Episode 40: See No Stranger with Valarie Kaur
Valarie Kaur returns to the Prophetic Resistance podcast to talk about her new book See No Stranger, which dropped June 16. This extended conversation covers storytelling as an act of survival, how anti-Black racism contributes to racism against Asian A …
Episode 39: Rev. Alvin Herring
In this extended episode, we sit down with Rev. Alvin Herring, who is the executive director of Faith in Action. This conversation was recorded just days after the police-killing of George Floyd, just as our beloved kinfolk were beginning to organize uprisings across the …
Episode 38: Calling on the ancestors with Phyllis Hill and Deth Im
The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted our lives, amplified the disparities in our communities, and pushed folks who were already on the margins, closer to the edge. This crisis may have shifted how we organize, but it didn’t ch …
Episode 37: Faith Forum Panel – Faith Organizing In An Election Year
Catalina Morales Bahena, Nicole Barnes and Koach Baruch Frazier are theologians in training and innovative community organizers of color, who are deeply rooted in the communities they serve. At the 2020 Faith Forum in February, they s …
Episode 36: Rev. Billy Michael Honor
Rev. Billy Michael Honor is the director of faith organizing for Faith in Action’s partner in the state of Georgia, the New Georgia Project. In this episode, we spoke with Rev. Honor at his office in Atlanta. We recorded in March 2020, before the global call to …
Episode 35: Faith Forum Panel – Building Human Solidarity Together
*A Production Note: The sound varies throughout the recording. Listeners may need to adjust their volume. In this episode, we talk with three powerful faith leaders about the stories, traditions, and practices that they turn to in tim …
Episode 34: A response to COVID-19 – Faithful Organizing in Time of Global Crisis
This special episode breaks from our interview format. Listeners will hear directly from our host Rev. Michael-Ray Mathews as he shares how the virus is impacting our movement kindred, how Faith in Action is called to res …
Episode 33: Season 3 – Sarah Jawaid
We traveled to Los Angeles to meet with Sarah Jawaid, a veteran community organizer who currently serves as the Director of Special Projects with LA Voice – a member of Faith in Action. She is also a driving force behind the Muslim Power Building Project which …
Episode 32: Season 3 – Rev. Dr. Cassandra Gould
Today – five years after the killing of Michael Brown Jr – we are re-releasing our conversation with the Rev. Dr. Cassandra Gould of Missouri Faith Voices, an affiliate of Faith in Action. She was one of the first pastors to issue a clarion …
Episode 31: Season 3 – Reverend Traci Blackmon
Our guest is the Reverend Traci Blackmon. She is the Executive Minister of Justice & Witness Ministries for The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO, which borders the city of Ferguson. …
