Spirit, Sound, and Disruption

Voices of Fire, Faith, and Fierce Love

Lisa Sharon Harper
A powerhouse of faith-rooted justice, Lisa Sharon Harper brings prophetic fire and practical wisdom. Founder of Freedom Road and author of The Very Good Gospel, she calls us toward healing in the places where race, faith, and politics collide. MORE

Stan Mitchell
Pastor, provocateur, and beloved heretic, Stan Mitchell is the spiritual uncle you didn’t know you needed. With warmth and wit, he brings a radically inclusive vision of Christianity that feels like both a challenge and a homecoming. MORE

Paula Stone Williams
With humor, humility, and hard-earned insight, Paula Stone Williams tells the story of transitioning from megachurch pastor to national advocate for gender equity. She’ll make you laugh, make you think, and maybe change your mind. MORE

HuDost
This genre-blurring duo weaves folk, rock, and Sufi soul into a transcendent soundscape. HuDost isn’t just a band—they’re an experience, inviting you to dance, grieve, hope, and awaken through music that feels like a prayer. MORE

This year’s Goose is weaving something wild and wondrous. You in?

Wild and Wondrous: Artists Stirring the Spirit at This Year’s Goose

With a lineup of artists and activists who speak truth, spark joy, and stir hearts, this year’s Goose promises a soulful celebration of justice, creativity, and connection. Here are just a few of the voices helping to weave this year’s wild and wondrous tapestry:

Crys Matthews
Equal parts songwriter, storyteller, and social justice troubadour, Crys Matthews delivers music with a mission. Her blend of folk, gospel, and blues fuels the movement and feeds the soul—think Joan Baez meets Tracy Chapman at a protest rally. MORE

Bec Cranford
Chaplain, activist, and all-around holy mischief-maker, Bec Cranford shows up with fierce compassion and zero tolerance for injustice. Whether she’s preaching, organizing, or making you laugh-cry with a story, she keeps it real—and deeply human. MORE

Doug Pagitt
Pastor, author, and merry theological disruptor, Doug Pagitt brings bold ideas wrapped in bigger questions. As founder of Vote Common Good, he helps faith communities reimagine public life with hope, humor, and just the right amount of holy trouble.  MORE

Ken Medema
Blind since birth, but able to see straight into your soul, Ken Medema has been improvising music and moments for decades. With piano keys and prophetic insight, he turns what’s happening in the room into songs that leave you changed. MORE

This year’s Goose is weaving something wild and wondrous. You in?

Holy Misfits, Big Fish, and Bibles That Don’t Bite

At Wild Goose, we don’t fear scripture—we step into it, queer it, and make it breathe again.

You don’t sit through these. You rise up inside them—speaking, moving, laughing, and reclaiming every word that tried to leave you out.

A Petulant Prophet and a Good Gracious God

Led by Drs. Melissa Jackson and Barry Biddle, this full-body retelling of Jonah invites you into the drama—literally. You’ll embody characters, wrestle with boundaries, and explore the unrelenting grace of a God who refuses to cancel anyone (even the cows). Come ready to play, laugh, and uncover sacred truths hidden in satire.

Reclaiming the Clobber Passages

Rev. Kali Cawthon-Freels invites you to step into sacred texts that have been used to harm—and flip the script. This interactive Experience offers tools, context, and soul-deep questions for reclaiming what was weaponized against LGBTQ+ folks. You don’t have to forget those verses—but you can change how you engage them.

The Bible is Not a Rule Book

With Lindsey Kelley, you’ll co-create a liberative way of reading scripture rooted in story, not shame. Through active engagement and group exploration, you’ll break free from rigid literalism and help shape new ways of encountering the sacred—with your body, voice, and full imagination involved.

These are not Bible studies.

They’re scriptural shake-ups. Spiritual jailbreaks. Comic re-tellings.

And you’re part of it.

Thread, Neurospice, and Grief

At Wild Goose, transformation doesn’t sit still.
It’s stitched by hand, sparked in the brain, and held in our grief.
These are Experiences that move you—because you move with them.

Common Threads: Creating a Community Wild Goose Quilt

Led by Kristen McGeorge, this collaborative quilting Experience is an open invitation to stitch, create, and connect. Whether you’re a seasoned quilter or have never touched a needle, you’ll design a patch and help assemble a collective quilt that tells our story—one square, one conversation, one thread at a time.

Neurodiversity 101

Join cognitive scientist Sarah Frinks Morgan for an interactive, eye-opening dive into the world of neurodivergence. Through hands-on simulations, real talk, and shared stories, you’ll engage your senses, challenge assumptions, and walk away with a deeper understanding of the beauty and complexity of neurodiverse brains—maybe even your own.

A Grief Ritual for Those Lost Through Violence While Incarcerated

Led by Natalie Buck, this immersive grief ritual invites you to remember, move, and mourn with your whole self. Through sacred gestures, water, and embodied presence, we’ll create a shared space to name the pain, honor the lives, and refuse to forget. This is not quiet reflection—it’s active remembrance.

These Experiences won’t just move you.

They’ll involve you.

Come ready to stitch, to feel, to speak, to witness—and to be changed.

At Wild Goose, we don’t just talk about transformation —
we feel it in our bodies and break through everything that told us we couldn’t.

This week’s Experiences invite you to write with passion, pray with your whole self, and speak your truth into the pulse of protest. They’re raw, intimate, and alive.

Lady Soul, Take Off Your Clothes

Led by author and mystic Jean Kelly, this Experience draws from the fierce, sensual writings of Mechtild of Magdeburg—a medieval mystic who knew how to speak her desire aloud. Through guided meditation and creative writing, you’ll craft your own love letters to the Divine, steeped in yearning, honesty, and holy heat.

Get in YOUR Body for the Good of the World

Amy Molina-Moore offers this earth-rooted invitation to get grounded, get moving, and get real. With movement and contemplative prayer, this Experience reconnects you with the sacredness of your own body—and calls you to live from that place in a world that desperately needs it.

“Conversations to Be”—Live Podcast + Artivism Experience

Join Melissa Turner and Missy Crutchfield for a podcast that doesn’t just record stories—it makes them. In this live artivism Experience, you’ll engage in dialogue, reflection, and creative expression around what it means to become an activist—and how art can carry that fire forward.

These aren’t just moments to observe.

They’re Experiences that move through you—sensual, grounded, and designed to break something open.

Your body already knows. Come see what it’s trying to say.

Write. Breathe. Resist.

At Wild Goose, faith isn’t something we inherit.

It’s something we make.

With ink and breath, silence and fire, we shape a spirituality that reflects who we truly are—and who we’re becoming.

This isn’t just programming.

It’s permission to show up whole.

Your Life as Theology: Crafting Spirituality Through Story

Led by Jordan Sylar, this Experience invites you to throw out the dusty rulebook and build a living creed—one rooted in your story. Together, we’ll honor our lived experience as sacred text, and uplift voices often left out of traditional theology. Come craft the kind of faith that can actually hold you.

Contemplation as an Act of Love and Resistance

Stillness is revolutionary.

Jeff Campbell brings you into the quiet not to escape the world, but to re-enter it whole. Through breathwork, apophatic prayer, and shared silence, you’ll rediscover how spiritual practices can nourish you and empower you to stand against the chaos.

Poetry for the Resistance

Words can wound—but they can also heal.

Join Rev. Amy Vaughan in a writing workshop where metaphor meets movement. Find your voice, channel your grief, joy, and justice into poetry and prose, and—if you choose—contribute to a collective anthology of Wild Goose witness.

These three Experiences offer more than insight.

They offer transformation.

Come ready to breathe deep, speak true, and write what only you can.