Holy Mischief Laboratory

“You Get To Keep Jesus" Edition

The Holy Mischief Laboratory is a communal experience of reflection, dialogue, and embodied learning that intentionally creates room for people to listen to and trust their intuition on matters pertaining to faith and spirituality.

This edition is an invitation to explore Jesus for yourself through new lenses and diverse interpretations with the hope that something in Jesus’s life and personhood will will add value to your spiritual practice.

What to Expect

Our learning journey will begin by exploring the interpretations of Jesus we’ve received and what is known of the historical Jesus. From there, we will move in three session increments alternating between:

Exploring diverse theological perspectives and interpretations of Jesus

Discovering who Jesus becomes when we use the lens of our own life and reality as the interpretive guide for Scripture

Activating our imagination as a portal to encounter Jesus through Scripture

This will be a highly invitational, exploratory cohort with no doctrinal expectations. Each session will offer fodder for discussion and discovery as you pay attention to your own body, intuition, and mind.

Who We Are

Two friends with different interpretations of Jesus but with a shared hope that people could learn to trust and listen to their own intuition as the foundation of spiritual practice. We share the conviction that it’s possible to rebuild a spirituality that works, keeping everything and anything that still feels aligned and letting go of whatever doesn’t.

  • Hi! I’m Tamice! I’m the creative director of Black Modern Mystic and have 23 years of ministry experience. I have a doctorate in social transformation, a masters in theology, and a masters in leadership. I have one spouse named Ellison, and two kids, one of which met Alison while in my spouse’s belly at Lake Tahoe which is where I met Alison for the first time. We had deep and riveting conversations that included different interpretations of Jesus yet similar hopes about what the world could be. We developed a very deep friendship very quickly because Alison reminds me of one of my favorite people which is Jesus. I’m deeply inspired by her work in the world and the ways that she can hold space for people’s fears and failures and dreams. Jesus has not lost importance in my own life but the positionality has changed. Jesus is part of my great cloud of witnesses and pantheon and a very good friend who I call when I need him and might call on others when I need what those people represent. Jesus has gone from savior and lord to ancestral guide.

  • Hi! I’m Alison! I’m a trauma-informed spiritual director and community facilitator with 15 years of ministry experience. I created Grey Space in 2019 and have specialized in spiritual care for people with church hurt or who are deconstructing. I am married to VJ who I call my miracle because of how we met. I met Tamice in Lake Tahoe and was immediately taken in by their vitality, open-hearted warmth, thoughtful introspection, and fierce conviction that diseased imaginations could be healed and God could be good. I told them that anything they want to do in the world, I wanted to be a part of it. Thankfully for me, they felt similarly and we’ve gotten to dream up something as beautiful and compelling as Holy Mischief!

    I still consider Jesus God and love this vision of a God that so desperately wants connection that they would do anything to make themselves known and accessible to people, like becoming human. Jesus has been an incredible source of compassion and tenderness in my inner life and being in his presence has shaped me into a more compassionate and loving person.

 FAQs

  • Anyone who wants to take Jesus seriously as a figure who can add value to their spirituality and is willing to expand beyond traditional interpretations to see his life and his teachings anew. You might be a good fit if you… 

    • Find yourself on the outside of institutional faith but don’t want to let go of your connection to Jesus or are trying to figure out who Jesus can be to you now

    • Long to have your experience and understanding of Jesus invigorated  

    • Have a non-religious practice of spirituality but want to explore how Jesus might fit into your experience

  • We will meet for 12 sessions over 6 months every other Sunday, beginning March 8.

    2pm-3:30pm PT/ 4pm-5:30pmCT / 5pm-6:30pm ET

    We will meet virtually on zoom.

  • In an effort toward economic justice, there are three pricing tiers depending on your financial status.

    Tier 1 – Standard Rate: $900

    • Designed for those with access to savings, stable income, and financial flexibility

    • Covers all program costs for an individual's participation

    Tier 2 – Reduced Rate: $600

    • Designed for those with moderate financial stability

    • Covers baseline costs for participation

    Tier 3 - Supported Rate: $300 (only 3 spots available!)

    • Designed for those experiencing financial instability or constraints

    • For those who would not be able to participate otherwise

    Payment plans are available for those who need it. Simply select the subscription option when registering and you will automatically be charged in three installments.

  • To register, go to [insert link to Tamice’s registration page]

  • Each person, upon committing to participate, must also agree to the community commitments and will receive a detailed version. Here is the abbreviated version:

    Honor people’s journey

    Be fully present

    Respond with empathy and compassion

    Center your own experience

    Practice perspective-taking

    Affirm each other’s belovedness & identity

    Get curious

    Respect double confidentiality