Good Shepherd Sermon Podcast

In our fourth episode, the Rev. Kathy Pfister talks to Dr. Scott Bader-Saye about how our life in the Body of Christ forms us for love.  Dr. Bader-Saye serves as the Academic Dean and Helen and Everett H. Jones Professor of Christian Ethics and Moral Theology at the Seminary of the Southwest. This conversation explores how in our life together we help one another discover ourselves as occasions for joy, the relationship between love and sin, the power of listening, and how our life in Christian community prepares us for to be peacemakers in polarized community.

In this episode, the Rev. Morgan Allen visits with parishioner Laurens Fish, III, President of Weed-Corley-Fish funeral homes in Austin.  The pair reflect on Thomas Lynch’s collection of essays entitled The Undertaking.  Lynch, a funeral director, writes, “I [came] to know that the undertaking … had less to do with what was done to the dead and more to do with what the living did about the fact of life that people died.”  Morgan and Laurens discuss their respective efforts to honor the families they serve. The podcast concludes with Morgan’s sermon, entitled “Living For Eternity, Not For Immortality,” from Good Shepherd’s October 28, 2018, requiem masses.

In this week's podcast episode, the Rev. Dean Lawrence talks to Sonya Apodaca. Sonya is the Resident Services Coordinator for Rosemont Apartments in southeast Austin and shared with us her thoughts on choosing a life of serving others in need. She and Dean talk about discerning the call to serve others, the ways in which we care for ourselves in the midst of this call, and the intersection of her role with the role of the church. Finally, they talk about Hillside Early Childhood Center, where she serves on the board, and the transformative opportunity the school offers for the neighborhood.

In our first episode, the Rev. Stanford Adams talks to Dr. Beth Charrier about joy. Dr. Charrier is a psychologist in practice here in Austin, and she and Stanford talk about finding lasting joy even through difficulty. This conversation explores topics that Stanford discussed in his sermon from Sunday, October 14, 2018, and it highlights the intersection of faith, psychology, and our experience of life.