Pursuing Call

This week we continue our conversation with Gabrielle Rivero and her work of Express and Release. We explore her path to engaging in what dance can look like on all bodies and how it can be a practice of healing and connection to God. You can learn more about her and her work by visiting ⁠https://www.expressnrelease.com/⁠

For journaling:

1. What is your own relationship to your body?

2. How can you engage your body more in your spiritual practice?

If you want to be interviewed, please reach out and tell me your story. I would love to explore the journey with you.

Share your thoughts by emailing me, your host, Tamara Plummer @pursuingcall on instagram or [email protected]. Visit the website, pursuingcall.com to learn more about what I got going on in the world of theological thought.

Buy a present for a friend, support this work and support a local book store! You can't go wrong: Check out my store at⁠ https://bookshop.org/shop/pursuingcall⁠

This week I had the privilege of speaking with Gabrielle Rivero and her work of Express and Release. We explore her path to engaging in what dance can look like on all bodies and how it can be a practice of healing and connection to God. You can learn more about her and her work by visiting https://www.expressnrelease.com/

For journaling:

1. What is your own relationship to your body?

2. How can you engage your body more in your spiritual practice?

If you want to be interviewed, please reach out and tell me your story. I would love to explore the journey with you.

Share your thoughts by emailing me, your host, Tamara Plummer @pursuingcall on instagram or [email protected]. Visit the website, pursuingcall.com to learn more about what I got going on in the world of theological thought.

Buy a present for a friend, support this work and support a local book store! You can't go wrong: Check out my store at https://bookshop.org/shop/pursuingcall

Rev. Deacon Catherine Cooke is the woman that first listened to me talk about a call to ordained ministry and she taught me how to be in alignment with my theology regardless of ordination status. In this conversation, we learn more about her life and ministry.

This is the final episode in our series for Holy Week.

Today we conclude by exploring Queer Theology and my loose attempt as sharing how Queer Theology helped me understand salvation. This presentation is grounded in the work of Patrick S. Cheng and his book An Introduction to Queer Theology: Radical Love

Share your thoughts by emailing me, your host, Tamara Plummer @pursuingcall on instagram or [email protected]. Visit the website, pursuingcall.com to learn more about what I got going on in the world of theological thought. You can go to my bookshop and order the latest edition today. https://bookshop.org/shop/pursuingcall⁠

Action and Reflection: REST

Hello This week I offer a sermon and reflection on the three parts of the Maundy Thursday service. Please take a moment to listen twice if you like because I did not edit it, and so you are getting a raw episode.

Mostly I want you to act: Take the Eucharist and Reflect: how might this inspire more reconnection to others, creation and yourself?

I also used the resource Enfleshing Freedom from M. Shawn Copeland. You can go to my bookshop and order the latest edition today. https://bookshop.org/shop/pursuingcall⁠

Share your thoughts by emailing me, your host, Tamara Plummer @pursuingcall on instagram or [email protected]. Visit the website, pursuingcall.com to learn more about what I got going on in the world of theological thought.

Grounding Text: Hebrews 12: 3 - Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary or lose heart.

Action: Engage in the Jewish practice of Hitbodedut - (https://reformjudaism.org/3-steps-hitbodedut-talking-god-your-own-terms)

Reflection: One or two things that came up for you as you engaged the practice. Don't do too much writing today, just feel it.

Grounding Text:

Isaiah 49:1 Listen to me, O coastlands, pay attention, you peoples from far away! The LORD called me before I was born, while I was in my mother's womb he named me.

Action:

Call someone and tell them what they do well - a gift that they offer the community.

Reflection:

What have others confirmed as something that you do well; gift that you bring to the community that makes it more just, even if the powers and principalities have not confirmed that call for you?

Share your thoughts by emailing me, your host, Tamara Plummer @pursuingcall on instagram or [email protected]. Visit the website, pursuingcall.com to learn more about what I got going on in the world of theological thought.Buy a present for a friend, support this work and support a local book store! You can't go wrong: Check out my store at https://bookshop.org/shop/pursuingcall

Today - we ground ourselves in Isaiah 42:1 Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.

Action:

Do one thing today that brings forth justice. Literally anything…

Reflection:

Share your thoughts by emailing me, your host, Tamara Plummer @pursuingcall on instagram or [email protected]. Visit the website, pursuingcall.com to learn more about what I got going on in the world of theological thought.Buy a present for a friend, support this work and support a local book store! You can't go wrong: Check out my store at https://bookshop.org/shop/pursuingcall

Sorry about the sound y'all this episode.

Today, we look at the Philippians reading for Palm Sunday and problematize the concept of Humility for those who are pushed to the margins. Let us embrace a humility that is not about shrinking ourselves but allowing space for communal uplift because we are sharing our gifts and our power.

Action:  

What is something that you can learn from someone who has less “power” than you in whatever way - this might be learning a tik tok dance from a younger person. Making space for an elder to preach at you and discover the gems that they might be dropping. It might also look like saying, “I don’t know, tell me.” When you know you could just look up the answer or fake your way through it. 

Reflection:

What does humility look like for you? When have you used your gifts for communal shine? Or how might you use your gifts for communal shine?

Share your thoughts by emailing me, your host, Tamara Plummer @pursuingcall on instagram or [email protected]. Visit the website, pursuingcall.com to learn more about what I got going on in the world of theological thought.Buy a present for a friend, support this work and support a local book store! You can't go wrong: Check out my store at https://bookshop.org/shop/pursuingcall