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- Campus Minstry with Daniel and Sarah Patiño PGE 113
Because of our nation’s commitment to capitalism and the desire to be technologically advanced and leaders in the global business market, across the political and theological spectrum, most parents are interested in and committed to having…
- Theology in the Capitalocene with Joerg Rieger PGE 112
In this episode I speak with Professor Joerg Rieger about his book, Theology in the Capitalocene : Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity . Professor Rieger explains why the term, “Capitalocene” should be used instead of the term “Anthro…
- PODER Emma with Alan Luis Ramirez PGE 111
I confess to being guilty of what I have observed in most others who, like me, were born, raised, and continue to live in the United States. I take my citizenship for granted. I vote in all major elections, pay my taxes without much compla…
- Doing Democracy with JoAnn McAllister PGE 110
This episode is my third interview on democracy. In this episode my guest and I will be discussing the Movement Action Plan or MAP model for organizing social movements that enable a group of citizens to create change in our culture and in…
- Resilient Agriculture Interview 3 with Dr. Laura Lengnick PGE 109
This episode is my third interview with Dr. Laura Lengnick about her book, Resilient Agriculture . In my blogspot for the second interview, at the request of Dr. Lengnick, I clarified that the discussion in the second interview was recorde…
- BeLoved Asheville with Amy Cantrell PGE 108
In this episode, Amy Cantrell returns to speak of her life’s work and calling. Amy Cantrell lives in Asheville, North Carolina and is founder and Co-Director of BeLoved Asheville dedicated to creating home, health, equity, and opportunity…
- Poet Luci Shaw PGE 107
At the age of 96, Luci Shaw is a prolific poet, writer, and editor as well as being a photographer. With 19 volumes of poetry and one on the way, 8 books, and two children’s books, Luci has spent a lifetime sharing her gift and love of wri…
- The Good Neighbor Settlement House Interview PGE 106
My guests for this episode introduce us to an updated version a type of organization which has been around since the late 1880s, but which most of us have never heard of or know anything about. The type of organization is a Settlement Hous…
- The Christian Church in Nigeria with Dr. Uche Enyioha PGE 105
This episode will be the first in a series that explores how the Church and the Christian faith is doing globally. In each episode I will have a guest from a different country or area to talk about the Christian experience and the Church’s…
- Resilient Agriculture Part 2 with Dr. Laura Lengnick PGE 104
As I did in my spoken intro to this episode, I want to begin this blogspot with a clarification. The interviews that have made the two parts and episodes with Dr. Lengnick were done in early June. You may know that beginning September 24 t…
- Resilient Agriculture with Dr. Laura Lengnick Part 1 PGE 103
In this episode and the next I interview Dr. Laura Lengnick about resilient agriculture. Resilient agriculture is a step beyond sustainable agriculture and is being developed as a correction to industrial agriculture and in response to cli…
- Choristers Guild Interview PGE 102
This episode checks in with Choristers Guild . I began my ministry in church music in the late-1970s and early 1980s, and Choristers Guild was a primary source I turned to for wonderful and high-quality children’s Christian music. Back the…
- Democracy with Jeffrey Stout Part 2 PGE 101
This episode is Part 2 of my interview with Jeffrey Stout on democracy. In Part 1 Dr. Stout explained the different ways democracy has been understood throughout history, he gave us two definitions of liberty and freedom, and he spoke of t…
- Democracy with Jeffrey Stout Part 1 PGE 100
This episode is Part 1 of my conversation with Professor Jeffrey Stout about our democracy. There is a broad conviction that our democracy here in the United States is in crisis. In my mind, Dr. Stout is one of the most important scholars…
- John Mabry’s Brutally Honest Christian Music PGE 99
This episode is my second interview with John Mabry. In this episode we focus specifically on his music and his newest album, No Stranger . As you will hear in the episode, John has a brain tumor that can be removed, but the result will be…
- How Churches Are Navigating These Times With Dr. Mack Dennis PGE 98
This episode is the first of what I hope will be a series of conversations with pastors about how they are leading, guiding, and navigating their churches through current times. As the Pew Research Center has documented, Christianity in th…
- Nice Churchy Patriarchy with Liz Cooledge Jenkins PGE 97
My guest for this episode is Liz Cooledge Jenkins. In this episode we discuss her book Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women’s Humanity from Evangelicalism . Liz is a writer, preacher, and former college campus minister who lives in th…
- When Propehts Preach with Dr. Jay Augustine PGE 96
In this episode I welcome back Dr. Jonathan “Jay” Augustine to discuss the sequel to his book Called to Reconciliation: How the Church Can Model Justice, Diversity, and Inclusion . You can listen to my interview with Dr. Augustine on that…
- Hymn Writer David Bjorlin Interview PGE 95
My guest for this episode is Dr. David Bjorlin . Dr. Bjorlin is a hymn text writer. As an Assistant Professor of Worship at North Park University, David prepares his students for lives of significance and service by guiding and equipping t…
- The Penguin Project with Lisa Jinkins PGE 94
One of the things we have gotten wrong for too long has been our understanding of and, consequently, treatment of people with disabilities. Although it is not happening broadly enough or quickly enough, efforts to correct our understanding…
- Center for Conscious Living and Dying with Dr. Aditi Sethi PGE 93
This episode is a continuation of my series on palliative care and end of life issues. My guest is Dr. Aditi Sethi . Dr. Sethi is a hospice and palliative care physician, end-of-life doula, and musician. Featured in the forthcoming film Th…
- Storyteller Gloria Elder PGE 92
The reason I feature storytelling as often as I do in this show is because of its capacity as an art form to build bridges between people and connect them, existentially and emotionally to experience the ‘world’ within the story, and there…
- Sage-ing PGE 91
There is an increasing awareness of a several things related to aging. One is the fact that modern medicine and health practices are making it possible for people to live longer so that more people are able to live to being senior adults a…
- A Cherokee Christian Voice with Dr. Tim Ross PGE 90
This episode is a part of a continuing series to enable you to hear the spectrum of American Indian/Native American/Indigenous/First Nations voices, especially in their response to Christianity and its history in the United States. If you…
- Called to Reconciliation with Dr. Jay Augustine PGE 89
My guest for this episode is the Reverend Dr. Jonathan C. Augustine. But that is the name that appears on his books. In his personal relationships, Dr. Augustine goes by Jay. Dr. Augustine serves as senior pastor of St. Joseph AME Church,…
- Cartoon Animation Creator Jim Jinkins PGE 88
My guest for this episode is Jim Jinkins. Jim is a progressive Christian who is an American animator, cartoonist, and children’s book author. He is most notably known for his animated character, Doug . Jim is here to tell us the story of h…
- Musical Morphine with Robin Russell Gaiser PGE 87
My guest for this episode is Robin Russell Gaiser. Robin is a Certified Music Practitioner who, for over sixteen years, offered live acoustic bedside music to the critically and chronically ill, elderly, and dying in hospitals, hospices, r…
- Storycatcher Mark Yaconelli PGE 86
My guest for this episode is Mark Yaconelli . Mark Yaconelli is a writer, retreat leader, community builder, spiritual director, storycatcher, husband, and father. He is the founder and executive director of The Hearth . Previously, he co-…
- Hymns of Adam Tice PGE 85
In this episode my guest, Adam Tice, share with us two of his hymns and talks with us about his work. Adam was named a Lovelace Scholar by the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada. He served as a member of the Society’s executive c…
- Local Economics PGE 84
One of the things I have recently learned it that there isn’t just capitalism and socialism, but different kinds of capitalism and different kinds of socialism. In addition, there are alternatives to both of these approaches to economics,…
- Hospice Care Ministry PGE 83
Hospice care and palliative care are closely related and sometimes overlapping, but both of these areas of medical care still greatly misunderstood. This episode focuses on hospice care. For a better understanding of this important and vit…
- Palliative Care with Dr. Caroline Knox PGE 82
In this episode, my guest, Dr. Caroline Knox, helps us understand palliative care as a developing area in medical care. Dr. Knox is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She trained in Family Medic…
- The Mosley’s Music PGE 81
I had interviewed Stephen and Rachel Mosley as a part of the Foundling House Interview (PGE 33) and wanted to do a full episode on their music. Rachel and Stephen Mosley met in a freshman year high school geography class sometime late last…
- The Writer and the Cross with Darren Middleton PGE 80
A native of Nottingham, England, Dr. Darren J. N. Middleton received his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from the University of Manchester, his Master of Philosophy in Modern Christian Doctrine from the University of Oxford, and his…
- Christians in Social Work Academic Panel PGE 79
This episode is the second interview with and about Christians in social work. The last episode focused upon the practitioners perspective. This episode focuses on the academic perspective. I am honored to have as my guests for this conver…
- Christians in Social Work Practitioners Panel PGE 78
The teaching of Jewish and Christian scripture, and for Christians, particularly the example and teachings of Jesus, Paul, and the first writers of Christian scripture have emphasized the mandate to care for people. Some of the roots of th…
- Prison Chaplains Interview PGE 77
In this episode I have a conversation with those who are or have been prison chaplains. They get us started into understanding the nature and experience of the prison and ministry within that context. My guests are the Reverends Carol Sass…
- Lumbee Author and Poet Dana Lynell Lowery Interview PGE 76
My guest for this episode is Lumbee author, poet, librarian, and American Indian activist Dana Lynell Lowery. Dana is the author of Poems and Hollers from a Candy Apple Indian , Strong Like Rhoda: Exploring Female Power in the Lumbee Tribe…
- BJC 3 with Jennifer Hawks PGE 75
This episode is a continuation of my efforts to make you aware of issues relating to religious freedom and to the work of the BJC . I welcome back Jennifer Hawks . The cases Jennifer discusses are Ramirez vs Collier , Shurtleff vs Boston ,…
- Jubilee Partners with Don Mosley PGE 74
My guest for this episode is Don Mosley. Don has had and continues to have an amazing and vital ministry as a peacebuilder and care giver that has made the world a better place because it has made Christians and the Church more Christ-like…
- Ownership Matters with Elias Crim PGE 73
My continuing interest in making you aware, my dear listeners, of alternatives to the growth economies of various free market capitalisms and state socialisms/communisms, I have focused to this point on Ecological or Steady State economics…
- Poet Dr. Mischa Willett Interview PGE 72
My guest for this episode is Dr. Mischa Willett . Dr. Willett is the author of two critically-acclaimed books of poetry: The Elegy Beta and Phases , and is editor of Philip James Bailey’s epic Festus . He teaches in the English Department…
- Meta Commerse Interview 2 Her Memoir PGE 71
In this episode Meta Commerse returns as my guest to discuss her fifth book, her memoir, Womaning . Meta Commerse is a Blues Doula. A former professor of History and English, she’s an award-winning author. Among her works are short stories…
- Bob Ekblad Interview PGE 70
In this episode I interview Bob Ekblad about the work he and his wife, Gracie, have been and are doing and we talk about some of his books. Bob and Gracie Ekblad are founders and co-directors of Tierra Nueva (New Earth) in Burlington, Wash…
- Janna Barber Interview PGE 69
In this episode, I welcome back Janna Barber to discuss her book, Hidden in Shadow: Tales of Grief, Lamentations, and Faith , and to have her read and discuss more of her poems. Janna was a guest when in interview participants in Foundling…
- Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ethics with Dr. Janette Engelbrecht PGE 68
Western approaches to knowledge have been called into question due to the legacies of European colonialism and white supremacy and Western conceptions of reality and the universe have been transformed by the advent or relativity and quantu…
- Lena Epps Brooker Interview PGE 67
In my mind, there are two major atrocities at the historical roots of our nation that created legacies with which we are still dealing to this day. One was the enslavement of African peoples and, after slavery was brought to an end, the su…
- Critical Race Theory with Kendall Thomas PGE 66
My understanding is that in order to understand Critical Race Theory accurately one should begin with the seminal work, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement , authored and edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotand…
- Irie Price Interview–Race, Culture, and Wellness PGE 65
Irie Price is a writer, blogger, and stakeholder engagement consultant interested in asking questions that lead to growth. The author of the blog, WELL, Irie believes hearing other people’s stories is a powerful way of understanding our ow…
- Interview with Lyricist Mel Bringle and Composer Sally Ann Morris PGE 64
This episode is part of one of my ongoing series I call “Christian Music Not Played On Christian Radio.” The purpose of the series is heighten awareness that although traditional Christian music may no longer be the dominant music style ex…