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Melvin Bray

Fortification

Release Date: 12/13/2017

gina Breedlove, Malkia Devich-Cyril & Malachi Garza show art gina Breedlove, Malkia Devich-Cyril & Malachi Garza

Fortification

This conversation was recorded at Auburn Seminary's December 2019 Mountaintop Gathering in Oakland, CA. It was a conversation between Caitlin Breedlove and guests gina Breedlove, Malkia Devich-Cyril & Malachi Garza.

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gina Breedlove show art gina Breedlove

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The creative force of gina Breedlove is as dangerous and delightful as this earth we share.​ Singer, Song​w​riter, Sound Healer & Medicine Woman​, gina was born in​ Brooklyn, NY. She began performing at age 15, singing back up for the incomparable Phyllis Hyman​.

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Rev. Dr. Traci C West show art Rev. Dr. Traci C West

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Rev. Dr. Traci C. West is Professor of Christian Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University Theological School (Madison, NJ). Read much more about Dr. West's work at https://auburnseminary.org/fortification/.

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Rev. Jen Bailey show art Rev. Jen Bailey

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Rev. Jen Bailey is an ordained minister, public theologian, and national leader in the multi-faith movement for justice. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network, a Womanist-led organization equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment. This episode was recorded pre-COVID.

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Erica Woodland show art Erica Woodland

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Erica Woodland, LCSW is a black queer/genderqueer facilitator, consultant and healing justice practitioner who has worked at the intersections of movements for racial, gender, economic, trans and queer justice and liberation for more than 17 years. He is the Founding Director of the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network. Learn more about his work at www.nqttcn.com and www.ericawoodland.com

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Amber Hollibaugh show art Amber Hollibaugh

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Amber L. Hollibaugh is an American writer, filmmaker and political activist, largely concerned with feminist and sexual agendas. She is a self-described lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke.

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Abolition in Covid-Times show art Abolition in Covid-Times

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This conversation features co-hosts Cara Page and Caitlin Breedlove in conversation with organizers Shira Hassan, Mia Mingus and Sonali Sadequee. Many of us had reached out to each other, reflecting on the questions; what can abolition, survival and transformation look like in these Covid-Times? This podcast episode is the result. Learn more about the guests and find a transcript of the conversation at auburnseminary.org/fortification.

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Summer Announcements + Friends for Life show art Summer Announcements + Friends for Life

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Some programming announcements and the new podcast from Auburn Seminary, "Friends for Life" where we learn how to live, thrive, love, and win through the 2020 election season and beyond. 

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Past: Rooting in Histories; We Have Been Here Before show art Past: Rooting in Histories; We Have Been Here Before

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This conversation is one of three and features co-hosts Cara Page and Caitlin Breedlove in conversation with Talila “TL” Lewis and Anjali Taneja.

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Present: What is emerging in COVID times? show art Present: What is emerging in COVID times?

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This conversation is number two of three and features co-hosts Anjali Taneja and Caitlin Breedlove in conversation with Michelle Morse, Francisca Porchas Coronado and Jack Tchen.

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In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by Melvin Bray.

Melvin Bray (http://better.melvinbray.com/) is an Emmy® award-winning storyteller, social entrepreneur, and author who lives with his wife, three kids and two dogs in southwest Atlanta, GA. He is an active participant in vanguard networks seeking more beautiful, more just, more virtue-filled ways of showing up in the world. He is author of the soon to be bestselling BETTER: Waking Up to Who We Could Be, co-editor of Faith Forward, Vol 1 and Vol 2 (Copper House, 2013, 2015), which explore ways children’s and youth ministry can make the dream of beloved community possible, and he is coordinating author of The Stories in which We Find Ourselves, online reimaginings of the biblical narrative that make faith something children and youth have reason to care about. As a social entrepreneur, Melvin works to help communities of goodwill find better stories and scripts–better ways of thinking and doing–that move them toward equity, diversity and inclusion (collabyrinthconsulting.com).