Podcasts by The Growing Edge
The Growing Edge Podcast is hosted by Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer. In this podcast Carrie, Parker and exciting guests will explore new life on the growing edge - personally, vocationally and politically. What's your growing edge?
Further podcasts by Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer
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Episode 41: A Conversation With Theologian/Author Diana Butler Bass from 2022-02-01T10:00:15
In this episode Parker & Carrie discuss spirituality, justice and living authentically with author and theologian, Diana Butler Bass. Diana talks about her history as a person of faith, the challe...
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Episode 40: How To Fly - A Conversation With Author/Poet Barbara Kingsolver from 2021-12-31T10:00:02
In this episode Carrie & Parker welcome Author/Poet Barbara Kingsolver. Together they discuss the natural world, mortality, the promise of ambiguity, making, the writer's life, knitting and her new...
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Episode 39:The Gift of Presence with Poet & Educator Naomi Shihab Nye from 2021-11-30T10:00:04
This month on The Growing Edge podcast we revisit our December 2018 conversation with poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Naomi has received numerous honors for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award ...
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Episode 39:The Gift of Presence with Poet & Educator Naomi Shihab Nye (rebroadcast) from 2021-11-30T10:00:04
This month on The Growing Edge podcast we revisit our December 2018 conversation with poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Naomi has received numerous honors for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award ...
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Growing Edge Nov 2021 Episode 38 from 2021-10-31T09:00:14
In this episode Carrie and Parker discuss May Sarton's powerful poem, "The Angels & The Furies." In this conversation we talk about the angels and furies of our nature. In these times when many ...
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Episode 37: Writing From The Margins & The Red Thread - A Conversation with Author Parker J. Palmer from 2021-09-30T09:00:16
In this episode Carrie and Parker continue their conversation about creativity and the undivided life, writing from the "margins", following a call to and beyond the growing edge, and the red threa...
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Episode 36 Until Now: Creativity At The Growing Edge from 2021-08-31T09:00:15
In this episode Parker and Carrie take a moment to talk about Carrie's newest companion projects Until Now CD & Until Now: New Poems.
They discuss the themes that run through these two compani...
Episode 35: Learning In Public - A Conversation With Courtney Martin from 2021-07-31T09:00:01
In this episode Parker and Carrie are in conversation with author, journalist, activist, Courtney Martin, about her new book, Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daug...
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Episode 34 - Real Change: A Conversation With Sharon Salzberg from 2021-06-30T09:00
A conversation with beloved meditation teacher and founder of The Insight Meditation Society. In this episode we explore the practice of mindfulness and meditation to deepen our own lives and sus...
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Episode 33: Rebroadcast of "A Conversation with Author/Poet Mark Nepo from 2021-05-31T09:00:03
Because Carrie was in the studio this month working on a new album, we decided not to record a new podcast for June. Instead, we are revisiting our 2019 interview with our dear friend, Mark Nepo, p...
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Episode 32: Identity, Resiliency & Spiritual Calling - A Conversation with Dr. Luther E. Smith Jr. from 2021-04-30T09:00:02
For our May, 2021 podcast, we welcome Dr. Luther E. Smith Jr., Professor Emeritus at Candler Seminary, author, educator, pastor, mystic, and elder. In this episode we talk about how identity is sh...
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Episode 31: The Power of Story & Song with John McCutcheon from 2021-03-31T09:00
Parker and Carrie welcome singer songwriter, activist John McCutcheon, musician, activist and spiritual seeker. He has 41 albums to his credit, has received six Grammy Award nominations and worke...
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Episode 30: From Polarization to Healing, with John Paul Lederach from 2021-02-28T11:00:02
For our March, 2021 podcast, we welcome John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding, and internationally respected expert in conflict transformation. John Paul describes t...
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Episode 29: The Handing Over Time from 2020-12-31T10:00:04
In this episode, Carrie and Parker reflect upon the happenings of 2020. They discuss challenges we've faced in the past year as well as focus and evidence for hope in the new year. They explore t...
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Episode 28: A Reason For Delight - A Conversation With Poet, Ross Gay from 2020-11-30T10:00:02
In this episode, Carrie and Parker have a conversation with Poet, Ross Gay, author of The Book of Delights & Be Holding. We talk about Ross's books, his thoughts about finding delight in his daily...
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Episode 27: Where Do We Go From Here - A Post Election Conversation from 2020-11-17T00:09:38
In this episode, Carrie and Parker ask how We the People can help renew the American body politic post-election. How do we have open-hearted conversations across lines of difference, without blinki...
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Episode 26: From The Heartland To The White House & Home —A Conversation with Preeta Bansal from 2020-09-29T09:00:04
Carrie and Parker have a conversation about the Inner work of democracy and the common good with Preeta Bansal. Preeta was Solicitor General of the State of New York, then as General Counsel in th...
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Episode 25 "Anchored In The Current" A New Book About The Enduring Influence of Howard Thurman from 2020-08-30T13:17:26
In this Growing Edge Podcast, we talk with author, educator, and activist Gregory Ellison II about his new book, Anchored in the Current, a collection of essays about the enduring influence of myst...
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Growing Edge Aug 2020 Episode 24 from 2020-07-31T09:00:06
In this Growing Edge Podcast, we explore mortality, living with presence in the pandemic, the importance of creativity and collaboration—and we debut our new single, "The Music Will Play On” (lyric...
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Episode 23 -A Ritual To Read Each Other - from 2020-06-29T09:00:22
The July Growing Edge Podcast features a poem that illumines the American uprising for racial justice and our role in it. Carrie and Parker explore William Stafford’s poem, "A Ritual to Read to Ea...
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Episode 22- Revolutionary Love - A Conversation With Valarie Kaur from 2020-05-31T10:00:07
In this Growing Edge Podcast, Parker and Carrie talk with author, attorney, filmmaker, and activist Valarie Kaur. In her new book, See No Stranger: A Memoir & Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, Valar...
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Episode 21: Gardening In The Dark from 2020-04-30T09:00:08
In this Growing Edge Podcast Parker J. Palmer & Carrie Newcomer have an open hearted conversation about maintaining hope in the time of covid-19. They describe the many layers that come up when we...
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Episode 20 - A Conversation About Living In Uncertain Times from 2020-03-31T09:00:02
Carrie and Parker explore many questions about living with uncertainty, disruption, and revelation in this time of coronavirus. What helps us grow and still our hearts? What comes up personally an...
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Episode 19: A Conversation w/ Over The Rhine - Musicians Karin Bergquist & Lindford Detweiler from 2020-02-29T11:00
Carrie and Parker have a heart opening conversation with musicians Karin Bergquist & Linford Detweiler (Over The Rhine). They explore the creative process, the spiritual and personal threads that...
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Growing Edge Feb 2020 Episode 18 from 2020-02-10T19:01:50
In this episode Carrie and Parker explore Wendell Berry's poem "The Wild Geese" and that what we need is here, within us and between us.
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Episode 17: New Year's Revolutions from 2020-01-03T04:04:29
Join Parker and Carrie as they explore the idea of New Year’s Revolutions.
At the turn of the year many of us engage in the cultural practice of New Year's resolutions. Often these inte...
Episode 16 "Questions Before Dark" A Conversation About Living With Questions from 2019-11-28T12:54:56
Join Carrie and Parker as they explore Jeanne Lohmann's, "Questions Before Dark”
“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart… Try to love the questions themselves… Do not now s...
Episode 15 The Violence of Overactivity—The Wisdom of Living at the Speed of Soul from 2019-10-29T16:17:13
Join Parker and Carrie for a conversation about this powerful Thomas Merton quote, and how they personally wrestle with overactivity and try to reclaim the wisdom of living at the speed of soul.
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Episode 14 The Growing Edge of Navigating Conflict from 2019-08-31T09:00:05
In our September podcast, Carrie and Parker take on the topic of conflict on the personal, vocational, and political growing edges of our lives. We live in divisive times, culturally and politicall...
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Episode 13: A Conversation With Beloved Author/Poet/Educator Mark Nepo from 2019-07-30T10:00:05
Join Parker and Carrie for a heart opening conversation with Author/Poet/Educator Mark Nepo as they discuss what it means to show up as our authentic self, balancing our inner and outer lives, and ...
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Episode 12: Within Us & Between Us is Everything We Need from 2019-06-29T10:00:04
Join Parker and Carrie for our July podcast where we explore the concept of abundance. The very idea of “the growing edge” is rooted in the confidence that more life, new life, is always possible. ...
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Episode 11 A Conversation w/ Author Gregory Ellison lll from 2019-05-31T00:13:40
Our friend Greg Ellison is Professor of Pastoral Care & Counseling at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He is founder of Fearless Dialogues, a nonprofit that creates unique spaces for...
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Episode 10 The Growing Edge Internal & External Pushback from 2019-04-30T02:25:42
To live an undivided life, to follow the call to wholeness, may at times feel lonely when others express discomfort, concern, or view what we are doing as dangerous. Join Carrie and Parker as they ...
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The Growing Edge Episode 9 - From Frozen to Fallow to Flowering from 2019-03-30T19:09:10
Carrie Newcomer and Parker J. Palmer discuss long winters and new seasons of growth and The Growing Edge Quesion of the Month.
"What have you learned for the long winters of your life and/or t...
Episode 8 Mud and Miracles from 2019-02-28T17:13:14
Parker and Carrie discuss The Growing Edge Question of The Month for March. March is the season of spring, mud and miracles. How do you hold the eternal mix of mud and miracles in your life? Wha...
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Growing Edge Episode 7 - The Fast Track & The Call to Stillness from 2019-01-31T16:29:59
Carrie and Parker discuss The Growing Edge February question of the month. In February nature maintains a state of stillness in order to nurture its own growing edges. But we live in a culture th...
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Episode 6 Begin Again from 2019-01-03T16:04:03
It’s no accident that January takes its name from the Roman god Janus, the god of "gateways and beginnings." Parker and Carrie explore the idea of endings, beginning again, beginner's mind and the ...
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Episode 5 A Conversation About Gifts With Special Guest Poet Naomi Shihab Nye from 2018-11-29T13:36:44
Parker J Palmer and Carrie Newcomer are joined by special guest the poet, Naomi Shihab Nye. A reading of Naomi's poem "Shoulders" and a conversation about the concept of gift, giving and paying at...
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Episode 4 Where The Personal Meets the Political at The Growing Edge from 2018-10-30T21:07:43
Carrie and Parker discuss where the personal meets the political at the Growing Edge, focusing on the human heart as the first home of democracy. What personal work will help us navigate the kind ...
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Episode Three: The Slow Blossoming from 2018-09-28T19:12:30
Carrie and Parker discuss the October Growing Edge Question of the Month. "What do you want to name and claim as a way you are flowering today that you could only hope for in the past? What do yo...
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The Growing Edge Episode Two: Fear, Courage, To See and Be Seen from 2018-08-22T20:16:53
Parker and Carrie discuss the September question of the Month, fear, courage, mentors and what it means to see and be seen. It’s September, the start of the school year. For many kids, it’s an exc...
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Episode One - August Question of the Month - Finding Hope in Hard Times from 2018-07-30T02:50:42
Episode 1 - Welcome to our first episode and conversation about the August 2018 Question of the Month. "In the past, when you’ve felt a “growing edge” in your life, what signs let you know that so...
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