Join us for our final episode, as Beth Estock interviews Ben about his experience over five years of hosting Reports From the Spiritual Frontier. Episode Highlights Include: What changes and patterns Ben has seen over his five years hosting Reports Why American Christendom is done COVID-19 as a moment of reckoning for the country and [...]

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Ben Yosua-Davis – Five Years of Reports From the Spiritual Frontier

Join us for a recording of Ben’s conversation with Bill Mckibben, founder of 350.org and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, founder of the Hip Hop Caucus as part of the BTS Center’s series, “Unlocking Possibility: Catalyzing Spiritual Imagination in Uncertain Times”. Episode Highlights Include The connection between racial justice and climate justice How climate change is a [...]

Imagine a New Planet- Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood

Join us for a recording of Ben’s conversation with Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III of The Black Church Food Security Network and Pastor Emily Scott of Dream and Visions to imagine a new church, as part of the BTS Center’s series, “Unlocking Possibility: Catalyzing Spiritual Imagination in Uncertain Times”. Episode Highlights Include:  Stories of possibilities [...]

Imagine a New Church: Emily Scott and Heber Brown

Join us for a recording of Ben’s conversation with Casper ter Kuile and Erica Williams Simon about Imagining a new Democracy, as part of the BTS Center’s series, “Unlocking Possibility: Catalyzing Spiritual Imagination in Uncertain Times”. And, in case you didn’t hear the news in our previous episode, we’ll be wrapping up this podcast at [...]

Casper ter Kuile and Erica Williams Simon – Imagine a New Democracy

Join us for a recording of Ben’s conversation with Rob Hopkins and Dominique Christina about the art and practice of imagination in uncertain times in the BTS Center’s series, “Unlocking Possibility: Catalyzing Spiritual Imagination in Uncertain Times”. Episode Highlights Include:  Why imagination is so important and so hard to access in our current moment Re-imagining [...]

Rob Hopkins and Dominique Christina – Unlocking Possibility in Uncertain Times

Join us for a little more of our conversation with Ciona Rouse, as she shares about the gift of open Sunday mornings and supportive friends. If you haven’t heard it yet, check out our full conversation with Ciona, “Resting On A Limb On the Tree of Knowledge”. Support us by: Subscribing to us on Apple [...]

[Bonus] Ciona Rouse: Open Sunday Mornings and Supportive Friends

Join us for an updated conversation with poet Ciona Rouse, first about her experience of the pandemic and our national reckoning with racism, and then about her journey from cradle United Methodist and pastor’s kid out of Christianity. Episode Highlights Include:  Ciona’s upbringing as a pastor’s kid and her experience as a denominational employee Her vocation as [...]

[Updated] Ciona Rouse – Resting on A Limb of the Tree of Knowledge

Join us for a little more of our conversation with Ophelia Hu-Kinney, as she shares about why she’s United Methodist. If you haven’t heard our full conversation with Ophelia, make sure to check it out: “Why Not Take A Leap of Faith For Once?” Support us by: Subscribing to us on Apple Podcasts (or wherever [...]

[Bonus] Ophelia Hu-Kinney – Her Relationship with Methodism

Join us for an updated conversation conversation with Ophelia Hu-Kinney, of Queering the Kindom and the Reconciling Ministries Network, about what she’s learned over the course of thee pandemic, about her journey into Christianity in early adulthood and her continual process of re-conversion. Episode Highlights Include:  “I referred to myself as an atheist who wanted [...]

[Updated] Ophelia Hu-Kinney – “Why Not Take a Leap of Faith For Once?”

Join us for a dialogue between Elaine Heath and Wayne Jacobsen, as they dialogue about the common ground and meaningful differences in their understandings of what it means to be part of authentic spiritual community. Episode Highlights Include:  What does it mean to be connected to the Church? The role of structure and accountability The [...]

Elaine Heath and Wayne Jacobsen In Dialogue

Join us for a post-pandemic, updated conversation with Wayne Jacobsen, as he shares his journey out of congregational Christianity into a different way of being church and what these last few months have taught him about God and being in community with one another. Episode Highlights Include:  “You may have left the congregation, but how [...]

[Updated] Wayne Jacobsen – Finding Community Beyond Congregational Christianity

Join us for an updated conversation with Elaine Heath of the Missional Wisdom Foundation and the Community At Spring Forest, as she shares about what COVID-19 and protests around racial injustice have taught her about spiritual community; as well as about her journey into United Methodism and a contemplative path for institutional renewal. Episode Highlights [...]

[Updated] Elaine Heath – Renewing the Tradition Behind the Tradition

Ben has a quick announcement about new(ish) episodes coming out for the podcast starting next week. Take a minute (yes, literally one minute) to hear more!

[Announcement] The Summer (Re-)Series for Reports

Join us for a recording of Ben’s conversation with Kenda Creasy-Dean of Princeton Seminary and Paul Nixon of the Epicenter Group for a frank discussion of the future of faith communities after COVID-19. This is the finale for our series, “Creativity, Compassion, and the Coronavirus”, in collaboration with the BTS Center, examining ways that faith [...]

Kenda Creasy-Dean and Paul Nixon: The Future of Faith Communities After COVID-19

Join us for a conversation with activist, scholar, and pastor Rev. Dr. Kapya John Kaoma about what we can learn about resilience and joy in times of uncertainty and suffering from our sisters and brothers in the global south. This continues our series, “Creativity, Compassion, and the Coronavirus”, in collaboration with the BTS Center, examining [...]

[Coronavirus] Kapya John Kaoma – Pandemic in Perspective

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