In our first live event of 2018, (in partnership with Park Avenue Baptist Church and Art in the Image), recorded on February 2, author/scholars Greg Ellison and Patrick Reyes speak on the importance of personal and intellectual integrity. 

Listen to our past episode with Greg Ellison.

Listen to our other Creative Conversations:

• Carlton Mackey and Sean Saifa Wall

• Tammy Harper and Okorie Johnson

• Jessica Caldas and Michael Wortham

Drew Wilmesherr is an Atlanta musician and chaplain who shares how he creates music with depth and justice, playing a couple of his songs for us.

Jamaal Barber is an Atlanta-based artist and printmaker who shares the thrill of discovering his medium, and what it means to appreciate the subtle changes.

Social entrepreneur and podcaster Troy Bronsink (The Hive) talks about burnout and mindfulness, plus plays some of his original music.

Marcia Fisher is an inspiring author who writes honestly about her pain and hope in her memoir, The Odyssey of Survival, where misery becomes ministry.

Have you or someone you love been sexually assaulted or abused? Call the National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800.656.4673

Kaji Douša is the pastor of NYC’s Park Avenue Christian Church and reflects on the importance of having a clear mission.

David Westerlund (Tierra Nueva) is an improviser and community advocate who thinks deeply on what it means to reincorporate our lives with the power of "yes, and".

Brandon Maxwell (Park Avenue Baptist Church, Columbia Theological Seminary) is a musician and pastor who helps us to connect the dots between vocation and self-discovery while bridging multiple callings.

Shades of Yale performs and reflects on what it means to celebrate music from the African Diaspora.

Tricia Hersey shares her amazing journey from a Chicago performance artist known as Lady Terror to the the development of the Nap Ministry.