Religion & Spirituality
In this episode we talk with Brandon Wrencher, minister, organizer, and facilitator working across the US within faith, education, and non-profit sectors at the intersection of decolonizing church, contemplative activism, and local presence to build beloved communities. We talk about the The Good Neighbor Movement, the church he leads as well as the Liberating Church Project, a network seeking to decolonize new and established expressions of church by looking to hush harbors, the church of enslaved Africans, as a model having contemporary relevance for decolonizing the church. Books mentioned: Emergent Strategy by Adriene Marie Brown Faith-Rooted Organizing by Alexia Salvitiera Vincent Harding Memoir: Remnants By Rachel Elizabeth Harding The Star Fish and The Spider by Ori Drafman and Rod Beckstrom: Get Together By Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto Black Marxism: The making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson Read about the Eight Marks of Liberating Church Read about Lynice Pinkard More info about Base Communities Ruby Sales Interview with On Being Today's episode brought to you by the Church Development Office at the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. Music from https://filmmusic.io "Macarray Bay" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) If you have a question about the future of the church that you would like for me to research or have a suggestion for a future guest you can email me at luke@churchischanging.com or leave me a voicemail at (980) 320-0568 and you might end up on the podcast. Today’s episode and many other resources for the next church can be found at www.churchischanging.com