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In part one of our conversation, teacher-preacher-author Jennifer Watley Maxell speaks about her call to preaching, The Breakthrough Fellowship, and what it means to be incarnational in virtual spaces. Plus, she reads from her newly published collection of poetry Ellipsis.

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We are revisiting our 2020 conversation with coach-creative-community leader YaNi Davis as she faces a health crisis. It has been more than three years since YaNi received a kidney transplant.

From YaNi’s GoFundMe Campaign:

In part two of our conversation, pastor-musician Amantha Barbee talks about Jesus, learning - and unlearning - how to sing, and the lessons of the guitar string. She also sings live for us in the AIJCast studio!

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In part one of our conversation, pastor-musician Amantha Barbee talks about making deals with God, how justice is intertwined with her call, and the importance of seeing people. Plus, she sings live in the AIJCast studio!

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Listen to Amantha on the song Slow of Heart with Sam Yenn-Batah and Aisha Brooks-Johnson.

In part two of our conversation, scholar-activist-creative Taurean Webb talks about theological imagination, how violence goes uninterrogated, and how he sees himself as curatorial but not a curator.

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In part one of our conversation, scholar-activist-creative Taurean Webb talks about Black Transnationalism, Israel/Palestine, and why he does not see institutions as the best vehicles for liberation.

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We are revisiting our 2020 conversation with scholar-musician-author Dr. Daniel Omotosho Black to celebrate the publication of his new novel Don't Cry for Me. In this excerpt, we spoke about church music as well as his books Perfect Peace and The Coming.

In part two of our conversation with poet-activist-minister Analysis, we talk about the craft of writing and performing poetry, the breadth of topics his poems address, and what "on earth as it is in heaven" means. Plus, he performs a couple of his poems live for us. Analysis' debut album, A Couple Thousand Years Later, is now available on Bandcamp.

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In part one of our conversation with poet-activist-minister Analysis, we talk about his slipping into right wing evangelicalism, his transformational experience in Lesotho, how he first got hooked by poetry, and what the church can learn from the spoken word scene. His debut album, A Couple Thousand Years Later, is now available on Bandcamp.

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Read Analysis’ acrostic poem AIJ.

In part two of our conversation, advocate-educator-artist Noor Abbady speaks with us about the connections between her Islamic faith and artistic expression, our intrinsic ability to recognize beauty, and how justice is a truly beautiful thing.

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