Margo is the Director and Principal of Time Travel Productions, which she founded in 2012 to produce documentary films and related media. Margo's feature directorial debut, Councilwoman, is touring the country and will air on PBS's WORLD Channel in fall 2019. Her current project is tentatively titled, The Philadelphia Eleven: To Be Whole. It tells the story of the Episcopal Women who were ordained as priests in 1974, against the rules of the church, and found themselves at the center of a media firestorm about who speaks the word of God.

Over the past 20 years, Margo has worked as a union organizer, non-profit development director, Spanish/English translator and media instructor, always building multi-racial collaborations across class lines to inform the work of building a more just society. Margo works with teams that reflect the subjects in the film as a cornerstone of her artistic process. She is passionate about distributing documentary film in new ways, to empower people, and shift narratives.   

In this episode Margo explores the intersection of spirituality and the film making process. She shares about the importance of deep listening and the way stories hold the potential to transform us. 

Thank you to my sweet mentor and friend Mother Becca Stevens for letting us share your powerful and eloquent message of God’s Love living in us as Fire.  She reminds us of Jesus’ message of Love saying “You think that cathedral is beautiful, you think that temple is amazing, you think those stones are huge?  it is nothing it is DUST compared to the kingdom of Love that God is building in you.”   

The sermons starts with the gospel reading for Easter Day which is John 20: 1-18 then a beautiful song written and composed by Becca’s husband Marcus Hummon and performed by Marcus and the St. Augustine’s choir and band.  

This week on the podcast is the Rev. Dr. Ruth Meyers.  Dr. Meyers is an episcopal priest, dean of academic affairs and the Hodges-Haynes Professor of Liturgics at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.  We chat about her sabbatical project on multi-cultural worship congregations and what got her hooked on liturgical theology. 

Kelsey's Easter sermon given on April 21, 2019 at Holy Family Episcopal Church in San Jose, California.  The sermon is spoken in English and in Spanish.

All are welcome at Holy Family Episcopal Church. They are a multicultural, multigenerational community whose mission is to celebrate God through Jesus Christ; proclaiming, living and sharing the Good News in their daily lives. They believe that all people are God’s people.

This week features Dr. Christine Caron Gebhart.  Christine has been the Director of the Gender Relations Center at the University of  Notre Dame since 2012. The mission of the GRC mission is to help students form healthy and safe relationships as they learn about who they are and how they want to be with others. In addition to her administrative duties, Christine is a First Year Moreau instructor and serves as a co-chair of the Committee for Sexual Assault Prevention, co-chair of the greeNDot violence prevention program, a Title IX Resource Coordinator and a Pregnancy & Parenting Support Specialist. 

The first 25 minutes we chat about Christine’s Catholic faith and deep love of theology.  We get into why she holds onto her tradition even though it has its problems.  The last 15 minutes we discuss her work at the Gender Relations Center at Notre Dame and the Catholic Trinitarian theological framework that steers its vision and programming.  

The Rev. Becca Stevens is an author, speaker, priest, social entrepreneur, founder, and president of Thistle Farms.  Kelsey and Becca talk about mentoring and community.

Kelsey and Sarah sit down and talk about the meaning of Lent.  Lent is the liturgical season in the Christian calendar that represents the 40 days Jesus went to the desert before his death.  The season begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday.  Kelsey and Sarah explore the ways in which Lent has been used to as a theology of shame and guilt and how we might offer a theology of original goodness to help modern believers to find a balance in our tradition’s season of penitence.

This week we are featuring a sermon by the Rev. Canon Naomi Tutu on Luke 13:31-35.  The Rev. Tutu is a dear friend of mine from our time together in Divinity school and was on the pod last year in episode 7.  The Rev. Tutu joined the All Souls Cathedral in Ashville, NC in November 2018 as the Cathedral Missioner for Racial and Economic Equity and Missioner for Kairos West Community Center. 

Kelsey and Bishop Mary talk Burning Man and the Emerging Church Movement.

This episode features the Rev. Jen Logsdon Kellogg she is the Associate Pastor at Quail Springs United Methodist Church in OKC, OK.  Rev. Jen actually attended the conference and will share with us first hand experience of what it was like there.  We chat about the differences interpreting scripture, understanding the Holy Spirit and how pastoring to both sides is critically important.