Tricia Hersey: Rest Is Resistance | Festival of Faiths 2025

Tricia Hersey invites us to rethink rest—not as indulgence, but as a necessary act of resistance and healing. In this excerpt from the 2025 Festival of Faiths, Hersey—founder of The Nap Ministry—reflects on the ways exhaustion, grind culture, and systemic injustice shape our lives and limit our ability to feel a sense of belonging. Drawing from spiritual practice, lived experience, and Black liberation theology, she reframes rest as a pathway to restoration, connection, and collective care. Her work challenges us to slow down, to listen to our bodies, and to reclaim rest as a space for healing, imagination, and freedom. Speaker: Tricia Hersey Founder of The Nap Ministry | Author of Rest Is Resistance The Festival of Faiths, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is a nationally recognized gathering of spiritual leaders, artists, and changemakers. The 2025 theme, Sacred Belonging, explores our deep interconnectedness and calls us toward communities rooted in care, empathy, and shared humanity.