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This is the Year-Round Wild Goose Festival! Catch some of what you missed and maybe revisit a few personal highlights. Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/
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Bishop Flunder, one of the world's best loved, most called on, and most anticipated preachers will fan the flames of the Spirit in our "going out, sending off" finale. Serendipity will likely show up dressed in Wild Goose clothes. Bishop Flunder will be supported by Beth Nielsen Chapman, Ken Medema, Wild Goose House Band, and others. Goose community leader Gwen Fry will lead us in the celebration of communion and then we'll begin to hug our way home.
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Through comedy, storytelling, and inspiring success stories, performance artist Peterson Toscano, hones in on a gallon of gasoline--where it comes from, where it goes once combusted, and the many different ways it weighs on us all. Oh, and you will learn a lot about chihuahuas too!
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Hosted by Rev. William Barber with Otis Moss III, Brian McLaren, Jacqui Lewis, and Marianne Williamson, this panel of thought leaders and activists will delve into the ways and means of the Poor People's Campaign and challenge the Goose community to engagement.
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All we have are our stories, they weave a legacy of grace and disaster. In this session we will seek to re-frame the stories that make us who we are and find grace amidst the fray. After losing his job, and reflecting on life with the South's most treasured name, Rev. Robert Lee will seek to paint a different picture of how "What was intended for evil, God intended for good."
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Wake Up Wild Goose – Rev. William Barber and special guests bring the Poor People's Campaign – a National Call for Moral Revival to the Wild Goose. Music that moves us, stories from people on the ground that compel us, and inspired preaching that points our way – calling the Wild Goose to unify in challenging systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation, and our nations distorted morality.
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Rev. Dr. Denise Donnell is the State Director for the Human Rights Campaign where she spends all her time fighting for equity, equality and inclusion for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer (LGBTQ) people. She was educated in the Jackson Public School District in Mississippi. She received an undergraduate degree in English from Jackson State University (1990), a Master of Arts in Secondary Education from the University of Mississippi (1996), a Masters degree in Divinity from Southern Methodist University (2003) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership from Jackson State University (2008). Denise is an artist whose images reflect life at the intersection of Race, Sexual Orientation and Religious Oppression. She sings, plays piano, practices American Sign Language, sketches, reads and writes. https://www.hrc.org/hrc-story/staff/denise-donnell
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Elections matter. Just look at Donald Trump. But before you can change the world, you have to get elected. Political campaigns are not what most people think, but winning campaigns have certain elements in common. There are a few simple, common sense, concepts which work because they're grounded in real research into human nature – how we perceive the world and how we make decisions. We'll lay it out for you. We'll also give you a practical guide to the actual mechanics of campaigning – how to get on the ballot, how to frame a winning message, and how to get that message to those voters who matter in your election. Who does what job in campaigns. How to raise money – and how to stay out of trouble with the law and the press. Come learn how it works, then go change the world.
Joe McLeanA veteran political and public affairs specialist with a winning history in groundbreaking political campaigns, not-for-profit institutions and advocacy organizations, McLean was part of the founding leadership team of Barack Obama's successful U.S. Senate race and managed Governor L. Douglas Wilder's historic election in Virginia. He is widely recognized for breaking new strategic ground to keep his clients ahead of the political curve. McLean established the development structure for VoteVets.org, which rose to prominence by making the voices of soldiers and veterans heard in the debate about the Iraq war. McLean currently serves as President of the Crockett Policy Institute, a non-partisan think-tank dedicated to finding practical solutions to policy roadblocks in our hyper-partisan, divided polity. McLean lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Kiki McLean and their two children.
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In order to change the world, we must change ourself. This is hard work, especially when we are socialized to be opposed to ideas and politics that might be harmful. Bridging is a chance to cross into new relational space that has the power to fiercely hold the complexities of multi-dimensional people. None of us are single-issue folk who are attempting to do justice work, but oftentimes, we fail to enact relational politics in the work we are doing. And, so, the work of bridging radical difference is at the cusp of both personal and interpersonal change. Through the radical act of bridging, we find renewed capacity to our mission for social change and find unlikely comradeship in the process.
Anna GolladayArt Director/Creative Guru Anna is the Sr Director of Communications and Marketing for the Center for Progressive Renewal / Convergence. She thrives on curating creative, spiritual & entrepreneurial possibility.
Via her social enterprise Work of Place she helps urban churches understand how their underutilized facilities can work alongside burgeoning entrepreneurs, often lacking in resource and financing, with the intent of sparking both neighborhood revitalization and an increase in ideators who change their communities. Additionally, she is the Executive Producer of the Inhabit Conference and works in a multitude of other ways with the Parish Collective and their affiliates..
She is a pastor in the United Methodist Church. Her ministry is focused on social justice and any inequity that exists both in and outside the walls of the corporate church. She is diligent in her advocacy of full inclusion of all persons in the United Methodist denomination. http://www.workofplace.com
Dr. Robyn Henderson-EspinozaCurator, Justice Camp Named at 1 of 10 Faith Leaders to watch in 2018 by the Center for American Progress, Dr. Robyn is an anti-oppression, anti-racist, non-binary Trans*gressive Latinx. Dr. Robyn takes seriously their call as an activist theologian and ethicist to bridge together theories and practices that result in communities responding to pressing social concerns. Dr. Robyn sees this work as a life-orienting vocation, deeply committed to translating theory to practice, and embedded in re-imagining our moral horizon to one which privileges a politics of radical difference.
To learn more, check out Dr. Robyn's website: www.iRobyn.com www.irobyn.com
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In this session, Alexander will articulate his ground-breaking book on the four gospels, "Heart and Mind." Of this work, Marc Andrus, Episcopal Bishop of California says, " In 'Heart and Mind' Alexander gives us back our central sacred text–the four gospels–not as conflicted and faulty historical records, but as a vibrant, luminous path of transformation. He reveals 'The Four-Gospel Journey' as a living guide, re-centering human life on wisdom, compassion, and service, rooted in a mystical relationship with Christ. And the potential for this living guide is already becoming manifest, as individuals, groups and entire communities are using it all over the world, and the word is spreading." Alexander is a frequent guest on the Robcast, The Deconstructions and Can I Say This At Church. For more, see www.quadratos.com
Alexander John Shaia is an internationally sought-after author, speaker, ritualist and pilgrim mentor. He is known as a poetic and reflective gay man, living the ancient rhythms of his Lebanese, Aramaic and eastern Christian heritage. His seminal work, Heart and Mind: The Four-Gospel Journey for Radical Transformation, is being hailed as a breakthrough that restores the four gospels to their first-century context, revealing how they were chosen to be one, continuous, non-dualistic account of Jesus the Christ. In this way, the Gospel becomes a wise and numinous text, leading us on the journey of growth and transformation.
Alexander holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and has been a spiritual director, Jungian and Sandplay psychotherapist, cultural anthropologist, and pastoral associate. When not on the road, a perfect day finds him with his dog, a book of poetry, and the presence of ancient trees.
This episode is sponsored by A New Creation- an organization that guides your community in the faith-filled, accessible, collaborative creation of theological art. Learn more at https://www.hereisanewcreation.com
Barbara Brown Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author, college professor, and Episcopal priest. Her first memoir, Leaving Church, won a 2006 Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association. Her last book, Learning to Walk in the Dark, was featured on the cover of TIME magazine. She has served on the faculty of Piedmont College since 1998 as the Butman Professor of Religion and has been a guest speaker at Emory, Duke, Princeton, and Yale, as well as a guest on SuperSoul Sunday with Oprah Winfrey. Taylor and her husband Ed live on a farm in the foothills of the Appalachians, sharing space with wild turkeys, red foxes, white-tailed deer and far too many chickens. http://www.barbarabrowntaylor.com/bio.htm
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