Teacher

Jacqui Lewis



Reverend Jacqui Lewis, PhD, is an American author, activist, preacher, and public theologian. Lewis is the cofounder of The Middle Project and The Revolutionary Love Conference with her spouse, Reverend John Janka, to train leaders on aspects of social justice. Lewis advocates for racial equality, gun control, economic justice, and equal rights for all sexual orientations/genders and marriage equality.

Jacqui Lewis
FindCenter Video Image

The Power of Stories: A Guide for Leading Multi-Racial and Multi-Cultural Congregations

Most congregational leaders find it difficult to resist the dominant cultural expectation that different cultural and ethnic groups should stick to themselves -- especially when it comes to church.

book
Jacqui Lewis
2008
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Love Is Patient, Love Is...Strenuous

No wonder we don’t talk about Luke chapter 17:7-10. "Faith the size of a mustard seed" — great. Love it. Tiny seed. Lofty idea. Preachable. Even tweetable.

article
Jacqui Lewis
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Redefined - Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis

Reverend Doctor Jacqui Lewis is Senior Minister at Middle Church in New York City and author of a remarkable new book, Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World. Rev. Dr.

podcast
Redefined with Zainab Salbi
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
56:42

Jacqui Lewis

Jacqui Lewis: A Bold New Religion Called Love. Period. Presented at Wild Goose Festival 2019.

video
Jacqui Lewis
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

The Pentecost Paradigm: Ten Strategies for Becoming a Multiracial Congregation

How do churches build immunity from racial and ethnic tensions that threaten to divide rather than unite congregations? Jacqui Lewis and John Janka believe that the answer lies in the development of multiracial, multicultural communities of faith.

book
Jacqui Lewis, John Janka
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Rev. Jacqui Lewis, Ph.D. Uses Theology as a Healing Force

When Reverend Doctor Jacqui Lewis was around 9 years old, she and her sister hid under their beds while guns were being shot off in their neighborhood following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

article
Faith and Reason
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
42:56

Episode Five: "Becoming Less Racist: Lighting the Path to Anti-Racism" with Rev. Jacqui Lewis

Join us for our fifth episode of "Becoming Less Racist," when Simran Jeet Singh interviews Rev. Jacqui Lewis of Middle Collegiate Church.

video
Jacqui Lewis
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

In the Matter of Black Lives...

And so it is, condoned by broken theology, and now by cultural conscription, that Black lives matter so little in our nation that they can be pummeled, kicked, tossed, tased, trashed, shot, killed, and discarded.

article
Jacqui Lewis
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
28:01

Spiritual Black America with Jacqui Lewis

Carol Jenkins sits down with the Reverend Jacqui Lewis, Senior Minister of Middle Collegiate Church in lower Manhattan. They discuss the importance of diversity, multi-culturalism, love and the arts in the world of faith and ministry.

video
Jacqui Lewis
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Confessing Jesus' Name Means Confessing Revolutionary Love

I must confess that I am an African-American woman, a Christian woman, a woman who believes there is more than one path to God.

article
Jacqui Lewis
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Loader Image

EXPLORE RELATED TOPICS

EXPLORE RELATED TEACHERS

UP NEXT

Zainab Salbi

Photo Credit: Roy Rochlin / Stringer / Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images