Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Diana Butler Bass discusses what she is considering historically, spiritually, and politically: 1.) Our capacity for distraction. 2.) How to call people's attention to what is really important.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Diana Butler Bass and Micky ScottBey Jones discuss the origins of Wild Goose and how the festival has evolved.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Sarah Heath interviews Alexia Salvatierra about what is really happening at the border. What is the difference between refugee and asylum, who do children belong to once parents are deported, and how do we find hope? Rev. Alexia Salvatierra is the author with Dr. Peter Heltzel of Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World (Intervarsity Press). She is a Lutheran Pastor with over 40 y...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Over the last decade, flags, monuments and even certain ways of thinking about the past have become central to an increasingly ugly debate about what America is all about. How should Christians respond as their local college campuses, court houses, and other public spaces become cultural battlegrounds where groups fight for control of the past? Drawing on my own work curating museum-based exhibits of removed c...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ It has been said that Trump did not change America… he revealed America. The same is true of evangelicalism. Trump has surfaced some very troubling things in American evangelicalism. And Jesus is the best corrective to where we’ve gone wrong. This is a session about Jesus. And it’s about discovering a Christianity that acts more like Jesus again. Shane Claiborne graduated from Eastern University and did gradua...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Shane Claiborne and Adam Dyer discuss short backs, long backs, and the ways we come together from different places at the Wild Goose.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Authors Brian McLaren and Diana Butler Bass, and religious historian Mike Clawson discuss the rise, evolution, and now seeming disappearance of the provocative Emerging Church Movement, offering their insights both as scholars/observers and as first-hand participants and leaders in the movement.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ In this Wild Goose Media tent exclusive, Marthame Sanders and Amythyst Kiah discuss Amythyst's road to musicianship and life as an introvert performer.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Desire is a very powerful gift from the Divine that we each possess, but it has long been vilified as shameful and dangerous. In the legacy of Audre Lorde's work on the Power of the Erotic, Reverend Sex (aka Rev. Alba Onofrio) introduces the Gospel of the Erotic as a way to facilitate deep connection to ourselves, to each other, and to the Divine through practices of Spiritual Discipline. The Erotic is deeply ...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ In this Wild Goose session, hear a live recording of the Liturgists podcast! Science Mike, Michael Gungor, and Hillary McBride discuss the American epidemic of loneliness and the role faith (or lack there of) has in healing this sadness.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Faith shifting, deconstruction, possibly reconstruction in fits and stages of some sort, is a challenging, exhausting, and slow process under any circumstances. Doing so while also parenting children can feel utterly overwhelming. Are we hurting our children? What about their spirituality and friends at church? How do we navigate the often suffocating pressure from well-meaning family members who worry that it...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ In this Wild Goose Media Tent conversation, Bushi Yamato Damashii and Adam Dyer discuss the similarities of Jesus and Buddha, the importance of interfaith discussion, and allowing space for the holy spirit.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ We exist within an epoch of immense progress-however, also incredible disconnection. The dis-ease created by isolation from one another, from creator and creation, and from our own self, is tangible. We need new ways, paired with strong foundations. In this talk Rainier looks at what it means to re-discover these lost connections, and utilize traditional faith streams to anchor us into the more beautiful world...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ “A New Reformation?” – Is it justifiable that this is an epochal moment that commands the same historical gravitas as “Luther’s Reformation"? Have a listen to Stan Mitchel, John Pavlovitz, Anna Golladay, & Sarah Heath discuss this question.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Director Linda Midgett, Dr. Larycia Hawkins and Dr. Michael Mangis discuss the recent documentary "Same God". They cover the process and challenges of filming, and answer questions about the film, what the experience was like and "where they are now." This panel features Dr. Larycia Hawkins, Linda Midgett & Michael Mangis....
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Dr. Larycia Hawkins and Micky ScottBey Jones discuss faith shifts and how they contribute to our faith journey.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ This is a panel discussion, as well as question and response on the variety of spiritual and energetic healing modalities practiced by varying religious and spiritual traditions. In this discussion we delve into the Common Unifying Source behind these practices and seek to discover how we may better understand and integrate these (and more) modalities for the betterment of the world. This conversation features...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Challenging assumptions and thinking imaginatively – Nadia Bolz-Weber and Mike McHargue, two of the world’s most creative thinkers and most accomplished communicators, “talk it out” in a public space.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Barbara Brown Taylor is a New York Times bestselling author, including Holy Envy, her most recent book, and she’s among the greatest preachers alive (so says CNN). Perhaps more importantly to so many Goose community folks, her writing encourages us, holds us up, and helps us through. Rob Wilson-Black is CEO of Sojourners and a Wild Goose board member. Barbara interviewed by Rob puts two very smart, very nice p...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Barbara Brown Taylor and Jacqui Lewis discuss Taylor's new book, Holy Envy, and the experiences that lead up to its creation.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Privilege is hard to talk about. We can feel confused by the idea, put on the spot, responsible for things we have no control over, fearful, and instinctively defensive. But what if recognizing our privilege (or lack of it) is really about hearing other people's stories? Understanding the ways other people and their lives are different from us and our lives? Stories can take something big, abstract, and system...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Dr. Larycia Hawkins, the first female African-American to be tenured at Wheaton College, was placed on “administrative leave” for posting photographs of herself wearing a hijab in solidarity with Muslims during Advent. The photographs were posted on her personal social media page. Less than a month later Wheaton began the process of terminating her and soon Dr. Hawkins, a tenured faculty member, and the school...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ While most progressive or post evangelical churches hold egalitarian doctrines, there are still very few women leading in those churches. This session explores how purity culture and complementarianism continue to impact women in faith leadership by looking at the core tenants and history of these two ideas to create context for current gendered struggles in churches....
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Jacqui Lewis and Mathame Sanders discuss what it means to be a Christian vs. what it means to follow Jesus.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Gun violence is a public health crisis. It is also a spiritual and moral crisis. In the US, We have nearly 5 times more gunshops than McDonald restaurants. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in all the wars in American history. In the US, we manufacture 9.5 million guns a year, 26,000 a day, 18 per minute, one gun every 3 seconds. With less than 5% of the world's populati...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Mystic and theologian, Howard Thurman (1899-1981) cherished silence and stillness. He found in quietness an opportunity to commune with the Eternal that he believed lies deep within the heart. He shares these insights in his book, Meditations of the Heart. In this Wild Goose session Lerita Coleman Brown illustrates how our hearts overflow with divine guidance and that there is an invitation to engage in deep i...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis is Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church, a 1000-member multiracial, welcoming, and inclusive congregation in New York City. She is an activist, preacher, and fierce advocate for racial equality, economic justice, and LGBTQ equality. She has also written three books, hosted a television program, been a frequent contributor to MSNBC, and taught at seminaries across the country. J...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Micky Scott Bey Jones is a CREATIVE EXTREMIST FOR LOVE * JUSTICE DOULA I am a mama-activist-contemplative-healer-public intellectual who believes in throwing parties as a key revolutionary strategy. I am a healing justice practitioner, writer, faith-rooted activist & organizer, and speaker. I love bringing people together to explore the intersections of our lives, awaken empathy and fight oppression. I am ...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, lecturer and non-profit activist. She has worked with thousands of individuals, as well as large and small groups, in transforming crisis into opportunity. For 35 years she has been helping people heal from problems that in many ways have been created by an irresponsible political establishment. She has an up close and personal understanding of the impact of bad pol...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ “Going to a new church as a disabled person is a brave act.” These words, spoken by Shannon Dingle, are bold truth for her as a person of faith who is disabled and mother to children with disabilities. Often, once a ramp is built many faith communities believe ‘access’ is complete. Yes, physical accessibility is important - but so much more is needed. What does ‘access’ mean - especially when it comes to commu...
