Soulful Revolutionaries

This week’s Soulful Revolutionary is Andy Motz (he/him), an award-winning filmmaker. Andy works within and blends together narrative, documentary, and experimental formats to explore pressing issues including HIV awareness, queer identity, masculinity, and housing justice. His work has screened at festivals around the world. When not making films Andy can be found reading poetry and wandering thro...

J.P. Hill is a teacher, worker, and aspiring community organizer. He also tweets too much, and thinks a lot about how we can use social media as a tool to help build a better world. He also writes a newsletter called New Means where he hopes to help others both shift their perspectives on the world and take meaningful action to build something better for us all. Read JP's newsletter: https://www.j...

Happy New Year, dear Soulful Revolutionary! I’m writing you today in anticipation of Epiphany, celebrated in Western Christianity on January 6. Epiphany is about the manifestation of Christ’s light and truth to all the peoples of the earth. The Magi — wise ones from the East — visit the Christ Child with their gifts. They then defy the autocrat who wants nothing more than to destroy the hope this...

H. Marissa Montes considers every encounter with a client to be sacred ground. An immigrant herself, Montes knew from a young age that she wanted to be an attorney. She co-founded the Loyola Law School Immigrant Justice Clinic in her 20s, and for the last decade she has been consistently recognized as a powerful advocate for the immigrant community in Los Angeles and beyond — with a recently estab...

Meet Soulful Revolutionary Ishmeet Kalra Ishmeet was born and raised in New Delhi, India. She immigrated to California with her family and pursued her passion for science, earning a Master's degree in Molecular Biology & Microbiology with a minor in Humanities from San José State University. Since 2008, Colorado has been her home and she loves the stunning natural beauty and the majestic mountains...

Rooted in the timeless philosophical tradition of dialogue, this conversation with philosophy of religion scholar Erin Choi is a welcome pause from the blur of changemaking activity around us — a chance to center yourself in your values and discern what is yours to do in the work for justice. About my guest: Erin Choi is a PhD Candidate at the University of Oxford. She is currently working on virt...

It was an absolute delight to interview my friend and colleague, the Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail, as this month’s Soulful Revolutionary. Lizzie's joy is absolutely contagious, and it emerges authentically from her profound spirituality and firm commitment to justice. Catch the unabridged video version of this conversation by becoming a Paid Subscriber on Substack . Lizzie (she/her) has lived all over...

I am delighted to feature two soulful revolutionaries on this episode: Katherine Bogen and Dr. Hani Chaabo. Bogen is an antizionist Jewish woman and Chaabo is the grandson of a Palestinian refugee. Both work in the field of mental health, both are queer, and together, they are the hosts of the SuperHumanizer podcast, where they unpack Israel-Palestine and seek to promote empathy and understanding...

This month’s Soulful Revolutionary is Ananth Das, an artist and kundalini yogi currently pursuing their doctorate in clinical psychology. Ananth bring immense delight and insight to this wide-ranging conversation about mysticism, decoloniality, neurodivergence and spiritual practice. Ananth graciously allowed us to highlight one of their pieces on the Soulful Revolution Substack. Check it out here...

This month’s Soulful Revolutionary is the Rev. Dr. Jerry Maynard (he/they), aka the People's Priest. A spiritual renegade, social revolutionary, and Two-Spirit Indigenous Person (Xochihua), Father Jerry strives to offer healing medicine at the intersections of church & society through pastoral care & public witness in Houston, TX.  “My activism began in my hospital bed,” Fr. Jerry says. The child...

March is Women's History Month, underscoring the importance of my conversation with this month’s Soulful Revolutionary, Liz Cooledge Jenkins, and her recently released book, Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women’s Humanity from Evangelicalism. Liz is a writer, preacher, former college campus minister. She writes at the intersections of faith, feminism, and social justice, and her work can be f...

“Yeah, I am a Black, queer, young man, and I believe with every fiber of my being that God embraces me as I am.” So says the Rev. Nitano Muller, this month’s Soulful Revolutionary. The 35-year-old hails from Ocean View, a small fishing-community outside of Cape Town, South Africa.  As a trained elementary school teacher, ordained Anglican Priest and social justice activist; Nitano's passions lie a...

This month’s Soulful Revolutionary, the Rev. Leyla King, locates her call to the ministry within her grandparents’ experience of fleeing the 1948 Nakba in Palestine. The Palestinian-American Episcopal priest takes courage from the faith her ancestors kept amidst devastating loss and trauma as she advocates for Palestinian voices to be amplified within the church — which she understands as itself a...

This month’s Soulful Revolutionary is Andre Henry , a hope-dealing artist contending for social change with clarity and courage in the public square. Our conversation highlights the powerful pairing of resilience (an essential “collection of inner strengths” for preserving well-being amidst the violence which oppression enacts on the body), with revolution (courageously striving against the status...

This month’s featured Soulful Revolutionary is the Rev. Jean-Pierre Seguin (they/them), who serves as Priest-in-Charge of The Episcopal Church of Grace and Resurrection, East Elmhurst Queens. Living in Brooklyn, New York, they are active in collective projects for mutual aid and social transformation, especially in the areas of racial justice, housing, LGBTQ+ liberation, and care for migrants. The...

My guest on the Souful Revolution Podcast today is Gabrielle Rivero, founder of the Lenae Release Method , a research-informed movement method that helps participants learn how to accept, express, and release emotions in the body through movement. Gabby received her BS in Recreation and Event Management with a double minor in Dance from the University of Florida and received her Master of Art in T...

My guest on the podcast today is Luke Melonakos Harrison. Luke is an organizer with the Connecticut Tenants Union ( @cttenantsunion ), an organization he has helped build since it began in 2021. Like labor unions fighting for dignity and power in the workplace, tenant unions do the same but at home—for renters and anyone else without control over their own housing. Luke is an ecumenical Christian...

My guest today (and the first featured Soulful Revolutionary on the debut episode of this podcast!) is my dear friend Hannah Curtis. Hannah, whose pronouns are she/her, is a mother, spouse, lifelong learner, and Jesus enthusiast who resides en la frontera of El Paso, Texas. She never passes up a chance to discuss theology, abolition, musical theatre, radical parenting, Lucille Clifton’s poetry, an...