Activist Theology Podcast

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 writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence’. As Coordinating Curator of The Emergence Network, Bayo hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing – a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise’…one that does not treat the crises of our times as exterior to ‘us’ or the ‘solutions’ that conventional activism offers as discrete or separate from the problems that we seek to nullify. Bayo is author and editor of ‘We will tell our own story!’ with Professors Molefi Kete Asante and Augustine Nwoye, and ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home‘ (North Atlantic Books, 2017). Ej and Bayo are ecstatic parents of Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi. His most fervent passions are Ej, drawing, singing, writing, designing, speaking, and traveling.

Visit Bayo's website and learn more.

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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.

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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 opportunities for a shift in our thinking.

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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.

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Visit https://www.dantecstewart.com/

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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, the podcast has been downloaded over 500,000 times, and exvangelical conversations and communities have proliferated online.

"Exvangelical" functions as both a way to find others who have left white evangelical beliefs and communities behind, as well as a helpful frame for criticizing white evangelical institutions and practices. It is not a wholesale replacement of evangelicalism, but a shared starting point--it acknowledges that we are rooted in similar experiences, and celebrates the new and diverse ways people find to flourish.

To listen to Exvangelical: Click here.

To listen to Powers & Principalities: Click here.

To learn more about Irreverent Media, click here.

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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 a public scholar in religious studies, social activist, and ordained clergy in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Raised in abject poverty in Harlem (New York) to a single Black mother, Rev. Dr. Robert and her family struggled to overcome the War on Drugs and interlocking= systems of oppression that ravaged her community. Abolitionist Sanctuary emerges from Rev. Dr. Robert’s lived realities and expands upon her dissertation research titled, “Breaking The Law When The Law Breaks Us: A Womanist Theo-Ethical Approach to Public Policy and Criminal Justice Advocacy for the Black Church.”

Learn more about the project here: https://nikiasrobert.com/services/abolitionist-sanctuary/

Connect with Dr. Robert here: drnikiasrobert

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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 forms of spiritual practice. Sara is currently exploring liberative practice at the intersections of sex positivity, anti-racism, plant medicine, somatics, and the divine feminine. Sara mothers three amazing kids, is blessed with wonderful lovers and friends, and is in lifelong pursuit of the perfect scone.

You can connect with Sara through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @SaraRosenau

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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.

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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 tenure, JFREJ grew into one of the strongest and most effective progressive Jewish organizations in the country, creating significant culture shifts within the Jewish community, New York and nationally. She has been published in What We Do Now: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump’s America (2017), Towards the “Other America”: Anti-racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter (2015), Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering To Our Movement (2017), and in the Guardian, Ha'aretz, +972 Magazine, and other media outlets. Dove teaches nationally and is the co-founder of Tzedek Lab, a national network of Jewish political education trainers, organizers, and spiritual leaders established to build collective competency to politicize, transform, and inspire the Jewish community into collective action against racism, antisemitism, and white supremacy. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Email: [email protected]

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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 her via Patreon.

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