THE HAPPY HOUR #527: START WITH HELLO WITH SHANNAN MARTIN
WHAT YOU WILL HEAR:
If you have been listening to my show for a while now, you may be familiar with today’s guest. Shannan Martin joined me back in 2015 on Episode #45 to share about her family’s life and mission. Today we talk about a number of things, including the practice of waking up and how Shannan defines ‘neighbor,’ plus systematic injustice and the black squares that everyone posted on social media in 2020.
Shannan is the author of The Ministry of Ordinary Places, Falling Tree, and her newest book, Start With Hello, which releases October 11. Connecting with neighbors in intentional ways is something that screams “Shannan and Corey Martin.” Shannan says Start With Hello started in her family’s neighborhood as she found her heart gravitating toward connecting with the people around her, especially people who don’t look like her. Shannan says her calling is to live as a neighbor, which she defines as anyone who her life intersects with. Everything she knows about living as a neighbor she said she learned from her neighbors.
We can love our neighbors like Shannan by being intentional, starting with hello.
LINKS FROM THE SHOW
START WITH HELLO BY SHANNAN MARTIN
A CURIOUS FAITH BY LORE FERGUSON WILBERT
VOICES OF LAMENT BY NATASHA SISTRUNK ROBINSON
WHAT WHITE PARENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION BY MELISSA GUIDA-RICHARDS
THESE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BY SALMA EL-WARDANY
TWENTY THINGS ADOPTED KIDS WISH THEIR ADOPTIVE PARENTS KNEW BY SHERRIE ELDRIDGE
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