Meet the Guides

Sarah Quint

Mattaponi Housing Director • Former Pastor

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A former pastor and church planter, Sarah now spends her time serving her Tribe, the Mattaponi of Virginia, as the Housing Director. With the help of her elders and the Great Spirit, Sarah has been returning to the Red Road, in efforts to decolonize and contextualize to the Way of Jesus. These efforts have led to crafting songs in her traditional language, connecting with the land and family, authorship, and oral storytelling.

Keri Ladouceur

Pastor, Teacher, Bridge Builder

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Keri Ladouceur is a pastor, teacher, incessantly curious question asker, and bridge building peacemaker. She believes the fullness of the gospel is liberative good news for all of creation and longs to cultivate new faith spaces of mutuality and flourishing for all people. She is founder of New Ground Network, where she co-conspires with pastors, denominations, and organizational leaders to clarify and align around their purpose. One of her favorite roles is organizational coach where she is part dreamer, instigator, activator and team counselor. She has an MA in New Testament from Northern Seminary, and her imagination for the Beloved Community has been primarily shaped by her native heritage and liberation thinkers and theologians. She dreams of the Church being a life-giving community that activates the people of God to join Christ in the redemption and restoration of all things.

Trey Ferguson

Author & Podcaster • Black Christian Imagination

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Trey Ferguson is a minister, writer, and guide, with an MDiv from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. He is the author of Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly. His thoughts on faith in an evolving world can be found on the Three Black Men: Theology, Culture, and the World around Us and New Living Treyslation podcasts, in The Son Do Move newsletter, and @pastortrey05 on social media.

Drew Hart

Professor, Author, Activist

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Drew Hart is a professor and author whose work centers on antiracist theology and practice, helping communities move from complicity to active solidarity.

Tamice Spencer-Helms

Author of Faith Unleavened • Theologian & Formation Guide

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Tamice Spencer-Helms is an author, theoactivist, cultural critic, and educator whose work is a vibrant and bold call to reimagine faith, ethics, and belonging. She is the author of Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Martin & George Floyd, a powerful work that confronts how the idol of whiteness keeps Christians captive—and how that idol can be burned down.

Brian Recker

Author of Hell Bent • Writer on harm, honesty, and hope

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Brian Recker, M.Div, is a public theologian, speaker, and writer on Christian spirituality without exclusionary dogma. The son of a Baptist preacher and an alum of the fundamentalist Bob Jones University, he spent eight years as an evangelical pastor before deconstructing his faith to find a more inclusive spirituality. He now speaks about following Jesus without fear of hell on his popular Instagram account and his Substack, Beloved.