In this episode M, Anna, and Robert talk about ending this year, liberation/movement work, and glimmers of the future. To support the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate

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In this episode, M reads a piece that they wrote that is a remix of Mary's Magnificat. To find out more of what we do here at enfleshed, please go to enfleshed.com. To support the work that we do financially, please go to enfleshed.com/donate.

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In this episode, Anna has a conversation with Dr. Oluwatomisin Oredein⁠ and Dr. James Howard Hill Jr. about Theopoetics in Color. For more information on enfleshed please go to enfleshed.com and to donate to the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate

Oluwatomisin Oredein is an assistant professor in Black Religious Traditions, Constructive Theology and Ethics at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. She is also director of the Black Church Studies Program. Her scholastic and creative work engages theopoetics from a Black diasporic perspective, constructive theology, liminal identity and faith, American African articulations of womanist theology and ethics, and postcolonial thought. 

She is the author of The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice (University of Notre Dame Press, 2023), the co-editor of Theopoetics in Color: Embodied Approaches in Theological Discourse with Lakisha R. Lockhart-Rusch (Eerdmans, 2024), and author of the work in process, The Care Book." 

James Howard Hill, Jr, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Boston University. He holds a B.A. from Criswell College, an M.T.S. from Southern Methodist University, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He teaches courses and conducts research in black study, religion and the politics of popular culture in the United States, political theory, black political thought, modernity, ecology, and coloniality, and conceptual methodologies informing the study of religion. Hill, Jr is the author of two forthcoming books under contract: The Haunting King: Religion, Michael Jackson, and the Politics of Black Popular Culture (under contract with The University of Chicago Press Class 200: New Studies in Religion series) and Haunting Joy: Essays on Religion, Black Popular Culture, and Overcoming Childhood Adversity (under contract with Fortress Press).  He is a 2024 inductee into the prestigious Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College. His scholarship has received recognition and support from The Crossroads Project, The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (Heidelberg, Germany), The Henry Luce Foundation, the Forum for Theological Exploration, The Louisville Institute, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the Mellon Cluster Research Fellowship in Comparative Race and Diaspora studies. 

Check out the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/theopoetics-pod-transcript.pdf

In this episode, Robert reads a piece of the newest newsletter, Tough Mind and Tender Heart on "liberated imagination." For more information on enfleshed go to enfleshed.com and to donate to the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate

You can access the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pod-transcript-1.pdf

In this episode M reads a piece that they wrote entitled "Transcendence That Folds us in." For more information on enfleshed and the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com and to donate please go to enfleshed.com/donate

You can view the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/transcendence.pdf

In this episode, Anna reads a piece that they wrote and had published in August of 2023. For more information on enfleshed please visit enfleshed.com and to donate to the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate

You can read the full transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pod-transcript.pdf

In this episode Anna has a conversation with Cyree Jarelle Johnson about tarot and his other divination practices. Cyree Jarelle Johnson is an experimental poet and mixed-method reader from Piscataway, New Jersey. He has run Collective Cartomancy, a tarot, lenormand, and playing card service, since 2011. SLINGSHOT, his first collection of poetry, won the Lambda Literary Award. His second book, WATCHNIGHT, was released in April 2024 and won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He's a former creative writing fellow with the National Endowment for the Arts, and a current Disability Futures Fellow. He believes that intuition is an essential part of every movement for justice, and key to Black liberation. 

For more information about enfleshed please go to enfleshed.com and to donate to our work please go to enfleshed.com/donate

You can read the full transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/tarotpod.pdf

In this episode, M reads a piece that they wrote called "a blessing for letting go and stretching beyond." For more information on enfleshed please go to enfleshed.com. To donate to the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate

You can view the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/mini-episode-stretching-beyond.pdf

In this episode Robert reads an excerpt from a recent issue of our anti racist newsletter, Tough Mind and Tender Heart. For more information on enfleshed please go to enfleshed.com and to give to the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate.

In this episode, Anna, M, and Robert discuss the contours of queerness and collective liberation. For more information on enfleshed please go to enfleshed.com and to donate to the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate.

In this episode Anna reads a work that they recently did for enfleshed. Please check out more from enfleshed at enfleshed.com and enfleshed.com/donate to give to the work that we do.

You can read the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mini-episode-fandf.pdf

In this episode, M reads a piece they did for the liturgy library. Please go to www.enfleshed.com for more information and enfleshed.com/donate to financially support the work that we do. You can access the transcript for this episode at: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mini-episode-sadness-prayer.pdf

In this episode Robert reads a piece that he wrote for Soft Words for Hard Days: Enfleshed Disability Wisdom. To purchase this book and find out more information about enfleshed, go to enfleshed.com

Access the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/mini-transcript.pdf

In this episode, Robert reads a piece he did for the liturgy library. Please go to www.enfleshed.com for more information and enfleshed.com/donate to financially support the work that we do.

Access the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/mini-episode-walker-over-waters.pdf.

In this episode M and Robert sit down to talk about Juneteenth, Black imagination, and more. Please go to www.enfleshed.com for more information and enfleshed.com/donate to financially support the work that we do.

You can read the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Juneteenth.pdf

In this episode, M shares a piece that they wrote from our poetics library. For more on our poetics library or other work, please go to enfleshed.com and go to enfleshed.com/donate to financially support the work that we do.

You can access the transcript for this episode at: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/mini614.pdf

In this episode, Robert reads from one of the newsletters, Tough Mind and Tender Heart on collective liberation. For more on enfleshed please go to enfleshed.com. Also, to financially support the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate

Read the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/liberationbound.pdf

In this episode, M sits down with Minister Blyth Barnow to talk about harm reduction. Blyth has been a friend of enfleshed for years and has served on the Creative Council. She also is a preacher, writer, and harm reductionist. Please go to femminary.com to look at more of the work that Blyth does. For more on enfleshed please go to enfleshed.com. Also, to financially support the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate

Read the transcrpt for this episode here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/podcast-with-blyth.pdf

Join Anna as they read a piece from a 2021 issue of Moments for Common Nourishment. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work. You can also read the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp content/uploads/2024/05/spiralinginto.pdf

Join M as they read a work that they wrote for our Liturgy Library. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work. You can also read the transcript here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/complicated.pdf

In this episode Robert sits down with author Nya S. Abernathy to talk about her work with wonder and awe. Please go to https://ofearthandofstars.substack.com/ for more of her work. As always, please go to enfleshed.com to get more of the resources that we provide and to enfleshed.com/donate to give to us financially. You can also access the transcript for this episode at: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/poetrypart2.pdf

In this episode Robert sits down with poets Molly Bolton and Marla Taviano to discuss their journey to the poem and what it means to them. Please listen and check out their work.

You can read the full transcript here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PoetryMonthPart1.pdf

As always please go to enfleshed.com to check out all of our poetry, liturgy, and essays. You can also go to enfleshed.com/donate to support the work that we do.

Join Anna as they read some of their work from Moments of Common Nourishment. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work. You can also read the transcript for this epsiode here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/makinglovepowerful.pdf

In this episode, Anna, M, and Robert have a conversation about the new book that enfleshed has just released Soft Words for Hard Days: Enfleshed Disability Wisdom. To order the book go to enfleshed.com. To donate to the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate.

You can read the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/softwordstranscript.pdf

In this episode, co-directors M and Anna sit down with visual artist Kevelis, and ritual writers Nova, and Alex to talk about the sacred incantations project and larger conversations of liberation and care. For more info on the project, go to https://enfleshed.com/sacred-incantations-rituals-of-trans-wisdom-for-every-season/ and order yourself a deck! nova sturrup is a witchy wonderer, Friendly theopoet, and bible(s) enthusiast dedicated to being led by whimsy and co-creating sanctuary with all who dare to dream. Kevelis Matthews-Alvarado is a queer Afro-Latine mixed media visual artist, poet, and afrofuturist currently based on occupied Lenape Land (Philadelphia, PA).  Rev. Alex da Silva Souto [they+brown+Latine] is a person of the “in-between space.” They are a soul+tender, intersectional justice advocate, interdisciplinary+artist, and liturgical curator in love with All That Is. Check out the full transcript at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/sipodtranscript.pdf

In this episode Robert reads an excerpt from the book Black Imagination. Join us on social media or through our various newsletters all month. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work. You can read the transcript here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bhmintro-1.pdf

In this episode Robert lays out the plans that enfleshed has this month to honor and support Black History Month. Join us on social media or through our various newsletters all month. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work. You can also view the transcript at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bhmintro.pdf

In this episode, Robert reads a portion of his work from our anti racist newsletter Tough Mind Tender Heart. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work. You can read the transcript here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/podcast-mini-6.pdf

In this episode, co-director M sits down with Paula Roderick. Paula Roderick is an employment discrimination and civil rights attorney who practices in the Chicagoland area. She is a Steering Committee member of United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR), a member of the Northern Illinois Conference Church and Society, actively involved with Black4Palestine, and Black Christians for Palestine, the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work. You can also read the transcript here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/lovehopepalestine.pdf

In this episode, Robert reads more from an essay he wrote on the concept of home. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work. Read the transcript at: https://enfleshed.com/?p=11891

This is a reading of a work by Anna Blaedel from our Moments for Common Nourishment column. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work. Access the transcript for this episode at: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/annapodministruggle.pdf

This reading is from M and is featured in our poetics library ar enfleshed.com. Please check out the episode and go to enfleshed.com/donate to support the work that we do, encourage us, etc. We appreciate you all and how you have stayed with us on this journey! Access the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/mpodminitranscendence.pdf

This episode is a recorded event of our birthday/anniversary Instagram Live event that we hosted November 1st. (There is a sound quality issue) Please check out the episode and go to enfleshed.com/donate to support the work that we do, encourage us, etc. We appreciate you all and how you have stayed with us on this journey!

You can read the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/birthday-live-episode.pdf

This episode is an excerpt by Robert of an essay he wrote in our publications library. It is entitled “When I Have Been Home.” Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work.

Access the transcript here.

In this episode M reads a a trans prayer for divine understanding. For more information please go to enfleshed.com. To donate to the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate.

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This is a reading of a recent Moment's for Common Nourishment article written and read by Anna Blaedel. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work.

You can also read the transcript here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/podcast-mini-5.pdf

In this episode M reads one of their offerings from the poetics library. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work.

You can also find the transcript here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/podcast-mini-4notnice.pdf

This episode is a live recording that we did with Julia Watts Belser about her new book Loving Our Own Bones. A beautiful book on disability, queerness, and spirituality. Julia Watts Belser is a rabbi, scholar, and spiritual teacher, as well as a longtime activist for disability, LGBTQ, and gender justice. She is a professor of Jewish studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University and core faculty in Georgetown’s Disability Studies Program, and a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. She’s also an avid wheelchair hiker and a lover of wild places. Go to juliawattsbelser.com for more info or purchase the book from Beacon Press, here. Check out enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to support our ongoing work.

Access the transcript for this episode here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Episode-3-part-1-1.pdf

In this second part of a conversation Anna sits down with Dr. James Hill, Rev Dr. Eric Thomas and enfleshed co-director Robert Monson to talk about Black men, softness, rest, and more. Please go to enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to donate.

You can also read the transcript here.

In this episode Robert shares an offering he wrote on God dwelling in darkness. Please enjoy. Please go to enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to donate. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enfleshed/support

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In this episode, Anna reads from one of their writings for Moments for Common Nourishment. Please enjoy. Please go to enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to donate. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enfleshed/support

View the transcript for this episode at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/podcast-mini-3-mfcn.pdf

In this episode M reads from one of their Scripture Remixes on Psalm 23. For more info on enfleshed, and to access the liturgy library free resource tab, go to enfleshed.com.

To access the transcript, go here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/podcast-mini-2.pdf

In this episode Anna sits down with Dr. James Hill, Rev Dr. Eric Thomas and enfleshed co-director Robert Monson to talk about Black men, softness, rest, and more. Please go to enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to donate.

You can also read the transcript here.

In this episode, Anna reads an excerpt from one of their recent writings for Moments for Common Nourishment. Please enjoy. Please go to enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to donate.

To access the transcript, click here: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/podcast-mini-1-1.pdf

Listen to Part Two of this special Pride related episode where Anna hosts a wonderful conversation with Brittany Taylor and Rev Shana Chivon. Please go to enfleshed.com for more info on all of the work that we do and to enfleshed.com/donate to donate.

You can also read the transcript here.

In this episode Anna reads a piece that they wrote and published in December 2023. For more information on enfleshed go to enfleshed.com. To donate to the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate.

Read the transcript for this episode at: https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/repattern.pdf

Listen to Part one of this special Pride related episode where Anna hosts a wonderful conversation with Brittany Taylor and Rev Shana Chivon. Please go to enfleshed.com for more info and to enfleshed.com/donate to donate, especially during our Pride campaign.

You can also read the transcript here.

In our first episode Anna hosts along with fellow co directors M and Robert. Please enjoy this conversation and like and subscribe. Go to enfleshed.com for more info.

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Join us monthly as we have conversations around spirituality, justice, liberation, and mutual care. Please go to enfleshed.com for more resources

In this episode Robert reads a piece that he wrote recently for the Liturgy library entitled "A prayerful place." For more information on enfleshed please go to enfleshed.com. To donate to the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate.

You can read the transcript at https://enfleshed.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/aprayerfulplace.pdf