Theosophia Podcast
116 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsA platform for women's voices in theology.
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The Rev. Janie Kirt Morris (Mini Series Part 3)
December 14, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBThe Rev. Janie Kirt Morris. Mother Janie was the 6th woman to be ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Oklahoma. The priesthood was a second career for Janie as she was a well respected teacher in Norman, Oklahoma for many years and a lay leader at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Janie recalls her discernment process and how she had an inner message from the Holy Spirit urging her to do more with her life. She shares the challenges of raising a family as a single mother while in seminar...
The Rt. Rev. Robert Moody (Mini Series Part 1)
December 05, 2021 22:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBThis episode features the Rt. Rev. Robert Moody, the 4th Diocesan Bishop of Oklahoma serving from 1989-2007. Most notably, during his Episcopate, Bishop Moody dealt with the aftermath of the Oklahoma City Murrah building bombing, supporting the consecration of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay man to become bishop, and increased ministry to the prisons, Native American communities, college campuses and Anglican schools and health clinics in the West Ankole Diocese of Uganda. In this f...
Beverly Bradley (Mini Series Part 2)
December 05, 2021 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBThis episode features Beverly Bradley, a former Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Oklahoma who was the first woman Bishop Moody ordained to the priesthood in 1988. She was the second woman in the Diocese of Oklahoma to be ordained to the priesthood and the first woman in the Diocese to serve as Rector of a parish. In this episode, Beverly shares intimate details of her path to ordination including gaining the graces of the patriarchal authorities in her life and how she managed being a lon...
Mini Series: History of Women's Ordination in Oklahoma (An Introduction)
December 05, 2021 22:00 - 6 minutes - 4.74 MBThe introductory episode features a three episode mini series about the History of Women's Ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma. This oral history project helps unfold the details of the trailblazing efforts of men and women in Oklahoma to make ordained ministry a reality for the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Leaving Silence: Sexualized Violence, the Bible and Standing with Survivors
August 17, 2021 20:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBI am so excited to share with you a lively conversation with my friend, Dr. Susannah Larry about her new book entitled “Leaving Silence: Sexualized Violence, the Bible and Standing with Survivors.” Dr. Larry is an assistant professor of Biblical Studies at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. She is dedicated to reclaiming the Bible as a liberating Word to the contemporary Christian life and exposing flaws of biblical interpretations that use the text to justify sexua...
Mother God Children's Book with Rev. Teresa Pecinovsky
August 03, 2021 14:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBOur hundredth episode features the Rev. Teresa Pecinovsky. Reverend Teresa was born in South Korea, raised in Iowa, holds a master of education from the university of Houston and a master of divinity from Vanderbilt university. She’s an ordained disciples of christ minister and currently serves as a hospice chaplain, preacher and children’s minister. We chat about her upcoming children’s picture book called Mother God illustrated by the incredible artist Khoa Le. With lyrical, rhyming text...
Church Planting with the Rev. Katie Nakamura Rengers
July 30, 2021 17:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBThe Rev. Katie is the Staff Officer for Church Planting at Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s office. She founded The Abbey, a missional worship community based in a coffee shop in Birmingham, Alabama. There she served many folks on the margins including folks experiencing homelessness, mental illness, addiction and many more. In our conversation, the Rev. Katie and I explore the ups and downs of church planting. She explains the difficult balance of creating sustainable community while also...
Stewardship & Parenting
September 25, 2020 17:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBSara and Sarah chat about stewardship and parenting during covid-tide. Sara explains how her family of five are caring for one another and being extra thoughtful about how they are spending their time in their small town Tennessee life. We are keeping all our friends and family who are navigating these hard times in our prayers. Parents, teachers, administrators ya’ll are doing the lord’s work out there and we appreciate you. We hope this episode gives some guidance and framework for thi...
Stewardship & Parenting
September 25, 2020 17:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBSara and Sarah chat about stewardship and parenting during covid-tide. Sara explains how her family of five are caring for one another and being extra thoughtful about how they are spending their time in their small town Tennessee life. We are keeping all our friends and family who are navigating these hard times in our prayers. Parents, teachers, administrators ya’ll are doing the lord’s work out there and we appreciate you. We hope this episode gives some guidance and framework for thi...
Ann Ali: An Agent of Change
August 10, 2020 20:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBThis week’s podcast features a very inspiring lay leader in Sarah's community of Oklahoma City, Ann Ali or as some folks in her call her in her community, “Rev” Ann Ali. Ann and Sarah chat about her life and service to her community and country as a police officer, army reservist, pastor and teacher. They also discuss what god is calling us to during this time of corona virus. Ann is full of cultural and familial wisdom antidotes and speaks of a faith that moves mountains and restores wea...
Ethical Non-Monogamy
June 30, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 51 MBHappy Pride Month! In celebration of the rich, beautiful, diversity God created in LGBTQ folks we wanted to share this episode on ethical non-monogamy! Sara and Sarah chat about their experiences with ethical-non monogamy. They explore the theological and practical expressions of this relational practice as they de-mystify its use in the world. They hope you all find this helpful as you navigate your own relationships and relational ethics.
Nadia Bolz Weber Shameless Book Discussion
June 01, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBThis episode is a two part combined episode of a conversation around Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book entitled “Shameless - A Case for not feeling bad about feeling good, about sex.” The first part our co-host from last season, Kelsey Davis joins Sara and I for an Instagram Live session about the first half of the book. The second part is just the Sara’s talking about the second half of the book and what stood out most to us and how we could use the book practically in our contexts.
Mother's Day Sermon "God Our Mother"
May 11, 2020 18:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBSarah explores what it means for mothers to image the Divine and how we can practically relate to God as Mother as we honor all mother figures today. The music before the sermon is Grace Church Episcopal Yukon’s amazing praise band’s rendition of This is My Mother’s World.
Catholic Women's Ordination Conference
April 10, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBKate McElwee is the Executive Director who works from Rome Itay and Katie Lacz is the Program Associate who works from Denver, Colorado. The Women’s Ordination Conference is the uncompromising feminist voice for women’s ordination and gender equity in the Roman Catholic Church since 1975. The Conference has been championed and ran by some incredible women in theology including theologians Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Mary Hunt and Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz to name j...
The Rev. Yadenee Hailu on Space and Place
March 15, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBYadenee is a playful and fierce scout for the oracles of ease, wholeness, and liberation. Her practice and ministry are to cultivate spiritual wellness and healing as a lifestyle. She is a Unitarian Universalist minister based in Tulsa, OK. The first half of the episode is Sara and Yadenee chat about her pilgrimage to India and how space/place impact our spiritual lives. In the second half of the episode, Sara and Sarah digest Yadenee's wisdom and reflect on how her wisdom shows up in thei...
Season 3 Kick Off with new Co-host the Rev. Sara Green
February 05, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBTo kick off Season 3 of the podcast Sarah interviews her new host, the Rev. Sara Green. Sara is a Unitarian Universalist minister as well as the youth and young adult of color ministry associate for the UU Association. Sarah and Sara chat about Sara's path to ordination in the UU tradition and what exactly UU theology is all about and how her questions have shaped her life in pursuit of liberation, healing and covenantal relationships.
Loss and Movement Chaplaincy with the Rev. Margaret Ernst
September 17, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBMargaret 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 Nash...
Loss and Movement Chaplaincy with the Rev. Margaret Ernst
September 17, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBMargaret 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 Nash...
Multi-Cultural Church Creation with the Rev. Ruth Casipit Paguio
August 27, 2019 20:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBMother Ruth tells the story of how her multi-cultural community came together with all it’s ups and downs. Holy Family is a mixed congregation of Anglo, Hispanic and Filipino folks from all over the San Jose and surrounding areas. I had the privilege of worshipping with them this Easter and I can tell ya’ll from first hand experience, this is what the Kingdom of God looks like on earth. It was BEAUTIFUL. It is the Beloved community. Thank you so much Mother Ruth for sharing your heart a...
The Rev. Ruth Casipit Paguio
August 20, 2019 18:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBMother Ruth is the first female priest at Holy Family Episcopal Church, San Jose, CA. Holy Family is a multicultural and multigenerational community whose mission is to celebrate God through Jesus Christ. She is also a native of the Philippines. Mother Ruth and I met when I was in California visiting our co-host Kelsey Davis. Kelsey was giving the Easter homily at Holy Family as Mother Ruth presided over the celebration. We got to chat for a good half hour before the service and I was ...
The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (Wild Goose Festival 2019)
August 13, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBThe Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis is Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church, a 1000-member multiracial, welcoming, and inclusive congregation in New York City. She is an activist, preacher, writer, theologian and fierce advocate for racial equality, economic justice, and LGBTQ equality. Middle Church and Jacqui’s activism for these issues has been featured in media such as The Today Show, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The New Yorker, Essenc...
Chose God, Chose Yourself - A Sermon by Sarah
July 30, 2019 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBThis week we are sharing Sarah's latest sermon. It was her first Sunday morning sermon at her home church of Grace Episcopal in Yukon, Oklahoma led by the wonderful priests Fr. Tim & Mother Kirsten Baer and Deacon Helen. She took a pastoral approach to the text instead of a strictly theological one. This means she was meeting the people where they are at and offering a personal story to relate to the congregation. She wasn’t coming at the text with a teaching head but rather a coming a...
God as Mother - Part II with Khortlan Becton
July 23, 2019 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBKhortlan Becton is a native Houstonian. By the grace of God, she has received Bachelor's degrees from the University of Alabama in African American Studies and Religious Studies as well as a Master's of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School. Khortlan is passionate about affecting social change, serving underprivileged children and youth, and writing poetry. She will be attending law school in the Fall. In this episode, Kelsey and Khortlan talk about God as Mother and the myri...
Divinity School to Law School with Khortlan Becton
July 16, 2019 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBKhortlan Becton is a native Houstonian. By the grace of God, she has received Bachelor's degrees from the University of Alabama in African American Studies and Religious Studies as well as a Master's of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School. Khortlan is passionate about affecting social change, serving underprivileged children and youth, and writing poetry. She will be attending law school in the Fall.
Open & Affirming Prison Ministry with the Rev. Kayla Bonewell
July 09, 2019 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBThe Rev. Kayla Bonewell joins us for a second episode about her church Cathedral of Hope’s prison ministry. What started as visiting an incarcerated parishioner turned into a quarterly open and affirming worship service and pastoral care session for the many inmates at a prison in rural Oklahoma.
The Rev. Kayla Bonewell - Queer UCC Pastor
July 02, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBThe Rev. Kayla Bonewell was born in Oklahoma City. She earned a BA in Religion from Oklahoma City University (2002), a Master of Liberal Arts from Naropa University (2004), and a Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California (2008). Ordained in the United Church of Christ (2010), Kayla has ministry experience as a hospital chaplain, campus minister, social justice activist, youth minister, associate pastor, and solo pastor. Her personal mission statement is “To...
Lost in Translations Documentary: Rocky Roggio Part II
June 25, 2019 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBRocky’s work is a ministry to those who have oppressed and harmed by people’s interpretations of the Bible. The documentary traces the steps two scholars took in uncovering the history of how the word homosexual was put into the text nearly 50 years ago and subsequently used as a weapon against the LGBTQ community. This is a powerful and timely story for not just the queer community but all christians that have struggled with what they were taught about the biblical text in terms of sexu...
Film Maker Rocky Roggio Part I
June 18, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBTo honor Pride Month we are highlighting stories of LGBTQ women. Rocky Roggio is a film maker out of Los Angeles, California. Rocky shares that “As an LGBTQ female Christian, I have been navigating a religious environment that views me as “other,” “less than,” and “not equal,” for too long. These beliefs, held by many dear to my heart, have cast a dark, dangerous shadow over my life. After years of searching for my voice, and calling, as a storyteller, my path has led me here. It is my goa...
The Rev. Chelsea Brooke Yarborough Part II
June 11, 2019 10:00 - 20 minutes - 9.55 MBThis week is part II with the Rev. Chelsea Yarborough. Chelsea is a Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt in Homiletics and Liturgics in the Graduate Department of Religion. If you missed last week’s conversation I would highly recommend listening to that first episode. As one of our friend’s commented, it is completely and utterly a delicious conversation on Chelsea’s notion that "if it’s not dialogical, it’s not ethical." This second episode echoes this ethical framework - the process of homile...
The Rev. Chelsea Brooke Yarborough Part I
June 04, 2019 13:00 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MBThe Rev. Chelsea Brooke Yarborough is a Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt in Homiletics and Liturgics in the Graduate Department of Religion. She is an ordained minister, a poet, an enneagram enthusiast, and a lover of leadership development. Her motto is "live to love and love to live each day” and is excited to continue her journey of cultivating and engaging curiosity in all that she pursues.
Story Part II
May 28, 2019 19:00 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MBThis week Kelsey and Sarah chat about stories to continue our mini series on Story. We explore what it means to share stories, what stories do to us, how they impact the way we see the world, how we see ourselves and how stories are created and for what purpose.
Story Part I: Margo Guernsey
May 21, 2019 15:00 - 20 minutes - 9.59 MBKelsey and Margo dive deeper into the importance of story telling and how it can be a transformative practice. Margo Guernsey is a filmmaker and director of Time Travel Productions LLC, a documentary film and media company. This weeks episode is the beginning of a mini-series on Story. Filmmaker Margo Guernsey shares her wisdom on the power of storytelling. In theological language, this episode explores story as "hermeneutic." Hermeneutic is a fancy word for interpretation. It is how a ...
Story Part I: Margo Guernsey
May 21, 2019 15:00 - 20 minutes - 9.59 MBKelsey and Margo dive deeper into the importance of story telling and how it can be a transformative practice. Margo Guernsey is a filmmaker and director of Time Travel Productions LLC, a documentary film and media company. This weeks episode is the beginning of a mini-series on Story. Filmmaker Margo Guernsey shares her wisdom on the power of storytelling. In theological language, this episode explores story as "hermeneutic." Hermeneutic is a fancy word for interpretation. It is how a ...
Film Maker Margo Guernsey
May 14, 2019 11:00 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBMargo is the Director and Principal of Time Travel Productions, which she founded in 2012 to produce documentary films and related media. Margo's feature directorial debut, Councilwoman, is touring the country and will air on PBS's WORLD Channel in fall 2019. Her current project is tentatively titled, The Philadelphia Eleven: To Be Whole. It tells the story of the Episcopal Women who were ordained as priests in 1974, against the rules of the church, and found themselves at the center of a me...
We Need the Fire - An Easter Sermon from the Rev. Becca Stevens
May 07, 2019 09:00 - 21 minutes - 10.1 MBThank you to my sweet mentor and friend Mother Becca Stevens for letting us share your powerful and eloquent message of God’s Love living in us as Fire. She reminds us of Jesus’ message of Love saying “You think that cathedral is beautiful, you think that temple is amazing, you think those stones are huge? it is nothing it is DUST compared to the kingdom of Love that God is building in you.” The sermons starts with the gospel reading for Easter Day which is John 20: 1-18 then a beautif...
The Rev. Dr. Ruth Meyers
April 30, 2019 15:00 - 28 minutes - 13 MBThis week on the podcast is the Rev. Dr. Ruth Meyers. Dr. Meyers is an episcopal priest, dean of academic affairs and the Hodges-Haynes Professor of Liturgics at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. We chat about her sabbatical project on multi-cultural worship congregations and what got her hooked on liturgical theology.
Easter Message 2019
April 23, 2019 19:00 - 23 minutes - 10.6 MBKelsey's Easter sermon given on April 21, 2019 at Holy Family Episcopal Church in San Jose, California. The sermon is spoken in English and in Spanish. All are welcome at Holy Family Episcopal Church. They are a multicultural, multigenerational community whose mission is to celebrate God through Jesus Christ; proclaiming, living and sharing the Good News in their daily lives. They believe that all people are God’s people.
Catholic Faith and the Gender Relations Center at the University of Notre Dame with Dr. Christine Caron Gebhardt
April 16, 2019 15:00 - 45 minutes - 21.1 MBThis week features Dr. Christine Caron Gebhart. Christine has been the Director of the Gender Relations Center at the University of Notre Dame since 2012. The mission of the GRC mission is to help students form healthy and safe relationships as they learn about who they are and how they want to be with others. In addition to her administrative duties, Christine is a First Year Moreau instructor and serves as a co-chair of the Committee for Sexual Assault Prevention, co-chair of the greeNDo...
The Rev. Becca Stevens - Thistle Farm Founder and CNN Hero
April 09, 2019 04:00 - 28 minutes - 13 MBThe Rev. Becca Stevens is an author, speaker, priest, social entrepreneur, founder, and president of Thistle Farms. Kelsey and Becca talk about mentoring and community.
The Meaning of Lent
April 02, 2019 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBKelsey and Sarah sit down and talk about the meaning of Lent. Lent is the liturgical season in the Christian calendar that represents the 40 days Jesus went to the desert before his death. The season begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. Kelsey and Sarah explore the ways in which Lent has been used to as a theology of shame and guilt and how we might offer a theology of original goodness to help modern believers to find a balance in our trad...
The Rev. Naomi Tutu: Sermon for New Zealand Muslims
March 26, 2019 04:00 - 19 minutes - 8.82 MBThis week we are featuring a sermon by the Rev. Canon Naomi Tutu on Luke 13:31-35. The Rev. Tutu is a dear friend of mine from our time together in Divinity school and was on the pod last year in episode 7. The Rev. Tutu joined the All Souls Cathedral in Ashville, NC in November 2018 as the Cathedral Missioner for Racial and Economic Equity and Missioner for Kairos West Community Center.
Bishop Mary Gray Reeves Part II
March 12, 2019 04:00 - 20 minutes - 9.36 MBKelsey and Bishop Mary talk Burning Man and the Emerging Church Movement.
UMC Decision Part 2: Rev. Jen Logsdon Kellogg from Quail Springs UMC
March 03, 2019 05:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBThis episode features the Rev. Jen Logsdon Kellogg she is the Associate Pastor at Quail Springs United Methodist Church in OKC, OK. Rev. Jen actually attended the conference and will share with us first hand experience of what it was like there. We chat about the differences interpreting scripture, understanding the Holy Spirit and how pastoring to both sides is critically important.
UMC Decision Part 2: Rev. Jen Logsdon Kellogg from Quail Springs UMC
March 03, 2019 05:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBThis episode features the Rev. Jen Logsdon Kellogg she is the Associate Pastor at Quail Springs United Methodist Church in OKC, OK. Rev. Jen actually attended the conference and will share with us first hand experience of what it was like there. We chat about the differences interpreting scripture, understanding the Holy Spirit and how pastoring to both sides is critically important.
UMC Decision Part 1 - Rev. Sam McGlothlin
March 01, 2019 05:00 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MBThe Rev. Sam McGlothlin is Associate Pastor for Belle Meade United Methodist Church near Nashville, TN. Sarah and Sam discuss the latest decision the UMC Church made on the ordination of LGBTQ people and the ability to facilitate same-sex marriages. Sam explains the 3 different plans that were voted on and how her church community has taken the news. She also shares her pastoral response.
UMC Decision Part 1 - Rev. Sam McGlothlin
March 01, 2019 05:00 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MBThe Rev. Sam McGlothlin is Associate Pastor for Belle Meade United Methodist Church near Nashville, TN. Sarah and Sam discuss the latest decision the UMC Church made on the ordination of LGBTQ people and the ability to facilitate same-sex marriages. Sam explains the 3 different plans that were voted on and how her church community has taken the news. She also shares her pastoral response.
Bishop Mary Gray Reeves Part I
February 26, 2019 05:00 - 23 minutes - 10.6 MBBishop Mary was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She graduated from California State University, Fullerton, in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a minor in Music. She earned her Master of Divinity degree from the College of St. John the Evangelist in New Zealand in 1994. She was ordained in the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Los Angeles to the diaconate in 1994, the priesthood in 1995 and to the episcopate in 2007 in the diocese of El Camino Real. As a priest, +Mary served a...
Season 2 Pilot
February 19, 2019 05:00 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MBWelcome to Season 2 everybody! This week Kelsey and I sit down to talk about our work in the world, why we love theology and what our hopes and dreams are for Theosophia Podcast.
Listening is the Seed of Justice
February 11, 2019 05:00 - 19 minutes - 8.96 MBA sermon Kelsey delivered last year on the Feast Day of Transfiguration. Kelsey Davis will be joining the Theosophia Podcast for season 2 as a co-host and co-creator of Theosophia. She’s currently the curator of Emerging Communities for the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real in CA.
28.2 Mental Health & Pastors
January 28, 2019 05:00 - 34 minutes - 15.7 MBRev. Hanlin currently serves as an associate minister at Marble Collegiate Church in New York. We dive into a lovely discussion about self-care for pastors and the importance of talking about mental health in the church.