What Would Healing Look Like? (Part 1) with Belvie Rooks

Living Love

What does it mean to commit to love and life, even when facing some of the hardest historic and current struggles? Beth invites Belvie Rooks, an author, activist, and educator, to share how meeting Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as a youth planted seeds that grew over decades. We learn about an educational program she developed for young people dealing with urban violence to expand their sense of identity and purpose by seeing themselves within the larger story of the universe’ evolution. Belvie shares how she and her husband Dedan confronted the reality of what their enslaved African ancestors endured led to the powerful question of "What would healing look like?"
This conversation continues in Part 2 where we see how the stories shared here affected the lives of three people. Episode is linked here.
Kinship: A Hub to Amplify the Power of Community: This is Beth Tener’s current initiative. These Ways of Kinship videos highlight some of the themes of this podcast conversation.
Growing a Global Heart - Learn more about Belvie and Dedan’s vision to inspire the ceremonial planting of millions of trees to honor the forgotten souls of our past and as a solution to climate change.
Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart: A Poetic Love Song - a book of poems and stories co-authored by Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills. And this book features a chapter on their story: The Power of Love: A Transformed Heart Changes the World.
Hearts in Tandem - A video of Belvie and Dedan.
How To Look At a Brownfield and See a Flower Garden | Article by Belvie Rooks in Reimagine! about the curriculum she developed inspired by the Universe Story.

The Tree of Life - One Zoom has created this interactive visual of the entire tree of life of over 2 million species.
The Universe Story - Check out this documentary, Journey of the Universe, with Brianne Swimme, that shares how “over the course of 14.5 years hydrogen transformed itself into mountains, butterflies, the music of Bach, and you and me.” Or these books.
Transcript available at: kinshiphub.net/podcast

Audio editing by: Podcasting for Creatives