Mend the World Podcast

America at 250: Cece and Malika Sit Down with Lisa Sharon Harper for the Reckoning We Need on Race in America, Evangelicalism, and Decide What World Do We Want to Live In. Hosts Cece Jones-Davis and Malika McKinley Cox welcome Lisa Sharon Harper, author of The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right. Lisa is an activist and the founder and president of FreedomRoad.us, and she lead...

Hosts Cece Jones-Davis and Malika McKinley Cox welcome Eliza Reid. Eliza is a Canadian-born bestselling writer, public speaker, gender equality advocate, cofounder of the acclaimed Iceland Writers Retreat, and former first lady of Iceland. In this episode, Eliza shares her story about becoming an entrepreneur, balancing freelance work, and developing a writers' retreat. She also details how sh...

In this episode of Mend the World, hosts Cece Jones-Davis and Malika McKinley Cox sit down with Carlos A. Rodríguez, the founder of Happy NPO and The Happy Givers store, for a moving conversation on purpose, community, faith evolution, justice, and connection to the land. Carlos leads the Happy NPO, and 100% of its profits go to the nonprofit. They manage and assist home reconstruction programs an...

In this episode, we sit down with Sarah Adams, an advocate for Indigenous culture, education, and rights. She is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Ten years ago, Sarah and her partner, Kendra, co-created an intertribal empowerment organization called Matriarch that serves Indigenous women, 2-Spirit, and nonbinary people in central and North East Oklahoma City. She worked alongside other...

In this episode of Mend the World, hosts Cece Jones-Davis and Malika McKinley Cox sit down with Jonathan Martin, writer, pastor, and spiritual guide, for an honest, often funny, and at times gripping conversation on faith evolution, the work of justice, and the fight to hold onto resilient hope. Jonathan has walked thousands through seasons of spiritual crisis and transformation through his books...

In this inaugural episode of Mend the World, hosts Cece Jones-Davis and Malika McKinley Cox unite with a shared urgency. They respond to the injustices unfolding across our nation and globe using truth, grief, and a fierce commitment to repair. Cece draws on her journey in social justice through HIV/AIDS advocacy and anti-death penalty abolition work. Malika draws on her studies in conflict resolu...