Season 2: Matshidiso & Annmarie Lewis

Common Era: Spirituality in an Age of Change

In our second season, we’re hosting a conversation between Annmarie Lewis and Matshidiso.

Annmarie Lewis OBE is a leading business and justice consultant - sought after in the fields of Justice Systems, Strategy, Business/Organisational Development and Design and Executive Leadership. Having previously founded her own award winning social enterprise, and consultancy business, she is also an accomplished academic, trainer and executive coach. Her passion and specialisms are within the youth justice sector, where she has worked across the entire spectrum of end to end justice, spanning 25 years.

A classically trained pianist, Matshidiso is also a composer, arranger and singer-songwriter. With a background in human rights law, her passion is to use music and creativity to promote human rights and justice-based projects. Matshidiso also has a podcast Holding Up the Ladder where she interviews people about their creative processes.

This season, Matshidiso and Annmarie sharing their journeys and experience in the justice space, discussing what justice really looks like from a theological perspective, where the church is falling short of this ideal, and what a better future might look like for faith movements in particular. The conversation is so full of paradigm-changing moments: challenging what justice is, what racism is, and the very concept of crime and punishment.

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