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Activist Theology Podcast

130 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings

A conversation fueled by analysis and activism, all in pursuit of getting our hands dirty to achieve social liberation. We believe in the work of social healing and we believe that there needs to be a diversity of tactics to achieve social healing. We hope the Activist Theology Podcast will be one way that we can explore the work of liberation and healing justice.

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Episodes

How Do We Read The Bible Well and Without Harm?

January 24, 2023 00:00 - 44 minutes

(Recorded live at the American Academy of Religion) Dr. Roberto and Rev. Anna got to spend some time together in Denver, CO during the American Academy of Religion. This event, the largest gathering of academics whose studies are centered on religion, gave us the opportunity to record several episodes with guests that we should all be paying attention to. For each of these guests, we ask them one, big question. This episode introduces you to Steed Davidson, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, wi...

How Do We Create Conditions To Age Well?

January 17, 2023 00:00 - 45 minutes

(Recorded live at the American Academy of Religion) Dr. Roberto and Rev. Anna got to spend some time together in Denver, CO during the American Academy of Religion. This event, the largest gathering of academics whose studies are centered on religion, gave us the opportunity to record several episodes with guests that we should all be paying attention to. For each of these guests, we ask them one, big question. This episode introduces you to Elyse Ambrose (they/them), is a blackqueer ethicist...

How Do We Include Indigeneity in Collective Liberation Conversations?

January 10, 2023 00:00 - 51 minutes

(Recorded live at the American Academy of Religion) Dr. Roberto and Rev. Anna got to spend some time together in Denver, CO during the American Academy of Religion. This event, the largest gathering of academics whose studies are centered on religion, gave us the opportunity to record several episodes with guests that we should all be paying attention to. For each of these guests, we ask them one, big question. This episode introduces you to Carmen Lansdowne, 44th Moderator in the United Chur...

What Do We Mean When We Say Liberation?

January 03, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutes

(Recorded live at the American Academy of Religion) Dr. Roberto and Rev. Anna got to spend some time together in Denver, CO during the American Academy of Religion. This event, the largest gathering of academics whose studies are centered on religion, gave us the opportunity to record several episodes with guests that we should all be paying attention to. For each of these guests, we ask them one, big question. This episode introduces you to Taurean Webb, 2021-2 Fellow in Conflict and Peace a...

What Do We Mean When We Say Futures?

December 27, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutes

(Recorded live at the American Academy of Religion) Dr. Roberto and Rev. Anna got to spend some time together in Denver, CO during the American Academy of Religion. This event, the largest gathering of academics whose studies are centered on religion, gave us the opportunity to record several episodes with guests that we should all be paying attention to. For each of these guests, we ask them one, big question. This episode introduces you to Philip Butler, Assistant Professor of Theology and ...

How Do We Have a Stable Nervous System in the Face of Fascism?

December 20, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes

(Recorded live at the American Academy of Religion) Dr. Roberto and Rev. Anna got to spend some time together in Denver, CO during the American Academy of Religion. This event, the largest gathering of academics whose studies are centered on religion, gave us the opportunity to record several episodes with guests that we should all be paying attention to. For each of these guests, we ask them one, big question. This episode introduces you to Monica Coleman, scholar, theologian and author. We ...

What Do We Mean When We Say Religion?

December 12, 2022 05:00 - 56 minutes

(Recorded live at the American Academy of Religion) Dr. Roberto and Rev. Anna got to spend some time together in Denver, CO during the American Academy of Religion. This event, the largest gathering of academics whose studies are centered on religion, gave us the opportunity to record several episodes with guests that we should all be paying attention to. For each of these guests, we ask them one, big question. This episode introduces you to Ted Vial, Vice President of Innovation, Learning, a...

Catch All Episode

November 22, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes

We had one thing planned and got sidetracked in every way. So we talk about economics, the midterm election outcomes, marriage equality, and a host of other things. Sometime these "catch all" episodes become our favorites. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. Join us on the Activist Theology app To follow Activist Theology on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook: @activistheology To be in touch with Dr. Roberto: roberto@...

Is the Church Helping Us Do Better? Or Sending Us in the Opposite Direction?

November 07, 2022 05:00 - 46 minutes

Roberto had an interesting Uber ride while in Chicago. Stemming from that conversation, we ponder the question: is the Church helping us be, do, act better? Or is the Church complicit in our demise? As you might imagine, the answer isn't a simple one. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. Join us on the Activist Theology app To follow Activist Theology on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook: @activistheology To be in tou...

We Hope You've Listened to 'Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra"

October 24, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutes

Since 2016, we have watched our democracy take hits that we thought were firsts. We don't have a historical memory for where we have been and it results in us thinking that we have never seen times like this. Roberto and Anna are both big fans of the new podcast "Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra" and were stunned to hear how much of the fascism we are experiencing in these days were also a part of the national conscious in the 1940s. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this p...

Coming Out

October 18, 2022 17:41 - 53 minutes

In this conversation, Dr. Roberto and Rev. Anna discuss the evolution of self and the ways in which we continue to "come out" and evolve. We are ever-becoming – coming out in ways that some may find as "breaking news" and others might find highly uninteresting. Nevertheless, we have a difficult and enlightening conversation. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. Join us on the Activist Theology app To follow Activis...

The Corner of Every Room - A Conversation with Kashif Andrew Graham and Blake Mundell

October 12, 2022 15:23 - 57 minutes

Today we are offered the gift of conversation with friends Kashif Andrew Graham and Blake Mundell. Their newest release, The Corner of Every Room, is a response to and for community; an indictment and an invitation. To view the lyric video, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDIccdb0e4c Kashif Andrew Graham is a freelance writer and Outreach Librarian for Religion and Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity Library. He is a frequent contributor to Nashville Scene, Chapter16, Theological Lib...

Where the Heck Have We Been?

August 22, 2022 20:33 - 53 minutes

We hear you. We really do. You are wondering where we are. Why we had to take several weeks away;. We started this podcast about 8 weeks before the world radically changed in 2020. The truth is that our work has accelerated in ways we weren't anticipating and we are trying to balance what it looks like to continue to put this podcast into the world and participate in our other vocational and heart callings. In this episode, we have a conversation about that very thing. –––––––––––––––––––––––...

Bodily Autonomy Is a Distant Memory

July 05, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour

The overturn of Roe v. Wade has us reeling. Rev. Anna and Dr. Robyn break down their thoughts and offer an update on the frequency of episodes in the future. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. Join us on the Activist Theology app To follow Activist Theology on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook: @activistheology To be in touch with Dr. Robyn: [email protected] or @irobyn To be in touch with Rev. Anna: anna@ac...

Gun Violence & Community Care

June 20, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes

Following the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Dr. Robyn and Rev. Anna have a vital conversation on the community care that is required for those who inflict such brutal harm on others. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. Join us on the Activist Theology app To follow Activist Theology on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook: @activistheology To be in touch with Dr. Robyn: [email protected] or @irobyn To be in t...

Recovering Racists - A Conversation with Idelette McVicker

May 09, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour

Idelette McVicker is the founder and president of SheLoves Media Society, an online forum for Christian women that includes SheLoves Magazine and the Dangerous Women membership community. She is a popular speaker and retreat leader internationally. McVicker wrote the SheLoves manifesto, Let Us Be Women Who Love, which has been used by women’s ministries around the world and in Sarah Bessey’s book Jesus Feminist. After training as a journalist in South Africa, she lived in Taiwan, where she wr...

Death Row and Humanity's Radical Desire to Kill One Another

April 25, 2022 04:00 - 54 minutes

Rev. Anna spent Easter Sunday with a group of humans who were calling on Gov. Lee of Tennessee to stay the execution of Oscar Smith. Texas will put to death a human on the same night. Tennessee is scheduled to murder 4 residents this year, What is it about us that creates a desire for punitive retribution through death? Dr. Robyn and Rev. Anna have a frank conversation that calls us all to action. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activi...

We Are Over-Programmed

April 18, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes

As we celebrate the launch of Dr. Robyn's newest book, Anna and Robyn have a much needed conversation around our health, time, rest and reflection. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. Join us on the Activist Theology app To follow Activist Theology on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook: @activistheology To be in touch with Dr. Robyn: [email protected] or @irobyn To be in touch with Rev. Anna: anna@activistheol...

Queering the American Dream - A Conversation with Angela Yarber

April 04, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes

Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber is the author, artist, and Executive Director of the Tehom Center, a non-profit teaching about revolutionary women through art, writing, retreats, and academic courses. With a Ph.D. in Art and Religion and over a decade teaching Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, four of her eight books have been listed in Top LGBTQ Religion Books. All art and book sales fund the non-profit. To purchase art or books, including her newest memoir, Queering the American Dream, please ...

Book Banning Is Just the Beginning

March 21, 2022 04:00 - 47 minutes

Across the country, we are watching legislatures, school boards, private and public school systems chase the archaic idea that some books are "allowed" to be read by children and some are not. Unsurprising to anyone, the books that are not being allowed are books that expose America's racist, homophobic, transphobic and Christian nationalist past. Dr. Robyn and Rev. Anna share some stories from their home state and attempt to navigate the problematic resurgence of book banning. ––––––––––––––...

Overdose & Trauma

March 07, 2022 05:00 - 49 minutes

On a sunny, Saturday afternoon in one of the most walkable areas of Chattanooga, Anna finds herself in the middle of an unplanned crisis. A car careens through the city, immediately in front of her, barely missing humans crossing the road and totaling cars in its path. The driver has just OD'd on Fentanyl. The drug epidemic is getting progressively worse and we are watching the lives of human beings upended at every turn. How are we to be community in the midst of this pain? –––––––––––––––––...

A Realization: Activist Theology Is Also For Us

February 14, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes

Some of you know about the mutual aid request that Dr. Robyn extended a few weeks ago to assist them in getting their mother out of a dangerous living situation. This past weekend, we traveled a long distance to pack up and move their mother to safety. Throughout the process, watching the help of relative strangers, experiencing solidarity in unexpected places, we recognized that the work of Activist Theology is also for us. We were liberated by it. Listen today to how the story unfolded. ––...

Fortune - A Conversation with Lisa Sharon Harper

February 08, 2022 18:53 - 46 minutes

Drawing on her lifelong journey to know her family’s history, leading Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair. Harper has spent three decades researching ten generations of her family history through DNA research, oral histories, interviews, and genealogy. Fortune, the name of Harper’s first non-indigenous ancestor born on American soil, bore the brunt of the na...

What Does a Gimmick From the Pulpit Gain You?

February 01, 2022 05:00 - 47 minutes

When a pastor is caught spitting in his hand and then rubbing that spit on the face of a parishioner, all in the attempt to prove that faith trumps science, we are in serious trouble as a body. We've all seen gimmicks used from the pulpit – and some have stuck with us because they were memorable. The question is, does memorable equal impactful? How far are we willing to go to prove a point? And at what point is the message lost, simply because we won't stop being clever and start being real? ...

Welcome to Season 3! Wait, What? Season 3??!!

January 18, 2022 01:06 - 49 minutes

Season three! It's hard to believe. Join Dr. Robyn and Rev, Anna as they check in after the holidays, share some funny stories about their gifts and evaluate the state of the world. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. Join us on the Activist Theology app To follow Activist Theology on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook: @activistheology To be in touch with Dr. Robyn: [email protected] or @irobyn To be in tou...

The Big Lie

December 15, 2021 16:51 - 45 minutes

For some of us, the Big Lie was first named a part of our vocabulary after November of 2020. For others of us, we'v watched lies around supremacy, Christianity, patriarchy and heteronormativity blanket the earth for decades. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. Join us on the Activist Theology app To follow Activist Theology on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook: @activistheology To be in touch with Dr. Robyn: robyn@a...

Violent White Men Are the Threat to Beloved Community

December 01, 2021 15:27 - 48 minutes

When Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty, the nation further affirmed its divide regarding self defense, gun control, protesting, and how just our justice system really is. The violent nature of our community, specifically of white men within our community, gives Robyn and Anna pause. Join them as they navigate this conversation. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. Join us on the Activist Theology app To follo...

Christians Against Christianity - A Conversation with Dr. Obery Hendericks

November 08, 2021 13:00 - 42 minutes

Obery M. Hendricks Jr. is a best-selling author, an activist, a religious scholar, a former theological seminary president, and an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His books include The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted, The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic, and Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals A...

Justice Is a Way of Life - A Conversation with Dr. Cari Jackson

November 01, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutes

Rev. Dr. Cari Jackson is director of spiritual care and activism for the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, leading RCRC's mission to equip, galvanize and collaborate with faith and community leaders advocating for reproductive dignity and freedom. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ (UCC), Dr. Cari has served as pastor of congregations in UCC, United Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church-USA, incorporating spirituality and social justice. As a social healer, she ...

The Immigration Crisis - Live from McAllen, Texas

October 25, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour

Dr. Robyn and Rev. Anna record this episode live from the border of Reynosa, Mexico. They spent the weekend with We the People Ride and were introduced to the amazing folx from Practice Mercy. Hear our stories and this wonderful conversation with Practice Mercy's lead, Alma Rose. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. To follow Activist Theology on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook: @activistheology To be in touch with...

The Crash of Facebook and Instagram – Are We Thinking Differently?

October 11, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes

On Monday, October 4, 2021, the world watched as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down for hours. This was only a day after a whistle-blower shared documents and truths with the world about the tech giants and the way that their algorithms are taunting us to anger. What did the time away from these apps do for us? What did they expose about our tendencies and our addictions? Most importantly, what does it tell us about community? –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support th...

Will Sunday Church Ever Be a Thing Again?

October 04, 2021 04:00 - 52 minutes

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that changes that felt like a slow burn over the last decade accelerated in ways we didn't expect over the last eighteen months. Once of things we are curious about it just that – what happens to Sunday morning church in the wake of the online community? Will gathering together on Sunday be something we continue to do? Why or why not might that matter? Join Rev. Anna and Dr. Robyn and they dive into the questions around this very topic. –––––––––...

The Brain-Based Enneagram - A Live Conversation with Dr. Jerome Lubbe

September 27, 2021 14:37 - 56 minutes

Dr. Jerome Lubbe had his first debilitating migraine when he was 17. Since then, he has averaged about 100 migraines per year. His life has been a journey of victory and defeat, despair and hope, faith and doubt. As a complex neurological patient, he lived in a medical purgatory. He saw the best of traditional practitioners to no avail. He explored innovative, alternative healthcare models that also fell short. Ultimately, he became a doctor because he couldn’t find a good one. Dr. Lubbe is ...

Spiritual Trauma

September 20, 2021 17:07 - 49 minutes

Some of us come from an evangelical upbringing that asked us to understand hell as a literal place, abstinence as law and sin as avoidable. Others of us grew up in mainline denominational systems that put on a face of moderate polity but still found ways to complicate our spiritual journeys. Still others have walked a path that looks different from these. Regardless of where you have come from, you have likely not arrived free from trauma – spiritual trauma. Dr. Robyn and Rev. Anna navigate t...

Relationships are Hard – Ours Is No Different

August 24, 2021 13:09 - 56 minutes

Relationships are hard. Showing up and being present for the great stuff and the tough stuff is what being in relationship is all about. And that's really easy to say and often harder to do. Some of us communicate through words while others are empathic and do most of their work using their feeling senses. Some of us are conflict-confident while others are conflict-averse, On the anniversary of the event that solidified the kinship between Robyn and Anna, they chat about their last four years...

How One Bishop Has Change the Face of the Mainline Church

August 16, 2021 17:11 - 1 hour

The Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer (they/he) is Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Bishop Megan, the first openly transgender pastor ordained in the Lutheran church, was ordained Extraordinarily in 2006. One of 18 pastors ordained during the time when the ELCA did not allow LGBT pastors to serve openly. In 2010, Bishop Megan was one of the first seven pastors received into the ELCA after their policies changed. On May 8, 2021 they were elected as t...

On Being Fugitives and Displacing Power - A Conversation with Bayo Akomolafe

August 09, 2021 12:03 - 56 minutes

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe considers his most sacred work to be learning how to be with his daughter and son, Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden – and their mother, his wife and “life-nectar”, Ijeoma. “To learn the importance of insignificance” is the way he frames a desire to reacquaint himself with a world that is irretrievably entangled, preposterously alive and completely partial. He is the Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project] and host of the online ...

Olympic Games – Racism, Sexism, Queerphobia and Mental Health Criticism

August 04, 2021 15:11 - 52 minutes

We are in the thick of the 2021 Summer Olympic Games and we are watching racism, sexism, queerphobia and mental health criticism unfold before our eyes. While these games can bring humans together, they are highly problematic. Dr. Robyn and Rev. Anna navigate the challenges surrounding these Olympic games and the challenges that they present. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. To follow Activist Theology on Twit...

Why Don't We Give A Sh!t About Each Other?

July 26, 2021 16:05 - 50 minutes

Dr. Robyn and Rev. Anna talk often about how disconnected we are from one another during these times. This has created distrust and a lack of honesty as it relates to vaccinations, infections and mask-wearing. As the Delta variant is wreaking havoc around the country, we find ourselves in a position of opportunity. Do we care for one another in ways that foster honesty or are we too invested in individualism? In an honest conversation, Robyn and Anna dig into our disconnects and offer opportu...

Rupture Is Essential For Liberation – A Conversation with Danté Stewart

July 19, 2021 10:00 - 52 minutes

Danté Stewart is a speaker and a writer whose work in the areas of race, religion, and politics has been featured on CNN and in The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, Comment, and elsewhere. He received his BA in sociology from Clemson University and is currently studying at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. To connect with Danté on Twitter: Click here. Visit https://www.dantecstewart.com/ ––––––––...

Navigating the Creator Economy - A Conversation with Blake Chastain

June 28, 2021 13:04 - 1 hour

Blake Chastain, a member of the new podcast collective, Irreverent Media, joins Dr. Robyn and Rev. Anna for a big announcement. We are thrilled to share that the Activist Theology Podcast is the newest addition to IMG (Irreverent Media Group). Blake Chastain is the host of the Exvangelical and Powers & Principalities podcasts, and writer of The Post-Evangelical Post newsletter. Blake coined the #exvangelical hashtag alongside the launch of the Exvangelical podcast in July 2016. Since then, th...

Introducing Abolitionist Sanctuary

June 19, 2021 22:47 - 1 hour

We are thrilled to host Rev. Dr. Nikia Roberts on Juneteenth, the day she launches Abolitionist Sanctuary. Abolitionist Sanctuary’s mission is to help Black churches connect emancipatory religious values and abolitionist principles to public policies and transformative justice strategies that center the communal flourishing of poor Black mothers and their families beyond prisons, policing, and punishment. Rev. Dr. Robert is the Founder and Executive Director of Abolitionist Sanctuary. She is ...

This Season of Pride and Spirituality - A Conversation with Sara Rosenau

June 10, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes

Sara is a spiritual leader, facilitator, and teacher. She was educated at Earlham College, University of Denver, Iliff School of Theology, and holds a PhD in Theology and Women and Gender Studies from Drew University.  Sara identifies as a queer cis woman, a Quaker, and is ordained and leads a congregation in the tradition of the United Church of Christ. Sara is a champion of coffee conversations, passionate about leftist politics and intersectional social justice, and thrives on diverse for...

White Rage

June 07, 2021 15:49 - 56 minutes

What makes white folx so angry? How do they deal with a disappearing hold on privilege and power? Why is it difficult to acknowledge their pain in ways that aren't physically harmful to others? In this important episode, Dr. Robyn and Rev. Anna tackle a topic on the minds of many – white rage. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit www.kindful.activistheology.com. To follow Activist Theology on Twitter: @activistheology To follow Activist Theology o...

Palestine & Israel: Navigating the Conflict

May 31, 2021 16:16 - 59 minutes

Dove Kent has two decades of experience in grassroots organizing, political education, and movement building. Dove currently serves as the Senior Strategy Officer at Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice. She served as the Executive Director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice from 2011 through 2016, supporting the organization to triple in size and win game-changing legislative victories for police accountability and worker’s rights through powerful local coalitions. Under Dove’s ...

We Belong to One Another - A Conversation with Marcie Alvis-Walker

May 20, 2021 14:43 - 1 hour

Marcie Alvis-Walker is an author, creator, mother, partner in the work. Her important blog and Instagram accounts, @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends and @mockingbirdhistroylessons (History Lessons for Adults) are followed by hundreds of thousands of folx and tell the story of blackness that Marcie wishes her daughter to learn. Having grown up knowing only a part of her mother's story, Marcie uses her voice to educate and engage. You can read more of Marcie's writings on her website and support he...

What is Family? A Conversation with Dr. Nikki Young

May 13, 2021 14:57 - 58 minutes

Having just passed the Sunday where the U.S. celebrates mothers (birth and chosen), the understanding many have about family can be conflicting. As kin and chosen family, Nikki Young and Dr. Robyn have a relationship that is beautiful to watch. This episode is full of heart, laughter, and a little bit of tea-spilling. Thelathia "Nikki" Young, Ph.D. research focuses on the intersectionality of gender, sexuality and race, and the ways in which various identities are connected to larger systems ...

Rest Is Political, But Not Always Easy

May 06, 2021 18:26 - 47 minutes

Dr. Robyn is heading off on sabbatical for the month so it's a great episode to talk about the politics of rest and spaciousness. Some of us are really good at creating time in our day to rest (er, Robyn). Some of us are absolute shit (uh, Anna). We are part of a society that prioritizes production over people, money over self-care. How do we make rest a practice that is both fulfilling and possible? Dr. Robyn and Rev. Anna explore that very question. And, not to worry, their sabbatical won't...

Murder, War, Guns, Sex Work & Trans Rights: A Brain Dump

April 29, 2021 16:03 - 53 minutes

It's been a few weeks since Dr. Robyn and Rev. Anna have bantered about the state of the country and our role in cleaning up the mess. This week we will take about the Derek Chauvin verdict, trans rights, the military industrial complex, gun control, and sex workers. Don't miss this robust conversation. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit www.kindful.activistheology.com. To follow Activist Theology on Twitter: @activistheology To follow Activist ...

Standing in Solidarity with Our Asian Siblings: Yuki Schwartz

April 22, 2021 14:55 - 59 minutes

Yuki (she/they) Schwartz is a Louisville Postdoctoral Fellowship Scholar serving as the assistant professor of constructive and political theologies at Claremont School of Theology at Willamette University, and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Their research interests are the politics of shame within systems of colonization and imperialism, effects of resistance, and theological deimperial world-building.  Follow Dr. Schwartz on Twitter: FOLLOW ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––...

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