The Transform Network Podcast - A Progressive Christian Podcast

TUESDAY MARCH 10 Ayo M. Morton holds degrees from Hampton University, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University and Union Presbyterian Seminary, where she was a Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership Fellow. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Memphis. An ordained minister, she has written three novels and a devotional and has released a spoken-word CD. Her statement is “I am not a writer. Prayerfully, I am a person who is so passionate about people that I strategically place words in the correct order to reorder their lives.” HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore. 

MONDAY MARCH 9 Elizabeth Rawlings (she/they) is an ELCA pastor and disrupter of things from Cleveland, OH currently living in the greater Seattle area. As she discerns what is next in her life, Elizabeth spends their time creating justice-oriented liturgy for Disrupt Worship Project, is in several racial justice groups in the ELCA, cuddles with their dog, plays too many video games and works on self-compassion practices. You can find her intermittent writings at www.medium.com/@revelizabethrawlings. HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore. 

SUNDAY MARCH 8 Vahisha Hasan is a faith-rooted organizer working at the intersections of faith, social justice, and mental health. She is Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology at Memphis Center for Urban and Theological Studies (MCUTS) and the Executive Director of Movement in Faith, a project of Transform Network. She is a powerful public speaker, transformative facilitator, social justice trainer, and writer with a deeply prophetic voice and imagination for how faith communities can be an active part of collective liberation. She co-edited Resipiscence 2018 and 2019 with Nichola Torbett and is grateful for every contributor and reader that yearns for a better expression of faith and more depth in our demand for justice. Follow her on Facebook: @MovementInFaith, on Twitter: @VHasanMIF, and at https://www.transformnetwork.org/vahisha-hasan and https://www.transformnetwork.org/mif-projects/. BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.tr

SATURDAY MARCH 7 Maren C. Tirabassi is white. Her most recent book is A Child Laughs – Prayers for Justice and Hope, an anthology with seventy-seven writers from eleven countries. She is a guest preacher, new author mentor, and facilitator of workshops with prison inmates, new English speakers, and cancer and dementia patients. Connect with her at giftsinopenhands@wordpress.com, at Casa: An Experiment in Doing Church Online, at RevGalsBlogPals, or on Facebook. HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore. 

FRIDAY MARCH 6 Today’s guest is Mary Lim-Lampe. Mary is the Executive Director of Genesis, the Bay Area affiliate of the Gamaliel Network in Oakland, California. Mary was blessed by God and the Universe to mother the awesome Mary Caitlyn Rosa Lampe, a brave and mouthy 14 year old. The proud daughter of Chinese immigrants, Mary Lim-Lampe was summoned into organizing during a “perfect storm” at a Gamaliel Network organizer training when a good agitation by her mother was followed by her throwing up and deciding to come out of the shadows and build power. You can follow Mary’s work at www.genesisca.org, on Twitter @GenesisCali, on Instagram @genesis_for_youth, and on Facebook @genesisca.org. HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lente

Today’s guest is Jean Jeffress. Jean holds a Master’s of Divinity from American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, CA. She is ordained pending call in the United Church of Christ. She is a member and lay leader of First Congregational Church of Oakland, a preacher, a musician, and she belongs to a cat named Baby Boy in Oakland, CA. Find her on Twitter @jeanj199, on Facebook at Jean Jeffress, and on Instagram @jeanj199. HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore. 

Today’s guest is Rev. Lucy Waechter Web, a white anti-racist newly returned to her home in Michigan and is looking for opportunities to make good trouble. She most recently served Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Memphis, TN, where she also served as the Vice-President of MICAH (Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action & Hope). She is ordained in the PC(USA). You can find her on Facebook @lucy.waechterwebb and her email is lucyappel@gmail.com. HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore. 

Today’s guest is Kimberly Mark, a heart-centered, justice-seeking, pursuer of grace. Now several years into the business of deconstructing the faith that’s defined her, she is finding freedom through liberation theology and storytelling. Kimberly lives in Oakland where she practices massage therapy, tutors math, and generally helps people live their best life. Find her on IG @lilokimiko and FB @kimsiumark. HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore. 

Today’s guest is Monica Leak. She has a bachelors from Appalachian State University and graduate degrees from South Carolina State University, North Carolina Central University and the John Leland Center for Theological Studies. She edits and writes for Faith of our Founders: 100 Daily Devotionals to Inspire, Encourage and Propel the Finer Woman. She has contributed to Lenten devotionals The Road to Calvary: Surviving a Season of Suffering and Resipiscence: A Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy 2018 and 2019. Her most recent work, No More Hashtags: Remembrance and Reflections, pays tribute to those whose lives were lost to police brutality. Monica currently works as a speech-language pathologist and as a seminary librarian. Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. BUY T

Today’s guest is Danielle J. Buhuro, an ordained clergy member of the United Church of Christ, currently serves as a CPE Supervisor at two hospitals in Chicago. As an African American queer/same-gender-loving person, Danielle Buhuro is committed to activism in the areas of race, gender and sexuality. She is currently a Ph.D student at Chicago Theological Seminary where her dissertation focus is social media violence specifically against Black heterosexual women, Black transgender women and Black Muslim women. Danielle Buhuro is also an author, recently publishing Spiritual Care In An Age of #BlackLivesMatter: Examining the Spiritual and Prophetic Needs of African Americans in a Violent America. You can find Danielle on Facebook at Danielle J. Buhuro and on Twitter @DaBuhuro1. More info on her book is on Facebook at BlackCareMatters. Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment

Today’s guest is Tami Sawyer, an educator, advocate, organizer, leader, listener, and elected official who currently serves as a county commissioner. Her passion is people: ensuring they’re represented, heard, valued, and included. In each of her roles, she’s built coalitions across communities to challenge systems, propose solutions, and strengthen the bonds between neighbors. In 2017, Tami founded #takeemdown901, the movement that removed Confederate statues in Memphis, TN. This and other justice work has won her many awards, as well as national exposure on major news outlets. Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's a daily accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Today's guest is Maren C. Tirabassi, she is white. Her most recent book is A Child Laughs – Prayers for Justice and Hope, an anthology with seventy-seven writers from eleven countries. She is a guest preacher, new author mentor, and facilitator of workshops with prison inmates, new English speakers, and cancer and dementia patients. Connect with her at giftsinopenhands@wordpress.com, at Casa: An Experiment in Doing Church Online, at RevGalsBlogPals, or on Facebook. Vahisha Hasan, founder & executive director of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's a daily accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit TransformNetwork.org. BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print or eBook versions at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore.

Today's guest is Yvette R. Blair, a Methodist elder serving in Dallas, a food justice activist and a doctoral of ministry student at Memphis Theological Seminary where she is focusing on the intersection of faith, food apartheid and the displacement of Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples. A fellow of Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative, she is also a 2017 fellow of Princeton Theological Seminary’s Black Leadership Theology Institute. She is a writing coach and editor. Connect with her at yvetteblair.com, @YvetteRevYBlair on Twitter, and on IG preachergirl716. Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's a daily accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast.

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. Songwriting is how Tracy Howe cultivates her own humanity as she passes through a world largely condemning and diminishing of the beauty, interconnections and vulnerability that come with being human. She writes, “I was not born into a socio-political location that caused me to struggle for justice. I was born both addicted and blind to the privilege and power that global exploitation, militarism and racism hold in place for a few. Thank God I had music. My early touring career brought me across the continental United States and many parts of Central and South America. The songs opened pathways of relationships and the relationships seeded new songs about the lived realities of people in many different places and the struggles for life and justice everywhere.  Now, 20 years after I started wr

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, this minister believes in putting boots to the ground. Min Tennille Power has been active in the anti violence movement for over 20 years. She identifies as a womanist and is driven by her passion in counseling and education. She is a certified trauma informed yoga instructor, a therapist and an educator, and in her spare time she raises her three sons to make a difference in the world.

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. Regina D. Clarke has Masters degrees in Divinity and Christian Education with an emphasis in Ethics and Social/Restorative Justice from Samuel Dewitt Proctor School of Theology. She has a heart burst for the Deaf, the Hard of Hearing, the abused, and those who are “forgotten or discarded” by mainstream society. Her thirst for connecting the community and the church has led her to serve in prisons, domestic violence shelters, and the community-at-large to ensure no person -- despite their past, abilities, or status -- would be denied the opportunity to learn about Jesus and walk faithfully with their God. She currently serves on the ministerial staff of Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis.

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. Onleilove Chika Alston is a faith-based community organizer, speaker and writer. In 2014, she founded Prophetic Whirlwind: Uncovering the Black Biblical Destiny, a teaching ministry which bloomed into a book. She ministers often in West Africa and is passionate about connecting Hebrew communities in Africa with the diaspora for greater Biblical understanding. A native New Yorker and former foster child, she knows the gospel is truly good news to the oppressed. PropheticWhirlwind.com Twitter: @PropheticWhirl Instagram: PropheticWhirlwind Facebook: PropheticWhirlwind

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. Vahisha Hasan is a faith-rooted organizer working at the intersections of faith, social justice, and mental health. She is an Assistant Professor of Human Services at Memphis Center for Urban and Theological Studies (MCUTS) and the Executive Director of Movement in Faith, a project of Transform Network. She is a powerful public speaker, transformative facilitator, social justice trainer, minister, and writer with a deeply prophetic voice and imagination for how faith communities can be an active part of collective liberation. She co-edited Resipiscence 2018 and 2019 with Nichola Torbett and is grateful for every contributor and reader that yearns for a better expression of faith and more depth in our demand for justice. Facebook: MovementInFaith Twitter: @VHasanMIF Instagram: vhasanlifebetter

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. Mary Lim-Lampe is the Executive Director of Genesis, the Bay Area affiliate of the Gamaliel Network. She was called into organizing during a “perfect storm” at a Gamaliel Network organizer training when a good agitation by her mother was followed by her throwing up and making a decision to come out of the shadows and build power in community. She graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis (BA-Political Science) and has a juris doctorate from St. Louis University-School of Law. Mary began her work as the community organizer for MORE2 (Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equity), the Gamaliel Affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri (her hometown). The biggest reason “why” Mary works in the justice field is her 13 year old daughter, Caitlyn.

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. Allyn Maxfield-Steele is the Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Research & Education Center in New Market, TN. He is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He considers Rowan County, NC, home, although he currently lives in Haywood County, NC, with his spouse, Erin, an Episcopalian priest.