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wild goose people 4 welcome 5 what you need to know 7 special spaces 10 carnival de resistance 12 dismantling oppression 13 panels 15 speakers 18 TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN remembering those we’ve lost 22 music 50 visual art 58 performances 60 films 62 practices 66

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Headlines rage with big What if Christians were to Chris Smith stories about big churches. shape the organizing of Mark Scandrette In the beginning, the But tucked away in movements for social church ate together, neighborhoods throughout justice around the Mark and Lisa Scandrette traveled together and North America is a implications of the truth share the secrets of how shared in all facets of life. profound work of hope that God is real and Jesus they bought a home and Now Chris Smith and quietly unfolding as the is risen? Reverend Alexia raised a family debt-free in John Pattison invite us to gospel takes root in the Salvatierra and theologian the most expensive city in leave franchise faith context of a place. The Peter Heltzel propose a the country. This highly behind and enter the future of the church is model of organizing practical book is for kingdom of God, where local, connected to the that arises from their everyone who believes that people know each other struggles of the people and Christian convictions, financial peace should well and love one another even to the land itself. with implications for all begin with the shalom as Christ loves the church. faiths. of God.

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Wild Goose Program ad #10694 1 6/13/14 10:17:01 AM 3 The Wild Goose Festival...... has been a fresh public expression of what it means Planning Team to follow GOD in the way Each year the board and staff of the Wild Goose Festival call on a revolving group of folks to help inform the direction of the festival. We of Jesus. Our “love your would like to acknowledge and thank everyone who took part on the planning retreats and helped explore what it means for the festival neighbor” faith commitments to live liberation: Adrienne Ingrum, Alexia Salvatierra, Alexie Torres-Fleming, Alina Ortiz Salvatierra, Bushi Yamato Damashii, Carrie Craig, challenge tendencies toward Cyndi Banks, Kim Jackson, Leslie Council, Lucas Johnson, Mark Van Steenwyck, Micky Jones, Peter Matthews, Sara Wilcox, Steve Knight, racism, sexism, classism and Teresa B Pasquale, Thalia Lopez, Trina Jackson, Holly Rakin Zayer, Jamie Rye, Jay Beck, Rick Bennett, Tevyn East, Wendy Grisham, Russ homophobia. Each year we’ve Jennings, Jeff Clark, Leslie Council, B.J. Harden Jones, and Tommy Brown. taken steps to be further transformed.

Program Coordinators Beer & Hymns: Karen Slappey Volunteer Program Admin Assistants: This year’s theme, Living Liberation!, manifests as the next natural step on this road of transformation. Carnival - Tevyn East & Jay Beck Contributor Check-In: Michel Bodle, Leslie Diana Singh, Samara Price It has been an exciting year... Chapel - Kim Jackson Bloomberg Volunteer Support/Chaplains: Papy Fisher We do not believe it is by chance that it comes to us on the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer. Nor Children - Jamie Rye Contributor Care: Jimmy Chalmers, Victoria ...as we have been preparing to is it happenstance that the Wild Goose celebration co-luminate – BJ Harden Jones Francola, Ahmed Abututa Wild Goose Festival Staff welcome you all back to Hot of faith, justice, music and the arts should find its Earth - Mike Morrell Entrance and Information: Steve Halpin Rosa Lee Harden - Executive Director Springs for a weekend of home in a state whose citizens are this year defying Films - Nicole Townsend G.O.! (greening, grounds, and operations): Melvin Bray - Program Director Living Liberation …With age-old divisions to chart a course Forward Together Holly Roach - Managing Program our theme this year, our Healing & Recovery - Teresa B Pasquale Jon Eric Smith in pursuit of justice for all. Nor is it lost on us that Literary - Wendy Grisham Interpreters: Rebecca Herman Coordinator dream is to imagine together this weekend that we ARE this is an election year in which the freedoms of many Liturgy – Paul Fromberg Hospitality: Sarah Robinson, Tracey Bindle J. Clarkson - Director of Strategic are demanding to be finally guaranteed. A Christian Music - Rick Bennett Merchandise: Karen Wahlstrom, Sam Partnerships the Beloved Community. Enjoy yourselves. Find your tribe. Make new friends. Listen conversation about the gospel call to liberation Production – Jeff Clark Kovach-Orr Greg Feightner - Operations Manager couldn’t be more timely. Visual Art - Ted Lyddon Hatten Rangers: Mark and Rita DeMario Tamara Feightner - Volunteer Coordinator deeply. Discover where God is doing something new inside you, and in the world. Youth - Holly Rankin Zayer Parking: Doug Christian Ami Worthen - Communications Director Living Liberation! also reflects the desire for Set-Up: John Prigmore and Jenna Bowman Malorie Irvin – Administrative Assistant It is quite impressive the number of people who work the festival to be culturally accessible to an ever Operations/Production Team Spiritual Direction: Jo Ann Staebler, Mary Wortas – Registrar to bring you this festival each year, literally hundreds broadening audience. In order to do so, we knew Carrie Craig, Accessibility Liaison Shalem Institute Topher Philgreen – Business Manager of volunteers doing everything from emptying the we had to expand the conversation of the festival Dana Mims Site Shuttle: William Humes Angie Stanley – Business Office Assistant trash to decorating the site, to running the various to include topics of importance to communities Jeff Clark Stage Hospitality: Stacy Williams Duncan stages, even to securing lighting and tech. But that have yet to reach critical mass at the festival. Rick Meredith Stage Managers: Russ Jennings and Wild Goose Board of Directors what is even more impressive, if not miraculous, is We began by pulling together a planning team Russell Jennings Tommy Brown Mike King - President that essentially there are five, yes FIVE part-time that embodies the diversity the festival seeks as a Stage Hands/Flying Squad: Ben Wright Joy Carroll Wallis folks who are all underpaid and overworked year hallmark. That alone brought to the forefront an Team Leaders Ticketing: Claire Clyburn and Gaelyn Ian Morgan Cron round pulling all this together. If it were not for the array of speakers, topics, programming possibilities Ambassadors: Janie and Shane Rager Evangreene Rosa Lee Harden dedication of Holly Roach, Greg Feightner, Tamara and strategic partnerships not previously on our radar, Beer/Beverage Pavilion: Michael and Amy Vibe: Judi and Renee Blatchley, Shawna Melvin Bray Feightner, Ami Worthen and J. Clarkson, Melvin which we’ve pursued with vigor. Williams, Deanna Ogle Bowman and I would have nothing to show you. These folks make it happen and I am so deeply grateful to them We have since been thoughtful about how best to for their work. Please have patience with us all. Our tell the story of liberation as we’ve organized the version of the Beloved Community gathering in Hot festival. Living Liberation! simply means “learning to Springs June 26-29 will be far from perfect! But it live in beloved community.” However, the particular will be FUN! articulation chosen emphasizes that beloved community is not possible without both a theological I am also grateful to my friend, Gareth Higgins, who and political imperative toward liberation from all was the founding director of this crazy romp. The oppression as the basis of that community. groundwork he laid over the last five years made what So it is our hope each day this year, beginning with happens here this weekend possible, too. You’ll see a festival-wide morning conversation at main stage, him around, so be sure to tell him thanks! to explore the inexplicable bond between community and liberation, so as to learn how we might better Let’s live into the future we believe in … participate in both, and thereby make the beloved community of which the best among us have —Rosa Lee dreamed possible. —Melvin

4 5 Proud to support the 2014 Wild Goose Festival Virginia Theological Seminary— forming men and women for lay and ordained leadership within While making Hot Springs our home, we want to Trash = Black bins community. be as respectful of our neighbors, the land, and the • Non-recyclable and non-renewable materials going MASTER PROGRAMS local community as we can be. We offer this set of • Master in Divinity to the landfill. • Master of Arts guidelines so that the Wild Goose Festival is a safe • Please do not dispose of hazardous materials such DOCTOR OF MINISTRY and friendly place: as single use batteries. Pack it out with you! Celebrating 75 Years of • Ministry Development Healing a Hurting World • Educational Leadership Leave No Trace: Be Safe: • Christian Spirituality 1. The Wild Goose Festival is 2. take note of the river and the train OTHER PROGRAMS committed to having environmentally sustainable tracks; beware of yellowjackets; watch for children’s Episcopal Relief & Development helps caring, • Non-Degree Studies events and embraces a Leave No Trace practice. safety too. We have a First-Aid volunteer posted community-minded people connect with locally led Full- and Part-time Please help us reduce our waste and impact on the from 8am - 12am at the Ranger Station near the • Post Graduate Diploma in programs in the US and around the world that are Anglican Studies campground by following these expectations: Main Stage. If there is a medical emergency in the creating real change and impacting millions of lives. middle of the night, we will have security posted at • If you bring it with you, take it home. the front gate and Ranger roving around the site. See how together we are making a difference. • If you need some trash, compost, and recycling Join the celebration at: bags, just ask. 3. Share the Well: Water spigots are at campsites, episcopalrelief.org/75 • Use refillable water containers, as there are beer pavilion, and areas along the river side of the spigots providing good drinking water around grounds. This water is delicious, so fill your water VIRGINIA the site. If you forgot to bring a refillable bottle, 855.312.HEAL (4325) THEOLOGICAL bottles and stay hydrated! EpiscopalRelief you may purchase one at the merchandise tent. www.vts.edu SEMINARY Vehicles/RVs/Parking: Camping Donation Spot: 4. For safety, comfort, and We will be donating the environment, vehicles are not permitted onsite any excess camping gear (tents, chairs, tarps, etc) during the festival. RVs and camping vehicles must to the Haywood St. Community to benefit people remain parked for the duration of the festival. experiencing homelessness. A drop-off site will be designated for this gear for anyone who wishes to Vehicles parked in “no parking” zones will be towed leave gear or has extra. by a professional towing service. For safety, comfort Waste Recovery for less trash and the environment please no driving around the festival grounds. and more Beauty! At every waste recovery station you will find three Motorized personal use vehicles are not allowed, separate bins for compost, recycling, and trash. Please except in the case of special mobility needs. take a moment to familiarize yourself with our Waste Recovery System: 5. Shuttle: A golf cart shuttle is available for mobility accommodations (see Registration or Recycle = Blue bins Rangers for free pass); other guests can grab a • Please sort glass, aluminum, plastic, cardboard, into ride by giving a donation to support this service. the labeled bin provided. The shuttle will stop at designated locations at • Food contaminates recycling so please pour out least once every 30 minutes and those needing it liquids and rinse recyclables when possible. specifically for mobility needs will receive a colored fan to use to gain the attention of the drive in Compost = Green bins between stops. • Food vendors are using compostable utensils and paper products at the festival. 5. Bikes: Please walk bikes through the pathways • Paper plates, cups, and napkins and the utensils around the Main Stage area. You are encouraged from food vendors ARE COMPOSTABLE so to use the paths through the RV area to avoid please COMPOST them. pedestrians as much as possible along the • All food is compostable. Plastic wrap and wrappers main path. Use caution and consideration for are not. pedestrians and children. Bicycles MUST have lights after dark.

6 7 6. Alcohol: Due to insurance requirements, we but ‘ya can’t stay here” ... unless, of course, you’d like cannot permit campers to bring alcohol onto the to set up camping reservations at the HSRS office site. Alcohol consumption will be limited to the across the street. Then, stay as long as you like! Main Stage area near the Wild Goose Beverage Pavillion where you will be able to purchase beer Amenities and wine. We encourage you to use your own cup. • ATMs are available in town. Social Media Program Tracks Intoxication: 7. Public intoxication and illegal • We have festival Rangers who are trained and We encourage you to use social You will find #hashtags throughout the program to help you follow drugs are not acceptable. Those violating this rule experienced providing security for our festival. We media to share your experience along with our program tracks. With our theme of Living Liberation!, have also contracted with “Safe in Sound” security will be asked to leave the site and not permitted at the Wild Goose! We are using we have loosely laid things out as follows... re-entry. to provide overnight security and round the clock Living liberation through our faith - #Religion the hashtags #wildgoose14 and first aid for festival goers. Living liberation in community - #Community Disruptive Behavior: #livingliberation. And please follow Living liberation as family - #Family 8. We reserve the right to us on twitter @wildgoosefest, Living liberation in creation - #Earth intervene in disruptive behavior. • The camp store, local dollar store, hiking outfitter, Living liberation by healing - #Healing hardware store, etc., have just about anything you instagram @wildgoosefest, Living liberation by confronting oppression - #Anti-Oppression might need. A full-service grocery store is located Facebook and YouTube (youtube. Living liberation in the struggle for justice - #Justice 9. Noise: No radios, amplified music, loud 25- 30 minutes away on the way to Marshall. com/wildgoosefestival)! Living liberation in our daily practices - #Practices generators, or idling vehicles will be allowed. Living liberation through worship - #Worship Living liberation as sexual beings - #Sexuality Pets: • For all general information, ask a volunteer with an 10. Sorry, no animals except service animals. ASK ME button or come to the information booth Look also for #Film, #Podcast/RadioShow, #VisualArt, HSRS is a pet-friendly campsite year-round, but at the camp entrance. If you have any questions or #Poetry, #Performance, #Media, #Music and #Literary! does not permit animals at festival events on site. need help with something, or if you need security and don’t see someone in the general area, please The festival site closes at 3 pm Sunday. Please come to the Ranger and Security Station by Main respect the business of our hosts and vacate by Stage or the Ticketing Tent across the street and then. Like they say, “You don’t have to go home, someone there can help you.

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8 9 David Bravo. You will also have the opportunity to and intergenerational abuses of people groups, Raphael Wellness eavesdrop on vibrant conversations between several dangers in at-risk communities, and more. The Raphael Wellness holds a special presence at the visual artists and speakers, musicians, and poets. The recovery programming will include looking at the Wild Goose Festival and will collaborate with co- Wild Goose Gallery will also host the Imaginarium many dimensions of addiction (from all of our own luminate in creating space for meditation, conscious – a space dedicated to sacred seeing. Keep your eyes egos to substances) and will include daily 12 step movement, and immersive activation experiences. The open, because you never know when, where, or how meetings. space that is held is a safe container for grounding, the visual arts will emerge when liberated people stretching, and decompression; sharing healing gather together. The Chapel tools & techniques, relaxed ambiance, and zen vibes. Community Commons The Chapel is being curated by a group of interns Raphael also hosts a 20ft Sonic Dome with full-range We have reserved some of the choicest spots on Kids’ Space from the Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE). pro audio sound casting ambient meditations and the grounds for the entire community to use. This Wild Goose Kids’ Space is dedicated to helping This diverse group of young adults bring an array of tribal beats, flowing in harmony with the vibration of is an ideal spot to meet up with others from your kids experience the festival from their eye level. gifts in music, spoken word, and a true hunger for all the gathering. geographical area or anyone else that you’d like to With interactive sessions filled with creative arts, things theological. Together, we will work to create a meet with and conspire for goodness. Maybe you’re intentional movement and fun activities you will sacred space that is safe, welcoming, and filled with Faithmarks Gallery inspired by some music or a talk and are looking undoubtedly receive an earful of stories from the day unique experiences for communal worship. FaithMarks is a photographic gallery for collaborators? Maybe you’ve heard some new as you roast marshmallows over a late night fire, or show exploring the intersection of ideas and want more perspective? Maybe you want maybe they will be sleeping instead because they are Spiritual Direction: Holy Listening spirituality and the art of tattoos. to share your story. The Wild Goose Festival is way exhausted from all the fun! Either way, WIld Goose Have you ever longed to be lovingly Initially conceptualized by St. Marks more than festival; we are community. Come to the Kids’ Space is reserved just for them. But beyond heard without judgment or agendas? Church, this inter-denominational commons and find your place and voice. In addition, experiential spaces just for kids we also have many Have you ever wondered if a prayerful and interfaith ministry used models if you need to charge your electronic devices, charging family-oriented options, too. This year we are focused listener could help you notice the from all over the country. All photographs were stations will be available. on bringing the family together to engage the festival invitations and nudges of God’s loving, shot on the St. Marks campus in Chattanooga. The in a more communal way. Our family-oriented liberating Spirit alive in your being and life? Spiritual result is a unique blend of reverence represented Discernment Space offerings this year include evening concerts with Guidance, or Spiritual Companioning, has been through photography. FaithMarks is not simply Are you thinking about taking your work to a new Bryan Moyer Suderman, morning yoga sessions with going on for centuries and is being revived in our beautiful imagery. It is an experience that is meant level? Perhaps you will want to explore more formal Marijel Danise Ugalde Alcazar, story time with Doug own day. Today more and more people are longing to take each on their own spiritual journey. As such, training with the seminaries and other centers Pagitt and Frank Schaeffer and a family picnic co-op to live from their true self and uncover what is the show provides a non-threatening experience for gathered in the Discernment Space. Whether or not each afternoon. uniquely theirs to do for our world today. Spiritual those who visit, evoking the opportunity for spiritual ordained ministry is on your mind, this is a place to guides from the Shalem Institute, the Charlotte conversation to flow naturally. explore your sense of call and see what resources are Youth Tent (and following the Youth Flag) Spirituality Center, and others will be available to available to help you take the next step. Where will you find young people at Wild Goose listen prayerfully with you for the movement of God’s The Ofrenda Pilgrimage Project Living Liberation? Where WON’T you find us?!? Spirit as you reflect on your questions, experiences, This is the place where art and healing meets. The Tent of the Books You might check out the Youth Tent where you will doubts, fears, longings, and loves. Each session will Ofrendas are memorial shrines or altars which come The conversations that start at the Wild Goose find some people creating masks, writing protest last 45-60 minutes, plus some walking time. Sign up from the Mexican tradition; they are a place to offer spread out all over the world, and conversations from songs, making mandalas as a spiritual practice, for a session in the Community Commons. prayers and leave remembrances of those who have all corners of the globe are carried here by the Spirit. hanging out, or engaging in conversations with been loved and lost. At the Goose we will create Books are the conduits of these conversations, and we other generations as we seek to figure out how to co-luminate & Raphael Wellness Tent a pilgrim’s path [like “El Camino” in Spain] with have joined with Intervarsity Press to gather authors live liberation in our day-to-day lives. But you’ll co-luminate is a center in downtown ofrenda memorials for leaders of deep faith and great and publishers together in a space where you can seek also find us in other places...Like around the camp Asheville for gathering personal and justice who came before us—some contemporaries out the people whose work you have been reading for playing ultimate frisbee or Creating guerrilla art or cultural transformation. we still mourn and, others, iconic figures of a global years or talk about the idea you have that just has to Checking out the talks and workshops around camp co-luminate is present at the history of justice. The ofrendas will offer all a chance be in print. Look for author signings and publisher or Anywhere you see the Wild Goose Youth Flag! Wild Goose Festival to support the to follow its “pilgrim’s path” through the festival panels in this space. Come by the Youth Tent to keep up with what’s community building aspects of this grounds and throughout the ages of justice. happening or join in wherever you see the Wild potent and joyful time together. Drop-in with us for Camping Commons Goose Youth Flag. All are welcome! meditation and relaxing rejuvenation. We hold space What’s Your Story? - Tell it to Wild Goose TV for participant-focused offerings with the intention In the Wild Goose TV booth, we’ll be capturing Hay bales. Tended fire. Surprise concerts. The Healing & Recovery Space Spontaneous s’mores and sharing. Singing kumbaya of emotional connection, relationship building, your stories on video all weekend. Stop by to record has never sounded so good. The best (yet least known) This year we making an intentional effort to craft self-inquiry, and general depth of presence and an insight or experience, or bring a friend and moments at the Wild Goose tend to happen when safe and sacred space for dialogue and practice for conversation. The space will be utilized at some times have a conversation on camera. This space will host camping. Who knows what Wild Goose Bumps you healing and recovery. The Healing & Recovery for workshop-style offerings, but will mostly be non- spontaneous conversations, interviews and more! may experience here. Tent includes intentionally selected programming programmed and spacious. Follow Wild Goose TV on YouTube (youtube.com/ encompassing a variety of “wounds” which impact wildgoosefestival) to see what we capture! Wild Goose Gallery both individuals and communities. All are welcome join us in delving into deeper exploration and The visual arts will be easy to see at the Wild Goose solidarity with this hurting world and our hurting Festival this year. We have a diverse line-up of selves. Together, in dialogue and practice, we will featured artists, plus a wide range of art-making seek paths to healing on the road to recovery from opportunities, lead by internationally known artist issues such as: trauma, addiction, grief/loss, historical

10 11 Paint & Pray with Special Music Carnival Midway Start your day by painting with guest artist from Visit strange side-shows, check out the clever twists Mexico, David Bravo, while listening to songs from on old Carnival games, get crafty at our creation La Muna about the stories of migrants crossing and station, help build a giant goose puppet, have your being deported at the US/Mexico border. face-painted, enjoy storytellers, roving musicians, performers, and much more. Liberating Language: POETRY as Resistance Carnival Village Tour Come and share your words or others poems that Take this quick 20 minute tour of our village to learn have helped you in your faith resistance journey, how we are exploring alternative forms of energy, as well as hear some deep verbs and vibes from working to consume less energy, attempting to more acclaimed poets Jim Perkinson, Todd Wynward responsibly manage our waste, and create do-it- and others. This is an open sharing time as well as yourself solutions to simple problems. a discussion about the power and need for poetic language in our resistance arts. Featured Productions Special Appearance by Star of the Sea Studios: “The Morning Meditations of Earth, Body & Soul Shining Sea” Come join our morning prayer time as we focus our Spirits through Qigong, Yoga, poetry, sacred song and A celebration of the sacred waters of the world earth conscious meditations. featuring a diverse collection of puppetry styles. Colorful fish puppets dart and dive in schools. A sea Oscar Romero Reflection and Cantata The Carnival de Resistance is an arts carnival, turtle gracefully swims the shallows. Crabs scuttle Rehearsal learning space and “village demonstration project” in soldierly formation. A Humpback whale steers Join Jim and Ruth Padilla Deborst as they lead that focuses on ecological justice and radical theology. its stately path through the deeps. The performance reflections on present day El Salvador and the legacy Dozens of talented grassroots artists, activists, and culminates with a community prayer / blessing on the of Oscar Romero. Participants will also have the teachers make up the Carnival Crew. These brave sacred waters. and faithful souls seek to experiment with how art chance to learn some of the songs from the Oscar can teach, play can inspire, practices can transform, Ceremonial Theater: “Out of the Whirlwind” Romero Cantata and perform them with Luis and resistance can be embodied. They intentionally Alfredo Diaz and other artists. This Liturgical variety act show brings a call to feel look to the wisdom of indigenous and other earth the pain of creation and the hope for resurrection based cultures whose music, spirituality and life- Festival Parade through listening to the element of AIR. Stories told, ways preserve a liberating way to resist the dominant Join us as we make a joyful noise and cry out sung, and danced from the perspectives of Raven and culture of oppression. The Carnival de Resistance first for liberation. We have parade costumes and Dove – the two birds that Noah released the last time launched in the fall of 2013, sequentially residing in paraphernalia, puppets to manipulate, things to bang the world was destroyed. and building the Carnival world in two church lots on, shake, roll and push! We need your voices and in Virginia. They are filled with excitement as they Ceremonial Theater: “Wade Through Deep your embodiment as we head to the closing ceremony. reconfiguring within this festival context! Learn more at carnivalderesistance.com Water” Our songs and dances draw from various cultures and carnival Offerings spiritual traditions, puppets and props help animate a dream of “living water”. You will hear the voice Master of Arts in Skill Shares of water’s lament as told from the perspectives of Social Change Miriam and John the Baptist – two of God’s prophets If we are serious about liberating and decolonizing Degree and whose water-logged lives kept them swimming our lives, we need to know how to get back to right graduate towards liberation. After being rinsed clean by the relationship with the land that provides for all of programs healing waters, we will shake it out to the powerful our needs, so we can stop being dependent on the that immediately rhythms of west african drums. This is an all ages, all domination system. Come learn from folks who help you use your abilities, come as you are, community throw down! have been re-skilling themselves and try your hand Though we’ve had anti-oppression talks as part of powers for good at Soapmaking, wild edibles, herbal tinctures, bike Ceremonial Theater: “Clothed with the Sun” the festival programming in past years, this year repair, candle-making, etc. This is a fire performance that will amaze and inspire. you will see that we have created a whole track On-campus Interactive Art We relate to the feverish explosions of military and for anti-oppression talks. In living out our theme, Online • Hybrid energy exploits while also feeling the heat of spiritual “Living Liberation” we realize how important it is to Come and participate in mural making, mask making, revelation. By listening to the bones of the past acknowledge how we fall short of mutual liberation. puppet and mask play improvisation. Be part of and the fire-y vision for the future, we dance with The anti-oppression work here is just a window into the Carnival’s creative transformation and prepare whirling fire, sing with burning hearts, and struggle many pathways of powerful anti-oppression work. We yourself to be involved in the parade at the end of the to know the difference between the fire of destruction hope that everyone will make it to a session with the festival! #Anti-Oppression and the fire of transformation. hashtag . 12 13 God’s Gift from the Margins: An LGBTQ Panel and Discussion In today’s world, the church is increasingly recognize unlike before the amazing gifts that LGBTQ people possess. Gifts that not only enrich the lives of our family and friends, gifts that enrich our faith communities. As LGBTQ people, much like women Below please find descriptions of panels and a list of and people of color, we have the privilege of bearing panelists. You can find panelist bios listed alphabetically the story of Christ from the margins. In looking at under the “Speakers” section of this Program. our history as Jesus following people, it is on the margins that our communities began. For my Jewish Carnival Theology: Creative Protest, Art family, it wasn’t until they were scattered that years Intervention, and the spiritual renewal of and generations of history and practice was written the streets down. For my Jesus following family, the story of the Resurrection has been and continues to be on the We open our programing with a reflection on the margins of society. Wild Goose in its commitment to topsy-turvy, undomesticated, daring imagination of Living Liberation understands that from the margins Carnival traditions and the intrinsic value of art in we are able to meet God in a new and invigorating our social movement work. This is both panel, group way. This year we invite all to come and hear the discussion, and inaugural ceremony that prepares stories and theological thinkings of LGBTQ and us to decode the subversive and symbol rich call to Allied folk that is sitting on the margins creating find liberation while dancing in the streets. Panelists: community and renewing Christ’s table once again. Jay Beck, Laurel Dykstra, Jim Perkinson, Sarah Panelists: Jay Johnson, Lisa Anderson, Jarell Wilson, #Carnival Thompson. Lisbeth Mendez Rivera, Rabbi Joshua Lesser, moderated by Christian Parks. #Religion #Justice Liberating Bible Study #Sexuality Come and Do the Word, wrestle with angels, detonate what Peter Maurin called the dynamite in Labor and Job Justice the basement of the church! Join biblical grassroots Christian activism often remains on the surface, practitioners for a performance, a discussion, an focusing on short-term results. In order to organize encounter that is passionate, painful, scholarly, religious communities for effective action long term, incendiary, raucous, risqué and deeply, profoundly we need to dig deeper. New energy for action is reverent. Panelists: Ched Myers, Laurel Dykstra, Jim tied to new visions of solidarity as they emerge in #Carnival The HRC Religion and Faith Program is Perkinson and mystery guests. the world of everyday work and labor. Labor affects working to create a world where nobody the majority of humanity, as less than 1 percent are Listening to Indigenous Knowledge: independently wealthy. In the Abrahamic traditions is forced to choose between Decolonizing Theology, Restoring God is presented as a worker who forms the human Relationship with the Earth being from clay (Genesis 2:7, Qur’an 15.26, 15.28) and plants a garden (Genesis 2:8-9), and Christ Come and listen to some “unsettling” voices WHO THEY ARE, joined the workforce as a day laborer in construction. discuss the way Christian beliefs and practices are Find out how issues of labor affect us all and what we intertwined with colonial narratives. Learn how can do about them. Panelists: Brian McLaren, Joerg Indigenous leaders and their allies, by honoring WHOM THEY LOVE Rieger, Alexia Salvatierra, a representative from the Indigenous knowledge and worldviews, are birthing a Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Bacilo Castro, new paradigm that is truly a return to a very old one. Western North Carolina Workers’ Center. #Justice AND WHAT Panelists: Jr. from Wiconi, Cheryl Bear, Emma Eagle Heart White, Jim Perkinson, Laurel Dykstra, Sarah America’s Death Penalty: Thompson,#Carnival THEY BELIEVE. A Faith Community Discussion A Call to Bioregional Discipleship The death penalty is an emotional and hot topic We won’t save places we don’t love. We won’t love of debate in our country right now. With news of Learn more about our work at places we don’t know. And we can’t know places horrible crimes that rock our communities, stories of we haven’t learned. These statements describe why botched executions happening in several states, and WWW.HRC.ORG/RELIGION our planet is on the verge of an ecological nervous an increase of innocent people being released from breakdown. And they explain why the local bioregion death row, it’s hard to know how faith communities in which each of us dwells is the most appropriate should interact with this complicated subject. Join place and scale to engage our historic crisis as an our panel as we share our personal stories about expression of contextual discipleship. Panelists: Ched how we’ve interacted with the death penalty system, Myers, Todd Wynward, Vicki Machado, and New Community Project representative. #Carnival 14 15 discuss the inherent injustices witnessed and share a faith and to highlight more attractive public opinion dialogue with us about how faith communities can of Christianity, spirituality and faith. Panelists: engage in living liberation around this tough issue. Doug Pagitt, Macky Alston, Kathy Khang, Derrick Panelists: Stacy Anderson, Heather Beaudoin, Ed Harkins, Sharon Groves. #Media Chapman, Scott Bass, Steve Dear. #Justice Seminary Leadership Visual Presentation Slam: What’s the future when it comes to theological Food, Justice & Faith Multi Media education? Do you have to go to seminary for three Exploration years? Is the experience of community at divinity Food is the staple of life, and for the last 10,000 school more important than ever? What if you’re years its cultivation by Empire has been a steadily- not thinking about getting ordained, then what escalating tool of our oppression. Control of good is a theological education? Join the schools and production, labor, and distribution has colonized seminaries from our discernment space in a wide- open discussion in the spirit of Marc Maron’s WTF our hearts and minds - putting us in a trance. But #Religion You are an Innovator. A Thinker. A Braveheart. A Doer. today as always, farmers and foragers, prophets podcast. Moderated by J. Clarkson. and preachers are singing a different song: One of Self-Publishing imagination, joy, and New Creation. The empires, Union THEoLoGiCAL SEMinARY in THE CiTY of nEw YoRk of course, are striking back, but the new Soul Food These days, you don’t have to have a publisher to shapes faith-inspired leaders committed to working for human betterment Griots laugh and chant: “Empire is resisting, but get your book published. There are several options Spirit is insisting!” Join the Food, Justice & Faith available to an author but there is a lot more to it Here are some of the courses that can prepare you for the Journey: panel to learn fresh ways of telling old stories, first- than just writing the book. Christian Piatt and Mark Van Steenwyk have both self-published and share hand reports of vital alternatives, and hear the call to Womanist Thought, Theory and Praxis Self and Other: Race, Culture & Psychoanalysis living liberation - from field to table to altar. It’s time their experience and offer tips on raising money, editing, handling the production side of the book, to trance-end. Panelists: Olufemi Lewis of Ujamaa Justice and World Order Preaching for Social Transformation and the promotional elements all wrapped up in Freedom Market, farmers, Cherie & Bill Guerrant, Sara Miles, John Snodgrass and a representative from self-publishing. Panelists: Christian Piatt, Mark #Literary the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Facilitated by VanSteenwyck. utsnyc.edu/apply Mike Morrell. #Earth #Community #Justice What it’s Really Like out There: Perspective Living Liberation with the Dispossessed from Seasoned Pros In this panel discussion, we’ll share four different Authors, agents and publishers who have spent years approaches to life with those experiencing in the business come together for a panel discussion JERICHO BOOKS 2014 homelessness, each moving beyond ministering to talk about the industry and answer questions from *to* “the homeless” and, instead, exploring how our the audience. Come hear what they have to say own liberation is bound up together. Panelists: Bec from their vast experience and bring your ideas and JOIN THE Cranford Smith, Terry Smith, Hugh Hollowell, queries.Panelists: Lil Copan, Mark Scandrette, Jon Shannon Spencer. #Community #Justice M. Sweeney, Adrienne Ingrum ( Jericho). #Literary CONVERSATION How Can More People Know Of All This Buzz, Buzz, Buzz: What You Really Need to Lillian Daniel Sarah Thebarge Heather Kopp Goodness: A panel on what it will take to Know about Promoting Your Book engage the generous, progressive Christian Everyone knows it’s not enough just to have a message in popular culture and media good book idea anymore. Given the crowded The last two decades have been an exciting time as marketplace and people’s ever-diminishing attention we have witnessed emerging expressions of Christian spans, good marketing and publicity are ever more faith across the entire religious landscape. Much of critical to the success of a book. As an author, what this work has been done by innovators and creative is your responsibility here? When do you start risk-takers in small pockets through interpersonal your promotion? What are the best ways to reach John Sowers Brian D. McLaren Sara Miles Becca Stevens Jon M. Sweeney Rob Strong networks and at great personal sacrifice. For the your audience? How can you work well with your benefits of innovation to disseminated broadly, publisher? Let publishing professionals Adrianna sustainable structures for collaboration and support Wright and Allison O’Hara help. In this session, must be developed. A significant part of this they will explain the process, tell you how to build/ development includes advocating for this new ethos strengthen your platform, and generally advise on by engaging voices in passionate, creative, and civil what works and what doesn’t in the wacky world of public conversation and in the media, both social book promotion. Panelists: Adrianna Wright (IVP), Allison O’Hara (Convergent). #Literary and mass media. This panel will be a future-focused Christian Piatt Matthew Paul Nadia Bolz-Weber Leroy Barber Jennifer Grant and Becca Stevens conversation about encouraging new, expanding, Turner Cathleen Falsani generative and meaningful expressions of Christian Jericho Books is a division of Hachette Book Group • JerichoBooks.com 16 17 being a Christ-follower, a death penalty abolitionist, a musical traditions of American folk and punk, committed pacifist, an anti-racist and a restorer. She’s singing for peace and justice, advocating the use of a life-long Nebraskan who has traveled the world and bicycle helmets, and exhorting others to sing along! still chooses Nebraska as her home. giosafari.bandcamp.com PANEL: America’s Death Penalty: A Faith Community Discussion #Justice Talk Title: GioSafari #Music

Note: Panel descriptions are listed in a separate section. Talk: Mindful Sexuality: A New Ethic for Christians Lisa Anderson Fred Bahnson Nancy Allison and Dian Jackson present an Marie Alford-Harkey Lisa Anderson directs the women’s Fred Bahnson is author of “Soil and examination of scripture and culture as we focus on multi-faith education at Auburn Sacrament: Food, Faith, and Growing Marie Alford-Harkey is the Deputy loving and respecting our bodies, our selves, and each Theological Seminary, an initiative Heaven on Earth” (Simon & Director of the Religious Institute, other to be present and passionate without misusing dedicated to equipping bold and Schuster) and co-author of “Making a multi-faith nonprofit advocating sexuality. Sex has become lethal and legislators are resilient women faith leaders with tools Peace With the Land” (IVP). In 2005 for sexual health, education, and attempting to control sexual values and behavior. they need for a lifetime of prophetic social he co-founded Anathoth Community justice in faith communities and With this in play, sexuality, sexual orientation and justice activism. Anderson is founding director of Garden and directed until 2009 this community- society. She is the co-author of the sexual abuse have become the flash points for larger Sojourner Truth Leadership Circle which aligns the supported agriculture ministry in North Carolina’s Religious Institute publication “Making the Invisible concerns. Using poetry, scripture, storytelling, writing, creation of sustainable models of activist leadership Piedmont. He now directs Food, Faith, and Religious Visible: Bisexuality in Faith Communities,” due and art, we will guide participants in examining with emphasis on self and community care for social Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University out in the summer of 2014. An educator with their personal sexual ethic, concentrating on the justice in the 21st century. In addition, Anderson School of Divinity. He lives on a small hillside farm twenty years of classroom experience, Marie holds importance of relationships. #Sexuality works with Auburn’s education team on issues of in the mountains of North Carolina, where he and a Master’s in Divinity from Episcopal Divinity intersectional organizing, bridging the divide between his family tend a 1/2 acre garden, which includes a School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Marie is a Macky Alston theology and activism, and deepening the spiritual permaculture food forest, biointensive vegetable beds, Provincial Coordinator for the Episcopal LGBT grounding of leaders in a multi-faith movement for and a flock of unruly chickens. organization Integrity USA, and Associate for Macky Alston is Vice President for justice. Digital Ministries at Trinity Episcopal Church in Strategy, Engagement and Media Talk Title: Two Writers Talk Writing: An Hour with Hartford, Connecticut, where she preaches and at Auburn Theological Seminary auburnseminary.org/blogs/lisa-anderson Sara Miles and Fred Bahnson - Sara Miles and Fred teaches regularly. equipping faith leaders to stand for Bahnson talk about the process of writing. justice through media. Alston founded Talk: Broken in Fact, Beloved Indeed: #Literary #Earth religiousinstitute.org Auburn Media in 2002 serving ten Reflections on Ancient and Contemporary years as director innovating programs and training Experiences of Sin and Grace William Barber Talk: Sex Matters faith leaders. Alston’s award-winning documentaries What does it mean for a self and community William J. Barber II is pastor of In many Christian congregations, it is common include LOVE FREE OR DIE - PBS 2012; HARD affirming queer, womanist theologian to incorporate Greenleaf Christian Church for sexuality to be reduced to a series of “thou ROAD HOME – PBS ’08, and THE KILLER the imperfect witness of an early church father like (Disciples of Christ) in Goldsboro, shalt not’s.” But what would happen if instead, we WITHIN – Discovery Films ’06. He’s won Sundance Augustine of Hippo into her personal and vocational NC, president of the North Carolina celebrated the God-given gift of our sexuality? Marie twice, received Gotham Open Palm Award, three life? How can the intersection of these two disparate NAACP, and a member of the Alford-Harkey, Deputy Director of the Religious Emmy nominations, and press from “Oprah Winfrey theological realities inform what it means to live out National NAACP Board. A full-time Institute, will host an interactive workshop on how Show,” “Today Show” and “New York Times.” This a commitment to creating larger spaces of love and pastor, he’s volunteered countless hours to civil rights Christians can celebrate sexuality as God’s life-giving Union Theological Seminary graduate comes from a justice in a world aching for both? Where do stories and movement building because he believes there is and life-fulfilling gift, liberating us to live fully in long line of Southern ministers. of ancient brokenness and grace meet contemporary no worship without commitment to justice and social our bodies. The Religious Institute is a multifaith longing for the same, and what kind of new change. He’s been featured in Wall Street Journal, organization whose mission is to advocate for sexual mackyalston.com proclamation and practice might be called forth from CNN, New York Times, and other publications, health, education, and justice in faith communities such an inquiry? while preaching and lecturing around the country. and society. PANEL: How Can More People Know Of All This #Sexuality #Religion His father, William J. Barber I, published “The Goodness: A panel on what it will take to engage the PANEL: God’s Gift from the Margins: An LGBTQ Disciples Assemblies of Eastern North Carolina” generous, progressive Christian message in popular Discussion #Sexuality #Religion #Anti-Oppression Nancy Ellett Allison - 1966 Christian Board of Publication, Chalice culture and media Press. Pastor, activist, and friend of the Gio Andollo earth, Nancy Ellett Allison combines PANEL: Stories & Theology for LGBTQ Liberaiton #Religion #Media GioSafari is the pseudonym for NYC greenleafchristiandoc.org vision with the ability to get things singer-songwriter and peace activator done. For the last decade she has Stacy Anderson Gio Andollo. In May 2008, he was Talk Title: Forward Together: A Moral Message pastored Holy Covenant United struck by a motor vehicle while riding for the Wild Goose Community Church of Christ in Charlotte, adding Stacy Anderson is the executive his bicycle in Orlando, Florida. He William Barber returns to the Wild Goose Festival a satellite campus in the spring of 2012. Involved director of Nebraskans for suffered deep bouts of depression to bring a message from the front lines of the Moral with groups advocating for marriage equality, earth Alternatives to the death penalty. and existential frustration until he Movement in North Carolina (that is spreading care, racial justice and housing the homeless, she also Having grown up in a non-Christian began busking later that year. Thus GioSafari was rapidly to other states around the country). Since enjoys spiritual retreats and a calming walk on the home and working in conservative born, performing as a solo artist on the streets of “Moral Mondays” started last summer, about labyrinth. politics for years, she is a convert to downtown Orlando. Andollo now speaks truth to 1,000 people have been arrested, making it one power in the heart of Empire, recalling the subversive of the largest acts of civil disobedience in U.S. holycovenantucc.org 18 19 history. Barber invites the Wild Goose community Scott Bass Without Going to Church - The Unofficial Guide carnivalderesistance.com into a big-tent, faith-based movement for liberation Scott Bass lives at the tricky to Alternative Christian Community,” led a spiritual that has room for black, white, and brown, gay and intersection of spirituality and justice. community in her living room for 24 years, and is four PANEL: Carnival Theology: Creative Protest, Art straight, rich and poor, old and young, and people A passionate advocate for victims of years into co-founding an Urban Intentional Christian Intervention, and the spiritual renewal of the streets #Justice #Religion #Carnival from all walks of life. violence and for restorative justice, Community - Engage in Living Liberation by Being Scott serves as director of Murder a Christian right where you are. Bean brings stories of Rebekah Berndt Leroy Barber Victims: Families for Reconciliation (mvfr.org), hopeful community formation and an idea exchange to Rebekah Berndt is a critical care nurse Leroy Barber is Global Executive a national organization of murder victim family consider practical real-life matters - spiritual formation with an interest in contemplative Director of Word Made Flesh, an members that advocates for replacing the death of children, financial sustainability, conflict resolution spirituality. She resides at the Center international organization that penalty with practices that more responsibly address in community and relationship and more. For The Working Poor/Burning Bush #Community #Religion works among the world’s poor. the harms caused by violence. In addition, Scott Community in Los Angeles. Barber is on the boards of Mission speaks, leads workshops and retreats, and offers Year, The Simple Way, and Christian spiritual direction. His background includes work in Cheryl Bear Talk: False Self Anonymous Community Development Association (CCDA). various ministry settings and as a marriage and family Cheryl is from the Nadleh Whut’en We all have ineffective emotional programs for He’s authored “New Neighbor: An Invitation to therapist. A lifelong resident of North Carolina, Scott First Nation (Bear Clan) in the happiness, rooted in what the mystics call the False Join Beloved Community,” and “Everyday Missions: currently lives in Raleigh, NC. Carrier Nation located in northern Self or the Ego. These emotional programs create How Ordinary People Can Change the World” and British Columbia, Canada. She is an patterns of addiction, codependency, low self-esteem, was chosen as a contributor to “Tending to Eden,” Talk Title: When Liberation Leads to Wilderness: international convention speaker and control, fear, and denial in our lives. False Selves and the groundbreaking “UnChristian: What a New Confessions of a Failed New Monastic twice award-nominated recording artist Anonymous is a twelve step program of spiritual Generation Thinks About Christianity and Why It Some say the best way to learn to succeed in a venture (Shai Award 2005; Covenant Award 2006) who has growth that emphasizes contemplative practices such Matters.” His third book, “Red, Yellow, Black and is to talk with someone who failed. Come join this worked with Indigenous people across Canada, the as mindfulness, meditation, and centering prayer in White: Who’s More Precious In His Sight?” will be conversation with Scott Bass, who will share lessons United States and in over 20 countries of the world an environment of mutual vulnerability and support. released this fall. learned through co-founding a new monastic/Catholic raising awareness of the value and uniqueness of our We may each share our strength and hope as we learn Worker-style community Nazareth House that thrived Indigenous people and our culture. to let go of shame, fear, and anger and root ourselves wordmadeflesh.org for a time before ending painfully. Hear stories of in unconditional love. living in community, simplicity, working for justice, cherylbear.com #Healing #Recovery Talk Title: Red, Yellow, Black & White: Who’s More and hospitality for persons with loved ones on death Precious in His Sight? row and others. Scott’s insights from the joys and Richard Twiss Tribute Scott Bostic Missions has long been a place where diversity difficulties of this experience are valuable to others Celebrate with us the life and legacy of theologian Scott Bostic’s a Missional Church has been lacking. I will focus my talk on a look at considering similar ventures, as well as those simply Richard Twiss. Indigenous worldview, values, Fellow at Wesley Theological the injustices that have taken place in the name of trying to live more liberated and authentic lives. culture and Christianity. First Nations culture Seminary in Washington, D.C. He missions and offer examples on how we can, through has long been under scrutiny. We will discuss a few works at examining links between just practice and equal opportunity, provide freedom PANEL: America’s Death Penalty: a faith community aspects of Indigenous worldview, values and culture faith and health, and promoting for people of color. discussion and find it is often more biblical than much of our holistic fitness and wellness amongst the #Justice #Community #Justice current Church and Christian culture. seminary community and communities they serve. Scott graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and Andrew Kang Bartlett Kelly Bean Talk: Indigenous worldview, Values, served the U.S. Army in health care administration. I grew up in the suburbs of New Kelly Bean served as pastor/ Culture and Christianity. In Iraq, he provided footwear for youth in the desert York City amidst racial segregation cultivator of Third Saturday Organic First Nations culture has long been under scrutiny. east of Baghdad. He also worked with Watertown and deep prejudices against people Community, which gathered in her We will discuss a few aspects of Indigenous Urban Mission, in Watertown, NY, and served with of color, women, and any and all home for 24 years. She is co-planter worldview, values and culture and find it is often Hospitality House in Black River, NY, on service non-status quo views. Despite all of Urban Abbey, an intergenerational more biblical than much of our current Church and projects prior to attending seminary. Originally from #Music #Justice #Healing that, playing and finding beauty were intentional community in north Christian culture Atlanta, Georgia, Scott lives in Alexandria, Virginia. and are my joys. In my job with the Presbyterian Portland, Oregon. Kelly has created and led strategic Hunger Program, PC(USA), I work with others to networks for women in ministry for the past ten years Jay Beck wesleyseminary.edu support movement building in pursuit of systemic with National Emerging Women Leaders Initiative Jay Beck is a percussionist, vocalist, change throughout the food chain. The love that and Convergence. She contributes to a Fuller drum-maker, and educator who has Talk: Hearing and Seeing: A Call to Seminary Service flows relentlessly compels me to work in solidarity Seminary publication on church in contemporary been performing, teaching, touring For the past eighteen months, students from ten East against land and resource grabs, for labor and human culture and wrote for E-Florescence, Mutuality, and and recording professionally for many Coast and Midwest seminaries have been in ministry rights, and to build just and sustainable local food Idea-Lab magazines. Kelly is pursuing a Masters in years. He is the founder of Croatan with their local communities. In March 2013, economies everywhere. Ministry Leadership from George Fox Seminary Studio in Philadelphia, which seeks to these ten schools met for the first time, and began while working to complete a certification in conflict aid resistance movements and develop reconciliation a network of seminarians committed to working pcusa.org/food resolution from Marylhurst University. through studying the artforms and spirituality of towards social justice as an integral part of their oppressed nomadic and indigenous groups. Over theological education. After meeting in Princeton, Talk Title: First Decolonize Your Mind: Imagination, kelly-bean.com a decade of touring over fifteen countries on four NJ in September of 2013, the network grew as Creativity, Food Justice and Movement Building continents, he longs to bridge the beauty and passion seminarians shared their experiences of service with #Carnival #Earth Talk: Liberation through the Ordinary - of the rhythm cultures of the world with the west and Do what is do-able especially to the church. His newest project involves Kelly Bean, author of “How to Be a Christian being one of the core organizers for the Carnival de 20 Resistance. 21 July 2014 | www.sojo.net Faith in Action for Social Justice

Dismantling the ‘New Jim Crow’ What it will take to cure America’s addiction to mass incarceration. is pleased to be a by MiCHeLLe ALexANDer WGF Tribute to Richard Twiss By Gareth Higgins What can you say about Richard Twiss? That he was tall, with magnificent Wild Goose sponsor! black hair, a voice of mild gravel and sweetness, and colorfully dressed, and vastly intelligent without being condescending, and deeply serious but earthed Be sure to get your copy of Sojourners magazine in humor, and humbled by and pastoral toward and angry for his people, and featuring “How to Dismantle the ‘New Jim Crow,’” abiding in love? That he was a member of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate and the by Michelle Alexander. Complimentary copies founder of Wiconi, a bridge-building movement whose very name means ‘life’? are available at the registration table. That he did more than anyone else in the part that claims the name ‘Christian’ of this land for which there are many names, to bring attention to the story of native peoples disenfranchised, stolen from, tortured, and killed? That he PLUS: Cultivating hope in rural America robert Lentz’s iconic faith taught us, at the first Wild Goose Festival, to build a sweat lodge that allowed To my Syrian sisters, by Lynne Hybels What Tomorrowland says about today some of our initiating community to participate in ancient rituals that come from the people who were here Finding the strength to be uncool The pope does it again first? That he was burdened with the call to speak for people whose place in the culture post-genocide is often either invisible or caricatured? That the last time I saw him before he joined the ancestors last year, he spoke of wanting to spend more time with his people? That on that same visit he challenged those of us who inhabit And don’t miss Jim Wallis signing his new book, the privilege of the dominant culture to stand aside so that indigenous voices could be heard? This. And we are The (Un)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings grateful, and we miss him. Hope to a World Divided. For times, check the Tent of Books schedule. WGF Tribute to Vincent Harding by Melvin Bray There is much that has been hope-filled about the Wild Goose Festival, yet nothing more so than the www.sojo.net involvement of Dr. Vincent Harding. This unassuming giant of the Movement for Social Transformation in America (reductively known as the Civil Rights Movement) deigned to walk among us the first three summers of our existence and in his ever thoughtful manner made us believe beloved community was possible. Vincent Harding was the festival’s first community elder. His involvement began with an inaugural invocation that stretched wide the wings of the Goose SUPPORTING THE to envelop not just those present that first year, 2011, but also those who have yet to join this annual migration. The next year he introduced us to his friend Bayard WILD GOOSE FESTIVAL Rustin, the often overlooked gay Movement veteran, who was a driving force presbyterianmission.org behind the March on Washington. Then last year he sat in conversation with us each morning of the festival, sharing with us the wisdom of his many years in interracial, ecumenical, multifaith struggle for justice. And we know his heart held only the biggest blessing for our attempts toward Living Liberation! this the fiftieth anniversary of Freedom Summer. The Wild Goose Festival—indeed, the world—is poorer for his having left us, but we are richer for Ending Causes having known Vincent Harding and for having such a worthy legacy toward which to aspire. of Hunger Interfaith Camp & Conferences Engagement WGF Tribute to Eric Haines Transforming Lives By Gareth Higgins and Greg Feightner Worshiping Eric J. Haines was a big man. His gifts and presence were felt at every Wild Communities Goose Festival and it brings truth to the cliche to say that he had a big heart. His skill and knowledge in live audio production surpassed many others in Promoting Peace the industry and his gracious personality made all around him feel welcomed. He donated both time and resources to the Wild Goose Festival.Along with being a generous Wings donor for multiple years, he, in 2013, donated two professional quality sound systems and served as an audio engineer for multiple Young Adults stages. Furthermore, when his mobility was limited at times during the Festival, Volunteering he continued helping out in headquarters and encouraging staff and volunteer leaders. It’s still hard to believe that he won’t be with us - at least physically - at this year’s festival. But we know he loved the Goose deeply, and his spirit is most assuredly near. If you like the 1001 NEW WORSHIPING COMMUNITIES • CAMP & CONFERENCE MINISTRIES • HUNGER PROGRAM sound at Wild Goose, you have partly Eric to thank. We honor his memory this year, thanking him for his huge INTERFAITH RELATIONS • PEACEMAKING PROGRAM • YOUNG ADULT VOLUNTEERS contribution of love and practical support, and thinking fondly of his gentle and kind presence. (Photo Courtesy Visit the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ministries booth and join us for fellowship at our camp site. of Spencer Sweeting) 22 23 their communities, and the efforts to seek justice for consideration? How do you decide on a curriculum? and his wife of 30 years, Marianne make their home and police misconduct and perjury. Detectives in the their community partners. Join us as we discuss why Leslie will walk you through some basics and give you in the barrio of La Villita in Chicago, and have three case withheld and covered up evidence that pointed we believe social justice is essential to theological some cautions as you make this decision for your family. grown children; Noel Luis, Stefan, and Anna. to his innocence. Ed lives and works in Asheville, NC education. #Religion #Justice #Family and supports campaigns to repeal the death penalty. ccda.org Melvin Bray Jennifer Butler PANEL: America’s Death Penalty: A Faith Melvin Bray is an Emmy® award- Jennifer is founding CEO of Faith Talk: Justice Begins with a God Given Burden Community Discussion #Justice winning storyteller, writer, educator in Public Life. Jennifer represented For over 30 years my life and ministry has been and social entrepreneur residing Presbyterian Church (USA) for fueled by a God-given burden to see vulnerable with his wife, three kids, two dogs ten years at United Nations and neighborhoods revitalized, with the marginalized J. Clarkson and innumerable worms in the West is an ordained minister. She wrote empowered to lead the way. In my talk, Nehemiah J. Clarkson is sensitive about the fact End of Atlanta, Georgia. He’s an active “Born Again: The Christian Right will be lifted up as an example of a person with a that he only has a first initial. His member of multiple networks cultivating sustainable Globalized,” published by University of Michigan burden that can inspire us today to discover our own search for his true name is leading approaches to a life of faith, including Faith Forward Press. Her book calls for response to Religious Right God-given burden to be an agent of justice in our him to enroll in the Episcopal and Wild Goose Festival. He co-edited “Faith efforts to globalize culture wars. Serving in the world. Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Forward: A Dialogue on Children, Youth & a Peace Corps 1989-91 in Belize, Jennifer discovered Texas, this fall. The process of picking a school New Kind of Christianity” (Woodlake Publishing, she was a community organizer. She graduated Talk: CCDA Cafe has given him a lot of questions to ask of our 2013) and is coordinating author of “The Stories in College of William and Mary and Princeton Connect with other like-minded people in your scholarly partners, who he has already asked for Which We Find Ourselves.” Through gardening, Theological Seminary, with an MSW from Rutgers city or region who are living and learning Christian money as Director of Strategic Partnerships for the neighboring, storytelling and convening, Melvin loves University. Jennifer and her husband Glenn run Iona Community Development by attending this CCDA Goose. to help people pursue collaborative relationships in Conversations, a Christian spiritual community in Café. CCDA Cafés are also a good opportunity which to thrive. downtown Washington DC. to introduce your friends to CCDA and to the JDotClarkson.com philosophy of CCD. So whether you’re a newbie to melvinbray.com faithinpubliclife.org/author/jbutler CCD or a long timer we hope you’ll come by and Talk: Theological Eduction: WTF? #Justice take time to connect and learn. What’s the future when it comes to theological Talk: Losing Our Appetite Talk: Public Theological Leadership in an Age of Media education? Do you have to go to seminary for three For a decade, many of us have engaged in earnest and Political Polarization (talk & workshop) Bacilo Castro years? Is the experience of community at divinity yet evasive conversation about beloved community, Today’s media and political environment is ever more Bacilo Castro comes to us from the Western North school more important than ever? What if you’re diversity and interdependence. We love the alluring polarized, resulting in a misinformed electorate and Carolina Workers’ Center where they are building the not thinking about getting ordained, then what aroma of the dream. However, when it gets real - a paralyzed Congress. Religious leaders have long movement for social and economic justice in Western good is a theological education? Join the schools and when we have to make our particular tastes palatable played a role in moving society forward addressing NC. seminaries from our discernment space in a wide- to more than just people like ourselves - we seem to some of the greatest problems of our time. What open discussion in the spirit of Marc Maron’s WTF lose our appetites. What if we can’t have our cake and role might we play in today’s environment? Religious workersunitedwnc.com podcast. #Religion eat it too? What if we can’t partake of the beloved leaders were instrumental in passing health care #Justice community and keep the beloved convenience of reform, keeping immigration reform on the national PANEL: Labor and Job Justice Jennifer Clinger everything the way we like it? Come explore this agenda and highlighting the immorality of certain Thistle Farms is a social enterprise of women who possibility through headlines, humor and sacred. economic policies. This talk will reveal how this was Jimmy Chalmers have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction. #Community #Family accomplished and what more can be done. A follow I grew up loving Jesus. I grew up Thistle Farms houses the bath and body care up workshop will provide media training for leaders being and feeling loved and safe in company Thistle Stop Café, and paper and sewing Leslie Bray interested in being better public spokespersons. my church. I soon found out some studios. All proceeds support Thistle Farms and the Leslie Bray is a wife and questions were not allowed. residential program, Magdalene. The community homeschooling mother of three. She PANEL: How Can More People Know Of All This provides housing, food, healthcare, therapy and leads Kid Cultivators Homeschool Goodness: A panel on what it will take to engage the Talk: How the Queers Saved my Soul education, without charging residents or receiving Support Group and guides parents generous, progressive Christian message in popular Jimmy grew up in the fundamentalist tribes of government funding. Thistle Farms and Magdalene who’d like to “Parent on Purpose.” In culture and media Christianity in the U.S. Educated from elementary stand as a witness to the truth that in the end love #Religion addition, she regularly volunteers, works through college in their schools, he set out to change is the most powerful force for change. Jennifer is a as a community organizer, and practices massage the world for Jesus. At the darkest time of his life, it graduate at works on the PR & Marketing Team. therapy. She enjoys learning, writing, and exploring Noel Castellanos was a gay couple and lesbian couple that gave him thistlefarms.org her creativity through various mediums. Noel has worked in full-time ministry hope for tomorrow and renewed his faith in the in Latino, urban communities presence of The Risen Savior. Talk: Journey to Healing Talk: Parenting on Purpose (TM): So you think you since 1982. He served in youth #Religion See description under Kristin Vaughn. want to homeschool, now what? ministry, church planting, advocacy #Healing #Justice Liberating yourselves and your children from the and community development in San Ed Chapman traditional education system by homeschooling can Francisco, San Jose, and Chicago. After Ed Chapman is the seventh person Lil Copand be a pivotal decision. Now that you’ve made it, where serving on the Board of the Christian Community to be freed from North Carolina’s Lil Copan is an editor at Abingdon Press and a do you begin? What concerns must you take into Development Association for many years, he death row in the modern era. He was painter. established the CCDA Institute, which equips convicted and sentenced to death emerging church leaders in the philosophy of and spent thirteen years on death row Talk: What It’s Really Like Out There: Perspective From Christian Community Development, and currently because of false testimony and evidence the Seasoned Pros #Literary 24 serves as the Chief Executive Officer of CCDA. Noel 25 Carrie Craig theology and practice. He is author of “Children’s Joe Davis asserts action and words should be on Steve Dear Carrie Craig has spent her life Ministry in the Way of Jesus” (with Ivy Beckwith), “equal frequencies”, inseparably reflecting each other Steve Dear has been executive director defining and redefining “liberation.” “Children’s Ministry that Fits,” and editor of “Faith through all we say and do. Because of this conviction, of People of Faith Against the Ordained an Episcopal priest in 1992, Forward” (with Melvin Bray). Dave frequently he not only continues to amplify the voices of the Death Penalty, a national interfaith she faced the challenge of introducing speaks throughout North America, helping leaders unheard through his poetry about empowering the nonprofit, since 1997. Since then the church and its faith community to to re-imagine spiritual formation, children, youth, marginalized and eliminating social injustice, but he PFADP has organized more than 400 a priest in a motorized wheelchair. Having culture, and faith. He lives with his wife and dog in also serves as a youth organizer and travels as an artist events, mostly at churches, led efforts received a Masters of Divinity, studying at Duke southwestern Ontario. activist, creating forums for engaging conversations that have generated more than 2,100 resolutions and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, she about our individual and collective responsibilities to from churches, businesses and local governments returned to her native North Carolina. She’s been in davecsinos.com, faith-forward.net make real change happen. for repeal or stopping executions, led 25 clergy churches as priest and educator and is trained as a delegations in clemency meetings with governors, hospital chaplain. “Silence is the voice of complicity”. Talk: Small but Mighty: The (Untapped) Formational joedavispoetry.com organized the first large-scale civil disobedience This is a bumper sticker found on the back of Carrie’s Potential of Small Churches against an execution in America, and mobilized #Poetry wheelchair and the motto she lives by daily. Bigger isn’t always better. Take a journey of Talk: Dreamer’s Manifesto thousands of clergy for clemency for Troy Davis in rediscovery as we unpack assumptions about spiritual Georgia andhundreds for repeal in Maryland. Steve Talk: From Rooftops to Ramps formation “what is it, what does it mean, and why Tammerie Day ran NC Rural Communities Assistance Project for People who are “different” in mind or body have does it matter?” After offering a model of spiritual Tammerie Day was born and five years. known the oppression of exclusion and rejection. formation that leaves room for a diversity of contexts raised in South Texas, just north Mark’s Gospel tells of a rooftop being torn apart so a we will discover how smaller churches are uniquely of Mexico, an upbringing that has pfadp.org man unable to walk could meet with Jesus. For ramps poised to address the needs of spiritual formation shaped her cooking, ethics, and to be built to the altars of religious communities among congregants of all ages, especially youth and spiritual life. After a career in corporate Talk: America’s Death Penalty: A Faith Community many rooftops still need to be torn! Carrie shares children. Find the potential in even the smallest of communications, Tammerie spent a few years raising Discussion #Justice some of her journey from a young child with a congregations, and outline several ways that not-so- kids and writing books, helped start an intentionally disability to an adult working to widen the church’s big churches can play to their natural strengths in the anti-racist multicultural church, and completed Ruth Padilla DeBorst #Family doors and attitudes as an ordained priest. We’ll spiritual formation of their communities. doctoral studies. Tammerie has served as a pastor Ruth Padilla Deborst has been discuss what is needed to create more access to our and chaplain, and taught in seminary, undergraduate, Greg Daniel involved in leadership traning, faith communities physically and in teaching. denominational and congregational settings. She church and community development #Anti-Oppression Greg Daniel founded Daniel Literary now lives in Hillsborough, NC, with her partner and and strengthening of a Network Group in 2007 after more than ten two college-age kids. Tammerie’s most recent book is for Holistic Mission in El Salvador, Bec Cranford-Smith years in publishing, six of which “Constructing Solidarity for a Liberative Ethic: Anti- under the auspices of Christian Reformed Bec self-identifies as a Bapticostal were at the executive level at Thomas Racism, Action, and Justice,” published by Palgrave World Missions. Having spoken and ministered Misfit. She has been attempting Nelson Publishers where he was Vice MacMillan. to students and leaders through the International to escape southern fried religiosity President and Associate Publisher for W Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) for her whole life, but she really likes Publishing Group, a trade book division of Thomas rootsofjusticetraining.org many years, she is currently presiding over the Latin the Jesus guy and that Kenosis stuff. Nelson. Greg is honored to represent such bestselling American Theological Fraternity, servicing on the She works at one of Atlanta’s largest and critically acclaimed authors as Nadia Bolz- Talk: Introduction to an Intersectional Analysis Board of the International Justice Mission, and homeless service agencies as the volunteer guru and Weber, Sara Miles, Jon Sweeney, Scot McKnight, This 90-minute workshop will introduce the concept directing Ediciones Certeza Unida, the publishing catch-all. Her favorite part of the job revolves around River Jordan, Matthew Paul Turner, Jonathan of “intersectionality,” the reality that all people live house of the Spanish speaking movements linked to challenging stereotypes of homelessness and working Wilson-Hartgrove, and Peter Rollins. in various social locations (race, gender, class, etc.) IFES. with large groups of young people - mostly missions and the complexity that results is more than the students. Bec also founded Church of the Misfits DanielLiteraryGroup.com sum of any individual social location. Working for qideas.org/contributors/ruth-padilla-deborst in June 2011. She loves her dog, Basil. She likes her justice in a world of complex social locations requires husband Terry. When she isn’t breaking down walls, Talk: Getting an Agent’s Attention: Do’s and Don’ts a keen analysis of oppression and privilege, and an Talk: A Narrative Beyond Left & Right she likes to paint them. If you’ve been trying to get published, you’ve probably understanding of group identities as social constructs. What is the third way between a propositional run into the reality that the largest publishers insist theology and a theology that sees scripture as quaint? thebeccranford.wordpress.com that you have a literary agent. But how do you attract Talk: Mobilizing Across the Intersections #Religion an agent, and what are the many things writers do This 90-minute workshop/dialogue is for those who PANEL: Living Liberation with the Dispossessed wrong when attempting to land an agent? Greg are mobilizing for social change and desire to build Laurel Dykstra #Community Daniel of Daniel Literary Group will tell you how to stronger, more inclusive movements. Historically, Laurel Dykstra is a community- find the perfect-fitting agent for you as a writer and many efforts for change have been weakened by #Literary based scholar with a long history Dave Csinos the best ways to get his or her attention. neglecting the impact of intersecting, interlocking in intentional communities and the systems of oppression. Through applying principles Dave Csinos is founder and president Joe Davis radical discipleship movement. Her of Faith Forward, an ecumenical of intersectionality to participants’ own organizing justice work focuses on issues of urban organization that brings together Change is possible, but only if we work, we will discuss the challenges and potential of poverty; the activism of children, youth and families; unite a commitment to both words mobilizing with an intersectional analysis. children’s and youth ministry #Anti-Oppression challenging white privilege; and Queer and gender- leaders for collaboration, resourcing, and actions. Although you may Queer participation and resistance in churches. She and inspiration toward innovative be familiar with the old saying is the author of Set Them Free: The Other Side of “actions speak louder than words”, Exodus (Orbis, 2002), Uncle Aiden (Baby Bloc,

26 27 2005), editor of Bury the Dead (Cascade, 2013) and You will hear stories of our first launch in the fall Attorney Michelle Alexander. The U.S. has five make things new. We’ll talk about the signs of God’s co-editor, with Ched Myers of Liberating Biblical of 2013, where we sequentially occupied the lots percent of the world’s population, and 25 percent of working through the lives of queer folks. #Religion Study (Cascade, 2011). She is a collective member if of Trinity Presbyterian in Harrisonburg, VA and the world’s prison population. African Americans #Sexuality the Interfaith Institute for Justice, Peace and Social then Sojourners UCC in Charlottesville, VA. Learn are disproportionately imprisoned, to a degree many Movements and a member of the Christian activist more about our efforts to engage and revitalize the of the gains of the Civil Rights Movement are Tripp Fuller group Streams of Justice. Laurel lives with her connections between the local faith, arts, and activist reversed. Martin Luther King, Jr. offered a perspective Tripp is the founder and co-Host of not so traditional family in a housing co-op in the communities. We will lift up the unique giftings of on character embracing the language of morality the progressive theology podcast Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, BC where she is this creative experiment in its festival context and rather than shunning it. This session will look at Homebrewed Christianity. He lives exploring the vocation of neighbour. She was recently speak to future dreams for how the Carnival might how moral character is constructed in an era of mass in Redondo Beach, is a husband, ordained priest in the Anglican Church of Canada’s live on! If you want to be a part of the future of the imprisonment, and how King’s definition of morality father, minister, PhD student, home Diocese of New Westminster. Carnival, come and hear ways to be involved and illuminates an approach to dismantling the prison- brewer and Laker fan. offer support.#Carnival industrial complex. #Justice Talk: Guerilla Hospitality: Sharing Land, homebrewedchristianity.com Shelter and Bread in Scripture Paul Engler Kathy Ford The mandate for hospitality in our Sacred Story is Paul Engler is an activist, community organizer, Kathy Ford is a mother, spiritualist Homebrewed Christianity Live found in biblical law, history, narrative, and parable. therapist, and spiritual director. He is the founder of wild woman, puppeteer and theatrical Get ready for the Homebrewed Christianity Podcast The questions of Who, is called to share What, with the Center For the Working Poor and Burning Bush artist, working as co-director of and Share-fest! What better way to end the night Whom, and Why, are questions about community, Community in Los Angeles. Star of the Sea Studios. She has than having some delicious beverages while you nerd land, shelter and food – the basic stuff of survival. worked over the last 30 years as an out theologically! With over 50,000 different listeners Biblical hospitality speaks to modern issues of Talk: False Self Anonymous artist “without borders.” weaving her magic with each month, the Homebrewed Christianity podcast migration, indigenous sovereignty, food justice, We all have ineffective emotional programs for K-12, collegiate, special education and women’s shall be recording an episode live at the Goose. Like housing, and homelessness, and challenges the happiness, rooted in what the mystics call the False communities alike. She has a deep respect and love any good late night show there shall be laughs, tunes, comfortable notions of what it means to give and Self or the Ego. These emotional programs create for Earth based traditions which continue to inform and conversation, but how many do it while having a receive. Come and Share. patterns of addiction, codependency, low self-esteem, and inspire her work profoundly. share-fest of brews? Come on out to join Join Tripp control, fear, and denial in our lives. False Selves Fuller, Micky Jones, Christian Piatt, and a whole host PANEL: Liberating Bible Study Anonymous is a twelve step program of spiritual http://www.staroftheseastudios.com/ of special guests and bring your best home or craft growth that emphasizes contemplative practices such brew to share. #Religion #Podcast/RadioShow PANEL: Carnival Theology: Creative Protest, Art as mindfulness, meditation, and centering prayer in Talk: Wild Goose - A Puppet Making Intervention, and the spiritual renewal of the streets an environment of mutual vulnerability and support. Workshop Paul Gratton We may each share our strength and hope as we learn Within the Carnival Midway, participants will Paul Gratton is an entrepreneur, PANEL: Listening to Indigenous Knowledge: to let go of shame, fear, and anger and root ourselves engage in the crafting of a large-scale co-created musician, artist, and scholar who #Healing Decolonizing Theology, Restoring Relationship with in unconditional love. #Recovery Wild Goose puppet. Wings will be feathered. Beaks, enjoys leading creative teams. Paul the Earth webbed feet and bodies painted. Wires strung for #Carnival #Anti-Oppression #Religion #Justice is a cofounder and the director of Rima Vesely-Flad movement. This Goose will fly as a featured character operations for Weiv, interactive visual in the final day’s Puppet parade.#Carnival #Earth Tevyn East Rima Vesely-Flad is a professor of software, and is a musical and visual worship leader Religious Studies and director of in Prineville, Oregon. Currently a Doctor of Business Tevyn East is a dancer, choreographer, Peace and Justice Studies at Warren Paul Fromberg Administration student at George Fox University, performer, organizer, teacher, and Wilson College in Asheville, North Paul Fromberg is the pastor of St. Paul is interested in researching organizational advocate for right relationship with Carolina. She completed a dissertation Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church design and its impact in developing healthy the Earth and the great diverse in Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in San Francisco. He teaches about organizations. community of “Life”. She has toured in 2013. Her publications investigate Reformed worship and paints icons, and is extensively to faith communities around North Theological and Enlightenment Philosophical tenets passionate about the Incarnation and weiv.co America sharing Leaps & Bounds, her one-woman in Slave Codes, Black Codes, and criminal law. human transformation. He believes that show about the intersections of faith, ecology and Rima’s community-based work focuses on shifting Jesus welcomes everyone to his table. He lives with Talk: Interactive Worship Lab the economy. This production has now been made legal and social barriers experienced by people with his husband Grant and their dog Frankie. Faith is a picture, a poem, a song. Come with a into a feature length film that you can learn about at criminal convictions. She’s founder of Interfaith prayer, and a heart prepared to express joy and affordinghopeproject.org. Tevyn is a core organizer Coalition of Advocates for Reentry and Employment saintgregorys.org wonder to the Creator of all. The Interactive Worship and performer for the Carnival de Resistance. (ICARE) and taught college courses at Sing Sing Lab is designed to allow participants to conduct She seeks to integrate her artistic gifts with the Prison 2004-2006. She received the 2007 Union Talk: How queer people are transforming the hands-on experiments in listening and responding journeywork of faith- led activism, responding Square Award for Grassroots Leadership. Church for Christ’s sake to God. The lab includes multi-sensory stations, to the needs of the world and the signs of the Queer folk have been a part of the church forever. co-creative elements, reading of scripture, prayer, and times. warren-wilson.edu/includes/staff_bios. Although both rights and inclusion are important electro-acoustic worship music. #Worship php?user=rvesely areas of concern for God’s people, they are categories www.carnivalderesistance.com that relegate queer folk to a social location as victims. Sharon Groves Talk: Mass Incarceration, Morality, Instead, the church needs to see that God is calling Sharon Groves is Director of the Religion and Faith Talk: Carnival de Resistance: Reflecting on and Martin Luther King, Jr. queer folk to change the church, and to do it for the Program at Human Rights Campaign. She oversaw First Launch, this Festive Present and Future Mass Incarceration is the “New Jim Crow” according sake of Jesus Christ. What is God up to? God is HRC’s faith organizing for marriage equality across Dreams to scholars and activists, most recently Civil Rights using queers to stir things up, break things down, and the country, and creation of numerous resources, including “A La Familia,” a bilingual guide for 28 29 Latino/a families struggling with the Bible and a Habitat for Humanity office, and worked as family and community. She now works as a Domestic chickens. He stays pretty busy, but still manages to LGBT family members, “Gender Identity and a church youth director. These experiences have Violence Advocate for the Oneida Nation Domestic read over a hundred books a year. With apologies to our Faith Communities,” a multi-authored guide grown a deep interest in exploring new ways for the Violence Program, working closely with victims, Counting Crows, grey really is his favorite color, and to faith and transgender understanding, and “Out church to engage in community formation and the assisting them through the court process, individual he loves peanut m&ms. in Scripture,” a weekly preaching and devotional creation of sacred space. Cassidhe gets most excited counseling and group education. commentary. Prior to HRC, Sharon served as about reading children’s books, learning about new PANEL: Living Liberation with the Dispossessed managing editor for Feminist Studies, a scholarly monasticism, collaborating on innovative worship, Talk: Mending Broken Hearts: Healing From #Community journal at University of Maryland, where she taught and beginning her first community garden plot. Unresolved Grief & Intergenerational Trauma literature and social change and women’s studies. This workshop will introduce a program to address Kristen Howerton cassidhehart.wordpress.com communal wounds based on the White Bison Kristen Howerton is professor of PANEL: How Can More People Know Of All This curriculum for intergenerational healing. The psychology at Vanguard University. Goodness: A panel on what it will take to engage the Talk: Chapel Curation Team program addresses issues of oppression, racism She also pens the blog Rage Against #Worship generous, progressive Christian message in popular and colonization with a focus on native ritual and the Minivan, where she indulges in #Media culture and media tradition for grief and loss in communities. While sleep-deprived rants about parenting, Willie Mae Hawkins it was created in the Lakota community, it has been adoption, politics, race, religion, social Bill and Cherie Guerrant Willie Mae Hawkins is an used for native peoples and those of other minority justice, and various other subjects her mother warned Bill and Cherie Guerrant are farmers. inspirational speaker, consultant, life groups to find healing out of this kind of historical her not to discuss in public. Kristen has four children They own and operate White Flint coach, author & TV Host. She is the trauma. It goes into the depths of how ancestral and lives in Southern California. In addition to her Farm, a diversified chemical-free farm founder of She Builds a VineyardTM: trauma can impact current generations and how we own blog, Kristen is contributes to Huffington Post, in southern Virginia, where they raise A Mentoring Program for Women process these issues together and complete unfinished Babble, and Red Letter Christians. In the spring #Healing vegetables, goats, chickens and pigs. and Teenage Girls. Her mentoring program was relational experiences. #Women of 2010, Kristen lost her long and passionate battle inspired from her doctoral work and autobiography, against the minivan. It sits in her driveway covered in whiteflintfarm.com “She Builds a Vineyard: A Single Parent’s Ana Hernandez crushed cheerios and remnants of her self-esteem. Transformational Journey,” an exemplification of I lead a lot of community singing PANEL: Visual Presentation Slam: Food, Justice & struggles of a single parent who makes a stable life (sometimes with potluck suppers!); rageagainsttheminivan.com Faith Multi-Media Exploration #Earth for herself and her son, with God on their side. As a helping people find their voice by book of hope, faith, and transformation, it is noted by using sound as a way to get and Talk: White Privilege: What is it, and what we’re Derrick Harkins several readers “A Book for All Women!” stay integrated. I facilitate 1-3 day supposed to do with it Derrick Harkins serves as the senior workshops and retreats; for choirs, clergy conferences, Kristen Howerton will speak on White Privilege: pastor of the Nineteenth Street shebuildsavineyard.com schools, I like to teach tunes that will stick with you, what is it, and what we’re supposed to do with it. Baptist Church in Washington, DrWillieMaeHawkins.com so that when your world is in disarray, or you need Drawing on both her personal and professional DC. During the 2012 presidential to focus on that exam, thesis, or project, you’ll find experience, Kristen will help us examine privilege, campaign, Harkins was appointed Talk: Women Keeping Balance When Aiming High yourself with lots of resources (and possibly a stack of push past defense and denial, and help us understand national director of faith outreach for the Democratic Willie Mae Hawkins will present “Women Keeping good tunes) to accompany you along the road toward how we can acknowledge, own, and harness privilege #Anti-Oppression National Committee. Prior to beginning his pastorate Balance When Aiming High.” Today, women being the compassionate, peaceful human you were to help fight racism. at Nineteenth Street, Harkins serve as the senior continue to make an impact in our communities. created to be. minister of the New Hope Baptist Church of Dallas, Sadly, during their pursuit many are quickly Tavonda Hudson Texas. Along with writing for the Sojourners blog confronted with burnout and mental illness like anahermusic.tumblr.com Tavonda Hudson began justice work as a volunteer “God’s Politics,” he serves as a member of the board depression and anxiety. As author and founder of at Hosea Feed the Hungry (HFTH), and as of directors for World Relief, Faith in Public Life, “She Buildds a Vineyard: A Mentoring Program Talk: Finding Our Voice: Singing Together for volunteer producer for the radio show, “Something Sojourners and Union Theological Seminary. for Women and Teenage Girls,” she will discuss the Liberation and Healing You Know” promoting non-profit organizations. importance of self-care and keeping balance while Whether your work brings you to hospitals, recovery Through work, she became aware of mental health everyblessing.org a woman aims to strive for the best for herself, her ministries, hospice, jail, church, or only to your needs of clients who are struggling with low-income family, and the call to enhance or change lives in her meditation cushion, singing with and for one another and homelessness. Conversation with a client who PANEL: How Can More People Know Of All This community. A demonstration will also be presented. can help us to manage our internal weather, deepen came for food opened her eyes to another need in #Community Goodness: A panel on what it will take to engage the #Women our ability to listen, and help us to be deeply present the community - the client didn’t only need food, he generous, progressive Christian message in popular in our communities. We’ll learn beautiful melodies needed someone to listen. She decided to come to culture and media #Media Emma Eagle Heart-White to help us grow in compassion as we develop our seminary to pursue a dual-degree program, a Master Emma is Oglala Lakota from the most authentic voice and walk the way of freedom of Divinity and a Master of Science in Clinical #Worship Cassidhe Hart Pine Ridge Reservation of South together. Mental Health Counseling. Dakota. She was raised by her Cassidhe just finished her first year Hugh Hollwell of seminary at Garrett-Evangelical grandmother and great grandmother Talk: Hearing and Seeing: A Call to Seminary Service Theological Seminary. She graduated in a home where Lakota language, Hugh Hollowell is the founder of Love Wins For eighteen months, students from ten East Coast from Calvin College class of 2009. culture, tradition and spirituality was intertwined Ministries and is a sought after writer and speaker and Midwest seminaries have been in ministry In between college and graduate with being an Episcopalian. As a child, living in one about issues of faith and homelessness. You might with their local communities. In March 2013, ten school she served in AmeriCorps, teaching English of the most impoverished areas in the United States, have read him in The Washington Post or heard schools met for the first time, and began a network at a boarding school in western Ukraine, managed she witnessed effects of alcohol and drug abuse, him on either Fox News or NPR. Hugh lives in of seminarians that are committed to working sexual assault, and domestic violence within her downtown Raleigh with his wife, two cats and four towards social justice as an integral part of their

30 31 theological education. After meeting in Princeton, NJ Talk: Chapel Curator womanist theology, intersection of Black and Native Kathy Khang in September of 2013, the network began to grow as The Chapel is being curated by a group of interns American history and theology, practical theology, Kathy Khang’s currently multiethnic seminarians shared their experiences of service with from the Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE). and health issues. Micky likes to facilitate interesting director for InterVarsity’s Great their communities, and the efforts to seek justice for This diverse group of young adults bring an array of conversations, ask challenging questions, participate Lakes West region after ten years their community partners. Join us as we discuss why gifts in music, spoken word, and a true hunger for all in transformative experiences - and dance. ministering to students at alma mater we believe social justice is essential to theological things theological. Together, we will work to create a Northwestern University as staff for #Justice education. sacred space that is safe, welcoming, and filled with Talk: You Talk White : Growing Up in the Margins their Asian American InterVarsity chapter #Worship unique experiences for communal worship. Between Anglo & Non-Anglo Culture and as area director. Medill School of Journalism Dian Griffin Jackson The western world has become a beautiful panoply alumnus, Kathy worked as a reporter in Wisconsin Dian Griffin Jackson is sixth of Jay Johnson of cultures and ethnicities, but as this generation of before InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. She thirteen children. As a girl she Jay Emerson Johnson, PhD, is an adults defines their selfhoods racially and culturally, contributed to “More Than Serving Tea” (IVP, 2006) dreamed of being a wife, mother of Episcopal priest and theologian who knowing who they are becomes more complicated. - exploring faith, gender, culture and ethnic identity six, lawyer, author, singer, preacher, aims to retrieve the queerly feminist We want to fit people into narrow boxes, and now the from Asian American Christian woman’s perspective. and in Who’s Who Among. She and liberationist traces of historical boxes are being blown apart. This can be painful and She’s spoken at InterVarsity conferences, North Park earned two degrees, B.A., Sociology, North Carolina Christian theology for renewed also full of grace. Join us in dialogue about what it Theological Seminary, Moody Bible Institute and Central University and M.Div, Duke University witness to the Gospel. The fall of 2013 is like to grow up as a person of color in an Anglo- Wheaton College. Kathy was behind the “Asian School of Theology, in Durham, North Carolina. he helped to launch PSR’s new Center for Spiritual culture. Together we will explore the complexities American Open Letter to the Evangelical Church.” She’s completing her Doctor of Ministry at Hood and Social Transformation. His most recent books of privilege, racism, and identity for those who have #Anti-Oppression Theological Seminary, Salisbury, North Carolina. invite a deep reconstruction of historical Christian grown up in this new age of America. morethanservingtea.wordpress.com #Podcast/RadioShow Dian has been an ordained minister in United insights for personal and social transformation Church of Christ for thirteen years. A advocate for “Divine Communion: A Eucharistic Theology of Talk: Helpful & Unhelpful Ally Dynamics justice and truth, Dian resides in Rockingham, North Sexual Intimacy” (2013) and “Peculiar Faith: Queer BJ Harden Jones What does it take for a majority culture Church Carolina, serving as Senior Minister of Mt. Zion Theology for Christian Witness” (2014). Jay is a With 15 years of experience, to listen to different minority voices? What does it United Church of Christ. popular workshop leader and retreat facilitator and Karin Petersen and BJ Harden cost those minority voices to stay engaged? Come maintains a blog at peculiarfaith.com. Jones draw from the best of listen, learn, and maybe laugh at stories of one Asian Talk: Breaking the Cycle of Abuse Nonviolent Communication (aka American female voice finding her tone. As a new author, Dian Jackson will discuss the peculiarfaith.com Compassionate Communication), cycle of violence and abuse, and the challenges to Conscious Discipline, Family Constellations, and PANEL: How Can More People Know Of All This being free from the bondage of this debilitating Talk: Food, Sex, and God The Work of Byron Katie, and they present them Goodness: A panel on what it will take to engage the trauma. She will cull excerpts from her book, THE Our hunger for food and our longing for intimacy in a synthesized, fun, engaging manner. BJ Harden generous, progressive Christian message in popular PHOENIX: RISING FROM DESPAIR, to reflect God’s own deep desire for communion. This Jones is a cultural catalyst, consciousness evolutionary, culture and media chronicle her own experiences as a victor of abuse erotic desire shimmering at the heart of Christian truth teller, mystic, loving presence, community #Anti-Oppression #Justice and the painful process of finding freedom to soar. faith can change us and transform the world. The co-founder, and rad mama. She is currently working Her presentation will incorporate music and poetry fundamental yearning for intimacy languishes in on a project that integrates it all: co-luminate, an Jin S. Kim as avenues for gaining freedom. political gridlock, dissipates in economic systems urban hub for transformational culture. Jin S. Kim is founding pastor of social injustice, and withers in unprecedented of Church of All Nations in Talk: Mindful Sexuality: A New Ethic for Christians ecological crises. Resisting despair, Christian co-luminate.com Minneapolis, MN. His family Nancy Allison and Dian Jackson present an communities gather for table fellowship where food, emigrated from Korea when he was examination of scripture and culture as we focus on sex, and God intertwine, and always have. Those Talk: Mindful Parenting seven, growing up in Columbia, SC & loving and respecting the body, the self, the other; seeking to revitalize Gospel witness in the twenty- Bring questions, an open heart, and playful spirit Atlanta, GA in multiethnic environments. He also being present and passionate without misusing first century can turn there, to the depths of divine to this interactive workshop. Topics and tangible serves as Presbyterian Church (USA) National Field sexuality. At a time when sex has become lethal and desire at that Table and the world-changing hope for strategies we may cover and practice include: Staff to support English Ministries, as adjunct faculty legislators are attempting to control sexual values communion. 1. Develop deeper understanding of your child’s at Dubuque Seminary, and speaks and consults in and behavior, sexuality, sexual orientation and sexual brain development ecumenical arenas. Jin has a passion for the local abuse become the flash points for larger concerns. PANEL: God’s Gift from the Margins: An LGBTQ 2. Practice and understand techniques supporting church, for the ministry of reconciliation, and for the Using poetry, scripture, storytelling, writing and art Discussion children to be in the higher centers of their brain visible unity of the global church. we will guide participants in examining their personal #Religion #Sexuality 3. Actively re-write limiting beliefs and learn to re- sexual ethic, concentrating on the importance of wire your brain for success to be a more present cando.org relationships. #Sexuality #Healing Micky Jones parent Micky Jones is an author and 4. Judge less, empathize more Talk: Church of All Nations: An American Journey Kim Jackson communicator living south of 5. Less struggle, more fun, and connection with A sharing of lessons learned over ten years of Kim Jackson is the Episcopal chaplain Nashville, TN. After more than ten your child establishing a multi-racial/multi-ethnic faith for the Absalom Jones Episcopal years as mother-baby specialist (doula, 6. Discover expanded capacities for patience community. Center at the Atlanta University childbirth educator, lactation consultant, 7. Explore parenting strategies wiring your child’s #Religion #Community Center, which serves the students and trainer and author), she decided to go to seminary! brain for peace, happiness, and cooperation. #Family faculty of four historically black colleges She is currently studying with NAIITS (MAIS Steve Knight and universities—Clark Atlanta, Morehouse, Morris program) through George Fox Evangelical Seminary. Steve Knight is director of marketing Brown and Spelman. She resides in Stone Mountain, She’s worked with kids and youth through the and sales for Chalice Press. He is GA with her spouse, 14 chickens, 4 goats, a cat, and a YMCA, Rocketown, Wild Goose Festival, churches, also co-founder and community cuddly great pyrenees dog. 32 and other settings. Her special interests include 33 architect of TransFORM Network, a missional community formation network. He is What are barriers to building relationships across Vickie Machado with the opportunity to pose questions and listen co-founder and co-CEO of Sogo Media, a new kind race and class? How does Jesus ask us to work Born and raised in South Florida, to the thoughtful reflections of some of the planet’s of Christian television network on YouTube. Steve is for inclusion of all people, destroying barriers Vickie Machado received her Master most healing voices in a multitude of contexts: the former manager of the Internet division for the which divide us? How are individuals and systems of Arts in religion and Nature from on-air in the Soul Emergence weekly radio show, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, who futurist responsible for our power and privilege? How can the University of Florida focusing her through events and gatherings for deeper dialogue, Leonard Sweet once called “the Grand Master of we as individuals hold others accountable for their studies on sustainability, bioregionalism, and through storytelling, in a variety of creative New Media.” He lives with his three children in use of power and privilege and how racism and the Catholic Worker Movement, and the confluence red-lettered projects. Join in and become part of this Gastonia, NC (just outside of Charlotte). the consequential broken relationships impact our of environmentalism, social justice and faith. She emerging and soulful mission to make humanity communities? This session will begin a discussion you currently works in Fort Lauderdale as the Florida human again, one conversation at a time! #Justice #Podcast/RadioShow knightopia.com/blog can take back to your congregations, organizations, Organizer for Food and Water Watch. In her #Anti-Oppression and family about these topics. spare time Vickie helps organize the Eco-stewards Talk: Selling Books Through Social Program. Brian McLaren Media Without Selling Your Soul Olufemi Lewis Brian D. McLaren is an author, When it comes to marketing and selling your work, Olufemi Lewis is one of the founders ecostewardsprogram.org speaker, activist, and networker social media is its own special kind of beast. And you of the Asheville Buncombe Food among innovative Christian have to feed the beast! What are the best practices Policy Council, a graduate of Just PANEL: A Call to Bioregional Discipleship leaders. His dozen-plus books and tools for promoting without annoying people or Economic’s Voices program for include “A New Kind of Christianity,” sucking your life away on Facebook all day? Find out community organizing and Mountain Talk: First Decolonize Your Mind: Imagination, “A Generous Orthodoxy,” “Naked Spirituality,” in this informative and fun session with social media Biz Work’s Foundations business course. She is a Creativity, Food Justice and Movement and “Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and #Literary #Media maven Steve Knight. former officer of the Hillcrest Resident Association, Building Mohammed Cross the Road?” He and his wife, former Public Relations Coordinator with Blue Eco-activist Vickie Machado, author and wilderness Grace, live in Florida and have four adult children Tianja Lanxter Ridge Biofuels, and is one of the founders and guide Todd Wynward, and food justice organizer and four grandchildren. He’s an avid wildlife Thistle Farms is a social enterprise of women who coordinators of the Hillcrest Unity garden. Andrew Kang Bartlett will create a circle energized and outdoors enthusiast. His new book, We have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction. by our desire to liberate mind, heart, and hands Make the Road by Walking, is available now. Thistle Farms houses the bath and body care ujamaafreedommarket.wordpress.com so we can offer authentic selves in service to the company, Thistle Stop Café and paper and sewing world. Diversity and questions of race, difference, brianmclaren.net studios. All proceeds support Thistle Farms and the PANEL: Visual Presentation Slam: Food, Justice & privilege, and exclusion will be explored as we seek residential program, Magdalene. The community Faith Multi-Media Exploration to decolonize ourselves from negative socialization. Talk: Wordless Prayer provides housing, food, healthcare, therapy and #Earth #Justice Food justice and social movements provide starting See Suzanne Jackson for description. education, without charging residents or receiving point topics for us to explore ways our gifts can be government funding. Thistle Farms and Magdalene Stephen Lewis used for healing self and planet. Come willing to be PANEL: Labor and Job Justice stand as a witness to the truth that in the end love is moved by Spirit and the group field! Stephen Lewis is the President of the #Earth #Justice the most powerful force for change. Ty is a resident of Forum for Theological Exploration Talk: We Make the Road by Walking the Magdalene Program and graduates next year. (FTE), which focuses on cultivating For over a decade, author and activist Brian McLaren a new generation of Christian leaders. Peter Matthews has been challenging Christian leaders to explore thistlefarms.org He has more than fifteen years of Pastor Peter Matthews is an author and speaker what he calls a new kind of Christianity. In We experience in corporate and nonprofit leadership, who has preached, lectured, or keynoted extensively Make the Road by Walking, McLaren offers a basic Talk: The Journey to Healing strategic planning, program development and group throughout the U.S., Jamaica, England, Switzerland, orientation on what it means to be a new kind of See description under Kristin Vaughn. facilitation. Stephen’s interest lies at the intersection and South Africa over the past two decades. He is Christian, and how it might look to be alive in the #Healing #Justice #Religion #Practices between leadership development, vocation and currently serving as the first male African-American way of Christ. leading change, and he is passionate about inspiring pastor in the 132-year history of Eden Chapel James Lee the next generation of leaders to make a difference in United Methodist Church (Saylor Park, Ohio), Jonathan McRay James E. Lee III is President and the world through Christian communities. as well as the first African-American Executive Jonathan McRay grew up in Central CEO of James Lee Enterprises, Director/Campus Pastor in the 95-year history of the Appalachia and worked in Israel the Associate Minister at St. Paul fteleaders.org Wesley Center at the University of Cincinnati. He is and Palestine. The author of You Missionary Baptist Church in West the co-founder of Soul Emergence Media and host Have Heard It Said: Events of Asheville and a resident of Asheville, Talk: Called to Be Designers of Freedom of the weekly online radio show Soul Emergence. Reconciliation, he has a BA in NC. Currently, he is employed with Asheville- We all long for a world where we can pursue Under Matthew’s leadership, his organization, English Literature and Language and Buncombe Technical Community College in the happiness, liberty, and life abundantly. Unfortunately, Holistic, Inc., facilitated a direct response to the an MA in Conflict Transformation. Jonathan and Economic and Workforce Development Department unfettered oppression and disenfranchisement pressing needs of a greater Cincinnati community his wife Rachelle, a Physician Assistant, live with where he works with businesses and organizations continue to threaten the promise and hope for such by initiating a market-based approach to community friends on a small homestead in the Shenandoah to provide training to their employees. With his a world. The world “as it is” or “as it could be” is by development. Valley, where he also works with New Community company, James provides leadership, strategic design. Why not design a better world? Jesus taught Project: an education and demonstration center for planning, diversity and inclusion training and us that creating a world where everyone can thrive Talk: Soul Emergence permaculture design; a supportive home for friends in consultation to businesses, non-profits, and churches. and live liberation is not without a cost or sense of Soul Emergence is a rhythmic and relevant difficult life circumstances; and a project incubator to As a minister, James is actively engaged with options. Stephen will explore these ideas and more movement of people living out revolutionary lives hatch community building with neighbors, schools, community and the work of the faith community to regarding how Christians are called to conspire with in a humble attempt to make humanity human and local associations. bring reconciliation with each other. God’s Spirit to design a world where we all can live again. This movement provides everyday people f ree. #Religion ncpharrisonburg.wordpress.com Talk: Community Organizing for Anti-Racism 34 35 PANEL: A Call to Bioregional Discipleship Jessica Lynn Moon Talk: Mobilizing Across the Intersections Milly Morrow #Earth Psalmist For Soul Emergence Jessica This 90-minute workshop/dialogue is for those who Milly Morrow serves as Canon for Lynne Moon Jessica Lynne Moon is are mobilizing for social change and desire to build Missional Formation at the Cathedral April Mendez a dynamic singer, voice coach, youth stronger, more inclusive movements. Historically, of All Souls in Asheville, NC. April Mendez is Vice-President of mentor, caregiver and enthusiastic many efforts for change have been weakened by Milly entered the priesthood after Campus Stewardship for Interfaith follower of Jesus Christ. She is a native neglecting the impact of intersecting, interlocking a career in community organizing Youth Core where she’s expanding of Nashville, TN, a “pastor’s kid” and the youngest of systems of oppression. Through applying principles for non-violence, economic justice, and the campus movement for interfaith ten who comes from a very musically-inclined family. of intersectionality to participants’ own organizing anti-racism. Milly served victims of violence as a cooperation. She came to interfaith Her first music teacher was her mother. Although work, we will discuss the challenges and potential of counselor and family support case manager. A priest work through college missionary Lynne began singing in church with her older sister mobilizing with an intersectional analysis. in the Episcopal church, she is formed and informed #Anti-Oppression #Justice experiences abroad chronicled in IFYC Founder at the tender age of three, she elected to begin by the gospel of Jesus of Nazareth for work of Eboo Patel’s book, “Acts of Faith.” April is IFYC’s formal vocal training at Walnut Hills High School hospitality, social justice, reconciliation, and equality. first full-time staff member and does everything in Cincinnati, OH, then majored in Choral Music Amanda Moore She lives with her spouse and daughter in West from designing and running programs to managing Education at Florida A & M University on a full I was born and raised in Appalachia Asheville where they enjoy gardening, hanging out strategy and overseeing organizational operations. academic scholarship, where she was often a featured Tennessee. From an early age, my with chickens and gathering with awesome neighbors Prior to IFYC, she founded The Crib Collective. soloist. Lynne completed a Bachelor of Liberal life events shaped me to understand in the front yard. April has a B.A. in psychology from Carleton Arts degree with concentrations in Music and how important it is to rely on each College and is an MBA candidate in social enterprise Professional Communication at Xavier University other, to have community in our lives. Talk: Community Organizing for Anti-Racism at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of in Cincinnati. Lynne has performed extensively I was born into a severely dysfunctional What are barriers to building relationships across Management. throughout the United States and abroad,and has and impoverished family. Very literally, my existence race and class? How does Jesus ask us to work shared the stage with nationally recognized gospel relied upon people to help care for me and my family. for inclusion of all people, destroying barriers Talk: Interfaith Leadership and the Heart of Activism artists. She currently resides in Cincinnati, OH and In the same manner, other people’s lives very often which divide us? How are individuals and systems The greatest social change movements of our time serves as Interim Children’s Choir Director/Worship relied upon us to help care for them. I knew Church responsible for our power and privilege? How can have brought people together across lines of religious Leader at Eden Chapel UMC. In her spare time was meant to be more than a Sunday and Wednesday we as individuals hold others accountable for their difference, motivated by deeply held shared values. Lynne mentors youth in the Cincinnati Super Choir, meeting time. To be the people of God means our use of power and privilege and how racism and This hands-on session will provide an opportunity multicultural, ecumenical organization. She also lives should intermingle in a variety of ways, both the consequential broken relationships impact our to build your own interfaith leadership skills for performs with two local bands, The All Star Band during gathered worship times and at other times. I communities? This session will begin a discussion you mobilizing communities and campuses. You will and the Woode Tribe Orchestra. am now a member of Koinonia Farm community and can take back to your congregations, organizations, practice a form of interfaith dialogue that inspires serve as Communications Director. I am privileged and family about these topics. #Anti-Oppression action and begin to articulate your own interfaith Talk: Soul Emergence to travel the world representing Koinonia, sharing leadership story. #Justice See Peter Matthews for description. of our history as a forerunner to the Civil Rights Ched Myers #Justice #Podcast/RadioShow Movement, our efforts that gave birth to Habitat Ched Myers is an activist theologian, Sara Miles for Humanity, and our current day works to Feed biblical scholar, popular educator, Sara Miles, author of “City of God: Faith in the Conrad Moore the Hungry, both physically and spiritually. I have a author, organizer and advocate who Streets,” writes taking the Ash Wednesday service After being a Marine and living strong desire to engage in ecumenical dialogue, and has for 35 years been challenging out into the City of God. In lyrical terms, Sara through a family tragedy, Conrad seek out brothers and sisters who strengthen my and supporting Christians to engage describes people she encounters on the streets of her Moore has become a vocal advocate understanding of our faith. in peace and justice work and radical city, reminding us that she and her colleagues are not of nonviolence, peace-building, discipleship. “taking” God to the streets; God is there waiting. and social justice. He has served as Koinoniafarm.org Sara Miles also sees God in the act of feeding the co-coordinator of the MCC US Anti- chedmyers.org stranger. In her earlier memoir “Take This Bread,” Racism Program and, with his wife, as house parents Talk: Restoring Soil and Soul: How Koinonia Farm Sara chronicles her conversion to Christianity after at Bethany Children’s Home. His work on cultural Demonstrates Creation Care Talk: Born Again into the Bioregion: Embracing receiving communion at the altar of St. Gregory of identity informs his small business venture, Njema Since 1942, Koinonia has sought ways to Watershed Discipleship Nyssa Episcopal Church, and her founding of The Artwear and Design. He is actively involved in local demonstrate God’s kingdom here and now. The small This talk will combine biblical reflection, ecological Food Pantry. urban peace-building movements where he lives in house church community is well know for their analysis, and visual art by Ted Lyddon Hatten Southeastern Pennsylvania. involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and as an to sketch out a new/old paradigm for engaged, Talk: Abide With Me example of non-violence even through times of war. contextual Christian theology and practice in light What’s wrong with Christian outreach, good deeds, rootsofjusticetraining.org They’re also known as the birth place of Habitat for of the interlocking crises of climate destruction, mission trips and charity? Finding new life together Humanity. Come learn how the community has also species extinction, peak everything, social disparity beyond church/non-profit models of service. Two This 90-minute workshop will introduce the concept participated in the sustainable agriculture movement and pathological placelessness. This theme will also Writers Talk Writing: An Hour with Sara Miles and of “intersectionality”: the reality that all people live through the decades and is a leading example of be explored in a panel at the Carnival de Resistance Fred Bahnson Sara Miles and Fred Bahnson talk in various social locations -- race, gender, class, etc.-- Biological methods of farming on their 575 acres of site. about the process of writing. and that the complexity that results is more than the land. Learn, too, of the ways Koinonia seeks to Feed sum of any individual social location. Working for the Hungry, both physically and spiritually as an Talk: “Haunting Our History Still: Elijah as PANEL: Visual Presentation Slam: Food, Justice & justice in a world of complex social locations requires effort to demonstrate the community’s vision today - Archetypal Wilderness Prophet.” Faith Multi-Media Exploration a keen analysis of oppression and privilege, and an love through service to others, joy through generous This talk will, with help from artists Ted Lyddon #Community #Earth #Literary understanding of group identities as social constructs. hospitality, and peace through reconciliation. Hatten, Jay and Tevyn, explore the Elijah cycle (I Kg #Earth #Justice 17-II Kg 2) as a “catechism” in wilderness prophecy, highlighting characteristics that continues to haunt 36 37 our civilized presumptions and inspire our watershed that make sense to them. We want to hear from Teresa Bennett Pasquale addiction recovery model of the twelve steps, are the discipleship. all perspectives. The program carries a hopeful, Teresa B. Pasquale, LCSW, E-RYT, is trauma foundation for a more whole-istic and humble model optimistic, contrarian attitude. We like seeing the therapist, yoga/contemplative practice teacher, of leadership for and in any community. The Twelve PANEL: A Call to Bioregional Discipleship other side of issues, asking questions and pursuing healing consultant, and crooked mystic. She is author Steps are practiced worldwide by alcoholics and truth beyond catch-phrases and prefabbed answers. of the memoir “Mending Broken: A Personal Journey addicts, but serve anyone and everyone whose desire PANEL: Liberating Bible Study We invite news-makers, thought provokers, and Through the Stages of Trauma and Recovery” and is it is to serve the world from a spiritually-informed, #Carnival #Earth interesting people of all kinds as guests on the show working on her second book “The Journey of Desert enriched, and transformed perspective. #Religion for long-format interviews. Flowers: A Guide to Spiritual Woundedness & #Recovery Allison O’Hara Church-Hurt.” She is on National Executive Council Allison O’Hara is Senior Marketing PANEL: Can More People Know Of All This for the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Episcopal Taryn Strauss & Manager for Convergent Books, an Goodness: A panel on what it will take to engage the Church’s train-the-trainer on Church and Doctrine Natalie Renee Perkins imprint of the Crown Publishing generous, progressive Christian message in popular of Discovery, and the leadership team for Transform #Podcast/RadioShow #Media Natalie Renee Perkins and Taryn Group, which publishes for the culture and media Network. She collaborates with Soul Emergence Strauss are both seminarians purpose of contributing to an open team to bring segments on “Sacred Wounds” and Edgar Palacios at Union Theological Seminary and inclusive conversation about faith and life. As womens’ issues to Soul Emergence Radio Show. and interns at Middle Collegiate a marketing professional for over 20 years, O’Hara Hailing from El Salvador, Edgar Church where they study and work with inclusive, has worked with a wide variety of authors, brands, Palacios holds a B.A. in Theology teresabpasquale.org multicultural, and multi-ethinic spaces that are and organizations. She has a graduate degree from from the Baptist Seminary (México), geared toward social justice. Both have led former Teachers College and an undergraduate degree a sociology degree from University Talk: You Talk White : Growing Up in the Margins professional lives in theatre, performance, education, from Drew University. O’Hara resides in Colorado of Costa Rica, and a Masters in Social Between Anglo & Non-Anglo Culture and faith formation. Springs, Colorado. Science from the Latin American School See Micky Jones for description. of Social Science, (FLACSO), México. He was Talk: Liberating the Pews: The Multicultural convergentbooks.com coordinator and executive director of the National Talk: Mystic Soul: Movement & Meditation Congregation as an Act of Faith Debate for Peace in El Salvador, an organization Christianity has a lineage of mystics and If church is to be a rehearsal of God’s Kingdom, then PANEL: Buzz, Buzz, Buzz: What You Really Need leading the social peace movement during one of contemplative practices. Sadly, much of that lineage do we not have a theological imperative that the to Know about Promoting Your Book the most turbulent periods in El Salvador’s modern was lost for large chunks of history. Contemplative entire world be reflected in the congregation? Natalie #Literary history. Edgar has been the recipient of several practice grounds us in the “mystic soul” at the seat of Renee Perkins and Taryn Strauss offer theological peace and human rights awards. He currently serves our selves which we all possess. Mystic Soul practice and practical strategies for building multicultural, Jamie Osborne as missionary pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in relates us to our mystic lineage, helps carve out space multi-ethnic, artistic, and LGBTQ-affirming Jamie Osborne is married to Lauren Washington, DC. for inner quiet; it guides us through gentle movement congregations. What is keeping Sunday morning and they have two children, a son and [appropriate for all ages and physical capacities] and the most segregated hour in America, and how can a daughter. Rowan is three years old Talk: El Salvador: From War to Peace--A Christian guided meditation into that ancient space, that inner we change that dynamic for now, and forever? Let’s and Phoebe is ten months old. Jamie’s Experience of Committed Immersion place, that desert landscape for the quieting of the answer these questions together. journey to the Episcopal Church has El Salvador suffered a 12-year war starting in mind and connecting with the soul. Join and “plug in” #Religion #Anti-Oppression taken him through different parts of the Body of 1980. Over 75,000 people died and about 1 million to the sacred source. Christ. He was born into a Korean Pentecostal immigrated to other countries. The poor, the peasants, Natalie Renee Perkins Talk: Soul Emergence church and grew up in Korean and American Baptist and the working people suffered the brunt of the Natalie Renee Perkins and Taryn See Peter Matthews for description. churches. In college he and Lauren were involved consequences. Together with the people, a group Strauss are both seminarians at #Healing #Practices #Justice #Podcast/RadioShow with a charismatic campus ministry, and after college of Christian churches assumed a leading role and Union Theological Seminary and were a part of an emerging church community. Jamie achieved peace through political negotiation in 1992. Christopher Pasquale interns at Middle Collegiate Church is a postulant in the Diocese of Alabama and will be The participation of Christians in this process was an where they study and work with attending seminary this fall. expression of love in the search of peace with social Chris Pasquale is the Lead Addiction Therapist at inclusive, multicultural, and multi-ethinic spaces justice. It was a response to the call of Jesus Christ Delray Recovery Center in Delray Beach, Florida. that are geared toward social justice. Both have led Talk: You Talk White: Growing Up in the Margins to carry his message beyond doctrinal statements, He also runs his local youth group program at St former professional lives in theatre, performance, Between Anglo & Non-Anglo Culture theologies, or monumental temples into historical Paul’s Episcopal Church and facilitates a community #Justice education, and faith formation. See Micky Jones for description. #Anti-Oppression practice. & worship experience for spiritual seekers [many who are in addiction recovery] every Sunday night, Christian (Chris) Parks Talk: Liberating the Pews: The Multicultural Doug Pagitt with his wife [Teresa], around a sacred dinner table. Congregation as an Act of Faith Doug Pagitt is an author, pastor, Chris Parks is queer identified. Two- He is preacher, teacher, and living life in a state of If church is to be a rehearsal of God’s Kingdom, then Director of the Cana Initiative, radio spirit living. Dismantling oppression. constant recovery--working to battle the ego [our do we not have a theological imperative that the show host, goodness conspirator and Follower of Jesus. Empowering ultimate addiction as human beings] in himself and entire world be reflected in the congregation? Natalie possibility evangelist. people. Theater enthusiast. Activist. challenging others to do the same. You can find him Renee Perkins and Taryn Strauss offer theological at delrayrecoverycenter.com or seekersdelray.org. and practical strategies for building multicultural, The Doug Pagitt Radio Show PANEL: God’s Gift from the Margins: An LGBTQ multi-ethnic, artistic, and LGBTQ-affirming #Sexuality #Religion This isn’t a typical religious show. We are fun, fast- Discussion Talk: 12 Steps to Missional Leadership congregations. What is keeping Sunday morning paced, and not mean. It is not politically right. The Twelve steps to missional leadership are about living the most segregated hour in America, and how can Show has an IndeDemoCan spirit recognizing that out a set of principles which facilitate deeper and we change that dynamic for now and forever? Let’s all political perspectives have a point, and those more complete trust in God, in order to teach us to answer these questions together. #Religion #Anti- who identify with political parties do so for reasons practice intentional humility, and help us to serve Oppression others. These principles, as taught initially in the 38 39 Jim Perkinson Christian Piatt that a large percentage of consumers are willing to Talk: Occupy Heaven: Are God, Religion, and James W. Perkinson is a long-time Christian Piatt is an author, editor, pay a premium to avoid purchasing products with Politics beyond Rescue? activist/educator/poet from inner speaker, musician and spoken tainted supply chains. Join us in our fair trade booth To many people today, religion appears to be mostly city Detroit, currently teaching word artist. He has a memoir on to “encounter” the person behind the product. Learn a conservative phenomenon. Often in history religion Social Ethics at Ecumenical faith, family and parenting called how you can play a role in loving our global neighbor put itself on the side of status quo. As a result, it Theological Seminary and lecturing “PregMANcy: A Dad, a Little Dude while alleviating poverty and preventing slavery may seem as if God, religion, and politics are beyond in Intercultural Communication Studies and a Due Date.” His first book for Jericho Books, through a discussion on conscientious consumerism. rescue. This presentation introduces alternative #Justice #Community at the University of Oakland (Michigan). He is the called “PostChristian: What’s Left? Can We Fix It? models, beginning with the realization that author of “White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Do We Care?” comes out in hardback in August, progressive forms of religion were part of significant Modernity;” “Shamanism, Racism, and Hip-Hop 2014. He is the creator and editor of the “Banned D’Art Strickland & Jon Scruggs transformations in history. The critiques that emerge Culture: Essays on White Supremacy and Black Questions” book series, and his first novel, “Blood D’Art Strickland and Jon Scruggs of are not merely directed at dominant power in politics Subversion;” and “Messianism Against Christology: Doctrine,” came out in May. RedLetterRadio.com are Pentecostal and economics, but also at dominant power in Resistance Movements, Folk Arts, and Empire.” He Pastor’s kids who failed to fill their religion. Deep solidarity helps reconstruct entrenched has written extensively on questions of race, class and christianpiatt.com parents’ shoes. After getting his BA images of immanence and transcendence, producing colonialism in connection with religion and urban in Biblical Languages, Jon spent six new visions of God, religion, and politics. culture. Talk: Self Publishing years in ministry before being graciously asked to These days, you don’t have to have a publisher to leave, largely due to his association with the emerging PANEL: Labor and Job Justice #Justice #Religion Talk: Movement Jesus, Wild Memory, and Folk Art: get your book published. There are several options church and suspicious haircuts. D’Art spent ten years Recovering Ancestral Voice in Colonized Galilee and available to an author but there is a lot more to it in ministry, subsequently getting fired for one thing Occupied Detroit than just writing the book. Christian Piatt and Mark or another. Using humorous critique and painfully Reba Riley This workshop will juxtapose gospel texts of Jesus’ Van Steenwyk have both self-published and share honest self-reflection, they hope to help those Reba Riley is the author of “Post-Traumatic Church baptism in the wilderness and folk-art texts from the their experience and offer tips on raising money, burned by evangelicalism find peace and liberation Syndrome: A Humorous Memoir of Healing, Hope, streets of Detroit to explore the role of “ecological editing, handling the production side of the book, in a middle way that offers love and forgiveness to a and 30 Religions Before 30” (Chalice Press, Fall/ voice” in movement praxis. The exegetical and and the promotional elements all wrapped up in self- institution that isn’t asking for it. Winter 2014). poetic readings offered will uncover the way “gospel publishing. immersion” in the histories and possibilities of local RedLetterRadio.com RebaRiley.com ecosystems is crucial in divining and mobilizing Talk: Post Christian: What’s Left, ancestral memory and energy for the sake of Can We Fix It? Do we Care? Talk: Not Safe For Church Live: Stockholm Syndrome Talk: Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome messianic witness. Author Christian Piatt discusses his upcoming book, Do you secretly have a DC Talk Pandora playlist? Do Debut author Reba Riley of “Post-Traumatic Church “PostChristian: What’s Left? Can We Fix It? Do We you still have a WWJD bracelet? Ever find yourself Syndrome: A Humorous Memoir of Healing” Talk: Liberating Language: Poetry as Resistance Care?” being published by Jericho Books on August watching TBN for more than five minutes? You’re (publication date August 2014) speaks candidly Come and share your words or others poems that 12, 2014. He explores both the of the Christian not alone. Jon and D’Art will be recording a live about the fascinating and hilarious year she spent have helped you in your faith resistance journey, religion, and the redemptive potential of reclaiming a conversation for their Not Safe For Church Podcast. experiencing thirty religions before turning thirty - a as well as hear some deep verbs and vibes from more Christlike identity. #Religion #Literary With experience in everything from Bible College, personal quest which led to spiritual recovery from acclaimed poet Jim Perkinson, and other special to Christian Rock bands, to Pentecostal healing lines, a bad case of “Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome” Carnival guests. This is an open sharing time as well Sarah Ray they’ve been there, done that, made fun of it, and and physical healing from a chronic mystery as a discussion about the power and need for poetic After receiving her degree in felt guilty for it. Hear how they came to terms with illness. For everyone who bumps into religion when language in our resistance arts. PANEL: Religious Studies from Drury nostalgia for a faith that left them behind, and found they consider God, Reba’s poignant and funny Liberating Bible Study PANEL: Listening to University, Sarah spent many months new hope for the children of the Evangelical Age. presentation reminds us we don’t have to choose a #Podcast/RadioShow Indigenous Knowledge: Decolonizing Theology, in travel and service within the religion to choose faith (Living Liberation!), and Restoring Relationship with the Earth developing world. This later inspired healing may be found exactly where we are, exactly as #Carnival #Anti-Oppression #Religion #Justice #Healing #Religion her to co-found International Justice Organization Joerg Rieger we are. and fair-trade initiatives, Yobel Market and Yobel Joerg Rieger is Wendland-Cook Karin Petersen International in 2008. The market and non-profit Professor of Constructive Theology Lisbeth Meléndez Rivera With 15 years of experience, Karin Petersen and collaborate to alleviate poverty and prevent slavery by at Perkins School of Theology, SMU. Lisbeth Melendez Rivera is Religion and Faith BJ Harden Jones draw from the best of empowering communities through entrepreneurial For over two decades he has worked Program’s Director of Latino and Catholic Initiatives. Nonviolent Communication (aka Compassionate training and equitable trade. When not traveling to bring together theology and the Before joining full-time, she was working closely Communication), Conscious Discipline, Family the world teaching business skills, Sarah acts as struggles for justice and liberation marking with our program for two years as the National Constellations, and The Work of Byron Katie, and consultant, speaker, and writer. She resides in our age. His work addresses misuse of power in Coordinator for A la Familia project, training and they present them in a synthesized, fun, engaging Woodland Park, Colorado with her husband Brian. religion, politics, and economics. He is interested empowering Latino/as throughout the country manner. They offer longer workshop series on the Days off find Sarah buried in a good book, hiking, or in movements that bring change and the positive around LGBT issues. She envisioned and directed same topics in Asheville, and Karin is available enjoying local food. contributions that religion can make in the world. BEFORE GOD: WE ARE ALL FAMILY, a for private sessions to create a compassionate and Rieger has lectured throughout the United States powerful documentary that she shares with Latino/a sophisticated personalized plan for your family. yobelmarket.com, yobelinternational.org and many other countries. He is on the steering communities across the country. As Director of Visit co-luminate.com to learn more about what committee of Jobs with Justice in North Texas and Latino and Catholic Initiatives, Lisbeth deepens Karin and BJ are up to. You and your family deserve Talk: Shop ethically, prevent slavery. co-founder of the Workers’ Rights Board in the the impressive reach of her work with Latino/a this level of support. Ever wonder where your stuff comes from? Who Dallas area. communities and will additionally help us develop made it and whether they were paid fairly? 80% and implement Catholic engagement work across the Talk: Mindful Parenting of clothing marketed in the United States is made joergrieger.com organization. See BJ Harden Jones for description. #Family utilizing child, sweat, and slave labor despite the fact 40 41 “as someone who has made redemption his work, frank has, Why I am an in fact, shown amazing grace.” — Jane Smiley, Washington Post

“to millions of evangelical christians, the Schaeffer name is Atheist Who Believes royal, and frank is the reluctant, wayward, traitorous prince. His crime is not financial profligacy, like some pastors’ sons, in but turning his back on christian conservatives.” — New York Times “Frank Schaeffer’s gifts as a writer are sensual and loving. GOD He’s also laugh-out-loud funny!” — Andre Dubus III, author of House Why I am an of Sand and Fog How to give love, create beauty and find peace hrc.org international television and radio programs and is a Talk: Faith-Root OrganizingCaught between around the beauty the of Immigrationhis grandchildren and grief overFrank a friend’s Schaeffer sought after voice on the perspective of millennial Crisis: Living Liberationdeath, Frank through Schaeffer Sacred finds himselfHospitality simultaneously believingFrank and Schaeffernot is a Believes Atheist Who New York Times believing in God—an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with faith and Talk: Before God: We are All Family evangelicals and issues of faith in public life. Every day over 1,100disbelief, people sharing are his deported--many innermost thoughts with ofthe lyricism thatbestselling only great author of more than a This brief film explores the experiences of LGBT them from families writerswith ofboth literary citizen nonfiction and achieve. immigrant Schaeffer writes as an imperfectdozen son,fiction and nonfiction books. husband and grandfather whose love for his family, art and life trumps the people of deep faith who have been told there is brandanrobertson.com members--affectingugly our theologies neighbors of an angry and God andcolleagues. At the atheist vision of a cold,Frank meaningless is a survivor of both polio no place for them in their church of origin. It also Twitter: @BrandanJR the same time, thereuniverse. is hope Schaeffer in the writes midst that only of when the we abandon our huntand for certainty an evangelical/fundamentalist explores the experiences of their parents and siblings suffering. The Spiritdo we of become God freeis to createmoving beauty, in giveamazing love and find peace. childhood, an acclaimed writer who

in GOD who have been cruelly asked to choose between su Talk: Liberating Evangelicalism: From FOX News to ways and there are opportunities for transformation overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and familia y su religión. Good News the Revangelical Movement and liberation--not just of immigrants but also of self-taught documentary movie director, and a Anti-Gay, Anti-Reason, Anti-Democrat, Anti- all those who join the struggle. Come FRANKreflect SCHAEFFER on is a bestsellingfeature author, film director of four low-budget Hollywood

PANEL: God’s Gift from the Margins: An LGBTQ Progress, Anti-Justice, Anti-Jesus - a few of many how a faith-rooted organizing approachmovie produces director, blogger, speaker,features artist, father that Frank describesFrank Schaeffer as “pretty terrible.” He Discussion #Justice #Family #Sexuality adjectives describing Evangelicalism the past decade. practical ways to live the fullness of sacredof three, hospitality. grandfather of five, and a survivor of Frank Schaeffer both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalistis also an artist with a loyal following of collectors The movement committed to proclaiming Good Faith-Rooted Organizing in Your Communitychildhood. who own many of his oil paintings. Frank’s three Patience Robbins News of the Kingdom of God became hijacked by Community organizing equals bringing stakeholders semi-biographical novels describe growing up in a Patience Robbins is Director of the FOX News and political agendas of the Religious together to create systemic change. Faith-rooted fundamentalist mission and have been translated into Young Adult Life and Leadership Right. Is there hope for a meaningful future in organizing does that in a way that is completely nine languages. Initiative for Shalem Institute. Evangelicalism? We believe the movement can shaped and guided by faith and enables people of She has been a spiritual director be liberated from the political, theological, and faith to draw from our deepest wells and give all frankschaeffer.com for over 25 years. A member of ideological baggage now synonymous with it. The of our unique gifts toCover the Photograph broader by Scott Griessel movement for New York Times best-selling author of keepiNg FaiTh Shalem Institute’s adjunct staff since Spirit renewing global spiritual communities also justice. What does it look like to have a seamless Talk: Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God (How 1997, she was the Director of Shalem’s Personal works among a new generation of Evangelicals integration of spiritual practice, community to Create Beauty, Give Love and Find Peace) Spiritual Deepening Program from 2003-08. rethinking, reforming, and renewing the way they development and community organizing for the 21st Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren She currently serves in the Spiritual Guidance embody the Good News of Jesus to the world. century? Come strategize to bring the tools of faith- and grief over a friend’s death, Frank Schaeffer finds #Podcast/RadioShow Program, the Personal Spiritual Deepening Program rooted organizing to bear on the specific concerns himself simultaneously believing and not believing in Leadership Conference and the Group Spiritual you want to address in your own community. God - an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with #Justice Direction Programs. She is the author of the booklet, Jamie Rye faith and disbelief, sharing his innermost thoughts “Parenting: A Sacred Path.” Jamie Rye is an Urban House Church with lyricism of literary nonfiction. Schaeffer writes planter building community with the Franklyn Schaefer as an imperfect son, husband and grandfather whose patience-robbins.com, shalem.org Arab Refugee population in Toledo Franklyn Schaefer is a former love for family, art and life trumps the ugly theologies Ohio. He is a Creative, Community ordained minister in United of an angry God and atheist vision of a cold, Talk: Introduction to Spiritual Direction Dreamer, Pastor, Writer, Speaker, Methodist Church where he meaningless universe. Schaeffer writes that only when This session provides a brief overview of Spiritual Teacher, New Monastic, Homesteader and lover of ministered for more than twenty years we abandon our hunt for certainty do we become free Direction, also known as Spiritual Companioning, food. His greatest accomplishments are marrying until December 2013. He is married to create beauty, give love, and find peace. which has been going on for centuries and is being Kelly and being the Dad to two beautiful kids! to Brigitte and has four children. In 2013, Schaefer #Religion #Healing revived today. The heart of this practice is listening was tried by a United Methodist court for officiating with deep reverence for nudges and invitations of Kids’ Program Coordinator #Family his son’s same-sex marriage and was defrocked Attica Scott God’s loving and liberating Spirit. The director over his refusal to uphold the Book of Discipline Attica’s an Adjunct Instructor at honors whatever longings, experiences, fears, doubts, Alexia Salvatierra (the denomination’s law book), which would have Jefferson Community and Technical questions, or joys a person may bring to a session Alexia Salvatierra is currently the Director of Justice meant to denounce gay marriage rights. Now a College, a Louisville Metro Council and prayerfully holds this with open attention for Ministries for the Southwest California Synod of United Methodist lay person, speaker and activist, he member, and former Coordinator God. The session will include practical aspects the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She continues to advocate for human rights. of Kentucky Jobs with Justice. For as well as an experience of this sacred listening also serves as a consultant for a variety of national/ three years, Attica was Executive Director and how it can bless and deepen our life in Love. international organizations, including World Vision. javacasa.com/frankschaefer of The National Conference for Community and #SpiritualDirection USA/World Vision, International/Women of Vision, Justice in Knoxville, Tennessee. While on staff at the Womens Donor Network, Auburn Theological Talk: Defrocked: How a Father’s Act of Love Shook the University of Tennessee, she served as President of Brandan Robertson Seminary, Interfaith Worker Justice, PICO, United Methodist Church the Black Faculty and Staff Association and wrote Brandan Robertson is a writer, Sojourners, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and In a review based on his book, former Methodist a monthly column “Color Conscious” for Metro activist, speaker, and dreamer behind the Christian Community Development Association. pastor Franklyn Schaefer will reflect on why he Pulse (Knoxville’s weekly newsmagazine) exploring The Revangelical Movement. He She is adjunct faculty at the New York Theological performed his son’s wedding to another man though racial justice issues through the lens of a woman of has a B.A. in Pastoral and Biblical Seminary and Biola University, and has lectured at his church forbids it. His talk will reveal details of color. Attica is a certified anti-racism trainer through Studies from Moody Bible Institute Fuller Seminary, University of Southern California, the wedding for his son Tim, the charges against him Crossroads Ministry and the Commission on in Chicago and is pursuing his Masters of and UCLA. Her book “Faith Rooted Organizing” by a member of his local church, his church trial, his Religion in Appalachia. Divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary. recently came out on InterVarsity Press. ultimate defrocking, how his story became national Brandans blog “Revangelical” is hosted on Patheos news, and how these events birthed him into a Talk: Community Organizing for Anti-Racism #Religion #Sexuality Evangelical and he writes for a number of prominent alexiasalvatierra.com national LGBT advocate. What are barriers to building relationships across outlets. He is a frequent guest on national and race and class? How does Jesus ask us to work for inclusion of all people, destroying barriers which divide us? How are individuals and systems responsible for our power and privilege? How can 42 43 we as individuals hold others accountable for their the ways in which our faith has been diminished healing, and ultimately relational way of being the RootsOfJusticeTraining.org use of power and privilege and how racism and by the powers of speed, and to imagine church church. Join Tim Soerens, co-author of THE NEW the consequential broken relationships impact our communities rooted in the virtues of ethics, ecology PARISH, and explore how the ancient idea of the Introduction to an Intersectional Analysis communities? This session will begin a discussion you and economy that offer a compelling alternative to parish might be just the gift we need to recover to This workshop will introduce the concept of can take back to your congregations, organizations, the McDonaldization of our times. In this session, discern what it means to be the church in the 21st “intersectionality,” the reality that all people live in and family about these topics. #Anti-Oppression we will explore together what Slow Church is, why century. #Community #Religion various social locations (race, gender, class, etc.) and it is timely, and how we can begin to slow down the complexity that results is more than the sum of Terry Smith and be attentive to God’s abundant gifts in our Shannon Spencer any individual social location. Working for justice Terry has been working in ministry, congregations and neighborhoods. A pastor to many on the streets of in a world of complex social locations requires a #Religion #Community creating dynamic youth ministries Asheville, Shannon experiences keen analysis of oppression and privilege, and an and working with homeless people Jesus most in those the world often understanding of group identities as social constructs. for ten years. He currently is a pastor John Snodgrass dismisses and neglects as “needy.” A This interactive workshop will be based on forum at Church of the Misfits and runs Mister J. Snodgrass teaches World mother of two she dreams of raising theater activities and discussion. VanLanta, an organization that meets Religions at Brevard College, and her daughters in a church where brokenness doesn’t the needs of our homeless neighbors in the Atlanta is a Bible teacher and preacher equate to being weak and strength is about standing Talk: Mobilizing Across the Intersections suburbs. at numerous churches, Unitarian in the midst of fear - not the absence of it. This workshop/dialogue is for those who are Fellowships, and a Synagogue in mobilizing for social change and desire to build PANEL: Living Liberation with the Dispossessed Western North Carolina. He’s a graduate of PANEL: Living Liberation with the Dispossessed stronger, more inclusive movements. Historically, #Community #Justice Union Seminary in New York City, and resides in #Community #Justice many efforts for change have been weakened by Hendersonville, NC. The name for this site, “Mister J. neglecting the impact of intersecting, interlocking Anthony Smith Snodgrass” was chosen to differentiate this Snodgrass Mark Van Steenwyk systems of oppression. Through applying principles Anthony Smith lives in Salisbury, NC. from other Snodgrasses - Doctor Snodgrass, Father Mark Van Steenwyk is the co- of intersectionality to participants’ own organizing Snodgrass, the poet Snodgrass and the Bible scholar work, we will discuss the challenges and potential of Anthony is one of the curators (along founder of the Mennonite Worker #Justice with this wife Toni Cook-Smith) Snodgrass. Though a seminary graduate, Snodgrass in Minneapolis, the editor of mobilizing with an intersectional analysis. is proud of his title, “Mister.” He’s the author of four of Mission House, a kingdom JesusRadicals.com, the producer of Jon Sweeney experiment in Salisbury, NC. He is books, and is currently working on his fifth and sixth. the Iconocast podcast, and the author of the “resident emerging theologian” of “The unKingdom of God: Embracing the Subversive Jon M. Sweeney is an author, book an Emergent Village cohort in Charlotte and a co- misterjsnodgrass.wordpress.com Power of Repentance” (IVP, 2013). publisher, and culture critic. Best host of the emergent cohort in Statesville, NC. He known as the author of “The also serves on the leadership team of TransFORM, a PANEL: Visual Presentation Slam: Food, Justice & markvans.info Pope Who Quit,” his new book is #Earth #Justice global network of missional leaders and communities. Faith Multi-Media Exploration “Inventing Hell,” just published by He facilitates a blog, Musings of a Postmodern Talk: The Revolutionary Table Jericho. Negro, is an investigation into the intersection of Tim Soerens Drawing from his experience offering hospitality theology, philosophy, race, popular culture, politics, Tim Soerens is a ministry leader, in his community, the Mennonite Worker, Mark PANEL: What It’s Really Like Out There: #Literary and emerging culture. social entrepreneur, and co-founding asks, “how can we see the table not only as a place Perspective From the Seasoned Pros director of the Parish Collective of welcome, but one of political and economic postmodernegro.wordpress.com/ where he convenes ministry liberation?” Andrew Tatusko leaders, teaches, and consults with Andrew Tatusko, Ph.D., went to Talk: Soul Emergence organizations seeking human flourishing Talk: Self Publishing Princeton Theological Seminary for See Peter Matthews for description. in particular neighborhoods while also working These days, you don’t have to have a publisher to four years and decided not to become #Justice #Community #Podcast/RadioShow collaboratively across the city. Tim is also the co- get your book published. There are several options a minister. He began work in teaching founding producer of the Inhabit Conference and available to an author but there is a lot more to it and learning in higher education and C. Christopher Smith co-designer and instructor at the new “Leadership in than just writing the book. Christian Piatt and Mark has been there ever since. His dissertation C.Christopher Smith is co-author of the New Parish” certificate at The Seattle School of Van Steenwyk have both self-published and share is on secularization and sectarian higher education. the new book “SLOW CHURCH: Theology and Psychology where he is adjunct faculty. their experience and offer tips on raising money, He now works at Penn State University in faculty Cultivating Community in the He lives in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle editing, handling the production side of the book, development and has published a few articles on Patient Way of Jesus” (IVP Books). with his wife Maria-Jose Soerens and their son and the promotional elements all wrapped up in self- religion, culture, and education. You’ll most likely #Community #Literary He is also founding editor of “The Lukas. publishing. find him laughing with his two sons, driving with a Englewood Review of Books,” and black lab hanging out the window, picking through regularly writes and speaks in various venues newparish.org Regina Shands Stoltzfus music with a healthy dose of OCD, or doing super throughout North America. Regina Shands Stoltzfus is an cool geekish stuff. Talk: Faithful Presence: How the reclaiming the “parish” assistant professor at Goshen patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/ dares us towards a new perception of the church College. She has worked for mindsquirrels.com It’s a tricky word - church. Ask twenty different various church institutions from her Talk: Slow Church: Liberation from people what the church is, and you’ll probably get home congregation in Cleveland to Talk: An Eastern God Healing Western Addiction the Prevailing Powers of Speed twenty different answers. Not only that, but for Mennonite Mission Network and is a co-founder We are addicted to the condition of the world as it Following in the footsteps of Slow Food and other many of us it is a word that combines great hope of the Damascus Road Antiracism Process. She is is often trading compassion and wisdom for self- Slow movements, Slow Church seeks to name and longing, coupled with pain and confusion. More the mother of four grown children, lives in Goshen, centeredness and ignorance. Through spiritual healing and more people are searching for an integrative, Indiana, and attends Assembly Mennonite Church. we become liberated from the snares of ignorance, 44 45 self-centeredness, and addiction. But how does Jesus’ death grant us spiritual healing? This session will in Comparative Women’s Studies and International organizations working to improve the lives of those Jim Wallis focus on how the Icon of the Resurrection is a path Studies, and received her Masters of Divinity from in need. He is a sought after speaker, consultant Jim Wallis is president and founder toward the liberating and life-giving work of God. Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Her and personal worth coach with a unique gift for of Sojourners, where he is also Progress along this path toward participation in the current growing edges are related to her interest empowering people to move from trauma to triumph editor-in-chief of “Sojourners” life of God offers freedom from our addictions and in postcolonial theology, menstruation and power and create a reimagined life. He is Author of the magazine, which has a combined #Healing even death itself. #Recovery analysis, social movement building, and alternatives critically acclaimed and award winning book God’s print and electronic media readership to robotic warfare and society. Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens. of more than a quarter million. He is also a New Sarah Thebarge York Times bestselling author, public theologian, Sarah Thebarge is an author and cpt.org romaltune.com speaker, and international commentator on ethics and speaker with writing in “Everyday public life. Jim recently served on the White House Health,” “Just Between Us,” “Relevant Talk: Conflict can be a generative force! Talk: Who’s Looking for Me? Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Magazine,” Burnsidewriters.com, There is no need to avoid or to be afraid of conflict. Share Tune’s journey from street life to college, Partnerships and currently serves as the chair of the and “Christianity Today.” Her blog This workshop will invite you to embrace these success and an urban ministry/modern ministry Global Agenda Council on Values of the World was featured by MSNBC.com. Her memoir “The inevitable situations that often highlight difference, strategy that goes after young people the church Economic Forum. Invisible Girls” was published by Jericho Books in confusion, pain, and power. Doing so resists a culture often ignores. With unapologetic authenticity, Tune 2013. Sarah is a speaker at retreats, churches, colleges of fragmentation, isolation, and vengeance. We’ll offers his testimony of moving from trauma + tragedy sojo.net and conferences. She was featured at Donald Miller’s intermingle our personal feelings about conflict to transformation + triumph through a life in Christ. Storyline Conference and named one of 40 Women with stories of experiences from biblical characters, Learn how intergenerational strategies lead to more Talk: Racism is America’s Original Under 40 challenging taboos of the Christian Faith. Christian Peacemaker Teams workers and partners, effective outcomes when addressing challenges and Sin: A White Man’s Perspective Her book was chosen as the First Year Experience the Anabaptist movement, and various movements pursuing ministry opportunities that embrace and From the recent stories of Trayvon Martin, Donald book for incoming freshman at Mississippi State for social change. engage those society may see as outcasts. Through Sterling, and the repeal of Section Four of the University, where she’s delivering convocation this storytelling and practical examples, Tune identifies Voting Rights Act, racism is still an issue in our fall. She lives in Santa Barbara, CA. PANEL: Carnival Theology: Creative Protest, Art what is often lacking in community outreach country. For too long our brothers and sisters of #Religion Intervention, and the spiritual renewal of the streets efforts and what needs to be implemented. color have had to speak out against racism. It is time #Community sarahthebarge.com for white Christians to begin naming the sins of PANEL: Listening to Indigenous Knowledge: racism and to continue to act towards reconciliation. Talk: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Decolonizing Theology, Restoring Relationship with Kristin Vaughn There is only one remedy for such a sin and that is #Carnival #Justice #Anti-Oppression Publishing: A First Time Author’s Perspective the Earth Thistle Farms is a social enterprise repentance, which, if genuine, will always bear fruit Getting a book deal is both exciting and of women survivors of prostitution, in concrete forms of conversion, changed behavior, overwhelming. There are many different aspects to J. Dana Trent trafficking, and addiction. Thistle and reparation. While the United States may have publishing a book and a lot of jargon that is new to a Dana Trent is an ordained minister in Farms houses the Bath and Body changed in regard to some of its racial attitudes and first time author. Come along to hear Sarah Thebarge, the Baptist tradition. Her first book, Care Company, Thistle Stop Café, allowed some of its minority citizens into the middle author of THE INVISIBLE GIRLS, share her Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of and paper and sewing studios. All proceeds class, white America has yet to recognize the extent experience of what she learned, what she expected, How a Christian Minister Married support Thistle Farms and the residential program, of its racism—that we are and have always been a what she didn’t expect, and information about the a Hindu Monk, chronicles challenges Magdalene. The community provides housing, food, racist society-—much less to repent of its racial sins process from a fresh perspective. and joys of her interfaith marriage to Fred, a devout healthcare, therapy and education, without charging #Anti-Oppression #Justice Hindu who formerly lived as a monk. She and Fred residents or government funding. Thistle Farms and Talk: Broken Embraces: Loving our neighbors in spite of live in Raleigh, NC, but love to travel, visit houses of Magdalene stand as a witness to the truth that love Sharon Watkins (or maybe because of?) our own imperfections worship, and try new vegetarian recipes. Dana blogs is the most powerful force for change. Kristin is Sharon E. Watkins serves as General Minister and Drawing on her personal experience of befriending at jdanatrent.com and tweets @jdanatrent. Events Coordinator and graduate of the Magdalene President of the Christian Church (Disciples of a family of Somali refugees while she was going Program. The favorite part of her job is coming to Christ) in the United States and Canada. The first through treatments for aggressive breast cancer, jdanatrent.com work helping the next girl. female to lead a mainline denomination in North Sarah Thebarge talks about loving our neighbors in America, she was one of “50 Powerful Women the midst of our imperfections, rather than assuming Talk: Why Is Interfaith Deeper Faith? thistlefarms.org Religious Leaders” by Huffington Post. Watkins is that God wants us to “have it all together” before When we encounter practitioners of other spiritual, a member of the Central Committee of the World expressing love to marginalized people around us. religious, and moral traditions, we bring our fear, Talk: The Journey to Healing Council of Churches based in Geneva. She serves Come hear her story, and let it inspire you to look for prejudices, and experiences to the table. Our anxiety Thistle Farms make natural body care products by on WCC’s Permanent Committee for Consensus the divine encounters God has in store for you right sometimes prevents us living liberated lives, asking hand to offer healing to themselves and the world. and Collaboration and the National Council of #Literary #Community now! questions and seeking to understand common One of their products is a line of healing oils. Church’s governing board, based in New York City narratives between many traditions. How can Jennifer, Kristin, and Ty will discuss the making and as Moderator-Elect for 2014. Watkins is a board Sarah Thompson we bridge these gaps to not only learn from one use of healing oils and their therapeutic benefit to member of Sojourners, based in Washington, D.C. Sarah Thompson is the Executive another’s journeys, but to also deepen our own faiths our bodies and spirits. As all three women are also Director of Christian Peacemaker and cultivate awareness of our spiritual gifts and survivors of trafficking, prostitution, and addiction, disciples.org/Home/WhoWeAre/ #Religion Teams, a multi-faith international sacred purposes? they will also share spiritual principles that have OfficeoftheGeneralMinisterandPresident/tabid/98/ organization committed to building played an important role in their own journey Default.aspx #Healing partnerships to transform violence and Romal Tune towards healing. oppression. She is a biracial Mennonite Christian Romal Tune has spent his life who goes and comes from the Great Lakes in service to local, national and Watershed. She attended Spelman College majoring international issues-based advocacy 46 47 Talk: A Movement for Wholeness Talk: The Dark Side of Community Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Our Fragmented World What leads us to hate and fear those who are Talk: First Decolonize Your Mind: Imagination, The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) In her new book “Whole: A Call to Unity in Our different than us? How can we build strong Creativity, Food Justice and Movement Building has been a leader in the fight to end Fragmented World,” Sharon Watkins shares her communities without alienating people at or beyond See Vickie Machado for description. worker exploitation in agriculture vision of how the good news of Jesus calls North the borders of our group? What’s at the heart of for the past twenty years. The CIW American Christians to live liberation by uniting the matter when we use polarizing “us/them” talk? PANEL: A Call to Bioregional Discipleship is a community-based, farmworker #Earth #Justice around justice, mercy, and openness in the 21st Listen as Katherine Wilson shares about the ways human rights organization #Religion century. traditional community-building often leads directly headquartered in Immokalee, Florida, to mass violence. Based on her work in genocide Holly Rankin Zaher with over 4,500 members. The CIW’s Campaign for Matthew Williams prevention and reconciliation, she proposes a radical Holly Rankin Zaher lives in Nashville, Fair Food, bringing together farmworkers and people Matthew Wesley Williams is the Vice re-envisioning of the way we think about community inspiring people to think and reflect, of faith and conscience, has won unprecedented President for Strategic Initiatives - one that would allow us to draw those people into whether it is about faith, education, support for fundamental farm labor reforms from at the Forum for Theological our circle who might otherwise most threaten our cultural studies, or making. By day, retail food industry leaders to improve wages #Anti-Oppression #Community Exploration (FTE). Matthew identity. she teaches Theory of Knowledge at and working conditions in the fields. To date, the provides management and oversight a public high school, by night she and her husband CIW has signed Fair Food agreements with twelve for FTE’s strategic initiatives to cultivate diverse Jarell Wilson herd their three children around the city. An retail food industry giants, most recently, with leaders for the church and academy. He has a passion Jarell Wilson is a 22-year-old champion for young people and women, she spends Walmart, and is implementing these agreements and interest in leadership formation, scholarship and seminary student at Austin way too much time on social media, reads too much across 90% of Florida’s tomato industry. social change. Prior to coming to FTE, Matthew Presbyterian Theological Seminary. dystopian literature, and loves the conversations that served at the National Black Leadership Initiative on A recent inductee to the United happen alongside beverages. ciw-online.org Cancer at Morehouse School of Medicine. There he Methodist Church, he has dived coordinated the research, advocacy, and educational head first into the denomination and plans to seek Youth Program Coordinator #Family PANEL: Labor and Job Justice initiatives of sixteen community cancer coalitions in ordination as an elder. He is a lover of books, music PANEL: Visual Presentation Slam: Food, Justice & ten states in the South. He is an ordained elder in the (especially Beyonce), and Dr. Who. He also tries his Faith Multi Media Exploration #Justice #Earth Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). hand at blogging and tweeting @TheJarell. fteleaders.org jarellwilson.wordpress.com

Talk: Reimagining Liberation by Design PANEL: God’s Gift from the Margins: An LGBTQ How do we co-create the conditions for Eternal Discussion #Sexuality alternatives to emerge? Both liberation and oppression are cultivated and sustained by design Adrianna Wright - but most often unconsciously. Come play and Adrianna Wright is a high-energy practice the arts of liberative leadership - creating extrovert who loves to make space for community, awakening shared awareness, connections. For her day job, #Religion and prototyping new possibilities. Adrianna is an online publicist for MEET OUR AUTHORS! #Community InterVarsity Press, which gives her J. Dana Trent Kristen E. Vincent plenty of opportunity to connect with authors, pitch Katherine Wilson books to media, and keep tabs on what’s happening Katherine Wilson is interested in the ever-changing world of publishing. Outside of in reconciliation and community work, Adrianna enjoys riding her pony and engaging building at local and global levels. in various kinds of good-natured revelry. Serving as the executive-director of the Zeidler Center for Public PANEL: Buzz, Buzz, Buzz: What You Really Need Discussion in Milwaukee she leads facilitated to Know about Promoting Your Book #Literary dialogues on issues like interfaith and racial reconciliation, gender and sexuality, war, abortion, Todd Wynward immigration, and poverty; and internationally Todd Wynward lives in a yurt with his training facilitators and consults in peace-making family in the high desert mountains efforts in post-atrocity zones. She completed her near Taos, NM. Todd is a founder Ph.D. studying genocide and survivor testimony of a wilderness-based public school, for her forthcoming book, “The World Literature leads backpacking and river trips for of Atrocity.” In her spare time, she sails, raises adult seekers, and is the animating force bees, chickens and miniature citrus trees, and behind TiLT, an emerging discipleship community travels internationally as a professional Latin dance in Taos. He is the author of The Secrets of Leaven, Please join us at the Upper Room Books/Fresh Air Books booth. instructor and performer. a novel patheos.com calls “a delicious mystery exploring deep questions.” katherinemwilson.com leavenrising.com/home/index.html 48 49 Neeki Bey and Jazz Mosaic humming a familiar tune. Caleb has been a nomad It would be hard to place native Texan traveling all over the world filling his wanderlust and and life-long choir boy, Neeki Bey in empowering orphans and oppressed peoples. He has a particular culture, genre or even era. taken those experiences and expresses them through His musical background ties together his music. His couch crashing, wander filled tunes jazz piano, choral music, African will paint a picture you can walk into and bring you drumming, along with gospel influences back home with a driving dynamic new folk sound. #Music #Carnival Gio Andollo and a hint of country twang. As he travels throughout the US, Europe, and Africa, Neeki often experiences GioSafari is the pseudonym for NYC music’s transforming power. Through his professional Kerry Patrick Clark singer-songwriter and peace activator endeavors as a performer, producer, composer and Kerry Patrick Clark is a musical Gio Andollo. In May 2008, he was conductor, Neeki connects those around him to the Norman Rockwell. His recordings struck by a motor vehicle while riding stories and rhythms of people around the world. have been charting non-stop for his bicycle in Orlando, Florida. He Neeki Bey and Jazz Mosaic combine to express these three+ years on the Folk, Americana, suffered deep bouts of depression and sacred stories. Singer/Songwriter and Country charts! existential frustration until he began busking later neekibey.com #Music The title track of his latest project, “In a Perfect that year. Thus GioSafari was born, performing as World” has been the number one Folk song in the a solo artist on the streets of downtown Orlando. Troy Bronsink nation for six weeks (2014)! His palette is a simple Andollo now speaks truth to power in the heart of twelve-note scale, a six-string guitar and one voice Empire, recalling the subversive musical traditions Troy Bronsink is a speaker/musician that seeks to sing hope into the human experience. of American folk and punk, singing for peace and committed to designing bridges His songs are the compass that points the heart justice, advocating the use of bicycle helmets, and between the dreams of God and the creative world. An artist with over home.KerryPatrickClark.com exhorting others to sing along! #Music giosafari.bandcamp.com 20 years of experience in para-church, #Music emerging church, inner-city, pastoral, and worship ministry, Troy has spoken and made Claybrook music with camps, conferences, and congregations Claybrook is a Raleigh-Durham Circle of Hope Audio Art large and small. He lives with his wife and their two area singer/songwriter whose Circle of Hope Audio Art is a Non- children in Cincinnati, where he serves as Curator debut EP, “On the Inside,” is a profit mission team of the church of Art and Worship for Northminster Presbyterian melancholy, acoustic travel diary based in Philadelphia. We are trying Church. His recent book “Drawn In” offers stories of the treacherous inward journey a missional process of recording and and imagery for connecting the creative life with the through the swamps of the soul distributing worship music as a tool for life of faith using design thinking, biblical theology, and reemergence into hopeful engagement with training and edification. and process thought. fellow travelers. Claybrook currently performs as circleofhopeaudioart.bandcamp.com troybronsink.com #Music a three-piece backed by Dale Baker (Sixpence #Music #Worship None the Richer, Over the Rhine) on drums and Cheryl Bear Talk: Life as Art Joe Wimberley on upright bass. Claybrook pairs We are all God’s artwork, but we are also God’s inventive yet familiar vocal melodies, mellow acoustic Cheryl is from the Nadleh Whut’en commissioned artists - ever wondered how to balance guitar, piano and upright bass with drums. For First Nation (Bear Clan) in the these two? Author and retreat curator, Troy Bronsink, those who lean in and listen to the lyrics, there is an Carrier Nation located in northern will be exploring this intersection through shared unpretentious offer for deeper human connection British Columbia, Canada. She is live art and by meeting with artists at the festival. He claybrookmusic.com #Music an international convention speaker www.AuburnSeminary.org will be available to discuss spiritual practices during and twice award-nominated recording artist (Shai lunches at the Volunteer/Contributor Lounge. #Music Cary Cooper Award 2005; Covenant Award 2006) who has #Practices #VisualArt, Cary Cooper is a whimsical writer worked with Indigenous people across Canada, the and a magical performer, drawing United States and in over 20 countries of the world Jessica Campbell and Caleb Lange you in with stories and sincerity. She raising awareness of the value and uniqueness of our Jessica is a storyteller who searches for will make you laugh hysterically, Indigenous people and our culture. authenticity in the harrowing seasons wax nostalgic and cry tears of joy cherylbear.com of melancholy and the wild rapture all in the course of one song. “Guitars #Music #Justice #Healing of the land. With songs springing in the Classroom” calls Cary “the Anne LaMott www.Groundswell-Mvmt.org from the fountain of her youth, you Powered by Auburn Seminary. Beast of songwriting - except she can get to the heart will journey through creaking ships of things in three minutes instead of 200 pages.” Beast is a voice of and for the and gypsy caravans. Melodies wear Cary is a past winner of the Kerrville Folk Festival’s wilderness. Poetry, ancient rhythms, their hearts on sleeves with swooping prestigious New Folk Competition. She’ll leave you beauty and mystery woven into music phrases punctured with stops and with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. and song call your mind, body and starts. At times she writes by stream carycooper.com #Music soul to something different. Beast of consciousness, while other songs are full of hooks shares the same creative force that drove that grab you out of the sea of voices, reminding you the Psalters and now the Carnival de Resistance, but of truths you’ve always known as you find yourself is a new and wild creative spirit. #Music 51 Amy Cox to combine ecclesiastical ambitions with musical Tracy Howe Christy LaFrance-Williamson Amy Cox is a singer-songwriter and geekery, and began composing music under the Tracy Howe lives in Charlottesville, Christy has been writing music most worship leader from Virginia with moniker of “Beehive Champions.” He sings about VA with her family where she writes of her life. Despite a long stretch of a deep passion for God, people, and theodicy and the human condition, as well as love songs and produces music. Her last writers-block which ended in 2011 stories. With music that grasps the and loss, drawing on struggles with depression and project “Hold On To Love (2011),” and fighting through a paralyzing fear ache of the soul, Amy writes from her his journey from broken home toward adoption and found its way into many peace and of performing over the last six years, own personal journey, interweaving scriptural truths reaffirmed belovedness. justice movements being used by groups such as she now calls herself a singer/songwriter. #Music and simple, beautiful melodies. Her debut album beehivechampions.bandcamp.com Sojourners, Amahoro-Africa, Bread For the World, Christy has spent the last two years redefining sacred (released May 2014), “Coming Home to You,” is a the Micah Network, Christian Peacemaker Teams, sharing through music, and feels blessed to have the collection of original songs that speak to the beauty JocElyn Ellis & The Alpha Theory Occupy, The Boston Theological Institute and the opportunity for that kind of excavation. She believes of life and the faithfulness of God. With an engaging JocElyn Ellis & The Alpha Theory ( JE Latin American Theological Fellowship among that creating space for people to share stories through heart and infectious smile, this often-barefoot singer & TAT) are an indie-rock/urban- others. She now finds herself in a time of reimagining song and songwriting gives people a very powerful straps on her guitar and shares her story through folk band based out of Charlotte, and reinvention and is bringing her freshest place to reconnect with themselves, others, the words and music. North Carolina. They fuse rock, soul, contemplative electronica sounds to Wild Goose. Creator and creation. amycoxmusic.com #Music funk, blues and hip-hop. Formed in tracyhowe.com #Music ChristyLaFrance.com #Music December 2008, the group released Marjiel Danse their first EP, “In the Beginning” May Melani Jackson David LaMotte Marjiel Danse is a musician, painter, 2009 at The Evening Muse in Charlotte, NC. The Melani Jackson has written and David is a singer/songwriter, an poet, educator, and subtle energy and band’s rapid popularity has attracted local and performed music in support of itinerant peace guy, a public speaker, conscious movement worker. She was regional fans, press, media and their TV debut on several causes, including breast cancer a dad and husband, a lover of garlic, introduced first by her grandmother Fox News Rising – Charlotte, September 2009. The awareness and the stop bullying and a writer of books. He’s led over and mother to creative expression group has gained popularity over a wide range of movement. Her desire is to inspire and 2500 events (concerts, talks and through meditation, yoga and energy demographics for their unique infusion while visiting uplift everyday people with spiritual and heartfelt workshops) on five continents, and put work, at age four and has continued to deepen her cities such as Athens, Georgia and New York City. music tailored from her own life experiences. Her out eleven CDs over the last twenty years. David #Music studies on an ongoing basis. Maria Jose was born jocelynellis.bandcamp.com/releases new age appeal has caused her to capture the heart of is a Rotary World Peace Fellow with a masters in and raised in La Paz, Bolivia and before spending youth from different backgrounds and people of all International Studies, Peace and Conflict Resolution the last five years in Santa Fe, spent nine years of her Agents of Future ages. from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, life healing, living, learning and traveling the world. Agents of Future are Jesus-loving, melanijackson.com #Music Australia, the director of PEG Partners, a non-profit Her paintings, poetry and art have been shared at jalopy-gospel way-backers who get that supports schools and libraries in Guatemala, and events, exhibits and publications in Bolivia, Guyana, together and do creative things: JustLove Music the Clerk (chair) of the AFSC Nobel Peace Prize #Music Colombia and the U.S. shrieking, speaking, flailing, failing, JustLove Music produces records and shares the Nominating Task Group. #Music storytelling, fear-quelling. In the process, stories of artists engaged in peacemaking work. davidlamotte.com Jesse James DeConto songs and stories are smithed and written; friendships JustLove Music is emerging from the relational Jesse James DeConto is journalist, and families are stretched and shaken, stirred and network, resources and mission of Restoration Village Lyric author, musician and arts pastor in strengthened. They are from Portland. Featuring the Arts which, for over a decade has produced music, Lyric and her band started filling Durham, N.C. His spiritual memoir soul moving gospel voice harmonies of Todd and liturgy and advocacy resources, working with groups downtown Asheville street corners “This Littler Light: Some Thoughts Angie Fadel and an iPhone orchestra, Agents will such as Bread For the World, Sojourners, the Micah while touching hearts. “The street is on NOT Changing the World,” enrich the sonic spirit of your heart and mind this Network, the Latin American Theological Fellowship, where we love to be. We get so much recounts his journey from Moral Majority to Beloved year at Wild Goose. Christian Peacemaker Teams and more. Though the positive feedback that it pushes us to #Music Community. His indie-pop band The Pinkerton Raid artists are diverse in style and genre, JustLove Music work harder. This is where we started and I wouldn’t appears at Wild Goose and festivals up the East occupies a distinct musical space at the intersection have it any other way,” says Leeda Jones (Lyric). With Coast including a “Bandspotting” compilation at the Jason Harrod of world/gospel/fusion. With #JustLove performers a unique sound and style playing covers like “Fast 2013 Festival of Faith and Music in Grand Rapids, Jason Harrod plays soulful, image rich you will hear sounds from traditional Latin American Car” and “Give me One Reason” by Tracy Chapman, Michigan. The band’s sophomore album, “A Beautiful original music, with autobiographical folk to gospel electronica to spoken word. JustLove is or their version of “Tear the Roof Off/ We Want the World,” releases in August 2014. Jesse is co-pastor of elements in the folk tradition. First particularly excited to be bringing a Latin American Funk,” by George Clinton, and catchy originals such worship arts alongside Jason Vernon, an experienced place winner in the Merle Fest flare to Wild Goose. # Music as “Blue Skies,” and “Camera Shy,” they keep the singer in African-American church traditions, at Songwriting contest and with three groove going. reverbnation.com/lyricfans #Music Durham (Presbyterian) Church. solo albums, Jason was a Fulbright Grant recipient Brianna Kelly #Music jessejamesdeconto.com to play in Greece. He writes melody and image- Brianna Kelly is a visual artist and Phil Madeira and the Mercyland Revue with rich songs that inhabit the intersection of faith experimental songwriter living in special guest George Pendergrass Joseph Doyle-Davison and doubt. Jason has lived in Boston, Durham, and Cincinnati, Ohio and is a part of the A member of Emmylou Harris’ Red Joseph Doyle-Davison is a singer- most recently New York, where he is the music Floral House intentional community Dirt Boys, and creator of “Mercyland: songwriter/aspiring Episcopalian director for a small church that meets in a black through a ministry of the Episcopal Hymns For The Rest Of Us,” Priest committed to proclaiming a box theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Church. Her soulful and eclectic work Grammy winning musician Phil resilient faith fostered in the mires of jasonharrod.bandcamp.com/album/highliner explores relationships between chaos and order, #Music Madeira is no stranger to Wild Goose. life. He felt the music bug bite when he vastness and intimacy, and the mystical and the He is the author of “God On The Rocks: Distilling blindly tripped over a classroom glockenspiel when ordinary. Her self-produced debut album, “All Things Religion, Savoring Faith.” George Pendergrass is a he was in kindergarten. While attending McAfee Are Being Made New,” was released in February former member of Acappella, and currently plays School of Theology, Josey wondered if it were possible of 2013 and she is currently recording for her next with Merging Blue. #Music 52 project. briannanicolekelly.bandcamp.com philmadeira.net #Music Jonathan Martin Rave Sermon (with performance at the Conservatory of Music, Bordeaux, and uninhibited creativity of their beginnings of the poor and disenfranchised. He was assassinated Morgan Guyton) France and performed across the U.S., Europe, and as college students nearly 20 years ago, while March 24, 1980 as he celebrated mass in his beloved Latin America. simultaneously cultivating a maturity that comes El Salvador. His legacy lives on inspiring many Can a sermon be a dance party? Maybe, #Music but only if the preacher is Pentecostal. cindynovelo.com with experience. Not content to rest on their past to continue in service and faith as they face gross accomplishments, Jars of Clay members are taking violence and injustice. This Cantata, written by Luis As an unprecedented experiment Everyday Sunday and the inaugural event of a hot new their next journey inland where ‘comfortable’ is not Alfredo Diaz, comes directly from Romero’s words hybrid genre of danceable homiletics, After years of touring around the an option. “Inland” is filled with embellishments of and transcripts from his sermon’s and weekly homily world, fifteen Top Ten U.S. singles, violin, horns and ambient melodies and rich lyrics broadcast through a Catholic radio station. Still in Pentecostal preacher Jonathan Martin #Music will freestyle a sermon while Morgan Guyton five at number one, Trey Pearson that attest to two decades of creativity. production, a section of the Cantata will come to life mixes a trance beat behind him. Jonathan Martin is back with his latest Everyday at Wild Goose and will challenge and move your Sunday release, “A New Beginning Theillalogicalspoon mind and heart. is author, speaker, pastor, and church-planter who #Music #Justice founded a congregation of liars, misfits, and dreamers (Part 1).” Trey is working on “A New Beginning” A community of theologians and with Onerepublic and Grammy-nominated producer, anarchists from jackson michigan, called Renovatus in Charlotte, NC. His critically Mama D acclaimed-book “Prototype” (2013, Tyndale House) Oh, Hush! “The biggest goal of Everyday Sunday offering psalms watered by our is meditation on what it means to be beloved by is excellence in art, and entertainment, and to make nomadic-hobo ramblings, rooted and Diem Lafortune brings a huge heart God. Jonathan’s a product of the “Christ-haunted honest music that moves people through all emotions growing out of our particular place and tons of soul to her performances landscape” of the American South, sweaty revivals, from dancing to the deepest questions in life, from in the great lakes state, looking up to the blue and and her new cd “Beauty and Hard and hip-hop. His claim to fame was getting his love to heartache, through celebration to stories” clouds saying “come, Lord.” Times.” Her rich alto and mature #Music #Carnival Aquaman, Robin and Wonder Woman action figures says Trey Pearson. Part II of “A New Beginning,” is guitar sound draw listeners into her saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost at expected in 2014. prophetic lyrics. Lafortune is a profound instrument #Music an early age. Morgan is a United Methodist pastor, artistecard.com/everydaysundaybooking Radio Radio for change - all wrapped in catchy and unforgettable blogger, rapper, and electronic music producer. He Radio Radio is two-piece blues/rock melodies. She was nominated for the 2013 Aboriginal dreams of one day starting a rave church where the Velma Maia Thomas band that plays largely original Songwriter of the Year Award by the Canadian Folk liturgy is one huge dance song. Velma Maia Thomas is author of six books on African music, with an occasional cover (e.g. Music Awards. Mama D will rock you as a solo artist pastorjonathanmartin.com #Music American history, including the award-winning Robert Johnson - early blues, Jimi with her passionate performance and her challenging interactive project “Lest We Forget,” and co-author of Hendrix - later blues, et al.). We are lyrics - her between song patter is elegant and right #Music Bryan Moyer Suderman - God’s Love is for “Emancipation Proclamation: Forever Free.” She lives known for creating a large, high energy on! horizondancer.com Everybody: Family sing-along concert in Atlanta, Georgia. sound and stage experience through the creative use Jon Felton & SOULMOBILE Bryan Moyer Suderman has been store.urbanministries.com/site/Emancipation_ of multiple amps, in the style of Jack White/Jeff the Proclamation___Forever_Free_/i_1_0_/_06-9898. Brotherhood. We had the privilege of playing the Hailing from Frostburg, MD, SOULMOBILE’s described as an Anabaptist Pete #Music #Justice Seeger. In their introduction to his aspx Goose last year and, though our audience was fairly always riding off into the dusty old horizon. That’s small (rain - imagine that), we got an enthusiastic they’re home. Fending off dangers untold with recent compilation album, Brian DJ Ben Wright’s Late Night Dance Party McLaren and Dave Csinos say standing ovation. We believe/hope that is a good guitars, banjo, dulcimer, and drums, Camp Soul is Veteran Mobile DJ, Urban Missionary, Goose compatibility indicator. holding out and ringing a bell. Jon carries the vision, “Bryan is a minstrel, a prophet, a #Music visionary, and a follower of Jesus who invites listeners and Baptist Minister Ben Wright facebook.com/TurnUpTheRadioRadio although if you ask me the others hold him up and mix and mash a collection of old give the thing its shape. Body and soul, maybe: of all ages to join him in ‘infiltrating the world with Leslie Council the love of God.’ His music is captivating, his lyrics favorites and current chart toppers Properly difficult to distinguish. In any case, if you are theologically rich and thought-provoking, and his constructing original arrangements. Leslie Council, an Asheville native, peek in on them don’t be bashful; i think you’ll find Ben Wright is the Director of Student has been singing her whole life. them welcoming to strangers. voice invites us all to live God’s kingdom wherever #Music #Carnival we are.” Bryan has released six CDs of “songs of faith Ministries at First Baptist Church of Danville, Currently the Musical Director of facebook.com/soulmobile VA and Associate Missionary to the poor, hungry, the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist for small and tall” (smalltallmusic.com) and tours Terry Gonda Trio regularly throughout North America. homeless, near-homeless and addicted with Third Church choir, Leslie is also working smalltallmusic.com #Music #Family Chance Ministries, a mission of Grace and Main on a solo recording, due out later this year. Award winning singer-songwriter Fellowship. He began DJing at the age of 13 with The Wild Goose is thrilled to have Leslie perform as Terry Gonda, British flute player/ Cindy Novelo “borrowed” equipment from his family’s electronics part of our house band. vocalist Kirsti Reeve and Atlanta #Music #Worship Cindy Novelo’s music has been store and since has performed at venues throughout bassist Matt Rickets create a dynamic the South, opening for such acts as The Fire Tonight, performance space of love, hope, and described as “world music-infused #Music Luis Alfredo Díaz Americana, graced with classically Audrey Ball Band, and Afroman. liberation through music that spans the genres of Luis Alfredo Diaz is originally from folk, pop, country, and coffeehouse rock. Performing soulful lyricism.” It is meditatively Jars of Clay soulful and hauntingly moving. A Uruguay and now lives in Spain original songs and select covers from Terry’s albums classically trained violist who turned to folk music for Although the band has had its with his family when he is not “Love, Lose, Repeat” and “Children of God,” as its inclusion and sense of community, her debut CD share of successes, including three touring internationally. Luis has been well as songs from her upcoming CD, “Road to “Stone’s Throw” was selected as one of Kansas Public GRAMMYs for Much Afraid writing music for over four decades. Good Enough,” their aim is to leave you inspired, Radio’s best folk albums of the year. Cindy blends (1997), If I Left the Zoo (1999) Some of his songs are beloved and widespread, encouraged, and challenged - and with at least one her classical training with her deep love of folk music and The Eleventh Hour (2002), they particularly in his native Latin America, where they song hook stuck in your head for the weekend. Terry into mesmerizing interpretations of traditional tunes began to ask themselves what comes illuminated faith in the midst of everyday life as Gonda’s voice is strikingly soul-stirring. Paired with and soulful originals. Novelo studied viola and music next. For the answer, they decided to look inward well as the struggle for justice. His latest project is her skillful and playful acoustic guitar, the divergent and head inland. For Jars of Clay, the next level the Cantata de Oscar Romero. Cantata de Oscar means once again harnessing the youthful ambition Romero - Archbishop Oscar Romero was a defender 54 55 energies of this Midwest Catholic, lesbian, engineer, La Muna help heal and uplift the masses. They believe that Songs of Water artist, and spiritual director magically converge into Years go Natalia Serna travelled through art, music, and gathering together we can all Songs of Water’s distinct and powerful musical performances filled with passion, with a group of migrants atop envision and co-create a new way of existing on this evocative sound carries roots from the humor, inspiration, and raw vulnerability. trains through Mexico and planet, one which sustains us all and leads us into a most ancient of cultures. This seven- #Music terrygonda.com fell in love with their faith and harmonious relationship with nature and each other. piece ensemble delicately blends #Music courage knowing she would have lobomarinomusic.com instrumentation from across the globe Melissa Greene to return. Currently, Natalia resides in in a uniquely American context. The uncommon use After singing in over 50 federal Nogales, Sonora Mexico along the US/Mexico border The Pinkerton Raid of the hammered dulcimer melodically leads many prisons the last two years, Melissa where she writes songs in Spanish and English The Pinkerton Raid is sibling rivalry of the group’s instrumental pieces, followed by the has found the beauty of giving love inspired by the lives of migrants and deportees she with musical byproducts as different resonance of various acoustic instruments and a without agenda. This is presented meets at the Kino Border Initiative Soup Kitchen. and familiar as the brothers and sister brooding foundation of heavy percussion. Layers of with songs of hope, pure entertainment Her work is being used by advocates and human who created them. From folk-pop orchestral strings and sparse vocals create a cinematic and sheer joy. Melissa has a deeply rooted history rights groups such as National Immigrant Youth charm to pensive, baritone-led rock, the appeal to the otherwise raw expression of musical with church, music, singing, and performing. In Alliance and KINO Border Initiative. She is part of band’s latest album, “A Beautiful World,” conjures composition. Songs of Water is Elisa Rose, Michael 2002, Melissa was invited to become a part of the developing and defining a culture of beauty, service comparisons as disparate as Ingrid Michaelson and Pritchard, Stephen Price, Greg Willette, Jon Kliegle, Grammy nominated group, Avalon. She spent almost and resistance. #Music The National. “A Beautiful World” tells a story of Luke Skaggs and Stephen Roach. seven years in Avalon. Melissa has also written and young love – shy flirtation, wonder, questions, young songsofwater.com #Music recorded two solo albums. Her current position Sufi Brothers marriage, second-guessing, a baby girl, miscarriage, is as the full-time Pastor of Worship and Arts at The Sufi Brothers are Aaron “Woody” extended family dramas that complicate all of it. It Yani and the Peace People GracePointe Church in Franklin, TN. She is also the Wood on vocals and guitar and Jason ends in hope – hope that things will get better, what Her name means “peace” yet YaNi’s Hope Curator for Timothy’s Gift - an innovative Krekel on vocals, mandolin, guitar, is broken can be healed, what is worn-out can find sound cuts through the silence, luring prison outreach to both inmates and staff. and fiddle! They represent 15 years rest, hope for a beautiful world. her audience into a rhythmical space #Music #Music melissagreenemusic.com of Americana from Asheville - true pinkertonraid.com that is freeing. She is a poet with a locals that have played a diverse collection message and a rapper with a cause. Ears to the Ground Family of venues from revivals to dive bars. They play an Rev. Yolanda’s Old Time Gospel Hour whoisyani.com #Music Born out of the “Early Church” improvised set that starts with a tribute to country Born in Muscle Shoals Alabama, movement, core members Nicholas roots, blues, gospel and folk, then travels a path Yolanda has been performing as a drag Melas, Nichole Ehlers, and Lucas unknown guided by an openness and sensitivity to queen singer songwriter and Radical Schrock-Hurst pass around the each other and the universe. Like the namesake of the Faerie for over twenty years with guitar for a unique blend of daunting Sufis - they let love and a higher power determine the roots in Country Gospel music with prophecy and haunting worship, with just enough course the music takes! a strong spiritual foundation. Yolanda’s comic relief. Nicholas began touring his music sufibrothers.com #Music music ministry is “Rev Yolanda’s Old Time Gospel by bicycle in the summer of 2009, inviting all Hour.” S/He brings a message of Non Duality into his friends on the “Petrol-Free-Gypsy-Carnival- Run River North every event by merging GLBT and Mainstream Tour.” In 2010, Ehlers and Schrock-Hurst joined Run River North is Alex Hwang, Popular Culture with Integrated Spirituality. With a in, and the three have been collaborating ever Daniel Chae, Jennifer Rim, Joseph soulful voice, a message of oneness, great costumes, since. They make music of resistance to oppression Chun, John Chong, and Sally Kang. and a wicked sense of humor, his/her shows and CDs and empire, of communities of hope, and of a “We dance thrice every night with emphasize love, beautiful melodies, interesting stories, #Music faith that sustains us. Prophetic ear candy. bright eyes in a city of color while and a bit of inspiration. yolanda.net #Music #Carnival earsto.bandcamp.com arcades catch fire. We play loud and soft and sing about folks we know, we want to be, and we Santos Forlorn Strangers imagine in the dark.” After opening for the Indigo Soul-Songwritter, Poet, Cultural Forlorn Strangers is a Nashville, TN Girls at last year’s festival, Run River North signed Community worker, Educator, Tai Americana quintet from Florida, a record deal; appeared on NPR and other media Chi practitioner and father, Jonathan Maryland, Pennsylvania and outlets; and went on tour with Foo Fighters. home. “Santos” is an artist of many forms. Minnesota. The four songwriters blend runrivernorth.com #Music Originally born in the big apple, into one cohesive voice. Their music is NYC with family ancestry out of rooted in family harmonies. Established in 2011 Lobo Marino the Mississippi Delta and Puerto Rico. Jonathan with Chris Banke (guitar, vocals), Benjamin Lusk Lobo Marino is a mix of tribal, Santos grew up between the US and Japan, traveling (banjo, guitar, vocals), and Hannah Leigh (mandolin, folk and world music featuring the throughout China, Korea, Indonesia, Australia, percussion, vocals), through a writer’s group in South harmonium, drum and various other Mexico, and settling in the South Eastern U.S Florida. They transplanted to Nashville, TN in 2013, unique instruments and voices. At to hone his craft and further education at North and Hannah’s sister, Abigail Dempsey (fiddle, guitar, its core it’s the musical response to the Carolina A&T State University, a Historically Black percussion, vocals) joined the band. Their debut EP continuous travels and ongoing spiritual journey of College University, where he earned his BA in May 2013, “While the Grass Grows,” was recorded, its members Laney Sullivan and Jameson Price who Political Science. He has been performing throughout mixed, and mastered by Jesse Thompson (upright have dedicated themselves to write music that will grassroots networks throughout the South East U.S. bass), who joined the band in 2014. for the past 10 years. forlornstrangers.bandcamp.com #Music jonathansantosmusic.com #Music

56 57 Talk: Puppet & Mask Play Improvisation Amanda Greene Irwin - We will teach participants through guided play how Cape Fear Spirit Quilt to move in improvised performance with puppets, Cape Fear Spirit Quilt was an masks, and costumes. People will have an opportunity outreach project of Wilmington to play and interact with puppets creating improvised #VisualArt, Faith & Values, a bureau of Religion scenes and characters. News Service. This quilt showcases Tiffany Gill Cape Fear region’s religious and spiritual diversity. People from different faiths contributed Shawna Bowman Talk: Paint & Pray with Special Music Tiffany Gill’s art has always been squares representing beliefs. One states, “Thank you,” her own secret world ever since Shawna Bowman is a Presbyterian Start your day by painting with guest artist from another is an elaborate re-creation of a stained-glass she was little. Her style reflects a Pastor and a Theological and Mexico, David Bravo, while listening to songs from window in the Temple of Israel. Twenty people from blend influences while focusing on Liturgical Visual Artist. She La Muna about the stories of migrants crossing and different faiths sewed the quilt together. It showed at #VisualArt urban and global cultural elements. pastors a quirky and radically being deported at the US/Mexico border. Cameron Art Museum in March 2013, with a yarn While some artists may use tracing paper, gracious community called Friendship bomb on the museum grounds for religious diversity. digital media and other technologies to make their Presbyterian Church that meets in the Norwood Park Talk: Social Muralism It travels as a reminder of our ability to be one with pieces perfect, she feels that it’s in those moments of #VisualArt, #Religion Metra Station in Chicago, IL. Shawna is passionate Dimitri Kadiev and David Bravo bring bright color, our neighbors through arts. spontaneous creation that some of her best work is about empowering others to integrate visual-arts ready playfulness, and love of community to each of produced. Whether it be the use of graphite, paints, Dimitri Kadiev into their spiritual and worshiping life. She works the hundreds of mural projects they create. They are inks or markers, Tiffany develops a certain since of with churches, faith communities and not-for-profit aware of the profound social impact of collaboration Dimitri Kadiev, as a young man, took order to each layer. Ultimately, what Tiffany Gill organizations to help them tell their story through and making a community’s dreams and stories come to the road out of curiosity. For 20 wants to share most within her artwork is the story visual arts through workshops and retreats. These to life on large city walls! Visit them at the Carnival, years he has traveled, dedicated to brought forth through this process. events allow space for the artists to integrate their participate in the painting project happening during following Jesus’ command to “go spiritual and creative selves as well as learn how to Interactive Art time and the Carnival Midway. Watch out and make disciples of all nations” instagram.com/theblackinquiry incorporate the arts in their worshiping communities. the ways they transform the Carnival space during through art. On a trip to Albuquerque, learning times, band performances, and theatrical Roger Hutchison Kadiev found himself without a home. After a Talk: Art For God’s Sake: Integrating Visual Arts in productions. See how we collaborate creating a conversation with a young Mennonite man traveling Worship Life & Faith Community colorful, symbol rich story of the journey shared in “It was a simple oak table adorned to New Mexico with Mennonite Mission Network, #VisualArt, #Carnival I make art for God’s sake; it is a spiritual and holy that space. with plain dishes and a bounty of Kadiev began attending a local Mennonite Church. practice. I appreciate the creative process and images fresh fruits and vegetables,” begins He still travels around the world spreading his love in and for worship as a way of knowing God more Robert Two Bulls Roger Hutchison’s book “The of God with his love of art. He has traveled and fully with all of my senses. I believe art-making W. Two Bulls is an enrolled member Painting Table: A Journal of Loss and contributed murals all over the world, including India pushes us into an experiential, messy and risky way of the Oglala Lakota Oyate tribe. Joy,” inspired by a table left to him by and Palestine, Alaska and Pennsylvania. of participating in our faith. Join the conversation on He was ordained to priesthood in his grandmother. Readers are invited to paint while the many ways in which visual-arts and art-making the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles exploring grief, loss and relationships. Hutchison, Talk: Social Muralism #VisualArt can be incorporated into your worshiping life and first serving as a curate for a family sized canon for children’s ministries at Trinity Episcopal See David Bravo for description. faith community. Learn how to find, empower and suburban parish and then as Program Officer for Cathedral in Columbia, South Carolina, passes on the collaborate with the artists in your communities. Indigenous Ministries. For twenty-eight years his gift of the table to people of all ages. In May of 2013 Ted Lyddon Hatten Come and experience the creative-process as a form work and ministry has been within Native American (and June of 2014) Roger was invited to paint with Ted Lyddon Hatten is artist/ of worship! #VisualArt Indian communities in several urban centers across children from Newtown and Sandy Hook, CT. theologian-in-residence at the Wesley the country. He’s an artist recently exploring the House and adjunct faculty at Drake David Bravo connection existing between art and spirituality in thepaintingtable.com University in Des Moines, IA. A David Bravo is a graffiti artist, both art making and viewing. He lives with his wife United Methodist by birth and by Talk: The Painting Table organizer, activist, and gardener of twenty-four years and two school-aged children, in choice, Ted has served as Conference Artist for the #VisualArt An innovative group activity that blends the creation working to build the sustainability South Minneapolis. denomination in Iowa for 20 years, created large-scale of art with mindful spiritual practice. At The Painting of and social empowerment of a installations for several national and international Table, participants gather and share a table and paper historical neighborhood in Mexico Alistair Burke conferences and worked with students ranging from and art supplies. They’re free to paint anything they called Hercules. He is a founder of Verbos Alistair Burke is a photographer, graduate school to elementary school. He is a former want and use their hands as brushes. Folks talk as y Vibras, which in the last four years has built a digital artist, performer and co- pastor, educator, father, and life-partner. From his much or as little as they want to. People have said house that demonstrates permaculture principles director of Star of the Sea Studios... studio, Ted works in a variety of media with passions about The Painting Table, “The end result of The and sustainable design, has hosted workshops and not overly fond of labels as you are for ephemeral installation art, dry painting, and Painting Table is not the painting that is created. It community building events, and organized a social just as likely to find him in a kitchen or beeswax. is the conversation, sharing, and listening that takes muralism project that lifts up the history of the up a tree. He tries daily to balance time spent in the place around the table.” #VisualArt neighborhood. This is focused on bringing dignity to binary world of the computer arts by disappearing tedlyddonhatten.com this community by promoting pride in their ancestors into the deep woods with his wife and two dogs. and shaping the future of this town. Visual Art Coordinator #VisualArt staroftheseastudios.com/about facebook.com/NueveArteUrbano/photos_stream

58 59 Katie Jo Suddaby Angela Yarber to end homelessness, the death penalty, and mass Joshua Hearne Katie Jo Suddaby never planned on Angela Yarber holds a Ph.D. in Art incarceration, all common themes in his writings. Joshua Hearne loves to hear and tell ministering to families effected by and Religion and has been an artist, stories. He was raised in Eastern domestic violence. However it follows scholar, clergywoman, dancer, and zacharycrow.com Kentucky and learned his own her - steady and relentless shaping preacher since 1999. She is author of particular style of Appalachian her call along the way. She is the senior four books, including Holy Women A slam poet and filmmaker, Zachary Crow is storytelling from family. Several years pastor at The Baptist Temple in Rochester, Icons, which features nearly fifty color originally from Arkansas, but has spent the last two after returning to the faith and discovering the stories where she leads her congregation in art for spiritual images of her icon paintings and accompanies each years sojourning with the Open Door Community of Church history, he took up a discipline of writing formation. She lives to see people grow in creativity, icon with an essay about the woman portrayed. in Atlanta, GA (opendoorcommunity.org). His work a story a day for a year of a “saint or should be saint” self-respect, and mature in relationship with the For more on her art, publications, or speaking, visit arises from experiences living alongside prisoners, to learn some stories worth telling that don’t get told Mystery we call God. angelayarber.com the homeless poor, and a variety of marginalized often. Nowadays, he lives in Danville, Virginia, with folks and often deals with issues of racism, classism, his wife, daughter, and the members and leaders of #Performance #Poetry Talk: An Artistic Approach to angelayarber.com heterosexism, and sexism. Grace and Main Fellowship, an intentional, Christian Overcoming Domestic Violence community of hospitality, discipleship, and service. This hands-on workshop addresses overcoming Talk: Holy Women Icons Merrill Farnsworth the effects of unhealthy relationships and domestic Holy Women Icons gives traditional iconography Born in Texas, Merrill Farnsworth joshuahearne.com violence. Both survivors and those who council others a folk-feminist twist by canonizing unlikely female was declared a poet in Sister Mary will benefit from discussing the psychology behind saints in canvas and paint. Bold, colorful, prophetic, McDonald’s 6th grade class while Stories of Slavery and Liberation abuse and visualizing healing through the medium of and vibrantly alive original icons, note cards, and living in Guayama, Puerto Rico a In this storytelling experience, Joshua Hearne will tell sand painting. Sand drawing/painting is an ephemeral books by Angela Yarber are all available for sale at town where a mix of Catholicism and stories in the natural storytelling style of Appalachia. art - it’s not meant to last. By creating art, then Wild Goose and online at angelayarber.com In this particular experience, “Stories of Slavery #VisualArt pagan mysticism offered a rush to the brushing it away participants will build appreciation senses. At age 13 she moved to South Carolina where and Liberation,” Joshua will engage with the ideas for the impermanence of both beauty and pain. she met Jesus, Tennessee Williams, and Flannery of freedom, liberation, and calling by telling stories This workshop requires no prior artistic knowledge O’Connor. Merrill’s performance piece “Jezebel’s got about Julia of Corsica, Patrick of Ireland, and Moses and will focus equally on information and artistic the Blues: and other works of imagination” has been of Ethiopia as well as some others. These stories technique. #VisualArt, #Healing produced in Nashville and New York. Her poetry and raise questions about what it means to be “free” as a prose are available on Amazon via Silver Birch Press. follower of Jesus the Crucified and invite the listener Todd Thomas to consider ways in which we may yet need liberation. #Performance I did my school work. I’ve held writingcircle.org down a few jobs over the years. I Geoffrey Little love and am so proud of my family. Asheville Playback Theater Writing Workshop: Discovering the I’m the full-time pastor of a multi- Voice of Sacred Imagination When not listening to indy podcasts denominational worship community in The Asheville Playback Theater will Merrill Farnsworth welcomes all voices to imagine or falling out of a yoga posture, Bethesda, MD. I’m an artist who became a pastor, a present a playback theatre experience alternative narratives for sacred stories. In her Geoff is a fundraising strategist at protestant who hangs with Jesuits, and I cringe using where personal stories from audience performance piece Jezebel’s Got the Blues, Merrill Vanderbilt University. An actor and any of those titles. I’d rather have some pizza and a members are transformed by the turns Old Testament archetypes upside down and writer, he serves the arts in several beer and talk about you for a while. When will we get company into performance pieces, invites you to create and share your own works of capacities in Nashville, Tennessee. He together? accompanied by improvised music. imagination. For more on The Writing Circle and appeared at the Goose last year in his one man play, As always with playback, the teller’s story will be discovering authentic voice visit the Q&A page at SOLOMON. toddthomas.net honored both as a personal event, and as a moment writingcircle.org representing our shared experience. In a playback geoffreybraxtonlittle.com. Talk: Making Sacred Space & Time gathering, it is not unusual for audience members to Jezebel’s Got the Blues This session will be creating a chapel space that is also exclaim “this is my story too!” Through sharing our “Jezebel’s Got the Blues” began as marks emerging “Redneck” a canvas for prayer and creativity. This will be a free- experiences, the company hopes to create a meeting on canvas in the image of Jezebel. A daughter of I’m followed every day by the ghost of my late eighth standing chapel, a small structure assembled on site ground for the Asheville community, a place where the South, I’d learned Jezebel was a “bad woman” grade-educated grandfather. He never touched and accessible at all times of the festival. #VisualArt, differences can be shared and better understood. who refused to bow to God. The painting reflected a computer keyboard and never read books (not #Practices a woman in a moment of fear – I saw myself in #Performance sure he could). He loved deeply and had a massive ashevilleplayback.org her. I wanted her to refuse to surrender to anything personality. This 80-minute dramatic performance other than unconditional love. Thus began a series is an appearance of a fictitious contemporary Zachary Crow of paintings exploring shadow and light. Through Southerner, Porter K. Isley, who expects he isn’t Zachary Crow is a slam poet, art I imagined a sassy and sometimes skeptical well understood. The presentation is a story-laden storyteller, and filmmaker. Much of conversation with the Creator. My heart broke open - exploration equal in both confession and challenge. Crow’s writing deals with issues of I cried mercy while falling into the arms of grace. #Performance #Performance faith and his attempts to hold on to it while wading through a sea of doubt. Zachary has recently concluded a two year sojourn with The Open Door Community, a Catholic Worker house in Atlanta, Georgia working

60 61 Star of the Sea Studios Daneen Akers and Stephen Eyer their significance as figures in African-American rendition” program and to shed light on the Star of the Sea Studios is a theatrical Daneen and Stephen are a documentary theology and history, and on the role played by Union compelling human stories of its victims. The film #Film production company based in producing and directing team. Theological Seminary in that founding. unveils an “on the ground” account of this struggle, the foothills of South Eastern Their film SEVENTH-GAY ending with a personal dialogue between local Appalachia. They produce ceremonial ADVENTISTS was an official Stacey Holman advocates and a European survivor of the NC “torture #Film #Justice theater in celebration of nature with selection at the 2013 Frameline37 Stacey Holman is a born collaborator taxi” flights. fantastical puppets, masks, costumes, San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film whose portfolio includes working as projected imagery and music engaging both the Festival. They were invited back for Associate Producer for the Emmy Brent Kunkle talents of professional and community performers Frameline’s Encore screening in December. The film Award-winning “Freedom Riders” Brent Kunkle is a producer, known alike. screened at numerous LGBT film festivals over the produced and directed by Stanley for “Stake Land” (2010), “I Sell the last two years including in Seattle, Miami, Boston, Nelson, Associate Producer for the Dead” (2008) and “The Comedy” staroftheseastudios.com Mumbai, and Melbourne. In 2011, they received a Emmy Award-winning “Jesse Owens”, and Co- (2012). Pacific Pioneer Emerging Filmmaker Grant. Their Producer for “Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who The Shining Seas first feature-length documentary, LIVING WITH Swings the Band”. Through these projects, Stacey AMERICAN JESUS A celebration of the sacred waters of the world FIBROMYALGIA, about the challenge of living has breathed life into history for new and diverse AMERICAN JESUS is an exploration of featuring a diverse collection of puppetry styles. with a debilitating chronic pain condition, won the audiences, preserving it for future generations, and Christianity in every faction of American Life, from Colorful fish puppets dart and dive in schools. A sea 2008 Communication Award of Excellence and demonstrating its relevance for our present and our the breadline to the yoga studio, from the humble turtle gracefully swims the shallows. Crabs scuttle National Health Information Gold Award. future. She takes seriously her role as a Stability churches of snake handlers to the mega churches in in soldierly formation. A humpback whale steers Coordinator, providing encouraging words, strategy the ex-urbs. Christian cowboys, bikers and musicians, its stately path through the deeps. The performance sgamovie.com & support to directors and producers facing various comedians, surfers and cage-fighters, they are all culminates with a community prayer / blessing on the levels of pressure. doing it for Christ. Aram Garriga travels from his sacred waters. #Performance #Carnival #Earth SEVENTH-GAY ADVENTISTS native Barcelona to the politically divided United SEVENTH-GAY ADVENTISTS is a character- pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/ States to chronicle the sometimes bizarre relationship driven documentary about faith on the margins freedomsummer between faith, materialism, politics and personal set in the context of the fastest growing Christian passions in this uniquely American tableaux. #Film denomination in the U.S. The film follows three gay FREEDOM SUMMER and lesbian Seventh-day Adventists as they wrestle Line producer Stacey Holman leads a film talk-back Linda Midgett with how to reconcile their sexual orientation and after the screening on how themes of FREEDOM Linda Midgett is an Emmy-award their deeply held faith. This film was created with the SUMMER connect with living liberation today. The winning filmmaker. An accomplished intent of promoting conversations about religion and commemoration of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom showrunner, director, producer and sexuality. Their yearning to belong, to fully embrace Summer is the same weekend as Wild Goose. The writer, Linda has supervised and Katie Damien themselves and define a spirituality of their own is film FREEDOM SUMMER is airing on PBS 6/24. created more than 600 hours of #Film #Film Katie Damien is an award-winning compelling for all of us. programming for networks including filmmaker with a degree in film NBC-Universal, History Channel, Discovery, production. Katie has always been Anika Gibbons Eric Juth and Allyson Caison A&E, PBS and SPEED. Her series credits include known for her creative endeavors, Anika received a BFA in screenwriting Eric Juth is the producer and co- “Gangland, Starting Over” (3 Emmys),” Neale Bayly spending much of her childhood from Tisch School of the Arts at director (along with Michele Rides: Peru,” and “FBI: Criminal Pursuit.” Linda has performing plays for family members and writing NYU. While in New York she Ferris-Dobles) of GHOSTS OF also produced several award-winning documentaries, songs that always rhymed, but never made sense. It learned the ins and outs of film, JOHNSTON COUNTY. He is including “The Line,” “The Greek-Americans of wasn’t until the ripe age of twelve that she first picked television, commercial, and music currently based in Raleigh, North Charlotte” (Emmy) and “Through My Eyes” (Voice up her uncle’s VHS camera and shot her first short video production working for Spike Lee Carolina. In 2014 he received a Master Award). film with her cousins and sister. The movie was so and his amazing staff. Anika has just completed the of Fine Arts degree in Documentary Film Production bad, the tape was immediately erased and the movie documentary short JOURNEY TO LIBERATION: from Wake Forest University. In 2011 he received a THE STRANGER was never seen. Undeterred, Katie continued to make THE LEGACY OF WOMANIST ETHIS AT Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies A documentary film commissioned by the movies until finally one day someone decided to pay UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. In the from Wake Forest University. As an undergraduate Evangelical Immigration Table, THE STRANGER her. true tradition of African-American storytelling, Eric studied painting and art history at Tyler School profiles three immigrant stories and includes JOURNEY TO LIBERATION tells the radical of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During this interviews with local and national Christian katiedamien.com • mytoxicbackyard.com spiritual story of four Womanists scholars. time he also attended Yale’s Norfolk Summer School leaders.By highlighting biblical teaching related of Art, and Webster University in Vienna, Austria. to immigrants, sharing compelling stories of MY TOXIC BACKYARD new.livestream.com/accounts/6118835/ immigrants who are also evangelical Christians, Residents of a community in South Asheville fight events/2903096 facebook.com/GhostsofJohnstonCounty and addressing some common economic and for clean drinking water as the contaminated soil ericjuth.com political misconceptions, THE STRANGER seeks of an old manufacturing plant continues leaking JOURNEY TO LIBERATION: THE LEGACY OF to mobilize evangelical Christians to respond to carcinogens into their water supply, more than WOMANIST THEOLOGY GHOSTS OF JOHNSTON COUNTY immigrants and to immigration policy in ways that twenty years after the threat was first reported to the A social and spiritual look at female theologians and GHOSTS OF JOHNSTON COUNTY tells the are consistent with biblical principles. #Film Environmental Protection Agency. ethicists. Filmmaker Anika Gibbons takes a deeper story of a handful of persistent North Carolinians #Film #Earth #Justice look at the radical spirituality and scholarship within who lead an ongoing struggle to expose their the lives of the founding mothers of Womanist community’s ties to the CIA’s “extraordinary theology and Womanist ethics. The film focuses on 62 63 Kevin Miller Richard Rossi Kevin Miller is an award-winning Richard Rossi made a journey from Do you want to explore screenwriter, director and producer minister to moviemaker, moving who has applied his craft to with his wife and two children to the gifts of working with numerous documentaries, feature Hollywood. Richard made his first your hands? films and shorts. Recent projects movie entitled SAVING SISTER include “Hellbound?,” “Drop Gun,” “No AIMEE (Academy Award-considered in Lagom Landing, located in the Saints for Sinners,” “spOILed,” “Sex+Money,” “With the short film category), and his first feature SISTER beautiful Finger Lakes region of NY state, - Phillips Theological Seminary has God On Our Side,” “Expelled: No Intelligence AIMEE: THE AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON offers comprehensive exposure to the led the Heartland in educating women in ministry for the past 30 years. Our Allowed” and “After...” In addition to his work in MOVIE won #1 on the IGFA list of 100 Greatest skilled trades. You'll be given space to film, Miller has written, co-written and edited over Guerrilla Films Of All Time and was nominated for students come from all walks of life, explore who you are creatively and we offer scholarships to diverse 40 books. He lives in Abbotsford, BC, Canada with Best Feature in Milan. This year, he finished his long- and spiritually, while living groups of students. his wife and four children. awaited feature film on his childhood idol Roberto in community with other - Phillips Theological Seminary allows Clemente, entitled BASEBALL’S LAST HERO: 21 explorers. Scholarships students to complete two-thirds of THE CHICKEN MANURE INCIDENT CLEMENTE STORIES. are available for this their theological education online. With This is a 44-minute documentary that follows flexible weekend and concentrated 9-month program, and courses, you can complete your degree two idiosyncratic Christian street workers who eternalgracechurch.com women as well as men without relocating. advocate on behalf of the homeless after the city of between the ages of 18-25 - Phillips Theological Seminary preps Abbotsford, British Columbia tried to disperse a BASEBALL’S LAST HERO: are encouraged to apply now! Did You Know? its students for leading ministries beyond problem homeless camp in June 2013 by dumping 21 CLEMENTE STORIES the church walls. We are comprised of a chicken manure on it. #Film Roberto Clemente had baseball’s greatest arm and Visit us on the web at: well-credentialed faculty with theologically and socially progressive commitments. biggest heart. Clemente was a work of art. He’s www.lagomlanding.com (585) 727-1687 We prepare you to meet the growing James Perkinson not only the greatest right fielder of all time, but a challenges facing today’s church. See Speakers section for bio humanitarian. Director Richard Rossi grew up in Pittsburgh, watching Roberto play. Rossi brings his childhood hero back to life in this unauthorized Lagom Landing: A year-long 901 North Mingo Road, Tulsa, OK 74116 americanrevolutionaryfilm.com 918.610.8303 | www.ptstulsa.edu biographical film. Rossi uses unconventional adventure... building a life! AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: narrative, compelling storytelling, and revealing THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS details to capture the myth and man. It’s a love story Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American showing Roberto’s love for family, team, fans, and the #Film woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution will poor. surprise you. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American Nicole Townsend movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving Nicole Townsend is a native of New revolution that encompasses the contradictions of Madrid Missouri. She resides in America’s past and its potentially radical future. The Asheville, NC working as a freelance documentary film plunges us into Boggs’s lifetime of filmmaker, and community developer. vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. Before film, she was studying to teach social movements of the last century; from labor history. In 2010 she was introduced to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian to Asheville’s “world of activism.” She noticed that American and environmental justice movements and even within activist groups there were injustices. beyond. Angela Davis, Bill Moyers, Bill Ayers, Ruby Filmmaking was birthed out of anger from the lack of Dee and Ossie Davis, Danny Glover, Boggs’s late representation of folks of color in WNC. She began a husband James and a host of Detroit comrades across journey to start conversations revolving around race, three generations help shape this uniquely American which turned into the film COLOR ME BROWN: story. #Film CONVERSATIONS WITH UNMUTED VOICES. She has created three additional films, and traveled through-out the south.

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64 65 Talk: The Wisdom of Silence This presentation and worship service explores the Zen Buddhist meditation is one of the foremost theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Thomas Merton, respected and practiced forms of the Buddhist builds on traditional Contemplative Christian tradition, and has been shared throughout the Practices, and introduces simple, accessible Buddhist world for centuries. From the traditions of Thich practices to find a new approach to authentic Hnat Hahn and Myoshin-Ji Daishin, Zen monk Christian Spiritual Practice. The workshop consists of Bushi Yamato Damashii introduces the wisdom and a 45 minute presentation and a 45 minute experience practices of Zen Buddhism as a model and tool for of Mindful Christian Practice that includes enhancing the connection of mind, body, and spirit meditation, prayer, and Holy Communion. #Practices Asheville Movement Collective of an entire Scripture passage. Simple movement, of the individual engaged. A teacher, practitioner, and word repetition, call and response, among many other Asheville Movement Collective’s Roshi of North Carolina’s Daishin Zen Buddhist Linda Flynn mission and aim is to inspire explorations, reveal the architecture of the language, Temple & Mindfulness Center in rural Piedmont Linda is co-director of The Charlotte authenticity and healthy community as well as the images and deep meaning embedded NC, Bushi shares universal methodologies for Spirituality Center in Charlotte, NC by hosting dance waves for personal in it. As participants bond and the message becomes enhancing one’s practice as a contemplative and silent and has been a spiritual director, and community transformation. crystal-clear, the text is no longer printed on paper, sitter. retreat leader and teacher for over AMC has a long history of hosting but “written on the heart,” according to one attendee. Sacred words are not merely spoken but proclaimed. twelve years. Rooted in Ignatian community movement events in Asheville, NC, and Talk: Tai Qigong (Chi Kung) Participants should be prepared to read enlarged print Spirituality, she delights in finding God has inspired similar groups across the country. Qigong is an art learned and practiced by persons of from a page. #Practices in all things, especially nature, music, and community! all ages and physical abilities. “Qi” can be translated She received her education with the Enneagram ashevillemovementcollective.org Monette Chilson as “vital energy,” and “gong” means exercise or Institute and Together in the Mystery Program work. Qigong is the art of nurturing one’s body associated with San Francisco Theological Seminary. Talk: Asheville Movement Collective Freeform Monette Chilson speaks and writes and spirit, through accumulation/exercise of Qi Her passion is companioning people as they name Movement Practice passionately about the intersection that is the energetic intermediary of the two. and claim their own experience of the Holy and A facilitator from the Asheville Movement Collective of faith and yoga, as well as the Independent scientific studies have concluded that training spiritual direction students. A mom of five, will host a free-form, participatory dance experience. recovery of the feminine face of God. Tai Qigong helps: lower body strength; force control she enjoys creatively living in the moment and her We open with a communal circle to create a safe The author of the award-winning (a neurological function); improved functional hero is Dorothy Day. container for exploring what it means to be bodies in book “Sophia Rising: Awakening Your balance; improved vestibular function (a mechanism motion together. In alignment with the Wild Goose Sacred Wisdom Through Yoga” (Bright Sky Press, of improved balance); improved immune function charlottespiritualitycenter.org invitation, AMC’s mission and aim is to inspire 2013), she has contributed to Yoga Journal, elephant (response to flu vaccine); and complex, holistic authenticity and healthy community by hosting dance journal, Integral Yoga Magazine and Christian Yoga benefits combining five dimensions of experience: Talk: Introduction to the Enneagram: A Tool for waves for personal and community transformation. Magazine. physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual. Liberation from the False Self No prior dance or conscious movement practice #Practices #Religion We’ll cover the basics of the Enneagram, an ancient is required and all are welcome. A music mix is SophiaRisingYoga.com spiritual tool used for self-knowledge and inner prerecorded and played during the event, and the Scott Elliott transformation. Acting as a kind of “mirror,” the facilitator encourages a safe environment for all Talk: Sophia Rising: Living Liberation Through Yoga Scott Elliott, is a teacher, healer, enneagram reveals features of our personality that dancers. #Practices #Community Western Christianity teaches us to know about God listener, and Spiritual Director. He tend to make us un-free. The ability to see clearly but leaves us bereft of non-intellectual practices that is an ordained priest of Universal what our habitual patterns are holds the key to Mary (Kate) Burke lead us to know God. In this session, we’ll look at the Anglican Church and a monastic our liberation. It invites us to look deeply into the mystic roots of the early church, including its comfort Kate Burke, a champion of the member of the Lindisfarne Community, mystery of our true identity, revealing that we are with the feminine face of God and contemplative speaking voice and the spoken an ecumenical New-Monastic Community of the more than our personality: a spiritual being who practices. Exploring how yoga provides a framework word, is an associate professor in Anglo-Celtic tradition. He has studied and practiced has lost contact with his/her true nature. Living for this experiential work, we’ll discover how to find the University of Virginia Drama meditation in Tibetan and Zen Buddhist traditions out of this realization shifts completely how we see liberation from ideas that constrain our experience of Department. A performer and voice for more than seventeen years. He’s a contributing ourselves, others, and the world, bringing liberation, God. #Practices #Healing coach, she recently presented at the 53rd World author of “Secular Monasticism” and is founder and freedom, and joy! #Practices Theatre Day international convocation in Rome. Bushi Yamato Damashii Prior of New Seeds Priory, an inter-spiritual new- Last summer she coached TWELFTH NIGHT monastic community that blends Christian and Suzanne Jackson at the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival and served Bushi Yamato Damashii is the Roshi Buddhist spiritual practice. He teaches meditation Suzanne is a professional opera singer, a as on-location voice and accent coach for Jason of the Daishin Zen Buddhist Temple to individuals and groups, blogs about Christian- Kripalu-certified yoga instructor and Isaacs (of HARRY POTTER fame) during the & Mindfulness Center. Born in West Buddhist spirituality & practice, and is a member of the director of The Awakening Arts shoot of forthcoming Civil War film FIELD OF Palm Beach, Florida and educated Spiritual Director International. Studio. She holds a master’s degree LOST SHOES. Burke is the creator of New Lectio internationally, including studies at from the University of Maryland and Divina, an interactive, interfaith Scripture immersion Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, newseedsminitries.org • newseedspriory.org has performed as a resident singer with experience. Bushi holds two Masters, and a PhD in theology. He the Washington National Opera for more than two devotes much time to meditating, reading, writing, Talk: Mindful Christianity: An decades. Suzanne has taught yoga for sixteen years NewLectioDivina.com and teaching as speaker and lecturer in Mahayana, Invitation to Authentic Practice and is the creator of the YogaSing and Wordless Zen, Nichiren, and Christian traditions. He resides at At its core, Christianity is about a deeply personal, Prayer Methods. She is in demand as a clinician Talk: New Lectio DIvina: Praying with Voice and Word Daishin Zen Buddhist Temple in Thomasville, North transformational process. Buddhist practices of and regularly presents YogaSing and “The Art of Techniques pioneered at Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Carolina. Mindfulness can help bring us into full presence and Wellness” workshops to universities, operas and Theatre inspire this interactive yet reverent experience participation with that process of transformation. conventions both in the United States and abroad. daishinzen.org 66 67 TheAwakeningArts.com “Torah Queeries: A Weekly Commentary on the space for taking risks, playing outside our comfort Phil Fox Rose Hebrew Bible.” Rabbi Lesser works for a better zones, and discovering more about others and Phil Fox Rose is a writer, editor Talk: Wordless Prayer community in Atlanta by focusing on building ourselves. Together we’ll create a container where and content lead, with a blog at Join author Brian McLaren and yoga teacher bridges between diverse communities as founder anyone willing can go beyond small talk and shallow Patheos, and an upcoming book Suzanne Jackson as they guide you through a of the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta, co-chair of social norms. Dig deep into whole-being presence! about cultivating serenity in everyday moving prayer form entitled Wordless Prayer. Brian Georgians Against Discrimination, chair of Tikkun life. He’s a leader at St. Lydia’s dinner will introduce each prayer sequence with prayer Olam Commission, on the board of Georgia Equality, PANEL: Visual Presentation Slam: Food, Justice & church in Brooklyn, content manager of Busted Halo, #Practices #Earth and commentary and Suzanne will demonstrate and member of City of Atlanta’s Human Relations Faith Multi-Media Exploration and a Living Faith, On Faith and OSV contributor. #Justice movements from Yoga, Tai Chi and QiGong to bring commission. Recently, he completed Lev Shomea Phil was an early U.S. Green leader, worked on you into a contemplative and vibrant form of prayer. Spiritual Direction program. national and state election campaigns, party By weaving movement through prayer, the body, Jim Papile leaderships and activist movements, and was Housing mind, and spirit combine into a whole body prayer congregationbethaverim.org We are committed to the idea that story telling Works’ content director. Phil has practiced centering bringing an intimate connection to God, the creator. changes lives and we are members of St. Anne’s prayer meditation for 20 years; leads Contemplative All body types are invited to this simple, doable, and Talk: Shabbat Shalom Episcopal Church in Reston Virginia, experienced in Outreach in NY; facilitates a sitting group; and has yet deep approach to spirituality and prayer. Join Joshua Lesser the spiritual leader of facilitating in small group settings. organized contemplative workshops and retreats. Congregation Bet Haverim in Atlanta, Georgia Morning Yoga in welcoming Shabbat with traditional melodies, Talk: I Love to Tell the Story: Public philfoxrose.com Suzanne has taught yoga for sixteen years and is contemplative chants, spiritual teachings and folk Narrative Story Circle the creator of the YogaSing and Wordless Prayer tales. This service is open to all who wish to join How we view ourselves, each other, and the world Talk: Freedom from Struggle: Meditation To Ground #Practices Methods. together in creating a meaningful and soulful Shabbat around us is evidenced in our stories. When we You While You Work for the Liberation of Others experience. share our experiences, hopes, and dreams with each In working for justice and liberation for all, it’s easy Kimberly Knight other, we bridge the chasms that ignorance, bias, and to get caught up in the struggle, attached to things Kimberly Knight is Minister PANEL: God’s Gift from the Margins: prejudice create. To know something of each other you’re working to change, imprisoned by anger, of Digital Community with An LGBTQ Discussion is to see through facile assumptions to the heart. burnout and frustration. Meditation cultivates a Extravagance UCC and a blogger In today’s world, the church increasingly recognizes Marshall Ganz, of Harvard, developed a process posture of working toward goals without attaching at Patheos.com. She holds a M.Div amazing gifts LGBTQ people possess enriching the called “Public Narrative,” which is a way to tell stories to outcomes - free to use your full energy effectively from Candler School of Theology and lives of our family, friends, and faith communities. that change. We would like to give the opportunity, for the good of all. Join Phil Fox Rose, meditation a head full of knowledge from decades of working As LGBTQ people, we bear the story of Christ from in a small group setting to share stories with others teacher and author of an upcoming book about in the multimedia industry. Merging her theological the margins. Wild Goose understands that from and participate in an exciting opportunity to “change contemplative practices in everyday life. We’ll start training and technology background led her to the margins we are able to meet God in a new and lives.” #Practices #Community with brief instruction for those new to meditation, plant an online progressive Christian congregation. invigorating way. This year we invite all to come and sit together in silence, then discuss how meditation, For over five years she led worship, bible study and hear stories and theologies of LGBTQ and Allied John Prigmore Christianity and justice work fit together.#Practices community events for the digital natives of Second folk sitting on the margins creating community and John Prigmore and his wife Susie live Life. She has served as the online organizer for The renewing Christ’s table once again. Panelists: Jay in the beautiful rolling foothills of the Mark Scandrette and Dani Scoville, Beatitudes Society and as marketing and social media Johnson, Lisa Anderson, Jarrell Wilson, Lisbeth Blue Ridge mountains here in North ReIMAGINE Mendez Rivera, Rabbi Joshua Lesser, moderated by consultant for The Center for Progressive Renewal. Carolina. As a retired restaurant Mark Scandrette is the founding Christian Parks. #Practices #Religion manager and self confessed God-nerd, director of ReIMAGINE: A Center patheos.com/blogs/kimberlyknight Mike Morrell John enjoys life as a part time bartender for Integral Christian Practice, based and a full time, fully flawed disciple of Christ. in San Francisco, where he leads an Talk: Thin Places: A Celtic Meditation Mike Morrell is a journalist, annual series of retreats, workshops and The term “thin places” emerged from ancient Celtic blogger, publishing coach and a stackingstonesministry.com projects designed to help participants spiritually to describe places where the veil between founding organizer of the Wild apply spiritual wisdom to everyday life. His books this world & the eternal world is thin. A thin place Goose Festival. He participates in Talk: Stacking Stones include “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money On is where one can walk in two worlds - the worlds are and facilitates personal development In the well-established tradition of our spiritual What Matters Most” (IVP 2013), “Practicing the fused together, knitted loosely where the differences experiences and men’s work via Authentic World, ancestors, we’ll erect a stack of stones or a cairn to Way of Jesus” (InterVarsity Press 2011) and “Soul can be discerned, or tightly where the two worlds the ManKind Project and (H) Opp. He is also mark this moment of grace on our shared journey Graffiti” (Jossey-Bass 2007). become one. At this gathering, through the practice involved in the Trinity’s Place spirit collective, at the Wild Goose Festival. The process involves of imaginative meditation in community, we will and North Raleigh Community Church. Mike entering into conversation not only among ourselves Dani Scoville is a San Francisco-enthusiast, create a space where we may experience a thinning of lives with his family in Raleigh, North Carolina. as creators of the cairn, but between us and our storyteller, external processor, and the veil between the worlds that separate us one from You can find him online at MikeMorrell.org. Creator thru the voices of the rocks - they can be #Practices people organizer. She currently is the another & from God. pretty chatty once you become attuned to their Program Director for ReImagine, a Talk: Practicing the Presence of People language! If successful, the rocks will remain in Joshua Lesser faith-based non-profit that creates Michael Williams and Mike Morrell lead a small “conversation” and spark up conversation among folks space for followers of Jesus to learn Rabbi Joshua Lesser leads the group through fun, interactive group exercises that they meet after we leave. I invite all to Come, Talk, how to integrate his teachings into their #Practices #VisualArt Congregation Bet Haverim. He demonstrate and explore relating from an authentic and Build! daily lives in sincere and sustainable ways. served in the Teach for America space. You’ll get to know yourself better while Corps in New Orleans and founded learning to see and appreciate more about everyone reimagine.org Rainbow Center, a Jewish response you connect with. “Practicing the presence of people” to LGBTQ families. He’s co-editor of with the same attentiveness with which mystics pursue God becomes an anchoring skill and safe 68 69 Talk: Invitation to Silence Jesse White Karen Slappey, Claire Clyburn & In this invitation to silence, stillness prayer practice is Jesse White is the Arts and Spirituality Hollie Woodruff a means to God awareness, greater self-awareness and Teacher at Pendle Hill, a Quaker Karen Slappey is a seminarian, beer more conscious living. In this workshop we’ll explore spiritual education center in PA. An snob, and the blue dot that is the perspectives and the practice of contemplative prayer expressionistic artist and poet, art political Red Sea that is North - including a 20 minute group sit. Experiencing therapist and teacher, Jesse values Georgia. She is a mother and wife. Personal Transformation The issues facing our the power of the creative process to Campfire is her favorite smell and world mirror the struggles we have within ourselves. heal, to transform, and to express the teachings she thinks Jesus looked like Sayid from Each of us are on a journey from the false self to the of our Great Creator. Jesse also directs Pigeon LOST. She has aspirations to live in a yurt and raise true self. The teachings of Jesus invite us into a life Arts, a Philadelphia-based organization that offers chickens. She currently serves as associate developer transformed by learning to cooperate with God’s transformational art programs to a wide audience. and curator of community at House of the Rock in Camping Gear Donation healing work in us. The ancients called this process Atlanta. Rev. Claire Clyburn is Pastor of Westover At the end of the Festival, feel free to leave any ascesis, or self-discipline, which according to the pigeon-arts.org • pendlehill.org UMC in Raleigh NC and co-founder of Raleigh unwanted, but in good condition camping gear by Apostle Paul, involves training in new ways of living Beer and Hymns. She has been a UMC Pastor the Rangers’ tent in a location marked “Haywood in our minds, bodies and relationships. Mahatma Talk: Am I Crazy? Is that God Talking to Me? since 1987. Rev Hollie Woodruff is a pastor in the Donation.” We will be donating any camping Gandhi called this an “experiment in truth.” Explore The Quaker Radical Mental Health presents an Disciples of Christ Christian Church and is co- gear left on the grounds to the Haywood Street how we can support each other to experience greater interactive workshop on mental health liberation #Practices founder of Raleigh Beer and Hymns. Community in downtown Asheville to be used by wholeness for the sake of our world. through spiritual discernment. This workshop will individuals experiencing homelessness. include embodiment, visualization/meditation, Jo Ann Staebler Beer & Hymns cooperative games, journaling, and visual arts in What could be better than BnH at WGF? Old Schedule Changes a supportive environment. Participants in this Jo Ann Staebler, MDiv, is a retreat school hymns and libations? Yes, please. Make new As you know, life is unpredictable, and schedule workshop will create an art installation on navigating leader and spiritual director with a friends, sing loudly, raise a glass and your spirits! changes may happen. If there is a schedule change, extreme states. We invite people with mental health #Practices contemplative grounding, trained listen for announcements at the stages, and look concerns, trauma histories, mad gifts (mystics, by the Shalem Institute. A lover of for postings at Wild Goose Gallery, Main Stage prophets, etc.), and their allies to participate in this nature, classical music, choral singing, and the Community Commons. and medieval popular culture, she is a workshop. We are excited about joining a radically native of the Pacific Northwest who has lived in inclusive spiritual festival where we might find Northern Virginia for far too many years. Outside the others who want to build faith communities that Northwest, her favorite place in the world is the Isle acknowledge, accept, and affirm neuro/psychic/mental of Iona. diversity. #Practices shalem.org Michael Williams Michael Williams is an Unreasonable Talk: Lectio Divina and Centering Prayer Futurist with a passion for people and Lectio Divina, or “holy reading,” is an ancient businesses. He coaches growth stage spiritual practice that has opened the door to the entrepreneurs and their teams. He has Seminary. Naturally. Divine within for many. Centering Prayer, based on the unique ability to see the possibilities the anonymous medieval English text “The Cloud available in challenging situations, works to simply MTSO offers an experience of Unknowing,” is updated for 21st-century seekers. solutions and aims to build the confidence needed In our simple practice at Wild Goose, Centering to take action in order to achieve tangible results. At unique in theological education. Prayer becomes the final movement of Lectio Divina. the Goose, he is known as the guy who runs the Beer Earn one of four master’s #Practices #Worship Pavilion.... come connect and have a beer! degrees in a community committed to preserving and Carol Charging Thunder Talk: Practicing the Presence of People I am Oohenunpa/Oglala Lakota, I Michael Williams and Mike Morrell lead a small nurturing God’s natural gifts. am 61 years old, I have been beading group through fun, interactive group exercises On our 80-acre hillside campus, since I was young, and recognized as that demonstrate and explore relating from an you’ll find an amazing faculty, authentic space. You’ll get to know yourself better an artist in October of 2011 bu Dyani state-of-the-art classrooms and a Reynolds-White Hawk, Director of All while learning to see and appreciate more about My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. everyone you connect with. “Practicing the presence USDA certified organic farm. of people” with the same attentiveness with which In our dining hall, you’ll eat Talk: Beadwork of All Sorts mystics pursue God becomes an anchoring skill farm-to-table fare at every meal. Join Carol at her booth throughout the weekend in and safe space for taking risks, playing outside our beading small bags, earrings, and other works. Check comfort zones and discovering more about others We’d love to have you visit. the schedule for specific times you can come to the and ourselves. Together we’ll create a container where booth for a demonstration or a talk. #Practices anyone willing can go beyond small talk and shallow social norms. 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