The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields

Welcome to Episode 76 of the Kinship collective Podcast, We are ending otherness and cultivating kinship through content and community!

How do we deal with forced evolution?  What happens to us when all the circumstances of our lives change in an instant? How devastating is it to have to grieve the future we wanted? What is it like to realize that future was never meant for us?

Sarah Wineland joins us this week to share about her divorce and evolution into her truest self.  She shares about how being betrayed was also being freed and how such deep pain became such deep joy!  Then we discuss how faith impacted things.

Follow Sarah on Instagram @sariewineland to take the conversation further.

Subscribe, rate and review our podcast.  As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity!  Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to episode 75 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, We are ending otherness and cultivating kinship through content and community!

How do we listen well to our bodies?  How do we move from crisis to crisis in tune with what is most true about ourselves and the world around us?  Andrea Cammarota joins us this week to help us understand how to do this a bit.  Andrea is a board certified Chaplain, a Pastor, Church planter and most importantly for our conversation today a Spiritual Director.  We’ll talk a bit about her story and the work she has done to claim her primary identity.  Then we’ll discuss the difference between and intersectionality of Pastoring and Spiritual directing and how we can make our whole lives a “pilgrimage”. 

Follow Andrea on Instagram @itspastorandrea to connect and learn more about her Spiritual Direction.

Subscribe, rate and review our podcast.  As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity!  Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to Episode 74 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship!

I have been overwhelmed and at times paralyzed by all the death happening in Gaza. I have found myself feeling like nothing else really matters right now. In this episode I'll share some of what I'm feeling, 2 ideas that have really disturbed me, and a system for addressing situations like this in our lives. I intend for this episode to contribute to constructive engagement toward justice and centered peace for us all!

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Subscribe, rate and review our podcast.  As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity!  Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to Episode 73 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship!

Does Christianity no longer feel like home to you? Are you finding it difficult to integrate intersectional identities in the “borderlands” of your life?  Then you’ve come to a helpful conversation with Patty Krawec.  She’s the author of an incredible book “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call To Unforgetting The Past And Reimagining Our Future.”  She shared about her faith journey from Evangelical Christian to “Anishinaabe of faith” and we talk about how deeply colonization blinds us to our past and future. Then we reimagine Genesis 2:4-25 in a hopeful way I’ve never imagined it before… what if we were always meant to leave the garden?  

Follow Patty on Twitter @gindaanis and learn more about her work at https://daanis.ca/

Subscribe, rate and review our podcast.  As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity!  Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to Episode 72 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship!

Are you finding it hard to wade into the conversation about what is happening between Israel and Palestine in the Middle East right now? This week Dana Ayoob Leota joins us to talk about her family's history in the region and how she’s choosing to engage right now.  Dana exemplifies the maturity to be generous to those who disagree and talks a lot about how “othering” is a huge part of the conflict and the reason there is still so much violence in Gaza.  Then we reimagine Leviticus 19:33-34 and talk about “becoming”.

Follow Dana on instagram @dbooya310 and learn more about the conflict from her recommended resources:

IG Accounts to Follow:

Reporter on the ground in Gaza: @byplestia 

US Professor who shares a lot of good perspective: @nouraerakat

Simple explanations and infographics: @letstalkpalestine 

Jewish org that has a lot of good info and action steps: @jewishvoiceforpeace

Books to Read

Palestine - graphic novel by Joe Sacco

A Land With People - collection of stories/poems, edited by Farmer, Petchesky, and Sills

Against the Loveless World - historical fiction by Susan Abulhawa

Subscribe, rate and review our podcast.  As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity!  Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to Episode 71 of The Kinship Collective Podcast!

Do you have a Sexual Relationship With Yourself? Okay a little context, many of us come from conservative families and religions that never gave us permission to enjoy our bodies or worse made us responsible for how others engaged with their own bodies.  This week we get to talk with RN/RGN Cindy Scharkey about her mission of helping people experience, express and enjoy their sexuality!  Our conversation will give you really personal transformational insight into sex as well as really practical tactical ways to make sure you're setting yourself up for the best sex of your life. 

Subscribe, rate and review our podcast.  As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity!  Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to Episode 70 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together! 

Quick announcement, We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort this Thursday October 12 at 7:30. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transformational work, and reimagine faith together.    You can find more information about Cost and curriculum at www.thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort .

This week we talk about the fundamental difference between Evangelical Christians and Progressive Christians.  We get into the history of where that difference comes from and how it affects how we experience faith, and who gets to experience it.  Then we talk about a simple question that can help us get to the heart of our beliefs in times of conflict or confusion. Let’s reimagine together! 

Subscribe, rate and review our podcast.  As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity!  Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together! 

We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort on Thursday October 12 at 7:30. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transformational work, and reimagine faith together.    You can find more information about Cost and curriculum at www.thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort .

This week we have a conversation with Johnny Giovati.  Johnny is a behavioral assistant for students with special needs. We have a conversation about how his work with students with disabilities informed his pastoral work with charismatic evangelicals. Johnny shared about how he learned to tell the truth about overspiritualizing Christianity in light of his theological ethics and experiences with his students and their families.

Subscribe, rate and review our podcast.  As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity!  Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together! 

We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort on Thursday nights at 7:30pm pst starting October 12. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transformational work, and reimagine faith together.   You can find more information about cost and curriculum at www.thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort .

This week we have a conversation with Dr. Alma Zaragoza-Petty.  Alma is a Mexicana social justice advocate and scholar who teaches equity to create change.  We discuss her new book “Chingona: Owning your inner Badass for healing and Justice".  Alma shares her story of integrating mind, body and spirit in ways that have provoked healing for her and healing conversations around the world. You’ll hear beautiful integrations of Mexican heritage and imagery inviting you to own your inner badass!

Subscribe, rate and review our podcast.  As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity!  Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome back to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service.

We are back to our core focus of having conversations with people that remind us of our connectedness and our kinship.  This week we have a conversation about faith with my sista Laine Kelly Sims.  She’s a VO actor who has evolved to meet the many challenging moments in her life and career.  She generously shares her story and her tears as we talk about going from insecurity to confidence.  Then we reflect on Psalms 44! 

Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast.  As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity!  Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!