Hajj Reza Nekumanesh is the Executive Director of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno and an active faith leader with Faith in Action. We sat down to talk about multifaith leadership and what it means when we say “no one stands alone.” We also talked about his experience as a member the first cohort of the Public Theology Certificate program, a joint project of Faith in Action and the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley. Show Notes: Learn more about the Islamic Cultural Center of...
Jul 25, 2018•48 min
Scott Reed is a master craftsman in the field of community organizing and the executive director of PICO National Network. At the time of this recording, he was preparing to retire from a career spanning more than 40 years. In April, the podcast traveled to San Diego, CA to talk with Scott about how he made community organizing a lifelong career, why he put race at the center of PICO’s organizing work, and why PICO National Network is now rebranded Faith in Action. Show Notes: Learn more about F...
May 09, 2018•42 min
Megan Black, PICO Network’s national clergy organizer guest hosts this special episode. Megan traveled to Washington, DC to meet with Rev. Erik Martínez Resly and Ahmane' Glover, co-directors of the Sanctuaries, an arts community whose mission is to ignite the sacred power of the arts for social change. We were first introduced to the Sanctuaries last fall when they brought their gifts of art, movement and song into the Prophetic Resistance Summit in Indianapolis. This episode was recorded in fr...
Apr 11, 2018•58 min
Today’s guest is Pastor Michael McBride, founding pastor of The Way Christian Center in Berkley; and director of the Live Free Project of the PICO National Network. In this episode we talk about Ferguson, therapy for faith leaders, the justice roots of Pentecostalism and what Pastor Mike is learning about toxic masculinity.This episode was recorded live in November 2017 at the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, California during a session of the Public Theology Certificate progra...
Mar 29, 2018•1 hr
This episode is the final installment of a three-part series of live recordings from the Prophetic Resistance Summit. The Summit was held in Indianapolis in late October 2017. Our diverse panel of guests - including Rev. Sharon Avril, Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp, Fr. Tom Smith, Hajj Reza Nekumanesh, Teresa Pasquale Mateus, Pastor Matt Prinz - wrestled with questions about providing Sanctuary for targeted communities, including immigrants, living into a vision for multi-faith leadership and what it ...
Mar 15, 2018•52 min
BLACK PANTHER MOVIE SPOILER ALERT: Last weekend we traveled to Chicago to witness the debut of the movie Black Panther with Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ. After the movie, we sat down with him to discuss the “Real Wakanda”, Black Liberation Theology, the roles of Black Women, the Power of Imagination and the continued struggle to end gun violence in our communities.
Feb 24, 2018•44 min
Season 2: This episode is the second in a three-part series of recordings from the Prophetic Resistance Summit, held in Indianapolis, Indiana in October 2017. Rev. Traci Blackmon delivered a closing address that powerfully re-imagined the story of Moses and the Burning Bush and reminded us that Ferguson was burning before the shooting death of Michael Brown. Rev. Blackmon is the Executive Minister of Justice & Witness Ministries of The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The ...
Feb 15, 2018•32 min
Welcome to Season 2 of the Prophetic Resistance Podcast. This episode is the first in a three-part series of recordings from the Prophetic Resistance Summit, held in Indianapolis, Indiana in October 2017. This powerful three-day gathering, was opened with a keynote address from a previous guest: Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR in Los Angeles. Rabbi Brous weaves together powerful stories about religious escapism, leading with love and how those of us in the “good news” business should pause long enoug...
Jan 31, 2018•32 min
Onleilove Alston is the executive director of Faith in New York and the founder of Prophetic Whirlwind: The Black Biblical Destiny. We traveled to New York City to talk with her about a prophetic response to Charlotte, honoring sabbath and a vision to move people of faith and moral courage into public life. Show Notes: Learn more about Faith in New York, https://faithinnewyork.org/ . Learn more about Prophetic Whirlwind, https://wholeness4all.wordpress.com/propheticwhirlwind/ ....
Aug 23, 2017•46 min
Today’s episode is dedicated to the legacy of Michael Brown, who died three years ago at the hands of a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Through stories from past guests and personal reflections, the Rev. Michael-Ray Mathews recalls the movement that was sparked by Michael’s passing, the call to clergy to resist and the journey since the Ferguson uprising. Show Notes: Learn more about the Prophetic Resistance Project and listen to full podcast episodes at http://www.theologyofresistance.org ....
Aug 09, 2017•31 min
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 P...
Jul 12, 2017•42 min
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
Jun 28, 2017•36 min
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/...
Jun 14, 2017•41 min
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-th...
May 31, 2017•33 min
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.
May 16, 2017•51 min
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 Le...
May 06, 2017•36 min
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.
Apr 18, 2017•38 min
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.
Apr 18, 2017•45 min
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.
Apr 18, 2017•36 min
(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.
Mar 19, 2017•37 min
(Part 1 of 2) Rev. José Humphreys is a pastor of Metro Hope Covenant Church, a multi-ethnic church movement in East Harlem, NY. We talked about everything from understanding racial identity to integrating social justice into church life and intentionally investing in the neighborhoods we serve.
Mar 19, 2017•21 min
Imam Jihad Saafir is the Founder and Executive Director ISLAH LA . We traveled to Los Angeles, California to talk with him about his commitment to those returning from incarceration, the role of social justice in Muslim teaching and being a multi-faith leader.
Mar 19, 2017•42 min
Sister Simone Campbell is a powerhouse multi-faith leader. She is the author of A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community as well as the Executive Director of NETWORK. She describes herself as religious leader, attorney and poet. The Prophetic Resistance Podcast traveled to Washington, DC to talk with her about Nuns on the Bus, the role of faith in politics and letting the stories of our people break our hearts wide open.
Mar 19, 2017•30 min
