Biblical Scholar. Speaker. Recovering Evangelical.

Nikayla Reize

“…grieved and energized toward embodied collaboration.”

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I’m a biblical scholar and public speaker raised in evangelical Alberta with 14 years of experience pastoring in three different evangelical denominations in Alberta. I spent many years in ministry caring for people wounded by toxic theologies, helping them recover an embodied and liberating approach to the bible and spiritual formation. In early 2024 I stepped away from pastoring to finish my PhD and for the chance to speak more boldly and with a bigger imagination for the North American church. I’m now in full cahoots with the collective chaos, palms open, and heart pounding. My PhD research is on Sabbath and Jubilee as an ever-present socio-economic concern in the early church. I love collaborating with churches, schools, and community groups to discover embodied and land-oriented approaches to biblical interpretation and spiritual formation.

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The Empire wants you to be made of gold: ultimate, timeless, and ageless. Become frozen in time – so as to become the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Force the humans of the world you control to numb themselves so that they can keep being productive and spending millions of dollars to appear impervious to change.

“He has been raised, He’s not here anymore”.

I love going to the old religious places to see if Jesus is there and everytime, he’s not. That wasn’t Jesus. He’s not in the White House or on Twitter and it wasn’t him building those walls or promising fascists that the God of angel armies is always on their side. Look. See where they laid him? See where they thought they had placed him to stay, forever, like a notch in the belt of spiritual power? He’s not there.

It’s easier to condemn individuals than to practice collective lament and cultivate a collective imagination for an alternative economy, alternative ecology, alternative community. Maybe that’s what “holy” means – “wholly alternative to the options being given by the dominant ideologies.”