Tara ponders the sacred art of imagination and innovation in everyday life. Reflecting on her new pastoral role and Jesus's teachings, Tara highlights the importance of encouragement and community partnerships, drawing parallels to historical figures like Ada Lovelace, Rosa Parks, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This episode emphasizes the transformative power of imagination and encourages listeners to undertake new ventures with creativity and love. Concluding with a poem from Rumi, Tara invites us all to turn water into wine and to embrace life's sacred, yet unpredictable, spiritual adventure.

A note on this episode from Tara...
"In honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Day, this weeks episode of Holy Shenanigans Podcast focuses on the power of encouragement and creativity; in efforts to do a new thing. King said this about creativity… “Not ordinarily do men (people) achieve this balance of opposites…But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.”

Have you experienced creativity and encouragement as tools to foster new ideas? What happened? "

In grace and good trouble,
Tara

#encouragement #MLK #creativity

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Rev. Tara Lamont Eastman is a pastor, podcaster and host of Holy Shenanigans since September of 2020. Eastman combines her love of ministry with her love of writing, music and visual arts. She is a graduate of Wartburg Theological Seminary’s Theological Education for Emerging Ministry Program and the Youth and Theology Certificate Program at Princeton Seminary. She has served in various ministry and pastoral roles over the last thirty years in the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) and PCUSA (Presbyterian Church of America). She is the pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Warren Pennsylvania. She has presented workshops on the topics of faith and creativity at the Wild Goose Festival. She is a trainer for Soul Shop Suicide Prevention for Church Communities.