Podcasts by Benders of the Arc

Benders of the Arc

Further podcasts by Geoff Browning

Podcast on the topic Religion und Spiritualität

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Episode 16: A Tour of Birmingham, AL history with Clay Cornelius from 2023-10-08T00:43:44

If you are anything like me, you like to think of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s & 60s as a movement that helped our country achieve, maybe not the entire dream that Dr. Martin Luthe...

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Episode 15: A Tour of Montgomery, AL history with Wanda Battle from 2023-09-05T23:20:47

My guest today is Wanda Battle, a Montgomery, Alabama native, great Jalimuso, female Griot, talented singer and master storyteller. She is the former tour director of Dexter Avenue King Memorial...

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Episode 14: Young Adult Conscientious Objectors from 2023-08-18T00:00

Very few of us have asked ourselves what we believe about the use of violence and war. If we don’t take time to ask those questions, we will most likely adopt the values of our very pro-violence...

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Episode 13: From MP to Conscientious Objector from 2023-08-12T21:25:06

Spencer Goldstein is a Military Police officer turned pacifist and conscientious objector. Spencer is a graduate from West Point and has his masters in biblical exposition. He began to think dif...

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Episode 12: Why Be a Pacifist? from 2023-05-04T23:55:03

For those of us who grew up in the age of Dr. King or during the Vietnam War, pacifism made a lot of sense. And even if you didn't grow up in that era, pacifism can still make sense, especially ...

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Episode 11: What Can Be Done to Prevent Gun Violence? from 2023-03-28T21:43:40

As I write this, another mass shooting has occurred in Nashville, TN. Three children and three adults were gunned down. In this episode we will be talking about guns, gun violence and most impor...

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Episode 10: Christianity, Nonviolence&War from 2023-02-02T00:40:57

This episode is a reprise of a webinar that the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship produced in March of 2022 in response to and out of concern for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. As Christians we claim...

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Episode 9: Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll:"Can't Check Straight with a Crooked Stick" from 2021-07-22T02:48:51

I met the Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll when we both traveled to northern Minnesota in early June 2021 to support the water protectors who are resisting the building of a pipeline, called Line 3, tha...

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Episode 8: Winona LaDuke: Indigenous Activist, Author, and Water Protector from 2021-06-10T14:32:54

Winona LaDuke speaking at the Treaty People Gathering in Minnesota in June of 2021

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Juneteenth 2020 Family BBQ Record Party from 2020-06-19T15:08:53

Celebrate Juneteenth with personal reflections, deeply connected music and joyful jams that celebrate freedom. Collette Lynner presents a playlist of Soul, R&B, & Gospel expressions of love...

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The First LGBTQ Marriage - Part 2 from 2020-04-08T20:21:26

This second of two episodes are dedicated to the efforts by people of the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, a member of the Presbyterian Church USA, to make their denomination a more welcomin...

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The First LGBTQ Marriage - Part 1 from 2020-04-08T20:14:09

The next two episodes are dedicated to the efforts by people of the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, a member of the Presbyterian Church USA, to make their denomination a more welcoming and ...

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The Day Worker Center of Mountain View from 2019-11-07T23:14:23

In this episode of BOTA, The Day Worker Center of Mountain View, we interview Maria Marroquin, the Executive Director of the Day Worker Center. Organizations like the Day Worker Center are on the f...

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What Accompaniment Looks Like from 2019-09-25T15:58:35

In this interview with two members of congregations in the Presbytery of San Jose, we discuss what accompaniment looks like and how it helps to support immigrants who are in need.

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Kent State Shooting Revisited from 2019-07-15T03:04:43

BOTA interviews Joe Lewis who was one of the students shot on May 4th, 1970 when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on peaceful student demonstrators.

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