Rev. Junia Joplin (she/her) – June to most folks – is the Associate Pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto – Toronto’s historic and history-making queer church. She loves telling people they are unconditionally loved with an everlasting love, and sometimes she delivers that message in a leather clergy collar, a rainbow catsuit, and iridescent silver platform boots. June serves as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lead for the Toronto Pride Hockey Tournament, an annual event that creates an inclusive space to support and celebrate queer women, trans athletes, and their fans. Broadview Magazine tapped June to host their award-winning podcast about women in the Bible, called And Also Some Women, in 2023. She is a past recipient of the Canada 150 Community Leader Award and was named one of Canada’s Top 25 Women of Influence in 2021. She loves stand up paddleboarding when it’s warm outside and playing hockey when it’s cold outside.

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Link to Steve Watson’s Sermon: https://www.youtube.com/live/EIC0bOaArSo?si=WiTel8VN9xewf1iP

Steve Watson (he/him) has spent his career in urban public education and Christian pastoral ministry. For the past 13 years, he has been the senior pastor of Reservoir Church, a multi-racial, post-evangelical church in Greater Boston. Steve is also active as a leader in interfaith community organizing for public justice and as a singer of Renaissance music. He has a B.A. in music from Brandeis University, a Masters in Education from UMASS-Boston, and a Doctorate in Theology and Ministry from Northwind Seminary. His recently published book All Flesh Shalom explores how open and relational and postcolonial theologies can facilitate larger, freer, more loving readings of the good news of Jesus. You can also find him on Substack @allfleshshalom.

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Substack @allfleshshalom

http://www.reservoirchurch.org/

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Link to Rev. Dowd’s Sermon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or7UNP6kuKk&authuser=0

Rev. Dr. Elle Dowd’s Bio: Elle Dowd (she/they) is an author, activist, and pastor. She recently received her PhD in Queer Theology from the Chicago Theological Seminary, and is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Elle has pieces of their heart in Sierra Leone, where their two children were born, and in St. Louis where they learned from the radical, queer, Black leadership during the Ferguson Uprising. She was formerly a co-conspirator with the movement to #decolonizeLutheranism and served as a board member of the Euro-Descent Lutheran Association for Racial Justice, does outreach for an environmental justice organization known as Faith in Place, does community organizing in her city as a board member of SOUL, served on the Clergy Advocacy Board for Planned Parenthood, and facilitates workshops in both secular conferences and Christian spaces. In 2021 she published a book with Broadleaf, Baptized in Teargas, about her conversion from a white moderate to an abolitionist during the Ferguson Uprising.

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Online ministry via Facebook.com/elledowdministry

Website www.elledowd.com

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Link to Sarah Quint’s Sermon: https://www.youtube.com/live/50IK024zCCs?si=D73KKONgt314VMrB

Sarah Quint’s Bio:

Sarah Quint (she/her) is a former pastor and church planter. She now spends her days serving her Tribe, the Mattaponi of Virginia, as their Director of Housing. Sarah has been returning to the Red Road in efforts to decolonize and contextualize the Way of Jesus. These efforts have deepened her connections to place and family and led to crafting songs in her traditional language, authorship, and oral storytelling. As Sarah settles into the fullness found within the 7 directions, she is passionate about inviting those who are estranged along the way.

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Website - https://www.sarahquint.com/

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Born and raised in India, Fr. Joash P. Thomas served as a U.S. political consultant and lobbyist before pivoting to global human rights advocacy. Now based in the Toronto area, he holds a master’s degree in Political Management from The George Washington University and holds two master’s degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary in Christian Leadership and Theology. An ordained Priest in the Diocese of St. Anthony, Fr. Joash is also the author of the widely-read book, The Justice of Jesus. He also serves as Instructor in Public Theology, Peace & Justice at St. Stephen’s University (Canada).

Sermon Link - https://youtu.be/mvk-um_qLN4

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Website - http://www.joashpthomas.com/

Substack - @joashpthomas

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Dr. Greg Garrett is the author of 30 books of fiction, nonfiction, and spiritual autobiography. He is the Carole McDaniel Hanks Professor of Literature and Culture at Baylor University, and the Canon Theologian at the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris, France. Greg is a seminary-trained lay preacher in the Episcopal Church who has preached across the United States and Europe, has offered the gathering sermon for the Academy of Homiletics, and has appeared on the national preaching show, Day One. He lives with his wife Jeanie and daughters Lily and Sophia in Austin, Texas, where he is a member of the historically Black St. James Episcopal Church, who taught him to preach justice and reconciliation.

Sermon Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCjmrIfzHTE

Rev. Emily Knoth is the Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Wichita, Kansas. She lives with her wife, Rev. Maddy Bishop-Knoth, and their two dogs, Wrigley and Rufus.

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Preacher Bio - Joseph is the priest and planter of Mosaic Episcopal Church. He, his wife, Rahel, and son, Nathanael live in Pearland, TX. Joseph is the author of one book, When the Saints Go Flying In: Stories About Faith, Life, and Everything in Between. A self-described professional overthinker, Joseph tries to live out the gospel one interruption at a time.

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