Psalms for the Spirit
Psalms for the Spirit
Ep. 5 Creating Rivers of Resilience in Wearying Times, with Erin Hayes-Cook
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Ep. 5 Creating Rivers of Resilience in Wearying Times, with Erin Hayes-Cook

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Today’s guest is Erin Hayes-Cook, a Presbyterian minister based in Rahway, New Jersey – a short commute away from New York City. I’ve known Erin for about two decades now, and I was interested to get back in touch to hear about some of her current work around building resilience in her congregation’s spiritual lives as well as the broader community during these wearying times. In this conversation, we explore marking time through rituals, creating space to meet with God, and poetry as a creative process in understanding who we are. Serendipitously, this podcast coincided perfectly with the launch of Erin’s new project River of Resilience, which offers practices in resilience for people of color traumatized by racism. Through this project, Erin seeks ways to offer healing for people whose bodies, minds and spirits have been affected not only by the pandemic but by the pervasive racism that has been all the more exposed in this past year.         

Here is the link to follow or support the River of Resilience Project: https://www.facebook.com/River-of-Resilience-105731851459792

Celtic Psalms (Kiran Young Wimberly and The McGraths) music can be found on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and YouTube.

Published notations, CDs and downloadable mp3s can be found at GIA music

Songs featured in this episode:

Come, Spirit, Come (Psalm 144/The King’s Shilling)

O God, You Are My God (Psalm 63/Eleanor Plunket)

As the Deer (Psalm 42/Down By the Sally Gardens)

From the Depths (Psalm 130-131/The Quiet Land of Erin)

More about Erin Hayes-Cook:

In January of 2013 Rev. Hayes-Cook accepted the call to be the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Rahway, New Jersey. She has served First Rahway for 8 years as the first woman of color to pastor the community in its 275 year history. Gaining great joy in walking alongside the diverse community she serves through her local presbytery and synod, she looks forward to the the River of Resilience initiative to help offer healing practices in the face of racism. Rev. Hayes-Cook and her husband Lawrence welcomed their first child in June of 2019. She loves a good cup of coffee, writing, and working out with her Crossfit community.

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Psalms for the Spirit
Psalms for the Spirit
This podcast looks at the connections between spirituality and resilience through the lens of the Biblical Psalms. It explores how the Psalms help people through difficult times – times of personal and collective trauma – through conversations about personal story, field research, and theological reflection from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. Listeners might include clergy, seminarians, spiritual directors, hymnwriters, church musicians, mental health practitioners, anyone interested in the intersection between spirituality and lived experience.