Media Appearances
People’s Supper Co-Founders Rev. Jen Bailey, Emily May, and Lennon Flowers being interviewed by Dana Jacobson of CBS News.
A Brief History of the Future, Episode 5, “Together” - PBS
Movement Chaplains Offer Specialized Support for Activists - Faith and Leadership
So You Want to Start a Movement? Read This First - Forbes
How To Talk Politics Without Letting Things Turn Ugly - NPR
How Can Spiritual Practice Sustain Activism - Sojourners
At The People’s Supper, strangers explore common ground - The Christian Century
Ideas novedosas para hablar de acoso y violencia sexual con tu familia y amigos - El Diario
Some Bright Spots in 2017 - The Christian Century
Podcast Spotlight: On Being with Krista Tippett
Lennon Flowers and Rev. Jennifer Bailey embody a particular wisdom of millennials around grief, loss, and faith. Together they created The People’s Supper, which uses shared meals to build trust and connection among people of different identities and perspectives. Since 2017, they have hosted more than 1,500 meals. In the words they use, the practices they cultivate (some of which we’ve collected on onbeing.org), and the way they think, Flowers and Bailey issue an invitation not to safe space, but to brave space.
Rev. Jennifer Bailey is co-founder of The People’s Supper and the founder and executive director of Faith Matters Network. She is also an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and her writing appears regularly in publications including “Sojourners” and The Huffington Post.
Lennon Flowers is co-founder of The People’s Supper and the co-founder and executive director of The Dinner Party. She is also an Ashoka Fellow and an Aspen Ideas Scholar. She has written for CNN, “YES!,” “Forbes,” Open Democracy, EdWeek, and “Fast Company.”
Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.