Podcast Season 1: Episode 6 The Labor of New Beginnings
The Labor of New Beginnings
New beginnings are hard and painful… AND ALSO filled with new life. We get to participate in a recurring cycle of death and life, and our spirituality is not an exception.
Shaleen and Holland look at their shifting journeys through the metaphor of labor and birth as a guiding picture that we, as humans, can do hard things.
Please do yourself a favor and watch, Valerie Kaur speak on The Labor of Revolutionary Love.
QUESTIONS TO SPARK YOUR CURIOSITY
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What does it look like for you to wake up to the power that has always been within you?
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What unique creation is growing inside of you that the world has never seen before?
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What is growing inside of you that will bless and heal the world?
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What are your labor pains? Can you lean into them and breathe through those places of pain to bring a new creation in the world?
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Where can you find community and support as you labor? You are not alone.
Fact Checks
Holland said Black Theology and should have said Black Liberation Theology
RESOURCES:
Transactional Spirituality
Richard Rohr – Universal Christ
Rob Bell – Everything is Spiritual
Jeff Brown – Grounded Spirituality
Lisa Gungor – The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen
James H. Cone – Black Theology and Black Power
James H. Cone – Cross and the Lynching Tree
Valerie Kaur – See No Stranger
Ester Perel – Mating in Captivity
NPR – Whistleblower In Georgia Claims High Number Of Hysterectomies At ICE Facility
The New York Times – Inquiry Ordered Into Claims Immigrants Had Unwanted Gynecology Procedures
JUSTICE WORK ON THE BORDER
Thank you to Trever Ducote for connecting us with these organizations supporting human rights for refugees and immigrants. Consider connecting and supporting one of these justice groups.
