R.E.S.T. Mixtape
Leaving a religious institution does not have to mean leaving every source of faith, wisdom, and belonging behind.
R.E.S.T. Mixtape brings film, music, rigorous teaching, and shared spiritual practice into conversation—making room to examine what we've inherited, discover what still gives life, and explore how faith can grow beyond institutional belonging.
Track 01The Foundation
R.E.S.T. Mixtape began as a course exploring Radical Ethical Spirituality Tethered to Tradition. Through lectures, curated films, music guides, and facilitated conversation, Dr. Tamice Spencer-Helms introduces the sources behind the framework and invites participants to put its questions into practice.
Culture is not decoration around the learning. Songs, films, stories, and performances become texts through which we examine faith, power, memory, belonging, and liberation.
This is space to ask honest questions without being rushed toward certainty—or required to return to an institution you have left.
Track 02 · Three ways to enter
The Course
Explore the R.E.S.T. framework through teaching, curated films, music guides, reflection, and spiritual practice. Trace the ideas behind its components and consider how they can invigorate faith and conversation.
Explore the CourseThe Cohorts
Move through the material in a facilitated community, with room for questions, shared interpretation, and meaningful conversation. Cohorts offer a sustained setting for exploring what you are keeping, releasing, and reimagining.
Join the Cohort Waiting ListMixtape Live
Interactive pop-ups bring the framework into the room through live interviews, performances, short talks, and shared listening or viewing. Every gathering connects cultural analysis, theological exchange, participant interaction, and spiritual practice.
Find a Pop-UpTrack 03What we explore
Truth-telling as spiritual practice.
Examining belief through flourishing, accountability, and care.
Black cultural creativity as a source of theological insight.
Discerning what to keep, release, and reimagine.
Making room for grief, change, and embodied meaning.
Imagining forms of faith and belonging that can hold who we are becoming.
Track 04Who this is for
R.E.S.T. Mixtape is for people who want to explore faith without pretending their questions have disappeared. It welcomes those reconsidering inherited beliefs, seeking spiritual conversation beyond institutional walls, or finding sacred meaning in music, film, story, and everyday life.
You do not need a theology degree or a settled statement of belief. Come willing to reflect, listen, and engage others with care.