A podcast about language, literacy, multilingualism, English as additional language, and more, in university contexts. Sponsored by the Centre for English Language Learning, Teaching, & Research at Simon Fraser University.
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The PostConsumer Reports Podcast with Chris Marchand. It's like the blog but with sound: Thoughts on art, faith, and the intersection of the two, all spoken after consumption. Featuring interviews and conversations with artists and thinkers.
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Ep 99: Christmas Traditions with April McClure Stewart
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Reverend April McClure Stewart join PostConsumer Reports for the 99th episode, which also happens to be our annual Christmas episode! It's the last show of the year and the last show before we put together something special for the 100th episode. April is a Disciples of Christ pastor and has served in various leadership positions over the years. Bu…
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Ep 98: Wally Brath on Connexion a Jazz Psalter
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Musician, composer, and professor Wally Brath joins the podcast to discuss his new album Connexion a Jazz Psalter. The album consists of nine compositions which set the words of the Psalms to music and along with Brath features the lead vocals of Nikki Lerner and the bass of John Patitucci. You can stream the album everywhere or purchase it on Band…
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Ep 97: Christmas With Emily Hunter McGowin
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It's time for another Christmas episode! Dr. Emily Hunter McGowin is here to discuss her new book Christmas: The Season of Life and Light. The conversation ranges from the joy and challenges surrounding the holiday, to reclaiming old traditions even while developing new ones, to a lightning round of Emily's Christmas favorites. Her book is out now …
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Ep 96: Author Katherine Briggs on her novel The Eternity Gate
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Katherine Briggs joins the podcast to discuss her new novel The Eternity Gate, a fantasy novel about a handmaiden named Seyo who has a key that will unlock the fate of her kingdom. Along with discussing the novel, this conversation goes into Katherine's writing process and her thoughts on the pressure that writers face in today's publishing industr…
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Ep. 95: Austin Freeman on his book Tolkien Dogmatics
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Author and professor Austin Freeman joins episode 95 to discuss his book Tolkien Dogmatics, a theological reading of J.R.R. Tolkien's works. Dr. Freeman is a professor at Houston Christian University where he teaches on theology, literature, and apologetics and has also contributed to other books on theological approaches to science fiction and fan…
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Ep 94: Rachel Wilhelm on Singing The Words of Jeremiah
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Rachel Wilhelm joins the podcast again to discuss her new album Jeremiah, a collection of song adapted from the words of the prophet Jeremiah. Like with previous episodes this interview is also a kind of deep dive "radio special" for the album featuring excerpts of the song and the background behind them. Rachel previously appeared on the podcast d…
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Ep 93: Caroline Cobb on her album Psalms: The Poetry of Prayer
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Caroline Cobb joins episode 93 of PostConsumer Reports to discuss her new album Psalms: The Poetry of Prayer. Our conversation is a deep dive into the music and background behind the songs, her other Scripture-based albums, and her life as a working musician. You can stream her music wherever it is available or discover more of her work at: www.car…
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Ep. 92: Rick Lee James on "As I Walk These Halls" and being a hospital chaplain
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Songwriter Rick Lee James is on the podcast again to disucss his new single "As I Walk These Halls," a meditation on his experience of training to be a hospital chaplain. You can find out where to stream or download the song here.PostConsumer Reports által
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Ep. 91: Joel Heng Hartse on how Dancing About Architecture is a reasonable thing to do
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Joel Heng Hartse is the author of the new book Dancing About Architecture is a Reasonable Thing To Do: Writing about Music, Meaning, and the Ineffable." He joins Chris on the podcast to discuss how writing about music is similar to dancing about architecture and they ponder their favorite bands and songs all while figuring out how to continue havin…
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The Sentence with Peter Wayne Moe
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Peter Wayne Moe is an Associate Professor of English and Writing at Seattle Pacific University and author of the book Touching This Leviathan, a book about whales (and language, and writing, and much more)*. In this interview, we discuss Peter's article "A Sequence for Teaching the Sentence," published in Teaching English in the Two-Year College in…
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BONUS: The REAL War on Christmas
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It's the REAL war on Christmas! It's THE real war on Christmas! It's the real WAR on Christmas! It's the real war on CHRISTMAS! You get what I'm saying? If you're interested in part one of this talk about resting and debauchery at Christmastime, please see the Tent Talks podcast.PostConsumer Reports által
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Ep 90: Brian Doerksen on his song "215"
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Brian Doerksen is a songwriter, church music leader, and teacher who recently wrote "215" a call for lament and repentance from within the Canadian church for the atrocities committed against the Indigenous children at numerous church and state run boarding schools. He joins PostConsumer Reports to discuss his process in writing the song, what it m…
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Language U is rebooting in 2022! Contact me at the email address here if you'd like to be a guest on an upcoming episode! https://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/jhenghartse.htmlJoel Heng Hartse által
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S1E4 Credit ESL with Julia Williams
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Language U talks to Julia Williams, Director of English Language Studies and Coordinator of Applied Language Studies at the University of Waterloo, about the nuts and bolts of creating for-credit English- language courses and programs at the university level, and the reasons more universities are choosing to do so. Originally published in 2018.…
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S1E3 Creativity and Academic Writing with Erika Thorkelson
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Language U talks to Erika Thorkleson, a freelance writer and writing tutor and instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, about the connections between creative and academic writing and her work teaching writing at a uniquely art-focused university. Originally published in 2017.…
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S1E2 Conceding Composition with Ryan Skinnell
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Language U talks to Ryan Skinnell, professor at San Jose State University and author of Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition’s Institutional Fortunes. We learn about his research on the history of a composition program at Arizona State University and how this perennial first-year writing course functions within higher education i…
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S1E1 Academic Editing with Roma Ilnyckyj
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Language U talks to Roma Ilnyckyj, an editor at the science communications company Talk Science to Me, about her work as an editor of scientific and other academic language, the ethics of editing student work and the complicated relationship between editing and writing, especially with work by multilingual writers. Originally published in 2016, thi…
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Ep 89: Author Martin Matthews on his Dream Chasers Trilogy
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Martin Matthews is the author of four published novels, including The Dream Chasers trilogy and the Pencraft Award-winning The Graveyard Girl and the Boneyard Boy. The final book of his trilogy, Moria Versus the Universe, was just released in November 2021. Our conversation goes into detail about the world building of his trilogy of novels, how it …
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Ep 88: Rachel Wilhelm on Composing a Modern Requiem
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Rachel Wilhelm is a songwriter and church music leader who has recently released her new album and work Requiem, which draws from ancient and modern texts and musical styles to offer us a meditation on death, grief, and our hope in the resurrection. Our conversation, along with these set of songs, offers us a chance to slow down and contemplate wha…
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Ep 87: Harmony Smith Vineyard Worship Leader, Songwriter, and Pastor
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Harmony Smith is the Director of Worship for the Vineyard Movement in the UK & Ireland where she encourages, raises up, and trains worship and music leaders. She also co-pastors Belfast City Church with her husband Andy. She joins PostConsumer Reports to discuss her song "You Have Our Yes," how people in Ireland and America might wrestle with its l…
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Ep 86: Singer-songwriter Adam Whipple on his Basement Apartment EP
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Adam Whipple is a singer-songwriter from Knoxville, Tennessee who has just released his new EP Basement Apartment, which is available on all streaming platforms (Soundcloud, Apple, Spotify). You can discover more about Adam and his work at his website (https://www.adamwhipple.com/), which includes visual and video art, and read his prose and poetry…
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Ep 85: Singer-songwriter Rick Lee James
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Ep 85 features and interview with Rick Lee James, a singer-songwriter, guitarist, recording artist, and music pastor. He joined PostConsumer Reports to discuss his songwriting and recording process, the struggle to lead church music during the time of COVID (when we are not singing together), being able to authentically address people's pain throug…
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Ep 84: Jonathan Hodges of Bomethius on his new album Seasons of Limbo
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Bomethius is the "alter ego" of Jonathan Hodges, a songwriter, pianist, violinist, guitar player, and vocalist living in Dallas, Texas. This far-ranging conversation features an in-depth look at his new album Seasons of Limbo. You can find his music at: http://www.bomethius.com/PostConsumer Reports által
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Ep. 83: Blair Masters—Keyboardist and Composer
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An interview with Nashville musician, keyboardist, and composer Blair Masters. Blair has played on numerous albums over the years, from Newsboys, Amy Grant, Charlie Peacock, Rich Mullins, Margaret Becker, Steven Curtis Chapman and yeah, even Barry Manilow, Andy Williams, and Megadeth. He's also the touring keyboardist for Garth Brooks and has compo…
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New Christmas Music and Serving Others Through Lula
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This episode features info about Chris's new EP of Christmas music "Let Nothing You Dismay" as well as about Lula, a nonprofit in Peoria, Illinois that feeds, clothes, and offers care to those without housing and living on the streets. All proceeds from the EP will go to support Lula. The talk on serving others at Christmas is an excerpt from Tent …
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Ep 82: Christmas in July & a New Podcast
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Episode 82 features a talk given at Living Waters Church in Peoria, Illinois in 2019 about the book Celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas. This episode also features an excerpt from Tent Theology, a new podcast Chris is helping to produce that aims to help renew the social and political imagination of Christians by following in the way of Jesus.…
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Ep 81: Rain For Roots' Flo Paris Oakes and Katy Hutson
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Episode 81 features my interview with Flo Paris Oakes and Katy Hutson of the children's worship music group Rain For Roots, who are described as "a collective group of musicians and songwriters who write singable Scripture songs for kids and grown ups alike." They released their fourth album All Creatures this spring, which focuses primarily on set…
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Ep 80: Dr. Susan K. Roll on December 25 and the origins of Christmas
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Ep 79: Blair E. Clark and Artwork for the 12 Days of Christmas
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Episode 79 features an interview with Blair E. Clark about the artwork she did for my book Celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas. A native of Michigan, Blair is a Central Illinois artist whose work you can find at: https://blairjeffers.wordpress.com/. In our conversation, Blair talks about her process, some of the imagery embedded in the her work on…
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Ep 78: Dr. Michael Ward on C.S. Lewis, Paganism, and Christmas
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Dr. Michael Ward is a professor at both Oxford University and Houston Baptist University where he teaches on imaginative apologetics. Dr. Ward is perhaps best know as a C.S. Lewis scholar and for his groundbreaking work Planet Narnia. I interviewed Dr. Ward in research for my book Celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas, and in our interview we discus…
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Ep 77: Artist and Musician Jimmy Abegg
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Jimmy Abegg is a veteran of both the music and art worlds. Currently Jimmy is in need of financial help to complete the building Blind Jimmy's Lighthouse, an art and music studio he's building behind his home. You can support him through direct donations or simply by buying his art at his website www.jimmyabegg.com. Associated with Rich Mullins's R…
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Ep 76: Tim Barnes on the World Wide Refugee Crisis
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Tim Barnes is the executive vice president of International Association For Refugees (IAFR) a non-profit that seeks to empower and support refugees and displaced people groups around the world. Our conversation touches on the complexity of the current situation, where there is over 70 displaced people in the world, and offers some insight on what w…
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Ep 75: Jeff Frankenstein of Newsboys
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This episode features an interview with longtime Newsboys keyboardist, programmer, arranger, and even bass player (on synth!) Jeff Frankenstein. He details what it has been like to navigate the changes to the music industry in the past decades as well as changes within Newsboys themselves. He also describes how they've found a balance in being a to…
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Bonus: Stu G on The Beatitudes Film and Study Guide
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This bonus episode features excerpts from a previous interview where guitarist and author Stu G discusses his Beatitudes project. Stu G has recently released a film and study guide to go along with his musical album and book, all of which can be purchased at: https://www.thebeatitudesproject.com/PostConsumer Reports által
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Ep 74: Charlie Peacock—Artist, Producer, and Writer
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Ep 74 features an interview with Charlie Peacock, and artist with four decades of experience in the music as a songwriter and solo artist, but also as a producer of renowned artists like Switchfoot, The Civil Wars, and Marc Martel. Our conversation ranges from his thoughts on fame, the state of the Christian music industry, and the wisdom he's gain…
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Ep 73: Phil Joel on his new book and being in Newsboys and Zealand
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Ep 73 features Phil Joel, notably of the bands Newsboys, Zealand, and also a prolific solo music career, who has just released his first book Redwoods and Whales.PostConsumer Reports által
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Ep 72: The 12 Days of Christmas, New Years, and Epiphany
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It reads like a bad joke, but this episode features interviews with 2 Anglican bishops and an Eastern Orthodox priest. Bishop Alberto Morales, Bishop Keith Ackerman, and Fr. Andrew Kishler all gave Chris time to talk about an assorted amount of Christmas traditions, both secular and ecclesiastical. They discuss Puerto Rican Christmas traditions, ho…
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Ep 71: Happy Pagan Christmas! (and support Chris's book)
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Episode 71 features an interview with Gabi and Petr Michlik about the Christmas traditions they knew growing up in the Czech Republic, traditions with a surprisingly Pagan bent... This conversation is being released to help promote the Kickstarter campaign Chris is putting on to help fund the completion of his new book on the history and traditions…
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BONUS: Vinyl Release of John Van Deusen's With Every Power Wide Awake
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John Van Deusen (interviewed in Ep. 67) has just released his album "With Every Power Wide Awake" on vinyl, so we're taking the opportunity to release an bonus episode of our conversation that didn't make it into the full interview. Also, it's national podcasting day, so enjoy the extra podcasting goodness. You can find Van Deusen's music at: https…
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Ep 70: Glenn Kaiser and Michelle Van Loon
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Ep. 70 features an interview with Glenn Kaiser, a true music legend. His blues and rock and roots music spans 5 decades, from his work in the Resurrection Band to his solo work and the Glenn Kaiser Band. Kaiser is also a pastor and teacher at the Jesus People USA ministry and community (http://jpusa.org/). You can find Kaiser's music at: https://gr…
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Ep 69: Ex-Mormon Ministry Founder Lynn Wilder
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Dr. Lynn Wilder is a retired education professor who began the ministry Ex-Mormon Christians United For Jesus with her husband Michael Wilder, which you can read more about at: http://www.unveilingmormonism.com/. Dr. Wilder has written or co-authored a number of books about walking away from the Mormon faith and coming to know the Good News of Jesu…
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Ep 68: E. Byron Anderson on his book Common Worship
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E. Byron Anderson is Professor of Worship at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. His most recent book Common Worship: Tradition, Formation, Mission explores the various tensions of the Church's worship: traditional vs. contemporary, habit vs. freedom, canon vs. creativity, unity vs. diversity, and mission focused worship…
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Ep 67: Singer-songwriter John Van Deusen
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Singer-songwriter and musician released his latest album Every Power Wide Awake late last year, and it's slowly been building buzz with people on the look out for great independent music as well as with church worship leaders. We go in-depth about his career in the music industry (he previously fronted the band The Lonely Forest for over a decade) …
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Ep 66: Alec DeJesus on almost giving up on art and then choosing to keep going
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Artist Alec DeJesus was first a guest on the podcast a year ago. Since then he's had some of his highest highs and lowest lows. He found success with an art commission through Broward College in Florida, painting two murals for them, but then progress on the murals wasn't happening and he almost gave up on art altogether. In the end he didn't aband…
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Ep 65: Gretchen Filz of Catholic Company
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Gretchen Filz is a writer and communicator with the Catholic Company and an editor at the daily devotional Morning Offering. In our conversation we discuss the work she is doing developing a catechism for the Catholic faith at: www.goodcatholic.com, as well as her personal journey to Catholicism. You can find many of her writings at: https://www.ca…
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Ep 64: Brian Roberts of Ha Ha Tonka
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Ha Ha Tonka is a band originally from southern Missouri, who've released five albums through Bloodshot Records. Their music is a seamless mixture of American music: classic rock, southern rock, country, folk, and Americana. The important thing is their songs are amazing. Episode 64 features an interview with their lead singer Brian Roberts, who con…
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Ep 63: Artist Jaci Musec
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Jaci Music paints abstract landscapes filled with symbols open to a surplus of interpretations...but she never really intended to...Jaci's story is one of an artist whose creativity was borne out of her pain. After numerous years of sorrow, frustration, and longsuffering from infertility she began to paint simply for the sake of her own personal he…
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Ep 62: Stephen Backhouse on the life of Kierkegaard
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Stephen Backhouse is a theologian and teacher and the author of Kierkegaard: A Single Life, a biography and survey of the work of the iconoclastic Danish writer Soren Kierkegaard. You can find out more about Stephen's Tent Theology teaching program at: https://www.tenttheology.com/ While our conversation is mostly about Kierkegaard and his work, we…
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Ep 61: Dan Leman—The art of lament
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Pastor Dan Leman discusses the background and poetry of the book of Lamentations, and how God births art out of tragedy. The music and Rachel Wilhelm, Bifrost Arts, and Nathan Peterson are also mentioned in the intro.PostConsumer Reports által
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Ep60: A Discussion on Nathan Peterson's Song "Is It A Sin?"
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Nathan Peterson returns to the podcast for an in depth discussion of his recent song "Is It a Sin?" It's not so much an interview as it is a conversation about the song and how we respond to art that challenges us and perhaps even offends us. Please check out out www.nathanpeterson.net for Nathan's music and writings.…
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