In part two of our conversation, Moving in the Spirit’s Dr. Charne Furcron, Dana Lupton, and Abby Richards talk about how they see students as artistic collaborators, the need to adapt and improvise, and their upcoming performance: Journey on the A-Train: A Human Canvas.

In part one of our conversation, Moving in the Spirit’s Dr. Charne Furcron, Dana Lupton, and Abby Richards talk about how the award-winning creative youth development organization use the art of dance to encourage children and teens to realize their highest potential.

In part two of our conversation, designer-facilitator-consultant-author Ben Garrett speaks asset-based community development, the University of Chicago, and his work at The Hatchery at Emory.

In part one of our conversation, designer-facilitator-consultant Ben Garrett speaks about his book What Remains, evangelicalism and formation, and faith-based community development.

This week, we present an episode from our friends over at The Ministry Collaborative podcast as they feature our own Marthame Sanders on the topics of improv, adversity, and the fraudulent line between sacred and secular.

In part two of our conversation, preacher-teacher-author Jennifer Watley Maxell speaks about The Breakthrough Fellowship, The Ellipsis Experience, the process of publishing her book. Plus, she reads us a poem from her recently published poetry collection Ellipsis.

In part one of our conversation, teacher-preacher-author Jennifer Watley Maxell speaks about her call to preaching, The Breakthrough Fellowship, and what it means to be incarnational in virtual spaces. Plus, she reads from her newly published collection of poetry Ellipsis.

We are revisiting our 2020 conversation with coach-creative-community leader Yani Davis as she faces a health crisis.

In part two of our conversation, pastor-musician Amantha Barbee talks about Jesus, learning - and unlearning - how to sing, and the lessons of the guitar string. She also sings live for us in the AIJCast studio!

In part one of our conversation, pastor-musician Amantha Barbee talks about making deals with God, how justice is intertwined with her call, and the importance of seeing people. Plus, she sings live in the AIJCast studio!

In part two of our conversation, scholar-activist-creative Taurean Webb talks about theological imagination, how violence goes uninterrogated, and how he sees himself as curatorial but not a curator.

In part one of our conversation, scholar-activist-creative Taurean Webb talks about Black Transnationalism, Israel/Palestine, and why he does not see institutions as the best vehicles for liberation.

We are revisiting our 2020 conversation with scholar-musician-author Dr. Daniel Omotosho Black to celebrate the publication of his new novel Don't Cry for Me. In this excerpt, we spoke about church music as well as his books Perfect Peace and The Coming.

In part two of our conversation with poet-activist-minister Analysis, we talk about the craft of writing and performing poetry, the breadth of topics his poems address, and what "on earth as it is in heaven" means. Plus, he performs a couple of his poems live for us. Analysis' debut album, A Couple Thousand Years Later, is now available on Bandcamp.

In part one of our conversation with poet-activist-minister Analysis, we talk about his slipping into right wing evangelicalism, his transformational experience in Lesotho, how he first got hooked by poetry, and what the church can learn from the spoken word scene. His debut album, A Couple Thousand Years Later, is now available on Bandcamp.