Friends, welcome once again.

This week, we're talking to Elle Dowd.

Elle Dowd (she/they) is an author, activist, and pastor.She is currently PhD student at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. 

Elle has pieces of their heart in Sierra Leone, where their two children were born, and in St. Louis where they learned from the radical, queer, Black leadership during the Ferguson Uprising. 

She was formerly a co-conspirator with the movement to #decolonizeLutheranism and served as a board member of the Euro-Descent Lutheran Association for Racial Justice, does community organizing in her city as a board member of SOUL, serves on the Clergy Advocacy Board for Planned Parenthood, and facilitates workshops in both secular conferences and Christian spaces. In 2021 she published a book with Broadleaf, Baptized in Teargas, about her conversion from a white moderate to an abolitionist is available now in print, e-book, or audiobook. 

To get in touch with Elle and to keep up with updates,  you can visit their website www.elledowd.com and subscribe to their newsletter.

You can also see her online ministry via Facebook.com/elledowdministry 

or follow her on Twitter/SnapChat/Insta @hownowbrowndowd 

or on TikTok @elledowdministry and @ELCAYoungAdults 

And order their book Baptized in Teargas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist  here  https://bit.ly/2YICjBf

Or download the audiobook here https://christianaudio.com/baptized-tear-gas-elle-dowd-audiobook-download