You may have heard that a relationship with God is “personal” but felt tremendous pressure that your relationship with God look or feel like someone else’s. We sat down with Daniel Hardy Jr. to talk about his journey from the NFL to Pastoring to now Acting.  We get into what it means to pay attention to our unique gifts and give it all we’ve got, no matter what is in front of us. We talk about our tendency to compare our spiritual journeys with others and the power of turning comparison to curiosity. Then we talked about 2 Timothy 1:3-7 and land on some beautiful ideas around creating a new spiritual legacy for the people looking to our lives for inspiration.

Follow Daniel on instagram @drayjr9 to connect personally and follow along on his journey toward acting!

Learn more about #endingotherness​​ and upcoming live recordings at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com​​

You are loved! We are family!

We have all been through so much clarifying life in 2020 and 2021.  We have woken up to new values or woken up away from harmful beliefs or harmful relationships.  Some of us may find our selves facing the seemingly catch 22 decision of disappointing the people around us who we love... or worse, disappointing ourselves who we long to love.  With this in mind we sat down again with Katie Distelrath, a Gay Christian Therapist, to dive deeper into her story of making the very difficult decision to break off the engagement she thought she wanted to be true to an awakening queer identity.  We reimagined Jesus word's from Matthew 5 about "loving our enemies" from the perspective that sometimes we perceive parts of our own experience or identity as the enemy and maybe Christ invites us to graciously love those places within our selves. 

Follow Katie on instagram @katesdrath to connect personally and be inspired daily toward grace and wonder. 

Learn more about #endingotherness​​ and upcoming live recordings at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com​​

You are loved! We are family!

Mayra Macedo-Nolan joins us this week to address some challenges I am having around the “American Dream”. She shares some powerful questions we can use to locate ourselves and understand what’s really motivating us. Then we reimagined Jeremiah 29:4-9 together and were reminded to never shrink back!

9:10 - “What do you want & Why?”

30:51 - Jeremiah 29:4-9

34:06 - Don’t shrink back!

Follow Mayra on instagram @itsmayra to connect personally. Learn more about her work in Pasadena at https://clergycommunitycoalition.org/ and learn more about her work Nationally with CCDA at https://ccda.org/.

Learn more about #endingotherness​​ at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com​​

You are loved! We are family!

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Brianna Sanderson winsomely and joyfully shares her passion for reforming the education system. She shares a traumatic "educational" experience from elementary school that has had lasting effects on her as a Bi-racial woman. Brianna invites us toward real “allyship” and true listening. Then we reimagined Matthew 25:31-45 thinking a lot about empathy, support and solidarity.

23:13 - True Allyship

41:58 - Matthew 25:31-45

58:24 - “Speak up for them…”

Follow Brianna on instagram @b.sandersonn to keep in tune with her journey toward reforming our education system.

Learn more about #endingotherness​​ at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com​​

You are loved! We are family!

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Ed Oxford, researcher for 1946 The Movie, joins us to talk about how the word “homosexual” actually got translated into the Bible.  He shares about the grieving process he went through as he came to grips with a reality that God would never change him and grant him the American dream he had so desperately desired. We reimagined 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and landed in a true and thoughtful space of love and empathy.

2:36 - The mistranslation of “Homosexuals”

25:38 - “they didn’t care enough…”

42:03 - How it all changed Ed

50:36 - 1 Cor 6:9-10

1:08:13 - 2 Pivotal Points

1:31:06 - How experience shapes our understanding

1:34:38 - a bit on Kinship…

Ed isn’t on social media, but you can learn more about the movie he is working on at https://www.1946themovie.com/ You can read some of the resources Ed made reference to by checking out http://canyonwalkerconnections.com/ Be on the lookout for Ed’s book coming this fall!

Learn more about #endingotherness​​ at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com​​

You are loved! We are family!

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This week Sally Gary, the founder of CenterPeace, shares about her new book “Affirming” and the incredible loneliness of a life spent faithful to ideas of sexuality she no longer holds. We reimagined Genesis 2:18-24 and talked about the ways God sees and makes space for our loneliness.

32:30 - Loneliness

41:08 - Genesis 2:18-24

51:44 - Do God’s words still apply to me?

follow Sally on instagram @SallyGary, learn more about CenterPeace at https://www.centerpeace.net/ Grab Sally’s new book “Affirming” from your local bookstore!

Learn more about #endingotherness​​ at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com​​

You are loved! We are family!

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This Week Brian joins us and shares about how his best friend walked with him toward self acceptance and coming out, which encouraged him to “Be Free”. Brian shares the unhealthy results of hiding and the ways community invites us to be our most authentic and purposeful selves. Then Brian and Mark imagine Psalms 139 as a self declaration but not an excuse to accept trauma or transmit our pain.

22:29 - We’re holding in so much more…

35:21 - Psalms 139:1-18

50:08 - It’s Not ALL Wonderfully Made

follow Brian on instagram @brianterada and learn more about Be Free at https://befreestories.com/

Learn more about #endingotherness at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com

You are loved! We are family!

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We’ve all felt the pain and loss of grieving what could have been. Candice joins us and shares her story of integrating her faith and sexuality and the grief of mourning the time she lost disintegrated. She shares her incredible experience of encountering God in an unshakable way through her queerness. Then Candice and Mark reimagined Jeremiah 17:7-10 and the reality that we all have our own goggles on that inform the way we see the world around us.

22:48 - Grieving The Lost Time

33:12 - Jeremiah 17:7-10

42:00 - Our Interpretive Goggles

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

Learn more about #endingotherness​​ at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com​​

You are loved! We are family!

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We all need someone mature to invite us to hold our stories with awe, wonder and celebration. Mark Fields, the founder of The Kinship Collective, shares his own centers of identity, how The Kinship Collective came to be and the values it embodies. Then Mark and Mykah reimagined Isaiah 43:16-21 together and pondered the power of something new and the room that must be made for the new things to exist.

8:10 - Why Kinship?

21:22 - What does safety mean to you?

42:32 - Isaiah 43:16-21

follow Mark on instagram @Mark_Fields.

Learn more about #endingotherness​​ at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com​​

You are loved! We are family!

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We all benefit from the liberating power of forgiveness when we forgive people who wound us and ourselves. Mykah Wilson, the Director of Operations for The Kinship Collective, shares about how forgiving others and herself led to an unexpected embrace of her whole self. Mykah shared about how her loving community instigates healing in wounds that once tempted her to end her life. Then Mykah and Mark talked about 1 Kings 19:9-13 and the beauty of encountering and following the unexpected still small voice fo God.

13:15 - Liberating Forgiveness

29:10 - Choosing to Stay. *There are no graphic descriptions of self-harm but from 29:10-39:43 we do have an extensive discussion of suicidality.  If this may trigger you please skip forward and remember you are loved and can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 whenever you need outside support. *

39:43 - 1 Kings 19:9-13

follow Mykah on instagram @MykahMay10 and show her some love if her story resonates with you.

Learn more about #endingotherness​​ at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com​​

You are loved! We are family!

Here's that link to that convo with "Alicia Crosby" mentioned at minute 28... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-the-love-with-jen-hatmaker-podcast/id1258388821?i=1000490463097 

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Special Shout out to this weeks mixer @JoelYoshonis for making magic with our audio!