This experience is an invitation—a call to join our spiritual community and engage in this collective contemplative practice. Together, we examine the theology of love and cultivate its practice in our lives.

Our focus is transformation—becoming a Community of Practice. In each episode, we offer practices to help us grow in love, together.

So, make yourself comfortable. Light a candle, grab your journal, and open your heart as we listen, engage, and reflect in this communal space.

Our guest is Rev Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft. the founder of Raising Imagination and Consulting Community Minister at @middlechurch. She is a social engineer, cultural critic, organizer, writer, facilitator, and public theologian who is passionate about the intersections of race, faith, politics, and parenting.

Amanda is my beloved sister-in-hooks (bell hooks, that is- you won't want to miss her personal reflection at the end!)

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

Centering Scripture: Matthew 2:9-18 NLT

Joyfully Anticipating Love, Jasmine Bellamy

God Speaks Through Wombs: Poems on God's Unexpected Coming, Drew Jackson

See No Stranger, Valerie Kaur

"The Work of Christmas," Dr. Howard Thurman

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Theme Music: Sunrise (Instrumental) by Matthew Hollingsworth