LEAD 2017 Speaker: Rori Blakeney

LEAD 2017 Speaker: Rori Blakeney

Life for Rori Francis Blakeney can be best described as a jazz improvisation. You never know what you are going to get, but you play the best song you can. Originally hailing from Washington, DC, Rori journeyed to Atlanta to study at Morehouse College, where he had...
LEAD 2017 Speaker: Brandon Wrencher

LEAD 2017 Speaker: Brandon Wrencher

Rev. Brandon Wrencher is from a small town in the Sandhills area of North Carolina. Since 2013 he has been serving in Western North Carolina in a cross-racial appointment as pastor of Blackburns’ Chapel United Methodist Church, a once dying rural church that in a few...
LEAD 2017 Speaker: Eilidh Lowery

LEAD 2017 Speaker: Eilidh Lowery

Eilidh Lowery is a pastor’s kid who wanted to become a civil rights lawyer and ended up as a high heel collecting new start pastor instead. When she’s not leading tours as a docent at the Portland Art Museum, Eilidh spends time advocating for reproductive...
Giving Up The Ghost, Part III: Holy Spirit

Giving Up The Ghost, Part III: Holy Spirit

By Kenneth Pruitt In May of last year over at Ministry Matters, I began calling us to create a new theology of White allyship, a practical theology that proclaims, without equivocation, that Black lives matter. We now arrive at perhaps the least understood and least...