by Christian Coon | Jan 12, 2019
I’m honored to have Rutha Mae Harris as my guest for this week’s podcast. Ms. Harris is a retired teacher who lives in Albany, Georgia, but she’s perhaps more widely known as one of the original Freedom Singers, a group of activitists and musicians who worked with the...
by Christian Coon | Sep 19, 2018
My guest this week is Heidi Stevens, a columnist at the Chicago Tribune. Heidi is the author of “Balancing Act,” a column that comes out five times a week and explores a wide variety of issues with a focus on how we can balance all the things that make us who we are....
by Christian Coon | Aug 14, 2018
My guest for this week’s podcast is Reverend Broderick Greer. Rev. Greer is Canon Precentor at Saint John’s Cathedral in Denver, Colorado. At Saint John’s, Broderick coordinates ministry to people in their 20s and 30s, oversees the Cathedral’s daily...
by Christian Coon | Jul 30, 2018
My guest for this week’s podcast Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann. Rabbi Lizzi catalyzed the founding of Mishkan Chicago, a new Jewish faith community that describes itself this way: An unconventional kind of community, a cross-community community, designed to enhance the Jewish...
by Christian Coon | Jul 30, 2018
My guest for this week’s podcast is Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren. Judge Lerner-Wren pioneered the first therapeutic mental health court in the United States, dedicated to the safe decriminalization of people with mental illness and neurological disorders. She recently...
