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Michael-Ray Mathews

Michael-Ray Mathews brings over 30 years of leadership experience — as a senior pastor, grassroots leader, psalmist and community organizer — to his work as Deputy Director for Faith in Action (formerly PICO National Network). He is the host of the Prophetic Resistance Podcast, where he engages multi-faith leaders in conversations about cultivating communities of belonging and sacred resistance to injustice. Rev. Mathews is president of the Alliance of Baptists, a progressive movement for justice and healing, and co-editor of "Trouble the Waters: A Christian Resource for the Work of Racial Justice." A visiting professor of public theology at American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, he is also a senior fellow at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York. Michael-Ray is co-founder of and public theologian-in-residence with Sympara, a multifaith/interspiritual community of practice, repurposing spiritual assets for the common good.

Revolutionary Love Is The Way To Racial Healing

Michael-Ray Mathews
January 18, 2021
Church Life, Interfaith, Race
Within our denominations, grassroots justice organizations, organizing networks, and movement partners, we have engaged in the best of our sacred traditions to pursue a vision of Beloved Community, of an America that is yet to be, of a nation where ancient breaches are repaired.

Wakanda Forever: Cultivating Moral Imagination & Beloved Community

Michael-Ray Mathews
April 14, 2018
Church Life, Practical Justice, Race, Theology
What if the theologies of resistance that we cultivate in this moment were rooted in the possibility of Wakanda?

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