Alyssa Sali on the Deep Joy of Not Knowing

11/01/24 • 54 min

Before joining the Episcopal Church, Alyssa Sali ‘26 spent ten years in Jalisco, Mexico, supporting short-term missionaries and raising two children. In her recent chat on Crossings Conversations, she shares about growing up in evangelical traditions, attending Wheaton College, and eventually finding a church that checked the boxes on “a big, long list” of justice and hospitality commitments.

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Transcript

Kyle Oliver: This is Kyle Oliver from Church Divinity School of the Pacific and I am here with Alyssa Sali, a third-year MDiv student from the Diocese of Atlanta. Alyssa, thank you so much for joining us for this conversation.

Alyssa Sali: Thanks, I'm looking forward to it.

Kyle: Okay, well let's dive right in and talk a little bit about your early experiences as a Christian. I think if I have the biography right, you were baptized in the Christian Reformed Church. You later atte