In this episode, Kerry speaks with poet and creator Victoria Lin about grief and God, what it means to be a person of faith in relationship with a dear friend who is an atheist, and being a secret mystic. This conversation also hits on power — and how we, as humans love to abdicate the power of our own connection with the Divine. Check it out today!Victoria Lin is a writer, educator, and creator, who says that Writing brings depth and texture to her existence and believes that language helps create our reality. The way we speak and write about ourselves influences our lives.Victoria says that Language is a tool we can use to change the shape of our experiences. She writes to understand and to construct her future. She also believes writing can help heal our wounds. She is expanding on her work as an educator to earn a doctorate in psychology and explore the ways poetry and writing foster personal growth, development, and healing.Website: www.victorialin.orgFacebook: Victoria Lin Peterson-HillequeInstagram: @victorialinphTwitter: @victorialinphEmail: info@victorialin.orgFollow Kerry @kerry.connellyTo schedule your Angel Reiki session or apply for Coaching with Kerry, go to:https://www.mysticjusticepodcast.com/welcomeTo purchase Kerry Connelly’s ‘Good White Racist’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3bMUZXFTo purchase Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3fx9NdMTo purchase Victoria Lin’s ‘Letters to Minnehaha Creek’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3v8Hwk8Episode Timestamp:Snippet - 00:00 - 00:26General Intro - 00:26 - 01:45Victoria Lin's Intro - 01:45 - 06:12Main Interview - 6:12 - 25:41Coaching Commercial - 25:41 - 27:15Continuation of Main Interview - 27:15 - 51:36General Outro - 51:36 - 52:15

Spirit is doing a new thing, and She's busting down the walls of the church to have a party in the wilderness.In this episode, Kerry speaks with Stuart Deloney, a storyteller, seeker, sojourner, question-asker, and provocateur. He’s a former pastor and the creator and host of Snarky Faith Radio, a podcast for the spiritually disenfranchised.Together, they talk about how God is moving outside the hierarchy and the norms of organized religion into the margins, and what that means for us, who wish to connect with the Divine. They talk about what it means to kill a church, about empathy, about deconstructing our identities in order to create something better. Listen in to this really important conversation!Stuart Delony is a storyteller, seeker, sojourner, question-asker, and provocateur. He’s a former pastor and the creator and host of Snarky Faith Radio, a podcast for the spiritually disenfranchised. Stuart has a Masters of Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary and lives in Chapel Hill, NC with his wife and kids.Website: www.SnarkyFaith.comFacebook: Stuart DelonyInstagram: @stuartdelonyFollow Kerry @kerry.connellyTo schedule your Angel Reiki session or apply for Coaching with Kerry, go to:https://www.mysticjusticepodcast.com/welcomeTo purchase Kerry Connelly’s ‘Good White Racist’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3bMUZXFTo purchase Malidoma Patrice Some’s ‘Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3pOvXeEEpisode Timestamp:Snippet - 00:00 - 00:17General Intro - 00:17 - 01:35Stuart's Intro - 01:35 - 05:44Main Interview - 5:44 - 29:01Coaching Commercial - 29:01 - 30:34Continuation of Main Interview - 30:34 - 59:37General Outro - 59:37 - 01:00:16

In this episode, Kerry speaks with musician Heatherlyn about what it means to resist capitalism as an artist, the value of women's labor, and what it means to work and live in two different economies, which of course, also brings up boundaries. Also in this conversation, a reading with Heatherlyn's angels, and we talk about how she can connect more deeply with them. Listen in and check out Heatherlyn's music at www.patreon.com/heatherlynmusicInspired by the irresistible way music can connect and carry us, Heatherlyn has built an international community around songs, poetry, and gatherings designed to pull listeners deeper into their own stories and the stories of others. Her passion for theology and the beautiful complexity of the human spirit is present in everything she creates, resonant in the echoes of the soul, rock, and roots influences that weave through her eclectic sound. Whether she is curating sacred space through music at HeatherlynMusic.com, on the road in partnership with patrons, faith communities, and social justice organizations around the world, or as the Worship Pastor at Left Hand Community Church in Boulder County, CO, her motivation rests in the firmly held belief that love is a powerful force of hope and healing, and that music is a uniquely powerful expression of love.Website: www.heatherlynmusic.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/heatherlynmusicInstagram: @heatherlynmusicFacebook: Heatherlyn MusicFollow Kerry @kerry.connellyTo schedule your Angel Reiki session or apply for Coaching with Kerry, go to:https://www.mysticjusticepodcast.com/welcomeTo purchase the ‘Good White Racist’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3bMUZXFEpisode Timestamp:Snippet - 00:00 - 00:26General Intro - 00:26 - 01:44Heatherlyn's Intro - 01:44 - 04:26Main Interview - 4:26 - 24:07Angel Reiki Commercial - 24:07 - 25:20Continuation of Main Interview - 25:20 - 49:29General Outro - 49:29 - 50:08

In this episode, Kerry speaks with Tanya Birl-Torres, a mom, dancer, and social activist who helps organizations make systems visible through movement. We talk about what it means to embody the systems that we are trying to change, shared power, and how exhausting all white, male spaces can get. Tanya explains how the oppressive systems that have been created live in the bodies of the marginalized.Tanya also talks about the energetic healing of reparations and the concept of reciprocity as a rebalancing of what has been knocked out of balance.We touch on topics of White envy of Black Joy, the flatness of all White spaces, and how White supremacy operates in all of this. Check it out!Tanya has taken her years of experience as a professional Broadway performer and melded it with her love and passion for justice. With a deep and grounded sense of presence, Tanya uses her voice to provoke curiosity, promote love, and empower others to create change from the inside out. Tanya has been a guest speaker for “The Dream Unfinished” an activist orchestra highlighting the under-recognized works for artists of color. She spoke about being one of the “tokens” on Broadway and how that has informed her life and career promoting advocacy and education as a way to continually diversify the arts. Tanya was a guest speaker at the Faith + feminism rally supporting the Women's March here in New York City. She spoke of these turbulent times being a new day and a new opportunity for those who were not in mind when this country was founded to take their rightful seat at the table. Tanya is the founder of SoHumanity and creator of the Embodying Change workshop series and retreat which focuses on the Rights of the Body and how we can reclaim them as an act of liberation. She is also a 500hr E-RYT Yoga teacher and has recently led 100 educators in New York and Denver to bring yoga and mindfulness into the classroom through the Breathe for Change program. Her most recent collaboration is with revolutionary Urban Educator Chris Emdin and founder of hip-hop Ed on the power of embodying the knowledge that we receive.Email: sohumanitynyc@gmail.comInstagram: @sohumanityFB: Tanya Birl-TorresFollow Kerry @kerry.connellyTo schedule your Angel Reiki session or apply for Coaching with Kerry, go to:https://www.mysticjusticepodcast.com/welcomeTo purchase the ‘Good White Racist’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3bMUZXFTo purchase Denise Alvarado’s book ‘The Magic of Marie Laveau: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans’, go to:https://amzn.to/3hfnj8jEpisode Timestamp:Snippet - 00:00 - 00: 14General Intro - 00:14 - 01:32Tanya's Intro - 01:32 - 7:08Main Interview - 7:08 - 30:53Coaching Commercial - 30:53 - 32:27Continuation of Main Interview - 32:27 - 01:03:39General Outro - 01:03:39 - -01:04:18

Sometimes, Spirit does the work of connecting you with people you didn't even know you needed to meet. Who knew that a simple reservation at an Airbnb in Indianapolis could turn into a friendship that would serve both of us so well? In this Friends and Family episode, you get to meet Kay, the Airbnb Host who literally helped Kerry lean more fully into her gifts. Listen in on a reading Kerry gives to Kay as they talk about angels, healing, and all good things.Kay has a BFA and resides in Indianapolis with a passion for nature and people. She enjoys deep conversations, NPR, and doesn’t take herself too seriously, even though she’s writing in the third person.To schedule your Angel Reiki session or apply for Coaching with Kerry, go to:www.mysticejusticepodcast.com/welcomeTo purchase the ‘Good White Racist’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3bMUZXFTo purchase ‘Kyle Gray’s Angels and Ancestors Oracle Cards: A 55-Card Deck and Guidebook’, go to: https://amzn.to/3qMa2FiEpisode Timestamp:Snippet - 00:00 - 00:19General Intro - 00:19 - 01:42Kay's Intro - 01:42 - 7:47Main Interview - 7:47 - 25:37Angel Reiki Commercial - 25:37 - 26:50Continuation of Main Interview - 26:50 - 50:31General Outro - 50:31 - 51:10

In this short bonus episode, Kerry talks about the White Women's Wound in relation to the most recent Rachel Hollis controversy. Rachel's most recent faux pas is indicative of the deep wounding that needs to be healed in racism is going to be eradicated and justice is to prevail in the world. Listen in to this spoken essay Kerry recorded to help white women understand our own healing and how we can resist the white male capitalist patriarchy that drives us to exhaustion practically every day.To schedule your angel reiki session or apply for coaching with Kerry, go to:www.mysticejusticepodcast.com/welcomeTo purchase the ‘Good White Racist’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3bMUZXF

What does it mean to be white women who are informed by Black and Indigenous faith practices? It means you tread carefully and lightly and with great respect. In this episode, Kerry speaks with a creative, influencer, and all-around amazing person, Melissa Greene about expanding our faith without being appropriative assholes.Melissa Green is a leader, a creative, a wedding officiant, and a communicator. She spent the first 10 years of professional ministry traveling as an artist seven of which were with the contemporary Christian music group. Avalon Avalon was an American music award original artist of the year in 2003 and Grammy-nominated in 2005.In 2009, Melissa resigned from touring and was immediately hired at grace point church in Franklin, Tennessee.Grace point is a progressive Christian community where Melissa was the associate pastor and worked for eight years, curating all of the services, leading the music, nurturing the community, and preaching once a month from 2012 to 2017, she was the hope curator for Timothy's gifts, which was the prison outreach, where she produced 127 concerts on 11 different week-long tours with incredible artists in order to entertain and uplift those in maximum security prisons.She is now the co-founder and leader of Imaginarium, a nonreligious, nonprofit that focuses on creating space to imagine a better world and intentionally making it. So. In May of 2020, she completed her master's of divinity from the Christian theological seminary. She has now also had the privilege of curating and officiating 26 weddings, including interfaith, religious, and non-religious ceremonies.Now in her early forties, after her world travels continually. Habitual learning and her life experiences. She has leaned into a deeper and broader worldview that holds at its core that all of life is spiritual. It's a view that holds that every living thing is inherently worthy, needed, and capable of a view of the interconnectedness of humanity as well as to the world in which we live.Melissa's life mission is to stay learning, stay curious, stay grounded and stay open to change.To schedule your angel reiki session or apply for coaching with Kerry, go to:www.mysticjusticepodcast.com/welcomeTo purchase the ‘Good White Racist’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3bMUZXFTo purchase ‘Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/2XVRarGFor ‘Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy)’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/2XTscJ8

When the world tells you to be small, how do you take up space? Meet Shaleen Kendrick and her beautiful, six-foot wingspan. In this episode, Shaleen and Kerry talk about deconstructing faith and what it means to resist the forces that want to make you small, silent, and compliant.Shaleen Kedrick is a spiritual seeker, curious mind, community faith leader, curator of voices, and a collector of stories. Over the past decade, she has undergone the extensive process of deconstructing and reconstructing her faith on academic and practical levels.She is an ordained minister and holds professional certifications in Spiritual Direction, Enneagram Training, iEQ9 Assessments, and Life Coaching. A preacher, teacher, and retreat facilitator with over twenty years of public speaking and coaching.To find Shaleen, check out www.desertvoices.comTo schedule your Angel Reiki session or apply for Coaching with Kerry, go to:www.mysticjusticepodcast.com/welcomeTo purchase the ‘Good White Racist’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3bMUZXFTo purchase Kyle Gray angel cards, go to:https://amzn.to/3qMa2FiFor ‘My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3qJSdXnFor ‘The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3tmjsZO

Every once in a while, you have an encounter with the Divine. In this episode, Kerry talks with fellow podcaster, influencer, and dear friend, Ben Tapper, about a divine encounter they had together in a hotel bar in Indianapolis in 2018. Though they've both written and spoken publicly about the event separately, this is the first time they talk about what happened publicly together. This is a discussion about soul groups, initial wounds, and what it means to experience love as a verb, not just an emotion.Ben Tapper (he/him/his) is an Indianapolis resident and a co-founder of the Kindred Collective. Ben hosts the Invisible Truths and What Would it Take Podcasts and is actively involved in faith-based spaces, particularly ecumenical and Anabaptist spaces. His work sits at the intersection of faith, justice, and healing. Ben holds a Master of Divinity from Christian Theological Seminary and a Master of Public Affairs from Indiana University. He helps organizations hold space for difficult questions and discern their underlying values and principles.To find Ben, check out his website: www.benjaminjtapper.com or one of his podcasts, “Invisible Truths” or “What Would It Take”.To schedule your angel reiki session or apply for coaching with Kerry, go to:www.mysticjusticepodcast.com/welcomeTo purchase the ‘Good White Racist’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3bMUZXFTo purchase ‘Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman’ book, go to:https://amzn.to/3pOvXeE

Welcome to the first episode of Mystic Justice, the podcast where we connect with spirit and smash the white patriarchy.In 2017, Kerry Connelly began her seminary journey, having spent decades in first conservative then more progressive Evangelical Christian spaces. But she'd always had a fascination with metaphysics and the spiritual realms, mostly because of her own experiences — beginning with a visit from Jesus when she was just three years old. In early 2018, Kerry visited a psychic fair where she met Mia and sat down for a reading with her. During that conversation, Mia told Kerry that the angels wanted to work with her. The only problem was, Kerry didn't really believe in angels.That conversation was the beginning of their friendship, and it was also the beginning of Kerry's journey into a deeper, more expansive spirituality than she ever imagined. In this episode, you'll hear Mia give Kerry a reading and they'll talk about ways you can connect with Spirit, too.Mia is a psychic medium from New Jersey - my home state, who works with Tarot, and Oracle Cards to bring through messages from loved ones who have crossed over from your spirit guides and your ancestors.I can tell you from personal experience that she is the real deal, and she always brings through messages of love and encouragement.To connect with Mia on Instagram: @eklectic_vibez (DM her for a reading!)https://www.instagram.com/eklectic_vibez/?hl=enTo schedule your angel reiki session or apply for coaching with Kerry, go to:www.mysticjusticepodcast.com/welcomeTo purchase Kyle Gray angel cards, go to:https://amzn.to/3qMa2FiTo purchase Good White Racist book, go to:https://amzn.to/3bMUZXF