Podcast appearances and mentions of melvin bray

The beauty of cake, sunshine, planting, and keeping ourselves open. Melvin Bray and Sharon Groves, longtime colleagues and beloved friends of both Lisa and Macky, join us for a beautiful conversation about accountability and consciousness of power inside a friendship across race, class, gender. We explore the role and opportunity of risk in a relationship….and the importance of caramel cake!  Be sure to follow our ‘Friends For Life: Songs Getting Us Through' Playlist!  

#OTD Educator William Stuart Nelson became president of Dillard University, the institution's first black leader. Author Melvin Bray narrates.

The SITUP Podcast is proud to have Melvin Bray back to talk SW ATL with us! Melvin Bray (melvinbray.com) is an Emmy® award-winning storyteller, social entrepreneur, and author who lives and gardens with his wife, three kids, and two dogs in southwest Atlanta, GA. Melvin is a student of how societal myths aid or block desired political outcomes. As such, he authored BETTER: Waking Up to Who We Could Be to demonstrate how our sacred narratives can either promote or subvert a beloved community. He is also coordinating author of The Stories in Which We Find Ourselves, online reimaginings of the biblical narrative that make faith something children and youth have reason to care about. As a social entrepreneur, Melvin works to help communities of goodwill find better stories and scripts–better ways of thinking and doing–that move them toward equity, diversity, and inclusion (collabyrinthconsulting.com). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/situppodcast/message

In the wake of George Floyd's murder, Melvin Bray shares about how God calls us to do better. Tackling difficult but necessary topics, like what lives are worth protesting and the supremacist logic built into the church, Melvin doesn't mince word. Hear Melvin as he opens his heart and expands our minds for how the church - and the world - can become better by re-imagining our stories.

Melvin Bray (melvinbray.com) is an Emmy® award-winning storyteller, social entrepreneur, and author who lives with his wife, three kids and two dogs in southwest Atlanta, GA. He is an active participant in vanguard networks seeking more beautiful, more just, more virtue-filled ways of showing up in the world. He is author of the soon to be bestselling BETTER: Waking Up to Who We Could Be, co-editor of Faith Forward, Vol 1 and Vol 2 (Copper House, 2013, 2015), which explore ways children’s and youth ministry can make the dream of beloved community possible, and he is coordinating author of The Stories in which We Find Ourselves, online reimaginings of the biblical narrative that make faith something children and youth have reason to care about. As a social entrepreneur, Melvin works to help communities of goodwill find better stories and scripts–better ways of thinking and doing–that move them toward equity, diversity and inclusion (collabyrinthconsulting.com). https://anchor.fm/situppodcast/message --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/situppodcast/message

I always learn so much when I talk to Melvin Bray, he’s brilliant and kind and resourceful. I ask him to tell us about the COMPOST acronym which helps us determine whether a story is worth telling: Confess more than prescribe Opposing forces in dynamic with each other Meekness to admit other interpretations Pose more questions than answers Others-interestedness Susceptibility to harm Tradition as a living word - God is still speaking   He also shares why him and his wife don’t raise their children in religion, and answer a host of other questions. Hope you enjoy this one!   Links (affiliate links included):   Melvin’s website Better: Waking up to who we could be Faith Forward   Like my podcast and think you might want to create your own? Then you need to talk to my producer Danny Ozment. Here's an article he wrote about the benefits of podcasting.   https://dannyozment.com/a-few-more-podcasting-benefits/ Check it out and then schedule a FREE strategy call with him at the bottom.  

Author Melvin Bray celebrates Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker

Author Melvin Bray celebrates Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker

This podcast episode is brought to you by The School of Divinity at Gardner-Webb University (http://gardner-webb.edu/academic-programs-and-resources/colleges-and-schools/divinity/index), Campbell University Divinity School (http://divinity.campbell.edu/), David Correll of Universal Creative Concepts (http://www.uccpromos.com/david-correll.htm), and Launch Mission Creative (www.launchmissioncreative.com). Visit www.cbf.net for more info about the CBF. Music by Nicolai Heidlas from HookSounds.com.

In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by Melvin Bray. Melvin Bray (http://better.melvinbray.com/) is an Emmy® award-winning storyteller, social entrepreneur, and author who lives with his wife, three kids and two dogs in southwest Atlanta, GA. He is an active participant in vanguard networks seeking more beautiful, more just, more virtue-filled ways of showing up in the world. He is author of the soon to be bestselling BETTER: Waking Up to Who We Could Be, co-editor of Faith Forward, Vol 1 and Vol 2 (Copper House, 2013, 2015), which explore ways children’s and youth ministry can make the dream of beloved community possible, and he is coordinating author of The Stories in which We Find Ourselves, online reimaginings of the biblical narrative that make faith something children and youth have reason to care about. As a social entrepreneur, Melvin works to help communities of goodwill find better stories and scripts–better ways of thinking and doing–that move them toward equity, diversity and inclusion (collabyrinthconsulting.com).

Melvin Bray joins Doug and Victoria Lin to talk about his book "Better - Waking Up To Who We Could Be"

Melvin Bray joins Doug and Victoria Lin to talk about his book "Better - Waking Up To Who We Could Be"

Author and community organizer Melvin Bray shares some background on the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Alice Walker

Community organizer and author Melvin Bray celebrates Dillard University's first black president, William Stuart Nelson

Melvin Bray's presentation from the 2014 Faith Forward gathering, May 19-22 in Nashville, TN.