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Bethel Community SermonsSankofa: Going Back to Go Forward (Habakkuk 3:1-7) - Nichola TorbettHabakkuk reminds us that, when times are hard, we can look back to our ancestors and our own past to see that God always shows up. God has a track record with us. God can be found in the old covenant ways that our ancestors knew. We can go back and find courage to go forward in faith.2025-03-3116 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 12.3.23 Parting Gifts: Choices and Power and CommunityAs "The Word Is Resistance" podcast comes to completion, we are wrapping up with 4 special "Parting Gift" episodes. For this episode, enjoy a group conversation with OG contributors Rev. Anne Dunlap, Nichola Torbett, and Rev. Margaret Ernst, as they reflect on their how the podcast has changed them and what parting gifts they hope listeners take with them as we all go home by another way.
Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/2023-12-011h 07
Bethel Community SermonsCities of Refuge (Numbers 35:9-15)- Nichola TorbettGuest preacher Nichola Torbett continues our fall sermon series by inviting us into God's vision for cities of refuge, found in Numbers 35.
How might cities of refuge help break cycles of trauma and violence by offering space for pause and ceasefire? How might we both seek and become cities of refuge as a way to transmute the suffering and violence of our world into love and freedom?
Nichola Torbett is a spiritual seeker, recovering addict, gospel preacher, podcaster, writer, resistance fomenter, dog-walker, nonviolent direct action trainer, and aspiring race traitor. Driven by he...2023-11-2018 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 6.25.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Live Recording at NCNCUCC Annual GatheringJoin Jean Jeffress and Nichola Torbett as they talk to a live audience at the Northern Californa Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ Annual Gathering. We explain to people unfamiliar with the podcast what it is and what it does. And we have a conversation from Paul's letter to the Romans as part of our #WrestlingWithRomans series2023-06-2334 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 4.23.23 #FailureLab: On (Not) Recognizing ResurrectionHow do we recognize resurrection in a world that so rarely recognizes people as children of God? Join Nichola Torbett as she explores the failures and mistakes in the Emmaus Road story from the gospel of Luke.
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Bethel Community SermonsNichola Torbett: Luke 19:28-40: The Shouting of StonesGuest speaker Nichola Torbett shares the anticipatory grief and liberation expressed by the revelers and stones who welcomed Jesus as their indigenous King. 2023-04-0217 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 2.19.23 Ancestral Fears and HopesIn the Transfiguration story, Jesus meets his ancestors to resource him for the fight to come. Nichola Torbett reminds us that our ancestors are familial, spiritual, and also the land itself, and that we as white christians can and must also call on our ancestors to resource us in these challenging times.
Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/2023-02-1728 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 2.5.23 Remembering Our SaltinessWhat does it mean to be the "salt of the earth" and the "light of the world," in Jesus's teaching in Matthew 5? Join Nichola Torbett in this exploration of how white folks can remember and recover our own saltiness as we navigate towards freedom.
Transcript with action links available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/2023-02-0330 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 12.18.22 Love Ruptures InJoin Nichola Torbett for an exploration of the ways that patriarchy and white supremacy contribute to lovelessness in our body politic and what it means for love to be born anew amidst all of that. The focus scripture is Joseph's dream in Matthew 1: 18-25.2022-12-2123 min
Bethel Community SermonsNot Rules But Relationship (Acts 15: 5-21)- Nichola TorbettGuest preacher Nichola Torbett speaks to the ways that a convening in Jerusalem forever changed how we relate to rules…and each other. Have we gotten the message?
Nichola Torbett is a spiritual seeker, gospel preacher, podcaster, writer, resistance fomenter, dog-walker, and nonviolent direct action trainer. Driven by her passion for both spiritual formation and social change, she co-founded Seminary of the Street, a training academy for love warriors, in 2009 and Second Acts, a liturgical direct action affinity group, in 2014. She is co-editor of Resipiscence: a Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy and a frequent contributor to The Wo...2022-11-2118 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 10.2.22 #DisabilityJustice: Your Life Is Not A Debt To Be PaidDo you ever feel like you are not doing enough? Like you are not enough? in this episode, Nichola Torbett explores the ways that capitalism, ableism, and white supremacy culture encourage us to burn ourselves out in ways that, maybe not coincidentally, end up reinforcing those systems we are trying to dismantle. How does Jesus' teaching in Luke 17 offer an alternative way to 'build up a new world'?
Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/2022-10-0135 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 9.18.22 #DisabilityJustice: Unreasonable, Voluptuous Accommodations!Where do we turn when the bottom drops out? This week's episode with Nichola Torbett is about salvation in those moments and how we can begin building the safety net we need now, a safety net big and broad and voluptuous and "unreasonable" enough to support everyone. Join us!
Visit https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/ for transcripts, resources, and copyright information.2022-09-1628 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 8.21.22 #DisabilityJustice: Binding Ableism, Loosing Our Full PotentialSometimes this world weighs so heavily it can bend you over double.
What can we learn from Jesus' setting free of the bent-over woman (and the religious leader's annoyed response!) about what it means to get free? This is the question Nichola Torbett takes on in this week's episode. (Also, if you've ever wondered what the heck "binding and loosing" is, there might be a hint here.)2022-08-2025 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 7.3.22 #DisabilityJustice: Interdependence DayWhat if we celebrated, not Independence Day, but Interdependence Day this week?
Join contributor Nichola Torbett as she explores some of the fears, taboos, and blessings of having and acknowledging needs--our own and others--and working together to get them met. This episode places in dialogue Luke 10: 1-11 and 16-20 with some of the writings of disability justice organizer Mia Mingus.2022-07-0127 min
Bethel Community SermonsAll the Truth We Can Bear (John 16:12-15)- Nichola TorbettGuest preacher, Nichola Torbett preaches to our community from John 16:12-15 about the truths we cannot yet bear. She shares about the Spirit's work in tearing down self-protection that keeps us from flourishing, as well as the Spirit's work in speaking truth and expanding our worlds to bring greater freedom to all of God's people.
NOTE: We did have some tech difficulties at the end of the sermon so the sound gets a bit muffled.2022-06-1318 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 4.24.22 #MutualInterest: No Prisons Post ResurrectionJoin Nichola Torbett this week for the first in a series of episodes in which we explore our mutual interest, as white people, in dismantling white supremacy. This week, we meet up with Peter and the other apostles during a time when they were being heavily surveilled, policed, and frequently jailed. What can we learn from this passage about what it means to show up in the face of repression and to refuse to succumb to the divide-and-conquer tactics of the powers-that-be?
Transcipt available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/2022-04-2227 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 3.6.22 What Lenten Sacrifice? And To Whom?How can our Lenten practice contribute to collective liberation? And how might it inadvertently contribute to the shoring up of white supremacy? Join Nichola Torbett in this exploration of the relationship of personal spiritual practice to creating the world we long for. (Content note: This episode discusses relationship to food and fat phobia, with some reference to eating disorders.)
Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/2022-03-0430 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 2.27.22 Glory: The Antidote to SupremacyIn this week's episode, Nichola Torbett gets real about the impulse toward supremacy and offers up an antidote in the scriptural concept of "glory." (Hint: It's not what Bruce Springsteen was singing about.) Be sure to stay for an embodied practice of glory.
Transcript available here:
https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/2022-02-2529 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 12.5.21 Suddenly!Suddenly! Something’s coming. Something good. "Suddenly" is always right there, in the next moment, if we are willing to join in the heavenly host—the conspiracy of all that is—if we are willing to undergo the vulnerability we have been avoiding, if we are willing to step into the refiner’s fire.
Join Nichola Torbett for this dive into Malachi 3: 1-4 for the 2nd Sunday of Advent.
Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/2021-12-0328 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 9.19.21 James is DoneJoin Nichola Torbett (she/her) and Rev. Jean Jeffress (they/them) as they engage in a conversation on James 3:13 - 4:3, 7-8a about spiritual practice, checking our motives, and the ways white supremacy seeks to control us from the inside out.
Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/2021-09-1831 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 7.4.21 The Exceptional Character of the WooSometimes, when someone talks about a spiritual experience that seems "out there," I have dismissed it as "too woo." But what do we really mean when we call something "woo." Where does that designation come from? Who does it serve? And what political work does it do? Join Nichola Torbett in an exploration of the woo, in 2 Corinthians and beyond.
Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/2021-07-0227 min
Bethel Community SermonsMeant to Survive (Daniel 3:1-27)- Nichola TorbettGuest preacher Nichola Torbett speaks to us on Pride Weekend about the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and their refusal to bow to the false gods and oppressive narratives of Empire. What does their determination to resist an unjust status quo teach us about queerness? How might their witness stretch our imaginations around what resistance and worship look like in our lives today?
Nichola Torbett is a spiritual seeker, gospel preacher, podcaster, writer, resistance fomenter, dog-walker, and nonviolent direct action trainer. Driven by her passion for both spiritual formation and social change, she co-founded Seminary of th...2021-06-2816 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 5.2.21 This Is A Wilderness RoadThere is no well-paved highway between here and Beloved Community. Travel this week with Nichola Torbett out onto a wilderness road that might, just might, move us closer to the tender, tenuous possibility of mutual relationship and collaboration across racial lines. Warning: There are no perfect stories here!
Transcript available here: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html2021-04-2939 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 3.7.21 Signposts in the Wilderness: A Beauty That Will Break You OpenWe continue in our Signposts In the Wilderness series: What can we learn from each other - from our mistakes and misperceptions, from our places of pain and also our places of joy, which can guide us in this time as white Christians working for racial justice?
In this episode, Nichola Torbett feels around in this question: How do we create in our movements the kind of heartbreaking beauty that makes dismantling white supremacy irresistible for all white Christians?
The late Dr. Vincent Harding, elder and leader in the Black freedom movement, often spoke of “live human signposts” - people in o...2021-03-0534 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 2.17.21 Signposts in the Wilderness: Lent Self-Reflection(Ash Wednesday)For special episodes of The Word is Resistance, listen in as podcast contributors join in self-reflection in community with each other. What can we learn from each other - from our mistakes and misperceptions, from our places of pain and also our places of joy, which can guide us in this time as white Christians working for racial justice? For our first conversation, Rev. Anne Dunlap, Nichola Torbett, and Rev. Margaret Ernst, reflect on Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21, this years New Testament text for Ash Wednesday.
The late Dr. Vincent Harding, elder and leader in the Black freedom movement, often spoke...2021-02-1756 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 01.10.21 The Antidote to Terror Is CommunityIn a moment of national terror hiding behind giant crosses and "Jesus 2020" banners, it is more important than ever that we articulate as clearly and open-heartedly as possible the meaning we derive from the life, ministry, and death of Jesus. In this episode, Nichola Torbett explores baptism as a an entry point to a community of solidarity that has nothing to do with triumphalism and everything to do with vulnerability and risk.
Transcript available here:
www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word…nce.html2021-01-0933 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 12.06.20 #AbolitionAdvent: Demolition TimeWhat if COVID-19 is our King Cyrus, inviting us out on that highway back home to right relationship with sacred land, our God, and each other? What is the cost of our return, and how do we begin to pay it?
Buckle up; according to Nichola Torbett, "It's demolition time."
Transcript available here: www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word…nce.html2020-12-0325 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 11.22.20 Stir-Up SundayHow does white supremacy cloud our usual readings of the parable about the sheep and the goats? What are we to make of this idea of Christ as a ruler on a throne passing judgement? What sustenance might this parable give us for the marathon effort of holding president-elect Joe Biden accountable to the people? And what does all of this have to do with Christmas pudding?
To find out, join Nichola Torbett for this week's episode of The Word Is Resistance!
Transcript available here: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html2020-11-1833 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 10.25.20 Some of Us Did Not DieWe are in a time of much dying. How do we navigate it? What does it mean to get free of Egypt in such a time as this? Join Nichola Torbett in exploring these questions with help from the story of the death of Moses just outside the Promised Land.
Transcript available here:
www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word…nce.html2020-10-2325 min
Geez Out LoudI Asked the Redwoods by Nichola Torbett, Geez 57: CO2conspirators, Communing with TreesNichola Torbett walks dogs for a living in Oakland, California and engages in justice work to stay alive. In this episode, Torbett receives a message from the redwoods and reports back to us.
In Geez 57, we give space for trees to hold our weary beings. In this time of great uncertainty and change, the trees keep finding us here – wherever we may be.2020-09-1403 min
Faith Made WelcomeLonging For Life: Colorful, Abundant, Unbelievable LifeWith this episode, we wrap up the first series of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia. If you’ve been listening since Episode 1, you know that throughout the month of August we recorded podcasts offering an opportunity for folks in our faith community to further discuss topics from a special sermon series at our church.
That series, titled “What The World Needs Now,” invited guest activist preachers to give us their take on this theme. Today’s episode, which you can watch on our YouTu...2020-08-311h 05The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 8.2.20 Limping Into FreedomlandIn this week's episode of our #JourneysToFreedom series, Nichola Torbett explores Jacob's wrestling match with an eye toward trauma, midlife, bodies, and disability justice. Whatever the future holds, it is likely that we will not arrive intact. And maybe that's not a bad thing.
Transcript here: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html2020-07-3045 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 5.31.20 The New Wine of IntimacyThis week we sit with the heartbreak--the disciples' and our own. With contributor Nichola Torbett, we sit with our longing to be community together across racial lines, and we lament the all-to-real barriers to living into that. And we pray and lean into a trust that power is becoming available to us that will explode those barriers.
A transcript, including credits, references, and links, can be found at
www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word…nce.html.2020-05-2939 minThe Word Is ResistanceTWIR 4.26.20 Hands Wide OpenIt may be Eastertide liturgically, but it still feels very much like Good Friday right now. How can we hold the tension of crucifixion and resurrection in such a way that it releases us into a free-fall of repentance? In this episode, Nichola Torbett explores how the early church did just that, creating beloved community and a new economic reality.
The transcript is here: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html2020-04-2329 min
The Transform Network Podcast - A Progressive Christian PodcastResipiscence 2020 Lenten Devo #18 w/ Guest Nichola TorbettTuesday March 17 Today's guest is Nichola Torbett, a spiritual seeker, recovering addict, gospel preacher, podcaster, writer, resistance fomenter, dog-walker, nonviolent direct action trainer, and aspiring race traitor. Driven by her passion for both spiritual formation and social change, she co-founded Seminary of the Street, a training academy for love warriors, in 2009 and Second Acts, a liturgical direct action affinity group, in 2014. She is co-editor of Resipiscence: a Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy and a contributor to The Word Is Resistance, a podcast from SURJ-Faith and SURJ-Action, as well as to Jesus Radicals, The Yoke, and other r...2020-03-101h 19
The Transform Network Podcast - A Progressive Christian PodcastResipiscence 2020 Second Sunday Lenten Devo w/ Guest Vahisha HasanSUNDAY MARCH 8 Vahisha Hasan is a faith-rooted organizer working at the intersections of faith, social justice, and mental health. She is Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology 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, 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...2020-03-071h 12
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 12.01.19 Don't Miss the Ark for the WavesYes, a storm is coming, or rather, a storm is upon us. But someone's been building an ark! Listen in to hear how podcaster Nichola Torbett discovered Advent hope in the midst of an intense movement week.
Transcripts including references, copyright information, and additional resources can we found at www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word…nce.html.2019-11-2831 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 9.29.19 Speak, Lazarus, SpeakWhat if the only people who can see the way out of the crisis we are in are people we never listen to? What if our salvation, literally our salvation right here on this planet, relies upon our willingness to listen to what poor people have to say and to honor their self-determination?
In this episode, contributor Nichola Torbett seeks out the wisdom of Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia, formerly houseless founder of Poor Magazine/the Poor News Network and Homefulness, at a moment when the White House is threatening more concentration camps, this time for poor people.
Transcripts including references, copyright...2019-09-2431 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 8.18.19 Becoming FireThe fire of human sacrifice is raging, brought not by Jesus and not by the oppressed people who are rising up in resistance but by those who would worship at the altar of white supremacy and rely upon that idol for their safety and prosperity.
And we need to decide which side we are on.
This is what time it is.
Join Nichola Torbett for an exploration of what it might involve to fight fire with (refiner's) fire.
Transcript with action links here:
www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word…nce.html2019-08-1737 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 5.12.19 What Wondrous Love Is This?In this week's episode, Nichola Torbett shocks herself with a revelation about Revelation 7: 9-17 that leads her into an extended meditation on love, "ugliness," and surviving apocalypse.
Transcripts of every episode, with action links and more resources, can be found here:
https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html2019-05-0935 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 4.19.19 It's Good Friday In AmericaWe are in Holy Week, and the story of Jesus’s last days are full of anguish, betrayal, denial, Pilate’s cynical manipulation of the situation to extinguish a threat to Rome...and, love and solidarity and women who refuse to abandon Jesus. The story is full of humanity, at its best and its worst.
For Good Friday, three of our podcast contributors -- John Bergen, Nichola Torbett, and new contributor Sarah Jordan -- will be reflecting on the crucifixion of Jesus and of brown and Black people today. What does crucifixion mean in his day, and in ours? What does...2019-04-1738 min
The Transform Network Podcast - A Progressive Christian PodcastResipiscence - April 15 - Vahisha Hasan - Psalm of a Tired Black WomanThe 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...2019-04-111h 17
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 02.17.19 Of Courage and CursesPodcaster Nichola Torbett recently discovered, much to her dismay, that she actually "trusts in the flesh" more than in God, and that white supremacy nearly guarantees that. What does this have to do with blessings, curses, beatitudes, and collective liberation? Listen in to find out!2019-02-1429 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 1.13.19 Renouncing White SupremacyJoin Nichola Torbett in exploring the unclaimed radical power of baptism.
Transcript with credits, copyright information, and links to more resources available on our website: www.showingupforracialjustice.org.2019-01-1128 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 12.2.18 Everything's Coming ApartCan we find the courage to allow those things to collapse that must collapse in order for white supremacy and patriarchy to die?
In this episode, Nichola Torbett explores what our apocalyptic Advent text for this week has to teach us about radical letting go.
Find the transcript here:
http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html
The transcript with action links and references can be found here:
www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word…nce.html2018-11-3024 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 09.16.18 (2) Femme WisdomIn the age of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, #TimesUp, and so many other movements for justice, what does Wisdom, as a harbinger of the Divine Feminine, have to say to us about anger--its expression and reception?
Join Nichola Torbett as she explores this question in light of Serena Williams treatment at the U.S. open and the many movements currently afoot.
The transcript with action links and resources is here:
http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html
As always, the transcript of this episode is available on our website: showingupforracialjustice.org/podcast2018-09-1727 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 8.19.18 No More White Nationalist BreadDoes the progressive church have a meaningful alternative to offer that can counter the pseudo-meaning people derive from white supremacy and white nationalism?
In this episode, Nichola Torbett takes an honest look at what we need to develop and who we need to become as followers of Jesus in order to defeat white supremacy in the longterm.
Community Safety for All Campaign https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DmDS5v0zjHckC77nF4JJUJZPLkgZ9tVPmnc8aKgNgZ8/edit
SURJ Chapter List: http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/chapters-and-affiliates.html
Charlottesville Community Resilience Fund https://secure.actblue.com/donate/resilience-fund.
40 Ways to Fight Nazis http...2018-08-1531 min
"Tapp" into the TruthHow Do You Divest From the Police?For eight years, climate change activists lobbied President Obama to address global warming with everything from stronger regulations on greenhouse gases to rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. The efforts often, if not always, succeeded. But under the Trump Administration, they have all but given up on changing the president's mind. Instead, they're refocusing their efforts on cities and states, hoping to make global warming a local issue. Tom Harris, the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, will join me to talk about it. Standing on the front steps of First Congregational Church of Oakland late last month, Nichola...2018-06-142h 03
How Do You Divest From the Police?For eight years, climate change activists lobbied President Obama to address global warming with everything from stronger regulations on greenhouse gases to rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. The efforts often, if not always, succeeded. But under the Trump Administration, they have all but given up on changing the president's mind. Instead, they're refocusing their efforts on cities and states, hoping to make global warming a local issue. Tom Harris, the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, will join me to talk about it. Standing on the front steps of First Congregational Church of Oakland late last month, Nichola...2018-06-142h 04
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 4.15.18 Bodies MatterIn this episode, contributor Nichola Torbett muses about how the Easter appearance stories give us an opportunity to explore our relationship to bodies--our own and others'.2018-04-1120 min
The Word Is ResistanceLent Special 03.18.18 The Coming DayIn this Lenten episode of our podcast, we continue to hear from contributors to RESIPISCENCE: A LENTEN DEVOTIONAL TO DISMANTLE WHITE SUPREMACY. This week, Vahisha Hasan and Nichola Torbett discuss the lectionary scriptures for March 18 with four of this week's writers.
To order the devotional, visit www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore/
To learn more about the SURJ-Faith campaign "Community Safety for All," visit www.showingupforracialjustice.org/faith?pl…ootsuite
Here are more resources to support your work to end racialized policing:
Campaign Description Resource+FAQs: docs.google.com/document/d/1SP0Lb…lpgWTwY5mue8/edit
Political Ed Resource List: docs.google.com...2018-03-1359 min
The Word Is ResistanceLent Special 03.11.18 It's PersonalIn this Lenten episode of our podcast, we continue to hear from contributors to RESIPISCENCE: A LENTEN DEVOTIONAL TO DISMANTLE WHITE SUPREMACY. This week, Vahisha Hasan and Nichola Torbett discuss the lectionary scriptures for March 11 with six of this week's writers.
To order the devotional, visit www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore/
To learn more about the SURJ-Faith campaign "Community Safety for All," visit www.showingupforracialjustice.org/faith?pl…ootsuite
Here are more resources to support your work to end racialized policing:
Campaign Description Resource+FAQs: docs.google.com/document/d/1SP0Lb…lpgWTwY5mue8/edit
Political Ed Resource List: docs.google.com...2018-03-061h 02
The Word Is ResistanceLent Special 3.4.18 Whose Temple?In this Lenten podcast to accompany the devotional RESIPISCENCE: A LENTEN DEVOTIONAL TO DISMANTLE WHITE SUPREMACY, Vahisha Hasan and Nichola Torbett discuss the lectionary scriptures for March 4 with all seven of this week's writers.
To order the devotional, visit www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore/
To learn more about the SURJ-Faith campaign "Community Safety for All," visit www.showingupforracialjustice.org/faith?pl…ootsuite
Here are more resources to support your work to end racialized policing:
Campaign Description Resource+FAQs: docs.google.com/document/d/1SP0Lb…lpgWTwY5mue8/edit
Political Ed Resource List: docs.google.com/document/d/110e_1…1cHPvxyPD8Vg/edit
Counte...2018-02-2650 minThe Word Is ResistanceLent Special 2.18.18 That Same SpiritIn this first Lenten podcast to accompany the devotional RESIPISCENCE: A LENTEN DEVOTIONAL TO DISMANTLE WHITE SUPREMACY, Vahisha Hasan and Nichola Torbett discuss the lectionary scriptures with five of this week's writers.
To order the devotional, visit https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore/
To learn more about the SURJ-Faith campaign "Community Safety for All," visit http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/faith?platform=hootsuite
Here are more resources to support your work to end racialized policing:
Campaign Description Resource+FAQs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SP0LbKKEnnJm_IJq-SqkFRoxGgWXo_TlpgWTwY5mue8/edit
Political Ed Resource List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/110e_1...2018-02-181h 04
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 2.4.18 Healing As Civil DisobedienceIn this week's episode, Nichola Torbett discusses Jesus' healing miracles as nonviolent direct actions intervening in the social systems that create isolation and suffering.
Transcript available at showingupforracialjustice.org/podcast2018-02-0123 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 12.03.17: Fear and TremblingWhat does it mean that the "Son of Man coming on a cloud with great power and glory" is not white? (Because He's not.)
What if we really took that seriously? How would we spend this Advent? How might we reorient our lives?
The transcript for this episode may be found at http://showingupforracialjustice.org/podcast
Join Nichola Torbett in this exploration as we enter into this first week of Advent in Year B.
Check out the transcript with action ideas and resource links here: showingupforracialjustice.org/podcast2017-11-3025 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 9.24.17 The Meat Pots Of White SupremacyIn this episode, Nichola Torbett examines the "meat pots of white supremacy," the survival benefits we receive in exchange for participating in injustice and explores what would be required to walk away from them.
"The meat pots! I want to talk about these meat pots because they feel so familiar me! They stand in for something that at some level I think we all know about. The meat pots represent the tangible, material benefits—and we’re not talking about perks, or frivolous extras, but real survival benefits—that we receive in exchange for participating in exploitative and unjust systems. These...2017-09-2132 min
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 6.18.17 Freedom to RiskNichola Torbett takes on the potential power of "justification by faith" to root us in the humility and self-assurance needed to avoid white fragility and co-optation.
As always, resources for the call to action, references, and copyright/permissions info can be found in the transcript, which can be found here: http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/the-word-is-resistance.html2017-06-1324 min
The Iconocastthe Iconocast: Lynice Pinkard & Nichola Torbett (episode 55)In this episode Joanna interviews Rev. Lynice Pinkard and Nichola Torbett. Lynice is a pastor, teacher and healer in Oakland, California. Her work is dedicated to decolonizing the human spirit and to freeing people from "empire affective disorder." Nichola is a contributor to the Jesus Radicals blog and the founding director of Seminary of the Street in Oakland. She is committed to joining the move of God’s spirit against the physical and spiritual deadliness of American culture under corporate capitalism. Together they discuss the national conversation on race and racism and the roles of people of color and whi...2015-07-1551 min
Spirit in ActionNichola Torbett - Network of Spiritual ProgressivesNichola Torbett is National Organizer for the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP). She conveyed powerfully the vision of NSP as she spoke in Eau Claire on October 19, 2006, helping crystalize the formation of a local chapter, here in the Chippewa Valley.2008-12-1455 min