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The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields76. Sarah Wineland - How Can Divorce Bring Me Both Devastating Pain And Deep Joy?Welcome to Episode 76 of the Kinship collective Podcast, We are ending otherness and cultivating kinship through content and community! How do we deal with forced evolution? What happens to us when all the circumstances of our lives change in an instant? How devastating is it to have to grieve the future we wanted? What is it like to realize that future was never meant for us? Sarah Wineland joins us this week to share about her divorce and evolution into her truest self. She shares about how being betrayed wa...2023-11-2155 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields75. Andrea Cammarota - How Can We Experience God In Crisis?Welcome to episode 75 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, We are ending otherness and cultivating kinship through content and community! How do we listen well to our bodies? How do we move from crisis to crisis in tune with what is most true about ourselves and the world around us? Andrea Cammarota joins us this week to help us understand how to do this a bit. Andrea is a board certified Chaplain, a Pastor, Church planter and most importantly for our conversation today a Spiritual Director. We’ll talk a bit about her story and the wo...2023-11-141h 11

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields74. Reimagine - Is This Justice or Genocide?Welcome to Episode 74 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship! I have been overwhelmed and at times paralyzed by all the death happening in Gaza. I have found myself feeling like nothing else really matters right now. In this episode I'll share some of what I'm feeling, 2 ideas that have really disturbed me, and a system for addressing situations like this in our lives. I intend for this episode to contribute to constructive engagement toward justice and centered peace for us all! Join our...2023-11-0725 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields73. Patty Krawec - How I Went From Being Evangelical To Being an Indigenous Person Of Faith?Welcome to Episode 73 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship! Does Christianity no longer feel like home to you? Are you finding it difficult to integrate intersectional identities in the “borderlands” of your life? Then you’ve come to a helpful conversation with Patty Krawec. She’s the author of an incredible book “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call To Unforgetting The Past And Reimagining Our Future.” She shared about her faith journey from Evangelical Christian to “Anishinaabe of faith” and we talk about how deeply colonization blinds us to our past and future...2023-10-311h 27

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields72. Dana Ayoob Leota - How Can You Be Palestinian And Cultivating Compassion For The "Other" Amidst This Genocide?Welcome to Episode 72 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship! Are you finding it hard to wade into the conversation about what is happening between Israel and Palestine in the Middle East right now? This week Dana Ayoob Leota joins us to talk about her family's history in the region and how she’s choosing to engage right now. Dana exemplifies the maturity to be generous to those who disagree and talks a lot about how “othering” is a huge part of the conflict and the reason there is still s...2023-10-241h 08

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields71. Cindy Scharkey - Do You Have a Healthy Sexual Relationship With Yourself?Welcome to Episode 71 of The Kinship Collective Podcast! Do you have a Sexual Relationship With Yourself? Okay a little context, many of us come from conservative families and religions that never gave us permission to enjoy our bodies or worse made us responsible for how others engaged with their own bodies. This week we get to talk with RN/RGN Cindy Scharkey about her mission of helping people experience, express and enjoy their sexuality! Our conversation will give you really personal transformational insight into sex as well as really practical tactical ways to make su...2023-10-171h 03

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields70. Reimagine - What's The Difference Between Evangelical Christianity and Progressive Christianity?Welcome to Episode 70 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together! Quick announcement, We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort this Thursday October 12 at 7:30. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transformational work, and reimagine faith together. You can find more information about Cost and curriculum at www.thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort . This week we talk about the fundamental difference between Evangelic...2023-10-1019 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields69. Johnny Giovati - What's The Difference Between Demon Possession And An Anxiety Attack?Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together! We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort on Thursday October 12 at 7:30. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transformational work, and reimagine faith together. You can find more information about Cost and curriculum at www.thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort . This week we have a conversation with Johnny Giovati. Johnny is a behavioral assistant...2023-10-031h 04

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields68. Dr. Alma Zaragoza-Petty - How Can I Own My Inner Bada** For Healing And Justice?Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together! We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort on Thursday nights at 7:30pm pst starting October 12. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transformational work, and reimagine faith together. You can find more information about cost and curriculum at www.thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort . This week we have a conversation with Dr. Alma Zaragoza...2023-09-261h 02

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields67. Laine Kelly Sims - How Can I Grow From Insecure To Confident?Welcome back to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. We are back to our core focus of having conversations with people that remind us of our connectedness and our kinship. This week we have a conversation about faith with my sista Laine Kelly Sims. She’s a VO actor who has evolved to meet the many challenging moments in her life and career. She generously shares her story and her tears as we talk about going from insecurity to confidence. Then we reflect on Psa...2023-09-191h 06

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields66. Reimagine - What's Love Got To Do With It?Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us Saturday September 9th for our first annual "Kinship Family Reunion Fundraiser"! We'll gather to eat good food, drink good drinks, play family games, Electric-Slide, and do some storytelling and fundraising for The Kinship Collective! The Eventbrite will be coming soon but consider this your "Save The Date". Love has been the focus of the Christian narrative for thousands of years, but why? Let's reimagine Jesus' baptism and how i...2023-07-2519 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields65. Reimagine - Can I Really Change What I Believe? Pt. 4Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us Saturday August 26 for our first annual "Kinship Family Reunion Fundraiser"! We'll gather to eat good food, drink good drinks, play family games, Electric-Slide, and do some storytelling and fundraising for The Kinship Collective! The Eventbrite will be coming soon but consider this your "Save The Date". As we continue our conversation about how to change deeply held understandings of God we talk about the final step in the p...2023-07-1817 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields64. Reimagine - Can I Really Change What I Believe? Pt. 3Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us Saturday August 26 for our first anual "Kinship Family Reunion Fundraiser"! We'll gather to eat good food, drink good drinks, play family games, Electric-Slide, and do some storytelling and fundraising for The Kinship Collective! The Eventbrite will be coming soon but consider this your "Save The Date". As we continue our conversation about how to change deeply held understandings of God we share in depth about the single most i...2023-07-1120 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields63. Reimagine - Can I Really Change What I Believe? Pt. 2Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. We still have spots available for our fall Reimagine Cohorts! We’ll spend time reimagining the context and significance of the Old Testament! Our participants have raved tearfully about how meaningful the time together is! Join us by clicking on the link and registering https://thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort . Change continues as we educate ourselves around the areas we want to change. As desire rises up we can seek out learning that contrib...2023-06-2717 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields62. Reimagine - Can I Really Change What I Believe? Pt. 1Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. We still have spots available for our fall Reimagine Cohorts! We’ll spend time reimagining the context and significance of the Old Testament! Our participants have raved tearfully about how meaningful the time together is! Join us by clicking on the link and registering https://thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort The beginning of change is desire. Learning what our habits and actions tell us about what we really desire, or what we really desired when we were children. But there is a...2023-06-2018 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields61. Reimagine - Are There Necessary Endings?Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that "ends otherness" and cultivates kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. THIS SATURDAY! Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda! Join us for a conversation about creativity and identity and creating the world we intend for generations to come with an artist who has grown through various transitions! Let’s talk about it together! Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kinship-night-ft-mark-fields-propaganda-ahsohn-the-dj-tickets-633619983427 This episode we begin a conversation about necessary endings. We talk about the ways our lives get intertwined with peop...2023-06-0618 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields60. Justin McRoberts - How Can I Actually Rest?Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that "ends otherness" and cultivates kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda! On June 10th join us for a conversation about creativity and identity and creating the world we intend for generations to come with an artist who has grown through various transitions! Let’s talk about it together! Register today for a donation of whatever works for you at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kinship-night-ft-mark-fields-propaganda-ahsohn-the-dj-tickets-633619983427 This week we are joined by Justin McRo...2023-05-301h 02

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields59. Reimagine - What Is The Bible?In our Reimagine Cohort we keep bumping up against the tension created from what we believe about the Bible. This week let's begin a conversation about what the Bible is, what it's intention is and what we can do to cultivate a healthy expectation of what the Bible invites us toward. Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda! On June 10th join us for a conversation about creativity and identity and creating the world we intend for generations to come with an artist who has grown through various transitions! Let’s talk about it toge...2023-05-2322 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields58. Lorinda Hawkins Smith - Can I Thrive After Homelessness?This week we are joined by Lorinda Hawkins Smith! She is an incredible storyteller and Artivist! She shares her story of going from child actor and model, to adult actor, to domestic abuse survivor, to embracing homelessness and then creating thriving for herself now! She shares practical ways we can be a part of individual and systemic change for the “pandemics” that create homelessness. Ultimately Lorinda reminds us we can be more empathetic toward our siblings experiencing homelessness and our sisters and brothers in general. ***Trigger warning - there is a moment where Lorinda will describe some of the domestic abuse th...2023-05-161h 13

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields57. Reimagine - Does Your Inner Child Have Your Driver's License?Do you ever wonder if you are living in the wrong story? I dont mean living the wrong life, but allowing the wrong story to shape how you perceive and live your one and only life. I know I sometimes allow ways I've made meaning as a child to shape how I make meaning as an adult, and it doesn't serve me toward flourishing. In this episode I'll share about how our inner child came to get the driver's license of our lives and what we can do to mature toward creative living. Join...2023-05-0925 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields56. Dr. Jeff Liou - What Does Christianity Have To Do With Critical Race Theory?If you google search “Christianity and Critical Race Theory” you’ll see several harmful pages first. These pages are trying to prevent critical thought around the racist systems that oppress. Our conversation this week invites you to think critically and introduces an incredible resource to do so. Dr. Jeff Liou joins our conversation to share about his new book “Christianity and Critical Race Theory”. We talk about early memories of racism and discrimination and what it feels like to get rooted in the person and work of Jesus in the midst of White Nationalistic Evangelicalis...2023-05-021h 04

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields55. Kevin Bishop - Can God Help Me Heal From Abuse?Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Today we were joined by Kevin Bishop, a teacher, Gay Rights Activist and recent Christian. He tells his story of encountering God during a season of unbearable grief. He shares how this loving god is so much different than the God he heard about as a kid growing up in Canada. * We will make mention to sexual trauma in this episode, we wont talk any details but if even the mention of trauma triggers you, this may be an episode to take slowly * If thi...2023-04-1857 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields54. Reimagine - Jesus Isn't Coming To Save YouWelcome to The Kinship Collective Podcast! We are ending otherness! We are cultivating kinship through storytelling, scripture and service! This week we continue our solo conversations to speak to the ways our "faith of origin" can create a codependence on God that disempowers us and prevents us from flourishing in ways Jesus never intended. If this episode is disorienting for you and you are looking for a space to process something that was sparked, I know just the thing. A lot of what was shared this episode comes from conversations had around a table in c...2023-04-0419 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields53. Lucca Petrucci - Is It Painful To Be Authentic?Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation where people who have been wounded by faith can reimagine it together! This week we get to hang with Lucca Petrucci! Lucca (he/him/his) is a Youth Inclusion and Empowerment Coach and Speaker, the host of the podcast Free to Be with Lucca, a Brand and Marketing Consultant, and an LGBTQIA+ Advocate. Our conversation centers on the reality that it sometimes costs a lot and hurts a lot to be authentic! Lucca shares his journey of coming out and how he has learned to “belong to hi...2023-02-141h 07

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields52. Reimagine - How Can We Grieve Tyre Nichols?Welcome to The Kinship Collective Podcast! We are a community where people marginalized by faith can reimagine it together. This week we are starting something new called a “Reimagine Episode” where I will have a solo conversation to speak into current events and reimagine some ideas that keep us divided and feeling "othered". This week we reflect on the deaths of Tyre Nichols and Charlie Mack. Then, we reflect a bit on Habakkuk 1:2-6 and the power of our imagination to create the world we experience! Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen...2023-02-0332 min

Free To Be with LuccaThe Choice We Have to Heal From Our Pain & Transform it Into Self-Acceptance & Love Instead of Transmitting it & Hurting Others w/ Mark FieldsToday, my friend Mark Fields and I have a very important and vulnerable conversation about pain, something we all experience in life. We talk about the understanding, resilience, freedom, and peace on the other side of pain if we choose to do the hard and intentional work of becoming aware of it, accepting it, and healing from it. We discuss the choice we have to heal from our childhood and adulthood pain, and to transform it into self-acceptance and love instead of transmitting it and hurting those we love.We also dive into how to b...2023-01-201h 14

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields51. Dr. Christy Bauman - Did Mary Consent to Christmas?What if Mary didn't consent to Christmas? What if when the angel approached her, honoring her with the awe and wonder that they did, and she said "NO"? This week we have a really meaningful conversation with Dr. Christy Bauman. Christy is an author, teacher and psychotherapist. A mother of 4, fierce dreamer and passionate about advocating for women. She spends most of her time researching and working at the intersection of shame and sexuality in women. We talk about her book “Theology from the womb” and the beautiful understandings of God made uniquely possible by honoring the femal...2022-12-201h 07

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields50. Savannah Rae Carrreno - Am I Really A Christian?What do you do when the label and the beliefs that used to describe you well, no longer hold up for you? This week we have an exploratory conversation with Savannah Rae Carreno, an incredible sista who researches the impacts of American religion and founded Please Elaborate. We talk about her hospitable upbringing and her decision to no longer identify as Christian. Then we think about Paul and his choice to name the unnamed God in Acts 17:22-34. Follow Savannah's work and learn more Please Elaborate at https://pleaseelaborate.co/. You can follow her on i...2022-11-151h 17

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields49. Phil Allen Jr. - Can Justice Work Be Both/And?We all really want justice that transforms communities and makes things equitable and enjoyable for everyone! This week we have a meaningful conversation with PhD candidate Phill Allen Jr., who researches and writes on issues at the intersection of theology, ethics, race and culture. We talk about his newest book “The Prophetic Lens- The Camera and Black moral agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier” and discuss, prophetic criticism that unveils problems with power and energizes those in the margin. Then we think through these issues scripturally by reimagining Exodus 5. Follow Phil's work and learn more abou...2022-11-081h 22

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields48. Michelle White - What Would Housing Equity Look Like?Every human needs a place to call home, a place they belong to that also belongs to them, whether they own it or not. This week we had an incredible conversation about housing equity with Michelle White. After Michelle obtained her Juris Doctorate from Rutgers she served the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, eventually focusing on several housing related roles. Michelle is now the Executive Director of Affordable Housing Services, a non-profit specializing in producing units affordable for low and very low-income persons with disabilities, persons of color and families. Michelle shared a beautiful vision of wha...2022-11-011h 03

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields47. Liz Staszak - Will I Continue To Hide My Disability?We have all chosen to hide our flaws rather than be fully seen at one point or another. Many of us have matured to a point where we chose to be fully seen and fully loved instead of putting on a mask to gain conditional acceptance. Our guest this week shares her story. This week we had an incredible conversation about disability with Liz Staszak. Liz shared with us her experience of growing up disabled and her “coming out” moment, where she chose being fully seen over pretending to be able bodied. We talked through difficult tensions around...2022-10-111h 03

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields46. Sammy Hammork - How Can Small Beginnings Make A BIG Difference?What if you followed that passion in your heart two steps forward? What would those two small steps be and what could be the outcome? This episode is about the dignity and compassion that is unleashed when we follow our compassion in the face of fear! Sammy Hammork started the Precious Kids Center by caring for one child with disabilities in Kenya. Her organization now serves hundreds of kids daily, making sure they have access to healthy nutrition and nurturing care. Then we reimagine Exodus 4:10-13 and experience the tension of the image of God within our s...2022-09-271h 12

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields45. Kendall & Deven Hollimon - How Does The Story I've Been Told Hold Up In Real Life?What does it really mean that God has “a plan” for our lives? Is it disempowering? Does knowing God has a plan give us more agency and creativity, or does it disempower us as we wait for God’s movement? This week we get to hang with Kendall and Deven Hollimon. Two young professionals who share their journey of faith and how their Christian beliefs have evolved after high school in the real world of college and career. We reimagine the very popular scripture Jeremiah 29:11 and think about the power of choice. Subscribe to Deven's youtub...2022-09-131h 11

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields44. Angela Lee - How Does Having Had An Abortion Effect How I Experience Roe's Overturning?Empathy and solidarity for us look like listening to the voices of our sisters experiencing this moment and following their lead as they define reality and invite us to fight alongside them. This week we get to hang with Angela Lee, she's a pastor and the executive director of Harambee Ministries. Angela shares her own experience of having an Abortion at 23, what she’s feeling around the overturning of Roe v Wade, and the kind of healing community that “held her instead of harming her”. Then we reimagined 1 John 1:9 and the process of healing from shame. Foll...2022-06-281h 31

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields43. Frankie Velasquez - How Can I Overcome The Pressure To Be Someone I'm Not?This episode we get to hang with Frankie Velasquez! Frankie is the Community Pastor at New Abbey church and shares his story of navigating his family's impossible expectations of gender roles. He goes on to share how he landed in this Jesus community and theology that invite him to simply be himself and be celebrated. Then we reimagined John 8:30-32 and the freedom that comes from a God who does not condemn. *Trigger warning* - Frankie will talk about moments where he felt like harming himself or taking his own life for a brief portion of the c...2022-06-2154 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields42. Rocky Roggio - When Did The Word "homosexuals" Get In The Bible?The word “homosexual” didn’t find its way into any translations of the Bible until 1946. This episode we get to talk with Sharon "Rocky" Roggio who is the executive producer and director of “1946 The Movie”, a documentary about when the word homosexuality was first translated into the Bible and how. Rocky shares some of her story in the entertainment industry and about the personal fortitude, grace and maturity it takes to remember that both the oppressor and the oppressed are victims of bad theology. Then we reimagined 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and the kind of reality we are living into. 2022-06-1458 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields41. Candice Czubernat - How do I come out?It feels impossible to let others into the deepest places in our lives, the places where we feel they wont understand us, can't be with us, or won't be for us. This gets even more impossible when it's something as innate and core to our identity as our sexuality. This week Candice Czubernat, the Founder of "The Christian Closet" and licensed Therapist, joins us again (check out episode 18) to talk about a few things to consider when coming out. Candice shares about "internalized homophobia" and the ways our identities become fragmented by the fearful voices of judgement su...2022-06-0747 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields40. Mark Chase - How Do I Know It's God?Harmful understandings and practices of who God is make us question our ability to trust in our encounters with God. These harmful beliefs about God also undermine who we are and make us question ourselves! This episode's guest talks about his journey of theological evolution and how he measures whether or not something is aligned with God. Mark Chase is an Episcopal Priest, poet, writer and emcee who joins us to share his journey toward an understanding of God marked by love and liberation. We get into distinct characteristics of God and how we can sense whether or...2022-05-171h 18

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields39. Inés Velasquez-McBryde - Why Did God Let THAT Happen?Many of us have faced experiences in life that call the way we see everything into question. Some experiences cause us to question the very nature of who God is and force us to re-cognize who we are, how we can heal and how we show up in the world. This week Ines Velasquez-McBryde invites us into the trauma of losing her mother in a plane crash when she was a child and how that and the subsequent loss of her father’s emotional presence to clinical depression distorted the image she held of God. She shares ab...2022-04-261h 15

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields38. Marcos Canales - How Do Colonial Ideas Distort Jesus?Shame, confusion and frustration can bubble up when we wake up to the harmful colonial ideas about faith and leadership learned simply by existing in Western faith spaces. Many of our ideas about the kingdom of God have been intermingled with ideas of colonization like leaven working its way through the bread we've learned to make during quarantine. Marcos Canales joins us this week to talk about his new book “Las Casas on Faithful Witness” which takes a critical look at the life of Father Bartolome De Las Casas and his transition from unjust understandings of God to an...2022-04-191h 19

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields37. David "Naked Pastor" Hayward - What's Happening To My Faith?Sometimes we experience something that changes everything about how we understand God. It can be reading a book that takes everything you thought about the bible and upends it, like our guest. It can be experiencing "Church Hurt" and tracing that to harmful beliefs about God and one another. Our guest describes it as corrupt code in computer software that changes everything. This week We get to talk with David “Naked Pastor” Hayward! He is an artist and former pastor who shares his journey from traditional church leadership and theology toward a more spacious and liberated perspective of God...2022-04-051h 11

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields36. Lisa Barrios - How Can I love My Immigrant Neighbors?With everything going on at the borders of Poland and Ukraine and continued need to support unaccompanied minors at the border of Mexico and The United States, we reached out to a friend to get a closer narrative to what it means to love our immigrant neighbors. This week we talk with Lisa Barrios, a close friend and justice advocate focusing on issues of justice at the borders. She shares a powerful perspective about policy and institutionalized love and embodies individual love and honor for her neighbors. Then we reimagine Leviticus 19 and think about our legal responsibility t...2022-04-011h 02

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields35. Gail Song Bantum & Brian Bantum - How Can I Make My Marriage Flourish?Marriage is hard... really hard! Two people enter into a life-long promise to love one another as both people continue to change, grow and become. Two people bring their whole selves into an incredibly intimate relationship where cultural realities clash and sparks fly. Our ethnic identities, personalities and family of origin baggage all gets unpacked in the context of marriage. Our guests this week have written a beautiful book that takes a nuanced approach to partnerships of all kinds and speaks truth, love and hope! Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum join us to share about their new...2022-03-221h 18

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields34. Melody Gurguis-Ofili - What Does the "Western" Church Demand of Me?Several times in this convo the idea that something is understood to be true but never really clearly communicated comes up. Religion and church can be a place where we experience a lot fo pressure to acquiesce parts of our identity to conform to tenets of White supremacy and heteronormativity just because it's in the air. What if God is a beacon of diversity and all the diversity we see around us is God's reflection? This week Melody Gurguis-Ofili joins us to share her experience as an Egyptian-American woman who spent her whole life code switching from he...2022-03-151h 41

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields33. Candice Marie Benbow - What Is Red Lip Theology?What do you do when Sunday morning church culture and the story it tells is no longer enough? What do you do when you are reconciling passion for Hip-Hop, Beauty Supply Stores, The Divine 9 and Theology? What do you do when you lose your entire immediate family in one tragic moment? Our guest this week wrote a book about it and we get right to it! Candice shares about her new book "Red Lip Theology" and how she's found an invitation to live into a more vulnerable truth within the "totalizing" losses and traumas she has experienced. She...2022-03-081h 10

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields32. Dea Jenkins - How Does Discovering Purpose Change Everything?What's your purpose? This is a HUGE question, one many of us have trouble articulating and have fears about responding to. It has implications for where we spend our time, how and what we are hoping to accomplish and most importantly who we hope to become. Our guest was asked this question and it changed everything! Our guest this week is Dea Jenkins. She's become an interdisciplinary artist who's curating spaces for others to encounter healing through "Inbreak", the non-profit she founded and directs. We talk about her discovery of purpose, how her journey has unfolded and abou...2022-03-011h 16

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields31. Andre Henry - Why Can't I Keep All My White Friends?As we grow we can find ourselves at odds with some of the people who have helped us get to this point. The wake of Trump's presidency and George Floyd's lynching have created extraordinary tension in relationships that seemed meaningful. We have found ourselves drawing new lines in the sand and wondering who will really be with us? Our guest this week is Andre Henry! He's a prolific singer-songwriter, author and activist inviting us to imagine and fight for the world that ought to be. We get to talk about his forthcoming book "All The White Friends I co...2022-02-221h 33

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields30. Brandi Miller - How Can I Reclaim My Theology?We are flat out asking bigger and better questions. We have access to so much more information and our relationships are growing more and more diverse in ways that call our understanding of God into question. However, religion and spirituality are such deeply held beliefs that changing them can be disruptive and disorienting. Our guest this week is Brandi Miller, the founder and host of the "Reclaiming My Theology" Podcast, and we get into it. Brandi is such a thoughtful and empathetic presence along the journey of folks trying to take their understanding of God back from ideas and syst...2022-02-151h 10

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields29. John Williams - How Can We Continue The Work of Racial Reconciliation?George Floyd's murder galvanized many of us to take the work of racial reconciliation more seriously. The challenge is the work is really long, really up-hill and really hard. Our guest this week, John Williams, has been at this work for over 30 years. He is a lawyer, professor, civil rights activist and the Director for the Center for Racial Reconciliation at Fellowship Church. We talked about what this work has cost him over the years and the guiding principles that have allowed him to maintain a level of emotional well being along the way. Then we reimagined Matthew 5:38-42 and J...2022-02-081h 01

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields28. April Diaz - How Can I Flourish After Being Fired?Whether you've been fired or not, you know the sting of rejection, feeling unaligned with a company you're working for and the tension that can create all around. Our guest this week shares about how being fired from her job ended up unleashing her into a new dream! Meet April Diaz, she is the Founder and CEO of Ezer + Co. which is a coaching company that's all about activating women to live and lead with wholeness. We sat down to talk about how and why she started her company and heard about how powerlessness turned into agency through the process of...2022-02-011h 22

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields27. Danté Stewart - How Does Creativity Provoke Anxiety and Depression?Danté Stewart is an author, writer, speaker, husband and dad whose voice has been featured on The New York Times, The Washington Post, ESPN's The Undefeated and more. We sat down with Danté to talk about his book "Shoutin' In The Fire" and he shared about how telling his story instigated new kinds of comparison, anxiety and depression. Danté shared who and what practices most reorient him to his most authentic self when he's comparison spiraling. Then we reimagined Daniel 3:16-26 and how some of the coping mechanisms we've adapted to survive to this point are not the practices that will help...2022-01-2554 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields26. Christena Cleveland Ph.D. - Is God a Black Woman?We sat down with Christena Cleveland Ph.D. to talk about her new book "God is a Black Woman". She shared how her recovery journey with Bulimia led to being able to name the God she needed, expedited her deconstruction and instigated a pilgrimage to know more deeply the Sacred Black Feminine. Then we reimagined Genesis 16:7-14 and the extraordinary dignity honored in Hagar and the invitation to personal spiritual authority. Follow Christena on instagram @ChristenaCleveland and learn more about (AND PRE-ORDER) "God is a Black Woman" at https://www.christenacleveland.com/ Check out our new website https://www.thekinshipcollective.com...2022-01-1857 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields25. Daniel Hardy Jr - How Does Comparison Effect Our Personal Faith Journey?You may have heard that a relationship with God is “personal” but felt tremendous pressure that your relationship with God look or feel like someone else’s. We sat down with Daniel Hardy Jr. to talk about his journey from the NFL to Pastoring to now Acting. We get into what it means to pay attention to our unique gifts and give it all we’ve got, no matter what is in front of us. We talk about our tendency to compare our spiritual journeys with others and the power of turning comparison to curiosity. Then we talked about 2 Timothy 1:3-7 and la...2022-01-111h 07

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields24. Katie Distelrath - How Can I Be Gracious To Myself?We have all been through so much clarifying life in 2020 and 2021. We have woken up to new values or woken up away from harmful beliefs or harmful relationships. Some of us may find our selves facing the seemingly catch 22 decision of disappointing the people around us who we love... or worse, disappointing ourselves who we long to love. With this in mind we sat down again with Katie Distelrath, a Gay Christian Therapist, to dive deeper into her story of making the very difficult decision to break off the engagement she thought she wanted to be true to an awakening que...2022-01-071h 02

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields23. Mayra Macedo-Nolan - What Does It Mean To Be Rooted?Mayra Macedo-Nolan joins us this week to address some challenges I am having around the “American Dream”. She shares some powerful questions we can use to locate ourselves and understand what’s really motivating us. Then we reimagined Jeremiah 29:4-9 together and were reminded to never shrink back! 9:10 - “What do you want & Why?” 30:51 - Jeremiah 29:4-9 34:06 - Don’t shrink back! Follow Mayra on instagram @itsmayra to connect personally. Learn more about her work in Pasadena at https://clergycommunitycoalition.org/ and learn more about her work Nationally with CCDA at https://ccda.org/. Learn more about #endingotherness at https://www.thekinshipco...2021-07-1359 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields22. Brianna Sanderson - Can Our Education System Change?Brianna Sanderson winsomely and joyfully shares her passion for reforming the education system. She shares a traumatic "educational" experience from elementary school that has had lasting effects on her as a Bi-racial woman. Brianna invites us toward real “allyship” and true listening. Then we reimagined Matthew 25:31-45 thinking a lot about empathy, support and solidarity. 23:13 - True Allyship 41:58 - Matthew 25:31-45 58:24 - “Speak up for them…” Follow Brianna on instagram @b.sandersonn to keep in tune with her journey toward reforming our education system. Learn more about #endingotherness at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com You are loved! We are family! Outro "We are Family" - S...2021-07-071h 04

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields21. Ed Oxford - How Did The Word “homosexuals” Get In The Bible?Ed Oxford, researcher for 1946 The Movie, joins us to talk about how the word “homosexual” actually got translated into the Bible. He shares about the grieving process he went through as he came to grips with a reality that God would never change him and grant him the American dream he had so desperately desired. We reimagined 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and landed in a true and thoughtful space of love and empathy. 2:36 - The mistranslation of “Homosexuals” 25:38 - “they didn’t care enough…” 42:03 - How it all changed Ed 50:36 - 1 Cor 6:9-10 1:08:13 - 2 Pivotal Points 1:31:06 - How experience shapes our understanding 1:34:38 - a bit on Kinshi...2021-06-291h 43

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields20. Sally Gary - Can I Change My Mind on God and Sexuality?This week Sally Gary, the founder of CenterPeace, shares about her new book “Affirming” and the incredible loneliness of a life spent faithful to ideas of sexuality she no longer holds. We reimagined Genesis 2:18-24 and talked about the ways God sees and makes space for our loneliness. 32:30 - Loneliness 41:08 - Genesis 2:18-24 51:44 - Do God’s words still apply to me? follow Sally on instagram @SallyGary, learn more about CenterPeace at https://www.centerpeace.net/ Grab Sally’s new book “Affirming” from your local bookstore! Learn more about #endingotherness at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com You are loved! We are family! Outro "We ar...2021-06-2256 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields19. Brian Terada - Can I Come Out?This Week Brian joins us and shares about how his best friend walked with him toward self acceptance and coming out, which encouraged him to “Be Free”. Brian shares the unhealthy results of hiding and the ways community invites us to be our most authentic and purposeful selves. Then Brian and Mark imagine Psalms 139 as a self declaration but not an excuse to accept trauma or transmit our pain. 22:29 - We’re holding in so much more… 35:21 - Psalms 139:1-18 50:08 - It’s Not ALL Wonderfully Made follow Brian on instagram @brianterada and learn more about Be Free at https://befreestor...2021-06-151h 09

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields18. Candice Czubernat - Can I Integrate My Faith and Sexuality?We’ve all felt the pain and loss of grieving what could have been. Candice joins us and shares her story of integrating her faith and sexuality and the grief of mourning the time she lost disintegrated. She shares her incredible experience of encountering God in an unshakable way through her queerness. Then Candice and Mark reimagined Jeremiah 17:7-10 and the reality that we all have our own goggles on that inform the way we see the world around us. 22:48 - Grieving The Lost Time 33:12 - Jeremiah 17:7-10 42:00 - Our Interpretive Goggles follow Candice on instagram @lesbiantherapist and learn more ab...2021-06-0849 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields17. Mark Fields - How Can I Make Room For Something New?We all need someone mature to invite us to hold our stories with awe, wonder and celebration. Mark Fields, the founder of The Kinship Collective, shares his own centers of identity, how The Kinship Collective came to be and the values it embodies. Then Mark and Mykah reimagined Isaiah 43:16-21 together and pondered the power of something new and the room that must be made for the new things to exist. 8:10 - Why Kinship? 21:22 - What does safety mean to you? 42:32 - Isaiah 43:16-21 follow Mark on instagram @Mark_Fields. Learn more about #endingotherness at https://www.thekinshipcollective.com You are love...2021-06-021h 07

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields16. Mykah Wilson - How Can I Forgive Myself?We all benefit from the liberating power of forgiveness when we forgive people who wound us and ourselves. Mykah Wilson, the Director of Operations for The Kinship Collective, shares about how forgiving others and herself led to an unexpected embrace of her whole self. Mykah shared about how her loving community instigates healing in wounds that once tempted her to end her life. Then Mykah and Mark talked about 1 Kings 19:9-13 and the beauty of encountering and following the unexpected still small voice fo God. 13:15 - Liberating Forgiveness 29:10 - Choosing to Stay. *There are no graphic descriptions of self-harm but...2021-05-2557 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields15. Dean Choi - How To Show Up For A FriendWe have all felt the paralyzing fear of not knowing how to show up for a friend after racially charged acts of violence. This week Dean Choi generously shares about the loneliness he felt growing up in Chicago suburbs as a first generation Korean-American. He also shared some empowering ideas of how we can use the “5 Love Languages” to show up for our friends in times of racial trauma. Dean and Mark then reimagined Leviticus 19:13-18 and thought about why and how we love our neighbors. 7:10 - Loneliness 18:09 - "The 5 Love Languages" 39:19 - Leviticus 19:13-18 Follow Dean on Instagram @dreamy_dean...2021-05-1859 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields14. Sam Sanderson - How can I Be More Authentic?Have you ever felt like the competing pressures of your life were so unbearable it was like you couldn’t breathe? Join Sam Sanderson and I for a conversation about holding marginalized identities with grace and celebration. Sam described the feelings of suffocation attached to her identity as a queer christian and how compassionate encounters with God and community helped her live authentically. Then we talked about John 8:31-38 and the power of speaking good truth to our sisters and brothers! 13:40 - Suffocating 26:38 - "Marginalized in the Marginalized" 42:10 - John 8:31-38 Follow Sam on instagram @samisanderson and let her know ho...2021-03-251h 06

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields13. Bonnie Lewis - How I Grieved the Loss of My ChildWe have all experienced pain that propels us toward truth in new ways. Bonnie Lewis, the author of “Timshel”, shares about how the most painful experience of her life unleashed one of her most purposeful endeavors. Bonnie talked about what it means to trust our intuition as a gift from God and thought about what is at stake when we come to “leap of faith” moments in our lives. We talked about patriarchy and his metrics and how we can resist the temptation to play that game. Then we talked about the picture of "What God is Like" found in Philippi...2021-03-1659 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields12. Astyn Turrentine - What is Worship?One of the most triggering and problematic practices for recovering evangelicals or deconstructing truth seekers is "worship". Spiritual songs that carry harmful understandings of God that actually stand in the way of "Faith, Hope & Love". Today we get to hang with Astyn Turrentine, a singer, song-writer, arranger, worshipper and worship leader who gives us her perspective on worship. Join us for a fun conversation and let's reimagine "worship" together! 8:20 - Music is Manipulative & Magical... 33:00 - What is worship? 40:00 - Deuteronomy 6:4-5 Follow Astyn on social media @astynturr and check out her music on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/2By37PSkM...2021-02-241h 01

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields11. Eric Johnson - How Did We Lose Sight of The Image of God?How did we loose sight of the most basic premise of scripture for humanity, our "image-of-god-ness"? Eric Johnson joined us for a conversation on some of how that happened. He is a gracious and wise Community Organizing Pastor with over 30 years of experience serving toward reconciliation and solidarity. We talked about the history of race in America and how these truths distorted the Gospel and the Church. We talked about the "root why" of gratuitous dignity for all... Genesis 1:26-27. Follow Eric on social media @blondenegro and check one of his latest sermons here https://youtu.be/wQ6GAxo-aVQ Learn more abou...2021-02-181h 08

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields10. Brit Barron - Am I “Worth It”?What does it look like to face your fears and do the hard things because they're "Worth It"? It looks like Brit Barron. Brit joined us for a conversation about her book "Worth It". We talked about the complexities of truly diverse communities and what it looks like to invite people to the middle ground. This lead us to a conversation around judgement and Matthew 7:1-5, where someone else's freedom is a threat because we haven't done the work to live our most wholehearted lives. 13:03 - One of the challenges of real diversity... 42:56 - Matthew 7:1-5 47:50 - A Drag Queen's invitat...2021-02-0959 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields9. David Lee - How Can I Integrate Faith and Business?Have you ever wondered about the difference between people who create great success in their industry and those who work just as hard but don't? David Lee joined us for a conversation on how integrating his faith with his industry leading businesses has created his pathway to experiencing blessing. He shared how he became the most popular Ferrari collector in the world on the shoulders of generations of hard work, perseverance and integrity. David shared courageous family stories of immigration and shared his 5 business principles for experiencing great success. Then we talked about 2 Peter 1:3-4 and how we already have everyt...2021-02-021h 06

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields8. Caryn Fields - Can I Believe Again?What do you do when you sense the values you held core to your identity evolving... or dissolving? Caryn Fields joined us for a conversation on how "Church Hurt" eroded her ability to believe in the God the people around her represented. She shared how her evolving beliefs created a visceral fear that she could lose her most precious relationships. Then we talked about Acts 2 and she shared authentically about how some spiritual practices have yet to find meaning for her now. Follow Caryn on instagram at @carynfields Let us know what resonates with you by commenting below. You are loved! W...2021-01-1947 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields7. Dr. Ed Barron - Why am I the Way I Am?Dr. Ed Barron sits right into some of the questions that come up in reflection at the turn of the year. Why am I the way I am? Where do I want to be? Where am I now? How did I get here? He brings a deeply thoughtful and contextual approach to leadership and transformation to help you locate yourself and imagine a preferred future. We reimagine Romans 12:1-2 in the context of our convo and come to some beautifully provocative ideas. I share a public service announcement for Pual regarding some highly problematic misinterpretations of some of his writings. We land...2021-01-021h 15

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields6. Katie Distelrath - How I Deal with ShameWe Celebrated Katie's unique story | 1:13 - Who is Katie | 6:45 - Faith & Grace | 11:41 - Broken Open | 14:45 - Misinformed Shame | 20:10 - When it used to hold weight??? | 23:50 - Afraid to Lean In | 27:15 - For me... It's God's Grace | 38:41 - When Hard Work Isn't Enough We Reimagined Scripture Together | 45:31 - Ephesians 2:10 | 48:41 - You ARE a Masterpiece | 52:30 - When Everyone's a Masterpiece | 55:00 - 2020 Masterpieces | 59:30 - Humble Masterpieces | 1:03:31 - Masterpiece Vision Learn more about Katie and The Christian Closet here at https://www.thechristiancloset.com/th... Let us know what resonates with you by subscribing, liking and reviewing! You are loved! We are family! Intro "We are...2020-12-251h 08

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields5. Kat Armas - Are There Better Ways to Interpret Scripture?We Celebrated Kat's unique story | 1:11 - Who is Kat | 11:40 - Reimagining Family & God | 19:53 - What's Abuelita God Like? | 27:37 - Biblical Perfection and Patriarchy We Reimagined Scripture Together | 34:28 - Proverbs 18:20-21 | 37:20 - Prosperity Gospel & Contextual Wisdom | 42:46 - Biblical Hope & Abuelita Mary | 45:25 - Commodifying Biblical Wisdom | 49:50 - The Wisdom of our Ancestors | 1:00:40 - Your Story Matters!!! Check out more from Kat here at https://katarmas.com/ Pre-order her book "Abuelita Faith" at https://www.amazon.com/Abuelita-Faith... Let us know what resonates by Liking, Subscribing and Sharing! You are loved! We are family! Intro "We are Family" - Sister Sledge (Official Cover) by @Sha...2020-12-231h 02

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields4. Dan Prevette - Am I Addicted to Control?We Celebrated Dan's unique story | 2:16 - Who is Dan | 7:33 - Shaped by “their” perception | 8:31 - Relationships in Covid | 14:10 - Coming to America | 18:29 - Nothing is concrete… | 22:16 - Engaging my real life… coping mechanisms | 27:23 - scaffolding our weaknesses/doers/ relationships for our weaknesses | 31:06 - When to say when? / The skill of quitting | 34:27 - learning to trust your gut/no silver bullets | 38:36 - Father Wounds | 41:43 - Merimnao (that one greek word) We Reimagined Scripture Together | 43:23 - The Spoken Word Phil 4:4-6 | 44:43 - These are Human beings! | 47:52 - Thanksgiving as a way of life | 51:27 - The Miracle of Forgiveness | 53:43 - Mantras, Surrender & Peace | 1:00:06 - Peace bey...2020-12-231h 09

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields3. Carly Escoto - How do I Know it’s God?Our convo was inspired by Luke 14 and here's where it went | 1:12 - Who is Carly | 9:30 - Reclaiming Jesus | 13:37 - Art & Anxiety | 23:19 - "Zacchaeus" - https://music.apple.com/us/album/zacc... | 30:40 - The following Jesus "Formula"... | 37:43 - How do I know its God? | 45:35 - Fear is the opposite of Love. | 49:04 - "Feast for Failures" - https://music.apple.com/us/album/feas... Check out more from Carly at https://www.carlyescoto.com/ Let us know what resonates with you by commenting below. Help us #endotherness by rating, sharing and subscribing You are loved! We are family! Intro "We are Family" - Si...2020-12-1857 min

The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields1. Cissy Brady-Rogers - How to Deal with Anger and PoliticsOur conversation was inspired by Luke 6:24-47, and here's where it went: 2:05 - Who Is Cissy? 14:06 - Scripture Reading 20:22 - Hatred before Love... 28:30 - Perceived Deprivation vs. Real Violation 29:46 - The Ford-Focus-Bentley 34:18 - Self Awareness is Critical 38:21 - Boundary keeping heading into the holiday 40:21 - "I'm not the problem... YOU're the problem!" 48:53 - What it looks like when there is no other Let us know what resonates with you by commenting below. If you know any voices that will help us end "otherness" and grow solidarity share this with them and comment below. You are loved! We are family! Intro & Outro...2020-12-1057 min