Podcasts about heal our divides

A Hunger For Healing That Gives Us HopeIt may be lost on many who spend all their time navigating the toxicity of the internet ecosystem, but there is a deep hunger for civic renewal and a return to civility in public discourse. As hardworking individuals in the exhausted middle, who often feel overlooked or caught in the crossfire of partisan battles, many yearn for a political landscape that prioritizes practical solutions over ideological grandstanding. Our concerns lie in the everyday struggles of making ends meet, and we recognize the importance of respectful dialogue in finding common ground to address pressing issues. We are tired of the constant bickering and divisiveness that seem to overshadow the real problems facing our communities. Why do people like me and this week's guest, Brian Allain, do what we do within the depolarization movement? Among many reasons is that a hunger for healing gives us hope. Who is Brian Allain?Brian Allain founded Writing for Your Life, a resource center and conferences for spiritual writers, and the Publishing in Color conference series, intended to increase the number of books published by spiritual writers of color. Brian also founded Compassionate Christianity and How to Heal Our Divides. Previously Brian served as Founding Director of the Frederick Buechner Center where he led the launch of Mr. Buechner's online presence and established several new programs and strategic partnerships. Brian has developed and led spiritual writers' conferences at Princeton Theological Seminary, Drew Theological Seminary, Western Theological Seminary, the University of Southern California, Belmont University, New Brunswick Seminary, and several churches. He led the publishing effort for the book "Buechner 101: An Introduction to Frederick Buechner" in collaboration with Anne Lamott, and also the books in the How to Heal Our Divides series. Brian serves on the Board of non-profit TechFoundation and was named a 2014 Top Fundraiser by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Along with his work in the depolarization space, Brian's latest passion is with his start-up "Find Your Next Calling".Learn more about and connect with Brian Allain by visiting the full show notes for this episode at DerateTheHate.com.What have you done today to make your life a better life? What have you done today to make the world a better place? The world is a better place if we are better people. That begins with each of us leading a better life. Be kind to one another. Be grateful for everything you've got. Make each and every day the day that you want it to be!Please follow The Derate The Hate podcast on:Facebook, Instagram, Twitter , TruthSocial, Parler, Rumble, YouTube Subscribe to us wherever you enjoy your audio. Please leave us a rating and feedback. Send me a message on any media platform or subscribe directly from our sites. Let us know about someone you think should be on our podcast. If we book them for a conversation, I'll send you a free gift! Not on social media? You can share your thoughts directly with me at wilk@wilksworld.comI look forward to hearing from you!Please check out our affiliates page by clicking HERE!

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How to Heal Our Divides group book discussion featuring Frank A. Thomas

Today's podcast comes to you from the Wild Goose Festival in Union Grove, North Carolina. Tara sits down for a conversation with Brian Allain, the creative force behind Writing For Your Life, Publishing in Color, Compassionate Christianity and Heal Our Divides. For Brian's full bio and link tree, go to: https://writingforyourlife.com/brian-allain/Today's poem: God of ChangeGod of change, Blow a cool breeze my way. Focus my attention on love.Love that welcomes all.Love that is diversity.Change moves me, you, we into God's dance of love - That spins us around, swirls our colors so that the gazing eye sees a picture of diversity - that is BEAUTY.Changing love, make us a swirling masterpieces.Make us ONE and you are ONE.Copyright 2022 T.L. EastmanThe Next Sunday is a FREE 14-Day Summit featuring 30 diverse Teachers, Healers, Spiritual Innovators, and Transformational Changemakers who will help you explore new realities and opportunities for forward thinking Faith Leaders.. Sign up today! Support the show

How to Heal Our Divides Volume 2 launch party

Contributors to "How to Heal Our Divides: A Practical Guide" discuss their chapters and the overall program at the book launch party

How to Heal Our Divides interview with The Better Arguments Project

We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions. Partisanship is up, trust is down, and our social media feeds make us sure we're right and everyone else is ignorant (or worse). But avoiding and attacking one another is breaking… everything. Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted—twice—for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, Mónica set out to find what was blinding us and discovered the most eye-opening tool we're not using: our own curiosity. In this timely, personal guide, Mónica Guzmán, takes you to the real front lines of a crisis that threatens to grind America to a halt—broken conversations among confounded people. She shows you how to overcome the fear and certainty that surround us to finally do what only seems impossible: understand and even learn from people in your life whose whole worldview is different from or even opposed to yours.   About the book: “I Never Thought of It That Way“ Drawing from cross-partisan conversations she's had, organized, or witnessed everywhere from the echo chambers on social media to the wheat fields in Oregon to raw, unfiltered fights with her own family on election night, Mónica shows how you can put your natural sense of wonder to work for you immediately, finding the answers you need by talking with people—rather than about them—and asking the questions you want, curiously. In these pages, you'll learn: • How to ask what you really want to know (even if you're afraid to) • How to grow smarter from even the tensest interactions, online or off • How to cross boundaries and find common ground—with anyone Whether you're left, right, center, or not a fan of labels: If you're ready to fight back against the confusion, heartbreak, and madness of our dangerously divided times—in your own life, at least—Mónica's got the tools and fresh, surprising insights to prove that seeing where people are coming from isn't just possible. It's easier than you think.   Author Mónica Guzmán is the Director of Digital and Storytelling at Braver Angels, a nonprofit working to depolarize America and host of the Crosscut interview series Northwest Newsmakers. She was a 2019 fellow at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, where she studied social and political division, and a 2016 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, where she studied how journalists can better meet the needs of a participatory public. Mónica lives for great conversations sparked by curious questions. Before committing to the project of helping people understand each other across the political divide, Mónica cofounded the award-winning Seattle newsletter The Evergrey and led a national network of groundbreaking local newsletters as VP of Local for WhereBy.Us. She was named one of the 50 most influential women in Seattle, served twice as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes, and plays a barbarian named Shadrack in her besties' Dungeons & Dragons campaign.   Discussant Brian Allain founded and leads Writing for Your Life, a resource center and conference for spiritual writers, which includes the Publishing in Color conference series, intended to increase the number of books published by spiritual writers of color. Brian also founded and leads the teams that produce Compassionate Christianity and How to Heal Our Divides. Previously Brian served as Founding Director of the Frederick Buechner Center where he led the launch of Mr. Buechner's online presence and established several new programs and strategic partnerships. Brian has developed and led spiritual writers conferences at Princeton Theological Seminary, Drew Theological Seminary, Western Theological Seminary, the University of Southern California, Belmont University, New Brunswick Seminary, and several churches. He led the publishing effort for the book Buechner 101: An Introduction to Frederick Buechner, in collaboration with Anne Lamott, and also the book How to Heal Our Divides. All of this is a second career, coming after business and technology leadership in high-tech. Brian has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was designated a Palmer Scholar, their highest academic award.

Today we talk to Brian Allain who helped edit a book of 33 essays revolving around the idea of healing the divides in our world.  What better time in our lives than to have a book like this?  Go get it!  And enjoy the show. SHOW NOTES: MY BOOK - https://www.amazon.com/Re-Thinking-Everything-Spiritual-Journey/dp/B09QNV8QX7/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1643047504&sr=1-2  PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/whatifproject BUY ME A COFFEE - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/whatifproject HERETIC SHOP - https://www.bonfire.com/store/the-heretic-shop/ BRIAN ALLAIN: https://writingforyourlife.com/brian-allain/  HOW TO HEAL OUR DIVIDES: https://howtohealourdivides.com/book/  JOIN THE COMMUNITY - https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatifprojectcommunity MUSIC (YUNG CITIZEN): - APPLE - https://music.apple.com/us/artist/yung-citizen/945553400 - WEBSITE / MERCH - https://www.yungcitizen.com 

Recent times have put a spotlight on the inequities, systems of oppression, and deep divisions in our society. Much has been written that acknowledges and describes the divides, but there has been little practical information on what can be done. In this conversation, Brian Allain and Adam Thomas, editors of the book How to Heal Our Divides, talk about why they believe healing our divides is possible, ways that churches and leaders can facilitate healing in their communities, and steps privileged persons often overlook when seeking healing. Brian Allain founded and leads Writing for Your Life, a resource center and conferences for spiritual writers, which includes the Publishing in Color conference series, intended to increase the number of books published by spiritual writers of color.  Brian also founded and leads the teams that produce Compassionate Christianity and How to Heal Our Divides. Previously Brian served as Founding Director of the Frederick Buechner Center where he led the launch of Mr. Buechner's online presence and established several new programs and strategic partnerships. Brian has developed and led spiritual writers conferences at Princeton Theological Seminary, Drew Theological Seminary, Western Theological Seminary, the University of Southern California, Belmont University, New Brunswick Seminary, and several churches. He led the publishing effort for the book Buechner 101: An Introduction to Frederick Buechner, in collaboration with Anne Lamott, and also the book How to Heal Our Divides. All of this is a second career, coming after business and technology leadership in high-tech. Brian has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was designated a Palmer Scholar, their highest academic award. You can learn more about Brian here and here. Adam Thomas wears many hats: pastoring an Episcopal Church in southeastern Connecticut, editing and designing books for independent writers, writing fantasy novels, podcasting about Jesus and nerdy stuff, and playing lots of Dungeons and Dragons. Adam published four books and curricula with Abingdon Press from 2011 to 2014 (Digital Disciple, Letters from Ruby, Converge: Who is Jesus?, and Unusual Gospel for Unusual People). When the twins were born in 2014, he switched to writing fantasy. You can find hundreds of sermons on wherethewind.com, several fantasy novels on adamthomas.net, and his podcast, The Podcast for Nerdy Christians at nerdychristians.com or wherever you download your podcasts. The Future Christian Podcast is a production of Torn Curtain Arts and Resonate Media.

Today is a BONUS EPISODE With so much division and disunity in our current climate, we offer this episode as a prayerful offering in hope for a better tomorrow. Today we welcome Brian Allain Brian founded and leads the team that produces “How to Heal Our Divides,” a project aimed at building awareness of voices and organizations that are taking real action to address several serious, deep divides that have had strong negative impacts on our society – racial, political, religious, and other types of divides. The project highlights tangible efforts that are solving problems – actually healing divides in effective and practical ways. These are outlined in an incredible book with contributions from friends of the podcast Diana Butler Bass, Shane Claiborne, Brian McLaren and many more We talk about the book, our many divides and the incredible people and organizations working to heal them. This podcast was recorded on January 20th, 2022.

As we look around and see our divided world its easy to be discouraged and want to give up. What could I possibly do to make a difference. In this episode, Brian Allain gives us some options from his compilation How to Heal Our Dividewww.mattkendziera.comwww.howtohealourdivides.com

Subscribe here to keep up with all things "Pastor With No Answers" as well as a new digital family we'd love to have you a part of.  You don't have to be alone in your spiritual questions  and you don't have to play by society's "new standard" of taking sides and being polarized.  Join us!At top of episode, Joey proposes some double-standards to co-hosts Matt Oxley and Ellen Mauro, in how male "body-part slang," like the word "d*ck" is acceptable for casual use while the female "body-part slang word" "p***y," isn't. Brian Allain has partnered with the likes of Diana Butler Bass, Brian McLaren and Shane Claiborne to actually try and bring Christians from all spectrums (fundamentalists and progressives) together, aligned in love.  They (plus others) all compiled some essays on how we can do it in How to Heal Our Divides: a Practical Guide.  Brian and I discuss with special guest-host, Andy Squyres, the reasons for division, we reflect on the lost art of seeing humans as complicated, we look at how our beliefs in the afterlife dictate the rest of our practices, and ponder whether or not the late Rachel Held Evans (or you fill in the blank with your favorite "neighborhood progressive") was in the same "body of Christ" as Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham (or you fill in the blank with your favorite "neighborhood fundamentalist.")Brian Allain:  Website Andy Squyres: Website / Instagram / Twitter Podcast Hosts:  Ellen Mauro Instagram / Matt Oxley Join us as a Patron!Join our mailing list to keep up with everything.Tip any amount $ to Venmo for a PWNA Sticker.Joey/PWNA Instagram and TwitterCurrent DonorSee giving opportunityJoin the PWNA Discussion Facebook GroupPWNAcontact@gmail.com  for correspondence.Theme song, courtesy of Derek MinorOther music originally composed by Joel Hamilton and Joel Hamilton + friends, and Ray Deezy. Executive Producer of PWNApod:  Jared SvendsenSupport the show

Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Brian Allain, leader of Writing for Your Life, a resource center and conferences for spiritual writers, which includes the Publishing in Color conference series.Writing for Your Life invites you to our Fall 2021 Online Conference “Writing in the second half of life”, featuring authors Diana Butler Bass, Patricia Raybon, Marilyn McEntyre, Wes Granberg-Michaelson, Bruce Reyes-Chow, Erin Healy, Victoria McAfee, and Kaya Oakes, along with publishing industry experts Susan Salley(Abingdon Press), Amy Gingerich (Herald Press), Sharon Elliott (literary agent), and Lyn Cryderman (consultant), with special guests Frank Schaeffer, Parker Palmer, Sophfronia Scott, David Morris, Kate Rademacher, and more!November 8-12, 2021. Tuition for the conference is only $249.Learn more and register at https://writingforyourlife.com/fall-2021-wfyl-conference/_____Brian Allain leads Writing for Your Life, a resource center and conferences for spiritual writers, which includes the Publishing in Color conference series, intended to increase the number of books published by spiritual writers of color. Brian also leads the teams that produce Compassionate Christianity and How to Heal Our Divides. Previously Brian served as Founding Director of the Frederick Buechner Center where he led the launch of Mr. Buechner's online presence and established several new programs and strategic partnerships. Brian has developed and led spiritual writers conferences at Princeton Theological Seminary, Drew Theological Seminary, Western Theological Seminary, the University of Southern California, Belmont University, New Brunswick Seminary, and several churches. He led the publishing effort for the book Buechner 101: An Introduction to Frederick Buechner, in collaboration with Anne Lamott, and also the book How to Heal Our Divides. _____In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of Fall In Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy.Learn more at https://www.lovechildrenplanet.comFollow Frank on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaefferhttps://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTubeIn Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer PodcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-conversation-with-frank-schaeffer/id1570357787Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1FVF48mNwzNaLd1tJ4zH6y?si=aeVQ54ieTA-hlSuMNB5APA&dl_branch=1_____Support the show

Interview with "How to Heal Our Divides" book contributor Rich Tafel

In this episode, Senior Pastor Shawn Zambrows and Associate Pastor Nick Quient are joined by Brian Allain. Brian is the editor of "How to Heal Our Divides" (2021),the curator of Writing for Your Life, and the founder of Compassionate Christianity. He joins us to talk about some of the most pressing issues facing our nation and the church. If you are looking for a church home in the Inland Empire, we encourage you to enjoy our worship service on YouTube. If you want to be kept up to date, you can also follow our church on Facebook, check out our webpage, and like our Podcast Facebook page! Our address is 51 W. Olive Avenue in Redlands, CA.

An interview with "How to Heal Our Divides" book contributor Shannon CrossBear

Martin Brooks, President of Peace Catalyst, and his wife Susan join us for the first episode in this series featuring our very own Peace Catalyst peacebuilders. Martin has been with Peace Catalyst since 2011 when he and Susan moved back to the U.S. from Turkish Cyprus. The Brooks are based in Louisville, KY and they join Keith and Becca to talk about the origins of Peace Catalyst, their own personal peacebuilding journey, and some of the best stories from their work in Kentucky.   Links: How to Heal Our Divides (book): https://www.amazon.com/How-Heal-Our-Divides-Practical/dp/B0948LPPFS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=how+to+heal+our+divides&qid=1631034258&sr=8-1 Peace Catalysts by Rick Love (book): https://www.peacecatalyst.org/shop/peace-catalysts-book-1 Join Keith and Becca's Peacemaking Cohort Discussions: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/events/christian-peacebuilding-network-shalom-cohort-ecsew Christian Peacebuilding Network: https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianpeacebuildingnetwork Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/819725478634711   Edited and Produced by Nicole Gibson Music: Shesh Pesh by J.R. Tundra

How to Heal Our Divides interview with Brandan Robertson

"How to Heal Our Divides" interview with Parker Palmer where he discusses The Center for Courage and Renewal

"How to Heal Our Divides" interview with Wes Granberg-Michaelson where he describes the work of the Global Christian Forum

"How to Heal Our Divides" interview with Rev. Dr. Alexia Salvatierra where she describes the work of Matthew 25 / Mateo 25

"How to Heal Our Divides" interview with Amy Julia Becker

Brian Allain and Tood Deatherage are co-collaborators (along with several others) in the new book How to Heal Our Divides: A Practical Guide. In this episode, Reformed Journal editor Jeff Munroe talks with Brian and Todd about the book. They especially focus on Todd's work in peacemaking with Telos and the latest round of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reformed-journal/message

"How to Heal Our Divides" interview with 3Practices

"How to Heal Our Divides" interview with Catherine Meeks, Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing

On today's episode I talk with Molly Lacroix, a certified Level 3 IFS therapist, about her new book, "Restoring Relationship: Transforming Fear into Love Through Connection." I love this title so much I keep repeating it throughout the show... Outline: 1. Reasons she wrote the book 2. Her introduction and journey with IFS 3. IFS and Christian Spirituality 4.  Outline of the book: - Judging, legalism and over reliance on cognitive parts - Why are we so vulnerable? (development and attachment) - The way forward (IFS) - IFS with common causes of distress 5. Her Breast Cancer journey 6. Finding connection in the social media/publishing 'game' 7. A New Spiritual Practice (loving ourselves, unblending) 8. How IFS and Christianity Enhance one another 9. New book project: How to Heal Our Divides. Her chapter is How IFS Helps Heal our Inner Divides. Check it out here: https://howtohealourdivides.com/ Connect with Molly here: https://mollylacroix.com/ and on Facebook and Instagram. As always, I'd love to connect with you at The One Inside Facebook Page and @ifs.tammy on Instagram, Twitter, and Clubhouse. You can join my growing mailing list at tammysollenberger.com - maybe I will send you an email one day soon. Enjoy!

"How to Heal Our Divides" interview with Arrabon Executive Director David Bailey