A Sojourner’s Truth Podcast: Grief, Beauty, AND Artistic Expression

This season of A Sojourner’s Truth podcast is brought to you by The Voices Collection of Our Daily Bread Ministries. Find out more at experiencevoices.org. Also, check out the “Where Ya From?” Podcast. Purchase my new release from ODBM The Voices Collection, Journey to Freedom, Discovering the God of Deliverance, An Exodus Bible study. 

Episode 39: Grief, Beauty, AND Artistic Expression with Octavia Ink. Octavia is a printmaker, illustrator, and graphic designer. Originally from Chicago, Octavia graduated from DePaul University with a BFA in graphic design. Now located in Grand Rapids and also a local activist, she uses her artwork as a fundraiser for marginalized groups around the city. She believes in art as a form of expression, using her art to represent those who are underrepresented while bringing social justice issues to the forefront. As an illustrator, Octavia is driven and inspired by Black women. She wants to see women that look like her at the helm and she reflects that in her art. Constantly utilizing bright colors and dynamic movement in each piece, Octavia loves to incorporate flowers throughout her work. Pushing the message that we should give ourselves our flowers and celebrate growth and joy. www.prettyininkpress.com

There is a real healing and community in letting your loved ones love on you, and be there for you and lift you up.

Octavia Ink

In this episode, Octavia Ink shares her story and what it is like to be a woman who is a black artist. She shares about her passion for the many mediums of art that she does and how she cherishes the opportunity to make her art larger than life so that it can be something the community enjoys. Octavia also shares her inspirational process behind the creation of the Voices of Lament cover design and I also share what it was like for me to see the cover for the very first time. Our conversation touches on Octavia’s journey to using her art as a way to express her voice and how she is continuing to learn to let her voice be loud and vibrant through her art.

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#Grief, Beauty, AND Artistic Expression

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Resources

You can learn more about or purchase the Voices of Lament book (featuring the cover design by Octavia Ink) at http://www.natashasrobinson.com/voicesoflament

If you are interested in learning more about or purchasing Octavia Ink’s art you can do so at her personal website https://www.prettyininkpress.com/

Artwork Credit to Octavia Ink & Pretty in Pink Press

A Sojourner’s Truth Podcast: #GriefAND Lent

This season of A Sojourner’s Truth podcast is brought to you by The Voices Collection of Our Daily Bread Ministries. Find out more at experiencevoices.org. Also, check out the “Where Ya From?” Podcast. Purchase my new release from ODBM The Voices Collection, Journey to Freedom, Discovering the God of Deliverance, An Exodus Bible study. 

Bonus Episode 38: #GriefAND Lent featuring Tish Harrison Warren. Tish is a priest in the Anglican Church in North America. She is the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life (Christianity Today‘s 2018 Book of the Year) and Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep (Christianity Today‘s 2022 Book of the Year and 2022 ECPA Christian Book of the Year). Currently, Tish writes a weekly newsletter for The New York Times, and she is a columnist for Christianity Today. Her articles and essays have appeared in Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine, The Point Magazine, The New York Times, and elsewhere. For over a decade, Tish has worked in ministry settings as a campus minister with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries, as an associate rector, and with addicts and those in poverty through various churches and non-profit organizations. Now, Tish serves as Writer in Residence at Resurrection South Austin. She is a founding member of The Pelican Project and a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum. She lives with her husband and three children in the Austin, Texas area.

Remembering that we are going to die changes the way we live and allows us to receive life as a gift, this moment as a gift, but also hopefully allows us to live in ways that are in light of eternity.

Tish Harrison Warren

This episode begins by defining the meaning of Lent and how it is significant to the Christian faith. Tish shares how lent is a time of preparation and recognition of sin as we look forward to the day of our redemption on Easter. Our conversation also touches specifically on Ash Wednesday and how it touches on the reality that we will all one day die but also serves as a reminder to look to Jesus as our hope. Tish shares that it is important for the church to talk about hard truths and have conversations around some of the harsh realities of life.

Listen to the FULL podcast episode below:

#GriefAND Lent with Tish Harrison Warren

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Resources

If you would like to know more about or purchase Tish Harrison Warren’s book Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep you can do so HERE

If you would like to purchase or learn more about Tish Harrison Warren’s book Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life you can do so HERE

If you would like to learn more about or purchase the book Natasha and Tish contributed to covering the topic of lent called A Just Passion: A Six-Week Lenten Journey you can do so HERE

A Sojourner’s Truth Podcast: #GriefAND Community

This season of A Sojourner’s Truth podcast is brought to you by The Voices Collection of Our Daily Bread Ministries. Find out more at experiencevoices.org. Also, check out the “Where Ya From?” Podcast. Purchase my new release from ODBM The Voices Collection, Journey to Freedom, Discovering the God of Deliverance, An Exodus Bible study. 

Episode 37: #GriefAND Community featuring Sandra Maria Van Opstal. Sandra is a second-generation Latina pastor, activist, author, and a powerful leading voice on the intersection of faith and justice.  She is executive director of Chasing Justice, a BIPOC-led movement that mobilizes Christians to live justly. Sandra’s distinctiveness comes from working in both local and global contexts as a practitioner and academic, which has solidified her calling to disrupt oppressive systems within the church and center marginalized voices. She holds a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is currently pursuing doctoral work in Urban Leadership and Transformation. Sandra is the author of The Next Worship, as well as contributor to the New York Times bestselling book A Rhythm of Prayer.

We were created by our Creator to have community and communion with one another. And I think that is exemplified in the true nature of God.

Sandra Van Opstal

In this episode, Sandra and I talk about the importance of taking action against the injustices and issues that we see in our community, because that is the only way we are going to see and create change. Our conversation also touches on the fact that God is Lord over every tribe, tongue and nation and how as Christians we should seek to hear from the perspectives of people who come from different nations than we do. We are part of a global church and a global community and we each have something we can learn from and contribute to that community.

You can listen to the FULL podcast episode below:

#GriefAND Community with Sandra Van Opstal

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Resources

You can purchase or learn more about Sandra Van Opstal’s book The Next Worship: Glorifying God in a Diverse World Here

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