Profane Faith

Welp, its the end of 2018, taking a few weeks off to chill and get ready for the new year. Don't worry, I'll be back here in January! Keep that profanity and faith going and happy holidays!

Well, wrapping up the 2018 year comes with an amazing guest that's not just an activist, but also an engaged and informed thinker, Jem Jebbia! Jem is a first-year PhD student in Religious Studies at Stanford University. Previously, she served as the Senior Assistant Director for the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue and Service at Northeastern University. In her role at Northeastern, Jem provided spiritual care to students of any and no faith, and advised the Northeastern University Interfaith Council. Jem has completed two fellowships for the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) and now serves as a member of the IFYC Alumni Speakers Bureau. Before moving back to California from Boston, Jem worked as the Spiritual Life Council convener at the University of Chicago, where she received her Master of Divinity degree. Jem is also an alumnus of the University of Southern California, where she studied religion, business administration, East Asian languages and cultures, and international relations. So, yeah...she's for real! Happy end of the year and holidays!

Well, wrapping up the 2018 year comes with an amazing guest that's not just an activist, but also an engaged and informed thinker, Jem Jebbia! Jem is a first-year PhD student in Religious Studies at Stanford University. Previously, she served as the Senior Assistant Director for the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue and Service at Northeastern University. In her role at Northeastern, Jem provided spiritual care to students of any and no faith, and advised the Northeastern University Interfaith Council. Jem has completed two fellowships for the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) and now serves as a member of the IFYC Alumni Speakers Bureau. Before moving back to California from Boston, Jem worked as the Spiritual Life Council convener at the University of Chicago, where she received her Master of Divinity degree. Jem is also an alumnus of the University of Southern California, where she studied religion, business administration, East Asian languages and cultures, and international relations. So, yeah...she's for real! Happy end of the year and holidays!

This week, I talk with a returning guest, Justin McRoberts and a new guest, Scott Erickson, on their new book, Prayer: Forty Days of Practice. This is a whole new way to look at prayer and pragmatically approach it...especially if you're just not a prayer type person like me. Good stuff this week!

This week, I talk with a returning guest, Justin McRoberts and a new guest, Scott Erickson, on their new book, Prayer: Forty Days of Practice. This is a whole new way to look at prayer and pragmatically approach it...especially if you're just not a prayer type person like me. Good stuff this week!

This week I sit down with an amazing thinker, writer, and friend, the great Kathy Khang. Kathy Khang is a speaker, journalist, and activist. She has worked in campus ministry for more than 20 years with expertise in issues of gender, ethnicity, justice, and leadership development. She is the author of Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent & How to Speak Up (IVP, 2018) columnist for Sojourners magazine, and a coauthor of More Than Serving Tea (IVP, 2006).

So buckle up, she covers some ground here and we dig into what it means and looks like to raise your voice to the mess we're in now.

This week I sit down with an amazing thinker, writer, and friend, the great Kathy Khang. Kathy Khang is a speaker, journalist, and activist. She has worked in campus ministry for more than 20 years with expertise in issues of gender, ethnicity, justice, and leadership development. She is the author of Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent & How to Speak Up (IVP, 2018) columnist for Sojourners magazine, and a coauthor of More Than Serving Tea (IVP, 2006). So buckle up, she covers some ground here and we dig into what it means and looks like to raise your voice to the mess we're in now.

This week I sit down with my good friend April Diaz. Her story and faith journey is quite interesting. As always, we go in on race, gender, women teaching, faith and I think I forgot to mention race...yeah. Good stuff! April has been a visionary activist her entire life. As a Leadership and Wellness Coach, she believes we were created for more. That’s why she loves developing leaders on the margins of culture in caring for their body, mind, and spirit. Curating and cultivating teams is one of her favorite things. Secretly, she told me she’s a mix of a total girly girl and a tomboy, and is still crazy about her high school sweetheart, Brian. Together, they co-parent 3 fabulous kiddos and live in Orange County, CA. Check it out!

This week I sit down with my good friend April Diaz. Her story and faith journey is quite interesting. As always, we go in on race, gender, women teaching, faith and I think I forgot to mention race...yeah. Good stuff! April has been a visionary activist her entire life. As a Leadership and Wellness Coach, she believes we were created for more. That’s why she loves developing leaders on the margins of culture in caring for their body, mind, and spirit. Curating and cultivating teams is one of her favorite things. Secretly, she told me she’s a mix of a total girly girl and a tomboy, and is still crazy about her high school sweetheart, Brian. Together, they co-parent 3 fabulous kiddos and live in Orange County, CA. Check it out!

Sabbath is vital to your own survival. Thanks to my good friend Werner, this week I get to sit down and talk Sabbath, rest, and what it all means with Dr. Nathan Stucky out at Princeton Seminary.

Dr. Stucky serves as Director of the Farminary Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. He grew up on a farm in Kansas where his love for Christian faith and agriculture first took root. After earning a B.A. in Music from Bethel College (KS), Nathan spent six years doing ecumenical youth ministry on the eastern shore of Maryland, and two years farming back in Kansas. After farming, Nathan earned an M.Div. and a Ph.D. (Practical Theology, Christian Education and Formation) from Princeton Theological Seminary. His scholarship explores the integration of theological education and agrarianism, and he sees the Farminary as a locus for enacting that integration.

So, yeah, this is good!