Shape Shifting with Jesus
Our final episode of the third season, called Shape Shifting with Jesus, features Reverend Jacqui Lewis, Ph.D. Jacqui is a public theologian and the first Black and the first female senior minister at the progressive, multicultural Collegiate Church in Manhattan, which dates to 1628. A graduate of Princeton Seminary and Drew University, she is the creator of the MSNBC online show Just Faith and the PBS show Chapter and Verse, in which she led important conversations about culture and current events. She curates an annual national conference called Revolutionary Love focused on activism and imagining a more perfect union. She was the co-producer of the star-studded Juneteenth Now-Get Us Free celebration. She has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Ebony, and Essence and has appeared on CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, and ABC. Raised mostly in Chicago, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan.
In this episode, we talk about Jacqui's work at Middle Collegiate Church, following a devastating fire that destroyed the sanctuary of their building on December 5, 2020, about Jacqui's new book, Fierce Love, and about how, using Jesus' example, we can shape shift our way through ministering during a pandemic.
