The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields

Welcome to Episode 76 of the Kinship collective Podcast, We are ending otherness and cultivating kinship through content and community! How do we deal with forced evolution? What happens to us when all the circumstances of our lives change in an instant? How devastating is it to have to grieve the future we wanted? What is it like to realize that future was never meant for us? Sarah Wineland joins us this week to share about her divorce and evolution into her truest self. She shares about how being betrayed was also being freed and how such deep pain became such deep joy! Then we discuss how faith impacted things. Follow Sarah on Instagram @sariewineland to take the conversation further. Subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to episode 75 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, We are ending otherness and cultivating kinship through content and community! How do we listen well to our bodies? How do we move from crisis to crisis in tune with what is most true about ourselves and the world around us? Andrea Cammarota joins us this week to help us understand how to do this a bit. Andrea is a board certified Chaplain, a Pastor, Church planter and most importantly for our conversation today a Spiritual Director. We’ll talk a bit about her story and the work she has done to claim her primary identity. Then we’ll discuss the difference between and intersectionality of Pastoring and Spiritual directing and how we can make our whole lives a “pilgrimage”. Follow Andrea on Instagram @itspastorandrea to connect and learn more about her Spiritual Direction. Subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to Episode 74 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship! I have been overwhelmed and at times paralyzed by all the death happening in Gaza. I have found myself feeling like nothing else really matters right now. In this episode I'll share some of what I'm feeling, 2 ideas that have really disturbed me, and a system for addressing situations like this in our lives. I intend for this episode to contribute to constructive engagement toward justice and centered peace for us all! Join our newsletter or donate to our "Reimagine Retreats" here! https://thekinshipcollective.org/ Subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to Episode 73 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship! Does Christianity no longer feel like home to you? Are you finding it difficult to integrate intersectional identities in the “borderlands” of your life? Then you’ve come to a helpful conversation with Patty Krawec. She’s the author of an incredible book “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call To Unforgetting The Past And Reimagining Our Future.” She shared about her faith journey from Evangelical Christian to “Anishinaabe of faith” and we talk about how deeply colonization blinds us to our past and future. Then we reimagine Genesis 2:4-25 in a hopeful way I’ve never imagined it before… what if we were always meant to leave the garden? Follow Patty on Twitter @gindaanis and learn more about her work at https://daanis.ca/ Subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to Episode 72 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship! Are you finding it hard to wade into the conversation about what is happening between Israel and Palestine in the Middle East right now? This week Dana Ayoob Leota joins us to talk about her family's history in the region and how she’s choosing to engage right now. Dana exemplifies the maturity to be generous to those who disagree and talks a lot about how “othering” is a huge part of the conflict and the reason there is still so much violence in Gaza. Then we reimagine Leviticus 19:33-34 and talk about “becoming”. Follow Dana on instagram @dbooya310 and learn more about the conflict from her recommended resources: IG Accounts to Follow: Reporter on the ground in Gaza: @byplestia US Professor who shares a lot of good perspective: @nouraerakat Simple explanations and infographics: @letstalkpalestine Jewish org that has a lot of good info and action steps: @jewishvoiceforpeace Books to Read Palestine - graphic novel by Joe Sacco A Land With People - collection of stories/poems, edited by Farmer, Petchesky, and Sills Against the Loveless World - historical fiction by Susan Abulhawa Subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to Episode 71 of The Kinship Collective Podcast! Do you have a Sexual Relationship With Yourself? Okay a little context, many of us come from conservative families and religions that never gave us permission to enjoy our bodies or worse made us responsible for how others engaged with their own bodies. This week we get to talk with RN/RGN Cindy Scharkey about her mission of helping people experience, express and enjoy their sexuality! Our conversation will give you really personal transformational insight into sex as well as really practical tactical ways to make sure you're setting yourself up for the best sex of your life. Subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to Episode 70 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together! Quick announcement, We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort this Thursday October 12 at 7:30. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transformational work, and reimagine faith together. You can find more information about Cost and curriculum at www.thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort . This week we talk about the fundamental difference between Evangelical Christians and Progressive Christians. We get into the history of where that difference comes from and how it affects how we experience faith, and who gets to experience it. Then we talk about a simple question that can help us get to the heart of our beliefs in times of conflict or confusion. Let’s reimagine together! Subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together! We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort on Thursday October 12 at 7:30. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transformational work, and reimagine faith together. You can find more information about Cost and curriculum at www.thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort . This week we have a conversation with Johnny Giovati. Johnny is a behavioral assistant for students with special needs. We have a conversation about how his work with students with disabilities informed his pastoral work with charismatic evangelicals. Johnny shared about how he learned to tell the truth about overspiritualizing Christianity in light of his theological ethics and experiences with his students and their families. Subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together! We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort on Thursday nights at 7:30pm pst starting October 12. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transformational work, and reimagine faith together. You can find more information about cost and curriculum at www.thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort . This week we have a conversation with Dr. Alma Zaragoza-Petty. Alma is a Mexicana social justice advocate and scholar who teaches equity to create change. We discuss her new book “Chingona: Owning your inner Badass for healing and Justice". Alma shares her story of integrating mind, body and spirit in ways that have provoked healing for her and healing conversations around the world. You’ll hear beautiful integrations of Mexican heritage and imagery inviting you to own your inner badass! Subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome back to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. We are back to our core focus of having conversations with people that remind us of our connectedness and our kinship. This week we have a conversation about faith with my sista Laine Kelly Sims. She’s a VO actor who has evolved to meet the many challenging moments in her life and career. She generously shares her story and her tears as we talk about going from insecurity to confidence. Then we reflect on Psalms 44! Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us Saturday September 9th for our first annual "Kinship Family Reunion Fundraiser"! We'll gather to eat good food, drink good drinks, play family games, Electric-Slide, and do some storytelling and fundraising for The Kinship Collective! The Eventbrite will be coming soon but consider this your "Save The Date". Love has been the focus of the Christian narrative for thousands of years, but why? Let's reimagine Jesus' baptism and how it spoke to some of humanities deepest wounds. Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us Saturday August 26 for our first annual "Kinship Family Reunion Fundraiser"! We'll gather to eat good food, drink good drinks, play family games, Electric-Slide, and do some storytelling and fundraising for The Kinship Collective! The Eventbrite will be coming soon but consider this your "Save The Date". As we continue our conversation about how to change deeply held understandings of God we talk about the final step in the process. Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us Saturday August 26 for our first anual "Kinship Family Reunion Fundraiser"! We'll gather to eat good food, drink good drinks, play family games, Electric-Slide, and do some storytelling and fundraising for The Kinship Collective! The Eventbrite will be coming soon but consider this your "Save The Date". As we continue our conversation about how to change deeply held understandings of God we share in depth about the single most important strategy to keep our desire and education for change fueled in long-term. Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. We still have spots available for our fall Reimagine Cohorts! We’ll spend time reimagining the context and significance of the Old Testament! Our participants have raved tearfully about how meaningful the time together is! Join us by clicking on the link and registering https://thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort . Change continues as we educate ourselves around the areas we want to change. As desire rises up we can seek out learning that contributes to our ability to envision a different future. New learning, especially self understanding, unleashes us to begin practicing new ways of being. Let’s talk about it. Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. We still have spots available for our fall Reimagine Cohorts! We’ll spend time reimagining the context and significance of the Old Testament! Our participants have raved tearfully about how meaningful the time together is! Join us by clicking on the link and registering https://thekinshipcollective.org/reimagine-cohort The beginning of change is desire. Learning what our habits and actions tell us about what we really desire, or what we really desired when we were children. But there is a way to instigate new desires and questions that can reorient our perspective to new desires. Let’s talk about it! Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that "ends otherness" and cultivates kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. THIS SATURDAY! Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda! Join us for a conversation about creativity and identity and creating the world we intend for generations to come with an artist who has grown through various transitions! Let’s talk about it together! Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kinship-night-ft-mark-fields-propaganda-ahsohn-the-dj-tickets-633619983427 This episode we begin a conversation about necessary endings. We talk about the ways our lives get intertwined with people, places and things that don't always last. We talk about the unique ways the scriptures invite us to grieve, metabolize our suffering and cultivate true hope. Because much of the inspiration of this episode comes from Justin McRoberts' new book "Sacred Strides" we'll remind you that this book has been so meaningful to us! You can purchase Justin’s new book here https://www.amazon.com/dp/0785239901 and follow him on Instagram @justinmcroberts. Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that "ends otherness" and cultivates kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda! On June 10th join us for a conversation about creativity and identity and creating the world we intend for generations to come with an artist who has grown through various transitions! Let’s talk about it together! Register today for a donation of whatever works for you at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kinship-night-ft-mark-fields-propaganda-ahsohn-the-dj-tickets-633619983427 This week we are joined by Justin McRoberts! Justin is an author, coach, speaker, and songwriter. He is the author of six books, including Sacred Strides which releases TODAY! Join us for a conversation on Rest and how rest invites us to more fully choose our life and our work. If you find yourself in a space where the blueprint given to you no longer works or you are trying to name and create a flourishing life, this conversation is for you! Purchase Justin’s new book here https://www.amazon.com/dp/0785239901 and follow him on Instagram @justinmcroberts. Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

In our Reimagine Cohort we keep bumping up against the tension created from what we believe about the Bible. This week let's begin a conversation about what the Bible is, what it's intention is and what we can do to cultivate a healthy expectation of what the Bible invites us toward. Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda! On June 10th join us for a conversation about creativity and identity and creating the world we intend for generations to come with an artist who has grown through various transitions! Let’s talk about it together! Register today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kinship-night-ft-mark-fields-propaganda-ahsohn-the-dj-tickets-633619983427 Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

This week we are joined by Lorinda Hawkins Smith! She is an incredible storyteller and Artivist! She shares her story of going from child actor and model, to adult actor, to domestic abuse survivor, to embracing homelessness and then creating thriving for herself now! She shares practical ways we can be a part of individual and systemic change for the “pandemics” that create homelessness. Ultimately Lorinda reminds us we can be more empathetic toward our siblings experiencing homelessness and our sisters and brothers in general. ***Trigger warning - there is a moment where Lorinda will describe some of the domestic abuse that she endured in small detail. It is not grotesque but if you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse please contact the national domestic abuse hotline at 800-799-7233. Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda! On June 10th join us for a conversation about creativity and identity and creating the world we intend for generations to come with an artist who has grown through various transitions! Let’s talk about it together! Register today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kinship-night-ft-mark-fields-propaganda-ahsohn-the-dj-tickets-633619983427 Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. As you listen week after week and share the podcast we will keep ending otherness and growing solidarity! Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to be part of a more inclusive conversation about scripture and community. You are loved! We are family!

Do you ever wonder if you are living in the wrong story? I dont mean living the wrong life, but allowing the wrong story to shape how you perceive and live your one and only life. I know I sometimes allow ways I've made meaning as a child to shape how I make meaning as an adult, and it doesn't serve me toward flourishing. In this episode I'll share about how our inner child came to get the driver's license of our lives and what we can do to mature toward creative living. Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda! On June 10th join us for a conversation about creativity and identity with an artist who has grown through various transitions! Let’s talk about it together! Join our email list or Instagram to get more info!