Pursuing Call

For the month of December/Tamara's Birthday month, we are doing these quick episodes to offer time for a bit of reflection. This week, we pick up the scripture from Luke 21:34 - "Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down..."

What is weighing you down physically, spiritually, or emotionally? Is there something in the spaces you inhabit that is weighing you down? How might you release these things?

Feel like sharing your reflection or asking a question? Send an email: [email protected] or leave a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tamara-plummer4/message

This week I get to have a conversation with Brook Roberts, founder of multiple business adventures like Inside Study Abroad and Brazenist. If you didn't listen to part 1, stop and go back! In part 2 of our conversation, we dig more into Brooke's work as an entrepreneur and how she supports others in their path of finding their vocation and their purpose. 

Homework:

Look up Ikigai: a Japanese way of looking at purpose. It invites us to reflect on four questions: What do you love? What are you Good at? What does the world need? What can you get paid for?

Learn more about Tamara Plummer and her work at pursuingcall.com and send your emails and comments to [email protected]

Share a voice messages here. Go in peace to love and serve.

This week I get to have a conversation with Brook Roberts, founder of multiple business adventures like Inside Study Abroad and Brazenist. This is part 1 of a multi-part episode. In Part 1, we discuss how a rural low-income White girl was able to travel from rural Kansas to Spain and how questions about faith show up in the ways that she continues to cross cultural boundaries. 

Homework:

Learn more about Tamara Plummer and her work at pursuingcall.com and send your emails and comments to [email protected]

Share a voice messages here. Go in peace to love and serve.

This week, I am cussin with my friend and fellow alum Nordia Bennett as we talk about her theological work of embodiment, the erotic and acknowledging the incarnation in all things. In our conversation, we reference a couple of Scholars:

Audre Lorde: Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power from the collection, Sister Outsider

Claudio Carvalhes: You should read all his books, but for our class we read Eucharist and Globalization

M. Shawn Copeland: Womanist Theologian, Catholic Scholar and so much more. Nordia highlights her book Enfleshing Freedom.

Homework:

Learn more about Tamara Plummer and her work at pursuingcall.com and send your emails and comments to [email protected]

Share voice messages here. Go in peace to love and serve.

This week we speak with my supervisor and colleague Katie Mears. She is the Senior Director of the US Disaster Program at Episcopal Relief & Development, a pandemic ordained priest in the Episcopal Church and an Iowan. We reimagine Church leadership, discuss cultural impacts on religious practice and wonder about why ordination exists.

Homework this week is choose your own adventure:

1. What are the ways that you mark and honor leadership in your Church, religious group, or your company/organization? And do those models actually respect the giftedness and leadership of those doing the work of leadership? How might that change?

2. How did your childhood cultural context shape your now lived religious practices and/or belief? Does that resonate for you anymore?

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Learn more about Tamara Plummer and her work at pursuingcall.com and send your emails and comments to [email protected]

Share voice messages here. Go in peace to love and serve.

This week is part 2 of a conversation with my homie and fellow Bardian Mihoby Rabeharison. Check out her work at madagascarexperience.org. This week we dig a bit more into the conversation about connecting to spirit and developing a relationship with Spirit to really know what one's call is or might be.

Homework:

Pick up pen and paper or open your note app. Write what pops up for you? What keeps you in relationship with the divine or that which is greater than yourself?

Learn more about Tamara Plummer and her work at pursuingcall.com and send your emails and comments to [email protected]

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This week we get to speak with my friend and fellow Bardian Mihoby Rabeharison. Check out her work at madagascarexperience.org. This week is part 1 of the conversation where we learn about some of Mihoby's training process for priesthood in the Akan tradition and what the role of submission has played in her spiritual development. This is not my tradition, so you will hear some stumbling in my attempts to learn. And you will hear Mihoby explore various concepts from our own perspective. We may not always agree, but we never stop learning from each other. 

Homework:

Pick up pen and paper or open your note app. Write what pops up for you? What resonates and what is dissonant from your idea of submission?

Learn more about Tamara Plummer and her work at pursuingcall.com and send your emails and comments to [email protected]

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This week's episode isn't an interview, its a sermon I gave at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in New York City. It was their patronal festival and the readings came the feast of St. Michael and All Angels. Before listening to the episode, pre-homework: read the texts!

You can also watch a similar version of the sermon here.

If you have any tools for surviving liminal space, let me know [email protected].

This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Jerusalem Greer, the Staff Officer for Evangelism for the Episcopal Church. You can learn more about her work by visiting jerusalemgreer.com.

In this episode we talk about what it means to pursue a call to doing Church work that doesn't require ordination and how you can share your gifts from the church beyond its walls. This was a spirit filled, theologically exploratory conversation with some good practices for your journey. 

Homework this week:

As per usual, if you want to explore this question more or turn in your homework, email me Tamara Plummer: [email protected] or leave a message. You can also read more about my work at pursuingcall.com

This week we continue our conversation with my friend and sometimes spiritual director Makeda Pennycooke. Check out her work at makedapennycooke.com. This week is part 2 of the conversation where we debrief her spiritual journey and explore what larger lessons we might use for our own lives. As a consultant she holds the space between what was and what is not yet.

Homework:

Where have you felt an unsettling? The goal is simply to name it, you don't have to do anything with it. Utilize creative tools to explore what that unsettling feels like and it might help you get to the root of naming your unsettled experience. 

If you want to explore your next steps after naming your unsettling, you can connect with Makeda or email Tamara Plummer  [email protected]. You can also read more about my many unsettling experience at pursuingcall.com 

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