Sister Tracey Horan is a novice religious sister with the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and a first year community organizer with Indianapolis Congregation Action Network. We traveled to Indiana to talk with her about Pope Francis, holy disruption and answering the call to justice as an expression of faith. Show Notes: Read more of Sister Tracey’s blog posts at http://globalsistersreport.org/authors/tracey-horan; Learn more about IndyCan at http://www.indycan.org. Read the Prayer for New Community Organizers at https://www.facebook.com/PropheticResistance

Dr. Leah Gunning Francis is the author of the book "Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community” and the vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Christian Theological Seminary. We traveled to Indiana to talk with her about the lessons from Ferguson, the role of women in the movement and the call of community organizing. Show Notes: Learn more about Ferguson and Faith http://www.chalicepress.com/Ferguson-and-Faith-P1541.aspx

In late February, Prophetic Resistance Podcast traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with Mark Charles, a Navajo Christian activist, minister and writer. We talked about Standing Rock, the root causes of racial injustice and why we are all suffering from historical trauma. Show Notes: Learn more about the Doctrine of Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3oc84aLC-Q  

Read Mark Charles’s blog: http://wirelesshogan.blogspot.com/

We traveled to Los Angeles, California to march for immigrant rights alongside Valarie Kaur, who leads the Revolutionary Love Project. We sat down with her to talk about human rights, inter-faith work, family legacies and how to face the fires of the world with revolutionary love. Show Notes:

Watch the talk that Valarie delivered to Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington on Dec. 31, 2016.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/03/06/breathe-push-watch-this-sikh-activists-powerful-prayer-for-america/?utm_term=.a105cffdd2ce

 Learn more about Balbir Singh Sodhi who was the first person to be murdered in a hate-crime after 9/11:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/us/sikh-owner-of-gas-station-is-fatally-shot-in-rampage.html

Learn more about Amrik Singh Bal:

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/01/02/461479969/long-before-they-were-apparent-muslims-sikhs-were-targeted-in-u-s

Visit www.revolutionarylove.net to learn more about the Revolutionary Love Project.

Rev. Jin S. Kim is the founding pastor of Church of All Nations and co-founder of Underground Seminary. We traveled to Minneapolis, MN in late January to talk with him about what it means to resist the logic and impulse of empire, why we should consider grief as an expression of resistance and what it means to live into a post-imperial church.

The Prophetic Resistance Podcast caught up with Rabbi Sharon Brous in Sedona, Arizona. Rabbi Brous is the founding rabbi of IKAR in Los Angeles and is also an Auburn Senior Fellow, along with our host Rev. Michael-Ray Mathews. They talked about the election, Women’s March and what it means for clergy to practice resistance.

Episode 8: Rabbi Sharon Brous Show Notes

Listen to the Ted Talk mentioned in the podcast: https://www.ted.com/talks/sharon_brous_it_s_time_to_reclaim_and_reinvent_religion

Learn more about IKAR: http://www.ikar-la.org/about/leadership/ikar-team

In early February 2017, we caught up with Rev. Ben McBride in Oakland, California to talk about why clergy need lifelong formation, how those of us in this work must shed our collective fear and what the Ferguson Uprising is still teaching us. Rev. McBride is a San Francisco native, a longtime activist for peace and justice and the newly named co-director of PICO California.

The Prophetic Resistance Podcast traveled to Kansas City, Missouri to meet up with Rev. Dr. Cassandra Gould. We talked about the Ferguson Uprising, taking church outside and what it means to fully practice a theology of resistance. Dr. Gould is the pastor of Quinn Chapel AME in Jefferson City. She is also the executive director of Missouri Faith Voices, the religious affairs director of the Missouri NAACP and the faith co-chair for Missouri Jobs With Justice.

This inaugural "Together We Vote "episode was live-streamed from Berkeley, California on September 30, 2016. We talked with with Dr. George C. L. Cummings, founding pastor of the Imani Community Church in Oakland and Janice Taylor, a “super leader” at Imani and who leads the social justice ministry.

(Part 2 of 2) Our conversation with Rev. José Humphreys, pastor of Metro Hope Covenant Church in East Harlem, NY was so rich that we  we had to record a Part 2. Rev. Humphreys embodies revolutionary love and is one of the early members of our community of Prophetic Resistance.