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Margins Speak with Vinod J. Wesley

In today's episode, we continue our series "Margins Speak," in which the Rev. Dr. Joshua Samuel speaks with theologians and activists from the Global South about how they are experiencing and responding to climate change and environmental destruction.

In this conversation, Rev. Samuel Speaks with Vinod J Wesley who is working on a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Chicago.

No Ashes in the Fire with Darnell Moore

Last week, EDS at Union hosted Darnell Moore for a public lecture and conversation in James Memorial Chapel at Union Theological Seminary. Today's episode of the podcast will be the audio of that event and the conversation between Dean Kelly Brown Douglas' and Darnell Moore.

Darnell Moore is an award-winning writer, a leading Black Lives Matter activist, and an advocate for justice and liberation. His recently released spiritual memoir, No Fire in the Ashes, Coming of Age Black and Free in America was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. In this book, he shares the journey taken by a scared, bullied teenager who not only survived but found his calling.

This conversation, as well as a lecture by Darnell Moore, can also be found on the Union Seminary YouTube Channel.

Exploring No Ashes in the Fire with All Saints Church

EDS at Union has selected No Fire in the Ashes: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell Moore as our community read. For this week's episode, Dean Douglas discusses Moore's book with The Rev. Mike Kinman and Juliana Serrano from All Saints Church in Passedina, California.

Similar to EDS at Union, All Saints has selected No Ashes in the Fire as their congregation's community read and will be hosting events at their church later this month.

Learn more about All Saints Church here - http://bit.ly/2QnZPlJ

Purchase No Fire in the Ashes here - https://www.darnelllmoore.com/book

 

Climate Justice with Karenna Gore

Dean Kelly Brown Douglas speaks with Karenna Gore, Director of Union's Center for Earth Ethics. They discuss the moral dimensions of our ecological crisis, how environmental issues are playing out in the presidential primary, and Karenna's recent New York Times op-ed.

The Center for Earth Ethics is an institute at Union Theological Seminary that envisions a world where value is measured according to the sustained well-being of all people and our planet. Learn more at their website www.centerforearthethics.org/

 

A Pilgrimage that Confronts Injustice & Crucifying Realities

Earlier this summer, Episcopal Divinity School at Union and The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest made a pilgrimage to Montgomery, Alabama to visit the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

Established by the Equal Justice Initiative, these sites are our nation’s first memorials dedicated to the legacy of enslaved Black people, those terrorized by lynching and Jim Crow segregation, and the ongoing threat of police violence and mass incarceration to African American men and women.

During the Pilgrimage, Kelly sat down with Rev. Anne Marie Witchge from the Church of Heavenly Rest, as well as Union students Carl Adair, Grace Aheron, and Galvin Mathis to discuss their experience on the pilgrimage.

Seeking Justice for Eric Garner

On this the fifth anniversary of the murder of Eric Garner, Dean Kelly Brown Douglas speaks with the Rev. Fred Davie, Executive VP of Union and the chair of the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) for the New York City Police Department. They discuss the Department of Justice’s decision to not pursue charges against the NYPD officer who placed Eric Garner in a chokehold, the next steps for the CCRB in pursuing justice, and the role of faith communities today.

Margins Speak with Rev. Dr. Jione Havea

In today’s episode, we will continue our series “Margins Speak” in which the Rev. Dr. Joshua Samuel speaks with theologians and activists from the Global South about how they are experiencing and responding to climate change and environmental destruction.

In this conversation, Rev. Samuel interviews the Rev. Dr. Jione Havea, who is a native Methodist Pastor from Tonga who serves as the research fellow at Trinity Theological College, Auckland, and with the Public and Contextual Theology research center at the Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Dr. Havea has recently edited two important works, Religion and Power and Scripture and Resistance, both available through Lexington/Fortress Press.

We reference two articles in the podcast:

 

Courageous and Just: The Rev. Mihee Kim-Kort

In a new interview series, Courageous and Just, The Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of EDS at Union and Trinity Wall Street’s Theologian in Residence, interviews bold voices of our time to explore the question, “What does a just society look like?” and to compel us to act on our moral imagination. 

The videos are available on the Trinity Wall Street website and the interviews will be posted in your EDS at Union Now podcast feed.

In our third episode, Dean Kelly Brown Douglas interviews The Rev. Mihee Kim-Kort is a Presbyterian minister and author of the recent book Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith.

Dean Douglas and Rev. Kim-Kort discuss the word and concept of queerness, which has not been traditionally used in the church. Kim-Kort believes Christians should be gesturing toward queer horizons, beyond the lines and structures society has drawn, not only to work toward a more just and equitable world, but also to become our most complete, restored selves. 

 

Courageous and Just: Rev. Canon Broderick Greer

In a new interview series, Courageous and Just, The Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of EDS at Union and Trinity Wall Street’s Theologian in Residence, interviews bold voices of our time to explore the question, “What does a just society look like?” and to compel us to act on our moral imagination. 

The videos are available on the Trinity Wall Street website and the interviews will be posted in your EDS at Union Now podcast feed.

n our second episode, Dean Kelly Brown Douglas interviews The Rev. Canon Broderick Greer, from the St. John's Cathedral in Denver, Colorado.

Dean Douglas and Rev. Greer tackle tough faith questions around of what it means for the church to stand in solidarity with victims of police violence in the streets of Ferguson, with those mourning the victims of a mass shooting targeting Jews inside the Tree of Life Synagogue, as well as with all “crucified classes.”

Courageous and Just: Austin Channing Brown

In a new interview series, Courageous and Just, The Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of EDS at Union and Trinity Wall Street’s Theologian in Residence, interviews bold voices of our time to explore the question, “What does a just society look like?” and to compel us to act on our moral imagination. 

The videos are available on the Trinity Wall Street website and the interviews will be posted in your EDS at Union Now podcast feed.

Kelly's first interview is with Austin Channing Brown, author of “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness.”

Austin Channing Brown shares insights from her book, and her life, about what it means to embrace blackness, reimagine self-identity outside of the framework of white supremacy, and how she is preparing her one-year-old son to both “love and resist.”