The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. 

Sought after for his perspectives on spirituality, social justice, and contemporary culture, Earle J. Fisher earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from LeMoyne-Owen College and a Master of Divinity Degree from Memphis Theological Seminary. He served on the Pastoral staff at the Miss. Blvd Christian Church as an Associate Minister for two years where he earned the title “Pastor Cool.” In 2018 Pastor Earle earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Communication from the University of Memphis and currently serves as Senior Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. 

Dr. Fisher is an Adjunct Instructor of Religion and Humanities professor at several local colleges in Memphis. He was selected as an outstanding UNCF Historically Black College and University (HBCU) alumnus and inducted in the 2012 Hall of Honors class. He is a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha, husband of one wife, Denise, father of one son, Jalen, believer in one God, and friend and mentor to many.

Resipiscence - March 11, 2019 - Earle J. Fisher - The Prophetic Possibilities of Prayer

RESIPISCENCE 2019 A Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. 

Regina D. Clarke has Masters degrees in Divinity and Christian Education with an emphasis in Ethics and Social/Restorative Justice from Samuel Dewitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. She has a heart burst for the Deaf, the Hard of Hearing, the abused, and those who are “forgotten or discarded” by mainstream society. Her thirst for connecting the community and the church has led her to serve in prisons, domestic violence shelters, and the community-at-large to ensure no person -- despite their past, abilities, or status -- would be denied the opportunity to learn about Jesus and walk faithfully with their God. She currently serves on the ministerial staff of Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis.

Resipiscence - March 19, 2019 - Regina D. Clarke - Signs and Shout Outs!

RESIPISCENCE 2019 A Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. 

Minister Ciarra Smith-Bond serves as the Young Adult Ministry Leader at Faith Community Baptist Church. She is a wife, mother, probation officer, and community advocate with a calling be a conduit for liberation and rehabilitation. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminology and a Master of Divinity from Samuel Dewitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. 

IG: bottomless_acheiver 
Facebook: Ciarra Smith-Bond 
Twitter: @godsfav611

Resipiscence - March 22, 2019 - Ciarra Smith-Bond - Vineyard Chronicles

RESIPISCENCE 2019 A Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. 

Dr. Stacy L. Spencer is the Senior Pastor of New Direction Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Spencer’s Kingdom mindset led to the development of Eden Square Town Center, a community model intended to reinvigorate a Memphis food desert. Dr. Spencer is the author of 3D Relationships: Three Relationship Dimensions to Lead You Into Your Purpose and U-Turn: A 12 Step Guide to Spiritual Transformation. He is chairman of the board for Power Center Community Development Corporation. Dr. Spencer earned a Doctorate of Divinity from Drew University, a Masters of Divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Bachelors from Western Kentucky University He and Rhonda Spencer are the proud parents of four sons, Calvin, Omari, Jordan and Jaden.

Resipiscence - March 29, 2019 - Stacy Spencer - The Pain of a Shameful System

RESIPISCENCE 2019 A Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network.

Rev. Jeanelle Nicolas Ablola is a second-generation Filipino American, queer, trans, neurodivergent, anti-imperialist, and is currently serving at Pine UMC, San Francisco. They are rooted in the movement for national democracy in the Philippines and regularly lead solidarity trips to the country. They are Co-Chair of the UMC Cal-Nev Philippine Solidarity Task Force (PSTF) and a member of the National Ecumenical-Interfaith Forum for Filipino Concerns - NorCal (NEFFCON). They serve Christ through serving the People. 

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChrHe2ED-QIG9wx3TfB7Ncw

Resipiscence - April 3, 2019 - Jeanelle Nicolas Ablola - Economies of Anointing

Resipiscence 2019: A Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network.

Dr. Carolyn Yvette Baldwin is an ordained minister at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church (MPBC) in Alexandria, VA. As a trained psychologist, she has developed a skill and passion for teaching others about the impacts of disabilities and trauma. She has an earned Ph.D. in Counseling and Educational Psychology w/minors in Neurological Psychology and Assessments from Loyola University as well as a M.Div. from The Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology (STVU) at Virginia Union University. 

Facebook: @CarolynBaldwin

Resipiscence - April 8 - Dr. Carolyn Yvette Baldwin - Anthem of Assurance

Resipiscence 2019: A Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network.

Regina D. Clarke has Masters degrees in Divinity and Christian Education with an emphasis in Ethics and Social/Restorative Justice from Samuel Dewitt Proctor School of Theology. She has a heart burst for the Deaf, the Hard of Hearing, the abused, and those who are “forgotten or discarded” by mainstream society. Her thirst for connecting the community and the church has led her to serve in prisons, domestic violence shelters, and the community-at-large to ensure no person -- despite their past, abilities, or status -- would be denied the opportunity to learn about Jesus and walk faithfully with their God. She currently serves on the ministerial staff of Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis.

Resipiscence - April 19 - Regina D. Clarke - Thinking While Thirsty

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network.

Songwriting is how Tracey Howe cultivates her own humanity as she passes through a world largely condemning and diminishing of the beauty, interconnections and vulnerability that come with being human. She writes, “I was not born into a socio-political location that caused me to struggle for justice. I was born both addicted and blind to the privilege and power that global exploitation, militarism and racism hold in place for a few. Thank God I had music. My early touring career brought me across the continental United States and many parts of Central and South America. The songs opened pathways of relationships and the relationships seeded new songs about the lived realities of people in many different places and the struggles for life and justice everywhere.  Now, 20 years after I started writing songs for public performance and community building, I feel some responsibility as an artist to document what I see happening, to demonstrate and declare the movements of liberation alive in the world. Songs born out of the contemporary movements for liberation in the world today can be the fruit of and seeds for justice and beauty now and in the generations to come.”

Things That Grow, Howe’s latest project, includes songs documenting the disturbing and destructive realities around us, from fracking to the New Jim Crow, to violence against the most vulnerable. The music also illuminates something deeper (and truer) about our living connections. Things That Grow ignites the soul with messages of strength, resistance, and human connection. This social gospel soul album recorded with an extremely talented set of Memphis rock musicians, celebrates humanity, beauty and resilience.

Resipiscence Featured Artist - April 21 - Tracey Howe - Things That Grow

Today's guest is Yvette R. Blair, a Methodist elder serving in Dallas, a food justice activist and a doctoral of ministry student at Memphis Theological Seminary where she is focusing on the intersection of faith, food apartheid and the displacement of Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples. A fellow of Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative, she is also a 2017 fellow of Princeton Theological Seminary’s Black Leadership Theology Institute. She is a writing coach and editor. Connect with her at yvetteblair.com,
@YvetteRevYBlair on Twitter, and on IG preachergirl716.

Vahisha Hasan, founder & executive director of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's a daily accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.TransformNetwork.org. 

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Resipiscence 2020 - Lenten Ash Wednesday Devo #1 w/ Yvette Blair

Today’s guest is Danielle J. Buhuro, an ordained clergy member of the United Church of Christ, currently serves as a CPE Supervisor at two hospitals in Chicago. As an African American queer/same-gender-loving person, Danielle Buhuro is committed to activism in the areas of race, gender and sexuality. She is currently a Ph.D student at Chicago Theological Seminary where her dissertation focus is social media violence specifically against Black heterosexual women, Black transgender women and Black Muslim women. Danielle Buhuro is also an author, recently publishing Spiritual Care In An Age of #BlackLivesMatter: Examining the Spiritual and Prophetic Needs of African Americans in a Violent America. You can find Danielle on Facebook at Danielle J. Buhuro and on Twitter @DaBuhuro1. More info on her book is on Facebook at BlackCareMatters.

Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 Lenten Devo #4 | w/ Guest Danielle J. Buhuro

Today’s guest is Monica Leak. She has a bachelors from Appalachian State University and graduate degrees from South Carolina State University, North Carolina Central University and the John Leland Center for Theological Studies. She edits and writes for Faith of our Founders: 100 Daily Devotionals to Inspire, Encourage and Propel the Finer Woman. She has contributed to Lenten devotionals The Road to Calvary: Surviving a Season of Suffering and Resipiscence: A Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy 2018 and 2019. Her most recent work, No More Hashtags: Remembrance and Reflections, pays tribute to those whose lives were lost to police brutality. Monica currently works as a speech-language pathologist and as a seminary librarian. 

Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 First Sunday Lenten Devo w/ Guest Monica Leak

Today’s guest is Kimberly Mark, a heart-centered, justice-seeking, pursuer of grace. Now several years into the business of deconstructing the faith that’s defined her, she is finding freedom through liberation theology and storytelling. Kimberly lives in Oakland where she practices massage therapy, tutors math, and generally helps people live their best life. Find her on IG @lilokimiko and FB @kimsiumark. 

HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 Lenten Devo #5 w/ Guest Kimberly Mark

Today’s guest is Rev. Lucy Waechter Web, a white anti-racist newly returned to her home in Michigan and is looking for opportunities to make good trouble. She most recently served Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Memphis, TN, where she also served as the Vice-President of MICAH (Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action & Hope). She is ordained in the PC(USA). You can find her on Facebook @lucy.waechterwebb and her email is lucyappel@gmail.com.

HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 Lenten Devo #6 w/ Guest Lucy Waechter Webb

Friday April 3

Francisco Herrera is a classically-trained violist and orchestra conductor, speaks four languages, and is a passionate agitator for the Gospel. When he’s not doing other Christians’ dirty work or desperately trying to complete his PhD studies at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, he loves to write worship and devotional music and cook for people. If you wanna support him further, become a subscriber via his Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/PolyglotEvangel), effectively helping him to keep his nose in a book and his hands out of trouble.

HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 Lenten Devo #33 w/ Guest  Francisco Herrera

Saturday April 4

Sandhya Rani Jha serves as founder/director of the Oakland Peace Center, a collective of 40 organizations working to create equity, access and dignity in Oakland, California. A multiply-published author and widely requested public speaker and anti-oppression trainer, Sandhya’s 20+ years of community organizing experience position her to help cultivate sustainable social movement work. An ordained pastor with a masters in public policy, Sandhya is comfortable in the pulpit, on the picket line or hanging out with friends over a good cup of tea and a story.

HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 Lenten Devo #34 w/ Guest Sandhya Rani Jha

Sunday April 5

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian) working class woman and the first Black woman Executive Director of the Highlander Research & Education Center, a historic social justice leadership training school and cultural center. Ash-Lee is a long-time activist working against environmental racism and for workers rights, racial justice, and women’s and LGBTQUIA+ rights across the South. She serves on the governance council of the Southern Movement Assembly and is a nationally recognized leader in the Movement for Black Lives.

HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 Passion Sunday Lenten Devo w/ Guest by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

Rev. Alba Onofrio and Yaz Mendez Nuñez are queer Latinx Southerners whose commitments are to love, joy, and the struggle for liberation. They serve as the Co-Executive Directors of Soulforce, a national organization whose mission is to end the religious and political oppression of LGBTQI people by sabotaging white Christian Supremacy through relentless nonviolent resistance. Soulforce’s theory of change rests on the idea that healing from religious-based trauma and building up Indomitable Spirits across movements will grow in us the agency and resiliency we need to combat ideological violence and build a New Creation that offers all of us whole and abundant Life.

HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

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Resipiscence 2020 Lenten Devo #36 w/ Guests Alba Onofrio and Yaz Mendez Nuñez

R. C. Ferguson, an unconventional minister, is focused on faith, community uplift, and social change. She’s presently an outstanding author and a fantastic educator by trade. Her literary works include poetry, devotionals, children fiction, and Christian fiction. All of her works, no matter the genre, are faith-based and inspirational. Ferguson is a proud alumni of Fayetteville State University and has continuously pursued multiple educational opportunities. However, the labels she esteems most are that of loving wife and doting mother. You can find her on Facebook at R. C. Ferguson, on Instagram at rcferguson716, and on Twitter @RFerguson716.

HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 Lenten Devo #37 w/ Guest R. C. Ferguson

Cindy Cushman is a Presbyterian minister currently serving as Transitional Pastor at Corydon Presbyterian Church in Corydon, IN. Along with her work in the church, she is active in public education advocacy through the organization Dear JCPS. She and her husband are the parents of 2 biological children and 3 children adopted from foster care. They live in Louisville, KY. You can find Cindy on Facebook or @cushmancindy on Instagram or @ccush69 on Twitter.

Natalie Cushman is a sophomore at Western Kentucky University double-majoring in Film Studies and Diversity and Community Studies. She is currently doing a semester abroad in Gaborone, Botswana. You can find Natalie at https://www.facebook.com/natalie.cushman, on Twitter @gnat_cushman, and on Instagram @gnataliecushman.

HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 Maundy Thursday Lenten Devo #38 w/ Guest Cindy & Natalie Cushman

Dr. Teresa L. Smallwood earned a B.A from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Juris Doctor from North Carolina Central University School of Law, a Master of Divinity at Howard University School of Divinity and a PhD at Chicago Theological Seminary. She is the Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Director of the Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative at Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is licensed and ordained and serves as Social Justice Minister at New Covenant Christian Church in Nashville, TN.’ Find her on Facebook at Teresa Smallwood and on Twitter @YAMSIsrael.

HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 Good Friday Lenten Devo #39 w/ Guest Teresa L. Smallwood

Kathryn V. Stanley is an Atlanta-based educator, writer, editor and public theologian. Her writings appear in a number of publications. Kathryn supports both youth and adults in enhancing their writing skills. Most recently, she served as writing coach to a group of women who participated in a writing intensive with Dr. Renita Weems at the Collegeville Institute. An intergenerational daughter of teachers and preachers, Kathryn was educated in the public schools of Washington, DC, Spelman College, the University of School of Law, and the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She serves in ministry at the Ebenezer Baptist Church and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. You can connect with her at katstan29@gmail.com or Sisterscribe on Facebook. 

HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 Lenten Devo #41 w/ Guest Kathryn V. Stanley

Velda Love serves as Minister for Racial Justice in The Justice and Local Church Ministries of The United Church of Christ National Office in Cleveland, OH. The goal of her work is to dismantle and eradicate racism by understanding the role and intent of the creation of colorism categories, the construction of whiteness , and people of color myths. Velda brings an African-centered, black liberation, and Womanist approach to the Bible and theology, placing God at the center of life and faith.

Resipiscence 2020 Bonus Devo #42 w/ Guest Velda Love

Rev. Jeanelle Nicolas Ablola is a second-generation Filipino American--queer, trans, neurodivergent, anti-imperialist--and is currently serving at Pine United Methodist Church, San Francisco. They are rooted in the movement for national democracy in the Philippines and regularly lead solidarity trips to the country. They are Co-Chair of the UMC Cal-Nev Philippine Solidarity Task Force (PSTF) and a member of the National Ecumenical-Interfaith Forum for Filipino Concerns - NorCal (NEFFCON). They serve Christ through serving the People. Subscribe to their podcast here: https://gomburza.podbean.com/.

HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. 

BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

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