K. Monet Rice-Jalloh: Heeding the Inner Call

12/09/22 • 37 min

This week, Dr. Reyes talks to Rev. Dr. K. Monet Rice-Jalloh about her early call as a young girl in a context that did not affirm women in ministry. She recounts tales of skipping school to go to church and then later to audit classes in religion and theology at the local college. Her fascination with deep questions and her compassion are a natural fit for ministering to and with students and the academic community she serves.

K. Monet is an associate university chaplain at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. She is also vice president of the Association for Chaplaincy and Spiritual Life in Higher Education (ACSLHE) and an ordained minister in the Baptist tradition.

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Sound of the Genuine - K. Monet Rice-Jalloh: Heeding the Inner Call

Transcript

Patrick: I am Dr. Patrick Reyes. And today we are going to sit with Reverend K. Monet Rice-Jalloh who is an incredibly brilliant preacher, campus minister, entrepreneur. She just absolutely inspires so much so that we had a long conversation before this episode aired about her call to ministry and the role that FTE played in helping her discern that call. She traveled to a lot of cool places, met a lot of cool people and you’ll hear a little bit about that throughout this ep