Podcasts by In Conversation with David Goa
In Conversation with David Goa is a regular podcast featuring thoughtful guests seeking to move public and religious discourse beyond the ideological silos that limit public understanding.
Further podcasts by David Goa
Podcast on the topic Religion und Spiritualität
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23: Calum McCracken III from 2023-10-11T21:14:57
My conversation with Calum began during his undergraduate studies. We talked about his interests in the political life of a number of countries, on international relations and issues of human ...
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22: Calum McCracken II from 2023-10-02T23:08
My conversation with Calum began during his undergraduate studies. We talked about his interests in the political life of a number of countries, on international relations and issues of human ...
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21: Calum McCracken I from 2023-09-22T15:50
My conversation with Calum began during his undergraduate studies. We talked about his interests in the political life of a number of countries, on international relations and issues of human ...
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20: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Richard Topping from 2023-02-01T16:00
We first met a number of years ago when I was curating the international exhibition Anno Domini, Jesus Through the Centuries for the year 2000. I discovered, quite by happenstance, th...
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19: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Mikel Laurie from 2022-05-13T15:00
Mikel Laurie is pastor of the Highlands Baptist Church in Edmonton. He previously served a United Church. His move from a progressive form of Protestantism to and evangelical church is of parti... Listen
19: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Ray Sawatski from 2022-04-29T15:00
I have had the pleasure over the last decade or so of thinking with Ray Sawatsky about religion and culture. I am delighted to talk with him in this series of conversations on the Ekklesia. He ... Listen
18: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Pastor Ingrid Cramer-Doerschel from 2022-04-08T16:41:33
Pastor Ingrid grew up in post-war Germany and navigated the trauma of the war’s shadow. She discusses the habit of taking refuge in church doctrine as a way of avoiding the responsibility for w... Listen
17: Jason West from 2021-06-21T18:36
Jacques Maritain was raised a protestant in France initially studying science at the Sorbonne in Paris. He became disillusioned with the perspective of scientism that dominate the academy. Att...
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16: Margaret Rathnavalu from 2021-04-16T22:05:49
And there are others: those who have cultivated a sense of place, alert to what is unfolding. They work for a better common world and do so because ambition has not dimmed or colonized their a...
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15: Ryan Topping from 2021-02-24T18:33:01
Our conversation begins with a brief reflection on Augustine, Aquinas and Luther with Augustine highlighted as the one who opens the gate in a post-Christian world.
Ryan Topping’s e...
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14: Lorraine Alison Smith-MacDonald from 2020-12-21T23:44:27
As a child Lorraine sat on her uncle’s knee watching the television series MASH and eating vanilla ice cream flavored with creme de menthe. Her parents, one Scottish Presbyterian and one Irish...
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13: Steve Bynum from 2020-07-16T02:11:54
Steve grew up on the Westside of Chicago. He received a football scholarship to Notre Dame and has a stellar journalistic record. A small intimate storefront church was central to his formatio...
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12: Emilio Ferrin from 2020-06-24T16:23:06
Central to Professor Ferrin’s perspective is how he understands Islamic civilization (to be distinguished form Islamic Empire) and the recent development of Islamism. Put another way: how has ...
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11: David Jennings from 2020-06-15T19:42:36
David combines, as few do, superb legal analysis with equally superb theological thinking. When Karl Bath, who stands alongside the Apostle Paul, Maximus the Confessor, Aquinas, and Calvin, ca...
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10: Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro from 2019-12-30T19:59:34
I grew up listening to conversation on Christian Zionism. This idea developed after the Reformation, received clear articulation in seventieth century England, flourished in the 1840s and has ...
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9: Ray Sawatsky from 2019-11-26T00:03:47
David Brooks, one of America’s fine public intellectuals in his recent book The Second Mountain, quotes C.S. Lewis. I remember reading Lewis’ comment years ago and was delighted to have it bro...
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8: Norton Mezvinsky from 2019-11-18T23:17:23
Some years ago I hosted Norton in Edmonton for several lectures on the demanding geo-political issues that so often frame our understanding of Israel/Palestine. We also traveled and lectured i...
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7: Brad Jersak from 2019-10-04T00:40:37
In June I sat down with Bradley Jersak at his home in Abbottsford British
Columbia. He is a teacher and preacher who’s formation was in the evangelical church, Baptist and Mennonite...
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6: Andrew Corley from 2019-10-01T02:47:17
My friend Greg Pennoyer who sits on the board of Prison Fellowship International (PFI) introduced me to Andrew Corley who became the President and CEO of PFI a year ago. I welcomed the opportu...
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5: Tahir Uluc from 2019-09-24T02:21:11
Last November I was invited to animate a Round Table conversation in the Faculty of Divinity at Necmeddin Erbakan University in Konya, Turkey. Konya was the home of the great Sufi mystic Rumi ...
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4: Symeon van Donkelaar from 2019-09-10T00:51:34
Several yeas ago I met the iconographer Symeon van Donkelaar. He had been traveling across Canada collecting samples of the earth from each region. It was part of a large project conceived in ...
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3: Amjad Hussain from 2019-07-16T01:55
In November of 2018 I was invited to speak at the Second International Congress on Spiritual and Religious Care for those incarcerated in prisons. The Congress was sponsored by the Centre for ...
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2: Cyril Hovorun from 2019-05-25T16:15:23
Welcome to In Conversation. In this conversation I have the pleasure of talking with Professor Cyril Hovorun a research fellow at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and at the...
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1: Molly Worthan from 2019-05-22T04:59
In this podcast I have the pleasure of talking with Professor Molly Worthan. She teaches history at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill focusing on the intellectual and religious h...
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