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WE ARE THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR.

-JUNE JORDAN

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AUDIO VISUAL STORY TELLING

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Black Modern Mystic is a podcast for social transformation—born from the sacred refusal of the Hush Harbor tradition and created to inspire listeners to activate “resurrection” in everyday life.

By lifting up the ruptures and possibilities within Black faith and spirituality in America and across the diaspora, the podcast invites us to imagine, heal, and build new ways of being.

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PUBLIC THEOLOGY & SCHOLARSHIP

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The Black Modern Mystic podcast curates scholarship, culture, Black and queer liberation theology, and educational audiovisual storytelling that centers the thinkers, voices, and conversations shaping spiritual liberation and justice for all.

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ONGOING RESEARCH & LEARNING

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Our work stays deeply rooted in the field—grounded in doctoral research and committed to remaining on the cutting edge of thought, practice, and social transformation.

Across everything we do—from the Sub:Culture Fellows Program to Black Science Labs—we stay relentlessly curious. We ask bold questions, explore new possibilities, and illuminate emerging insights that push the boundaries of how we understand healing, liberation, and the future of social transformation.

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COURSES, COHORTS, & COMMUNITIES OF PRAXIS

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Join a growing digital and in-person community of spiritual kin who are cultivating a new rule of life and a new way of being on the other side of certainty and institutional Christianity. Whether you’re part of The Clearing podcast companion community or participating in a course or cohort, our hope is that the resonance created through these spaces—whether brief or long-term—meets you where you are and supports you in becoming who you’re meant to be.

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