When youth activist Greta Thunberg became a global leader against climate change, she inspired people around the world to recognize the already existing youth activists in their own communities. Earth Guardians, a nearly 30-year-old organization representing young activists, caught the attention of many Coloradans as they led the climate rally in October of 2019, which featured Greta Thunberg herself. In this episode, Leala Pourier, an Earth Guardians Youth Council Member, shares her own story as a youth activist and as an Indigenous woman fighting against the climate crisis.

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S5 E2: Youth Activism in the Climate Crisis with Leala Pourier

As European settlers came to the Americas, they prepared to claim and conquer the land, exploiting its various resources to further human life. Dr. Tink Tinker, Professor Emeritus of American Indian cultures and religious traditions at Iliff School of Theology, explores in many of his works how this worldview contrasts with Native American religious and cultural ideology. In this episode, Dr. Tinker discusses the Eurochristian roots of the climate crisis and indigenous understanding of human relationship to the land. 

S5 E1: The Eurochristian Roots of the Climate Crisis with Dr. Tink Tinker

When Canon Broderick&apos;s parents renovated their home a few years ago, he gave them one of Lanecia Rouse Tinsley&apos;s paintings as a house-warming gift. In a note to his parents, Tinsley wrote, "I am happy one of my creations has found a home with you." It has been said that Lanecia’s art is known for its subtle manipulations of color, texture, materials, and form—a practice of improvisation and play that mirrors the intricate layers and landscapes of individual and communal formation, memory, experience, and history. It is these themes, and the paschal candle Lanecia designed for Saint John&apos;s, that she and Canon Broderick will discuss to close season 4 of Mile High Theology.Show Notes:The Art Project HoustonFollow Lanecia&apos;s work on social media at @larartstudio and at laneciarousetinsley.com.If you enjoy Mile High Theology and want this programming to continue, support Saint John&apos;s Cathedral by giving at sjcathedral.org/give.This podcast was recorded on the land of Ute, Cheyenne, and Araphao peoples.

S4 E9: Visual Art with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley

"They say, Lord, piety is speaking to you, // but madness is hearing you // speak back." And so Natasha Oladokun stings her audience in her 2020 poem "Black Credit." In line after line, essay after essay, and poem after poem, Oladokun teases out of us what good literature usually teases out of us: An unmistakable smallness before the vast expanse that is our fragile and beautiful cosmos. In this special National Poetry Month episode, Natasha and Canon Broderick will discuss Audre Lorde&apos;s 1985 essay "Poetry Is Not a Luxury" and Lorde&apos;s assertion that poetry is "a vital necessity of our existence."Show notes:Audre Lorde&apos;s "Poetry Is Not a Luxury"Natasha Oladokun&apos;s "Black Credit"Follow Natasha on Twitter and Instagram to say up-to-date with her work.If you enjoy Mile High Theology and want this programming to continue, support Saint John&apos;s Cathedral by giving at sjcathedral.org/give.This podcast was recorded on the land of Ute, Cheyenne, and Araphao peoples.

S4 E8: National Poetry Month with Natasha Oladokun

Adriann Barboa is a New Mexico policy director of Forward Together, an organization dedicated to ensuring "rights, recognition, and resources for all families" that recently led a people-powered coalition to defeat state infringements on access to reproductive healthcare. In this interview, we hear how Forward Together, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, and other groups fight every day to protect the rights and dignity of our most vulnerable communities. Show Notes:Forward TogetherArt as Power ProgramForward Together Art Feed On Bustle –  How Indigenous Women Repealed New Mexico’s Longstanding Abortion BanThe Road to Reproductive Justice: Native Americans in New MexicoAttitudes Towards Reproductive Health in Among Rural New MexicansIf you enjoy Mile High Theology and want this programming to continue, support Saint John&apos;s Cathedral by giving at sjcathedral.org/give.This podcast was recorded on the land of Ute, Cheyenne, and Araphao peoples.

S4 E7: Art and Reproductive Justice with Adriann Barboa

Kali Fajarado-Anstine&apos;s "Sabrina & Corina" seemed to barrel onto the literary scene not so much with a bang, but with the elegance of an experienced skydiver, every short story landing gracefully inside her readers&apos; imaginations. Set primarily on the ancient lands of Colorado and New Mexico, "Sabrina & Corina" spotlights the tension between memory, ancestry, and the present moment. Kali discusses her book, what led her to write it, her connections to Denver and to the peoples of the lands of Colorado and New Mexico. Show Notes:kalifajardoanstine.com"Sabrina & Corina" by Kali Fajarado-AnstineIf you enjoy Mile High Theology and want this programming to continue, support Saint John&apos;s Cathedral by giving at sjcathedral.org/give.This podcast was recorded on the land of Ute, Cheyenne, and Araphao peoples.

S4 E6: Sabrina & Corina with Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Myth-making is a central dimension of being human and fiction writers are the midwives of that process for the rest of us. Manuel Aragon, a Denver-based Latinx writer, director, and filmmaker reads his short story "The Last Snowstorm" and discusses the role of good fiction in the creation of a more just and compassionate future. Manuel is community engagement director for Lighthouse Writers Workshop and is currently working on Norteñas, a collection of speculative fiction short stories centered in the Northside, a Mexican and Mexican-American centered part of Denver, and the people, ghosts, and demons that live there.Show Notes:ManuelAragon.com"A Violent Noise" by Manuel AragonLighthouse Writers WorkshopIf you enjoy Mile High Theology and want this programming to continue, support Saint John&apos;s Cathedral by giving at sjcathedral.org/give.This podcast was recorded on the land of Ute, Cheyenne, and Araphao peoples.

S4 E5: Myth-Making with Manuel Aragon

In 2013, Patrisse Cullors coined the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter when she used it to comment on her friend Alicia Garza&apos;s Facebook post in response to George Zimmerman&apos;s acquittal of the killing of Trayvon Martin. In the months and years that followed, well-meaning white Americans reacted to the hashtag with #AllLivesMatter, a saga Dr. Andre Johnson wrote about in "The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter" with co-author Amanda Nell Edgar. In this episode, Dr. Johnson discusses the two hashtags and what they say about the ongoing movement for Black lives.Show Notes:"The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter" by Dr. Andre Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar"The Spirit Led Me," Chapter Three of "The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter" "When protest becomes prayer" by Renée Darline Roden for AmericanMagazine.org"Protest As Prayer: Paul Ricoeur and the Surplus of Political Meaning" by Timothy Harvie"Protest as Prayer" by Hayley Lerner  "Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church" by Barbara Holmes "Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like: Radical Pneumatologies of Black Resistance" by Broderick GreerIf you enjoy Mile High Theology and want this programming to continue, support Saint John&apos;s Cathedral by giving at sjcathedral.org/give.This podcast was recorded on the land of Ute, Cheyenne, and Araphao peoples.

S4E4: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter

In this episode of Mile High Theology, Canon Broderick speaks with the Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey. As we reflect on last week&apos;s election, Dr. Lightsey unpacks the circumstances that led her to write "Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology," how the centering of certain stories reveals our core values, and the 2020 presidential election results. Dr. Lightsey is Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Constructive Theology at Chicago&apos;s Meadville Lombard Theological School. Show Notes:"Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology" by Dr. Pamela LightseyIf you enjoy Mile High Theology and want to see similar programming, support Saint John&apos;s Cathedral by giving at sjcathedral.org/give.This podcast was recorded on the land of Ute, Cheyenne, and Araphao peoples.

S4 E3: “What just happened?”: Processing the 2020 Election

After the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department officers on Memorial Day weekend, a wave of law enforcement reform proposals flooded city halls and legislative chambers in cities and states across the country. State Representative Leslie Herod has spearheaded those efforts in the Colorado. Our very first guest on this podcast returns to discuss qualified immunity, the limitations of public policy, and the ongoing struggle for the liberation of Black people. Leslie Herod was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2016 where she represents the 8th district and is the first gay African-American to be elected to Colorado&apos;s General Assembly.Show Notes:Bill 217Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) on Denver Justice ProjectCaring for Denveriwillvote.comIf you enjoy Mile High Theology and want to see similar programming, support Saint John&apos;s Cathedral by giving at sjcathedral.org/give.If you don&apos;t know your status as a voter in the United States, please visit iwillvote.com to check your registration status and make a voting plan.This podcast was recorded on Araphao land.

S4 E2: Qualified Immunity and Black Lives

The Rev. Canon Broderick Greer speaks with his friend, Bianka Emerson, for a special episode of Mile High Theology. Bianka is deeply involved in politics, holding degrees in law and social science.Show Notes:Proposition 115 on BallotPedia.orgProposition 115 Explained on the Colorado Sun Ballot PediaBell Policy CenterConnect with Bianka Emerson on LinkedIn and read her research on affirmative action.

Bianka Emerson

Dr. Apryl Alexander discusses the death of Elijah McClain in Aurora, the history of policing in the U.S., and the Movement for Black Lives with Canon Broderick. Dr. Alexander is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver.Show Notes:In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina SharpePushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique MorrisWhy black girls are targeted for punishment at school – and how to change thatIf you enjoy Mile High Theology and want to see similar programming, support Saint John's Cathedral by giving at sjcd.org/online-offering/plate.

Dr. Apryl Alexander

In this special episode of Mile High Theology, Canon Broderick Greer talks with Adrienne Norris, a local artist and activist who designed and led the painting of the Black Lives Matter mural in Denver in front of the Colorado Capitol. This conversation was hosted in partnership with the Christian Formation Department.

Adrienne Norris

In this episode of Mile High Theology, Vic Vela, a weekend host and reporter for Colorado Public Radio, discusses addiction, meaning, and recovery.

Vic Vela

Canon Broderick conducts a Zoom interview with Pastor Anne J. Scalfaro about practicing resurrection in the time of quarantine. The Rev. Scalfaro is senior pastor of Denver&apos;s Calvary Baptist Church. 

Pastor Anne J. Scalfaro

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