enfleshed podcast: spiritual nourishment for collective liberation – Details, episodes & analysis

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

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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

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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

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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. 

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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

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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.