Josh Parks is a freelance writer and editor with a master’s degree in medieval studies from Western Michigan University. In this episode, Josh explores how literature and its readers can simultaneously reinforce and resist oppression.

This piece comes from Geez 62: Dismantling White Theology. White supremacist theology is baked into the structures and systems of this world, and therefore into each of our lives. Our work must entwine social analysis, story, bodies, reparations, spirit, and grace.

Geez magazine is a quarterly, non-profit, ad-free, print magazine about social justice, art, and activism for people at the fringes of faith in both Canada and the US. Geez is for the over-churched, out-churched, un-churched and maybe even the un-churchable.

Fran Westwood writes, grows vegetables, and is a psychotherapist supporting individuals experiencing addiction and mental health challenges. Fran is of Scottish-settler origin and is grateful to live on the traditional territory of the Anishnaabek peoples, particularly the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

This piece comes from Geez 62: Dismantling White Theology. White supremacist theology is baked into the structures and systems of this world, and therefore into each of our lives. Our work must entwine social analysis, story, bodies, reparations, spirit, and grace.

Geez magazine is a quarterly, non-profit, ad-free, print magazine about social justice, art, and activism for people at the fringes of faith in both Canada and the US. Geez is for the over-churched, out-churched, un-churched and maybe even the un-churchable.

Kateri Boucher is a white settler living on Anishinaabe land. She is associate editor of Geez and a member of Detroit’s Catholic Worker community, and Lydia Wylie-Kellermann is the editor of Geez and lives in Detroit, Michigan. The powers dwell in and around her as a white U.S. citizen and Christian. In this episode, Kateri and Lydia explore the reality that as cries against white supremacy sound in our streets and in our work, we must face its brutal reality written into Christianity.

This piece comes from Geez 62: Dismantling White Theology. White supremacist theology is baked into the structures and systems of this world, and therefore into each of our lives. Our work must entwine social analysis, story, bodies, reparations, spirit, and grace.

Geez magazine is a quarterly, non-profit, ad-free, print magazine about social justice, art, and activism for people at the fringes of faith in both Canada and the US. Geez is for the over-churched, out-churched, un-churched and maybe even the un-churchable.

In this episode we ask: Where is your table? Who is sitting around it? What are you hungering for? Lydia Wylie-Kellermann and Kateri Boucher are editors at Geez and live in Detroit, Michigan.

Geez 61: Seeds Are Sacred digs deep into the dirt, we lift up the beauty, spirit, and power that is inherent in growing food. This issue explores compost and canning, seed saving and survival, and dependence on community rather than corporations.

In this episode, Em Jacoby reflects that while she and her sister may live 880 miles apart, they both tend to food with their children – one in the city, and one on a farm – in similar and meaningful ways. She lives in Chicago, Illinois and prefers her beets pickled. Usually parenting her young kids, she was able to play around with these words thanks to her partner, Brian.

Geez 61: Seeds Are Sacred digs deep into the dirt, we lift up the beauty, spirit, and power that is inherent in growing food. This issue explores compost and canning, seed saving and survival, and dependence on community rather than corporations.

Shannon Evans reflects on what it means to hunger and be fed, while having nothing to give. She is an author and community member in the Catholic Worker in Ames, Iowa.

Geez 61: Seeds Are Sacred digs deep into the dirt, we lift up the beauty, spirit, and power that is inherent in growing food. This issue explores compost and canning, seed saving and survival, and dependence on community rather than corporations.

In this episode, Patrilie Hernandez disrupts the narrative of nutrition education and its proximity to colonial powers. She/they live in Washington, D.C. She combines her academic background in anthropology, nutrition, and health, with her lived experience as a queer, fat, neuroatypical, multiracial femme of the Puerto Rican diaspora.

Geez 61: Seeds Are Sacred digs deep into the dirt, we lift up the beauty, spirit, and power that is inherent in growing food. This issue explores compost and canning, seed saving and survival, and dependence on community rather than corporations.

In this episode, The Correctional Service of Canada enters the confessional to reveal the ploy to exploit prison labour. Calvin Neufeld is a vegan trans man and social justice advocate from Perth, Ontario. He is the founder of Evolve Our Prison Farms. He is not a spokesperson for the Correctional Service of Canada. The future of prison farms is unknown.

Geez 61: Seeds Are Sacred digs deep into the dirt, we lift up the beauty, spirit, and power that is inherent in growing food. This issue explores compost and canning, seed saving and survival, and dependence on community rather than corporations.

Sloane Wednesday is a writer, musician, and activist. Her recent album Mood Indicator was released with Haunted Birthday Records. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri. In this issue, Sloane tells her story of the new life she found while transitioning.

Geez 60: Signs of Dawn invites us to enter the cave, the compost bin, the sidewalk crack. It dares us to believe in new life and the power of green, growing hope to bring even the mightiest walls crumbling down.

Justin Eisinga is chaplain of the compost and student of theology at Canadian Mennonite University in Treaty 1 Territory, Winnipeg, Manitoba. In this piece, Justin shows us that the compost bin is a tomb built for resurrection.

Geez 60: Signs of Dawn invites us to enter the cave, the compost bin, the sidewalk crack. It dares us to believe in new life and the power of green, growing hope to bring even the mightiest walls crumbling down.