The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields

You may have heard that a relationship with God is “personal” but felt tremendous pressure that your relationship with God look or feel like someone else’s. We sat down with Daniel Hardy Jr. to talk about his journey from the NFL to Pastoring to now Acting.  We get into what it means to pay attention to our unique gifts and give it all we’ve got, no matter what is in front of us. We talk about our...

We have all been through so much clarifying life in 2020 and 2021.  We have woken up to new values or woken up away from harmful beliefs or harmful relationships.  Some of us may find our selves facing the seemingly catch 22 decision of disappointing the people around us who we love... or worse, disappointing ourselves who we long to love.  With this in mind we sat down again with Katie Distelrath...

Mayra Macedo-Nolan joins us this week to address some challenges I am having around the “American Dream”. She shares some powerful questions we can use to locate ourselves and understand what’s really motivating us. Then we reimagined Jeremiah 29:4-9 together and were reminded to never shrink back! 9:10 - “What do you want & Why?” 30:51 - Jeremiah 29:4-9 34:06 - Don’t shrink back! Follow Mayra on...

Brianna Sanderson winsomely and joyfully shares her passion for reforming the education system. She shares a traumatic "educational" experience from elementary school that has had lasting effects on her as a Bi-racial woman. Brianna invites us toward real “allyship” and true listening. Then we reimagined Matthew 25:31-45 thinking a lot about empathy, support and solidarity. 23:13 - True Allyship 4...

Ed Oxford, researcher for 1946 The Movie, joins us to talk about how the word “homosexual” actually got translated into the Bible.  He shares about the grieving process he went through as he came to grips with a reality that God would never change him and grant him the American dream he had so desperately desired. We reimagined 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and landed in a true and thoughtful space of love...

This week Sally Gary, the founder of CenterPeace, shares about her new book “Affirming” and the incredible loneliness of a life spent faithful to ideas of sexuality she no longer holds. We reimagined Genesis 2:18-24 and talked about the ways God sees and makes space for our loneliness. 32:30 - Loneliness 41:08 - Genesis 2:18-24 51:44 - Do God’s words still apply to me? follow Sally on instagram @S...

This Week Brian joins us and shares about how his best friend walked with him toward self acceptance and coming out, which encouraged him to “Be Free”. Brian shares the unhealthy results of hiding and the ways community invites us to be our most authentic and purposeful selves. Then Brian and Mark imagine Psalms 139 as a self declaration but not an excuse to accept trauma or transmit our pain. 22:...

We’ve all felt the pain and loss of grieving what could have been. Candice joins us and shares her story of integrating her faith and sexuality and the grief of mourning the time she lost disintegrated. She shares her incredible experience of encountering God in an unshakable way through her queerness. Then Candice and Mark reimagined Jeremiah 17:7-10 and the reality that we all have our own goggl...

We all need someone mature to invite us to hold our stories with awe, wonder and celebration. Mark Fields, the founder of The Kinship Collective, shares his own centers of identity, how The Kinship Collective came to be and the values it embodies. Then Mark and Mykah reimagined Isaiah 43:16-21 together and pondered the power of something new and the room that must be made for the new things to exi...

We all benefit from the liberating power of forgiveness when we forgive people who wound us and ourselves. Mykah Wilson, the Director of Operations for The Kinship Collective, shares about how forgiving others and herself led to an unexpected embrace of her whole self. Mykah shared about how her loving community instigates healing in wounds that once tempted her to end her life. Then Mykah and Mar...

We have all felt the paralyzing fear of not knowing how to show up for a friend after racially charged acts of violence. This week Dean Choi generously shares about the loneliness he felt growing up in Chicago suburbs as a first generation Korean-American. He also shared some empowering ideas of how we can use the “5 Love Languages” to show up for our friends in times of racial trauma. Dean and Ma...

Have you ever felt like the competing pressures of your life were so unbearable it was like you couldn’t breathe? Join Sam Sanderson and I for a conversation about holding marginalized identities with grace and celebration. Sam described the feelings of suffocation attached to her identity as a queer christian and how compassionate encounters with God and community helped her live authentically. T...

We have all experienced pain that propels us toward truth in new ways. Bonnie Lewis, the author of “Timshel”, shares about how the most painful experience of her life unleashed one of her most purposeful endeavors. Bonnie talked about what it means to trust our intuition as a gift from God and thought about what is at stake when we come to “leap of faith” moments in our lives. We talked about patr...

One of the most triggering and problematic practices for recovering evangelicals or deconstructing truth seekers is "worship".  Spiritual songs that carry harmful understandings of God that actually stand in the way of "Faith, Hope & Love".  Today we get to hang with Astyn Turrentine, a singer, song-writer, arranger, worshipper and worship leader who gives us her perspective on worship.  Join us f...

How did we loose sight of the most basic premise of scripture for humanity, our "image-of-god-ness"?   Eric Johnson joined us for a conversation on some of how that happened.  He is a gracious and wise Community Organizing Pastor with over 30 years of experience serving toward reconciliation and solidarity.  We talked about the history of race in America and how these truths distorted the Gospel a...

What does it look like to face your fears and do the hard things because they're "Worth It"?  It looks like Brit Barron.   Brit joined us for a conversation about her book "Worth It".  We talked about the complexities of truly diverse communities and what it looks like to invite people to the middle ground.  This lead us to a conversation around judgement and Matthew 7:1-5, where someone else's fr...

Have you ever wondered about the difference between people who create great success in their industry and those who work just as hard but don't?     David Lee joined us for a conversation on how integrating his faith with his industry leading businesses has created his pathway to experiencing blessing.  He shared how he became the most popular Ferrari collector in the world on the shoulders of gen...

What do you do when you sense the values you held core to your identity evolving... or dissolving?     Caryn Fields joined us for a conversation on how "Church Hurt" eroded her ability to believe in the God the people around her represented.  She shared how her evolving beliefs created a visceral fear that she could lose her most precious relationships.  Then we talked about Acts 2 and she shared...

Dr. Ed Barron sits right into some of the questions that come up in reflection at the turn of the year.  Why am I the way I am?  Where do I want to be?  Where am I now?  How did I get here?  He brings a deeply thoughtful and contextual approach to leadership and transformation to help you locate yourself and imagine a preferred future.  We reimagine Romans 12:1-2 in the context of our convo and co...

We Celebrated Katie's unique story | 1:13 - Who is Katie | 6:45 - Faith & Grace | 11:41 - Broken Open | 14:45 - Misinformed Shame | 20:10 - When it used to hold weight??? | 23:50 - Afraid to Lean In | 27:15 - For me... It's God's Grace | 38:41 - When Hard Work Isn't Enough   We Reimagined Scripture Together | 45:31 - Ephesians 2:10 | 48:41 - You ARE a Masterpiece  | 52:30 - When Everyone's a Maste...

We Celebrated Kat's unique story | 1:11 - Who is Kat | 11:40 - Reimagining Family & God | 19:53 - What's Abuelita God Like? | 27:37 - Biblical Perfection and Patriarchy   We Reimagined Scripture Together | 34:28 - Proverbs 18:20-21 | 37:20 - Prosperity Gospel & Contextual Wisdom | 42:46 - Biblical Hope & Abuelita Mary | 45:25 - Commodifying Biblical Wisdom  | 49:50 - The Wisdom of our Ancestors |...

We Celebrated Dan's unique story | 2:16 - Who is Dan | 7:33 - Shaped by “their” perception | 8:31 - Relationships in Covid  | 14:10 - Coming to America | 18:29 - Nothing is concrete… | 22:16 - Engaging my real life… coping mechanisms | 27:23 - scaffolding our weaknesses/doers/ relationships for our weaknesses | 31:06 - When to say when? / The skill of quitting  | 34:27 - learning to trust your gut...

Our convo was inspired by Luke 14 and here's where it went | 1:12 - Who is Carly | 9:30 - Reclaiming Jesus | 13:37 - Art & Anxiety | 23:19 - "Zacchaeus" - https://music.apple.com/us/album/zacc... | 30:40 - The following Jesus "Formula"... | 37:43 - How do I know its God? | 45:35 - Fear is the opposite of Love. | 49:04 - "Feast for Failures" - https://music.apple.com/us/album/feas...  Check out mor...

Our convo was inspired by Jeremiah 29:7 and here's where it went  1:05 - Who is Harlan | 4:14 - Who's burden is Justice? | 7:44 - On Calling | 10:07 - Fish Outta Water... | 14:02 - Battle Buddies | 17:05 - Trustworthy Allies | 20:22 - Jeremiah 29:7 | 24:46 - Faking & Privilege (https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion...) | 30:14 - Prejudice & Wholeness | 34:16 - The Virus that Remains (https://mediu...

Our conversation was inspired by Luke 6:24-47, and here's where it went: 2:05 - Who Is Cissy? 14:06 - Scripture Reading  20:22 - Hatred before Love...  28:30 - Perceived Deprivation vs. Real Violation 29:46 - The Ford-Focus-Bentley 34:18 - Self Awareness is Critical 38:21 - Boundary keeping heading into the holiday 40:21 - "I'm not the problem... YOU're the problem!" 48:53 - What it looks like whe...