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Kelly Rimmer, Victoria Purman and Nicole Alexander have conjured various characters across their many books. Greg Johnston examines their inspiration for key characters, the methods used to fully develop them, whether unexpected plot twists arose when placing them in predicaments, and if their creations took on a life of their own once delivered to readers. Imagining the Past is listed in the Top 25 Historical Fiction Podcasts.
Alison D Stegert discusses with Greg Johnston her YA novel, Her Majesty's League of Remarkable Young Ladies. She also discusses her win of HNSA's inaugural 2020 Elizabeth Jane Corbett Mentorship and its great consequences.
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Gail Jones chats with Greg Johnston about her complex novel, Salonika Burning, which won the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize—Adult Category.
Suzanne Leal chats with Greg Johnston about her 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize, CYA shortlisted novel, Running with Ivan, some of the differences between writing CYA and Adult fiction, and her interesting methods of research.
Lauren Chater chats with Greg Johnston about all things beautiful, including the research and writing of her new novel, The Beauties.
Melissa Lucashenko discusses with Greg Johnston the research and writing of her novel, Edenglassie.
Robbie Arnott discusses with Greg Johnston the many intricacies of writing the novel Limberlost, based on his family folklore and longlisted for the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize—Adult Category.
Wade sits with Greg Johnston in studio to reminisce about the days of growing up in south-western Wisconsin with nine siblings. A neighbor boy introduces his family to hunting squirrel hunting that starts a life-long passion of working with field dogs.Support the Show. Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show!Also, let us know what you think in the comments. If you have future show ideas we'd love to hear them. Setter Tales Podcast Links Website YouTube Facebook Instagram Twitter Patreon
Amelia Mellor discusses with Greg Johnston the intricacies of writing CYA Historical Fiction, and her novel, The Bookseller's Apprentice, winner of the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize—CYA Category.
Lynn & Carl talk with Amy Loui & Greg Johnston starring in New Jewish Theatre's production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. Then, for reals this time... Claire Karpen starring in The Rep's production of Tracy Lett's August: Osage County. P;us Lynn saw the Ghostbusters - so you don't have to see it.
Are you in the middle of the parenting adventure? Are you looking to grow your parenting skills? Do you need ideas on how to best communicate and live out the gospel in your family? Wade Walton and Greg Johnston will be sharing about a one-day conference that is designed to fill your parenting toolbox with ideas and encouragement as you seek to raise the next generation to follow Christ. This parenting workshop is coming up the first weekend of March and you'll hear how to be a part of it in this conversation on Mornings with Seth and Deb.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We're joined on the podcast this month by Greg Johnston, Founder and CEO of Chamber member Team Evie. Our conversation delves into Team Evie's new Peer Support Service. A newly-launched service pairing the families of sick children with Peer Supporters, trained volunteers who have also experienced time in hospital with their baby or child. Team Evie are currently looking to recruit Peer Supporters and are asking businesses to spread the word among employees should anyone be interested in getting involved. For more information businesses should get in touch with Greg by emailing - info@teamevie.org In our conversation on the podcast, we also discuss opportunities for businesses to participate in Team Evie's One Million Steps challenge. Businesses can get involved and raise money by employees walking 10,000 steps per day for 100 days, totalling a million steps. For more information contact Greg on - info@teamevie.org Find out more about Team Evie here.
1. Kevin Morby And Waxahatchee 2. Margo Cilker 3. Joe Cocker 4. Zach Bryan 5. The Hollies 6. The National 7. Buck Meek 8. Hozier 9. Oh Laura 10. Jimmy La Fave 11. Greg Johnston 12. Bap Kennedy 13. Rufus Thomas 14. Beastwars
Thomas Keneally discusses his long literary career with Greg Johnston, and his novel, Corporal Hitler's Pistol, which won the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize—Adult Category
Claire Saxby discusses with Greg Johnston the intricacies of writing CYA Historical Fiction, and her novel, The Wearing of the Green, shortlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize—CYA Category.
Brian Falkner discusses his YA series, Kapito Joe—Blitzkrieg, Spycraft and Wolf's Lair with Greg Johnston, exploring the slings and arrows of the research, planning and writing of the series.
Geraldine Brooks discusses her latest novel, Horse, with Greg Johnston, delving into many of the technical decisions taken to write this complex novel.
Allen Wyma talks with Greg Johnston, creator of Leptos, a full-stack, web framework using a reactive design to build declaritive user interfaces. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you'd like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@00:00] - Introduction of Greg [@02:12] - Programming languages has Greg worked with [@05:14] - Greg's other passions besides programming [@10:59] - How Elm has set the agenda for a lot of Javascript front-end frameworks [@13:25] - Elm vs Rust in terms of error handling [@18:16] - What is Leptos and why Greg created it [@33:44] - Pros of using Leptos [@38:19] - Leptos' Server Side Rendering feature [@45:44] - Leptos' build tool limitations [@51:40] - Leptos' ability to interact with other languages [@59:25] - Greg's work and projects using JavaScript [@1:00:45] - Greg's Flutter experience [@1:04:21] - Greg's Ionic experience [@1:08:28] - HTML [@1:12:46] - Leptos' version [@1:14:14] - Leptos' production readiness [@1:16:23] - Parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Kim Kelly discusses her latest novel, The Rat Catcher: A Love Story, with Greg Johnston, delving into technical decisions around Point of View and Voice, sensitivities required writing Australian History, and her long publishing history.
Stephanie Parkyn discusses her latest novel, The Freedom of Birds with Greg Johnston, delving into research, technical decisions, and an antipodean writing about Europe.
Felice Arena discusses with Greg Johnston his path to CYA Historical Fiction and his latest novel, The Unstoppable Flying Flanagan.
Anita Heiss discusses her landmark and groundbreaking novel, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray—River of Dreams—shortlisted for the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize—with Greg Johnston.
Katrina Nannestad, winner of the 2021 ARA HISTORICAL NOVEL PRIZE—CYA CATEGORY, discusses We are Wolves with Greg Johnston, and the challenges of writing CYA Historical Fiction.
Jock Serong, winner of the 2021 ARA HISTORICAL NOVEL PRIZE—ADULT CATEGORY, discusses The Burning Island with Greg Johnston, and some of the challenges of writing his series set in the Furneaux Group of islands.
Catch this Team Check-in with Greg Johnston, President of Carl Data Solutions, the Vancouver-based predictive analytics startup that recently signed an environmental monitoring deal with Los Angeles Sanitation Districts, a utility that serves over 5.6 million people. Get all the links and steam the video version from our episode post: https://www.askai.org/post/e41-how-is-ai-powering-environmental-monitoring-in-major-cities
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A weekly hunting-focused live stream where I answer listener questions. This week we're joined by Greg Johnston @johnston_outdoors
In this premiere episode, host Kristin Fares talks with Blayne Arthur— her mother, Dr. Margaret L. “Peggy” Clark was killed in the bombing — as well as survivor Amy Downs and first responder Greg Johnston. They discuss how the bombing impacted them and their participation in the Memorial Marathon. Additional guests include long-time Runner's World Chief Running Officer Bart Yasso, OKC Mayor David Holt and Marathon Race Director Kari Watkins.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OKCMarathonTwitter: https://twitter.com/okcmarathonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/okcmarathonThe Run to Remember Memorial Marathon podcast is sponsored and produced by Knox Studios, a creative studio and production partner for the modern media age.
Pip Williams discusses The Dictionary of Lost Words with Greg Johnston and they gather up stories about her writing process and some of her choices.
Steven Conte speaks about planning and executing The Tolstoy Estate (2020), writing ‘behind the enemy lines', the risks of shaking up a novel's structure, and the Gurya Ghost and the Little Boy Lost with Greg Johnston.
CYA author Susanne Gervey discusses her new time-slip novel, Heroes of the Secret Underground, migration, sculpting stories from WWII for CYA, and Pálinka with Greg Johnston
Julie Janson is a Burruberongal woman of Darug nation. She discusses her recent novel, Benevolence, the challenges of writing First Nation's Historical Fiction, and of First Nation's writers finding publishers with Greg Johnston.
Shortlisted for the inaugural ARA Historical Fiction Prize 2020, author Sienna Brown discusses writing, multifaceted research, constructing Jamaican patois, and Master of My Fate with Greg Johnston.
Author and inaugural winner of the ARA Historical Fiction Prize 2020 Mirandi Riwoe discusses writing, research, gender-bending, sea-cucumbers and Stone Sky Gold Mountain with Greg Johnston.
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This week on Beaconites, we hear from the two candidates running for Beacon city court judge in the upcoming primary: Tim Pagones, the three-term judge and lifelong Beaconite, and Greg Johnston, a public defender with 17 years' experience who has been endorsed by the Beacon Democrats. The primary takes place on Tuesday June 22. Vote!
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our fourteenth episode explores the allure of France has often inspired historical novelists to conjure the romance and tumult of its history. Kate Forsyth’s latest novel, The Blue Rose, transports the reader to the perils of the French Revolution and the exotic world of Imperial China. Natasha Lester’s The French Photographer deals with more recent history of World War II France and America. Jackie Ballantyne discusses why Kate and Natasha were drawn to set their books in France, and how they discovered new stories to tell about a country that continues to fascinate.
“In my second sermon here—way back in September of 2018—I preached about my two pet turtles, the Song of Songs, and love. It was a pretty good sermon. I re-read that sermon a few weeks ago, because I wanted to know if anything had changed. I wanted to know much these two years of ministry alongside you had changed what I thought, had changed who I was. Not very much, it turns out. And unimaginably.”
“I have to say, after six months of a global pandemic, I'm in better physical shape than I've been in the last decade. Like many people, I’ve been working from home on a fairly strange schedule. For most of the spring, I'd usually get up around 6:30 in the morning, drink a cup of coffee and answer emails or work on my laptop until around 8:30, then spend a couple of hours with Murray while Alice was in class. We spent the rainy month of April trading off between wandering around outside and logging on to Zoom. With libraries, coffee shops, and playgrounds closed, going for a run together was one of the few leisure activities we had left, other than playing with the grass clippings outside the Harvard observatory. And so Alice, Murray, and I spent most of the spring running from place to place with our stroller, discovering that a two-year-old makes an inspiring, albeit rude, track coach: “I want you to run faster!” “
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our twelfth episode explores History and Mystery: weaving a web of truth and lies in detective fiction. Writing historical crime fiction is like a treasure hunt for authors who dig up nuggets from the past to recreate old crimes and mysteries, both real and imaginary. How do authors lay down clues to keep readers (and the central characters) guessing whodunit? How do you balance the interlacing stories of detective, murderer and victim? What sources do authors use to set the scene and solve the crime using old-fashioned methods of crime detection? Felicity Pulman tracks down the answers to these questions and more with Malla Nunn, Katherine Kovacic and Tessa Lunney.
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our eleventh episode explores the silver screen: scriptwriting and adaptations. More and more historical novels are being adapted for screen with lavish production values and high profile stars. What is the secret to writing scripts compared to books? How do scriptwriters condense intricate plots into a few hours screen time while maintaining complexity of characters and themes? What elements are producers searching for when considering a story? And are compromises needed when wooing an audience compared to a readership? Jesse Blackadder, Malla Nunn and Mira Robertson discuss with Kelly Gardiner the different approaches required when writing novels, adaptations and screenplays.
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our tenth episode explores Parramatta, the second penal settlement established in Australia. When Thomas Keneally and Meg Keneally decided to set their Monsarratt detective series there, Meg sought the assistance of local historian, Gay Hendrikson, to dig into the township’s history. Gillian Polack learns how Meg and Gay formed a working relationship to trace the footsteps of the Keneallys’ characters, locate potential murder sites, and pore over history together, and how their collaboration extended to Meg’s first solo novel Fled.
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our ninth episode explores the survival of the fittest: challenging interior and exterior landscapes. A stark Australian landscape is both menacing and beautiful in Rachel Leary’s Bridget Crack with a protagonist who must overcome physical and psychological threats. David Whish-Wilson’s The Coves explores the brutality of Australian renegades in the unlawful streets of 19th century San Francisco while Stephanie Parkyn’s Into the World forces her heroine to face ocean hazards while striving to protect a dangerous personal secret. Lisa Chaplin explores these authors’ sources of inspiration, and what it takes to create characters who battle internal fears in a fight for survival against nature and man.
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our eighth episode explores Regency madness and inspiration. The Regency period lasted a mere nine years while Prince Regent George ruled as his temporarily mad father’s proxy. The glamour and charm of the era has lasted far longer with a plethora of novels set in in those times first made popular by Georgette Heyer in the 1920s. Alison Goodman, Anne Gracie and Anna Campbell chat with Elizabeth Jane Corbett about their inspirational sources, their own passion for the period, and how they have played with the tradition of Regency romance.
“Many people find comfort in the ideas of a divine plan or of the prosperity gospel. It’s comforting for many people to imagine that God must have a plan for everything. It’s comforting for many people to imagine that if they just stay strong and keep their faith, everything will be okay. It’s comforting, at least, until someone else uses these ideas to try to wipe away your pain. Hence the bittersweet title of Kate Bowler’s book: ‘Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved.’”
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our seventh episode is a personal history session: In conversation with Nicole Alexander and Ella Carey. Nicole Alexander writes sweeping epics evoking the grandeur of Australian landscapes, the hardships of rural life, and the turmoil of historic events. Ella Carey introduces her readers to the quiet interconnections through parallel narratives of women living in modern and past times. Both authors draw on the personal to weave tales into a wider historical context. Irina Dunn asks these authors about their writing journeys, the inspiration for their books, and why they draw upon family legend.
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our sixth episode talks of Bette and Joan. Elizabeth I and Joan of Arc have been the subjects of countless books, engendering myth, obsession, and various interpretations of their lives. Linda Funnell asks Jane Caro and Ali Alizadeh why they chose to investigate the stories of these famous women, and how they bring fresh perspective to their histories.
“Like every founding myth, in other words, Hamilton tells us at least as much about how we imagine ourselves today as it does about what happened years ago. And so I find it completely delightful that this bizarre tale from Genesis is how the Bible tells the story of the founding of the people of God. Because the moment when Jacob wrestles with God is like the Bible’s equivalent of the Declaration of Independence: it’s one of a handful of turning points in the relationship between God and humankind.“
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our fifth episode explores The Feminine Mystique. Ensuring a female protagonist’s thoughts and actions remain true to the norms of by-gone eras and cultures causes headaches for writers – and readers. How does an author maintain immediacy if limited to second hand observations of male dominated history? Should women of the past be depicted with more power and influence than would have been afforded to them? And how do you treat a young heroine in an age where girls were restricted, and children expected to be ‘seen and not heard’? Sophie Masson examined how to portray plausible female protagonists with Juliet Marillier, Elizabeth Jane Corbett and Kirsty Murray.
“Back in late February and the first week of March, as we all made a few last trips to the grocery store, people stocked up on what they imagined to be the essentials. Some people filled their broom closets with toilet paper. I bought about 300 diapers. And all across America, yeast and flour disappeared from the grocery-store shelves.”
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our fourth episode explores parallel narratives. Interlocking stories crossing different eras have been used to great effect in historical novels. What plot devices do authors use to trace the connections between their characters? Do writers use the same techniques as in historical mysteries? And how do they balance the competing voices that must be heard in order for revelation to be achieved? Tea Cooper (https://hnsa.org.au/tea-cooper/) , Emily Madden (https://hnsa.org.au/emily-madden/) , Carla Caruso (https://hnsa.org.au/carla-caruso/) discuss with Diane Murray (https://hnsa.org.au/diane-murray/) the challenges of intertwining lives around historical eras.
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our third episode explores point of view. When starting to write, deciding which type of point of view will be exploited is a significant decision with far-reaching consequences. Who knows what? Who sees what? How much do you want the reader to know? And when? Once the decisions are made, they can be both liberating and confining. Greg Johnston explores ‘the slings and arrows’ of point of view with Robyn Cadwallader, Julian Leatherdale and Belinda Castles.
“Well, you have never seen such pathetic vegetables in your life. Tiny lettuce plants shriveled up even smaller than the seedlings we’d bought from the store. Bulbous zucchini two inches long and covered in tiny squirrel chew-marks. The only things that really grew well were the herbs, and that just meant I was trying to add mint to everything until Alice finally got sick of it sometime in mid-July. But the tomatoes were a different story.”
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our second episode explores Creative writing postgraduate degrees which have become increasingly popular in the last decade. Associate Professor Sara Knox (WSU) talks to Dr Jesse Blackadder, Dr Rachel le Rossignol and PhD candidate, Joshua Mostafa, about the benefits of combining the process of completing a novel with a deeper examination of the genre’s purpose, themes, and interpretation of research. Full details of the speakers are available in our News & Interviews tab on our website.
Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "Manta5 Unveils First E-Bike for the Water" A company in New Zealand has developed an electric bicycle that can be used on water — the Manta5 Hydrofoil e-bike. Manta5 describes its invention as half-bike and half-plane. The company says riding one feels like normal cycling, but on the water. It uses a battery, motor and underwater wings — which are called "foils" — to move across water at speeds of up to 20 kilometers an hour. The bikes are made to be strong, but still light enough to carry. Manta5 was started in early 2011 by Guy Howard-Willis and Roland Alonzo, both passionate cyclists. Howard-Willis had wanted there to be more options for would-be water cyclists, and when he met Alonzo, decided to try and make that happen. It took the company eight years to develop the bike, but it was able to show a prototype in 2017. The company says that a short video of that first bike got 350 million views on Facebook. The first bikes that Manta5 produced sold out in six months. It says that riders in New Zealand are already fans, and are using them to ride across lakes, rivers and ocean waves. Manta5 now hopes the bikes will become popular in the US as well. At $8,990, however, they certainly aren't cheap. CEO Greg Johnston says that learning to ride the water bike is like cycling for the first time: you might have to try a few times, but it's a lot of fun once you get the hang of it. The company even believes that in the near future, biking across the water could be a sport, and even be included in the Olympics.
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our first episode explores Dispossession and Betrayal: Recovering the Erased history of First Nations. Indigenous writers, Madison Shakespeare and Lisa Chaplin, discuss with Maori writer and academic, Dr Paula Morris, why Aboriginal history has been suppressed, what is needed to remedy the omission, and how historical fiction can play a role in ensuring past injustices and cruelties aren’t forgotten or repeated. Full details of the speakers are available in our News & Interviews tab on our website.
“God had promised that Abraham would be the ancestor of many nations—and indeed, in some ways he’s become the spiritual ancestor of all the Abrahamic traditions, of all Jews and Christians and Muslims, four billion of us in the world today. And yet at this point in the story, that great lineage hangs by a thread. Abraham nearly kills his own son, nearly cutting off God’s promise to create a great people, nearly ending the story of the great love affair between God and the people of God before it’s really begun.”
Greg Johnston is the former CEO of startup company that launched the innovative tech MANTA5SOCIAL MEDIAWebsite - https://nz.manta5.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Manta5NZ/ Instagram - @manta5.nzTwitter - @Manta5_NZ TIMESTAMPS 00:40 - How Manta 5 Company Was Founded02:13 - How Greg Ended Up At Manta 503:15 - The Original Manta 5 Concept And How It Evolved04:20 - All Technology Was Created From Scratch04:49 - Hardest Part Of Designing Manta 505:20 - Testing Out The Manta 5/Cutting Through Waves07:20 - Creating A Community Around Manta 508:22 - Keeping The Manta 5 Secret/Getting 350 Million Views/Promotion09:52 - Investors For Manta 511:04 - Entrepaneur’s Having Self Doubt13:21 - Resigning During Covid-19/Reasons For Resigning15:22 - Lockdown Forced Greg To Unwind & Slow Down16:20 - Travelling To Promote Manta 5/America17:50 - Greg Feels Very Privileged18:54 - Getting Opportunities/Peter Beck20:42 - Start Ups In NZ Not Getting Enough Support & Funding22:45 - Investing In Property Over Business/Ease Of Starting A Business In NZ24:26 - Silicon Valley Of NZ26:58 - Staying Grounded After Massive Success27:49 - What Greg Learned From Guy Howard-Willis29:23 - Greg Meeting Shaq & Other Celebrities31:20 - Consumer Electronics Show(CES)32:38 - Being Motivated & Inspired By Intelligent People34:07 - Greg Wants To Help Other Entrepreneurs36:48 - India40:24 - Mexico41:30 - Taiwan/Reece Doesn’t Like Flying42:22 - Jetlag From Travelling43:03 - Why Greg Became A Vegetarian43:45 - Reece’s Change In Diet44:50 - Meat In NZs DNA/Meat Alternatives46:16 - Food Intolerance/Inflammation In The Gut48:40 - Alternatives For Food Nutrition/Greg’s Diet50:59 - Hakarimata Trail51:37 - Greg’s Vegetarian Restaurant Recommendations53:07 - Drones54:22 - Eminem Concert55:38 - Where To Follow Manta 556:33 - Manta 5 Will Release Entry Level Projects At A Later Date
“Today is Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost, when good preachers give bad sermons and bad preachers give you a blow-by-blow of Athanasian Creed. For my part, I’m stuck this week on the words of the Second Council of Constantinople in 553: ‘One of the Trinity was crucified in the flesh.’ In other words, to believe in the Holy Trinity—to say that Jesus is God—is to say that when Jesus of Nazareth suffered and died on the Cross, God suffered and died on the cross. And so it is that ‘theologically speaking,’ as the great American theologian James Cone writes in his final work, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, ‘Jesus was the “first lynchee.”’”
In this week's episode we'll talk entertainment marketing shop with Fillmore Miami Beach Senior Marketing Manager, Greg Johnston. We'll get to hear his story rising through the ranks and how he got to the position he's at today. We'll discuss how venues in particular have been affected by COVID and what he thinks the future of live looks like being on the venue side. We're all about sharing the strategies and resources that drive results for us so if you enjoyed the episode, please subscribe, rate, and share! More on Greg Johnston Greg's Instagram: @thoughtsandethics FillmoreMB Instagram: @fillmoremb More on L1NEUP DIGITAL Instagram: @L1NEUPDIGITAL Website: L1NEUPDIGITAL.COM
“The Epicurean gods are absent and quiet, and you should be too. The Stoic God is present, but loveless, and you should be too. And then here comes Paul crashing into the Roman world with a message about a very different kind of God. For Paul and for most other Jews, God was not the petty and capricious superhuman of Greek folk religion, nor was God the indifferent-but-happy Creator of the Epicureans or the universal Mind of the Stoics. God comes to us in the world, but God is not of the world. God interacts with us, but God doesn’t act like us.“
“We are, all of us, ‘walking through the valley of the shadow of death’; not just now, but always, every day of our human lives. It’s a beautiful image for a grim situation. Imagine a flock of sheep wandering through the Judean countryside. These aren’t the happy green hills like the Emerald Isle or your old Windows XP background, but the dry and rocky hills east of Jerusalem, where the mountains roll down to the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. Picture the flock walking down into a deep valley, a dry river-bed, in the late afternoon, as it suddenly becomes dusk.”
“On this second Sunday of Easter, when we read the story of ‘Doubting Thomas,’ preachers will talk about what faith really means, why doubt is really important, or maybe—depending on how far afield they want to go—what this whole resurrection thing is really about anyway. This year, though, this story of Thomas and the other disciples feels more immediate to me. The reasons it feels relevant and interesting in other years are abstract and cognitive. This year is different. If in other years, I can identify with how Thomas thinks, this year I have a very real sense of solidarity with how the disciples feel, how they worship, what they do as they gather behind locked doors.”
“Tonight, we celebrate the end of the forty days of dreary fasting and rejoice at the good news of Jesus’ resurrection. And then Monday morning, we’ll wake up for yet another week of rainy, isolated walks with no end in sight. So this year, nothing’s going to change on Easter Day in any sense that really matters to our everyday lives. But then again, this has always been the case.”
“If I had to guess at the ten happiest moments in my mother’s life, they’d probably include the days her two children were born, the days we got married, the days each of her three grandchildren were born, and the day that I learned to clip my own toenails.”
This week we're going back to June 13th, 2019 to bring another classic episode. Greg Johnston, at the time the head coach for the Collingwood Colts Junior "A" Team, joins Andy and Paul to chat about his career and the Colts. Then we have another Clarkives talking about the St. Louis Blues and Grant Fuhr. We also talk about some art received to our Hockey Talk Email address. Hosts: Andy Clark, Paul Hillier Email: hockeytalk913@wightman.ca Twitter: @HockeyTalk913
“Every time you come to this website and join in this virtual worship, a new sinew connects you to the rest of us. Every time you phone a church friend to see how they’re doing, a new tendon stretches out between the two of you. Every time you log on to Zoom for Bible Study or Teen Formation or Crafternoon, you’re adding flesh and skin to the Body of Christ.”
“I don’t know what you’re feeling right now. Confusion, or fear? Anxiety, or panic? Whatever you’re feeling, God is right there with you. If you can’t ‘shout for joy to the Rock of [your] salvation’ right now, then wail in lament and growl in frustration. If you can’t ‘come before [God’s] presence with thanksgiving,’ then ‘raise a loud shout’ of fear and anxiety. Trust me, there are plenty of psalms for that.”
“Guilt, at its best, opens us up. It leads us outside ourselves and turns us toward reconciliation with someone else. Someone who never feels guilt is either Jesus or a sociopath; either they’ve never done anything wrong, or they’ve never felt any remorse for it. Shame, on the other hand, is never healthy. If guilt is the feeling that you’ve done something wrong, shame is the feeling that you are wrong. That you’re not good enough. You’re not strong enough or pretty enough or brave enough, rich enough or tall enough or smart enough. Where guilt leads us to turn out toward another person for forgiveness, shame leads us to turn into ourselves for concealment.”
“Like ten-year-olds, we hustle to set up our tents. We lie back down again on the porch and look at the stars, praying for wonder to strike. We go to the museum or the chalkboard again and stare, waiting for the aha moment to come. We look at our children and our spouses and our parents and we feel…other feelings, mixed with overwhelming joy and love. But these moments where we once found holiness, these moments where we saw the light of God shining forth, were never the places to pitch our tents, never the places for the Holy One to dwell.”
Two outstanding guests joined us while we were at the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 (CES). Bob O'Donnell, the President, Founder, and Chief Analyst at TECHnalysis Research, and Greg Johnston from Manta5, a company that offers the world's first Hydrofoil Bike that replicates the cycling experience on the water. This week on Killer Innovations, we will […]
Two outstanding guests joined us while we were at the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 (CES). Bob O’Donnell, the President, Founder, and Chief Analyst at TECHnalysis Research, and Greg Johnston from Manta5, a company that offers the world’s first Hydrofoil Bike that replicates the cycling experience on the water. This week on Killer Innovations, we will […]
“So we pray for ‘pure and clean hearts.’ We ‘await the day of his coming.’ But do we really want to be melted by the refiner’s fire? Do we really want to be scoured with the fuller’s soap? Do we really want the sleeping god to awake and hear our prayers?”
“‘He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.’ It just wouldn’t have the same ring to it if it was a pigeon flapping over to sit on his head. It was, of course, a pigeon. Pigeons and doves, are, after all, members of the same family. The species we call the ‘common pigeon’ is the same as the ‘rock dove.’ It’s just that, in our culture, we think of pigeons as being kind of grimy. Uncouth. ‘Flying rats.’ But doves! Oh, doves! So beautiful, so intelligent! …I say all this because I think we often look at our lives and see pigeons where we ought to see doves. We feel the Spirit of God whooshing towards us and we cower and run, covering our heads with our handbags and ducking under an awning.”
“When we finally turned out the lights and went to bed, I discovered that there were glow-in-the-dark stars stuck all over their ceiling. I’d never noticed them all afternoon, but they’d been slowly getting charged up by the light around them, and now they were shining. Of course, I guess they’d been glowing all along. You just couldn’t notice it because of the bright lights, so it was only in the darkness that I’d realized they were there. The message, this first Sunday after Christmas, is simple: we are, all of us, glow-in-the-dark stars.”
Recorded 14 December 2019We knew this was going to be interesting, but it turned out to be very informative and fun.With the advent of soft wings for the next Americas Cup, we chat to Greg Johnston from Advance Wing Systems - creator of the Semi Rigid Wing, so we can understand the concept, how it works, what its advantages are and what is happening in the AC, what the rule says and how that changes the game and from that, we work out some of the key critical factors that will decide who will win races.We also chat Moth Worlds, SailGP, Youth AC, Star Sailors League and hunt for our new Test Rig!!#starsailorsleague #barkarate #mothworlds #advancedwingsystems #semirigidwingsystem #Americascup #youthamericascup #testrig
“The Bible is not just one self-contained episode after another. It’s a huge narrative arc, told in different genres and languages across a millennium, a library of a thousand little stories that together tell one big story. And in Jesus, Paul claims in today’s reading from the letter to the Romans, God is writing us into the story.”
“The feast of Christ the King was established at a time when authoritarian regimes were on the rise and more and more people were accepting the idea that a strongman wielding violence and technology could bend morality and truth to his will. When we claim that Christ is King, we are claiming that even the most savvy dictator cannot define the truth; that the most powerful forces of this world, ‘whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities,’ are not the highest power; that however turbulent our times may be, the domain of darkness will never triumph over the kingdom of God.“
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“A few years ago I served at a church with a weekly free community dinner. These dinners really brought the community together: we had suburban churches and synagogues serving food, we had our parishioners helping set up and clean up, and some of the folks who came regularly to dinner on Tuesdays also started attending worship on Sundays. And hanging on a banner above the doors into the parish hall were the Biblical words from today’s reading that had inspired it all: ‘Anyone unwilling to work should not eat.’ …NOT.”
Jonathan talks with SA's very own Ps Greg Johnston. In this episode Ps Greg shares openly about his journey, reading the word of God and his passion for photography.
“In the race of life, we are all running together as one team in pursuit of one crown of victory. When we think about the communion of saints, when we think about the exemplars of Christian life, we often focus on the top one or two finishers in the field. But the shape of the race, our success or failure as a team, is determined as much by the slower runners in the middle and the back of the pack as it is by Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King kicking down the home straight for the win.“ Greg preaches on the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost. Lectionary Readings: Joel 2:23-32; Psalm 65; 2 Timothy 4:6-8,16-18; Luke 18:9-14
#45 Greg Johnston - Always Moving Forwards Greg talks to us about how no matter what, you need to always move forwards. We talk about: A decision they made to ensure that Evie's life has a positive impact on the world. Stopping and reflecting on how much you have achieved. Having compassion for yourself and others; you don't know what they are going through. And the amazing impact Team Evie has had on the lives of thousands of children and families. Greg was a primary school teacher in Cumbria, until the birth of his first daughter Evie. Evie was born with multiple serious cardiac, respiratory and digestive problems and after 6 months spent mainly in the RVI she sadly passed away. Greg, and his wife Jill, created the charity ‘Team Evie' to ensure that Evie had a positive impact on the world, and to help families who face similar challenges to those they faced along with Evie. Greg now works full time as Chief Executive of the charity, which over the 4 years since Evie died has raised over £300,000 and helped 1000s of sick children and their families in the North East and Cumbria. Key Resources: Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com Inspiration North Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inspirationnorth Inspiration North Twitter - https://twitter.com/Inspirationorth Inspiration North Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspiration_north/ Inspiration North LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-north Team Evie Website - www.teamevie.org Team Evie on Facebook - www.facebook.com/teameviecharity Team Evie on Twitter - www.twitter.com/teameviecharity Team Evie on Instagram - www.instagram.com/teameviecharity Team Evie on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/team-evie/
“I don’t know whether the fact that the rich man knows Lazarus’s name should be the last nail in the coffin of his condemnation or the first sign of a possible transformation. I don’t know that the rich man, simply by knowing Lazarus’s name, would ever have grown to care for him in that way that he should. But I do know that if he never saw Lazarus’s wounds, never heard his growling stomach, never got proximate enough to know his name—he would never have grown to care for him at all.” Greg preaches on the parable of Lazarus and the rich man on the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Lectionary Readings: Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15; Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16; 1 Timothy 6:6-19; Luke 16:19-31
“The image of the Good Shepherd is a nice one, but it turns out that not all lost sheep want to be found. It seems nice in theory to be found; but in reality nobody wants to be found out. Nobody wants to have their deepest secrets and their most hidden thoughts discovered. Nobody wants to be exposed for who they really are. God, of course, has always already found us out. And yet God’s response is not the destruction promised in Jeremiah, but the joy revealed in Jesus.” Greg preaches on the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin.Lectionary Readings: Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28Psalm 141 Timothy 1:12-17Luke 15:1-10
“Idolatry isn’t as hot a topic for us today as it was in Jeremiah’s time. I doubt that very many of us in this room have been tempted more than once a twice, for example, to sacrifice a bull before a statue of the god Baal. But the problem with idolatry isn’t really a problem of how you worship; it’s a problem of what you worship, what it is that you consider to be most worthy. And in that sense, I do think that there are idols that we worship in our society today.” Greg preaches on Labor Day weekend on the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost. Lectionary Readings: Jeremiah 2:4-13; Psalm 81:1, 10-16; Luke 14:1, 7-14
“Asteroid 2019 OK passed us by without leaving a mark, and we’re all here today to tell the tale. But it does sharpen the point of today’s parable: This very night our lives could be demanded of us, and the things we have prepared won’t be ours anymore. When an asteroid comes and crashes into the earth, it doesn’t matter if you’re rich in possessions. What you really need is to be ‘rich toward God.’ So then—what does it mean to be rich toward God?” Greg preaches on the eighth Sunday after Pentecost. Lectionary Readings: Hosea 11:1-11; Psalm 107:1-9, 43; Luke 12:13-21
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Greg Johnston is the CEO of Manta5; The world's first Hydrofoil e-Bike that replicates the cycling experience on water. Greg is a young man exploring resilience and balance, leading a young team, in a new and unknown field of start up. Greg is passionate about design thinking and had a big part to play in the successful launch of Seed Waikato. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregjnz/ Website: https://manta5.com/ Gregs Seed Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_JpdvgyssQ Brooklet Springs Farm https://www.brookletsprings.farm/ SPONSOR: waiket0.pruvitnow.com/ Instagram www.instagram.com/stagvision/ Instagram www.instagram.com/stagryan/ Twitter twitter.com/stagryan Snapchat @stagryan Facebook www.facebook.com/WaiKeto/ Blog stagryan.com/
Raichel and Reggie, my daughters, join me as we chat about our hiking adventure on Washington's Coast. This was the trip we took after talking with Greg Johnston on episode 104.Join Me at Patreon to get exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=5262583
Greg Johnston is the author of Washington's Pacific Coast and I had him on to talk about planning a backpacking trip this Spring.He goes over some things to pay attention to, including the tides, weather and maps showing the points which are necessary to travel over.I gave him my first choice, which is to backpack from Ozette to Rialto, so we covered this area mostly. Greg also gives some options for one night backpacks or day hikes in the same area for backup plans. Waymark Gear CompanyHeavy duty ultralight backpackshttps://www.waymarkgearco.comLuxe Tents! Try a tarp teepeeand lighten your pack weight.https://luxe-hiking-gear.com
Many companies develop what they believe will be an effective marketing strategy, and then the execution falls short of expectations – but, with proper planning in addition to an awareness of how one’s own emotions and pretense can impact the outcome, this can be avoided. Greg Johnston, SVP and Creative Director of AgencyQ, returns to the Strategic Momentum podcast to share his perspective on what organizations need to consider in aligning strategy to execution in order to lay the groundwork for future success. Resources: Learn more about (https://www.agencyq.com/) Connect with Greg on LinkedIn Production & Development for Strategic Momentum by Podcast Masters
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Greg Johnston is the SVP and Creative Director of AgencyQ, an award-winning digital agency that transforms the way organizations reach, engage, and inspire their key audiences. From the mail room to the C-Suite, Greg Johnston has achieved success throughout his career by recognizing the need to constantly innovate, iterate, and evolve over time. And this mindset has been relevant and applicable to the agencies that he has worked with particularly given the impact of technology on marketing. Yet it takes self-awareness, self-reflection and listening to realize how to create that forward momentum. You will learn: What inhibits many agencies and even their clients from evolving to address the ever-changing customer dynamics. The need to listen and what to listen for The importance of achieving that agency, client and customer relationship - Agencies need to listen to their clients, clients need to listen to their agencies, and both need to listen to the customers. Resources: Learn more about (https://www.agencyq.com/) Connect with Greg on LinkedIn Production & Development for Strategic Momentum by Podcast Masters
Greg Johnston '13, resident of Adams House, on Wednesday, March 6, 2013.