The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields

Welcome to Episode 76 of the Kinship collective Podcast, We are ending otherness and cultivating kinship through content and community! How do we deal with forced evolution?  What happens to us when all the circumstances of our lives change in an instant? How devastating is it to have to grieve the future we wanted? What is it like to realize that future was never meant for us? Sarah Wineland join...

Welcome to episode 75 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, We are ending otherness and cultivating kinship through content and community! How do we listen well to our bodies?  How do we move from crisis to crisis in tune with what is most true about ourselves and the world around us?  Andrea Cammarota joins us this week to help us understand how to do this a bit.  Andrea is a board certified Chaplai...

Welcome to Episode 74 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship! I have been overwhelmed and at times paralyzed by all the death happening in Gaza. I have found myself feeling like nothing else really matters right now. In this episode I'll share some of what I'm feeling, 2 ideas that have really disturbed me, and a system for addressing situations...

Welcome to Episode 73 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship! Does Christianity no longer feel like home to you? Are you finding it difficult to integrate intersectional identities in the “borderlands” of your life?  Then you’ve come to a helpful conversation with Patty Krawec.  She’s the author of an incredible book “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call To...

Welcome to Episode 72 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship! Are you finding it hard to wade into the conversation about what is happening between Israel and Palestine in the Middle East right now? This week Dana Ayoob Leota joins us to talk about her family's history in the region and how she’s choosing to engage right now.  Dana exemplifies the ma...

Welcome to Episode 71 of The Kinship Collective Podcast! Do you have a Sexual Relationship With Yourself? Okay a little context, many of us come from conservative families and religions that never gave us permission to enjoy our bodies or worse made us responsible for how others engaged with their own bodies.  This week we get to talk with RN/RGN Cindy Scharkey about her mission of helping people...

Welcome to Episode 70 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together!  Quick announcement, We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort this Thursday October 12 at 7:30. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transf...

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together!  We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort on Thursday October 12 at 7:30. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transformational work, and reimagine faith...

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness! We’re telling stories that cultivate Kinship and reimagining scripture together!  We are launching a digital Reimagine cohort on Thursday nights at 7:30pm pst starting October 12. Each week we will share personal stories and reflections on our text “The Gifts of the Jews”, we will report back on our transformational wor...

Welcome back to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. We are back to our core focus of having conversations with people that remind us of our connectedness and our kinship.  This week we have a conversation about faith with my sista Laine Kelly Sims.  She’s a VO actor who has evolved to meet the many c...

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us Saturday September 9th for our first annual "Kinship Family Reunion Fundraiser" ! We'll gather to eat good food, drink good drinks, play family games, Electric-Slide, and do some storytelling and fundraising for The Kinship Collecti...

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us Saturday August 26 for our first annual "Kinship Family Reunion Fundraiser"! We'll gather to eat good food, drink good drinks, play family games, Electric-Slide, and do some storytelling and fundraising for The Kinship Collective! ...

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us Saturday August 26 for our first anual "Kinship Family Reunion Fundraiser"! We'll gather to eat good food, drink good drinks, play family games, Electric-Slide, and do some storytelling and fundraising for The Kinship Collective!  T...

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. We still have spots available for our fall Reimagine Cohorts!  We’ll spend time reimagining the context and significance of the Old Testament!  Our participants have raved tearfully about how meaningful the time together is!  Join us by clicking on the l...

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that ends otherness and cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. We still have spots available for our fall Reimagine Cohorts!  We’ll spend time reimagining the context and significance of the Old Testament!  Our participants have raved tearfully about how meaningful the time together is!  Join us by clicking on the l...

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that "ends otherness" and cultivates kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. THIS SATURDAY! Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda!  Join us for a conversation about creativity and identity and creating the world we intend for generations to come with an artist who has grown through various transitions!  Let’s talk...

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that "ends otherness" and cultivates kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda!  On June 10th join us for a conversation about creativity and identity and creating the world we intend for generations to come with an artist who has grown through various transitions!  Let’s talk a...

In our Reimagine Cohort we keep bumping up against the tension created from what we believe about the Bible. This week let's begin a conversation about what the Bible is, what it's intention is and what we can do to cultivate a healthy expectation of what the Bible invites us toward. Join us for Kinship Night with Propaganda!  On June 10th join us for a conversation about creativity and id...

This week we are joined by Lorinda Hawkins Smith!  She is an incredible storyteller and Artivist!  She shares her story of going from child actor and model, to adult actor, to domestic abuse survivor, to embracing homelessness and then creating thriving for herself now!  She shares practical ways we can be a part of individual and systemic change for the “pandemics” that create homelessness.  Ulti...

Do you ever wonder if you are living in the wrong story? I dont mean living the wrong life, but allowing the wrong story to shape how you perceive and live your one and only life. I know I sometimes allow ways I've made meaning as a child to shape how I make meaning as an adult, and it doesn't serve me toward flourishing. In this episode I'll share about how our inner child came to get...

If you google search “Christianity and Critical Race Theory” you’ll see several harmful pages first.  These pages are trying to prevent critical thought around the racist systems that oppress.  Our conversation this week invites you to think critically and introduces an incredible resource to do so. Dr. Jeff Liou joins our conversation to share about his new book “Christianity and Critical Race Th...

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation that cultivates Kinship through storytelling, scripture and service. Today we were joined by Kevin Bishop, a teacher, Gay Rights Activist and recent Christian.  He tells his story of encountering God during a season of unbearable grief.  He shares how this loving god is so much different than the God he heard about as a kid growing up in Ca...

Welcome to The Kinship Collective Podcast!  We are ending otherness! We are cultivating kinship through storytelling, scripture and service! This week we continue our solo conversations to speak to the ways our "faith of origin" can create a codependence on God that disempowers us and prevents us from flourishing in ways Jesus never intended. If this episode is disorienting for you and y...

Welcome to the Kinship Collective Podcast, a conversation where people who have been wounded by faith can reimagine it together! This week we get to hang with Lucca Petrucci! Lucca (he/him/his) is a Youth Inclusion and Empowerment Coach and Speaker, the host of the podcast Free to Be with Lucca , a Brand and Marketing Consultant, and an LGBTQIA+ Advocate. Our conversation centers on the reality th...

Welcome to The Kinship Collective Podcast!  We are a community where people marginalized by faith can reimagine it together. This week we are starting something new called a “Reimagine Episode” where I will have a solo conversation to speak into current events and reimagine some ideas that keep us divided and feeling "othered". This week we reflect on the deaths of Tyre Nichols and Charlie Ma...