Episode 20: Our Bodies and Our Creator, Part I

This week we begin our series “Our Bodies and Our Creator” by hearing from Steve Hartman-Keiser. Steve shares from a chapter of Marilyn McEntyre’s book, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, and helps us consider who we are, as children of God. As the events of this month unfold, Steve’s words and sharing feel fitting for this moment in which we as individuals and as a faith community find ourselves.

You can learn more about the book that Steve reads from here:
https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/7814/speaking-peace-in-a-climate-of-conflict.aspx

And the poem Steve shares can be read here:
https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/L/LeeLiYoung/PraiseThem/index.html


Episode 14: The Virgin Birth

This week on the podcast, Norm Stolpe shares his thoughts on the virgin birth.

Accompanying his sharing are several scriptures that he alludes to without naming:

Scripture where the virgin birth is tangentially inferred: Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3; Luke 3:23; 4:22; John 6:42; 9:29; Galatians 4:4

The NT passages that contain very early, proto-creedal language: Romans 10:9; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Philippians 2:11; 1 Timothy 3:16; 1 John 4:2, 15.

Episode 12: Experiencing God's Anger and Love

In this week’s episode, we listen to the plea of the Psalmist for God’s forgiveness and restoration in the alternative Psalm from this week’s lectionary, Psalm 90.

Along with our usual music contributors, Connie Johnson-Evers and David Stolpe, music during the questions to consider this week is by Maxim Tsukanov, a Russian composer, and used under the Creative Commons license. Check out Maxim’s work at https://soundcloud.com/x3nus

Episode 8: A Different Kind of Alchemy

David Stolpe shares with us the inspiration behind his song, “Threshold,” from his project, “Alchemists and Infidels.” The piece is used as the outro music every week on the podcast

Threshold
by David Stolpe
from the project “Alchemists and Infidels”

Verse 1
Still dark when I woke and got up out of my bed.
Tossed and turned all night, rambling thoughts in my head.
Trying to find the secret, searching for the key.
Frustrated by my progress, held back by me.

Verse 2
Walked downstairs to the lab, unlocked the chain on the door.
Froze at the threshold, wondering could I become something more?
I’ve pumped the bellows in this furnace for longer than I can recall.
Will I get back up eight times if on this seventh trial I fall?

Chorus
If I can render gold from this lead,
Could I also tender Life to the dead?
Impurities defected this ore I refine,
Can my soul be perfected, love make me divine?

Verse 3
Do I stand at the threshold of achieving something great?
Will lead transmute to gold? Is righteousness my fate?
What’s it all been for, my sacrifice and toil?
If what I find is pure, surely it will never spoil.

Chorus
If I can render gold from this lead,
Could I also tender life to the dead?
Impurities defected this ore I refine,
Can my soul be perfected, love make me divine?

Bridge
I’ve set out to find the truth of this strange alchemy.
Too far to turn back now, the path forward I’m trying to see.
Stoking coals under this crucible, filled with metals of no worth.
Will I pull from it precious gold, and my soul find its rebirth?

Chorus
If I can render gold from this lead,
Could I also tender life to the dead?
Impurities defected this ore I refine,
Can my soul be perfected, love make me divine?

Well I have rendered gold from this lead,
And I have tendered life to the dead.
No impurities defect this ore I refined
Will my dark soul perfect, love make me divine?
Love make me divine!

Episode 7: Forgiveness and Justice

Erin Cassidente shares about Christ’s call to forgive, despite how difficult or frequent that may be. She couples this with the call to seek justice, reading Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s poem, “In the Steps of RBG.”

Episode 4: Be Still

This week, Rachel Eash-Scott shares with us the tension to heed God’s call to be still and the feeling that one needs to be active and do things. She considers the words of the Psalmist (Psalm 46) and asks what this might mean for us.

Along with our usual music contributors, Connie Johnson-Evers and David Stolpe, music during the scripture reading is by Maxim Tsukanov, a Russian composer, and used under the Creative Commons license. Check out Maxim’s work at https://soundcloud.com/x3nus

Episode 3: Slowing Down, Helping Out, and Listening to the Prophetic Voice

This week on the podcast, we hear from Sarah Mast. Sarah shares with us the struggle of slowing our minds and finding room to meditate when we feel the need to balance that with contributing to the world around us. She takes comfort in the words of the prophet, Zephaniah 3.

Along with our usual music contributors, Connie Johnson-Evers and David Stolpe, music during the scripture reading is by Maxim Tsukanov, a Russian composer, and used under the Creative Commons license. Check out Maxim’s work at https://soundcloud.com/x3nus

 
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