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A Miniature World with Binnie KleinA Miniature World with Binnie Klein January 1 2026 What I LovedWhat is it about New Year's? Signaled by a day? I picture an enormous hourglass--a yearly one-- turned over by a giant force. Another next chance--your seemingly endless chunk of time will too soon dissolve like the grains of sand dripping through the glass. But we are pleased for more, always wanting more! We may or may not meet the resolves we set -- I say forgive yourself ahead of time! Here are some artists I've loved; some discovered in 2025. C'est le vent, Bettye/Gabriel Yared, Adrian Jodorowsky/Dancing to the Radio, Ben Sollee/A Change is Gonna Come...
2026-01-012h 55Right There With You
Right There With YouLook Back At It: 2025 in ReviewIt’s the end of 2025 and 2026 is “coming in hot,” so Ciarra and Cass take a breath and do what we all say we’re going to do… but rarely actually do: look back at the year with honesty. They unpack the messy mix of grief and growth, the pressure Black women carry to be “perfect,” and how burnout shows up in the body (including Ciarra’s vocal nodules). From hustle identity to community care, they explore what it means to build a life that’s not just productive, but humane.The episode closes with a powerful “sacred dissent” exch...
2025-12-1737 minRight There With You
Right There With YouHell, Whiteness, and the Myth of Punishment: A Conversation with Tamice Spencer-Helms & Brian ReckerWhat if God was never a punisher—and hell was never the point?In this powerful episode of Right There With You, hosts Cass Cooper and Ciarra Jones sit down with public theologians Tamice Spencer-Helms (Faith Unleavened) and Brian Recker (Hell Bent) to explore how fear, whiteness, and Christian supremacy have shaped American Christianity and the spiritual lives of millions.Together, they unpack:How hell theology produces fear, shame, and controlWhy a punitive view of God leads to a...
2025-12-0250 minRight There With You
Right There With YouThe Male Gaze is NOT Ministry: Feminism, Faith, and the Fight for Sacred AgencyIn this episode of Right There With You, Cass and Ciarra tackle the uncomfortable truth: the male gaze is not ministry. From pulpits to platforms, patriarchal theology has long defined what holiness looks like—especially for women and queer folks.Together, they explore how deconstruction, feminism, and faith intersect when the church’s obsession with purity, power, and performance collides with real people’s lives.The conversation dives deep into spiritual grooming, gendered accountability, sexual repression, and performative forgiveness, asking: what happens when control is mistak...
2025-11-1842 minRight There With You
Right There With YouThe Price of Peace: What Divorce Taught Me About Boundaries, Burnout and Bank AccountsDivorce doesn’t just cost money—it costs peace, time, and sometimes, your sense of self. In this solo episode, Cass shares how she spent three years and $60,000 leaving her marriage—and why she would pay it again. Through data, lived experience, and quiet truth-telling, she unpacks what divorce taught her about boundaries, burnout, and the real price of peace.✨ Sacred Descent Prompt: Have you ever had to pay for your peace—in love, work, or life?🌿 Find Cass & Ciarra Online✨ Instagram: @RightThereWithYouPod✨ Patreon: patreon.com/thecommunitygarden✨ Cass: iamcasscooper.com...
2025-11-1111 minRight There With You
Right There With YouWhat the SNAP: Food Security, Policy Violence, and White Christian NationalismIn this punchy, needed conversation, Cass and Ciarra name what’s happening to families when SNAP benefits are paused or cut: systemic policy violence. We reframe how we talk about “violence” in the context of food access, connect the dots between shutdown economics and hungry kids, and call out the gap between faith-in-words and care-in-action. We also offer practical ways to show up right now—mutual aid, local giving, and community care—while challenging the narratives that blame the most vulnerable. If you care about food security, social justice, and policy reform, this e...
2025-11-0440 minRight There With You
Right There With YouYour Partner is Your Biggest Career DecisionWeddings, work, and the “soft life.” Cass and Ciarra unpack why your partner may be the most consequential career decision you’ll ever make—and how to choose love that amplifies, not extracts. They dig into emotional labor in cis-hetero dynamics, what’s different in many queer partnerships, and the realities of going from solo to building a business with your person. Then they redefine success beyond hustle, talk nervous-system-friendly ambition, and share “sacred descent” practices for finding joy along the way.✨ Highlights• Partnership that accelerates (or stalls) your career• Emotional extraction vs. equitable love• Soft life energ...
2025-10-2929 minRight There With You
Right There With YouHR is Not Your Friend?: Debunking Workplace Myths About Safety, Trust, and PowerCass and Ciarra sit down with an HR professional to unpack what HR really does — and what it doesn’t. They explore how to navigate toxic culture, when to go to HR, and how to advocate for yourself without losing your peace.This episode digs into the myths of HR, the reality of workplace power, and the importance of humanizing leadership. From FMLA and ADA to conflict resolution and emotional boundaries, this is a grounded, eye-opening guide to protecting your well-being at work.Sacred Descent Prompt: How do you stay huma...
2025-10-2153 minRight There With You
Right There With YouEmpathy Culture: Auntie Audre vs. Auntie BrenéWelcome to Episode Two. Cass and Ciarra unpack the tension between Brené Brown’s vulnerability and Audre Lorde’s survival. They explore how empathy culture so often misses the mark for Black women and what real well-being at work looks like when safety isn’t guaranteed.🌿 Find Cass & Ciarra Online✨ Instagram: @RightThereWithYouPod✨ Patreon: patreon.com/thecommunitygarden ✨ Cass: iamcasscooper.com | TikTok @just_cass2.0✨ Ciarra: ciarajonesconsulting.com | TikTok @thegardeningtheologian
2025-10-1435 minRight There With You
Right There With YouBeyond Survival Mode: Black Women, Burnout, and Forced Career PivotsCass and Ciarra open Season Two by tackling burnout, corporate culture, and what it means for Black women to thrive at work. From soft skills as strategy to AI literacy and career pivots as superpowers, this episode blends healing 🌱 and strategy—reminding us that joy and authenticity are resistance.✨ Instagram: @RightThereWithYouPod✨ Patreon: patreon.com/thecommunitygarden✨ Cass: iamcasscooper.com | TikTok @just_cass2.0✨ Ciarra: ciarajonesconsulting.com | TikTok @thegardeningtheologian
2025-10-0741 minRight There With You
Right There With YouSeason Two: Black Women and the Business of BeingThis season, we’re centering Black women and work — corporate work, creative work, emotional work, and the sacred act of finding rhythm in the middle of it all. 🌿Cass and Ciarra dive into the realities of Black women thriving in systems not built for us, unpacking the weight of burnout, rising layoffs, and the illusion of DEI progress. Together, they explore how to navigate career, identity, and wellness while still living right there with you — in the mess, the healing, and the hope. 💫🌈 Honest voices. Sacred dissent. Real talk about work, womanhood, and...
2025-10-0702 minSome Place Under Neith
Some Place Under NeithWTF LDS Interviews: Ciarra JonesWe speak with deconstructing theologian and lovely human Ciarra Jones about church culture and whether religious ideology can impede on caring for your fellow (wo)man.Follow Ciarra @thegardeningtheologianKnow of a missing woman's case that needs attention? Contact us at someplaceunderneith@gmail.com.Some Place Under Neith produced and edited by Adam Wirtz and Last Podcast Network. Artwork by Kevin Conor Keller, intro song "Subway" by Lunachicks, remixed by Devin Castaldi-Micca.Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to ad-free new episodes. Subscribe to SiriusXM...
2025-10-021h 01Right There With You
Right There With YouGrief, Growth & the Sacred DetourGrief, Growth & the Sacred DetourLike most things in life, we started this episode headed in one direction… and then life, in all its realness, rerouted us.This was supposed to be part one of a convo on heteronormativity (don’t worry—we still owe y’all that part two). But grief had other plans. The kind of grief that shows up uninvited and remakes you from the inside out. The kind that asks you to pause, reflect, and sometimes crumble—so you can rebuild something softer, stronger, and truer.In this bonus epis...
2025-09-0957 minRight There With You
Right There With YouGender, Queerness, and the Myth of NormalThis week, Cass and Ciarra sit down for an unfiltered conversation on heteronormativity, gender identity, and what it means to build intimacy and relationships outside of the boxes we were handed. From first crushes to unlearning shame, they explore how societal expectations around sexuality, gender performance, and “normal” love stories often leave people disconnected from themselves and each other.Together, they unpack how queerness can be a portal to truth, how grief and growth often arrive hand-in-hand, and why challenging the “default” isn’t about rebellion—it’s about sel...
2025-09-0946 minRight There With You
Right There With YouWho Encourages the Encourager?This one’s for the ones holding it all together… and quietly falling apart.In this powerful episode of Right There With You, Cass and Ciarra dig into the real story behind burnout—how it's not just about being tired, but about being overextended in systems that were never meant for us. Drawing from Cass’s keynote on intersectional burnout and women’s mental health, they unpack the emotional, cultural, and spiritual costs of being seen as “resilient” all the time.💡 What if rest isn’t selfish, but sacred? What if burnout isn’t a personal failure, but...
2025-09-0938 minRight There With You
Right There With YouRewriting the Narrative with Lyndsey HoffmanHey beautiful humans ✨We’ve been holding this one close, recording in May, and now it’s time to share it with you.This week on Right There With You, we’re joined by our soul friend and truth-teller Lyndsey Hoffman for an episode we’re calling “Rewriting the Narrative.” Together, we talk about the stories we’ve inherited—about gender, faith, identity, silence, and survival—and what happens when we start to question them.This conversation is tender. It’s bold. And it’s filled with the kind of honesty that only com...
2025-09-0950 minRight There With You
Right There With YouWhat's Blooming, What's Dying?We’re getting our hands in the dirt this week—literally and spiritually. Our newest episode of Right There With You is called:“What’s Blooming, What’s Dying: Garden Lessons for Life, Spirit & Sacred Cycles.”In this one, Ciarra (your wise auntie in the garden) and Cass (budding dirt experimenter with many questions 😂) talk about how gardening mirrors our own journeys:🌱 Why blooming doesn’t always look like we imagined🪓 What pruning teaches us about letting go🧘🏾‍♀️ How nature slows us down to hear from the Creator🕊️ And what it means to compost the past without sha...
2025-09-0936 minRight There With You
Right There With YouPerfect Praise? Black Girl Church Recovery🎙️ Perfect Praise: Black Girl Church Recovery & Spiritual Reclamation is live now!This episode is about the sacred, messy, sometimes painful process of reclaiming your spirit outside of church walls. We get real about shame, queerness, belonging, and what it means to build a spiritual life rooted in truth—not tradition.📝 For our paid Patreon members (saplings, seedlings, and gardeners alike), we’ve created a downloadable journal sheet with prompts to guide your own deconstruction and reclamation process. Think of it as a soft landing for big questions.✨ Not a paid member yet? You can still list...
2025-09-0947 minRight There With You
Right There With YouSoft Places to Land for the 92%Episode Two is live! 🎙️✨This one’s tender, bold, and rooted in truth.In this heart-to-heart, we (Cass & Ciarra) dig into the fertile, messy, and magical ground of self-identity, relationships, and what it means to be a Black woman navigating a world shaped by misogynoir and constant expectation. 🖤We talk about: 🌬️ The pressure to perform (especially in self-employment)💔 The grief that comes with self-acceptance🌈 The joy that grows when we find people who see us🛌🏽 Rest as a form of resistance👭🏾 The power of soft landings with friends who get...
2025-09-0941 minRight There With You
Right There With YouFrom Friends to MothersIn this first episode, we invite you into the heart of our friendship and the vision behind this series. We talk about what it means to build something from love and transformation—especially as two Black women navigating healing, growth, and the layers of showing up as our whole selves.🎙️ This is where we begin: raw, honest, and rooted.🌿 We hope this episode makes you feel seen.Less alone.More held.We hope you hear echoes of your own story in ours.💬 After you listen, we’d love for you to drop into th...
2025-09-0846 minBethel Community Sermons
Bethel Community SermonsNaming God from the Margins: The Power of Queer Theological Imagination (Matthew 16:13-20) - Ciarra JonesGuest preacher Ciarra Jones joins us on Pride Sunday to examine Jesus' question to his disciples- "Who do you say that I am" - and the invitation to the holy work of naming. How might the act of naming God- particularly from the margins- invite us into a more expansive understanding of who God is and move us toward greater love and liberation for all?
2025-06-2414 minHoly Smokes: Cigars and Spirituality
Holy Smokes: Cigars and SpiritualityGrieving The Loss of Certainty ft. Ciarra Jones, The Gardening TheologianKristian and the crew are joined by Ciarra Jones to discuss the struggle of losing certainty as you deconstruct your faith. Subscribe to Patreon Here: https://www.patreon.com/tfcvirtual Get merch here: https://thefaithcommunity.org/merch-store Order Breaking All The Rules here: https://www.holysmokesmovement.com/batr-book-order Order The Sin of Certainty by Pete Enns here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25816844-the-sin-of-certainty   Video Chapters 00:00 - Intro and Highlights  04:08 - Welcome 07:35 - The One Rule 09:22 - Name a belief you on...
2025-01-151h 24Queerly Overthinking
Queerly Overthinking“Race & Gender In The Workplace” (Bonus)Episode 019 (Bonus): BONUS EPISODE! Join Adam in a special part 2 episode with guest Ciarra Jones, MTS, and podcast producer Cass Cooper. In this episode, they’ll be discussing the intersection between race, professionalism, and the perception of competency.Tune in as they extend the conversation beyond the season finale, offering insights and thought-provoking discussions on the impact that your voice, body, and presence have in a professional environment.Amazon Book Recommendation (Affiliate Linked)Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan CottomVisit www.QueerlyOverthinking.com, and join the community @QueerlyOverthinking on...
2023-12-0122 minQueerly Overthinking
Queerly Overthinking“Post Pentecostal Queer”Episode 017: Adam and Cass invite Ciarra Jones to the podcast to reflect on her upbringing in a Pentecostal community and the profound impact it had on her journey to self-discovery. This episode explores the intersection of queerness and faith, with Ciarra sharing her experiences of deconstructing and reconstructing her beliefs, along with insights into how these processes relate to one's queer identity.During this conversation, they delve into the challenges Ciarra faced as she grappled with her identity, discussing the valuable lessons she learned along the way. Discover the resources and support networks Ciarra has...
2023-09-2932 minthe strut talk: outlooks with ozi!
the strut talk: outlooks with ozi!nurturing "self" in the workplace feat. Ciarra Joneson this episode, Ciarra Jones joins us to discuss how to thrive in the workplace without compromising our authentic selves. find more information about her extraordinary work and her writing: https://ciarrajoneswritingconsulting.com tik tok: @thegardeningtheologian
2023-03-2350 minMind Your Own Salvation
Mind Your Own SalvationIn The Garden w/ Ciarra JonesThis episode is a continuation of Breaking Gender Roles! However, since the topic has shifted, it felt best to make this its own episode. We discuss the natural ebbs and flows of seasons, mourning when a season has ended, rejoicing when a new one begins, and what to do when you find yourself in the cusp of a beginning and an end. Enjoy! To learn more about Ciarra, please visit the following websites: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thegardeningtheologian Website: https://ciarrajones.com/
2023-01-2218 minMind Your Own Salvation
Mind Your Own SalvationGet The Strap!: Breaking Gender Roles in SeminaryIn this episode, Ray Roberts speaks with special guest Ciarra Jones, a writer, educator, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion consultant who has earned her Master of Theological Studies at Harvard University. Today, we'll be addressing the question, "Why do people feel comfortable stifling women in ministry?" To learn more about Ciarra, please visit the following websites: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thegardeningtheologian Website: https://ciarrajones.com/
2023-01-2223 minShort Cuts
Short CutsTomorrowProgramming a stand up comedian, learning to challenge ideas of perfectionism through tending a garden, and poems looking towards a more empathetic future. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring our visions of the future. S.E.I.N.F.E.L.D. Produced by Ross Sutherland Originally produced for Imaginary Advice Learning/Unlearning Featuring Ciarra Jones Produced by Erisa ApantakuThe Missing Featuring Roger Robinson Produced by Alia CassamProduction Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam Produced by Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
2020-09-1528 minMy Racist Friend
My Racist FriendEpisode 2.18: Soul SurvivorAmy reflects on the childhood memory shared by Don in the previous episode and the difficulty in reconciling racism in someone she loves. Together, they revisit a painful moment for Don at an awards program in which they both participated, and Amy tries to reconcile the racism she carries. Additional resources: "The Violence of white (and non-Black PoC) Apologies" (Medium, by Ciarra Jones, June 9, 2020) https://medium.com/@ciarrajones/the-violence-of-white-and-non-black-poc-apologies-d1321c0ccb8e "Fact Check: 'Irish Slaves' meme repeats discredited article" (Reuters, June 19, 2020) https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-slaves/fact-check-irish-slaves-meme-repeats-discredited-article-idUSKBN23Q1LQ "...
2020-06-2848 minRevolution or Bust
Revolution or BustEp370 Not Just the Syllabus, Throw the Whole Discipline In the Trash--Supremacy in Higher EducationNot Just the Syllabus, Throw the Whole Discipline In the Trash--Supremacy in Higher Education Howell Underground on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ALrQNOIs04v_7y6yTAY6g/videos #ReStartHigherEd #SupremacyInHigherEd Ciarra Jones - Not Just the Syllabus, Throw the Whole Discipline In the Trash https://medium.com/the-faculty/not-just-the-syllabus-throw-the-whole-discipline-in-the-trash-777d19201cb5 Contact me directly: https://www.facebook.com/allen.kit.howell https://twitter.com/HwlUnderground --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revolutionorbust/support
2020-06-2509 minPhDivas
PhDivasS04E19 | No Degree Is Worth Your Soul: Ciarra Milan's Queer Womanist TheologyGrad school is trash for POC. The whisper campaign of academic trauma. Ciarra Jones's essays went viral in 2018, drawing from her experiences during her MA at Harvard Divinity School. This is not just about white antiBlackness or white fear about speaking out, but also how BIPOC students can internalize their own oppression and undermine others under the guise of care. PhDiva Xine learns from Ciarra about the hope, grace, and love those in progressive circles can get from faith practices like queer womanist theology. @ciarra_milan: Ciarra Jones is a master's candidate at Harvard Divinity School studying African and African...
2019-04-3049 minHarvard University
Harvard UniversityCiarra Jones '19 - November 15, 2018 | Morning PrayersMorning Prayers service with speaker, Ciarra Jones '19, Harvard College, November 15, 2018.
2018-12-0312 minHarvard University
Harvard UniversityCiarra Jones MDiv I - April 12, 2018 | Morning PrayersMorning Prayers service with speaker Ciarra Jones MDiv I, Harvard Divinity School, April 12, 2018.
2018-04-1711 minMorning Prayers | Memorial Church
Morning Prayers | Memorial ChurchCiarra Jones MDiv I - April 12, 2018 | Morning PrayersMorning Prayers service with speaker Ciarra Jones MDiv I, Harvard Divinity School, April 12, 2018.
2018-04-1711 min