033 Midwifery with the Yazidi

January 31, 2018UncategorizedBarbi Click, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Global Motherhood Initiative, IDP, Jane Drichta, midwife, midwifery, Peacock angel, pregnancy, refugee, trauma, women, Yazididiocesemo

Our guest is Jane Drichta, co founder of the Global Motherhood Initiative. She’s a midwife and public health advocate who has recently been working with Yazidi women and has developed a woman-centered model for traumatized populations, including the Yazidi, as they face pregnancy and delivery in difficult areas such as refugee camps and in war torn regions.

Even though she is mostly on the road or based out of Seattle, she still considers Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Webster Groves “home.” Jane was back in St. Louis over the holidays and stopped in to talk with host Barbi Click about midwifery, the Yazidi women, and upcoming opportunities around the globe.

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Global Motherhood Initiative
Emmanuel Church in Webster Groves
“Inside Lalish, the heart of the Yazidi Faith,” Rebecca Holland, Independent, May 11, 2017
Free Yezidi Foundation
Duhok refugee camp

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032 Becoming Beloved Community: the labyrinth

January 25, 2018Uncategorizedbecoming beloved community, Charles Wynder, EpiscopalChurch, jesus, justice, MLK, racial healing, racial reconciliation, racismdiocesemo

In this special episode we hear the second part of the Rev. Charles Wynder, Jr. conversation with the annual gathering of the diocese at convention. He breaks down the labyrinth image, and it’s four quadrants as they relate to Becoming Beloved Community, the Episcopal CHurch’s long term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice.

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Video from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, “Where do we go from here, chaos or community?”
The Rev. Charles Wynder, Jr.
Becoming Beloved Community, resources from the Episcopal Church

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031 Becoming Beloved Community: the context

January 25, 2018UncategorizedBelovedCommunity, Charles Wynder, EpiscopalChurch, JesusMovement, justice, MLK, racial healing, racism, reconciliation, social justicediocesemo

In this special episode we hear from the Rev. Charles Wynder, Jr. He’s the presiding bishop’s Staff Officer for Social Justice and Advocacy Engagement.This past November he spoke to the annual gathering of the diocese at convention on Becoming Beloved Community, the Episcopal Church’s long term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice. The first part of his conversation sets the context for this work, and how it is vital to our faith and our church.

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The Rev. Charles Wynder, Jr.
Becoming Beloved Community, resources from the Episcopal Church

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030 Journey: one church’s conversation about full LGBT inclusion

November 30, 2017UncategorizedBible study, Cape Girardeau, Christ Episcopal Church, conversation, full inclusion, Harry Leip, Jesus moment, LGBT, marriagediocesemo

This episode comes from Christ Church in Cape Girardeau and members Stephanie Miller, Chris Masters, and James Boyer talk with host Harry Leip about how their church began and continues the conversation on embracing its LGBT members, what it looks and feels like, and how the church can be a safe and welcoming space.

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Christ Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau

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029 From felt church mice to ministry

November 21, 2017Uncategorizedacolytemice, bishopmice, CalvaryOnNinth, christmas, churchmice, communitygarden, COMO, december, episcopal, felt, Harry Leip, hunger, jesus, JohntheBaptistmouse, Kay Glass, midMissouri, Sharon Sessionsdiocesemo

Calvary Church in Columbia has a light hearted ministry that raises thousands each year for the community –for food pantries, gardens, social justice organizations and some church outreach ministry. And it’s all built around hand-made felt church mice, YES! MICE! Calvary members Kay Glass and Sharon Sessions talk with Deacon Harry Leip about the history and mission of these mighty mice, the star of Calvary’s St. Nicholas Bazaar. It’s coming again to downtown Columbia MO, inside the church buildings, this (and every) first Saturday in December at 8 AM.

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Calvary Episcopal Church in Columbia, MO

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028 Discerning God’s claim on our lives

October 20, 2017Uncategorizedcall to ministry, campus ministry, Commission on Ministry, community, deacon, Deaconess Anne House, Diocese of Missouri, discernment, Episcopal Service Corps, Harry Leip, hearing God's call, Holy Orders, jesus, Jesus movement, Marc Smith, Mike Angell, ministry, ordination, prayer, priest, Rockwell Housediocesemo

This episode unpacks that dense term “discernment” and helps us imagine how a person, how a community hears God’s call to deeper ministry or to ordination. Our guest is Mike Angell, rector of Holy Communion Episcopal Church in University City and chair of the Commission on Ministry, tasked with helping Christians in that discernment journey. He and host Deacon Harry Leip weave in stories of discernment from the Bible, from their own histories, and from folks who have recently trekked through this process.

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Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion
Survey for diocesan members on what we as a community are looking for in those called to ordination as deacons and priests
Deaconess Anne House
Rockwell House, Episcopal campus ministry at Washington University in St. Louis
Commission on Ministry in the Diocese of Missouri
The Jesus Movement in the Episcopal Church

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027 Hearing the call to prevent gun violence

October 4, 2017UncategorizedBrenda Phillips, Cape Girardeau, Christ Episcopal Church, gun education, gun violence, gun violence prevention, Harry Leip, hope, Lock-it for Love, prayer, prayer walk, SNAP, vigildiocesemo

For this episode we traveled south to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to Christ Episcopal Church and spoke with member Brenda Phillips, who shares her story on becoming involved in gun violence prevention ministry with host Deacon Harry Leip. Participating in an annual pilgrimage around the places in town where violence had occurred, praying, leaving crosses, hearing from families, witnessing– was the catalyst for Brenda’s going deeper into this ministry of hope and education and presence.

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Christ Episcopal Church, Cape Girardeau
Lock It for Love
Gun Violence Prevention in the Diocese of Missouri
some of the handouts from Cape/Lock It for Love: 1, 2, 3
SNAP in Cape

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026 When the Standing Committee gets to sit: the bishop’s council of advice

September 19, 2017Uncategorizeddiocesemo

Dr. Adam Pearson, member of Standing Committee, and Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion in University City

In today’s conversation host Shug Goodlow and guest Dr. Adam Pearson, from Holy Communion Church, talk a bit about one of the governing bodies of the diocese, called the Standing Committee. They both serve on it currently, and talk about its purpose and work, how that work affects the health of the church, and also who might be drawn to this ministry.

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025 What is the council of the diocese and why does it matter?

September 6, 2017UncategorizedAl Ludwig, Barbi Click, church, council, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, jesus, leader, leadership, lifediocesemo

Time for some insider baseball on this episode of JesusHacked. Guest Al Ludwig from Emmanuel Church and host Barbi Click both serve on Diocesan Council. They talk about what council does, who would be well suited to this work, and how being a member has influenced their day to day life.

Al is also on the nominations committee and sheds some light on this year’s quest for nominees for elections to be held at diocesan convention in November.

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024 Jesus got me, the faith story of Gayle Fisher-Stewart

August 24, 2017Uncategorizedcall, center for the study of faith in justice, Deborah Nelson Linck, diomo, Ferguson, Gayle Fisher-Stewart, jesus, policing, racial reconciliation, social justice, the Episcopal Church, the Jesus movementdiocesemo

This episode, Jesus Got Me, shares the faith story of the Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart. Host Debbie Nelson Linck caught up with Dr. Fisher Stewart when she was a presenter the Advocacy Institute of the Center for Social Empowerment in Ferguson, on the anniversary of the shooting death of Mike Brown.

After retiring from the Washington DC police force, seminary and ordination, Gayle is now associate rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in DC, and the founder of the Center for the Study of Faith in Justice.

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Calvary Episcopal Church, Washington DC
Advocacy Institute, Center for Social Empowerment, Ferguson
Alexander Crummell; St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Washington DC; St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Washington DC
Kelly Brown Douglass
Center for the Study of Faith in Justice
Episcopal Evangelism Society
The Jesus Movement

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