A Place at the Table: Emily M.D. Scott [Rebroadcast]

In this wide-ranging interview, pastor and church planter Emily M. D. Scott takes us on a journey of discovery—of finding one’s place, one’s calling, and one’s identity.

She discusses the events that led her to help found a “dinner church” in New York City, and the people she met along the way who changed her ways of thinking about the world and its possibilities.

Emily M. D. Scott founded St. Lydia’s Dinner Church, a progressive, LGBTQ+-affirming congregation in Brooklyn, New York, where worship takes place around the dinner table. A Lutheran pastor (ELCA), Scott is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, and her work at St. Lydia’s, which sparked a wider Dinner Church movement, has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. After serving eight years at St. Lydia’s, Scott is now creating a new church community, Dreams and Visions, in Baltimore, Maryland