Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Are you passionate about spiritual writing? Writing for Your Life is a sessions that will help you gain inspiration and knowledge to empower your writing.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ In this episode, members from Brother's Bear discuss the intersection of music and faith and how that can be expressed at Wild Goose. Joshua Brumley and James McCann had been playing music together, improvising and learning from mutual favorite artists, for years before the death of a dear friend launched the two of them into a deeper and more tethered friendship. Out of that time of deep yet childlike friends...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ In this episode John Pavlovitz speaks about your God story, the power of privilege, and believing in a creator that is far greater than your whiteness.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Storytelling is one of the most powerful resources for good and ill in the world. Healing the trauma of violent conflict requires a variety of interventions, but one of the most important is reframing the story we tell, inside and out. In this episode, Gareth discusses storytelling: how to change your story without losing yourself; find fuel for the journey; and make a better world, right here, right now....
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Just as hospitals and military have chaplains attending to the spiritual and emotional needs of those under stress, our social justice movements need people who are focused on the care and sustainability of activists, organizers and community leaders on the front lines of fighting for justice. In this episode, Micky ScottBey Jones and the Justice Doula discuss this emerging vocation....
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Brad Zable and Sarah Pressly discuss the nourishment and spirit of the Wild Goose.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Experience the artful, playful, outrageously funny, and deeply moving storytelling craft of Peterson Toscano. Drawing on his bizarre personal experiences of conversion therapy along with references to history, literature, science, and the Bible, Peterson takes his audience on an off-beat mental mind trip. A shapeshifter, he transforms right before your eyes into a whole cast of comic characters who explore the...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Peterson Toscano discusses the role of humor, how to discuss difficult topics, and strategies to shedding light on difficult issues.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ There’s a lot of conversation around the idea of deconstruction. For many of us, the categories that we inherited for understanding the world and our place in it are no longer convincing. The restlessness created by this destabilization has led to rethinking and reformulating our faith. The basic content of words, like God, Jesus, and Scripture, has been transformed. One key reason for this shift is the loss o...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Diana Butler Bass opens the day speaking about catching large fish in Caesars lake and taking his breakfast. Butler Bass describes our breakfast at the edge of the sea and how we can feast without fear.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Enjoy an interview with Randy Eddy-McCain. Randy serves as founding pastor of Open Door Community Church in Sherwood, Arkansas. He lives with his husband Gary and their son Bobby in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Hear Randy talk about his journey as a gay Pentecostal boy who always loved Jesus as he reconciled his faith with his sexual orientation and became a Pastor in the Bible Belt South. Randy is a true pion...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ When Emily Joy unintentionally launched the #ChurchToo campaign in November of 2017, she had no idea the ripple effect that would follow her sharing her story. Now, a year and a half out, join Emily to discuss what she's learned from advocating for sexual revolution in faith communities and to hear what's next for the movement. Issues of power and purity culture will be explored, and Emily will show how sexual...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ The decision to live authentically often comes with a hefty price tag. After the loss of a 23-year marriage, Matt Bays came out as a gay man. As a public figure (worship leader of a conservative mega-church of 7,000+ and nationally published author and speaker) the aftermath of this decision threw his life and career into a tailspin. While his book Finding God in the Ruins: How God Redeems Pain, was still lini...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ In traditional Goose fashion, Micky ScottBey Jones and Marthame Sanders touch on a few elements of Wild Goose that they are thankful for.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Creative Tensions is an interactive dialogue, a physically active, collective conversation where participants indicate where they stand on a question or issue by the place they stand in the room. Instead of the audience watching a speaker or panel discuss a topic, the Creative Tensions format invites the entire audience into the conversation, through movement. An interactive way to approach group conversation,...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ This session is a conversation with one of the well known “Nuns on the Bus,” a politically active group of religious Sisters who lobby at a federal level and speak truth to power as they traverse the country on a bus. Derived from encounters along the bus trips, the goal of the session is to explore how you can capture your unique power to influence policies impacting those who have repeatedly been left at the...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ People have questions they aren’t comfortable asking in their faith communities. They can be absurd curiosities or the deeply personal points of pain. What happens when a car turns on it’s headlights while traveling at light speed? Could God make a rock so heavy that God couldn’t lift it? How does cancer happen? What does science tell us about monogamy? How do I tell my family I don’t believe in God anymore? A...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ We're pretty solid on Christ's divinity in the church- we've spent a lot of airtime on that. But what about his humanity? If we talk about Jesus' humanity at all it's often apologetically. Based on my work in The Irrational Jesus I make a fully throated pitch for using what we know about cognitive bias, what Dan Ariely calls our "predictable irrationality" to highlight areas of Jesus' full humanity. In this ep...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ In this episode, musician Emily Musolino discusses music as a spiritual practice and sexism in the music industry. Emily Musolino is a Durham, NC native who mixes soulful vocals with shredding blues rock guitar riffs. The depth of emotion in her voice is stunning and her songs have a classic sound and lyrics that tell compelling stories. A Berklee College of Music graduate, Emily has opened for and collaborate...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ "Christ on the Psych Ward" is a story-sharing based on my experiences of mental illness, recovery, and faith. In telling my story, I weave together threads of personal experience, spiritual reflection, and ministry praxis. By ”going first” with my own story of mental illness and mental health, I open up the opportunity for other participants to share their own stories of mental health struggles in their person...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Storytelling is one way to chart our histories, and it can sometimes feel disconnected when we privilege our thinking over our body, which is historically the manner in which all life is lived. In this session, we learn how to re-story ourselves through somatic practice. Featuring Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza and Erin C. Law...
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Karen Stephenson and Marthame Sanders discuss church guardrails and what it means to do the work of the people in multiple church settings.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Adam Dyer discusses what it's like to bring one's own self to Wild Goose and what churches are "supposed to be".
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Kiya discusses her accomplished career in music and how it has become a spiritual practice.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Alexia Salvatierra and Micky ScottBey Jones discuss how people find their way to the Wild Goose Festival. Alexia Salvatierra discusses her journey from dance to Jesus.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ In this session, Stan Mitchell discusses his early beginning to preaching and his evolution to a theology based in truth.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ In this session, Hillary McBride discusses reclaiming the body as good and as the site of creativity, identity, health, sensuality, and divine communion.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Tevyn East discusses how we need to recreate and re-wild our liturgy to dismantle the schisms that have separated us from our body and from nature.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ What does it mean to be Christian? To take Jesus at his word is to love God with all we have and our neighbor as ourselves. Dr. Jacqui Lewis argues that to be Christian is to live life with the fiercest love—Love. Period. Ken Medema provides improvised musical response to this session.
Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/ Jacqui Lewis and Brian McLaren discuss the Galápagos Islands, the damage humans can do, and what happens when we take action.
