Tuesday's Telegram
On Imagination, Companionship, and the Courage to Make Another World Possible
Tuesday’s Telegram
On Imagination, Companionship, and the Courage to Make Another World Possible
I am thrilled—truly, soul-deep thrilled—to join this webinar with my teacher, Dr. Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, and the brilliant Dr. Elyssa Salinas. To sit with these women, these theologians who have shaped my breath and sharpened my imagination, feels like returning to a well of wisdom that’s been waiting for me.
Whenever I gather with Nancy, something in me settles and stirs all at once. Their work calls me—calls us—back to the marrow of what matters: the fragile hope that another world is still possible, and the audacious belief that we might participate in its becoming.
Today, as we prepare to teach and dream in public, I keep returning to a single question that won’t let me go:
Can we intentionally make it so?
Can we choreograph a world rooted in belonging rather than extraction?
Can we cultivate communities that resist the empire’s demand for speed and scarcity?
Can we tend the tender shoots of imagination long enough for them to become practices, and practices long enough for them to become culture?
I believe we can.
But not alone.
This is where the sacred companionship of teachers, friends, and fellow travelers matters. This is where wisdom becomes communal, where theology becomes lived, where our stories are invited to lay down shame and pick up courage. It is where imagination ceases to be an idea and becomes a discipline—a craft of hope, rehearsed daily, even in the collapse.
To learn with Nancy and Elyssa is to sit at the borderlands of the possible. To witness how faith, poetry, lament, and joy conspire to carve new paths through the rubble. Their presence reminds me that imagination is not escapism; it is a form of ethical labor. It is a refusal to surrender our agency to despair. It is a way of saying:
We belong to each other, and because we belong, we build.
So today’s Telegram is simply this:
a blessing for those who still dare to imagine,
a nod to the teachers who midwife our courage,
and a reminder that our collective becoming is not an accident.
It is an intention.
A choice.
A daily metanoia.
What if the world we long for is waiting on our willingness to begin?
Join this conversation live to hear Dr. Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Dr. Elyssa Salinas, and Dr. Roberto Che Espinoza come together to imagine what liberating theologies can be and do in our time. Drawing from queer theory, decolonial thought, Latin American liberation theology, and transnational feminist wisdom, we ask how hope becomes a radical act, how imagination opens us beyond the limits of empire, and how resistance can take shape in ways that refuse the status quo.
Register here: https://garrettseminary.wufoo.com/forms/s4ku0kb14846ld/
(sliding scale for registration)
And just another note about the sliding scale: while the public discount codes only go to 50% off the $40 registration fee, I’m committed to a “pay what you can model” so anyone who emails me for a full scholarship code gets it, no questions asked. (We just also know that most people won’t show up if they don’t have economic skin in the game, which is why there’s a small hurdle to get the full scholarship.)
Paz, —RCE+