The Rev. Janie Kirt Morris. Mother Janie was the 6th woman to be ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Oklahoma. The priesthood was a second career for Janie as she was a well respected teacher in Norman, Oklahoma for many years and a lay leader at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Janie recalls her discernment process and how she had an inner me…

This episode features Beverly Bradley, a former Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Oklahoma who was the first woman Bishop Moody ordained to the priesthood in 1988. She was the second woman in the Diocese of Oklahoma to be ordained to the priesthood and the first woman in the Diocese to serve as Rector of a parish. In this episode, Beverly shares i…

This episode features the Rt. Rev. Robert Moody, the 4th Diocesan Bishop of Oklahoma serving from 1989-2007. Most notably, during his Episcopate, Bishop Moody dealt with the aftermath of the Oklahoma City Murrah building bombing, supporting the consecration of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay man to become bishop, and increased ministry to the p…

The introductory episode features a three episode mini series about the History of Women's Ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma. This oral history project helps unfold the details of the trailblazing efforts of men and women in Oklahoma to make ordained ministry a reality for the Episcopal Church in the United States.…

I am so excited to share with you a lively conversation with my friend, Dr. Susannah Larry about her new book entitled “Leaving Silence: Sexualized Violence, the Bible and Standing with Survivors.” Dr. Larry is an assistant professor of Biblical Studies at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. She is dedicated to reclaiming th…

Our hundredth episode features the Rev. Teresa Pecinovsky. Reverend Teresa was born in South Korea, raised in Iowa, holds a master of education from the university of Houston and a master of divinity from Vanderbilt university. She’s an ordained disciples of christ minister and currently serves as a hospice chaplain, preacher and children’s ministe…

The Rev. Katie is the Staff Officer for Church Planting at Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s office. She founded The Abbey, a missional worship community based in a coffee shop in Birmingham, Alabama. There she served many folks on the margins including folks experiencing homelessness, mental illness, addiction and many more. In our conversation, th…

Sara and Sarah chat about stewardship and parenting during covid-tide. Sara explains how her family of five are caring for one another and being extra thoughtful about how they are spending their time in their small town Tennessee life. We are keeping all our friends and family who are navigating these hard times in our prayers. Parents, teachers, …

This week’s podcast features a very inspiring lay leader in Sarah's community of Oklahoma City, Ann Ali or as some folks in her call her in her community, “Rev” Ann Ali. Ann and Sarah chat about her life and service to her community and country as a police officer, army reservist, pastor and teacher. They also discuss what god is calling us to duri…

Happy Pride Month! In celebration of the rich, beautiful, diversity God created in LGBTQ folks we wanted to share this episode on ethical non-monogamy! Sara and Sarah chat about their experiences with ethical-non monogamy. They explore the theological and practical expressions of this relational practice as they de-mystify its use in the world. The…

This episode is a two part combined episode of a conversation around Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book entitled “Shameless - A Case for not feeling bad about feeling good, about sex.” The first part our co-host from last season, Kelsey Davis joins Sara and I for an Instagram Live session about the first half of the book. The second part is just the Sa…

Sarah explores what it means for mothers to image the Divine and how we can practically relate to God as Mother as we honor all mother figures today. The music before the sermon is Grace Church Episcopal Yukon’s amazing praise band’s rendition of This is My Mother’s World.By Sarah Elizabeth Smith

Kate McElwee is the Executive Director who works from Rome Itay and Katie Lacz is the Program Associate who works from Denver, Colorado. The Women’s Ordination Conference is the uncompromising feminist voice for women’s ordination and gender equity in the Roman Catholic Church since 1975. The Conference has been championed and ran by some incredibl…

Yadenee is a playful and fierce scout for the oracles of ease, wholeness, and liberation. Her practice and ministry are to cultivate spiritual wellness and healing as a lifestyle. She is a Unitarian Universalist minister based in Tulsa, OK. The first half of the episode is Sara and Yadenee chat about her pilgrimage to India and how space/place impa…

To kick off Season 3 of the podcast Sarah interviews her new host, the Rev. Sara Green. Sara is a Unitarian Universalist minister as well as the youth and young adult of color ministry associate for the UU Association. Sarah and Sara chat about Sara's path to ordination in the UU tradition and what exactly UU theology is all about and how her quest…

Margaret Ernst learned what she knows about faith and justice from organizing alongside clergy, school parents and airport workers in Philadelphia and has organized alongside immigrant communities resisting ICE in mid-Tennessee. A program manager with Faith Matters Network, she has helped build a curriculum on Movement Chaplaincy through Faith Matt…

Mother Ruth tells the story of how her multi-cultural community came together with all it’s ups and downs. Holy Family is a mixed congregation of Anglo, Hispanic and Filipino folks from all over the San Jose and surrounding areas. I had the privilege of worshipping with them this Easter and I can tell ya’ll from first hand experience, this is what …

Mother Ruth is the first female priest at Holy Family Episcopal Church, San Jose, CA. Holy Family is a multicultural and multigenerational community whose mission is to celebrate God through Jesus Christ. She is also a native of the Philippines. Mother Ruth and I met when I was in California visiting our co-host Kelsey Davis. Kelsey was giving the …

The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis is Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church, a 1000-member multiracial, welcoming, and inclusive congregation in New York City. She is an activist, preacher, writer, theologian and fierce advocate for racial equality, economic justice, and LGBTQ equality. Middle Church and Jacqui’s activism for these issues has been fea…

This week we are sharing Sarah's latest sermon. It was her first Sunday morning sermon at her home church of Grace Episcopal in Yukon, Oklahoma led by the wonderful priests Fr. Tim & Mother Kirsten Baer and Deacon Helen. She took a pastoral approach to the text instead of a strictly theological one. This means she was meeting the people where they …

Khortlan Becton is a native Houstonian. By the grace of God, she has received Bachelor's degrees from the University of Alabama in African American Studies and Religious Studies as well as a Master's of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School. Khortlan is passionate about affecting social change, serving underprivileged children and you…

Khortlan Becton is a native Houstonian. By the grace of God, she has received Bachelor's degrees from the University of Alabama in African American Studies and Religious Studies as well as a Master's of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School. Khortlan is passionate about affecting social change, serving underprivileged children and you…

The Rev. Kayla Bonewell joins us for a second episode about her church Cathedral of Hope’s prison ministry. What started as visiting an incarcerated parishioner turned into a quarterly open and affirming worship service and pastoral care session for the many inmates at a prison in rural Oklahoma.By Sarah Elizabeth Smith

The Rev. Kayla Bonewell was born in Oklahoma City. She earned a BA in Religion from Oklahoma City University (2002), a Master of Liberal Arts from Naropa University (2004), and a Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California (2008). Ordained in the United Church of Christ (2010), Kayla has ministry experience as a hospi…

Rocky’s work is a ministry to those who have oppressed and harmed by people’s interpretations of the Bible. The documentary traces the steps two scholars took in uncovering the history of how the word homosexual was put into the text nearly 50 years ago and subsequently used as a weapon against the LGBTQ community. This is a powerful and timely sto…

To honor Pride Month we are highlighting stories of LGBTQ women. Rocky Roggio is a film maker out of Los Angeles, California. Rocky shares that “As an LGBTQ female Christian, I have been navigating a religious environment that views me as “other,” “less than,” and “not equal,” for too long. These beliefs, held by many dear to my heart, have cast a …

This week is part II with the Rev. Chelsea Yarborough. Chelsea is a Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt in Homiletics and Liturgics in the Graduate Department of Religion. If you missed last week’s conversation I would highly recommend listening to that first episode. As one of our friend’s commented, it is completely and utterly a delicious conversation…

The Rev. Chelsea Brooke Yarborough is a Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt in Homiletics and Liturgics in the Graduate Department of Religion. She is an ordained minister, a poet, an enneagram enthusiast, and a lover of leadership development. Her motto is "live to love and love to live each day” and is excited to continue her journey of cultivating and…

This week Kelsey and Sarah chat about stories to continue our mini series on Story. We explore what it means to share stories, what stories do to us, how they impact the way we see the world, how we see ourselves and how stories are created and for what purpose.By Sarah Elizabeth Smith

Kelsey and Margo dive deeper into the importance of story telling and how it can be a transformative practice. Margo Guernsey is a filmmaker and director of Time Travel Productions LLC, a documentary film and media company. This weeks episode is the beginning of a mini-series on Story. Filmmaker Margo Guernsey shares her wisdom on the power of stor…

Margo is the Director and Principal of Time Travel Productions, which she founded in 2012 to produce documentary films and related media. Margo's feature directorial debut, Councilwoman, is touring the country and will air on PBS's WORLD Channel in fall 2019. Her current project is tentatively titled, The Philadelphia Eleven: To Be Whole. It tells …

Thank you to my sweet mentor and friend Mother Becca Stevens for letting us share your powerful and eloquent message of God’s Love living in us as Fire. She reminds us of Jesus’ message of Love saying “You think that cathedral is beautiful, you think that temple is amazing, you think those stones are huge? it is nothing it is DUST compared to the k…

This week on the podcast is the Rev. Dr. Ruth Meyers. Dr. Meyers is an episcopal priest, dean of academic affairs and the Hodges-Haynes Professor of Liturgics at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. We chat about her sabbatical project on multi-cultural worship congregations and what got her hooked on liturgical theology.…

Kelsey's Easter sermon given on April 21, 2019 at Holy Family Episcopal Church in San Jose, California. The sermon is spoken in English and in Spanish. All are welcome at Holy Family Episcopal Church. They are a multicultural, multigenerational community whose mission is to celebrate God through Jesus Christ; proclaiming, living and sharing the Goo…

This week features Dr. Christine Caron Gebhart. Christine has been the Director of the Gender Relations Center at the University of Notre Dame since 2012. The mission of the GRC mission is to help students form healthy and safe relationships as they learn about who they are and how they want to be with others. In addition to her administrative duti…

The Rev. Becca Stevens is an author, speaker, priest, social entrepreneur, founder, and president of Thistle Farms. Kelsey and Becca talk about mentoring and community.By Sarah Elizabeth Smith

Kelsey and Sarah sit down and talk about the meaning of Lent. Lent is the liturgical season in the Christian calendar that represents the 40 days Jesus went to the desert before his death. The season begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. Kelsey and Sarah explore the ways in which Lent has been used to…

This week we are featuring a sermon by the Rev. Canon Naomi Tutu on Luke 13:31-35. The Rev. Tutu is a dear friend of mine from our time together in Divinity school and was on the pod last year in episode 7. The Rev. Tutu joined the All Souls Cathedral in Ashville, NC in November 2018 as the Cathedral Missioner for Racial and Economic Equity and Mis…

Kelsey and Bishop Mary talk Burning Man and the Emerging Church Movement.By Sarah Elizabeth Smith

This episode features the Rev. Jen Logsdon Kellogg she is the Associate Pastor at Quail Springs United Methodist Church in OKC, OK. Rev. Jen actually attended the conference and will share with us first hand experience of what it was like there. We chat about the differences interpreting scripture, understanding the Holy Spirit and how pastoring to…

The Rev. Sam McGlothlin is Associate Pastor for Belle Meade United Methodist Church near Nashville, TN. Sarah and Sam discuss the latest decision the UMC Church made on the ordination of LGBTQ people and the ability to facilitate same-sex marriages. Sam explains the 3 different plans that were voted on and how her church community has taken the new…

Bishop Mary was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She graduated from California State University, Fullerton, in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a minor in Music. She earned her Master of Divinity degree from the College of St. John the Evangelist in New Zealand in 1994. She was ordained in the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Los Ang…

Welcome to Season 2 everybody! This week Kelsey and I sit down to talk about our work in the world, why we love theology and what our hopes and dreams are for Theosophia Podcast.By Sarah Elizabeth Smith

A sermon Kelsey delivered last year on the Feast Day of Transfiguration. Kelsey Davis will be joining the Theosophia Podcast for season 2 as a co-host and co-creator of Theosophia. She’s currently the curator of Emerging Communities for the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real in CA.By Sarah Elizabeth Smith

Rev. Hanlin currently serves as an associate minister at Marble Collegiate Church in New York. We dive into a lovely discussion about self-care for pastors and the importance of talking about mental health in the church.By Sarah Elizabeth Smith

Rev. Brittany was born in East Orange, NJ, and moved to Charlotte, NC at age 11. She graduated from Howard University in Washington, DC with a major in Sociology and minor in Community Development. Upon graduating, Brittany became an AmeriCorps Volunteer, serving as Youth Care Worker for young ladies between the ages of 11-14 at Mercy Home for Boys…

This week we talk about evangelism in the church. We talk specifically about Evangelism as Relationship and Community Building instead of the old traditions and histories of the evangelism as colonization. We chat about the unique ways churches are evangelizing to their communities and how evangelism is a loving spreading difference as the church a…

With a passion for people and for God, Kirsten sees the best in everyone she meets. She is a nurturer and loves being a pastor and priest. Her and her husband Rev. Tim Baer co-founded the church plant Grace Church in Yukon, Oklahoma. After serving at Grace Church for 5 years, Rev. Kirsten began full time as Assistant Chaplain at Casady Episcopal Sc…

This week we hear from Heather and Kelsey about what marriage means to them. We explore the idea of marriage as sacrament, what they did to prepare for marriage and what they do to help their relationship flourish. Hope ya’ll enjoy this lovely conversation, here’s the Davis’By Sarah Elizabeth Smith

Merry Christmas! Christians around the world are celebrating the birth of Jesus, the god-son who was born of the mother of God, Mary. The theology surrounding God incarnate as man or incarnational theology is the idea or beliefs that God came to be with us in our own flesh and take on our experience in this world with us. Our God is a relational go…