Go With Grace

Breaking Open: Biblical Literalism and Inerrancy

In episode four of Go With Grace, Soulforce Co-Executive Director Rev. Alba Onofrio and Kinship Minister Grace Nichols discuss the theological resource Breaking Open: Biblical Literalism and Inerrancy.

Grounding resources from Grace:

Wisdom of Small Joys - a conversation with Ross Gay and adrienne maree brown

"Saving Grace" - Common feat. Brittany Howard

An instagram post by Lisa Olivera encouraging us to "remember to see ourselves as nature..."

All other Soulforce theological resources can be found here: https://www.soulforce.org/resources

 

We'll discuss the Biblical Literalism and Inerrancy more during our #SoulforceSundaySchool on Twitter on Oct. 17th

 

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Discussing the film Pray Away

In this episode, Soulforce staff members Grace, Alba, Assata, and Megan plus board member Cole discuss the new film Pray Away.

Links to supportive things from Grace:

Hymn of Healing by Beautiful Chorus

Prentis Hemphil Finding Our Way Podcast: Navigating Conflict with Kazu Haga 

Laura Flanders Show episode with Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. discussing his latest publication: Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. 

You can read the episode transcript here.

Links related to the film and discussion:

Director’s Statement

Mental Health and Discussion Guide

The Art of the Frame podcast episode hosted by Ron Dawson in conversation with Pray Away director Kristine Stolakis and producer Jess Devaney.

Article in The Guardian: ‘It doesn’t leave you’: the toxic toll of LGBTQ+ conversion therapy 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Global_Alliance

https://www.politicalresearch.org/2013/06/21/exodus-global-context-ex-gay-therapy-continues-across-americas

 

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Moralization of Harm, and Grace

This episode Co-Executive Director Yaz Mendez  Nuñez and I discuss the moralization of harm and I, Grace, the host kick off the episode with my personal story and connection to Soulforce's work.

 

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white Christian Supremacy and Nationalism

We have chosen to launch the podcast on July 4th intentionally in order address the role of white Christian Supremacy in nationalism and to encourage people to think a little bit more deeply about this holiday and hypocrisy connected to the notions of freedom and liberation espoused to this country.

I'll work though some of the preliminary concepts of white Christian Supremacy , I’ll be unpacking why we chose to launch this podcast on July 4th and we’ll get to hear a little bit from Soulforce’s co-executive director, Rev. Alba Onofrio

 

Here are a few of my resource links:

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Frederick Douglas's speech read by a group of his descendants 

https://www.treasury.gov/about/education/pages/in-god-we-trust.aspx 
A bit about the history of how 'In God We Trust' made it onto our currency

The article by Robert P. Jones: 
"Let's celebrate this Fourth of July without the myth of white Christian innocence"

And Soulforce's video "What is Christian Supremacy?"

 

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Go With Grace Trailer

Introducing Soulforce's new podcast! Hosted by Kinship Minister, Grace Nichols.

Soulforce works to end the religious and political oppression of LGBTQI people by decloaking the ideologies of Christian Supremacy and healing our communities’ spirits from weaponized religion. 

On the Go with Grace podcast, we'll have a look at the way Christianity has been co-opted and how its weaponization works in collaboration with white supremacy and many other systems of oppression to cause harm. 

Soulforce believes that spiritual resilience and the unwillingness to succumb to fear and hopelessness is crucial to our people’s survival.

We feel it’s imperative to equip our people with a strong understanding of how Christian Supremacy shows up in the world and how it impacts our lives.

We hope to be in community and conversation with you as we continue to develop the political and spiritual tools to push back against the harmful ideologies that make their way into our laws and policies, our social and cultural systems and our everyday lives.

Join us as we tackle these very tangled issues and fight for what is irrevocably ours: wholeness.

We’re gonna get into it y’all. And we’re gonna go with Grace.

 

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