If you google search “Christianity and Critical Race Theory” you’ll see several harmful pages first.  These pages are trying to prevent critical thought around the racist systems that oppress.  Our conversation this week invites you to think critically and introduces an incredible resource to do so.

Dr. Jeff Liou joins our conversation to share about his new book “Christianity and Critical Race Theory”.  We talk about early memories of racism and discrimination and what it feels like to get rooted in the person and work of Jesus in the midst of White Nationalistic Evangelicalism.  Then we talk about the God who celebrates our uniqueness like putting our personality on the refrigerator from Revelation 21.

Purchase Jeff’s new book here https://a.co/d/dAGA0F4 and follow him on Instagram @Jeff_liou.

Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda!  On June 10th join us for a conversation about creativity and identity with an artist who has grown through various transitions!  Let’s talk about it together! Join our email list or Instagram to get more info! 

Welcome to The Kinship Collective Podcast!  We are ending otherness! We are cultivating kinship through storytelling, scripture and service!

This week we continue our solo conversations to speak to the ways our "faith of origin" can create a codependence on God that disempowers us and prevents us from flourishing in ways Jesus never intended.

If this episode is disorienting for you and you are looking for a space to process something that was sparked, I know just the thing. A lot of what was shared this episode comes from conversations had around a table in community in our pilot Reimagine Cohort!  We’d love for you to join our next one, Thursday Nights in Pasadena after Easter. Register today to secure your spot!  https://thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort

Also we have another Kinship Night coming up May 20th. We’ll have more information on that for you coming soon. It’s going to be a fun conversation about creativity and identity with an incredible LA based artist. 

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!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation where people who have been wounded by faith can reimagine it together!

This week we get to hang with Lucca Petrucci! Lucca (he/him/his) is a Youth Inclusion and Empowerment Coach and Speaker, the host of the podcast Free to Be with Lucca, a Brand and Marketing Consultant, and an LGBTQIA+ Advocate.

Our conversation centers on the reality that it sometimes costs a lot and hurts a lot to be authentic! Lucca shares his journey of coming out and how he has learned to “belong to himself”. Then we ask some questions about Romans 5:3-5 and an invitation to patient self discovery and integrity!

Learn more about Lucca at https://www.luccapetrucci.com/ and you can follow him on Instagram @lucca_petrucci.

Kinship Night March 4

On Saturday March 4th we are partnering with All Saints Church Pasadena to host another Kinship Night with Brandi Miller, the host of the “Reclaiming My Theology” podcast and Mark Chase, The Associate Rector at All Saints. We intend to have a conversation about how we can decolonize and deconstruct our faith without getting totally disoriented! Registration will be live soon! Stay tuned on our website!

Welcome to The Kinship Collective Podcast!  We are a community where people marginalized by faith can reimagine it together.

This week we are starting something new called a “Reimagine Episode” where I will have a solo conversation to speak into current events and reimagine some ideas that keep us divided and feeling "othered". This week we reflect on the deaths of Tyre Nichols and Charlie Mack. Then, we reflect a bit on Habakkuk 1:2-6 and the power of our imagination to create the world we experience!

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!

Supporting Pastor Eric Chen

Please pray for Eric and Gloria as they do the difficult work of being present and caring for those suffering in the aftermath of the deadly shooting in Monterrey Park. Please help defray some of the costs they are incurring. If you would like to support them online (through a tool provided by the Presbyterian Foundation), please use this link, choose "General Fund," "One Time" (Under “Frequency”), and write "Fund 2029" under “Notes”.

What if Mary didn't consent to Christmas?  What if when the angel approached her, honoring her with the awe and wonder that they did, and she said "NO"?

This week we have a really meaningful conversation with Dr. Christy Bauman. Christy is an author, teacher and psychotherapist. A mother of 4, fierce dreamer and passionate about advocating for women. She spends most of her time researching and working at the intersection of shame and sexuality in women. We talk about her book “Theology from the womb” and the beautiful understandings of God made uniquely possible by honoring the female body and the ways she experiences the world. Then we think about the power of Mary’s consent described in Luke 1:26-38.

*Reimagine Cohort*

I personally invite you into a transformational space to reimagine self, faith and community! We’ll spend 8 weeks together on Zoom working our way through our textbook “The Gifts of The Jews” by Thomas Cahill. You will gain access to a safe space to share personal stories and reflections on the text. You will gain access to accountability for transformational faith work. Ultimately you will gain access to a transformational space to reimagine self, to clarify and articulate your faith and to experience empathetic community.

*Register today by clicking this link: https://thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort

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!

Outro "We are Family" - Sister Sledge (Official Cover) by @ShaundReynolds

What do you do when the label and the beliefs that used to describe you well, no longer hold up for you?

This week we have an exploratory conversation with Savannah Rae Carreno, an incredible sista who researches the impacts of American religion and founded Please Elaborate. We talk about her hospitable upbringing and her decision to no longer identify as Christian. Then we think about Paul and his choice to name the unnamed God in Acts 17:22-34.

Follow Savannah's work and learn more Please Elaborate at https://pleaseelaborate.co/.  You can follow her on instagram @savannahraecarreno.

Y’all!!!! We’re hanging in person!!!  Join us this Thursday November 17th at 7pm in Pasadena for a communal conversion about a journey of holistic evolution with Author, Actor, and Poet Arielle Estoria.  Find more information on our website https://thekinshipcollective.org/gathering.

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!

Outro "We are Family" - Sister Sledge (Official Cover) by @ShaundReynolds

We all really want justice that transforms communities and makes things equitable and enjoyable for everyone!

This week we have a meaningful conversation with PhD candidate Phill Allen Jr., who researches and writes on issues at the intersection of theology, ethics, race and culture. We talk about his newest book “The Prophetic Lens- The Camera and Black moral agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier” and discuss, prophetic criticism that unveils problems with power and energizes those in the margin. Then we think through these issues scripturally by reimagining Exodus 5.

Follow Phil's work and learn more about his book at https://www.philallenjr.com/.  You can follow him on instagram @philallenjrig.

Y’all!!!! We’re hanging in person!!!  Join us Thursday November 17th at 7pm in Pasadena for a communal conversion about a journey of holistic evolution with Author, Actor, and Poet Arielle Estoria.  Find more information on our website https://thekinshipcollective.org/gathering.

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!

Outro "We are Family" - Sister Sledge (Official Cover) by @ShaundReynolds

Every human needs a place to call home, a place they belong to that also belongs to them, whether they own it or not.

This week we had an incredible conversation about housing equity with Michelle White.  After Michelle obtained her Juris Doctorate from Rutgers she served the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, eventually focusing on several housing related roles.  Michelle is now the Executive Director of Affordable Housing Services, a non-profit specializing in producing units affordable for low and very low-income persons with disabilities, persons of color and families.  Michelle shared a beautiful vision of what it looks like when we all have an equitable opportunity for housing, then we reimagined Ezekiel 45:9-10. Without further ado, here’s Michelle.

Follow along with Michelle's efforts for housing equity at https://pasadena4rentcontrol.org/

Y’all!!!! We’re hanging in person!!!  Join us Thursday November 17th at 7pm in Pasadena for a communal conversion about a journey of holistic evolution with Author, Actor, and Poet Arielle Estoria.  Find more information on our website https://thekinshipcollective.org/gathering.

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!

Outro "We are Family" - Sister Sledge (Official Cover) by @ShaundReynolds

We have all chosen to hide our flaws rather than be fully seen at one point or another.  Many of us have matured to a point where we chose to be fully seen and fully loved instead of putting on a mask to gain conditional acceptance.  Our guest this week shares her story.

This week we had an incredible conversation about disability with Liz Staszak. Liz shared with us her experience of growing up disabled and her “coming out” moment, where she chose being fully seen over pretending to be able bodied. We talked through difficult tensions around bible stories and how we use Jesus’ healing stories to belittle our disabled siblings, then we reimagined Luke 21:1-6 together. Without further ado, here’s Liz.

Follow Liz on Instagram @elizabeth_staszak and find valuable resources and thinking around solidarity with our disabled siblings.  Liz has ensured that we make this episode accessible to our hearing impaired siblings, so for the first time we have a transcript of our episode available on our website here https://thekinshipcollective.org/our-blog.

Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast and check out our website https://www.thekinshipcollective.org.  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!

Outro "We are Family" - Sister Sledge (Official Cover) by @ShaundReynolds