Ep69. New Year‘s Theolutions: Skyler Keiter-Massefski, Radhika Sukumar-White, Ed Watson, and Laura Jean Truman

I sat down with a wonderful group of guests to talk about resolutions: for our own work, for the church, for the academy, for the... a whole lot of things. It was fun.

Skyler Keiter-Massefski is a theological anthropologist whose work coalesces around the themes of trans embodiment, American empire, eschatology, and abolition. They hold a degree in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and will receive their MDiv from Yale in May. You can find Skyler writing about academia, queerness, and ghosts on Twitter @SkylerJay_.

Ed Watson is a Theology PhD student at Yale. Originally from the UK, he spent time teaching in New Haven and developing homelessness ministries in Denver before pursuing various academic itches. He focuses on the relationships between doctrine, concept formation, and colonialism, especially in terms of how fundamental Christian beliefs motivate senses kinship and inheritance which in turn generate racialized concepts of belonging. He is an ardent supporter of Liverpool FC, Andy Murray, and Scottish rugby. On twitter at @an_edcentric

Rev Radhika Sukumar-White has been a Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church since 2016. She is a 2nd Generation Sri Lankan Tamil Australian, and grew up in Canberra before moving to Sydney to study Physiotherapy, Music, and then Theology. Radhika is passionate about leading vibrant worship, preaching and teaching, and walking alongside individuals in their life and faith journey. She and her husband Adrian are privileged to have been called to Leichhardt Uniting Church as a ministry team. Radhika is also deeply passionate about brunch.

Laura Jean Truman is an Atlanta based writer, itinerant chaplain, and amateur mystic. She lives and writes in the in-between places of loving Jesus, being queer, and rediscovering a more spacious Christianity after fundamentalism.

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