The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis uses her gifts as author, activist, preacher, and public theologian toward creating an antiracist, just, gun violence free, fully welcoming, gender affirming society in which everyone has enough.

Jacqui is the Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church. A womanist theologian, Jacqui has preached at the Festival of Homiletics, the Wild Goose Festival, The Children’s Defense Fund’s Haley Farm, and was a featured speaker on the Together national tour with best-selling author, Glennon Doyle.

Dr. Lewis’ work has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, the front page of The New York Times website, New York Times Video, The New York Post, CNN i-report, Essence, Ebony.com, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, The Associated Press, The San Francisco Chronicle, U.S. News, The Public’s Radio, The Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Times, The San Diego Union Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The Yakima Herald. She has blogged for The Huffington Post, GLAAD, Patheos, and Believe Out Loud. Her books include The Power of Stories; Ten Essential Strategies (with John Janka); Becoming Like Creoles (with Curtiss de Young, et al), and the children’s book, You Are So Wonderful! Harmony/Penguin Random House published her book, Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World in 2021. Her next book is the Just Love Story Bible for Children (Beaming Books, 2024).

Quickly & In Motion for Fierce Love throughout the year.

Historic East Village church ready to reopen in time for Easter after devastating fire in 2020

​Darla Miles reports on the historic Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan’s East Village, which is preparing to reopen its doors just in time for Easter Sunday. Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, the church’s senior minister, shares insights into the restoration efforts following the devastating fire in December 2020. The church’s iconic Tiffany stained-glass dome has been meticulously reconstructed, symbolizing resilience and hope for the congregation.

Feeling lost after the election? Religious leaders on finding hope

What a disappointing and dispiriting week for Democrats, and all Americans who feel like they have been battered by a firehose of political negativity for a year. MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart turns to Bishop Eugene Robinson and Reverend Doctor Jacqui Lewis for some words of hope and wisdom in this time of trouble.

Love, For the Win – Christians for Kamala

Hear the Reverend Jacqui Lewis speaking passionately at ‘Christians for Kamala,’ on a faith that embraces the marginalized, oppressed, and overlooked.

This is a hopeful movement of followers of Jesus who believe that empathy matters, that character counts, and that kindness is the better path. We are human beings of deep faith from every disparate corner of this nation who are tired of being defined by cruelty, exclusion, and hatred.

Maurice Mitchell & the Working Families Party: Voting is a Chess Move

Are you planning to vote in the presidential election? It’s quite possibly the most important election in our lifetimes — and yet some Americans are deciding to forgo voting this November. How do we square the contradictions when casting our vote, and how should we think about elections altogether? As National Director of the Working Families Party (WFP), Maurice “Moe” Mitchell is interacting with voters on the ground and supporting candidates who’ve come out for a ceasefire in Gaza. The WFP’s bottom-up, third party approach is winning. What is he seeing and what is his advice in this critical election year? For starters, he says “supporting a candidate is a chess move. It’s not a valentine”. He joins Laura Flanders and returning co-host Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, Senior Minister at Middle Church in New York City, to break it all down. All that, plus a commentary from Laura.

This video premiered July 2024.

Faith Leaders Discuss Finding Common Ground Amid Gaza War

As the war in Gaza rages on, the U.S. has seen a rise in antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents. A panel of faith leaders, including Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, Rabbi Dr. Barat Ellman and Dr. Hussein Rashid, join MSNBC’s Michael Steele to discuss how Americans can find common ground and ease tensions.

This video premiered December 2023.

Life Stories: Individual Lives. Collective Impact.

Life Stories creates and distributes documentary films and educational resources about people whose lives inspire meaningful change. Our interviews, series, films, and educational content address issues of social justice, history, politics, the arts, and culture by shining the spotlight on relatable human stories of purpose and meaning in times of collective change. I’m honored to be featured alongside folks like John Lewis, Gloria Steinem, Joan Baez, Bryan Stevenson, Dolores Huerta, George Takei, and several former U.S. presidents.

Michael Flynn’s Holy War – Frontline | PBS

“How did Michael Flynn go from being an elite soldier overseas to waging a “spiritual war” in America? In collaboration with the Associated Press, FRONTLINE examines how the retired three-star general has emerged as a leader in a far-right movement that puts its brand of Christianity at the center of American civic life & institutions and is attracting election deniers, conspiracists & extremists.”

This video premiered October 2022.