The Collective Table

Episode 3 of The Collective Table podcast is here! In today’s episode, Jenell and Jason revisit our 2021 interview with author, speaker, playwright, musician and former pastor Rob Bell. Listen as they explore the tension between doubt and conviction, and reflect on mystery, lament, and the discomfort of sitting in the unknown. Can embracing uncertainty deepen our faith? Is doubt simply a part of w...

Episode 2 of The Collective Table podcast is here! In today’s episode, Jason and Claire revisit a conversation with author, speaker, activist, and public theologian Brian McLaren. Using Brian’s framework of ideas, Jason and Claire explore the themes of cultural fragmentation, hybridization, and the opportunities that arise from cultural shifts. McLaren discusses how living in a fragmenting world c...

Welcome to Season 9 of The Collective Table Podcast! For the inaugural episode, Claire and Jenell sat down to reflect on TCT’s Season 7 conversation with Nadia Bolz-Weber. Have you ever wondered how fear shapes our actions and decisions, both in ancient stories like that of Herod and in modern events like the insurrection? What does it look like to sit with these fears - or even allow for this cur...

TCT’s next season of episodes will launch on September 9th! Throughout the fall, you’ll hear from Jenell, Jason, and Claire as they look back on some of their favorite TCT episodes, wondering together how these themes can still speak into today’s world. Together we will explore themes that feel more relevant than ever: cultural and identity fragmentation, coping with differences, confronting the d...

The Collective Table has some exciting news! Chelsea and Dana are passing the hosting baton. Beginning in September, The Collective Table and Oceanside Sanctuary are joining together. You’ll hear from new hosts, Jenell & Jason Coker, and still hear from Claire as well. We look forward to further developing this podcast community to serve the needs of local OSC members, community groups, and me...

Welcome back to another episode of The Collective Table podcast - the ultimate female perspective on Jesus, justice, and joy! Today’s episode both closes out season 8 AND kicks off Pride month with a conversation with Jonathan Merritt about his new children’s book, My Guncle and Me. In this inclusive and heartwarming picture book, main character Henry Higgleston struggles with being deemed an oddb...

This week, join Chelsea and Dana in a conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous as they discuss her national bestselling book, The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend our Broken Hearts and World . She is the senior and founding rabbi of IKAR, a leading edge Jewish community based in Los Angeles.  Learn more about Rabbi Sharon here: https://ikar.org/team/rabbi-sharon-brous/   Follow Rabbi Sharon on soci...

This week, join Chelsea and Dana in a conversation with pastor Trey Ferguson - a thinker, theologizer, writer, speaker, teacher, preacher, and creator. His new book, Theologizin’ Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly encourages readers to re-engage their imaginations, and to construct theologies that speak to our current contexts, just as people of faith have done throughout history....

Welcome back to another episode of The Collective Table podcast - the ultimate female perspective on Jesus, justice, and joy! Today Chelsea and Dana are joined by Emmy Award winner Lyvonne Briggs, who is a body and sex-positive womanist spiritualist. She is a writer, pastor, preacher, spiritual life coach, and highly sought after transformational speaker and seminar leader. In today’s conversation...

This week on The Collective Table podcast, join Chelsea and Dana in a conversation with Debie Thomas, author of A Faith of Many Rooms: Inhabiting a More Spacious Christianity , and Into the Mess and Other Jesus Stories: Reflections on the Life of Christ . Debie is a columnist and contributing editor for The Christian Century, and from 2014 to 2022, was a staff writer for Journey with Jesus: A Week...

This is a prayer from Debie Thomas’ book, A Faith of Many Rooms: Inhabiting a More Spacious Christianity. Debie shared this poem with us during Dana and Chelsea’s recent conversation with her, which will air on Monday, April 8th! Until then, sit back and rest in these words.  --- Discover more about Debie and her impactful work at debiethomas.com .  For a closer look at Debie's journey and insight...

This week, join Chelsea and Dana in a conversation with Amy Kenny, an accomplished disabled scholar, writer, and advocate. Amy's critically acclaimed book, "My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church," skillfully blends humor, narrative, and theology. It serves as a powerful call for faith communities to re-evaluate unintentional ableism and embrace the valuable insights off...

Listen in on Dana & Chelsea’s conversation with Rev. Mark Feldmeir, author of Life After God: Finding Faith When You Can't Believe Anymore.  Learn more about Mark here: https://www.markfeldmeir.com/   Follow The Collective Table on Instagram @the_collective_table Learn more about the work of The Collective Table at www.thecollectivetable.org Episode edited by Claire Watson. Learn more at podsw...

Welcome back to Season 8 of The Collective Table Podcast! This week, Chelsea & Dana sit down with Rev. Danté Stewart, a pastor and award-winning writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, the Washington Post, TIME, ESPN, Andscape, Oxford American, Sojourners, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, and more. His most recent book is entitled, Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle. In this con...

With the Lenten season now on the horizon, we have a bonus episode this week! Listen as Dana & Chelsea chat with authors Rachel Gilmore and Tyler Sit in a conversation on their new Lent study, Where We Meet.   In Where We Meet: A Lenten Study of System, Stories, and Hope , four members of the Intersect network (Rachel Gilmore, Tyler Sit, Candace Lewis, and Matt Temple) invite you to immerse yo...

This week, Chelsea & Dana sit down with Kat Armas, a Cuban American theologian, writer and podcaster from Miami, FL. Her recent book, Sacred Belonging: a 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture shows us that reading the Bible with fresh eyes allows us to experience the divine in new and liberating ways. Learn more about Kat here: https://katarmas.com/   Follow Kat on Instagram @...

Welcome to Season 8 of The Collective Table Podcast! Today Dana and Chelsea sit down with author and friend of the podcast, Cole Arthur Riley, to discuss her new book, Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human. Cole is also the creator of Black Liturgies, a space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body; and a project of T...

Dana & Chelsea have been doing a lot of reading - and now we want to invite you to read with us! Join The Collective Table over the next couple of months as we interview some of our favorite authors. Episodes will release every other Monday wherever you listen to podcasts. In the meantime, keep up with us on Instagram @The_Collective_Table and visit our website thecollectivetable.org.

God Is a Black Woman is the chronicle of Christena Cleveland’s liberating transformation and a critique of a society shaped by white patriarchal Christianity and culture. Christena reveals how America’s collective idea of God as a white man has perpetuated hurt, hopelessness, and racial and gender oppression. Integrating her powerful personal story, womanist ideology, as well as theological, histo...

Welcome to season 7 of The Collective Table Podcast, Sermon Podcast Hour! During this season Rev. Chelsea, Dana and Rev. Claire are going to interview some of our favorite preachers about a sermon they have given. These sermons will be following the lectionary calendar from Epiphany all the way until Easter. In the various episodes, not only will you hear clips from the sermon and you will also he...

Welcome to season 7 of The Collective Table Podcast, Sermon Podcast Hour! During this season Rev. Chelsea, Dana and Rev. Claire are going to interview some of our favorite preachers about a sermon they have given. These sermons will be following the lectionary calendar from Epiphany all the way until Easter. In the various episodes, not only will you hear clips from the sermon and you will also he...

Welcome to season 7 of The Collective Table Podcast, Sermon Podcast Hour! During this season Rev. Chelsea, Dana and Rev. Claire are going to interview some of our favorite preachers about a sermon they have given. These sermons will be following the lectionary calendar from Epiphany all the way until Easter. In the various episodes, not only will you hear clips from the sermon and you will also he...

Join us as we spend time with author Jessie Daniels to discuss her book, Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It.  This conversation was recorded on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. 

Welcome to season 7 of The Collective Table Podcast, Sermon Podcast Hour! During this season Rev. Chelsea, Dana and Rev. Claire are going to interview some of our favorite preachers about a sermon they have given. These sermons will be following the lectionary calendar from Epiphany all the way until Easter. In the various episodes, not only will you hear clips from the sermon and you will also he...

Welcome to season 7 of The Collective Table Podcast, Sermon Podcast Hour! During this season Rev. Chelsea, Dana and Rev. Claire are going to interview some of our favorite preachers about a sermon they have given. These sermons will be following the lectionary calendar from Epiphany all the way until Easter. In the various episodes, not only will you hear clips from the sermon and you will also he...