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We've missed you all! We're back with our 5th season! 
Given the state of our world, Mom and I are centering the urgnecy of rooting in God's radical love; our guiding verse of scripture this season is 1 Cornithians 13:13 - "And now these three things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." Throughout this episode, we discuss embodying God's call to love radically, building beloved community, connecting more deeply with God in prayer (and some ways to do this), while also centering prayer for the many who are suffering in Palestine (hostages both Israeli and Palestinian), Congo, Sudan, Tigray, and here, within the U.S. as we live through election season. 
Mom and I also uplift some upcoming guests this season - Lindsey Krinks, co-founder of Open Table Nashville (outreach and advocacy for persons experiencing homelessness)  and author of Praying with our Feet: Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets, Kaitlin Johnstone, co-founder of Kind Cotton (tees and merch. that powers the distribution of inclusive books for kids across the country), Porsche Veu (@ThePoeticActivist - poet, speaker, educator and artist) and Christians for a Free Palestine, among others.
And this Disability Pride Month, we hear the voice of disabled Chrisitan civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer who said: "Nobody's free, until everybody's free."  
Resources Mentioned during this Epsiode:
Three Ways to Show Up for Disability Pride Month, a blog post written by our co-host, Emelda "E" for her  small business and communinity, When Motherhood Looks Different, LLC, inspired by her daughter Nai who is neurodivergent.  Check out this article on disabled voices of faith to start learning from today, including My Body is not a Prayer Request by Amy Kenny and Dr. Hardwick, The Autism Pastor.  Friends of Congo Munther Isaac and Christ at the Checkpoint  Sudanese American Physicians Association  Rabbis4Ceasefire  Pray with our Feet Shop: 
Check out our online shop - official podcast tee, Pray with our Feet, The Revolution Needs our Joy tee, our water bottles, and more! Use the discount Code CELEBRATE5  for free shipping until Sunday, September 1!  Move It Forward Monday IG Live Series - @PrayWithOurFeet
New season of our Move it Forward Monday IG Live series (now bi-monthly); the latest chat on Trauma-Informed Activism & Healing is with Kimberly Brazwell, founder of KiMISTRY, a story strategy firm that specializes in trauma informed social justice. One of her latest offerings (which is a series of books) -Jotnal Book (The Phoenix Edition), grounds us in this practice.

We're BACK with Season 4! We've missed you all. As you know, Mom and I choose a verse to guide us through each season, and this time it's wisdom from the book of Micah: "He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you except to be just, and to love [and to diligently practice] kindness (compassion), And to walk humbly with your God [setting aside any overblown sense of importance or self-righteousness]?" (Micah 6:8, Amplified Bible) 
Throughout this episode we:
- Explore the prophet Micah, the ways God spoke through him to Israel lifting up his heart for compassion, justice and mercy, while also calling for repentance when these values are not lived out. 
- What it means to embody justice, love and mercy in our daily lives, and how it expands our faith, deepening how we define community. Check out our deveotional, Seeing with Our Hearts inspired by Micah 6:8. 
- Podcast conversations we are excited to share with you all incluude Jesus People (a community-based ministry in Chicago serving the poor), Jamie McGhee and Adam Hollowell, authors of You Mean It or You Don't: James Baldwin's Radical Challenge and creators of the online space Praying with James Baldwin, Keith Kristich, founder of Closer Than Breath, an online community rooted in centering prayer and meditation, and more.  
Additional Resources: 
We love this overview of the book of Micah from Bible project.
James Baldwin's 1979 speech at Berkeley, Take Your Children Out of These Schools
Support our Work:
- Upcoming fundraiser on Double Good! You can purchase yummy popcorn and Pray with our Feet receives 50% of the profits to power our work. Double Good has helped organizations (creating change) raise over 90 million dollars.
- Shop our NEW online store where you can find everything from sweatshirts to mugs and tees reminding you to Pray with your Feet!
- Follow our IG Live series: Move it Forward Monday at 12:30pm EST. The series highlights change makers in our communities and is done in collaboration with our friend Rowana, founder of Spoken Black Girl, a wellness community and magazine for Black women writers and women of color. 

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Our podcast is produced by my husband Keston De Coteau, an award-winning videographer and photographer. Learn more about his work here.

What if today’s church looked more like the early church described in the book of Acts - sharing resources, concerned not with power but being in genuine relationship with Jesus and one another? Jesus People, a church family of nearly 200 people, based in Chicago is living out this revolutionary call, and has done so since 1972.
Mom and I chat with members Charlene and Tommy and discuss -
- Jesus People’s intentional community where members live communally in a 10-story building in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago,
- The ways their mission businesses and common purse (“combining monetary resources into a common fund…” ) support their ministry and communal needs, enabling them to serve those living in poverty, including Cornerstone Community Outreach, “one of the first shelters in Chicago to open its doors for women with children experiencing homelessness.”
- Why it’s imperative that Christians not allow the messsge of Christian to co-opt our faith.
- Strategies to helping move your church from the pews to the pavement, and become involved in helping the surrounding community.
- Donate and support Jesus People’s ministry. Stay connected with Jesus People on social media: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.

- In Loving Memory: This episode is dedicated to my Dad, Rudy Leocadio, a loving husband, father, and faith leader throughout his life. Dad was truly a man of deep faith with a servant’s heart. God called him home on Sun., November 27, 2022. You can read my tribute to him on the Pray with our Feet blog. 
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- Our podcast is produced by Keston De Coteau, award-winning videographer and photographer.

 
What does it mean to live from the centered self in an off center world? We’re delving into this challenge in today’s chat with Keith Kristich, founder of Closer Than Breath, an online interspiritual community lifting up centering prayer and “the study of universal truths to deepen your relationship with God and develop peace within.” Keith is a commissioned teacher of Centering Prayer through Contemplative Outreach, trained with the Shalem Institute and certified Enneagram teacher through the Conscious Living Center. 
We discuss the transformative power of becoming still, listening to God’s voice within us, moving from ego into deeper relationship with the Divine, and the wisdom of Father Thomas Keating (author, priest, teacher and leader within the contemplative prayer community), and Saint Teresa of Ávil, revered Spanish mystic, Carmelite nun and writer who once said: “Prayer is an act of love, words are not necessary.” 
Don’t miss the next event from the Closer Than Breath community: Centering Prayer Summit, Jan. 21-23, a virtual space, to learn and practice with leading centering prayer teachers. 
Download the God is Closer Than Breath Guide here.
Website: CloserThanBreath.com
Instagram: @keithkristich

Stay Connected with Pray with our Feet Podcast + Online Community:
If you enjoy the Pray with our Feet podcast, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, where you can subscribe to the show. You can also listen on Spotify, and on all major streaming platforms. Visit the Pray with our Feet store and find everything from tees to mugs and more. You can also donate on our website. Our podcast is produced by Keston De Coteau, award-winning videographer and photographer.

Showing up in faith and action takes consistent work. None of us will ever have it “figured out,” but commitment keeps us on the path. Mom and I caught up with Adam Hollowell and Jamie McGhee, founders of Praying with Baldwin, to discuss their powerful book: You Mean It or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge.  
One of the most prolific writers and thinkers of the 20th century, Baldwin’s words continue to awaken us. Drawing from his extensive body of work -  fiction, poetry speeches and interviews, McGhee and Hollowell call us to embody our activism.  There are prompts at the end of each chapter to help us take action - whether concerning police brutality, racial justice or LGBTQ+ rights.  Our discussion also lifts up the urgency of dialouging across differences, looking inward, intergating ways we are either unaware of oppression or compilict, what seeking justice and love within our communities and church spaces.  
Learn more about the Praying with Baldwin project, “a sequence of prayers that originally launched August 2, 2017.” Over 30 days Jamie and Adam prayed the last words of “those who have been killed by racism and police violence and prayed for the courage to take "First Steps" to change the world around them. You can download a PDF version here. 
Stay Connected with Jamie and Adam:
Website: Praying with James Baldwin
Instagram: @prayingbaldwin
Twitter: @prayingbaldwin
Help Us Spread the Word!
If you enjoy the Pray with our Feet podcast, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, where you can subscribe to the show. You can also listen on Spotify, and on all major streaming platforms.
Shop the Pray with our Feet Store or Donate!
Visit the Pray with our Feet store and find everything from tees to mugs and more. You can also donate on our website. Help us power the movement!
Our podcast is produced by Keston De Coteau, award-winning videographer and photographer.

REWIND: In honor of Black history month, and this year's theme of resistance, we are revisiting past conversations with guests committed to the active and everyday work of resisting racism and the false ideology of white supremacy. 

 
We sat down with Rev. Dr. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church, a 1,300-member multi-ethnic, welcoming, and inclusive congregation in New York City (and full disclosure, my home church, loves!) for a conversation which delved into:
- The need for each of us to make anti-racism a daily practice. 
- Rooting our minds and spirits in revolutionary love. 
- The challenging joy of leading a diverse church that is radically inclusive and leaves no one out regardless of race, sexuality / gender identity or ability. 
- Why one of the essential duties of church members is to push leaders towards anti-racist practices which go beyond the pews, and into our daily lives - the way we love, work, shop and come into community. 
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, and earned her Ph.D. in Religion and Society/Psychology and Religion at Drew University. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Dr. Lewis hosted “Just Faith,” an on-demand television program on MSNBC.com and is a frequent media commentator.
Her books include:
Fierce Love, The Power of Stories: A Guide for Leaders in Multi-racial, Multi-cultural Congregations, Ten Strategies for Becoming a Multiracial Congregation, and the children’s book, You Are So Wonderful!  
Stay Connected to Rev. Jacqui and Middle Church: 
Middle Church is rebuilding after a tragic fire. You can support this ongoing work by donating here. 
Visit Rev. Jacqui's website, and follow her heart-centered work. 
Join the Movement at Middle Church! 
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Our show is produced by my husand Keston De Coteau, award-winning videographer and photographer.