Maren Mantovani: In Pursuit of Global Solidarity Against Apartheid. Msingi Talks is a podcast hosted by Msingi Trust that ventures deeper and makes connections in the world of faith advocacy activism. To support the work of Msingi Trust and the production of this podcast, please consider making a donation to us via Paypal: [email protected] Patreon:www.patreon.com/msingitrust Mpesa: +254 792 176 030 Follow Msingi on Twitter and Instagram @msingitrust --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/msingitalks/message

If you missed Part 1, we encourage you to go check out the last podcast and then tune in to this episode. On this episode of Msingi Talks, Carol is joined by Sarah Quint to talk about Indigeneity, Empire, God's Kingdom, and the Pain of the World. "Sarah Quint is a citizen of the Mattaponi Nation of Tsenacommacah, Turtle Island (Eastern Virginia, USA). She is a mother of two boys, River and Reed. She is a creative who remodels homes for a living and also has a love for plant knowledge and foraging. With the help of her Elders and the Holy Spirit, Sarah has been walking the decolonizing, contextualizing, and reconnecting Way of Jesus. Sarah leads in this integrating journey through writing songs in her Tribe’s traditional tongue, connections to the land, writing, teachings, and oral storytelling. She is a church planter, currently co-pastoring with her husband at Monroe City Church in Monroe, MI that is set to launch in 2021." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/msingitalks/message

On this episode of Msingi Talks, Carol is joined by Sarah Quint to talk about Indigeneity, Empire, God's Kingdom, and the Pain of the World. "Sarah Quint is a citizen of the Mattaponi Nation of Tsenacommacah, Turtle Island (Eastern Virginia, USA). She is a mother of two boys, River and Reed. She is a creative who remodels homes for a living and also has a love for plant knowledge and foraging. With the help of her Elders and the Holy Spirit, Sarah has been walking the decolonizing, contextualizing, and reconnecting Way of Jesus. Sarah leads in this integrating journey through writing songs in her Tribe’s traditional tongue, connections to the land, writing, teachings, and oral storytelling. She is a church planter, currently co-pastoring with her husband at Monroe City Church in Monroe, MI that is set to launch in 2021." Stay tuned for Part 2... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/msingitalks/message

Antonia Wanjiku Musunga is unapologetic intersectional feminist who is passionate protection of human rights, gender equality social justice, inclusion, governance and development.She has over the time worked on refugee rights, women rights, and sexual reproductive health rights and economic rights. Antonia is National Coordinator of the Kenya Fight Inequality Alliance. You can follow their work on Facebook and Twitter @KenyaFightInequalityAlliance To support the work of Msingi Trust and the production of this podcast, please consider making a donation to us via Paypal: [email protected] Patreon:www.patreon.com/msingitrust Mpesa: +254 792 176 030 Follow Msingi on Twitter and Instagram @msingitrust --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/msingitalks/message

Rob Stegmann (PhD, Stellenbosch University, South Africa) is an educator, New Testament scholar, and research fellow at Stellenbosch University. With more than twenty years of teaching experience, he has demonstrated a thoroughgoing commitment to wrestling with how the church and the academy could work together. He is an advocate of hermeneutical practices that ground interpretation within the contextual realities of life. Rob is a contributor to the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies and has recently completed his first monograph, Contested Masculinities: Polysemy and Gender in 1 Thessalonians (2020) with Lexington Books (Contested Masculinities). To support the work of Msingi Trust and the production of this podcast, please consider making a donation to us via Paypal: [email protected] Patreon:www.patreon.com/msingitrust Mpesa: +254 792 176 030 Follow Msingi on Twitter and Instagram @msingitrust --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/msingitalks/message

Mandisa Dyantyi is the director of the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) in Capte Town. The SJC works to advance the constitutional rights to life, dignity, equality, freedom and safety in the lives of all people, but especially those living in informal settlements in South Africa. Follow Mandisa Dyantyi on Twitter @mandisadg and the SJC on Twitter @sjcoaltion and Instagram @social_justice_coalition_.  Find out more about the SJC here https://sjc.org.za/.  Msingi Talks is a podcast hosted by Msingi Trust that ventures deeper and makes connections in the world of faith advocacy activism. To support the work of Msingi Trust and the production of this podcast, please consider making a donation to us via Paypal: [email protected] Patreon:www.patreon.com/msingitrust Mpesa: +254 792 176 030 Follow Msingi on Twitter and Instagram @msingitrust --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/msingitalks/message

Esme Bowers lives in Cape Town and serves as the chairperson of The Evangelical Alliance of South Africa. She is the Director for the Church In Community Department and has served in many departments of WEA in various capacities including the Leadership Development Institute, Women’s Commission, Missions Commission and Religious Liberty Bureau, now serving on the Senior Leadership Team of World Evangelical Alliance. She has served as the International Secretary for the Lausanne movement for 4 years, hosted the 3rd Lausanne congress in Cape Town 2010 and retired as board secretary in 2015. Her passion for seeing a world reconciled to Christ has taken her to many countries as an evangelist and teacher. As a social justice activist she is engaged in issues of racism, sexism and poverty and advocates for the ‘Whole Church Taking the Whole Gospel to the Whole World”. In 2012 she established The African Women in Missions Network, is on the leadership team of The Movement for African National initiatives (MANI), and continues to support the work of The Pan African Christian Women’s Association (PACWA) training women and men in community transformation. Msingi Talks is a podcast hosted by Msingi Trust that ventures deeper and makes connections in the world of faith advocacy activism. To support the work of Msingi Trust and the production of this podcast, please consider making a donation to us via Paypal: [email protected] Patreon:www.patreon.com/msingitrust Mpesa: +254 792 176 030 Follow Msingi on Twitter and Instagram @msingitrust --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/msingitalks/message

This week, Carol is in conversation with Reuben Kigame on all matters of activism, prophecy, music, and presidential aspirations. Reuben Kigame is a music minister, Christian apologist and electronic media consultant from Kenya. He describes himself as a “Christian pan-Africanist” and, regarding the three callings of his life, he says: “Like an African pot, my life’s mission sits on three cooking stones – music, apologetics, and media.” He is a well-travelled, celebrated, and personable musician, speaker, author, scholar, and Christian activist. Follow Reuben Kigame  www.kigamemedia.org Twitter: @reubenkigame Instagram : @papakigame Facebook: Reuben Kigame Msingi Talks is a podcast hosted by Msingi Trust that ventures deeper and makes connections in the world of faith advocacy activism. To support the work of Msingi Trust and the production of this podcast, please consider making a donation to us via Paypal: [email protected] Patreon:www.patreon.com/msingitrust Mpesa: +254 792 176 030 Follow Msingi on Twitter and Instagram @msingitrust --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/msingitalks/message

This is part three of a three-part series. Please see your podcast feed if you haven't listened to parts 2 and 3.  In this conversation, Carol speaks with  Dr Damaris Parsitau about Gender-Based Violence, Masculinity, Femininity, Society, and the Church. Dr. Damaris Seleina Parsitau is a social scientist and a senior lecturer in religion and gender studies at Egerton University, Kenya. She is also the President of the African Association for the Study of Religion in Africa and Its Diaspora (AASR).She is a feminist scholar, a career educationist, a community mobilizer and an advocate for social justice, girls’ education, and women and youth empowerment and leadership development! Dr. Parsitau is a community mobilizer who runs two non-profit organizations: Let Maasai Girls Learn (LMGL) and Osotau Le Maa. She works tirelessly to mentor and inspire social and gendered change in her Maasai community and beyond. Dr Parsitau is a social influencer, a policy blogger, and a columnist with the Elephant. This is part three of a three-part series. Please see your podcast feed if you haven't listened to parts 2 and 3.  Follow Dr Parsitau's work here: https://www.facebook.com/damaris.parsitau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocM2qXrBtio https://www.amazon.com/Making-Biblical-Womanhood-Subjugation-Became/dp/1587434709 Msingi Talks is a podcast hosted by Msingi Trust that ventures deeper and makes connections in the world of faith advocacy activism. To support the work of Msingi Trust and the production of this podcast, please consider making a donation to us via Paypal: [email protected] Patreon:www.patreon.com/msingitrust Mpesa: +254 792 176 030 Follow Msingi on Twitter and Instagram @msingitrust --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/msingitalks/message

In this conversation, Carol speaks with  Dr Damaris Parsitau about Gender-Based Violence, Masculinity, Femininity, Society, and the Church. Dr. Damaris Seleina Parsitau is a social scientist and a senior lecturer in religion and gender studies at Egerton University, Kenya. She is also the President of the African Association for the Study of Religion in Africa and Its Diaspora (AASR).She is a feminist scholar, a career educationist, a community mobilizer and an advocate for social justice, girls’ education, and women and youth empowerment and leadership development! Dr. Parsitau is a community mobilizer who runs two non-profit organizations: Let Maasai Girls Learn (LMGL) and Osotau Le Maa. She works tirelessly to mentor and inspire social and gendered change in her Maasai community and beyond. Dr Parsitau is a social influencer, a policy blogger, and a columnist with the Elephant. This is part two of a three-part series. Subscribe for the next two episodes, released in the coming weeks. Follow Dr Parsitau's work here: https://www.facebook.com/damaris.parsitau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocM2qXrBtio https://www.amazon.com/Making-Biblical-Womanhood-Subjugation-Became/dp/1587434709 Msingi Talks is a podcast hosted by Msingi Trust that ventures deeper and makes connections in the world of faith advocacy activism. To support the work of Msingi Trust and the production of this podcast, please consider making a donation to us via Paypal: [email protected] Patreon:www.patreon.com/msingitrust Mpesa: +254 792 176 030 Follow Msingi on Twitter and Instagram @msingitrust --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/msingitalks/message