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Monday Apr 15, 2024
Unearthed | Political Polarization (Part II)
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
We received a challenge from Jeff Thiemann: make one commitment toward being equipped and brave for challenging conversations. In this episode we're celebrating some "braggarts." To grow together, we've got to share these stories of what we're trying, so here it is. We're trying stuff!
Monday Oct 10, 2022
People Are So Peopley: Tales of Togethering 4
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
We get to welcome Greg and Kris Meyer back after their time of sabbatical. Hear a couple brief stories from them as they share their own “peopley-ness!”
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
People are So Peopley: Tales of Togethering 3
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
A good story connects us with truths that help us find home wherever we are. In this episode you'll hear two such stories from Maia Dalager and Kaarin Kratz who both found themselves far from home - and unprepared.
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
People Are So Peopley: Tales of Togethering 2
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
Losing yourself in someone else’s generously shared story is a wonderful way to find yourself. This week, Stephen Taylor and Bjorn Westgard offer up stories of questioned decisions. Did I do the right thing? You might know the feeling.
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
4 Big Decisions: How Will I Establish My Career? (Pt. 1)
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
In case you are wondering if this is really about how to kick your career into high gear, it’s not. Your career is the wrong question to start life by answering, the better question would be about your character. Not “What do I do?” but “Who am I?” This week, our friend Reeve Hutchinson shared his story with us this; an interesting and compelling look into his personal journey that engages questions about career, purpose, and meaning encouraging us to start digging down to see what this foundation might look like so we can better decide where to start building.
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Sunday Dec 16, 2018
Midrash: Perfectly Imperfect
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
What an explanation can’t accomplish a story sometimes can. We’re working on those stories this Christmas season. Imagine what the Christmas story would be if it were told by, perhaps, the stable? What if the animal shed that Mary is remembered for birthing Jesus in, because there was no room in the inn, could talk? Would it’s story be about being perfectly imperfect for the job? Does your life’s story have some perfectly imperfect in it? Let’s listen.
This midrash from 12/2/2018 was written by Jeanette Mayo and features Beth Studdiford and Melissa Lock.
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
Midrash: What Was That?
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
Reporters know to talk to more than the headliners. They go back in the kitchen, talk to the concierge and the guy on the street. People who may not know all that was going on, but they know something. Sometimes what they don’t know makes them better observers. Who were the extras that first Christmas? The guy in the shop next to the stable, the servants of the wise men? We’ve all been the extra, standing in the wings, witnessing what others missed. What was it?
This midrash from 12/16/2018 was written by Mark Trelstad and features Mark, Kris Meyer, and Julie Windholz.
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
Midrash: Took the Risk
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
Joseph told the story about that first Christmas night differently than anyone else. He didn’t hear, see or experience the same thing anyone else did and I imagine the turning point of his story to be in the words “I took a risk.” We all take risks. The Christmas story of God being born into this world is about more than Jesus’ birth (a significant risk!) it is about the risks we all take for life. Life, change, growth are born of risk.
This midrash is from 11/25/18 and features Ed and Jen Hamilton.