Robyn has always been a reluctant leader knowing that collaboration and togetherness are a way forward, but society doesn’t always value this. Robyn grew up in the piney woods of Longview, TX where they were born in the mid-70s, and then moved to San Antonio, TX for several years where they attended junior high and high school. Robyn was involved in Texas baptist churches during young adulthood and sensed a calling to be more involved in the work and life of the church, but because of the theology of the Southern Baptist Church, they were denied time and time again. In response to the exclusionary reaction they encountered, they began reading theology during this time and became mesmerized by all that they were reading.

After suffering a brain aneurysm at the age of 16 the summer before their senior year in high school and surviving two full craniotomies as an emergency intervention, Robyn finished high school on time and headed off to college in West Texas on a music scholarship. After falling in love with the big questions of life and lofty ideas and never putting down theology books, Robyn gave up their music scholarship to study philosophy and theology, transferred to Hardin-Simmons University, and became a student at Logsdon School of Theology. There they found kindred spirits with two faculty members and began their journey to becoming a theologian and ethicist.

In This Episode

• 2:49 - What is supremacy culture and why does it need to be composted?
• 7:22 - Expanding language to express the full extent of supremacy culture
• 8:46 - Why do we need to compost supremacy culture as opposed to destroying it?
• 20:54 - Learning from nature on how to build equitable systems in society
• 30:25 - The true spirit of togetherness and nourishing relationships
• 36:28 - Activism through becoming embodied