Theosophia Podcast

Theosophia Podcast

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Theosophia Podcast episodes

  • 21.2 Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandals

    Megan Black is the National Clergy Organizer for Faith in Action and a life-long Catholic woman. Megan and I chat about the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Church.  Megan shares a beautiful and raw poem she wrote about her experience walking out of mass in response to how her Church is handling their sins.  Hope you all enjoy this super honest and emotionally stirring conversation. Here’s Megan.

    33 min
  • 21.1 Being Catholic with Megan Black

    Megan Black is the National Clergy Organizer for Faith in Action, a multi-faith, multi-racial network of faith-based community organizations committed to ending racial inequity and economic injustice in our communities. Megan earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Master's of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School.

    In this episode, Megan and I chat about her life and upbringing in the Catholic Church and why she chooses to stay in it.  We also explore her racial and spiritual identities and call to ministry as a layperson. 


    41 min
  • Colin Kaepernick and Nike
    These episodes are meant to engage current events happening in the world and provide a little theological and social reflection from actual theologians.
    This week Dr. Bryant and I discuss Colin Kaepernik and Nike. I am thrilled to have such a learned and eloquent ethicist on the show. I think ya’ll will really enjoy this one. We get into the notion of communal solidarity, willful ignorance and theological connections of the erotic.
    36 min
  • 20.2 Jennifer Knapp (part 2)
    Round 2 with singer, song-writer, recording artist and LGBT advocate Jennifer Knapp.
    In this episode, I ask Jennifer why she went to Divinity School and we dive into the importance and value of theological education and how her faith continues to guide her life sense of community as a traveling musician and speaker.
    She’s currently on tour with her Kansas and Love Comes Back Around sets. Check out her latest work and tour dates on her website jenniferknapp.com and follow her on all the social media platforms.
    40 min
  • 20.1 Jennifer Knapp (part 1)
    Jennifer Knapp is a beloved singer-songwriter who got her start in 90s Contemporary Christian Music scene. She received four Dove Awards and two Grammy nominations during her CCM career then left abruptly leaving her successful albeit stressful career behind.
    Seven years later Knapp came back with news that she was gay and wrote a lovely memoir about her childhood growing up in rural Kansas to her path to the CCM world, why she left and her how faith never ceased during her self discovery of her sexuality.
    Now Jennifer is an advocate for LGBT issues in the church and she just released her 3rd album post-sabbatical called Love Comes Back Around. She begins her tour for the album this weekend in Waco and travels mostly around the midwest and east coast.
    In this interview, Jennifer and I discuss the impact her music has had on people’s lives, her career in the CCM world and her spiritual journey amidst her discovering her sexuality.
    45 min
  • 19.2 Our Bible App
    Our Bible App supports the belief that spirituality is a spectrum and that faith is a journey. At its core, the holy text was written to be inclusive of all of God’s creation especially those on the margins. Our Bible App is bringing it back to the roots celebrating the diversity of God’s creation with devotionals highlighting the inclusiveness of the text. Whether one goes to church to find spiritual clarity or to the sanctuary of nature, Our Bible App supports the belief that we are each trying to understand our place in this grand universe. Our goal is to untangle the binds that Christian colonizers have spread across the globe over hundreds of years. Through devotionals highlighting pro LGBT, pro-women and encourage interfaith inclusivity we hope to provide a tool that is needed to create healthy prayer and meditation habits.
    36 min
  • 19.1 Crystal Cheatham
    Crystal Cheatham is a social activist creating conversation and action concerning LGBT people in religious spaces. Crystal works as a ghostwriter but maintains a public voice through articles op-eds and blogs. She is a columnist for the Philadelphia Gay News and a contributor at both the Huffington Post and the New Civil Rights Movement. She’s a musician, a podcaster and most recently she is the founder and CEO of the OurBible App which seeks to “Uplift Believers of All Stripes.”
    What I admire most about Crystal is her unwavering faith in the Holy and her devotion to her spirituality in all its complexity. She sees the beauty in the complexities of her identity and image as G-d made her and she provides the world a transparent and honest telling of her story so others might connect and find solace in their experiences of faith and identity as well.
    32 min
  • 18.2 Sermon Writing and Preaching
    This week is round two with the newest female Episcopal priest in Oklahoma, Rev. Erin Jean Warde. Erin serves as rector of St. Luke's in Ada, OK.
    We chat about preaching and sermon writing. We discuss her theology of preaching, methods of sermon creation and the importance of connecting everything to scripture.
    You can find Erin @TheRevEJ on Twitter & IG and her most recent written work at www.erinjeanwarde.com.
    38 min

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