The Portfolio Life with the Reverend Dr. Melva Sampson

Text Me! Season 2 opens with a conversation I’ve been holding close.

I’m joined by my dear friend the Reverend Dr. Melva Sampson, a woman of many gifts and facets.

She is a preacher, practical theologian, professor, festival co-founder, and the visionary behind the Pink Robe Chronicles , which this month becomes a book! The Pink Robe Chronicles: Womanist Wisdom for Healing, Liberation and Love , with a foreword by Tricia Hersey of The Nap Ministry, is absolutely stunning.

Please do yourself a favor and get your copy. In this episode, we explore what it means to be a multi-gifted, multifaceted, and multi-vocal Black woman in a world that tries to convince us to “pick one thing and stay in our lane.” Melva powerfully reminds us that, “to ignore the multi-parts of you is to ignore the multi-gifted God who created you.” We talk about the years of labor behind work that looks effortless from the outside, why there’s no gumbo without the roux, how a single word from a mentor freed her to say no, and what it means to move from scarcity into kindred abundance.

Connect with Dr. Melva Sampson: Website: Pink Robe Chronicles streams every Sunday at 8:00 AM EST on Facebook Live Instagram & Facebook: @PinkRobeChronicles and Melva Sampson One Love Festival (Winston-Salem, NC): Assistant Teaching Professor of Preaching and Practical Theology, Wake Forest University School of Divinity Grab your journal for this one, sisters.

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