Finding New Ways Beyond Shame and Honor
To encounter today’s Gospel, we need to recognize that these systems in which we dwell are based on the practice of honor and shame.
Leslye Colvin is the Digital Communications and Program Coordinator for New Ways Ministry. She is a writer, spiritual companion, and contemplative activist.
She has extensive experience in promoting mission and expanding outreach of a variety of sectors including faith-based non profit, government, corporate, and academia. Inspired by the Catholic social justice tradition, she is passionate about encouraging diversity of thought especially as it relates to those often marginalized within the community.
Leslye’s “Learning to See Beyond the Normative” is in Oneing — The Cosmic Egg, vol. 9 no. 2 of the Center for Action and Contemplation’s biannual journal. Her essay, “Life, Freedom and Dignity: Reflections of a Black American Catholic”, is included in The Catholic Women Speak Network’s Visions and Vocations published by Paulist Press on the occasion of the 2018 Synod on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment.
Published by National Catholic Reporter and U.S. Catholic, she also has been interviewed by America Magazine, U.S. Catholic Magazine, South Africa’s Radio Veritas, and Vatican Radio on the construct of race, as well as by author Olga BM. Segura for the book Birth of A Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church.
Currently enrolled in the Guild for Spiritual Guidance, Leslye is a graduate of the Living School for Action and Contemplation and the Haden Institute. She holds a M.A. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an undergraduate degree from Xavier University of Louisiana. A native of Alabama, the land of the Muscogee, she resides in Maryland, the land of the Piscataway.
To encounter today’s Gospel, we need to recognize that these systems in which we dwell are based on the practice of honor and shame.
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