Resipiscence 2019 - Dismantling White Supremacy Lenten Devotional

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.

Maren C. Tirabassi is white. Her most recent book is A Child Laughs – Prayers for Justice and Hope, an anthology with seventy-seven writers from eleven countries. She is a guest preacher, new author mentor, and workshop facilitator with prison inmates, new English speakers, and cancer and dementia patients. 

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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.

Vahisha Hasan is a faith-rooted organizer working at the intersections of faith, social justice, and mental health. She is an Assistant Professor of Human Services at Memphis Center for Urban and Theological Studies (MCUTS) and the Executive Director of Movement in Faith, a project of Transform Network. She is a powerful public speaker, transformative facilitator, social justice trainer, minister, and writer with a deeply prophetic voice and imagination for how faith communities can be an active part of collective liberation. She co-edited Resipiscence 2018 and 2019 with Nichola Torbett and is grateful for every contributor and reader that yearns for a better expression of faith and more depth in our demand for justice.

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Resipiscence - April 15 - Vahisha Hasan - Psalm of a Tired Black Woman

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.

Onleilove Chika Alston is a faith-based community organizer, speaker and writer. In 2014, she founded Prophetic Whirlwind: Uncovering the Black Biblical Destiny, a teaching ministry which bloomed into a book. She ministers often in West Africa and is passionate about connecting Hebrew communities in Africa with the diaspora for greater Biblical understanding. A native New Yorker and former foster child, she knows the gospel is truly good news to the oppressed.

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Resipiscence - April 17 - Onleilove Chika Alston - Same Fear

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.

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esipiscence 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.

Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, this minister believes in putting boots to the ground. Min Tennille Power has been active in the anti violence movement for over 20 years. She identifies as a womanist and is driven by her passion in counseling and education. She is a certified trauma informed yoga instructor, a therapist and an educator, and in her spare time she raises her three sons to make a difference in the world.

Resipiscence - April 20 - Tennille Power - Holy Saturday

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

Monday March 23

Amanda Emily Smith is a queer Black woman born and raised in New Orleans. She writes on motherhood, sacred sexuality and New Orleans. 

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 #23 w/ Guest Amanda Emily Smith

Wednesday March 25

Sophia Hayes-Jackson is a recent graduate of Pacific School of Religion where she earned her MDiv and Certificate of Spirituality and Social Change. Sophia is currently the HIV/PrEP Navigator at Roots Community Health Clinic in East Oakland, moderator of the NCNC UCCBay Association, and clergy lead for WOSA (Women of Spirit Action), a women’s ministry group in the Christian Church Disciples of Christ. Sophia hopes to become a prison chaplain; she is also founder of Phoenix Outreach, a recovery and reentry program fostering restoration and transformative change.

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 too late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Resipiscence 2020 Lenten ANNUNCIATION Devo #25 w/ Guest Sophia Hayes-Jackson

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. 

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 #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

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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