What if you followed that passion in your heart two steps forward?  What would those two small steps be and what could be the outcome?

This episode is about the dignity and compassion that is unleashed when we follow our compassion in the face of fear! Sammy Hammork started the Precious Kids Center by caring for one child with disabilities in Kenya. Her organization now serves hundreds of kids daily, making sure they have access to healthy nutrition and nurturing care. Then we reimagine Exodus 4:10-13 and experience the tension of the image of God within our siblings with disabilities.

Follow Sammy's work on Instagram @preciouskidscenter and you can learn more about and become a supporter of Precious Kid's Center at http://preciouskids.center/.  Precious Kids Center is in a unique position and like Sammy said, your small support can have huge impact on sustainability.  Please consider matching The Kinship Collective in becoming a new $10 monthly donor today!  Remember that small beginning can make a world of difference.   

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!

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What does it really mean that God has “a plan” for our lives? Is it disempowering? Does knowing God has a plan give us more agency and creativity, or does it disempower us as we wait for God’s movement?

This week we get to hang with Kendall and Deven Hollimon. Two young professionals who share their journey of faith and how their Christian beliefs have evolved after high school in the real world of college and career. We reimagine the very popular scripture Jeremiah 29:11 and think about the power of choice.

Subscribe to Deven's youtube page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiwmGzSBVKBE8vcAyCzz9XA and follow Kendall on Instagram @kendall_hollimon for really thoughtful/comical takes on current politics. 

This episode would be a great share for a younger family member or friend who is making space for their faith to evolve and could use some encouraging examples!

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!  

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Empathy and solidarity for us look like listening to the voices of our sisters experiencing this moment and following their lead as they define reality and invite us to fight alongside them.

This week we get to hang with Angela Lee, she's a pastor and the executive director of Harambee Ministries. Angela shares her own experience of having an Abortion at 23, what she’s feeling around the overturning of Roe v Wade, and the kind of healing community that “held her instead of harming her”. Then we reimagined 1 John 1:9 and the process of healing from shame.

Follow Angela on Instagram @angelatlee and you can learn more about Harambee Ministries at https://www.harambeeministries.org/.

Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast and check out our new 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!

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The word “homosexual” didn’t find its way into any translations of the Bible until 1946.

This episode we get to talk with Sharon "Rocky" Roggio who is the executive producer and director of “1946 The Movie”, a documentary about when the word homosexuality was first translated into the Bible and how.  Rocky shares some of her story in the entertainment industry and about the personal fortitude, grace and maturity it takes to remember that both the oppressor and the oppressed are victims of bad theology. Then we reimagined 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and the kind of reality we are living into.

Follow Rocky on Instagram @rockyroggio and follow her work @1946themovie.  You can learn more about the movie and support this final phase of post-production at https://www.1946themovie.com/.  

Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast and check out our new 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!

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It feels impossible to let others into the deepest places in our lives, the places where we feel they wont understand us, can't be with us, or won't be for us.  This gets even more impossible when it's something as innate and core to our identity as our sexuality.

This week Candice Czubernat, the Founder of "The Christian Closet" and licensed Therapist, joins us again (check out episode 18) to talk about a few things to consider when coming out.  Candice shares about "internalized homophobia" and the ways our identities become fragmented by the fearful voices of judgement surrounding us and the loving voice of God  embracing us unconditionally. Then we reimagined 2 Corinthians 13:5 and the ways the scripture invites us to trust God is already and always within us.

Follow Candice on instagram @lesbiantherapist and learn more about The Christian Closet at https://www.thechristiancloset.com/.

Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast and check out our new 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!

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Harmful understandings and practices of who God is make us question our ability to trust in our encounters with God.  These harmful beliefs about God also undermine who we are and make us question ourselves!  This episode's guest talks about his journey of theological evolution and how he measures whether or not something is aligned with God.

Mark Chase is an Episcopal Priest, poet, writer and emcee who joins us to share his journey toward an understanding of God marked by love and liberation.  We get into distinct characteristics of God and how we can sense whether or not we are experiencing God, or an unhealthy image of God we’ve cultivated through our lives experiences. We continue this train of thought and reimagine Psalms 34:8 and the trash versions of god we are being served as "Good News".

Follow Chase on instagram @chase784 to connect personally!  Listen to some of his music here https://open.spotify.com/artist/3TdTvMHW2B0AwbhYFrWZQA?si=vYIwhcyPTUaiUPJ8SRsMcQ.

Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast and check out our new 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!

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Many of us have faced experiences in life that call the way we see everything into question. Some experiences cause us to question the very nature of who God is and force us to re-cognize who we are, how we can heal and how we show up in the world.

This week Ines Velasquez-McBryde invites us into the trauma of losing her mother in a plane crash when she was a child and how that and the subsequent loss of her father’s emotional presence to clinical depression distorted the image she held of God. She shares about her journey of healing and the image of God she reconstructed in response. Then we reimagine Acts 2:1-13 and the radical inclusivity of God.

Follow Inés on instagram @inesmcbryde to connect personally!  Learn more about The Church We Hope For at https://www.thechurchwehopefor.com.

Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast and check out our new 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!

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Shame, confusion and frustration can bubble up when we wake up to the harmful colonial ideas about faith and leadership learned simply by existing in Western faith spaces.  Many of our ideas about the kingdom of God have been intermingled with ideas of colonization like leaven working its way through the bread we've learned to make during quarantine. 

Marcos Canales joins us this week to talk about his new book “Las Casas on Faithful Witness” which takes a critical look at the life of Father Bartolome De Las Casas and his transition from unjust understandings of God to an integrated and congruent Gospel in the midst of Spanish Colonialism 500 years ago.  Then we reimagined Matthew 4:12-17 and practices of repentance and gospel grounded in solidarity with the marginalized.  If you find yourself struggling with harmful colonial ideas of faith that seem to be incongruent with Jesus… this one’s for you!

Follow Marcos on instagram @mcanales82 to connect personally!  Order Marcos' new book at https://www.amazon.com/Faithful-Witness-Sacred-Spiritual-Classics/dp/1955424071 and learn more about La Fuente Ministries at https://www.paznaz.org/lafuenteministries/ .

Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast and check out our new 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!

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Sometimes we experience something that changes everything about how we understand God.  It can be reading a book that takes everything you thought about the bible and upends it, like our guest.  It can be experiencing "Church Hurt" and tracing that to harmful beliefs about God and one another.  Our guest describes it as corrupt code in computer software that changes everything.

This week We get to talk with David “Naked Pastor” Hayward! He is an artist and former pastor who shares his journey from traditional church leadership and theology toward a more spacious and liberated perspective of God, church and himself. Then we reimagined Jeremiah 29:10-14 and talked about what it means to be free right where you are.

Follow David on instagram @nakedpastor to connect personally and check out his poignant cartoons!  Learn more about all things @nakedpastor and pre-order David's new book "Flip It Like This" at https://nakedpastor.com/. 

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

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With everything going on at the borders of Poland and Ukraine and continued need to support unaccompanied minors at the border of Mexico and The United States, we reached out to a friend to get a closer narrative to what it means to love our immigrant neighbors. 

This week we talk with Lisa Barrios, a close friend and justice advocate focusing on issues of justice at the borders. She shares a powerful perspective about policy and institutionalized love and embodies individual love and honor for her neighbors. Then we reimagine Leviticus 19 and think about our legal responsibility to love our undocumented neighbors and remember where we’ve been. This conversation grounds why it matters that we honor the dignity of our undocumented or immigrant neighbors. 

Follow Lisa on instagram @__itsbarrios to connect personally.  Let's follow her advice on getting engaged civically in the changes taking place that are effecting our neighbors and our communities.  

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

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