Jacqui Lewis

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Jacqui Lewis The Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D., Senior Minister, Middle Collegiate Church; Executive Director, The Middle Project

18/10/2026

I’m having a terrible cough today. 😷🤧
Still, a short homily from me.
Let the people say, Amen.
Let the people register to vote.

Are you registered?

democracy

08/10/2026

America is a dirty house. A filthy house. And we need to clean it up.

I woke up to dust bunnies on my floor and started crying. Because my apartment isn’t the only dirty house.

Just cause the pillows are fluffed doesn’t mean the house is clean. First we gotta recognize the dirt. Then we go to the polls and vote.

Our house is nasty, y’all. Beloveds, grab a broom. 🧹

cleanhousecleanmind

07/10/2026

Midweek check-in, Beloveds. 💛

Five years ago this book went out into the world. I didn’t write it from a calm place. I wrote it from grief, from a pandemic, from the smoke of a church fire.

And underneath all of it I found the same truth every faith keeps pointing to. We belong to each other. No exceptions.

So this season, Wednesdays are ours. Each week I’ll sit with you and unpack one practice of fierce love. One at a time. Together.

How’s your heart this Wednesday? Tell me below.

LovePeriod.

07/10/2026

Do you want to know the greatest single threat to our democracy? White Christian nationalism.

More and more people are talking about it. Even Hayley Williams of Paramore is saying it out loud.

Naming it is the first step. Learning what we can do about it is the next.

Join me at the Freedom Rising Conference, October 23 to 25, in New York City and online. Get your tickets at the link in bio.

LovePeriod.

06/10/2026

Rachel Cargle is coming to Freedom Rising. 💜

Grief doula, author, activist, and a soul sister of mine. Her session, Grief as Practice, asks what grief can give the world we are building.

October 23 to 25 at Middle Church in NYC, in person and online. Link in bio.

05/10/2026

Beloveds, this is what it’s like at Freedom Rising.

We dance. We laugh. We hold each other up. And then we get to work.

Joy is not a break from the fight. It is how we keep fighting. You get both here.

Join me October 23 to 25 at Middle Church in NYC for Love & Liberation NOW. Come be in the room where it happens. Link in bio.
LovePeriod.

02/10/2026

Home is not one thing to me. It’s grief and gratitude. It’s lament and laughter. It’s the people who hug me so hard I forget, for a second, what I was worried about.

This is what home looks like for me at Middle Church. A both/and place. A third space where every part of me is welcome.

I wrote about why we need places like this now more than ever. Read “We Need Both/And Places, Third Spaces to Hold Our Complex Lives” — link in bio.

LovePeriod.

Photos by Patrick Mulcahy.

Wow!! Today is my birthday. Sixty seven trips around the sun. “You don’t look 67, “ they say. “You look 50, 55 tops.” We...
29/05/2026

Wow!! Today is my birthday. Sixty seven trips around the sun. “You don’t look 67, “ they say. “You look 50, 55 tops.” Well my heart has 67 years worth of joy and sadness and hope and fear and healing and happiness. My soul 67 years of prayers and forgiveness and scars and peace and wonder. My mind 67 years of ideas and theology and books and curiosity and questions and answers and doubts and faith. My body—well, it’s road tested for 67 years. I like it. I love it. It’s me!!

Thanks for all of your notes celebrating me.

I am my grandparents’ dream. My parent’s hope. Friend to sibs and cousins. I celebrate all our relationships. I, too, celebrate me.

Thanks for loving me.

I love you, too💕🎉❤️🎂

28/05/2026

Across The Table Episode 7 Part 2 is OUT NOW 🎙️

Black mentorship isn’t optional. It’s necessary.
When you walk into a room, ask yourself: are you showing up in a way that makes younger Black folks feel seen, valued, and possible?

You have to believe you belong in the room so they know they belong too.

Watch now. Join the conversation. Pull up a seat. 🖤

26/05/2026

The agenda of the Holy Spirit has always been plurality.
The first Pentecost wasn’t monocultural. It was multiracial, multicultural, and filled with people from every background and class.

When the Church rejects diversity, it misses the very heartbeat of the Holy Spirit. Unity in Christ was never meant to look uniform.

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