A Sojourner’s Truth

Episode 33: #GriefAND Lament Part 1 featuring Soong-Chan Rah.

Episode 33: #GriefAND Lament Part 1 featuring Soong-Chan Rah.  Profesor Rah (ThD, Duke Divinity School) is Robert Munger Professor of Evangelism at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is the author of Prophetic Lament, The Next Evangelicalism, and Many Colors, as well as coauthor of Unsettling Truths, Forgive Us, and Return to Justice. In addition to serving as founding senior pastor of the multiethnic, urban ministry-focused Cambridge Community Fellowship Church (CCFC), Rah has been a part of four different church-planting efforts and served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Boston. 

Episode 32: #GriefAND Leadership featuring Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Episode 32: #GriefAND Leadership featuring Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Episode 31: #GriefAND Advent featuring Bette Dickinson.

Episode 31: #GriefAND Advent featuring Bette Dickinson. Bette is a prophetic artist, writer, and speaker who invites audiences to connect with God through visual parables of the spiritual journey. Through creative communication, she helps her audience awaken to the beauty of God and His Kingdom and see more clearly the eternal realm in the heart and in the world. Through her work, Dickinson helps her audience connect the inner life of spiritual formation with the outer life of mission.
Bette earned her Masters of Divinity with an emphasis in Pastoral Studies, is ordained in the Reformed Church in America, and serves with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Spiritual Formation. She is author of Making Room in Advent: 25 Devotions for a Season of Wonder (2022, IVPress).

Episode 30: #GriefAND Homelessness featuring Rebecca Deng.

Episode 30: #GriefAND Homelessness featuring Rebecca Deng. Rebecca is the author of What They Meant for Evil: How a Lost Girl of Sudan Found Healing, Peace, and Purpose in the Midst of Suffering and one of the eighty-nine Lost Girls of Sudan who came to the US in 2000 as unaccompanied refugee minors after living eight years in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya. She is an international speaker and advocate for women and children victimized by war. She is African American of South Sudanese origin.

Episode 29: #GriefAND the Immigrant Story featuring Bethany Rivera Molinar.

Episode 29: #GriefAND the Immigrant Story featuring Bethany Rivera Molinar. Bethany serves as Executive Director at Ciudad Nueva. She was born and raised in El Paso She is a graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso where she received her bachelor of science degree. She completed graduate studies at Baylor University, earning both Master of Divinity and Master of Social Work degrees. Bethany’s community development experience includes: community organizing at local and state levels, parental engagement, and bridging the local church to their neighborhood. She has worked at Ciudad Nueva since 2013 and has served in multiple capacities including middle school program coordinator, youth programs director, grant writer and director of operations. Bethany is passionate about faith-based community development and worshiping God with mind, body and spirit. She also serves on the board Christian Community Development Network. She lives and works in the Rio Grande neighborhood with her husband Adrian and their three children.

Episode 28: #GriefAND Indigenious People featuring Mariah Humphries.

 #GriefAND Indigenious People featuring Mariah Humphries. Mariah is a Mvskoke Nation citizen, writer, and educator. Through her experience navigating the tension between Native and white American culture, she brings Native awareness to non-Native spaces. With over twenty years of vocational ministry service, she is focused on theology, racial literacy, and reconciliation within the American church.

Episode 27: #GriefAND Wilderness featuring Ashley Robinson.

Episode 27: #GriefAND Wilderness featuring Ashley Robinson.

Episode 26: #GriefAND Exodus featuring Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

#GriefAND Exodus featuring Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Episode 25: #Grief, Black Men, AND the Black Church

In this episode, we feature Rev. Dr. Prince Raney Rivers. Dr. Rivers is the Senior Pastor of Union Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina. He earned degrees from Morehouse College, Duke University Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies from North Carolina A&T State University. Dr. Rivers is the author of a commentary of sermons on the gospel of John entitled John published by Helwys in 2019. Dr. Rivers currently serves as a Trustee at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina.

Episode 24: #GriefAND Black History

In this episode, we feature Dr. Jemar Tisby, author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the Church's Complicity in Racism, and How to Fight Racism. His latest book is How to Fight Racism: Young Reader's Edition. Jemar has been a co-host of the "Pass the Mic" podcast since its inception seven years ago. His writing has been featured in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the New York Times among others. He is a frequent commentator on outlets such as NPR and CNN's New Day program. He speaks nationwide on the topics of racial justice, U.S. history and Christianity. Jemar earned his PhD in history and he continues to study race, religion, and social movements in the 20th century.