Christy Randazzo (PhD - Quaker Theology, Univ. of Birmingham) is a writer, teacher, academic, minister, spouse, parent, a convinced Friend, and many other paradoxical and fantastic things besides. They teach at Montclair State University (NJ) and Earlham School of Religion,  serve as co-chair for the Quaker Theological Discussion Group, and edit the Politics of Scripture project for the journal Political Theology. 

They have written in a variety of both academic and popular settings, including the Quaker biblical studies series Illuminate, and two books for the Brill Quaker Studies series, including the recently published Quakers, Ecology, and the Light. Their most recent publication - Divine Ecosystem: A Quaker Theology - grafts together Quaker theology and the Christian ecotheological tradition. When they’re not writing or walking, they live with their family in a beautiful Victorian home in New Jersey.

Queries:

How do you become one with God? 

How do you become one with Christ?

How do you become one with Love?

How do you become one with others?

How do you become one with the oppressed?

How do you become one with the Earth?

How do you become one with yourself?

Queries:

What are sustainable and sustaining ways of organizing our lives together?

What kinds of practices and rituals provide me sustenance?

What way of seeing others and myself will sustain us–all of us?

How can we sustain the ministry of Jesus, right now? Where is that ministry needed?

Queries:

What sustenance do I receive from this community? What sustenance do I need?

How do and can we sustain each other in the challenges each of us are facing?

What sustenance do we provide those outside of our community?

How can I participate in ways that help sustain the life and ministry of CFC?

Queries:

How does Mary’s joyous song speak to you today?

What difference does joy make?

What is bringing you joy? How is joy sustaining you, in this season?

How have you witnessed or experienced joy as an act of resistance?

Queries:

What is Peace? What is the way to peace?

From what does our world need to be saved?

Where are the peacemakers? How can we join in their saving work?

How can we plant the seeds of peace? How can we nourish those seeds?