9.2 Church at the Lipstick Lounge - Amy Violette

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03/26/18 • 37 min

Amy founded The Church at the Lipstick Lounge in 2017 in East Nashville, TN. The Lipstick Lounge is a lesbian dive bar that’s famous for its night life and karaoke. Amy and I talk about what it means to create a sacred space for folks on the margins, how to build organic pastoral care and ministry and how to maintain professionalism in a non-traditional church setting.

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9.1 Amy Violette - Baptist Preacher, Professor, Entrepreneur

Amy is a Baptist Preacher, Professor, Entrepreneur. Amy is a certified Life-Coach, Former NCAA Track and Field Athlete for Belmont University, she started six companies before the age of 30. She is a member of the Academy of Homiletics, Society of Biblical Literature, Academy of Preachers. She is a professional songwriter and actor, most recently on the show Nashville. Amy holds a MDIV from Baylor University. She is an adjunct faculty at Belmont University in the College of Theology and Christian Ministry. She was ordained to Gospel Ministry on August 13, 2017 by First Baptist Church Decatur, GA. She lives in Nashville, TN and Santa Fe, NM and founded the Church at Lipstick Lounge in East Nashville, TN.

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10.1 Julia Nusbaum - Storyteller

Julia Nusbaum is small town farm girl raised in Illinois. She currently holds the position of Event Manager for Your People’s Ministry in the United Methodist Church. She has a Masters of Theological Studies from Vanderbilty University and Bachelors in history and religion from Augustana College. She lives in Milwaukee where she’s writing her first novel. She’s also the founder of HerStory an online blog that empowers women through storytelling. In today’s episode Julia shares about her upbringing in the Lutheran tradition, her passion for social justice work and finding the divine outside of the church.