Season 3, Episode 6
Our final guest of our third season is Reverend Jacqui Lewis, Ph.D. Jacqui is a public theologian and the first Black and the first female senior minister at the progressive, multicultural Collegiate Church in Manhattan, which dates to 1628. A graduate of Princeton Seminary and Drew University, she is the creator of the MSNBC online show Just Faith and the PBS show Chapter and Verse, in which she led important conversations about culture and current events. She curates an annual national conference called Revolutionary Love focused on activism and imagining a more perfect union. She was the co-producer of the star-studded Juneteenth Now—Get Us Free celebration. She has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Ebony, and Essence and has appeared on CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, and ABC. Raised mostly in Chicago, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan. Today, we talk about Jacqui’s work at Middle Collegiate Church, following a devastating fire that destroyed the sanctuary of their building on December 5, 2020, about Jacqui’s new book, Fierce Love, which will be available in November 2021, and about how, using Jesus’ example, we can shape shift our way through ministering during a pandemic.
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RESOURCES!
Learn more about Middle Collegiate Church
Find out more about the fire, and how you can help Middle Rise again!
Pre-order Jacqui’s new book, Fierce Love, which will be released on November 9, 2021
Watch this amazing video that was created following the fire.
Consider checking out the virtual Revolutionary Love conference, April 15-18, 2021