The Holden Village Podcast

"My work is about being embodied, about being connected; whole." Maya Mineoi 三根生 真矢 (they/them) comes from a lineage of gardeners, community organizers, and musicians. They are a somatic therapist with a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Maya brings ancestral values of creativity, attentiveness, and slowing down into sessions. With play and gentleness, participants will attune themselves to their surroundings and their needs for freedom, connection and rest. Maya uses movement, touch, psychosomatic education, imagery, breathwork, and stillness to help each nervous system embody presence. Based on the work of Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems, and Brainspotting, Maya encourages individuals and collectives to tap into the wealth of information in each bodymind. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

Rev. Terry Kyllo is a Lutheran pastor serving as the director of Paths to Understanding: Bridging Bias and Building Unity. He is the founder of Neighbors in Faith, answering Islamophobia with building the beloved community and recognizing and honoring one another's humanity. A graduate of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, he began his pastoral career in 1991 and has served in partnership between Episcopalians and Lutherans since 2004. Terry was the recipient of the Faith Action Network Interfaith Leadership Award in 2016, the Interfaith Leadership Award from the Muslim Association of Puget Sound in 2017, and the Sultan and Saint Peace award in 2017, and the Called to Lead award in 2018 by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.

Through their work with Team Naturaleza, Elisa and Monica are creating a space where the Hispanic/Latinx community can gather, learn about the environment bilingually, and gain a sense of belonging in the outdoors. In this episode, Elisa and Monica talk about what brought them to their work, and their experience spending a week at Holden. Team Naturaleza is one of the recipients of offerings collected at Holden this summer. You can learn more and support them with a donation on their website: https://www.teamnaturaleza.org/

"Those vestiges of colonialism when empire was present in a particular context, when it left, those forms of knowledge still exist and they're still informing how you make decisions and how you move with one another and we can ask those questions of the Lutheran Church." - Hierald "I think the questions we were asking around, who benefits from this kind of interpretation, and how does someone's history shape their story? Those are questions I want people to bring back to their communities." - Ben Hierald Osorto has a passion for stories hidden out of sight, which drives him to work collaboratively and creatively to bring those stories to light. He comes to Holden from Ithaca College, nurturing belonging and meaning-making as Director of Religious and Spiritual Life and Executive Director for Student Equity and Belonging. Assigned to the DC Metro Synod, he will soon be the newest rostered leader in the ELCA. Three words that describe Hierald? Intuitive, insightful innovator. Ben Masters is a lover of stories and sacred song, and a pastor among those complicated, covenant people called Presbyterians. He comes to Holden with greetings from the farmers, wine-makers, and librarians beside beautiful Seneca Lake. He started baking sourdough bread long before lockdown, but the perfect pie crust still eludes him. Three words that describe Ben? Hopeful, humming homilist.

When we talk about healing, what it means to bring some of our stories or our voice forward ,activating our senses or coming home to the body is one way to do that. Through the arts, it's entering through another door. – Shabrae How do we give ourselves permission to play? To stand in that is an act of resistance against a culture of production, of exploitation of labor, of refusal for rest. What difference does this workshop make, what difference does this accompaniment make, if we're playing together? Because it seems superficial or light, but it really is revolutionary and radical, that sense of presence, and response to what is. - Mylinda Mylinda currently works with International Ministries ABC-USA as a Global Consultant for Training using the Restorative Arts, sharing effective arts-based healing resources with social change agents, global peacebuilders, faith community leaders, and trauma survivors. Mylinda holds advanced facilitation certifications from Training for Conflict Transformation Trainers, Training for Change, Build A Bridge International, and EXIT (Expressive Arts in Transition). She has been an ordained American Baptist clergywoman for over 30 years. Shabrae is a trained expressive arts educator working in communities impacted by challenge and crisis. She is co-founder of UMBRAL, a Mexican-based organization engaged in arts-based psychosocial trauma and healing work; currently exploring the intersection of arts, sports, and peace-building with LudArtem, and a Director of training for International based groups and organizations. Shabrae is a certified coach and has facilitation certifications from Training for Conflict Transformation Trainers, and EXIT (Expressive Arts in Transition).

Michael Ramos came to the Pacific Northwest 37 years ago as a Jesuit Volunteer to work with people on the streets at a day drop-in center in Tacoma. He proceeded to work with housed and un-housed Central American refugees in Seattle. He has continued bringing a faith lens to working alongside people and communities experiencing marginalization for most of the last three decades, and was involved in the formation of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Church Council of Greater Seattle. In this capacity, he has been engaged in direct service, education, advocacy, and organizing efforts for living wages, with people experiencing homelessness and alongside recent immigrants.

"In my experience of Christianity, we've been a very word-focused people. Word and intellect have been honored above the wisdom of the body and wisdom of the felt sensibilities of our emotions and the vaguer sensibilities of our imaginations and intuitions and sense of prompting, and all the ways the Spirit can work through those other modalities. So yes, we can pray with our bodies. Yes, we can pray with our imagination, we can pray through our feelings and not be overcome by them. All of us, all of our being can show up, be welcomed in the Spirit." Christine Betz Hall is a Quaker, educator, retreat facilitator, and spiritual director. She founded and facilitates Way of the Spirit—a prayer and study program for growth in spiritual discernment from the wisdom of the Quaker tradition. Her teaching invites attentiveness to the Inward Teacher in ordinary life. Her contemplative, experiential approach assists others to live more fully into their relationships and their spiritual giftedness. Learn more about Christine's work at goodnewsassociates.org. She will be offering mini-courses on spiritual giftedness this fall, as well as a monthly Koinonia reflection group.

Tamisha Tyler, MDiv (she/her) is Executive Director of Arts, Religion and Culture (ARC) and a Ph.D. candidate studying Theology, Culture, and Ethics. In this conversation, Tamisha talks about finding the field of theopoetics, developing the Subversive Liturgy Project in front of the Pasadena Police Department, and her dissertation, which explores Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower as a work of theopoetics.

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda is the Founding Director of the Center for Climate Justice and Faith at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS), and a co-founder of Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability. She has provided education worldwide in theology; ethics; and matters of climate justice and climate racism, eco-feminist theology, and faith-based resistance to systemic oppression. Her Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation (Fortress, 2013), won a Nautilus Book Award for social justice. She is one of 3 North Americans appointed to a global team to advise the World Council of Churches and Lutheran World Federation on their work toward a new international financial architecture. This week, Cynthia offered experiential programming on faith-based climate justice. Her workshops were titled "Beloved Creatures, Created to Love…Yet “Uncreating," "Forging Ways of Living that Enable Earth's Web of Life to Flourish," "Seeds of Hope and Moral-Spiritual Power Rooted in Faith," and "Building on Hope and Moral-Spiritual Power Rooted in Faith."

Chasity is a new mom with a beautiful baby girl named Lola and is in the Master of Divinity program at Boston University School of Theology. She identifies as a Womanist theologian, a decolonizer, and a liberationist. Originally from Louisiana with a Baptist and missionary background, she is now centrally devoted to Black women's health and healing. She became a Krista Colleague while a Community Organizer at Faith Action Network in Seattle and Global Ministries in the United Methodist Church. She has recently launched Fourth Wave Revolution to walk with churches, school and medical institutions in the process of decolonization. For the last five years, she has engaged with sermons, adult Sunday schools, workshops, individual and collective consulting, yoga and mindfulness, support groups, and more. She's also very interested in understanding how traditional African-oriented practices in spirituality are shunned often within the black church community.

Pastor Liv Larson Andrews talks about her response to this week's programming, which reflected on themes of lightness and darkness in liturgy as well as the story of Hagar, and the experience of trying out new language in the Holden Evening Prayer.

"I realized my first year in this position that art is a muscle that you have to develop and flex and train to be in the flow to produce and cultivate inspiration." ~ Kate Egolf, Potter Holden Village has long been known for incredible programming, sparking minds and imaginations with insightful and engaging sessions. And now we're bringing Holden programming to you! Through this Virtual Programming series, we'll profile the amazing work of Holden Village. Journey along with us as we explore the arts, the kitchen, utilities, ceramics, garbology, and more, interviewing staff members and telling the stories of the areas that make Holden Village so special. Come behind the scenes and learn more about the philosophy, grounding, and details of all the work that makes Holden tick. Welcome to Virtual Programming! The current Holden Village community staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village or have been fully vaccinated . To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"Garbology has increased my understanding of how we get into cycles of consumption and is also a way to be mindful, care for creation, and show respect for the interdependent web of which we are all a part of. " ~ Rachael Meadors, Garbologist Holden Village has long been known for incredible programming, sparking minds and imaginations with insightful and engaging sessions. And now we're bringing Holden programming to you! Through this Virtual Programming series, we'll profile the amazing work of Holden Village. Journey along with us as we explore the arts, the kitchen, utilities, ceramics, garbology, and more, interviewing staff members and telling the stories of the areas that make Holden Village so special. Come behind the scenes and learn more about the philosophy, grounding, and details of all the work that makes Holden tick. Welcome to Virtual Programming! The current Holden Village community staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village or have been fully vaccinated . To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"We're not always taught how blackness became a thing. How does white become a race? How does black become a race, when race itself has no meaning? It is a social construct. " ~ Asa lee Rev. Dr. Asa Lee is a socially conscious religious educator and pastoral leader. He is the new President of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. He is a sought-after lecturer exploring faith in the 21st century; religious difference; and empowering effective church leadership. Having served as a pastor, professor, and nonprofit leader, he is an experienced administrator and communicator that works to educate and promote a more nuanced view of the world through education. He is a married father of four daughters and resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The current Holden Village community all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village or have been fully vaccinated. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"Writing an ode is a form of meditation and gratitude practice. It's also a method for repairing our relationship with something, someone, someplace, to write in it's praise." ~ Elizabeth Austen Former Washington State Poet Laureate Elizabeth Austen believes poetry is part of our human birthright. Among the many things poetry can do, she's most invested in its capacity to confront big questions with intelligence and feeling. Through its intimacy, slowness, and layered silences, poetry can offer moments of stillness and connection in a frantic, clamorous world. She's the author of Every Dress a Decision (Blue Begonia Press), which was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, two chapbooks, and an audio CD. Poems from her next collection-in-progress appeared recently in the New England Review and Spirited Stone: Lessons from Kubota's Garden. She's performed her work widely, including at UNESCO in Paris alongside poets from 12 nations and at Poets House in NYC. For over a decade, she's facilitated poetry and reflective writing as a tool for self-care at Seattle Children's Hospital. She's worked with organizations including Neighborcare and Virginia Mason, using poetry to help clinicians renew their connection to the heart of care, and has lectured on poetry/reflective writing as a tool for resilience at the University of Washington School of Social Work, Kaiser Permanente, and the WCAAP. The current Holden Village community all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village or have been fully vaccinated. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"According to the Audubon society, over the past century, urbanization has taken intact, ecologically productive land and fragmented and transformed it with lawns and exotic ornamental plants. The continental U.S. lost a staggering 150 million acres of habitat and farmland to urban sprawl, and that trend isn't slowing." Amy Tongue, Naturalist Holden Village has long been known for incredible programming, sparking minds and imaginations with insightful and engaging sessions. And now we're bringing Holden programming to you! Through this Virtual Programming series, we'll profile the amazing work of Holden Village. Journey along with us as we explore the arts, the kitchen, utilities, ceramics, garbology, and more, interviewing staff members and telling the stories of the areas that make Holden Village so special. Come behind the scenes and learn more about the philosophy, grounding, and details of all the work that makes Holden tick. Welcome to Virtual Programming! The current Holden Village community staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village or have been fully vaccinated . To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"We are focusing on curiosity and making space for questioning our practices, processes, and crafts. That fits into our summer theme of Samaritan Traveler of approaching projects without expectation, and allowing the processes to unfold out of curiosity and play. Then we leave with a deeper understanding of the practice, the materials, and ourselves." ~ Kelly Snyder, Craft Studio Coordinator Holden Village has long been known for incredible programming, sparking minds and imaginations with insightful and engaging sessions. And now we're bringing Holden programming to you! Through this Virtual Programming series, we'll profile the amazing work of Holden Village. Journey along with us as we explore the arts, the kitchen, utilities, ceramics, garbology, and more, interviewing staff members and telling the stories of the areas that make Holden Village so special. Come behind the scenes and learn more about the philosophy, grounding, and details of all the work that makes Holden tick. Welcome to Virtual Programming! The current Holden Village community staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village or have been fully vaccinated . To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"There are so many people coming in and out of the village.  Hellos and goodbyes are a way to acknowledge the time we have with this group of people as a community, be grateful, try to experience everything as fully as we can (without thinking of the end), be present, and then let go." ~ Emer Kate Sanders , Holden Program Associate Holden Village has long been known for incredible programming, sparking minds and imaginations with insightful and engaging sessions. And now we're bringing Holden programming to you! Through this Virtual Programming series, we'll profile the amazing work of Holden Village. Journey along with us as we explore the arts, the kitchen, utilities, ceramics, garbology, and more, interviewing staff members and telling the stories of the areas that make Holden Village so special. Come behind the scenes and learn more about the philosophy, grounding, and details of all the work that makes Holden tick. Welcome to Virtual Programming! The current Holden Village community staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village or have been fully vaccinated . To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

**recorded summer 2019** "I help people tell their story... I've tried to create art that keeps that lens in mind. Anything I make, if it doesn't ring true to the subject that is involved, then I've fallen back into that tourist trap, where I'm assigning meaning to someone's face or life story." ~ Todd Drake Todd is a human rights artist who paints, prints, photographs, and works with community. Originally from the North Carolina, Drake lives and works in New York City where he creates art addressing human rights issues among marginalized communities. Drake's images speak with content that is both specific and universal and reveals his concern for the most basic of human rights - to be considered fully human. For more information, visit Todd Drake's website at: https://www.the-equalist.com/homepage The current Holden Village community all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering and reentering the Village, or have been fully vaccinated. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"Holden exists for what Holden does down lake... The food philosophy is here to bring people into a way of thinking about food that they can bring with them when they leave." ~ Chance Voigt From 2017, Chance worked and lived in the village as the Food Services Coordinator, as well as Community Services Manager. He graduated from Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. To learn more about the Holden Kitchen philosophy and local partnerships visit: https://www.holdenvillage.org/about-us/kitchen The current Holden Village community of nearly 70 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering and reentering the Village, or have been fully vaccinated. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

**recorded summer 2019** "Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism offer a strict adherence to non-violence or non-harm, and in that way, these religions really emphasize the community." Matt and his wife, Miranda, were married in June 2000 and moved from Texas to the Pacific Northwest. IT was there that they fell in love with the outside work and each other. Matt has worked in the arenas of youth and family ministry, new church planting, and as a senior pastor. He graduated from Texas Christian University and Pacific School of Religion, He also teaches religious studies at Linn-Benton Community College. They have three children. The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"We have a treasure. The buildings here are fragile and susceptible to damage and deterioration. It is our privilege to be able care for them and be able to pass them on to next generations." ~ John Lauber "So many experiences from the people that have come to Holden Village have included a special time on these porches. They in themselves are a sacred space." ~ Chris Gustafson "If you drive through the countryside and see an old barn, in all likelihood, you start recreating a story of what was in that barn, or why that barn was there, or what was going on at that period of time. It becomes almost a story within a visual. Wouldn't it be nice to leave many of these treasures for future people?" ~ Harrison Goodall Dr. Harrison Goodall has over forty-eight years of experience with historic structures and facilities management and nearly sixty years of experience in training and education throughout the country. Harrison has been involved in preserving hundreds, if not thousands of historic structures around the nation. A 2016 award from the National Park Service documented that Goodall completed over 135 volunteer historic preservation projects in 55 national parks. For information about the Harrison Goodall Preservation Fellowship, where graduate students and professionals have the opportunity to pursue projects that contribute to the field of historic preservation, visit https://www.preservationmaryland.org/announcing-the-second-year-of-the-harrison-goodall-preservation-fellowship/ John Lauber is an architectural historian and preservation planner. In the past 30 years, he has worked in the field of historic preservation with a cultural resource management firm, a large engineering company, the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office, the Division of Energy Resources at the Minnesota Department of Commerce, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as starting a consulting practice. For further information, visit https://www.jlauberco.com/ Chris Gustafson attended Clatsop Community College's Historic Preservation and Restoration Program, in 2009. During his two years he developed his skills in window restoration, preservation, reproductions and crew field management. Once graduating from the Historic Preservation Program, he relocated his family to Albany, Oregon and shortly after created Vintage Window Restoration in May of 2012. Chris loves to educate others in the trade and continues his education on a regular basis both in windows and other aspects of historic preservation. For further information, visit https://vintagewindowrestorationllc.com/ To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

Kathie Caemmerer-Bach, Mark Bach, and Stacy Kitahata serve as Holden Village Executive Directors. Listen to how they first came to know Holden, what sharing the work of directors is like, as well as hearing about this coming summer's theme, "The Samaritan Traveler - Encounter, Embrace, Embark - Luke 10". In their shared leadership vision, Kathie, Mark, and Stacy contemplate a Holden Village for the Life of the World. They hold common commitments to nurturing and empowering community that engages diversity, interfaith dialogue, spiritual practice, environmental justice, and holy hilarity. Kathie, holding an MA in Education, has served in leadership positions with educational institutions both internationally and in the Pacific Northwest. Most recently, as Chief Academic Officer and Head of School for two innovative nationwide school organizations, she has overseen programming, faculty, personnel, and budgeting. Integral to her extensive career has been a lived commitment to educational equity and diversity. A fun Holden connection is that Kathie is the daughter of Richard Caemmerer, the Holden icon who painted the mural on the Village Center ceiling. Mark, also with an MA in Education, has both taught and worked in administrative roles along with Kathie in Taiwan, Japan, India, and the Seattle area, including work in fundraising, advancement, and partnership management. Most recently, he served as the Vice-Chair for the Grunewald Guild Board of Directors in Leavenworth, Washington and directed product launches with numerous state regulatory agencies for an innovative company transforming professional development across the US. Stacy adds an incredibly important set of skills to the Executive Director team with her Master of Divinity and extensive work with the ELCA, affiliated church organizations, higher education, and a background facilitating organizational change for equity. Stacy has many ecumenical and interfaith connections and experience on multiple Boards and committees. The current Holden Village community of nearly 50 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"The covenant is more than just a set of rules. The process for creating it was key to healing and developing new relationships and allows a place like Holden to thrive through a spirit of care and compassion for one another." ~ Sarah Sarah Sherry, Mark Bach, Callie Mabry, and Tori Kerssen-Griep discuss how the village navigated the pandemic and created a wellness pod through a community covenant. In September 2020, the Holden Village community collectively explored the possibility of forming a “pod of wellness” in which everyone who has completed a two-week quarantine without symptoms or illness is considered a member of one household. With mutual consent, Villagers who have completed the two-week quarantine without symptoms or illness may enter each other's living spaces and dine, worship, and gather together. In forming a “pod of wellness,” we recognize our interdependence with each other's actions as we make frequent contact with each other. To access the community covenant, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org/files/7716/1799/4434/Community_Health_Protocols_and_Practices.pdf To read more about Holden's community health protocols visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org/visit/community-health/ The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

This podcast is part of a series called Food for Thought. The meal table is a place of gathering, conversation, connection, and nourishment. During the slower winter months, Food For Thought is a weekly practice at Holden Village promoting dialogue in the dining hall. It is grassroots led and infused by the curiosities and passions of the people present in the Valley, inviting Villagers to engage our shared intellect and insight as we discuss a wide range of topics over lunch. It is action-oriented and justice-centered, partnered with a weekly Village "Day of Action" that invites civic and political engagement. Welcome to Food for Thought. The history of the United Sates is woven with the realities of settler colonialization including forced removal and genocide. Many Indigenous communities today still encounter the struggles and injustice of that history. As people living on stolen land, a practice that we can engage with is that of Land Acknowledgements. Through Land Acknowledgements, Indigenous Peoples are recognized and respected as the original stewards of the land that we occupy. Land Acknowledgements are also a time to express gratitude for the First Nations' stewardship and wisdom, and to commit to working towards justice and healing. This Food For Thought (facilitated by Katherine Harris) explores the purpose and practice of Land Acknowledgments. For further exploration on the topic, consider checking out the following resources: A guide to getting to know the land you live on and Land Acknowledgements https://native-land.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/teacher_guide_2019_final.pdf An interactive map of Indigenous lands around the world https://native-land.ca/ A Land Reparations and Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit https://resourcegeneration.org/land-reparations-indigenous-solidarity-action-guide/ The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"For so many people, the heart of this village is the constant flow of guests and volunteer staff that contribute to daily upkeep, fascinating conversations, and holy hilarity. The big question is do we have anything up here without that?" ~ Eleanor Sherry Eleanor is a sophomore in the Holden School. As a culminating project, she interviewed villagers about their experiences over the years, capturing multi-generational perspectives about what Holden Village is, was, and continues to be. The four questions asked included: 1) What was a time you feared for your life? 2) What was it like living here as a child? 3) How has the village changed? 4) What keeps you coming back? The Holden Village School is a public school operated by the Chelan School District under state provisions for schools that are remote but necessary. It meets all state educational requirements and credits earned are transferable. The kindergarten through 12th grade curriculum meets the educational needs of the children of long-term staff families. The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"When I look back on my life, I see that birds have always been part of my family, speaking to me, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly... I can't imagine my life without birds, even if their presence is fleeting. They are my family, my relations, without them the world would be a less vibrant, less musical place." from Passings - Holly J. Hughes. Holly is a writing teacher, poet and essayist with a long-time interest in writing, nature and contemplative practice. She has taught writing workshops at Fishtrap, the Rainier Writers Workshop, and Edmonds Write on the Sound, as well as teaching at Edmonds Community College, where she co-directed the Convergence Writer's Series. Her fine-art chapbook Passings received an American Book Award in 2017. A former commercial salmon fisherman and mariner, she has spent 30 summers working in Alaska, most recently as a naturalist, and currently divides her time between Indianola and Chimacum, Washington. https://www.hollyjhughes.com/ *Recorded Summer 2019* The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"The people that are suffering first and foremost from climate change are predominantly not the ones who are causing it... My colleagues very gently taught me to see climate change as climate colonialism. The high consuming societies and sectors are colonizing the atmosphere with their emissions." Cynthia Moe-Lobeda has lectured or consulted in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Australia, and North America in theology; ethics; and matters of climate justice and climate racism, moral agency, globalization, economic justice, eco-feminist theology, and faith-based resistance to systemic oppression. Her most recent book, Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation, won the Nautilus Award for social justice. She is author or co-author of six volumes and numerous articles and chapters. Moe-Lobeda is Professor of of Theological and Social Ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She holds a doctoral degree in Christian Ethics from Union Theological Seminary, affiliated with Columbia University. The website for her most recent book is: http://resistingstructuralevil.com/. She loves hiking in the Cascade Mountains and is learning to relish also the lands of California. Her greatest joys are her husband, Ron; two wonderful sons and wonderful daughter-in-law; and two splendid grandchildren. *recorded Summer 2019* The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

This podcast is part of a series called Food for Thought. The meal table is a place of gathering, conversation, connection, and nourishment. During the slower months, Food For Thought is a weekly practice at Holden Village promoting dialogue in the dining hall. It is grassroots led and infused by the curiosities and passions of the people present in the Valley, inviting Villagers to engage our shared intellect and insight as we discuss a wide range of topics over lunch. It is action-oriented and justice-centered, partnered with a weekly Village "Day of Action" that invites civic and political engagement. Welcome to Food for Thought. Today's topic focuses on the ethical decisions made at the federal and state levels regarding vaccinations. Two particular questions stand out: 1) Who, and by what principles, do we make decisions for allocation of scarce resources? 2) From a logistical perspective, is it possible to come up with a completely ethical, just, and equitable distribution of a scarce medical resource? Anneliese Floyd is a Family Medicine Doctor and has over 16 years of experience in the medical field. Anneliese has been coming to the village since she was a child and in 2021, served as medic. She lives in Bellingham with her husband and two daughters. The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"The goal of each movement is to communicate an impression of some aspect of life in the remote wilderness setting and unique community experience that Holden Village provides." Cooper Sherry wrote the Holden Piano Suite, a series of reflections in seven movements, during a six-month stay at Holden Village from August to February 2020 - 2021. At home, Cooper is a church music director living in the Pacific Northwest. He has served as a Lutheran church music director for many years, and is an enthusiast of music for the piano, pipe organ, choir, and church congregation. He is married to Sarah Moore Sherry, with whom he writes hymns and songs for worship. Musical excerpts include- Waking 'Neath the Ridge, Echoes of '86, Compline Part Four Prayers, and Dish Team. To listen to the Holden Piano Suite, visit https://youtu.be/88dqjLcgBD4 To purchase the sheet music visit the Holden Bookstore at https://holdenvillagestore.com/shop/ols/products/holden-piano-suite-by-cooper-sherry The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

Holden seeks a Trail Crew Coordinator for the upcoming summer! Visit the following link for more information- http://www.holdenvillage.org/volunteer/short-term-volunteers/ Jonah Jensen-Young currently serves as the podcast author and audio archive assistant. He has lived at Holden the past three years. Beyond the audio work, he helps every summer with trail crews and joining Forest Service projects maintaining and improving trails surrounding the village. The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"I spent a lot of years skiing near Leavenworth and now, in the past decade, in the Methow Valley. Railroad Creek Valley is a blend of those two snowscapes. The climate here is not quite as cold as the Twisp River, but the snowpack is deeper, and tends to be more consistent than Icicle Creek Canyon." - Drew Lovell Drew Lovell is a ski guide and avalanche forecaster in the North Cascades, as well as the Alaskan Wrangell-St.Elias region. Educated as a geologist at the University of Montana, Drew has previous experience as a field biologist and currently works as a mountain guide in the non-winter season. For the Gulo team, at work in the formidable North Cascades winter environment, Drew offers expertise with local snowpack, weather, and terrain, and a willingness to fill a backpack with heavy loads, from carcasses to camera equipment. Stephanie Williams, professional mountain guide and independent field biologist, is the project's co-founder and manager. Steph earned an undergraduate degree in Biological Science while working as a research assistant in chemical and landscape ecology at Boise State University. She also trained in alpine, rock, and ski guiding with the American Mountain Guides Association. Steph loves exploratory skiing and climbing, particularly in remote terrain, and especially with her husband, Drew Lovell. The Gulo is a perennial source of inspiration. Photographer, wildlife tracker, field biologist, and co-founder David Moskowitz spearheads the photography for the project and its interface with Conservation Northwest's ongoing citizen science efforts in the region. David has produced film and authored three books: Caribou Rainforest, Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest, and Wolves in the Land of Salmon. He enjoys long mountain runs, alpine climbing, and backcountry skiing. For more information about their project, visit cascadeswolverineproject.org Also, contribute to community science by submitting a field observation (tracks or sighting) at https://forms.gle/VrJeiJNoPhnPF69Q6 The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"The basic idea and why we argue that its more carbon neutral to get our heat from wood rather than diesel, is the distinction between what's called short-cycle and long-cycle carbon. Wood is considered short-cycle carbon because trees are pulling CO2 out of the air. When you burn wood its functioning on a much shorter timescale in regards to circulating CO2. The time scale on which carbon gets stored in fossil fuels is thousands of years as opposed to a couple decades." Ian Goller completed a B.S. in Anthropology at the University of Chicago with a minor in Physics and a Master's in Environmental Engineering from University of Illinois, focusing on assessment of perennial agriculture systems and corn-soy rotation. Since Fall 2019, Ian serves as Utilities Lead at Holden Village, where he oversees the operation, maintenance, and repair of the water filtration plant, water distribution system, septic/sewage systems, building plumbing, and heating systems. For an infographic covering Holden's "Off-The-Grid" Utilities, check out Elizabeth Person's page at: http://www.elizabethperson.com/infographics.html The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

(Recorded Summer 2019) Deborah Adams Doering received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her individual works focus on the relationship of keywords Nature and Technology. Glenn N. Doering received his MS in Biology from Loyola University of Chicago. His individual works explore keywords Biology, Body, and Fashion. He creates unique wearable objects. Both Deborah and Glenn are founders and lead artists in the socially-engaged art collaborative DOEprojekts. They emphasize both experiences and artifacts as they work with communities and individuals, drawing upon Coreforms and cultural keywords as invitations to interact. For further information see the following links: http://doeprojekts.org/ http://www.doeprojekts.com/ (Recorded Summer 2019) The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps.

This podcast is part of a series called Food for Thought. The meal table is a place of gathering, conversation, connection, and nourishment. During the slower winter months, Food For Thought is a weekly practice at Holden Village promoting dialogue in the dining hall. It is grassroots led and infused by the curiosities and passions of the people present in the Valley, inviting Villagers to engage our shared intellect and insight as we discuss a wide range of topics over lunch. It is action-oriented and justice-centered, partnered with a weekly Village "Day of Action" that invites civic and political engagement. Welcome to Food for Thought. Public education in America has long been described as the great equalizer, but an examination of systematic racism in our school system reveals the opposite. Issues such as inequitable school funding and lack of representation create schools that are ill-equipped to support students of color. This Food for Thought (facilitated by Marta Vegdahl-Crowell and Madi Morrison) explores the disadvantages children of color face in the classroom that can have lifelong impacts. Help teachers buy supplies for their classrooms: https://www.donorschoose.org/donors/search.html Read more about what you can do to address racism in schools here: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/news/2020/07/08/487386/fighting-systemic-racism-k-12-education-helping-allies-move-keyboard-school-board/ The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

Content warning: colonialism, violence against Indigenous peoples, and themes of trauma This podcast is part of a series called Food for Thought. The meal table is a place of gathering, conversation, connection, and nourishment. During the slower winter months, Food For Thought is a weekly practice at Holden Village promoting dialogue in the dining hall. It is grassroots led and infused by the curiosities and passions of the people present in the Valley, inviting Villagers to engage our shared intellect and insight as we discuss a wide range of topics over lunch. It is action-oriented and justice-centered, partnered with a weekly Village "Day of Action" that invites civic and political engagement. Welcome to Food for Thought. The history of the Christian faith in the United States has been closely tied with the genocide and removal of Indigenous peoples across the country, including our own Valley. As a retreat center founded in the Lutheran Church, we want to acknowledge the violence propagated by the Christian church towards Native people as a step in working towards justice. This Food for Thought (facilitated by Marta Vegdahl-Crowell and Julia Hubbard) delves into this history of oppression, particularly focusing on the Doctrine of Discovery. Many of our materials are pulled from Creation Justice Ministry's service on environmental justice for Indigenous peoples and from the "Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation: A Brief History". We hold gratitude for the Chelan, Wenatchi, and Entiat peoples, whose land we occupy. For further exploration on the topic, consider checking out the following resources: Learn whose land you have called home. https://native-land.ca/ Fundraiser to obtain a piece of Wenatchi Homelands back https://www.wenatchiwear.com/donate The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"Holden is still very much a place apart in part because of the satellite link - the very thin and slow thread to the outside world. Nonetheless, the goal here for computer technology is to facilitate business and give people more time to enjoy the environment, not to make people stare at a device all the time. The pandemic prompted adaptation. Technology is integrated into the Holden way and is facilitating what Holden does in terms of engaging people in this unique space. I'm not sure we could have envisioned this a year ago." Corky Searls is a retired geophysicist with a hobby in computer technology. His knowledge in programming, configuration, and security, helped the village maintain a sense of community, by using our network infrastructure, when state protocols required lockdown in our remote community. Jonah Mork Snyder graduated from University of Minnesota with a degree in IT Infrastructure and managed the help desk support for the campus. He has served as the IT Lead for the past year, helping to maintain, improve and innovate many village technologies. The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

This podcast is part of a series called Food for Thought. The meal table is a place of gathering, conversation, connection, and nourishment. During the slower winter months, Food For Thought is a weekly practice at Holden Village promoting dialogue in the dining hall. It is grassroots led and infused by the curiosities and passions of the people present in the Valley, inviting Villagers to engage our shared intellect and insight as we discuss a wide range of topics over lunch. It is action-oriented and justice-centered, partnered with a weekly Village "Day of Action" that invites civic and political engagement. Welcome to Food for Thought. Shelter is one of the basic needs for human survival, yet for too many people in the United States, safe, affordable housing is hard to find. Furthermore, the U.S. has a long history of racist housing policies and discrimination that have created significant barriers to housing for people of color. This Food For Thought (facilitated by Callie Mabry and Kelly Snyder) explores the topic of housing in north central Washington as well as the impact of sprawl and tourist economies on the availability of affordable housing. For further exploration on the topic, consider checking out the following resources: The Affordable Housing Crisis- https://archive.curbed.com/2019/5/15/18617763/affordable-housing-policy-rent-real-estate-apartment Chelan Valley Housing Trust- https://chelanvalleyhousing.org/ The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

Amy Tongue worked as head of Lawns and Gardens and is the Naturalist for the coming summer. Steve Tongue is currently Operations Manager. They're from Alpena, Michigan on beautiful Thunder Bay of Lake Huron. They first lived at Holden Village in the early 1990s. The Jesse Tree is an Advent tradition during the days leading up to Christmas. It is meant to be done as a daily family devotional, or with a group. Advent is a time of preparing and waiting. The word "advent" means "coming." The Jesse tree is named from Isaiah 11:1: "Then a shoot will spring up out of the stump of Jesse, and a branch will grow out of his roots." Jesse was the father of Kind David, and Jesus was born into the family tree of David. For further information about the Jesse Tree tradition, see the following link. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bzuB8O7zXM-UcXldT6JKayLkZEnj4eyz/view?usp=sharing To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

This podcast marks the start of a series called Food for Thought. The meal table is a place of gathering, conversation, connection, and nourishment. During the slower winter months, Food For Thought is a weekly practice at Holden Village promoting dialogue in the dining hall. It is grassroots led and infused by the curiosities and passions of the people present in the Valley, inviting Villagers to engage our shared intellect and insight as we discuss a wide range of topics over lunch. It is action-oriented and justice-centered, partnered with a weekly Village "Day of Action" that invites civic and political engagement. Welcome to Food for Thought. Our cells, our bodies, and the Earth consist of 70% water. On a physical, chemical, and spiritual level our lives are shaped by water. This Food For Thought (facilitated by Andrew Zimmerman and Sophia McLaughlin) explores the interrelationship between water and life from a number of perspectives. Bridging aquatic evolution, resource management ethics, and the power of water as metaphor, our conversation was far-reaching and illuminating. For further exploration on the topic, consider checking out the 2009 documentary titled Tapped, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1344784/ The current Holden Village community of nearly 40 staff all successfully pass a strict quarantine period with social distancing, masks, and COVID testing upon entering or reentering the Village. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

In the spring of 2015, volunteer fire marshall Jeff Pierce said, "I looked at the Holden leadership and said, we are not going into fire season in a drought year and record temperatures with a 80 percent complete system that's just waiting for a water source... The timing was phenomenal, because we had a functioning system a month before the lightning strike" (that started the Wolverine Creek Fire). Jeff served 26 years as a driver/engineer for Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue in northern Oregon. Since 1992 he has been working with Holden Village in developing the fire program and improving and building fire systems and staff training in fire protection and response. Danny Pavek graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota with degrees in chemistry and environmental studies. He has worked at Holden as the Fire Technician since the winter of 2019-2020. For further information about wildfires, watch Paul Hessburg's "Era of Megafires" https://www.north40productions.com/eom-home To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"There is something about the written word that makes people feel comfortable putting parts of themselves out there that might not come out in small talk or in a conversation in a normal busy summer. Especially with the Village being a safe and intimate community, as we have all gone through the pandemic together. There has been a sense that you can put things out there and know that they will be held and the Q.Q. is a great space for that." Becca Carcaterra lives at Holden Village and serves on the Human Resources team. She graduated from St. Olaf college with a degree in English. In March, she started the Quarantine Quarterly, a Village newsletter. Now on day 172, the daily publication continues to create community even while Villagers practice social distancing during the pandemic. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"We use stories to connect, bridge divides, and build community. Watch and listen to these stories and use them as a lever towards important conversations. Loving one another comes from listening, engagement, and treating every person with respect. This is how we find ways to live better together." A gifted storyteller, Noltner has worked on four continents, gathering stories of human courage, grace, and resilience. He has produced projects for national magazines, Fortune 500 companies, and non-profit organizations. A Peace of My Mind reflects his belief that art and storytelling can help individuals, organizations and communities articulate their deepest values and encourage action toward building social capital and community connections. For contributing to John's upcoming project, "Cry Out", click here https://igg.me/at/apomm/x#/ For a link to the George Floyd Video, click here https://apomm.net/2020/06/11/george-floyd/ To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"Whiteness perpetuates itself by denying it's existence. That is one of the biggest hurdles to try and overcome. Continue to name whiteness, even when we're uncomfortable talking about it. Avoid the temptation to spin off into generalizations about society or political agendas and own that part of ourselves." ~ Claire Smith Starting September 2020, Stacy Kitahata (she/her) is Co-Executive Director, Holden Village and Retreat Center, with Kathie and Mark Bach. Stacey is a graduate of UCLA and McCormick Theological Seminary, She comes with over 25 years of leadership experience with faith communities, grassroots organizations and higher education. She served as Dean of Community at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago and as director of the Center for Community Engagement at Trinity Lutheran College. She also served as outreach staff with the synods of Region 1. She currently serves as Program Director for the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship, designing and conducting intercultural experiential leadership development. Claire Smith (she/her) holds her BA in English Literature and Hispanic Studies and her Masters of Social Work from the University of Washington. She received her training in intercultural capacity building from the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship and Kaleidoscope Institute, and has been honing her facilitation practice with an amazing Community of Practice in the Seattle area. Claire spent two years serving with Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest gaining experience advocating with Latinx survivors of intimate partner violence and academically supporting young people on the Crow Reservation in St. Xavier, MT. Rediet Mulugeta received a BA in Global Development Studies from Seattle Pacific University in 2012, She served in Houston, TX with Mission Year, a yearlong volunteer program. After 2 years developing relationships and working alongside local non-profit organizations, grassroots leaders, and faith communities, Rediet relocated to Chicago, IL to join the national Mission Year staff to coordinate week-long service learning programs in multiple cities. Currently, she oversees and directs the Krista Colleague program with the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship as Program Associate. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"Take care of your spirit because you're in a world where spirits get eaten. It's easy to drown in day to day monotony and hate. When I got off the boat at Lucerne, I could tell Holden was a place I didn't have to worry. Part of that is the view. The beauty gives everyone a bit of a serene feeling." Intricate, graceful, thought provoking and prolific – these are all words that have been used to describe the elaborate masterwork of Leah Yellowbird. Originally a traditional bead-worker, she identifies strongly with her First Nations Algonquin-Metis and Anishinaabe heritage. At a young age, Yellowbird learned from her extended family how to follow traditional beading patterns and has been working in this medium her entire life. This knowledge, combined with her creative eye and exploration of color, has spilled over into the realm of painting, and she is now well regarded for her work in all mediums (painting being her most recent). Yellowbird had her first solo exhibition at the American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO) in 2013 and has since had her work on display at a variety of prominent spaces, including the Macrostie Art Center, Plains Museum of Art, and the Tweed Museum of Art. She was the Grand Rapids artist in residence from 2015 until 2016 there, her studio was open to the public and she created some of her most popular pieces to date. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"These were the best 10 years of my life. I loved living here and never felt isolated. Raising children, it was a relief not having to worry about them. We left in 1956. I'm glad Holden lives on, instead of having been wiped out or becoming a ghost town." Betty Frye worked as a waitress in the dining hall and lived at Holden, with her family between the years of 1945 and 1956. In the village, she met her husband Jack, who worked in the mine, and also raised two kids. Her youngest daughter is Alana Horton. Linda Breitag (interviewer), writes songs (sometimes parodies) and essays (sometimes rants) about life, makes odd stuffed animals and has been a guest village musician many times. She and her husband Ray Makeever live in Minnesota. To listen to a recording of Jack and Betty answering questions from a Miners Reunion in 1982, visit: Living in Holden during the Mining Days http://audio.holdenvillage.org/node/5395 To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"When I'm at the correctional facility, it's hard to know who's the teacher and who's the student. One inmate, convicted of murder at age fifteen, had never been involved in gang activity or violence. One year prior to his crime, he was shot eight times outside his house and a police officer, instead of rushing to his aide was standing over him, as he was bleeding on the ground saying, "you see what you gangbangers get?", presupposing that he deserved this, that this was just punishment. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy. This police officer assumed he was involved in this violence and a year later he was and being tried as an adult for murder. The inmate is one of the wisest, most compassionate mentors of men in the prison and of me." Jason A. Mahn is a professor of religion and director of the Presidential Center for Faith and Learning at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. He teaches about God, interfaith cooperation, environmental ethics, social justice, vocation, and religious responses to suffering at Augustana, and also frequently speaks at churches and within Lutheran higher education circles. He has authored or edited four books, including Becoming a Christian in Christendom: Radical Discipleship and the Way of the Cross in America's “Christian” Culture (Fortress, 2016) and Radical Lutherans/Lutheran Radicals (Cascade, 2017). One of Jason's deep joys is to teach “Creator, Creation, and Calling” to Augustana students at Holden Village during “J-Term” and join them in building igloos, skiing, and stoking the furnace called Dante. Another joy is to return in the summer with his spouse, Rev. Laura Evans Mahn, and their two sons, Asa and Gabe, to teach, hike, laugh, and practice living well. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"A congregation decided to stop calling the police, saying that is an act of justice on their part. Things go south, if the people you're calling the police on are African American. There's a tendency to be more afraid and to call the police in unwarranted situations, but also a tendency if those situations involve police that they become violent." Jason DeRose is Western Bureau Chief and Senior Editor at NPR News. He edits stories from Colorado to Hawaii and oversees national coverage of religion, LGBTQ issues, and Native American issues. Before joining NPR, he was a senior editor and correspondent at WBEZ - Chicago Public Radio, where he covered religion and belief. He holds a master's degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College. Jason spent many wonderful hours working at his college's public radio station. Outside of work, he is an overly-active member at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Santa Monica, California, where he chairs the congregation's seminary internship committee. Jason loves reading sad novels but is really quite funny in person. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

Remembering Glenn Jordan by the Corrymeela Community https://www.corrymeela.org/news/184/remembering-glenn-jordan "In every situation we find ourselves, particularly at the margins of life, we need to evaluate each time in the light of compassion. Stories help us do that by forcing us to think broader, wider, and differently about situations. Stories establish a principle that compassion trumps the law and invite us to bring that principle into the complexity of our everyday life." Glenn was a public theologian working with Corrymeela, the oldest peace and reconciliation organization in Northern Ireland. Corrymeela's public theology work exists to motivate and support faith groups to widen circles of relationship, trust and witness. He was a Tedx speaker and a writer on evangelical identity in Ireland, and on urban theology and was particularly interested in the power of story to create newness. He blogged on the http://crookedshore.com, named after the place where he lived and walked with his wife and two dogs. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"The biblical passage: what men intend for evil, God uses for good, is exactly what has happened in this situation but, I believe there is a lot more good that can be done. There are a lot of other connections and relationships that need to happen. That will only happen when people who are not used to talking to each other begin to connect to one another." Michael Coffey is the Pastor of First English Lutheran Church, Austin, TX and Author of Renounce, Resist, Rejoice: Being Church in the Age of Trump. Wipf & Stock. 2017 and Mystery without Rhyme or Reason: Poetic Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary. Wipf & Stock. 2015. Rev. Dr. Mark Washington is the City Manager of Grand Rapids, MI (beginning October 2018) Previously until September 2018 he was the Pastor of Vision of Hope African Methodist Episcopal Church, Austin TX and Assistant City Manager, Austin TX. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

"My work is in liberation theology and environmental ethics, taking into consideration the relationship between the cries of the earth and poor and what it means to be Christian and living in response to those cries." Daniel Castillo is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland, where he also contributes to the Environmental Studies and Peace & Justice programs. He earned his Ph. D. at the University of Notre Dame in 2014. Dan's teaching and research focuses on the intersection of liberation theology, environmental ethics, and the theological interpretation of scripture. He has published essays in these areas in journals such as Theological Studies, Political Theology, and Scripture. His forthcoming book is entitled: An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Salvation and Political Ecology (Orbis Books). Dan lives in Baltimore with his wife Erika and their two children Frances and Martin. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org