Podcast appearances and mentions of John C Dorhauer

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Recrudescence - The Rev. John C. Dorhauer reflects on this new word that he just came across, and how it fully applies to what we've been living though these past couple of years - and how Faith will see us through it. Listen to the podcast.

In this week's podcast, the Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer discusses white privilege. He asks this same question to all groups when the subject is discussed: "What do you see?" Listen to the podcast.

Let there be peace on Earth as we walk together in the footsteps of the peacemaker we know as Jesus. And let it begin with me, says the Rev. John C. Dorhauer, as he explains his thoughts on war. Listen to this week's podcast.

In the many years' quest to find a new location for the National Office of the United Church of Christ, we finally moved in this week to our beautiful new space, In many ways it was also a spiritual quest. UCC General Minister and President, the Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer, who spearheaded the move, has reflections after the long, arduous journey.

Trumpery – by definition an attractive article of little value or use; something that is showy but worthless. The Rev. John C. Dorhauer has some thoughts on what should take priority as things of value in our lives vs things that might look valuable and worthy of time and/or money, but in the end - aren't. Listen to the podcast.

Tears of compassion are a kind of baptism, washing away hate and arrogance, cleansing us of a desire to be proven better than. Though at times in short supply, they are nonetheless much in need these days, when racism and hate seem to fill the news every day. Listen to podcast, as the Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer reflects.

We are taught that we should always tell the truth. Yet, there are some truths that, when spoken, will do immediate damage. In this podcast, the Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer discusses how an argument can be made that "slanting" the truth can sometimes be better than full-on abrupt truth when talking to people. Listen to the podcast.

The material world and the spiritual world are always competing with each other for our focus and attention. UCC General Minister and President, the Rev. John C. Dorhauer, discusses how he tries to blend the two in his own life in a healthy way. Listen to the podcast.

He is Risen. The fact that this is not a "past-tense" statement means everything, says the Rev. John C. Dorhauer. Listen to the podcast.

When people fast (for Lent for example), it's to deny ourselves of something or some-things that we like. Otherwise, what's the point, right? It's not a sacrifice if we deny ourselves of something we hate. This week's podcast is about a UCC church in Illinois. They decided for this Palm Sunday service that they would fast from "whiteness", and only play music composed by non-white composers - sacrificing music they love and usually play to celebrate music that they may not play as often. Well, the right wing media picked up on this and a firestorm ensued, calling the church "racist". But doesn't the term "racist" imply hate, or at least, dislike? If they were sacrificing "white" music in order to play "non-white" music for a day, doesn't it mean that they "like" and have comfort with what they were sacrificing, simply to celebrate the other? Where is the controversy here? UCC General Minister and President, the Rev. John C. Dorhauer, attended that Palm Sunday service, and offers his reflections on the "news" that certain right wing media created from it. Listen to the podcast...

UCC General Minister and President, The Rev. John C. Dorhauer, has a very simple way to tell whether something emanates from God or not: - If it is love, it is God - If it produces love, it emanates from God Conversely, - If it is not love, it is not God - If it does not produce love, it does not emanate from God. Learn more about this perspective by listening to the podcast...

UCC General Minister and President, the Rev. John C. Dorhauer, pays homage to his first spiritual director and mentor, who passed just a few hours prior to John's recording this podcast. Listen to the podcast.

This past Sunday was the emotional closing worship service for the UCC National Office's Amistad Chapel. The National Office is moving and Amistad Chapel, regrettably, is a casualty of that move. It is a place that for 22 years has been a sacred space for joy and tears for the national staff, and also for the residents of downtown Cleveland, as it was a UCC church congregation open to the public for Sunday morning worship, as well. UCC General Minister and President, the Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer, offers some reflections on Amistad Chapel. Listen to the podcast.

As war begins in Ukraine, United Church of Christ General Minister and President, The Rev. John C. Dorhauer has some thoughts and reflections. Listen to the podcast.

Artists being artists, sometimes they like to "go against the grain" in non-traditional ways to get their messages across to their audiences, and in turn, may touch our souls in non-traditional ways, as well. In this podcast, listen to why the Rev. John C. Dorhauer applauds artists who do this and why he encourages them to keep doing it...

On behalf of the Elected Officers of the United Church of Christ, Karen Georgia Thompson, Traci Blackmon, and John C. Dorhauer – this week's podcast is offered as a memorial of gratitude to peace activist and Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh and his enduring, endearing spirit. Born: October 11, 1926 Died: January 22, 2022

A time to rest is a great gift to our soul, and often greatly needed. The Rev. John C. Dorhauer is now fully back from sabbatical and offers his views and gratitude on the aspects of sabbath. Listen to the podcast.

In this podcast, the Rev. John C. Dorhauer returns from sabbatical to talk with the Rev. Jess Chancey about their hopes for the new year. Listen to the podcast.

God's creation has all kinds of beautiful aspects, if we allow ourselves to stop and enjoy them. For native Southerner turned Northerner, the Rev. Jess Chancey (filling in for Rev. John C. Dorhauer on the podcast), snow is something that they actually delight in during the winter. Listen to why on the podcast.

The Rev. John C. Dorhauer begins sabbatical for the rest of 2021 beginning this week, so the Rev. Jess Chancey begins her fill-in role. With John being on sabbatical, Jess thought it would be a good time to talk about the value of "rest." Listen to her podcast.

Occasionally, we all need a respite from the daily grind. The Rev. John C. Dorhauer is going on sabbatical, and here he describes what that means to him. Listen to the podcast.

Bill Myers Inspires  This show explores racism which is enmeshed in the church, and how deep and instantiated the centering of "whiteness' is in the formation of and the evolution of the church. We will take a look at the ways racism manifests itself, how it alters our perceptions and what it means for those of us who are in the church, but also are advocates for racial equality and justice. The Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer, author and theologian, currently serves as ninth General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ. John began his ministry serving First Congregational United Church of Christ and Zion United Church of Christ in rural Missouri. He then served as Associate Conference Minister in the Missouri Mid-South Conference, and then Conference Minister of the Southwest Conference of the UCC prior to his election as General Minister and President. Dorhauer received a B.A. in Philosophy from Cardinal Glennon College (1983), and has a Master of Divinity degree from Eden Theological Seminary (1988), the same year John was ordained in the United Church of Christ. John received a Doctor of Ministry degree from United Theological Seminary (2004); his area of focus -- white privilege and its effects on the church.  https://www.ucc.org dorhauerj@ucc.org *Listen now on the Inspired Choices Network app!  https://linktr.ee/inspiredchoicesnetwork ~ More About Bill Myers Inspires ~  Emmy Award-winning actor Bill Myers is an accomplished actor, jazz musician, filmmaker, writer, educator, and speaker. As a bi-racial man who is both black and white, Bill leverages his background, talents, and voice through creativity, compassion, and connection as activism for social justice to focus on uniting the divide and compelling change. In a civic leadership capacity, he has served as President of the African American Jazz Caucus in NYC, member of the Indianapolis Cultural Development Committee, and served as President of the Indianapolis Downtown Optimist Club. In addition to his Emmy Award, Bill has received many awards and notable commissions for his work including being commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art to create an original work for Dr. Martin Luther King Day entitled “The Music, Martin & Me.” Bill Myers seeks to encourage, enlighten, and empower others through the power of entertainment to affect social justice. You can find Bill Myers: Billmyersinspires.com   https://www.facebook.com/billmyersinspires  https://twitter.com/bmyersinspires1 https://www.instagram.com/billmyersinspires billmyersinspires@gmail.com To get more of Bill Myers Inspires, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/bill-myers-inspires/  

Do you have a predilection for friendly competition? To test your limits against others? It's good for the spirit to enjoy sportsmanship. Rev. John C. Dorhauer discusses this. Listen to the podcast.

This week, the United Church of Christ journeys through its next biennial General Synod meeting. This is a meeting of the denomination's leaders to vote on and set the recommended polity of what the denomination stands for - which in summation - is a Just World for All. UCC General Minister and President, The Rev. John C. Dorhauer, offers a prayer for this important meeting. Listen to the podcast... Read the transcript on ucc.org: https://www.ucc.org/into-the-mystic-a-prayer-for-synod/

John 15:26-27, 16:4-15; Acts 2:1-21

The Rev. John C. Dorhauer says that his heart "grew three sizes" while listening to the poem by Amanda Gorman during the 2021 Presidential Inauguration. Find out what part of the poem struck Rev. Dorhauer the most. What struck you the most? Listen to the podcast.

Bill Myers Inspires  In America today, what is the role of faith leaders in addressing the divisive political climate, racism, and white privilege? What does manifesting white privilege look like and how must faith leaders and others work to dismantle it? The Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer, author and theologian, currently serves as ninth General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ. John began his ministry serving First Congregational United Church of Christ and Zion United Church of Christ in rural Missouri. He then served as Associate Conference Minister in the Missouri Mid-South Conference, and then Conference Minister of the Southwest Conference of the UCC prior to his election as General Minister and President. Dorhauer received a B.A. in Philosophy from Cardinal Glennon College (1983), and has a Master of Divinity degree from Eden Theological Seminary (1988), the same year John was ordained in the United Church of Christ. John received a Doctor of Ministry degree from United Theological Seminary (2004); his area of focus -- white privilege and its effects on the church. With a personal theology shaped in the passionate conviction that God is love and God is just, John has embodied the United Church of Christ's vision of “A Just World for All” throughout his ministry. On October 17, 2014, Dorhauer conducted the first legal same sex wedding in the state of Arizona when he performed the wedding service of David Laurence and Kevin Patterson. In his first term as General Minister and President, recognizing increasing sensitivities in this country around race, John initiated the collaborative creation of a curriculum, “White Privilege: Let's Talk – A Resource for Transformational Dialogue”. Designed to invite UCC members and others to engage in safe, meaningful, substantive, and bold conversations on race, the curriculum and accompanying facilitator's guide have been used by both UCC and non-UCC audiences. https://www.ucc.org. copeland@ucc.org   ~ More About Bill Myers Inspires ~  Emmy Award-winning actor Bill Myers is an accomplished actor, jazz musician, filmmaker, writer, educator, and speaker. As a bi-racial man who is both black and white, Bill leverages his background, talents, and voice through creativity, compassion, and connection as activism for social justice to focus on uniting the divide and compelling change. In a civic leadership capacity, he has served as President of the African American Jazz Caucus in NYC, member of the Indianapolis Cultural Development Committee, and served as President of the Indianapolis Downtown Optimist Club. In addition to his Emmy Award, Bill has received many awards and notable commissions for his work including being commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art to create an original work for Dr. Martin Luther King Day entitled “The Music, Martin & Me.” Bill Myers seeks to encourage, enlighten, and empower others through the power of entertainment to affect social justice. You can find him at his website Billmyersinspires.com, Bill Myers Inspires on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/billmyersinspires/, Twitter https://twitter.com/bmyersinspires1, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/billmyersinspires/  , or via email billmyersinspires@gmail.com. To get more of Bill Myers Inspires, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/bill-myers-inspires/    

Bill Myers Inspires  The topic of racism in America is inescapable because it was a key ingredient that was baked into the cake at the beginning. This is understood by Rev. Dr. John Dorhauer, who has spent a large portion of his life studying and examining racism in America as part of his ministry as he now serves as General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ. in this show, we will explore Dr. Dorhauer's observations of the civil rights movement, white privilege and reparations. The Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer, author and theologian, currently serves as ninth General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ. John began his ministry serving First Congregational United Church of Christ and Zion United Church of Christ in rural Missouri. He then served as Associate Conference Minister in the Missouri Mid-South Conference, and then Conference Minister of the Southwest Conference of the UCC prior to his election as General Minister and President. Dorhauer received a B.A. in Philosophy from Cardinal Glennon College (1983), and has a Master of Divinity degree from Eden Theological Seminary (1988), the same year John was ordained in the United Church of Christ. John received a Doctor of Ministry degree from United Theological Seminary (2004); his area of focus -- white privilege and its effects on the church. With a personal theology shaped in the passionate conviction that God is love and God is just, John has embodied the United Church of Christ's vision of “A Just World for All” throughout his ministry. On October 17, 2014, Dorhauer conducted the first legal same sex wedding in the state of Arizona when he performed the wedding service of David Laurence and Kevin Patterson. In his first term as General Minister and President, recognizing increasing sensitivities in this country around race, John initiated the collaborative creation of a curriculum, “White Privilege: Let's Talk – A Resource for Transformational Dialogue”. Designed to invite UCC members and others to engage in safe, meaningful, substantive, and bold conversations on race, the curriculum and accompanying facilitator's guide have been used by both UCC and non-UCC audiences. In addition, John has partnered with the UCC Board of Directors in providing oversight for the articulation of the denomination's statements of Purpose, Vision and Mission – critical elements for the UCC's evolving organizational strategy. To activate the new vision, John invited the denomination's participation in a collective biennial mission initiative, Three Great Loves. In partnership with the UCC Board of Directors – and informed with responses from across the church to the question “what does a transformative UCC need to be in ten years?”-- John has called the church to accomplish essential strategic priorities over the next 10 years to position the church for a transformative future. These include attaining inclusive excellence, developing robust technology infrastructure that benefits every expression of the church, curriculum and training towards “A Just World for All”, strategic organizational alignment consistent with purpose, vision and mission, and platforms to foster and encourage innovative church. The Shaping Our Future Campaign has been launched to generate $4 million in new philanthropic support for marketing, technology and leadership development programs critical to the health and vitality of every expression of the church. More recently, recognizing a need for thought leadership to consider, inform and shape our responsibility for lifelong, cradle-to-the-grave theological formation, John called for a summit on theological formation, From the Ground Up, which was launched in spring 2018. At present, his focus is on re-establishing the primacy of the Local Church and the mutuality of relationship amongst the expressions of the church, undertaking an assessment of the denomination's assets devoted to resourcing local church ministry relative to the needs of the local church, and operationalizing the alignment of the national setting consistent with the newly established strategic priorities for the UCC. John now serves as Vice-Chair of the National Council of Churches (NCC), and has co-chaired the NCC's United to End Racism campaign. He has been identified by the Center for American Progress as one of the religious leaders to watch for in 2017. John insists that the Holy Spirit envisions a future in which the United Church of Christ matters. He is calling on the denomination to rethink itself and to consider new ways of being church in light of institutional religion's changing landscape and emerging shifts in the generational populations – believing that an emergent church is already coming alongside the institutional church. John's book Beyond Resistance: the Institutional Church Meets the Postmodern World is a call to the body of Christ to accept what the Spirit of the Risen Christ is doing to birth something new, vital, and relevant – all towards nurturing Beloved Community. dorhauerj@ucc.org.   https://www.ucc.org/  ~ More About Bill Myers Inspires ~  Emmy Award-winning actor Bill Myers is an accomplished actor, jazz musician, filmmaker, writer, educator, and speaker. As a bi-racial man who is both black and white, Bill leverages his background, talents, and voice through creativity, compassion, and connection as activism for social justice to focus on uniting the divide and compelling change. In a civic leadership capacity, he has served as President of the African American Jazz Caucus in NYC, member of the Indianapolis Cultural Development Committee, and served as President of the Indianapolis Downtown Optimist Club. In addition to his Emmy Award, Bill has received many awards and notable commissions for his work including being commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art to create an original work for Dr. Martin Luther King Day entitled “The Music, Martin & Me.” Bill Myers seeks to encourage, enlighten, and empower others through the power of entertainment to affect social justice. You can find him at his website Billmyersinspires.com, Bill Myers Inspires on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/billmyersinspires/, Twitter https://twitter.com/bmyersinspires1, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/billmyersinspires/  , or via email billmyersinspires@gmail.com. To get more of Bill Myers Inspires, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/bill-myers-inspires/

Threats of war and violence are again erupting on the Korean peninsula between the North and South, 70 years after 5 million people were killed and a ceasefire agreement was enacted. The Rev. John C. Dorhauer, General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ, will soon represent the United States on behalf of the National Council of Churches on a Zoom meeting of world leaders. Hear John's prayer for a peaceful Korea as you listen to this podcast.

Jesus once promised that where two or three are gathered, that His Spirit would be with us. But how does that work in the age of coronavirus, where we are forced to have worship services digitally? The Reverend Dr. John C. Dorhauer has some reflections on that, which include certain elements of digital worship that he finds a BETTER experience than when we actually worship in person. Listen to the podcast...

Whether or not cultures differ in terms of language or religion or the way people look, there are always similarities, even among cultures a half world apart. If we can look more towards our similarities and less towards our differences, we can have a much more harmonious world. Listen to the Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer's recent experiences about this in this week's podcast.

If everyone received strangers as family, the world would be a much kinder place. The Rev. John C. Dorhauer describes the wonderful receptions he received as he traveled on a recent 17 day trip overseas. Listen to the podcast....

How do we orient ourselves to the Other? When presented with the Other— whether it be a racial, ethnic or political Other, we can choose to respond with fear, or with love. Through an Emily Dickinson poem and real world interactions with two women, UCC General Minister and President Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer suggests that love is the answer, and that it has always been the answer to all that God has asked of us.

For this new year, no New Year’s resolutions. Instead, a litany of new things that the Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer wishes for us all in the coming year.

UCC General Minister and President, The Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer reads the Christmas Story as told in Luke 2.

Easter is upon us and He Is Risen! In this podcast the Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer chooses to reflect on the Book of Mark. Why? Because there is no post-Resurrection story in the Gospel of Mark. The story is left to the believers to finish. How do you finish the story of the Resurrection? (Listen to the podcast!)