on being fellow, and Truman scholar, Rev. Bailey's writing has appeared in Salon, The Huffington Post, Sojourners, and The Washington Post's "The Lily" publication. Take a listen.   More from United Religions Initiative at www.uri.org   More from Religica at www.religica.org   Facebook: www.facebook.com/Religica.org/   Twitter: twitter.com/religica   YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCPuwufds6gAu2u6xmm8SBuw   Soundcloud: @user-religica   Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3CZwIO4uGP1…mwTkuTQC2rgdGObQ   iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/relig…d1448005061?mt=2   Religica is a comprehensive online platform at the axis of religion and society that provides non-sectarian, coherent, integrated and accessible awareness about the role of religion in society, with a focus on strengthening local communities.

In the age of social distancing, faith leaders are embracing new means of communication in order to maintain important religious traditions. CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with Reverend Jennifer Bailey of the Faith Matters Network about finding, and keeping faith in the midst of loss and change. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Lennon Flowers and Rev. Jennifer Bailey embody a particular wisdom of millennials around grief, loss, and faith. Together they created The People’s Supper, which uses shared meals to build trust and connection among people of different identities and perspectives. Since 2017, they have hosted more than 1,500 meals. In the words they use, the practices they cultivate (some of which we’ve collected on onbeing.org), and the way they think, Flowers and Bailey issue an invitation not to safe space, but to brave space.Rev. Jennifer Bailey is co-founder of The People’s Supper and the founder and executive director of Faith Matters Network. She is also an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and her writing appears regularly in publications including Sojourners and The Huffington Post.Lennon Flowers is co-founder of The People’s Supper and the co-founder and executive director of The Dinner Party. She is also an Ashoka Fellow and an Aspen Ideas Scholar. She has written for CNN,YES!, Forbes, Open Democracy, EdWeek, and Fast Company.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

Lennon Flowers and Rev. Jennifer Bailey embody a particular wisdom of millennials around grief, loss, and faith. Together they created The People’s Supper, which uses shared meals to build trust and connection among people of different identities and perspectives. Since 2017, they have hosted more than 1,500 meals. In the words they use, the practices they cultivate (some of which we’ve collected on onbeing.org), and the way they think, Flowers and Bailey issue an invitation not to safe space, but to brave space.Rev. Jennifer Bailey is co-founder of The People’s Supper and the founder and executive director of Faith Matters Network. She is also an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and her writing appears regularly in publications including Sojourners and The Huffington Post.Lennon Flowers is co-founder of The People’s Supper and the co-founder and executive director of The Dinner Party. She is also an Ashoka Fellow and an Aspen Ideas Scholar. She has written for CNN,YES!, Forbes, Open Democracy, EdWeek, and Fast Company.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Jennifer Bailey and Lennon Flowers — An Invitation to Brave Space." Find more at onbeing.org.

Margaret Ernst learned what she knows about faith and justice from organizing alongside clergy, school parents and airport workers in Philadelphia and has organized alongside immigrant communities resisting ICE in mid-Tennessee. A program manager with Faith Matters Network, she has helped build a curriculum on Movement Chaplaincy through Faith Matters Network's Daring Compassion Project under the leadership of Micky Scottbey Jones and Hilary Allen. Margaret lived for the past 4 years in Nashville, TN and recently moved back to Philadelphia. There she continues her work with Faith Matters Network, and has joined the pastoral team at Chestnut Hill United Church. As of this Saturday, she is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She loves to sing and laugh at all costs. More background and updates on Faith Matters Network's Daring Compassion project can be found at: https://www.faithmattersnetwork.org/daringcompassion, including a link to download a guide Margaret created for movement chaplains to provide care for communities responding to white supremacist hate rallies.

What a fun podcast episode! Brian McLaren, Micky ScottBey Jones, and Daneen Akers all joined for a conversation about parenting for the common good. Many of us know the faith we do not want to pass on to our children, but what does being a faithful parent look like after our childhood faith is gone? That's the topic for this session...plus we answer some questions you sent in. Brian McLaren wrote a new children's book with Gareth Higgins. It is called Cory and the Seventh Story and should be required reading for parents and grand parents with the children in their life. Don't worry adults, they didn't forget about you. They also wrote a version for you that explores the same themes. That's right, you can also get The Seventh Story: Us, Them, and the End of Violence.   Micky ScottBey Jones - the Justice Doula - accompanies people as they birth more love, justice and shalom into our world. As a womanist, faith rooted, contemplative activist, healer, and nonviolence practitioner, Micky supports students, clergy, activists and everyday leaders in a variety of roles - speaker, writer, facilitator, pilgrimage guide and teacher. She is the Director of Resilience and Healing Initiatives with the Faith Matters Network and is a core team member with The People's Supper who has gathered more than 4,000 people around tables since the 2016 U.S. election for bridging and healing conversations. Micky's educational background includes a B.S. in Consumer and Family Sciences with an emphasis in Child Development and Family Studies, numerous mother-baby certifications for doulas and lactation consultants, a M.A. in Intercultural Studies from NAIITS/Portland Seminary, and she is currently pursuing advanced studies in the Enneagram while completing several writing projects to be released in 2019. Named one of the Black Christian leaders changing the world in Huffington Post, Micky travels the world exploring peacemaking and relationships in different contexts, spreading revolutionary love, engaging in authentic conversations, participating in transformative experiences - and most importantly - she never passes up a dance floor.She has been a contributor at   Evangelicals For Social Action, The Porch Magazine, Sojourners, and Red Letter Christians. You can interact with her work and collaborations at Faithmattersnetwork.org and Mickyscottbeyjones.com and catch her social media on Facebook: facebook.com/MSJSpeaks/ and Twitter: @iammickyjones.   Daneen Akers is a filmmaker, writer, and parent who believes deeply in the power of stories. She is currently writing an illustrated children's book called Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints, which will feature 50 original portraits and profiles of people of faith who worked for love and justice, even if that rocked the religious boat.   Daneen found that most of the books she'd read as a child that had anything to do about faith were not compatible with the type of faith she now has as an adult. She knew she needed better stories for her own children, stories that help us transcend fears, connect with each other, engage in justice, and model an expansive and fully inclusive view of any Divine. Given the enthusiastic response to the Holy Troublemakers project, she realized she wasn't alone. There are is a growing movement of parents and others looking to do better with the stories we tell ourselves and our children. You can find her current project at www.holytroublemakers.com.   Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amena talks with Micky ScottBey Jones also known as The Justice Doula about life after divorce. Micky shares how her work as a birth doula informs her current work in justice and activism. Micky also shares her personal experience of divorce and gives practical tips for those walking through divorce or walking alongside someone else going through a divorce. For more information about Micky and her work with Faith Matters Network and The People’s Supper, visit https://www.faithmattersnetwork.org/.

About 25% of our listeners are from outside the USA. Whether you live in the USA or not, you don’t need me to tell you that America is more divided than ever. We can chat and/or argue all day about why we are more divided than ever but we are not going to focus on those things today. What we are going to focus on is how can people that believe different things and value different things come together to find common ground around food and drink? Right after the inauguration in 2017, three groups came together to launch a project called #100Days100Dinners. Shortly after, this project turned into The People’s Supper. The People’s Supper aims to repair the breach in our interpersonal relationships across political, ideological, and identity differences, leading to more civil discourse. And, they plan to do it in the most nourishing way possible – over food and drinks! As we approach the midterm elections, you can get in on the action. Last weekend, they launched Midterm 5 — a series of suppers they are going to do for the the few weeks leading up there midterm elections. They are doing 5 large suppers in cities and town all over the USA. Even if you can’t make one of those, you can host your own! I’m hosting one this week in Nashville and I’ll report back to you during next week’s podcast. Visit their Midterm 5 page on their site to get more details for hosting your supper. Don’t delay! That’s all I’m going to tell you for now because I’m going to let my guests — Micky ScottBey Jones and Margaret Ernst — tell the rest. Micky is the Director of Resilience and Healing Initiative at Faith Matters Network and Margaret is the Program Manager at Faith Matters Network. They’re amazing. You’re going to love them.  Follow Micky on Twitter and on her website. Follow The People’s Supper on Facebook and on their website.  ____________________________ Follow Let’s Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with all that is going on. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don’t want you to miss a thing! And if you want to follow our host Nick Laparra—Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter. Support Let’s Give A Damn by contributing the monthly amount of your choice on Patreon. You can choose $1/month or $5/month. 100% of the money you contribute will go to making more podcasts. Not a dime goes into our pockets! Or you can leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Every little bit helps. Thanks for all your help. Have an amazing week, friends! Love y’all! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if the dinner table was a perfect place to discuss our differences and our greatest potential as a nation? Some of our best and most thoughtful conversations happen around a dinner table. There is something about the food, the atmosphere, and the people that ripen conditions for meaningful conversation. In this episode, we interview Reverend Jennifer Bailey from the Faith Matters Network and Lennon Flowers from the Dinner Party about their new project, The People's Supper. The People's Supper aims to repair the breach in our interpersonal relationships across political, ideological, and identity differences, leading to more civil discourse. And, they plan to do it in the most nourishing way we know – over supper! This isn’t about a political party, or what is or isn’t happening in Washington. It’s about us, and our relationship to one another. Jennifer Bailey is an ordained minister, public theologian, and emerging national leader in multi-faith movement for justice. She is the Founding Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network, a new interfaith community equipping faith leaders to challenge structural inequality in their communities. www.faithmattersnetwork.com. Lennon Flowers is co-founder and executive director of The Dinner Party, a community working to change the way we approach life after loss. She most recently served as the Community Director of Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative, and has written for CNN, Forbes, Open Democracy, EdWeek, YES! Magazine, and GOOD, among others. She is an Ashoka Fellow and an Aspen Ideas Scholar, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. www.thedinnerparty,org For more information about The People's Supper, please visit www.thepeoplessupper.org. We want to thank Fact Not Fiction for our theme song. Check out their album "On Friends and Oppenheimer" at factnotfiction.bandcamp.com/ or wherever you listen to your music. We also want to thank Eastlick Coffee Company for sponsoring the show. Head over to eastlickcoffee.com and enter the promo code "undivided" to get 10% off on your next online purchase.

In this episode, Alex Patchin McNeill and Dr. Robyn Henderson Espinoza, Director of Public Theology Initiatives at Faith Matters Network, and activist theologian, reflect on a part of Paul's letter to Corinthians naming "God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom" through the theme of wisdom. They explore resistance to empire as a willingness to sit with the difficult texts, and see possibilities for liberation through the act of proclaiming what others deem foolish to expose the ridiculousness of the empire.

In this third episode of Healing Justice Podcast, Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza joins host Kate Werning for a conversation about activist theology in the streets, honoring Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20), how to be human with one another, the politics of radical difference, and loving Trans folks well. As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!   Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org   MEET OUR GUEST: Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, PhD Knowing intimately that the borderlands are a place of learning and growth, Robyn draws on their identity and heritage as a Trans queer Latinx in everything that they do. From doubt to divine and everywhere in between, their call as an activist-theologian demands the vision to disrupt hegemony and colonialist structures of multi-layered oppressions.  As an anti-oppression, anti-racist, non-binary Trans*gressive Latinx, Robyn takes seriously their call as an activist theologian and ethicist to bridge together theories and practices that result in communities responding to pressing social concerns. Robyn sees this work as a life-orienting vocation, deeply committed to translating theory to practice, and embedded in re-imagining our moral horizon to one which privileges a politics of radical difference. They currently serve as Director of Public Theology Initiatives at Faith Matters Network in Nashville, TN. Find them on their website, on Twitter as @irobyn, and on their Facebook page. On November 19, Robyn will join the 9:30 and 11:45am worship services at Middle Collegiate Church in NYC as part of the celebration of Trans Awareness Week. They will preach a sermon called “And God Hovered Over the Face of the Deep: Transgressing Gender.” Join us there if you’re in NYC, and catch the livestream if you’re elsewhere. More info here.   REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE Gloria E. Anzaldúa was a queer Chicana poet, writer, and queer and feminist theorist. Her book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) and her essay, “La Prieta,” are considered to be groundbreaking works in cultural, feminist, and queer theories. Robyn’s article in the Huffington Post, 3/28/2017: “We need to address femmephobia in the queer community” The Radical Copyeditor’s Guide for Writing About Transgender People by Alex Kapitan Details to join Robyn in person or via livestream for their sermon at Middle Collegiate Church Nov 19 Find Robyn on their website, on Twitter as @irobyn, and on their Facebook page   PRACTICE Download the next episode for a simple but profound journaling practice with Robyn. You’ll need a notebook or something to write on and your favorite writing implement. Get ready to be led through some reflection on your identity - inspired by Thomas Aquinas, Robyn puts their own spin on a classic question: “Who am I, and how do I know?”   As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice THANK YOU Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Join us for a simple but profound journaling practice with Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza. Grab a notebook or something to write on, your favorite writing implement, and get ready to be led through some reflection on your identity. Inspired by Thomas Aquinas, Robyn puts their own spin on a classic question: “Who am I, and how do I know?”  Check out episode 3 for the corresponding conversation with Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza titled "Healing at the Borderlands: Honoring Trans Day of Remembrance” to listen in to their wisdom on how to be human with one another, activist theology, the politics of radical difference, and loving Trans folks well.   As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!   ABOUT DR. ROBYN HENDERSON-ESPINOZA Knowing intimately that the borderlands are a place of learning and growth, Robyn draws on their identity and heritage as a Trans queer Latinx in everything that they do. From doubt to divine and everywhere in between, their call as an activist-theologian demands the vision to disrupt hegemony and colonialist structures of multi-layered oppressions.  As an anti-oppression, anti-racist, non-binary Trans*gressive Latinx, Robyn takes seriously their call as an activist theologian and ethicist to bridge together theories and practices that result in communities responding to pressing social concerns. Robyn sees this work as a life-orienting vocation, deeply committed to translating theory to practice, and embedded in re-imagining our moral horizon to one which privileges a politics of radical difference. They currently serve as Director of Public Theology Initiatives at Faith Matters Network in Nashville, TN. Find them on their website, on Twitter as @irobyn, and on their Facebook page. On November 19, 2017, Robyn will join the 9:30 and 11:45am worship services at Middle Collegiate Church in NYC as part of the celebration of Trans Awareness Week. They will preach a sermon called “And God Hovered Over the Face of the Deep: Transgressing Gender.” Join us there if you’re in NYC, and catch the livestream if you’re elsewhere. More info here.   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Reverend Bailey explores how people of diverse backgrounds, skin colors, and racial identities can be brought to a space of equality. Rev. Jennifer Bailey, is the Founding Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network, a new interfaith community equipping faith leaders to challenge structural inequality in their communities. She is named one of 15 Faith Leaders to Watch by the Center for American Progress, Rev. Jennifer Bailey is an ordained minister, public theologian, and emerging national leader in multi-faith movement for justice. She comes to this work with nearly a decade of experience at nonprofits combatting intergenerational poverty. A Truman Scholar and Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow, Rev. Bailey earned degrees from Tufts University and Vanderbilt University Divinity School where she was awarded the Wilbur F. Tillett Prize for accomplishments in the study of theology. She writes regularly for a number of publications including Sojourners and the Huffington Post. Her first book, tentatively titled Confessions of a #Millennial #Minister is currently under contract with Chalice Press. Rev. Bailey is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Reverend Bailey explores how people of diverse backgrounds, skin colors, and racial identities can be brought to a space of equality. Rev. Jennifer Bailey, is the Founding Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network, a new interfaith community equipping faith leaders to challenge structural inequality in their communities. She is named one of 15 Faith Leaders to Watch by the Center for American Progress, Rev. Jennifer Bailey is an ordained minister, public theologian, and emerging national leader in multi-faith movement for justice. She comes to this work with nearly a decade of experience at nonprofits combatting intergenerational poverty. A Truman Scholar and Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow, Rev. Bailey earned degrees from Tufts University and Vanderbilt University Divinity School where she was awarded the Wilbur F. Tillett Prize for accomplishments in the study of theology. She writes regularly for a number of publications including Sojourners and the Huffington Post. Her first book, tentatively titled Confessions of a #Millennial #Minister is currently under contract with Chalice Press. Rev. Bailey is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

On this week's episode of Multifaithful, we talk to Rev. Jennifer Bailey, founder and executive director of the Faith Matters Network and one of the Center for American Progress 15 Faith Leaders to Watch in 2015. We discuss the success of the multifaith movement for justice in engaging on conversations of race and how it felt to be a member of the AME Church in the wake of last year's attack in South Carolina.