New Roots with Rev. Mariama White-Hammond

There is so much exciting talk about emergence these days! How do you apply this thinking to something like the Church? How can you make room for the new when a tradition is 2000 years old?

Rev. Mariama White-Hammond is finding out. She is a founder of New Roots AME Church, an Emergent Church in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. Where I live! Reverend Mariama says that Emergent Churches believe God is doing something new in this moment. And that it is our job to move with spirit and make ourselves available for God to emerge.

In this podcast episode we dive into spirituality and emergence. We talk about accountability.

And about what we can do to heal the deep divide in our Country.

Rev. Mariama is and has been a passionate advocate for ecological & social justice. For youth engagement and Spirit based organizing. She is engaging the faith community, and particularly the Black church on climate change and ecological justice issues. Mariama is also becoming a farmer.

I can’t wait for you to get to know her.

Let me know what you think!

BIO

Rev. Mariama White-Hammond is an advocate for ecological issues, social justice, and youth empowerment. As former director of Project HIP-HOP (Highways Into the Past- History, Organizing and Power), she used the arts as a tool to raise awareness for social issues from juvenile incarceration to funding for public transportation. Rev. Mariama has received numerous awards including the Barr Fellowship, the Celtics Heroes Among Us, The Roxbury Founders Day Award and the Boston NAACP Image award. Rev. Mariama is very committed to engaging the faith community, and particularly Black church on climate change and ecological justice issues. Rev. Mariama serves on both local and national boards and committees like the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund, Union Capital Boston and Clean Water Action.

If you would like Rev. Mariama to speak at your event please contact her assistant at diana@revmariama.net.

Resources:

Find about more about Rev. Mariama White-Hammond on her facebook page

Join Emergent Church: https://www.newroots.church/

Join her campaign to renew New England

References:

Abraham Joshua Heschel’s book the sabbath