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Conversation with Benjamin Saulsberry
Feb 24, 2022 • 40:16
My guest this episode is Benjamin Saulsberry, the Public Engagement and Museum Education Director of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Mississippi. The story of Emmett Till’s lynching and murder has long had a haunting effect on me, partially because I Iive about a mile north of the church…
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Conversation with author Kathleen Norris
Aug 6, 2021 • 38:59
One of the benefits of doing a podcast is it gives me the opportunity to reach out to people whose work I’ve long admired and see if there’s any chance they’d like to talk to me. It’s always a joyful surprise when many of them say yes. That was the…
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Conversation with author & pastor Tyler Sit
Jun 20, 2021 • 47:18
My guest this month is Tyler Sit, the founding pastor of New City Church in Minneapolis, a community that describes itself as focuses on environmental justice and radical inclusion as a queer and people of color affirming place of worship. Tyler recently wrote a book called “Staying Awake: The Gospel…
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Conversation with author & artist Jan Richardson
Apr 14, 2021 • 47:48
Jan Richardson is an artist, writer, and United Methodist pastor and has traveled widely as a retreat leader and conference speaker. Jan has written many books, including her most recent one, Sparrow: A Book of Life and Death and Life in which she shares in vulnerable and beautiful ways about…
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Conversation with interfaith leader Eboo Patel
Dec 18, 2020 • 36:11
My guest for this podcast is Eboo Patel. Eboo is the founder of IFYC, Interfaith Youth Core, and is now a national figure in developing interfaith conversations and relationships. Named by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders of 2009, Eboo served on President Obama’s Inaugural…
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Failing Boldly
Few people would consider failure to be a gift from God. If you are trying to energize and grow a ministry, however, embracing the lessons and, yes, the ‘gifts’ of failure may be the best way to maintain a dynamic and encouraging place for people to seek the heart of God. Through personal stories of his own missteps and mistakes as the co-founder of Urban Village Church—as well as those of others working to plant and grow ministries—Christian Coon shows how failure is a springboard to new experiences and, hopefully, a deeper connection to God and what it means to be a leader in the church.