Podcast appearances and mentions of Mary Elizabeth Williams

[@ 5 min] This week…we go inside the huddle with Givonna Joseph, the founder of Opera Creole, and soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams, the star of that company's upcoming world premiere of Edmond Dede's "Morgiane," a collaboration with friend of the show Opera Lafayette. [@ 32 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill'…the prima of the Met's new Aida was an event that won't be forgotten any time soon, and is Paris Hilton the solution to opera's Millennial problem? GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Seattle Opera presents the world premiere of JUBILEE, a new opera celebrating spirituals. Created by Tazewell Thompson, librettist of BLUE, JUBILEE tells the story of how a group of African American singers toured America and Europe in the 1870s, using this wonderful music—America's first great contribution to the world of music—to raise money to build Fisk University. Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean introduces JUBILEE, whose score consists of newly orchestrated arrangements of over 40 beloved spirituals, sung by thirteen singers. Musical examples in this podcast include spirituals sung by Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson; The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music; The Trouble I've Seen (Moses Hogan Chorale); Negro Spirituals (Derek Lee Ragin and the Moses Hogan Chorale); Spirituals in Concert (Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman); Gospel Songs (The Missionary Quartet); and Mary Elizabeth Williams singing La forza del destino.

Seattle Opera concludes its 24/25 season in May 2025 with TOSCA, Puccini's beloved thriller. Jonathan Dean introduces the charismatic characters, cinematic music, and wild story that have made TOSCA one of the world's favorite operas. Musical examples from Seattle Opera archival recordings of Tosca made in 2001 (Antonello Allemandi conducts Carol Vaness), 2007 (Vjekoslav Sutej conducts Lisa Daltirus, Frank Porretta, Jr., and Greer Grimsley) and 2015 (Julian Kovatchev conducts Ausrine Stundyte, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Marcy Stonikas, Stefano Secco, and Greer Grimsley. Special example featuring Korngold's score to CAPTAIN BLOOD.  

In 2010, Mary Elizabeth Williams was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma. The following year, she was offered the opportunity to participate in a Phase 1 immunotherapy clinical trial. She wrote about that experience in A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer. In this episode, Mary Elizabeth shares her story and insights into her journey as a clinical trial participant. Williams says she was in a place of desperate and deep panic, but she remembers having a conversation with someone who said, "This doesn't have to be your last resort. This can be our first resort for you." That perspective-changing conversation began her belief in the special relationship between hope and science. About our guest, Mary Elizabeth Williams Mary Elizabeth Williams is a metastatic melanoma survivor, clinical trial veteran, and the author of "A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer." She has written for the LA Times, the Guardian, Health, and other publications. In 2021, her New York Times essay was adapted for the second season of Amazon Prime's "Modern Love." She has spoken for ASCO, PRIM&R, Bristol Meyers Squibb, DIA, and is the 2020 AMWA Walter Alvarez Award winner. She is currently a doctoral student of Medical Humanities at Drew University, where she recently completed her conflict resolution certification. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aimatmelanoma/support

BODYTONIC RADIO Episode 12 features Host JENNIFER DELUCA's in-depth interview with Journalist, Author and Salon.com Senior Writer MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS. After an extended hiatus, BODYTONIC RADIO is back! Host JENNIFER DELUCA takes a deep dive into special guest MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS' 2016 book "A Series Of Catastrophes & Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science and Cancer.”  Jennifer reveals how much she identifies with Mary Elizabeth's astonishing and candid memoir. Throughout this engaging conversation, you will find out why this book is not only a primer for anyone going through cancer diagnosis, treatment and healing, but a great resource for anyone supporting someone who finds themself in this bewildering and difficult situation.  A pro interviewer herself, we are thrilled to have MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS in the interviewee chair to talk about her work for this all new installment of BODYTONIC RADIO. As a journalist with over twenty years of experience, MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS writes regularly on cancer and treatment.  She also frequently covers entertainment, parenting, education, and mental health.  She is the recipient of the 2020 Walter J. Alvarez Award, and has been an Online Journalism Award and Skin Cancer Foundation Media Award nominee. In her capacity as a senior writer for Salon, Mary Elizabeth has covered breaking news, done longform journalism, interviewed celebrities, and written personal essays. She has also appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Wired, Yoga Journal, and many other national and international newspapers and magazines. She has also been a regular contributor for the CBC and for WNYC's “The Takeaway,” and has been a guest on various television and media outlets, including The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Dateline, Talk of the Nation, and on The Brian Lehrer Show, among others. To check out Mary Elizabeth's interviews and writing for Salon, go to www.salon.com/writer/mary_elizabeth_williams and to find out more about her the book, her speaking engagements, other writings, videos and much more go to www.maryelizabethwilliams.net BODYTONIC RADIO features experts in the field of mind, body and soul. Listen to previous episodes and SUBSCRIBE Now on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, or live & direct (with exclusive site-only extras!) on JASONCHARLES.NET Podcast Network TALK Channel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This month, we celebrate Cancer Immunotherapy and its impact on people's lives. In our season 4 finale episode of The PQI Podcast, we have the privilege of sitting down with Mary Elizabeth Williams, who shares her inspiring story of overcoming metastatic melanoma and advocating for better access to clinical trials. Mary Elizabeth, a courageous stage 4 metastatic melanoma survivor, participated in a groundbreaking Phase 1 immunotherapy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering. She became one of the pioneering individuals to receive nivolumab, a cutting-edge treatment. Just three months into the trial, her remarkable progress showed no signs of disease. Join us as we delve into her journey, highlighting the transformative potential of immunotherapy.For the past several years, Mary Elizabeth has been chronicling her adventures with Stage 4 melanoma and working toward a better healthcare experience for all of us. She is a doctoral student of Medical Humanities at Drew University and has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Salon, Time, and Health. Her recent book, A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles, A: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer, is on her experience with metastatic melanoma — and the groundbreaking immunotherapy clinical trial pioneered by Nobel winner James Allison — that saved her life. Her book can be found here.

Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Series - 6From melanoma diagnosis to clinical trial veteran, this stage 4 survivor has experienced firsthand the challenges and triumphs that come with cancer. Her story is one of luck, timing, science, and also hope. So sit back and join us on this impressive journey of survival.Mary Elizabeth Williams is an author and journalist and has been dedicated to raising awareness about cancer and advocating for patients. Her personal experience with stage 4 melanoma and immunotherapy clinical trials thirteen years ago inspired her to write her book “A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles”. This dynamic story offers a unique perspective on this disease, the impact it had on her family and the transformation that comes with facing death and learning to live again. She is actively involved in various cancer organizations, including Stand Up to Cancer's immunotherapy dream team, Gilda's Club, and the Cancer Research Institute. Her mission is to use her voice and writing talents to make a difference in the lives of those affected by cancer. She recently completed her certification in both Narrative Medicine and Conflict Resolution & Leadership furthering her mission to improve communication and understanding in the medical field.Go to Mary Elizabeth Williams.net to learn more about her and her mission.To get a copy of her book:  “A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles” Articles about Mary Elizabeth and clinical trials: Melanoma Research Alliance Article and Cancer Research Institute ArticleModern Love - With Hearts and Eyes Open: Season 2 Ep 8 Let's work together to stop skin cancer and save lives! For more resources and information: Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness SeriesHow do you sail through life? Join me on this endeavor! Support the show. I would love to grow this amazing support community.If you have any thoughts on today's episode, or topics you'd like me to further touch on, reach me through my WEBSITE.Check it out here- SailingThroughLifePodcast.comStay Anchored ⚓Music Credit: Alex_MakeMusic ** Sailing Through Life Podcast is intended to educate, inspire and support you on your personal journey and is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. All content is for general informational purposes only. If you are suffering from any psychological or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified health professional.

Seattle Opera subscriber Dr. Chris Rebholz, a practicing Buddhist, discusses Wagner's Tristan with Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean. Fascinated by Buddhism when he wrote Tristan und Isolde, Wagner created an opera all about compassion, karma, desire, enlightenment, and the difficulty of reconciling both conventional and ultimate reality (aka “Day vs. Night”). Dr. Rebholz teaches adult classes on Buddhism at Seattle's Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism. A clinical and forensic psychologist, in private practice, who specializes in evaluating neurodiverse adults for healthcare and the courts, she teaches corporate seminars on neurodiversity as well as continuing legal education on issues of mental health and the law. Musical examples from Seattle Opera's 2022 Tristan und Isolde starring Mary Elizabeth Williams, Ryan McKinney, and Amber Wagner and conducted by Jordan de Souza.

American soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams, beloved in Seattle for performances such as Tosca, Abigaille in NABUCCO, and Serena in PORGY AND BESS, just made her role debut as Isolde, the first time she's ever sung a Wagner opera. She discussed the character, the singing, and her two-and-a-half year journey towards this achievement with Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean. This podcast features clips of Williams singing Tosca (conducted by Julian Kovatchev) and “Pace, pace, mio Dio” from LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (conducted by Carlo Montanaro), as well as Amber Wagner singing Brangäne in TRISTAN (conducted by Jordan de Souza).

In this special episode of What Catholics Believe, Father Jenkins answers viewer questions and discusses current events from a traditional Catholic perspective: First, Pray for Tom and the Neagele family, who are ill, and for a young mother who suffered a serious car accident and in need of surgery — pray for her and her family; pray for the souls of Fr. Dolan, Fr. Cekada, and Fr. Randolph. A viewer asks how to answer the accusation that the SSPV is in schism and that to participate is to put your soul in danger; schism, to cut oneself off from the authority of the Church, is objectively a mortal sin; Church approved theologians — material schism, being separated from a true reigning pontiff from ignorance, can be inculpable; the real question — is the SSPV, or any traditional Catholic group or priest, in schism?; if you are following Catholic tradition it is impossible to be in schism; whether those who don't follow tradition are in schism; to break with tradition is to break with the authority of the Church; to break with tradition is to break from the Holy Ghost; Francis' “God of surprises” and new doctrines; Catholic tradition — popes or supposed popes can go into schism; Francis' repeatedly breaking with tradition is obvious; Francis does not believe the traditional Catholic catechism. A viewer asks, Can I be the godmother for a baby baptized in the “old rite” from a non-traditional priest?; the phrases of “old rite” vs. “new rite — meaning traditional rite vs. Novus Ordo rite (a better way to express it); Novus Ordo priests (FFSP); practicing the traditional Catholic religion in the Novus Ordo?; accepting responsibility impossible to fulfill as a traditional Catholic; Thuc-line priests. A viewer asks, Is it okay for a Catholic man to marry a never-married single mom? A viewer asks whether there is special penance that needs to be done for the sin of abortion; Pro-abortionists' call to assault churches in the face of the leak about overturning Roe v Wade and the insurrection against the judiciary branch of the United States; Alito's summary and analysis of Roe v Wade; Investigating the leak; the Traditional Catholic perspective about what is happening to our country; Justice Roberts taking the slow road against Roe v Wade?; the Roe v Wade decision in 1973 — our country lost its soul; “Potential life” — constitutional law or bad philosophy?; deciding who is human; Ruth Ginsberg and Biden originally — Roe v Wade a legal mess; the danger of politicians in the courts — negotiation instead of principles; pray for the justices that they would decide rightly on principle; Biden's nominations are political activists; outstanding questions about Biden's “election”; argeting Catholic Churches as oppressive to women “The Handmaid's Tale” — the democrats and Jeffery Epstein?; bright people can think, speak, and act stupidly; the treatment of women outside the influence and teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ; “Ruth sent us”; the Novus Ordo not a great obstacle to legalized abortion; Novus Ordo bishops — abortion “not a Catholic issue”; Vatican II the Great Reset in the Church; recognition of the historic Catholic Church as the great enemy of evil; pro-abortion — hatred of Christ; the malice of pro-abortion women manifests ugliness and the demonic; invading the Churches on Mother's Day — hatred of motherhood; Lilith festivals; being complicit in child-murder; “they want to abort it because they know it is a child”; anti-rationality and sin against the Holy Ghost; abortuaries as essential services during lockdowns; Mary Elizabeth Williams in Salon Magazine: “So What if Abortion Ends Life?” — “all life is not equal” — “I would put life of a mother over the life of a fetus every time”. This video was livestreamed on 5/10/2022. 
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In this episode, Dr. Diane Reidy-Lagunes sits down with journalist, author and stage-four melanoma survivor, Mary Elizabeth Williams, to discuss what it was like being part of a phase-one clinical trial, how clear communication can affect health outcomes, how guilt often accompanies survival, and what not to say to a cancer patient. Mary Elizabeth's book is A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles. Listen to our episode with Mary Elizabeth's doctor, Jedd Wolchok. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whoa... This was probably one of my best podcasts so far. I interviewed one of the most delightful, balanced, and wise people that I personally know, Mary Elizabeth Williams. We discuss in depth, her career as an opera star, the obstacles, the triumphs, and the wisdom that she has acquired along the way. Mary and I attended Luther College together in the mid-90s. I got to know her because we were both in Nordic Choir together for two years. At the time, she seemed destined to become an opera star, but as we discussed during this episode, that destiny wasn't always so sure. There were moments when it didn't appear so inevitable. Gulp, at one point, she even considered becoming a lawyer! I love being a lawyer, but the world would have lost an incredible treasure if she didn't align with her life's purpose, to impart beauty and passion to the world through charismatic personality and voice. This would have been roughly akin to Einstein considering becoming an insurance salesman prior to discovering relativity. Thank goodness she chose opera! In addition to opera, we discussed a self care strategy, book recommendation, and we even discuss an intriguing aspect of her father's life in France during WWII, a life so interesting that I think Mary should write an inspired by real life novel about that part of her father's life. This cast was a delightful journey for me, learning from such an intriguing and passionate soul. This was a fun one!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It’s a madcap, free-ranging episode where we go from figuring out how to get your important work done (and quit doom-scrolling through your phone) to embracing that same phone for its best use: nourishing conversations with the people you love and then launch into some fantastic tips for interviewing experts (or podcast guests!) that you won’t want to miss. Links from the pod and the scoop on our guest: Celeste Headlee is an NPR journalist and the author of three books: Do NothingWe Need to TalkHeard MentalityCeleste talks about the danger of working from home with Mary Elizabeth Williams on Salon.You can find her at: CelesteHeadlee.com#AmReadingCeleste: Studs Terkel’s Race helped me understand race (as a black jew) like never beforeKJ: Motherland by Leah FranquiJess: Magical Thinking, Lust and Wonder, and Toil and Trouble by Augusten BorroughsThanks to everyone who supports the podcast financially—we hope you’ve been loving recent treats like the Minisodes from Jess: What Really Sells Books and KJ: Why I Love Plotting Books (and which to grab) and the Top 5 Things to Know About Using a Pseudonym. To join that team, click the button below (we’re kinda having a fall sale!):But it’s all good. The pod is free as it always has and always will be. This shownotes email is free, too, so please—forward it to a friend, and if you haven’t already, join our email list and be on top of it every time there’s a new episode.Find more about Jess here, Sarina here and about KJ here and don’t forget our sponsors and partners!Have you checked out Author Accelerator’s Book Coach training at bookcoaches.com/amwriting? Seriously, if every time you hear us talk about book coaching, you think to yourself—hey, I could do that!—you should. They have great programs for fiction, non-fiction and making your side-gig full time—and they offer tuition help for BIPOC coaches as well—more info on that at bookcoaches.com/equity.And if you haven’t tried Dabble yet, YOU MUST. Just go play with the storyline building tools. Trust us.And—have you checked out the Bookable Podcast? Audio explorations of the books you might want to read next, with a host who’s a veteran of a much-loved, much-missed NYC live monthly book event. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at amwriting.substack.com/subscribe

Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean leads a tour through the land of soprano, from dazzling coloratura acrobats to fearsome goddesses whose roar sets the opera house aflame. Includes musical examples featuring many favorite Seattle Opera sopranos: Cyndia Sieden, Joan Sutherland, Sarah Coburn, Sally Wolf, Dana Pundt, Jennifer Zetlan, Nuccia Focile, Angel Blue, Alexandra Deshorties, Renee Fleming, Sheri Greenawald, Carol Vaness, Lisa Daltirus, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Marcy Stonikas, Janice Baird and Irmgard Vilsmaier, and Jane Eaglen.

After her stage four metastatic cancer diagnosis in 2011, writer Mary Elizabeth Williams was selected to participate in one of the world’s first immunotherapy clinical trials. Twelve weeks later, she showed a complete response. Williams will explore the clinical trial process in her DIA 2020 Keynote Address. “If we are creating protocols for patients who, like me, are otherwise perfectly healthy and have no comorbidities, you're not in any way serving the people who are the most vulnerable,” she explains. “Look at who is most directly impacted by this virus: It's people who have pre-existing conditions and yet people with pre-existing conditions are routinely shut out of the clinical trial process.”

We sit down with journalist Mary Elizabeth Williams, one of the first patients treated with combination immunotherapy, to discuss her experience as an IO patient and how to bridge communication gaps among patients, doctors, and researchers.Guest:Mary Elizabeth Williams, author, A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and CancerRelated Content:Her Best ResortWhy the Stories We Tell MatterSupporting the Patient Voice in Patient-Centered Care“Virtual Navigation to Clinical Trials,” by Jennifer C. King, PhD"Black Patients Miss Out on Promising Cancer Drugs," by Caroline Chen and Riley Wong"The Importance of Diversity in Clinical Trials (Because Right Now, It's Lacking)," by Chelsea Weidman BurkeThe views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s)/faculty member(s) and do not reflect the official policy or position of their employer(s) or the Association of Community Cancer Centers.

Pastor Ross preaches from Luke 1:39-45 where he articulates that God creates human life in the womb. Life in the Womb Sermon Ross Tenneson / General The Gospel of Luke / Sanctity of Life / Luke 1:39–45 Summary Exegetical Main Point: Mary has the incredible blessing of being the mother of the Lord. Sermon Main Point: Since babies experience emotion in the womb, they are human beings and it is wrong to kill them. Sticky Point: We must protect human life in the womb. Connection (me) (this is not really a connection, but I think it will serve for this sermon) Today, we will have a little bit of a different sermon than usual. Here is what I mean: usually we preach exegetically from the text. This means, as much as possible, we allow the text to direct the sermon and we make the main point of the text the main point of the sermon. This way, we are not just preaching through whatever parts of the Bible we like, but listening to God week after week as he sets the agenda. Other times, we preach on a topic rather than specifically walking through a text. Today, our text that we arrive at as we walk through the book of Luke brings up a topic to relevant to us that we felt it is important to give a sermon to it. While this sermon will focus on a topic, it is important to see that walking through the book of Luke passage by passage led us to this sermon today. What is topic? The topic that leaps out from this passage is that of life in the womb. This is a very important topic to many of us, and while sad and heavy, it is something dear to many of our hearts. Tension (we) I hope to answer a few questions in this sermon: (1) What does our passage have to do with the topic of life in the womb? (2) Does science and medicine support or undermine what the Bible says about life in the womb? (3) How should we as Christians respond to the issue of abortion? And I am aware the issues regarding pregnancy are very complex and painful. There may be some in the room today who will hear this sermon and feel very uncomfortable, guilt, or despair. I want you to be aware my goal is not to disparage or hurt anyone. Because Jesus has died and risen, there is always hope in any situation, and before I end today we will see what Jesus and the cross has to say to anyone who finds themselves feeling condemned. Exposition (God) (1) What does our passage have to do with the topic of life in the womb? I will spend a few moments walking us through our text and then I will explain what implications it has for this topic. At this point in the story, angels had appeared to Elizabeth and to Mary and announced that each of them would have miraculous pregnancies. Elizabeth was too old to be pregnant and Mary was a virgin! Yet, the Lord would use them to bring two important men into the world— John the Baptist (who would prepare the way for Jesus) and Jesus (who would come to save the world from its sins). One of the things the angel mentioned to Mary was that her cousin Elizabeth would also have a miraculous child. So, Mary gets excited and goes to see her “with haste.” She arrives and verse 40 says she “greeted Elizabeth.” And then look at verse 41. It says, English Standard Version Chapter 1 41 And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, The end of verse 40 says she “greeted Elizabeth.” And then the beginning of verse 41 says “And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary...” The second statement is completely unnecessary and redundant. What is going on? Luke is slowing the story down to build suspense for what comes next. Here is the most climatic moment in this text, “the baby leaped in her womb!” (Runge) Then the text says “Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit” and verses 42-45 say, English Standard Version Chapter 1 42 and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45 And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.” Now, Elizabeth explains what it meant that the baby leapt in her womb. And it is clear that the Holy Spirit is at work, because as far as we know from the text, the angel who visited Elizabeth did not tell her that Mary was pregnant with the Lord[1]. Also, she was able to perceive that her baby John leapt for joy in the womb because of the sound of Mary’s voice. Then she explains a critical detail in our text. In verse 44, when her baby leapt in the womb, it was in response specifically to Mary’s greeting. Now, I want to focus in on one crucial implication of our text: The unborn child in Elizabeth’s womb had an emotional response of joy and expressed it. Clumps of cells do not have their own emotional responses. Organs or parts of your body do not have their own emotional responses; people have emotional responses. It is plain that in this passages’ description of reality, it depicts John (the baby inside Elizabeth’s womb) as a person who expresses joy at the sound of Mary’s greeting. The moral and ethical implications of this reality are enormous: namely, that there is a human person in Elizabeth’s tummy. Yet, this is not all this text has to say that should inform our view on life in the womb. As I mentioned earlier, Elizabeth is full of the Holy Spirit when she is speaking. The Spirit is leading her to say these specific things. One thing she says in verse 43 is, English Standard Version Chapter 1 43 And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? Notice, she did not say the “soon to be mother” or “future mother” of my Lord as if Mary was not yet a mother.[2] She calls her the “mother of my Lord” as if she already is the mother of a child, because she already is. Human mothers have human children. According to Elizabeth, inspired by the Holy Spirit, Mary is not in the process of becoming the mother of Jesus, but is the mother of Jesus. Jesus too is a human being, yet he is much younger than John. So, we can see from this text that babies in the wombs of their mothers are human beings even at different stages of development. Is the baby just conceived or six months along? In both cases it is a human being. Otherwise, the Bible couldn’t talk this way about these children. Here is what one pastor has to say, As a fetus of six months, John was an emotional being. He had the capacity to be filled with the Spirit. He was so overcome that he leapt for joy. This is a sobering revelation for anyone who countenances abortion, but especially for Christians. But there is more. Mary had already conceived. She was three or four days pregnant. Jesus was a zygote, and when Jesus, a zygote in the womb of his mother, entered the room, John the Baptist, a six-month-old fetus in Elizabeth’s womb, leapt for joy. And Elizabeth addressed Mary in the present tense as “the mother of my Lord” (v. 43).[3] Look at what we are seeing with respect to Jesus and John: two children in the wombs of their mothers. John, in leaping at the sound of Mary’s voice, is already beginning his witness to who Jesus is and his identity.[4] And Elizabeth, in calling Mary the mother of her Lord, is already offering up the worship to Jesus that he as king deserves (Chandler). We can see these two men already beginning their lives as they grow in the tummies of their mothers. Now I want to move into question 2, “does science and medicine support or undermine what the Bible as to say about life in the womb?” I think this question is important because if the Bible teaches that unborn children are human, then we should see evidence in his creation. Also, this issue is special because we don’t just have a responsibility to stop the sin of abortion in the church but to try to stop it in our society. So, we need to be able to make arguments from sources outside of the Bible for those who reject its authority (even if the Bible is the final word and sufficient!) Does science and medicine support or undermine what the Bible has to say about life in the womb? As far as I can tell, there is no scientific or medical evidence shows that there is not human life in a mother’s womb when she is pregnant. There are philosophical arguments people will use to get around this reality. However, those arguments work against the evidence we see in science and medicine. Here is what I mean: science teaches us... (1) That a fertilized egg it is a living organism. It is alive. Dr. Maureen Condic of the Utah School of Medicine in her article A Scientific View of When Life Begins. concludes, [that] human life begins at sperm-egg fusion is uncontested, objective, based on the universally accepted scientific method of distinguishing different cell types from each other and on ample scientific evidence (thousands of independent, peer-reviewed publications).[5] I wish I could get more into how scientists determine what organisms are alive, but this article helps to demonstrate at the very least, that a fertilized egg is a living organism. (2) It has its own unique, complete set of human DNA. Except for the case of identical twins, this organism will be the only one with this unique set of complete DNA. If we put these things together, we have a unique human life from the moment of conception. I fail to see how we could conclude that something that is alive with its own DNA could be anything other than a unique human life. If you are still skeptical of the above claim, it could be helpful to know that some leading abortion advocates don’t even dispute it. Ann Furedi, the chief executive at the largest independent abortion business in the UK, had this to say regarding abortion: We can accept that the embryo is a living thing in the fact that it has a beating heart, that it has its own genetic system within it. It’s clearly human in the sense that it’s not a gerbil, and we can recognize that it is human life.[6] Deep inside, people from all sides of this discussion know what is really going on and that is in a mothers womb is a human life God has created. The mental gymnastics people use to get around this is to argue that some human life is more valuable than other human life. Here is a quote from Mary Elizabeth Williams from her article on salon.com: Here's the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal. That's a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She's the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.[7] I want us to pause and to grieve and feel the evil of this logic. She says, “all life is not equal,” and by that statement she means, “not all human life is equal.” This is rebellion against God who said first of all when he created human beings “Let us make man in our image.” There is no human life that can hold more value than another when all life equally exists in the image of God. That is a terrifying and tragic train of thought to think that some human beings would take it upon themselves to decide which human beings are more worthy of life than others. This assigning different values to human life lead to the bloodiest century in world history where totalitarian regimes exterminated people by the millions using this same logic. Then, as now, the people whose lives were judged to have less value were weak, vulnerable, and unable to speak for themselves. In the case of abortion, our society has deemed that human life at its weakest, most vulnerable, most dependent stage, when it needs the most protection, has the least and we have the right to kill it. Matt Chandler made a powerful point regarding science and life in the womb in a sermon he preached in 2014.[8] When the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 and they spontaneously invented the right to have an abortion (which no where exists in the constitution), the imaging technology we have today did not exist back then. In other words, we could not see what we were doing like we can today. Sonogram technology and other technologies can show us our children in the womb are already alive. The progress of science and technology now leaves us with less excuse than ever to allow this practice to continue. As I was researching for this sermon, I came across an image that struck my heart. And while the majority of abortions do happen before this point, what struck me is that it is legal to abort a child who looks like this, and it does happen in our nation. Here is a depiction of what a child in the womb looks like at twenty weeks of development: He has already been able to bend his hand around an object and suck his thumb for ten weeks He can kick, turn over, make a fist, open his mouth and press his lips together This one is amazing: at this point in development, he can be startled by a loud external noise.[9] What we are dealing with is a little life— a little person. We must treat this life as exactly what it is— a good gift from a good heavenly father. We must do everything we can to keep him or her alive, not the opposite! And also, we must mourn with those who suffer miscarriages in our family, because they did lose a child (and keep checking in on them because their grief may last for a long time). Now let’s move onto answering our third question: “how should we as Christians respond to the issue of abortion?” Application (you) How should we as Christians respond to the issue of abortion? (1) If you are like me, you probably feel the immense weight of this and wonder, what can I do? You probably feel powerless, discouraged, and maybe some despair. While you are not in a position of political power and cannot make a rule or a law to stop this atrocity, yet you know the king who is over every other king. And he listens to your voice if you are praying in Jesus’s name. Church, may we daily lift up this crisis on our prayer life until it comes to an end. May we take hold of God’s throne and not let go until he mercifully helps our nation to protect the lives of children in the womb. I think most of us have some sort of list that we go through when we pray, and I urge every one of us to include this desperately important topic. (2) I want to mention one other important issue. I would counsel you to not use hormone-based contraceptive pills. What I am about to say is still a debated topic; however, there is research that shows that these pills can make it harder for a fertilized egg to implant, which means, that they can also lead to an accidental abortion. They are just supposed to stop ovulation which will keep an egg from being fertilized; however, if it still does nonetheless, these pills make it more difficult for the fertilized egg to implant on the uterine wall, which could lead to an abortion. (3) We also have the privilege of living in a nation where even if the political system is broken, we still have a say in whom gets to govern us. When we consider the weighty reality of killing human life in the womb, I plead with you all to refuse to vote for any candidate who is supportive of abortion. Perhaps some of you are alarmed that I made this statement because you don’t think pastors should comment on politics from the pulpit. Or you think that it is far more complicated than this and there are so many other issues to consider when voting. My point is not to over simplify a complex issue; however, one thought influences my thinking here: if the issue were slavery or lynching (if that somehow was still up for debate) every last one of us would be single issue voters like “that.” And I think after 60 million deaths, we have crossed that threshold where it is that significant.[10] There are so many other points to discuss that will have to be on the podcast like... what about the safety of the mother? what about rape and incest? what can our church do to help women in crisis who feel like they need to get an abortion? Transformation (Jesus) Now I need to address a particularly sensitive issue. In a room this size with this many people, there is almost certainly women who have had abortions for men who have pressured their partner to have an abortion. You may feel crushing guilt and sorrow as I preach this sermon and may have even felt like slipping out and leaving the room. I need to remind you that there is good news for you in Jesus Christ today. What is that good news? God does not accept anyone because they have not had an abortion. Not having an abortion is not the foundation of anyone’s acceptance before God. That’s not why the Father comes to love and adopt anyone. The Scriptures teach rather that it is the shed blood of Jesus that brings us into the acceptance and love of God. We must believe that his death is for our sin and that his blood washes even the deepest stains of sin away. No guilt or sin can withstand the power of his blood (not the sin of abortion or any other!). If you trust him to, Jesus will cleanse you of this sin and set you free from your shame and guilt. The Psalmist says, “As far as the East is from the West, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.” And if you are an unbeliever here today, you need the blood of Jesus to count for you. Please receive him as Lord and Savior and declare your belonging to him in baptism. Like I said before, not getting an abortion or doing any list of good things won’t help you be in a relationship with God. The only way to the Father is through Jesus. Imagination (we) Our community will only rightly respond to people who have had abortions if we understand the truth that Jesus alone can save. While we will have sorrow over the loss of a precious human life, we will show the same unconditional love and acceptance to a person who has had an abortion that we have received from God for our sin. This must be a safe place to confess that you have had an abortion and to be met with love and care and never with judgment and anger! While we never want this sin to happen again by anyone, we must also insist that Jesus is a refuge for all kinds of sinners who come to him, and there are none who are not welcome! Our welcome and acceptance by our community must work this same way. If people do not sense this kind of love and unconditional acceptance, they will never open up and share that they feel scared and trapped and are considering having an abortion! If we are a safe place for people to talk about their failures and temptations, people may even share information like that and give us an opportunity as a community to save a little child’s life by helping that mother bring her child into the world. If you are thinking about getting an abortion or ever thinking about it, please know that this is a safe place where you can open up and share! We are not going to condemn you but show you compassion and try to help. Glorification (Jesus) We care about abortion because we are about Jesus. Each one of these little lives are made in his image and it is an offense against him to destroy any one of them. A political agenda or ideology is not at the bottom of any of this. The Lord Jesus Christ and his immense worth and glory is why we must respond to this issue like I have proposed. And in his gospel do we have the only answer and hope for abortion. So, let’s have minds that are like Christ’s in response to this issue and remember that even if you have committed this sin, there is welcome and forgiveness for you from Jesus. [1] Bock, D. L. (1996). Luke (p. 64). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House. [2] R. Kent Hughes, Luke: That You May Know the Truth, Preaching the Word (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1998), 43–45. [3] R. Kent Hughes, Luke: That You May Know the Truth, Preaching the Word (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1998), 43–45. [4] Marshall, I. H. (1978). The Gospel of Luke: a commentary on the Greek text (p. 77). Exeter: Paternoster Press. [5] https://lozierinstitute.org/a-scientific-view-of-when-life-begins/ [6] Ann Furedi, “Abortion: A Civilised Debate,” Battle of Ideas, (London, England, November 1, 2008). [7] https://www.salon.com/2013/01/23/so_what_if_abortion_ends_life/ [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vr6g6FsnJg&t=5s. [9] https://prolifeaction.org/fact_type/life-in-the-womb/ [10] https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/

Comedian Louie Anderson says his Emmy Award-winning turn as Christine Baskets on the FX series “Baskets” is the role he was born to play. Basing on her on his own mother, Anderson opened up to SalonTV’s Mary Elizabeth Williams on “Salon Talks” about his deeply personal connection to Christine and her evolution over the show’s four seasons. “It was very emotional to shoot this character this year,” he said. “I had a lot of gut punches emotionally. A lot of tough things, where I had to ask myself, ‘Was my mom ever this happy?’” --- About “Salon Talks” Hosted by Salon journalists, “Salon Talks” episodes offer a fresh take on the long-form interview format, and a much-needed break from the partisan political talking heads that have come to dominate the genre. “Salon Talks” is a destination for information through conversation. Viewers can expect discussions with A-list actors, artists, authors, thinkers, and newsmakers as we explore the full range of the human condition. The show streams live on Facebook and Twitter and each episode is published in full on Salon.com. Watch SalonTV, streaming live daily on Salon.com, and YouTube. Subscribe to SalonTV on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/salontv Like Salon on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/salon Follow Salon on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/salon Follow Salon on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial

With his new Netflix film “Always Be My Maybe,” Randall Park has become a full-fledged rom-com leading man. But when he was starting out, the industry didn’t see him that way.  “I came from an Asian-American studies background. I wanted to be an actor because of that,” he recalled to SalonTV’s Mary Elizabeth Williams on “Salon Talks.” “I wanted to go out there and represent. I didn’t realize how little power I’d have in that at the beginning.” Five years later, Park says, he’s at a place where he can tell the stories he wants to tell in his own voice, including a longtime passion project he wrote with and co-stars in with Ali Wong, “Always Be My Maybe,” now on Netflix. --- About “Salon Talks” Hosted by Salon journalists, “Salon Talks” episodes offer a fresh take on the long-form interview format, and a much-needed break from the partisan political talking heads that have come to dominate the genre. “Salon Talks” is a destination for information through conversation. Viewers can expect discussions with A-list actors, artists, authors, thinkers, and newsmakers as we explore the full range of the human condition. The show streams live on Facebook and Twitter and each episode is published in full on Salon.com. Watch SalonTV, streaming live daily on Salon.com, and YouTube. Subscribe to SalonTV on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/salontv Like Salon on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/salon Follow Salon on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/salon Follow Salon on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial

Number one NYT bestselling author Harlan Coben has sold millions of books, been translated into 43 languages, and had his works adapted into film and television shows around the world. Yet the New Jersey native, whose newest novel is the twisty thriller "Run Away," never takes success as a sure thing, he shared on “Salon Talks.” "I still get paralyzed every day when I write," he told SalonTV’s Mary Elizabeth Williams. "I've written 31 novels; you'd think I'd be past that. I get mad at myself. I'll be writing and think, 'This book stinks.' Five minutes later, I'll think, 'This book is genius.' There's a lot of self-flagellation. That goes on every day." His advice for aspiring authors is to remember, "We all get paralyzed. You have to fight through that paralysis. Turn that voice off. Don't worry about good or bad it is yet. Anything that makes you write those pages, do it. It may be an art, but you have to treat it like a job. The plumber can't say, 'Today I'm too important to do pipes.'"  About “Salon Talks” Hosted by Salon journalists, “Salon Talks” episodes offer a fresh take on the long-form interview format, and a much-needed break from the partisan political talking heads that have come to dominate the genre. “Salon Talks” is a destination for information through conversation. Viewers can expect discussions with A-list actors, artists, authors, thinkers, and newsmakers as we explore the full range of the human condition. The show streams live on Facebook and Twitter and each episode is published in full on Salon.com. Watch SalonTV, streaming live daily on Salon.com, and YouTube. Subscribe to SalonTV on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/salontv Like Salon on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/salon Follow Salon on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/salon Follow Salon on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial

Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean leads a tour through the land of soprano, from dazzling coloratura acrobats to fearsome goddesses whose roar sets the opera house aflame. Includes musical examples featuring many favorite Seattle Opera sopranos: Cyndia Sieden, Joan Sutherland, Sarah Coburn, Sally Wolf, Dana Pundt, Jennifer Zetlan, Nuccia Focile, Angel Blue, Alexandra Deshorties, Renee Fleming, Sheri Greenawald, Carol Vaness, Lisa Daltirus, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Marcy Stonikas, Janice Baird and Irmgard Vilsmaier, and Jane Eaglen.

Through his roles in movies like "Warrior," "Exodus: Gods and Kings," and "The Gift," Joel Edgerton has cultivated an image as one of the industry's most reliable tough guys. But in real life, the director, screenwriter, and costar of "Boy Erased," has developed a different idea of what true strength looks like.  "I grew up in the eighties, when the bigger your muscles, the bigger a movie star you were," Egerton told Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams on “Salon Talks.” "One of the myths about masculinity is that you're not allowed to show your sensitivity. It's the stereotype of the silent father. As a young man I identified with that. I thought strength was silence and stoicism and only speaking when necessary, and that weakness the opposite. Weakness was being open about feelings, about having words to describe what was going on for you internally."  Now, he says, "I realized at too late an age that those definitions should be flipped. Strength should be expression, and weakness is limiting one's expression." It's that respect for the courage of open expression which drew Edgerton to taking on the film adaptation of Garrad Conley's 2016 memoir of enduring gay conversion therapy as a teenager, “Boy Erased.” Listen to this episode to learn more about Edgerton’s vision as a director on “Boy Erased” and his take why gay conversion therapy is so hard to abolish.  --- About “Salon Talks” Hosted by Salon journalists, “Salon Talks” episodes offer a fresh take on the long-form interview format, and a much-needed break from the partisan political talking heads that have come to dominate the genre. “Salon Talks” is a destination for information through conversation. Viewers can expect discussions with A-list actors, artists, authors, thinkers, and newsmakers as we explore the full range of the human condition. The show streams live on Facebook and Twitter and each episode is published in full on Salon.com. Watch SalonTV, streaming live daily on Salon.com, and YouTube. Subscribe to SalonTV on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/salontv Like Salon on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/salon Follow Salon on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/salon Follow Salon on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial

Chris Gethard is, by any metric, a success. He's had his own HBO special called "Career Suicide," he's hosted a popular TV show, and is the host of the "Beautiful/Anonymous" podcast. That's exactly why he's uniquely qualified to talk about failure.  Gethard joins Mary Elizabeth Williams on “Salon Talks,” to discuss his new book “Lose Well” and why failure is "not that scary." He recalls, "I've had a lot of things work out. I've had some successes. But I promise you that underneath of all that, the other 90 percent has been nothing but dismal failure. You get used to it. This idea that failure wrecks you is a fallacy, and it keeps us locked up. You just have to go out and learn how to do it. We've convinced ourselves it's a bogeyman. It's not. It can be an ally." --- About “Salon Talks” Hosted by Salon journalists, “Salon Talks” episodes offer a fresh take on the long-form interview format, and a much-needed break from the partisan political talking heads that have come to dominate the genre. “Salon Talks” is a destination for information through conversation. Viewers can expect discussions with A-list actors, artists, authors, thinkers, and newsmakers as we explore the full range of the human condition. The show streams live on Facebook and Twitter and each episode is published in full on Salon.com. Watch SalonTV, streaming live daily on Salon.com, and YouTube. Subscribe to SalonTV on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/salontv Like Salon on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/salon Follow Salon on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/salon Follow Salon on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial

Ian McEwan isn't afraid of the dark. In his 40-year career, the English author and screenwriter behind “Atonement," "The Comfort of Strangers,” “On Chesil Beach" and several more of the modern era's most indelible and haunting works has consistently explored the boundaries of love, sex, religion, death, law and morality. His latest offering, the film adaption of "The Children Act," is no different. McEwan joined SalonTV’s Mary Elizabeth Williams on “Salon Talks” to unpack why he’s drawn to complicated human stories that grapple with what’s legal and what’s moral. Inspired by real events, “The Children Act” stars Stanley Tucci and Emma Thompson. About “Salon Talks” Hosted by Salon journalists, “Salon Talks” episodes offer a fresh take on the long-form interview format, and a much-needed break from the partisan political talking heads that have come to dominate the genre. “Salon Talks” is a destination for information through conversation. Viewers can expect discussions with A-list actors, artists, authors, thinkers, and newsmakers as we explore the full range of the human condition. The show streams live on Facebook and Twitter and each episode is published in full on Salon.com. Watch SalonTV, streaming live daily on Salon.com and YouTube. Subscribe to SalonTV on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/salontv Like Salon on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/salon Follow Salon on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/salon Follow Salon on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/salonofficial

Although abortion has been legal in the United States since 1973, TV — both scripted and reality — all but ignored the issue for decades. Salon writer Mary Elizabeth Williams talks to sociologist Gretchen Sisson, one of the directors of the Abortion Onscreen Project, about the evolution of abortion on TV, from "Maude" to "Jane the Virgin" and "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend."

With a career in online community spanning more than 25 years, including 20+ leading influential online community The WELL and 13 as director of communities for Salon, Gail Ann Williams is a pioneer of our industry. On this episode, the inside stories and lessons that Gail shares, from The WELL, weave together to create an overall theme of how to protect, respect and inform the communities that we serve. Including: The right and wrong ways to close a community Understanding privacy and confidentiality in community spaces What happens when your community software reaches “religious significance” Big Quotes “Cliff Figallo, who hired me at The WELL, said that a community is a complex network of relationships that endure over time, and I found that really profound because that’s one of the differences to me. What makes something a community? Let’s say some people get into an elevator together. You can get really metaphorical and crazy and say this is a family that lasts for three minutes. That’s kind of nonsense. I don’t know what kind of elevator rides you usually have, but there’s a point where you need to have time and you need to have a complex relationship, and I think part of that is that there needs to be an ability for some people to go deeper and know each other much better than others. It’s really important to have sort of key people who anchor the conversation with different kinds of degrees of connection to one another, because that’s what makes the community, and that’s what makes it feel like it’s a place, like a town where some of the people have very complex close relationships and others just like kind of live there and say hi when they go by in the street.” -@wellgail “A couple years after I joined Salon, Table Talk, which was an amazing, huge forum site and free and not paying for itself, in an ad situation, was just something that was very familiar to a lot of people. One day, [I was told,] ‘Hey, I think we’re going to close Table Talk on Monday,’ and I’m like, ‘No, we don’t do this. We don’t close a community with no notice.’ [They said,] ‘It’ll be less traumatic for people. It’s kind of like pulling a bandage off.’ No, it doesn’t work that way.” -@wellgail “As consumers in online communities, we need to start asking people who run the community, when you close, how do I export my data? When you close, how do I contact all of my contacts and tell them where I want to go and find out where we’re going to be talking about where we land off your site? Where do we talk elsewhere? I’ve gone through this. I think many of us have.” -@wellgail “Maybe [efforts to save online communities] don’t matter to ownership groups, but they should. I mean, this is your legacy. These are the people who trusted you, and if they can pull it together and keep it going as a membership operation, then you as the founder or you as the current steward of that community, I think you’re kind of obligated to cheer them on and support them to the degree that you can. … It’s not mandated by capitalism. It’s got to come from a sense of actual community responsibility to other humans and actually understanding the value and importance of what we do.” -@wellgail “In the original software, [when a post was hidden on The WELL,] you would see something that said ‘censored.’ It was a little bit dramatic. That was something that we changed to say ‘hidden.’ It’s hidden. That’s the language we use. If you think it’s censorship, go ahead and bring that up, but let’s not tell everybody it’s censorship from the get-go. They might [recognize something was wrong with their post]. It might not be a fight. … Let’s be neutral, let’s not start fights we don’t have to, in the software itself.” -@wellgail “People would be very open in confiding in one another and then saying, ‘Wow, if my boss ever read this, I’d be fired.’ And you’re thinking, ‘Okay, some people here don’t like you. Your boss could pay $15 for one month, get in here, and see this.’ The people who don’t like you, if they’re really mean, they could tell your boss to sign up, and they’re still not personally releasing your material. But you’re making all these assumptions. Don’t put yourself at that much risk.” -@wellgail About Gail Ann Williams Gail Ann Williams is a collaboration and problem-solving fanatic. A professional in the online community sector since 1991, when she became the conferencing manager at The WELL, Gail set out to solve nitty-gritty puzzles of how social networking can best work in our lives, and how online community toolsets and practices can work better. Her stewardship of that legendary community space, through two decades of challenge and community drama, led to a deepening of both idealism and practical skepticism. Now she primarily consults with media, storytelling and social sites. Gail especially enjoys overall strategic planning for new ventures along with practical problem-solving for those that are choosing or evolving the most appropriate tools and cultural norms for their members. She also writes for craft beer publications and is a certified beer judge. Related Links Gail’s website The WELL, influential online community launched in 1985, which Gail led from 1991 through 2012 Salon Media Group, best known for Salon, where Gail was director of communities for 13 years, when the company owned The WELL Gail’s user page on The WELL “Terse outline” of Gail’s “On Being in the Community Business” presentation at 1994’s IEEE conference TechSoup, formerly Compumentor, who sent a volunteer to the nonprofit arts group where Gail worked to help them setup a modem, helping to facilitate her discovery of The WELL Google search for “ecology,” the first definition of which reminds Patrick of community Cliff Figallo, who hired Gail at The WELL John Coate, employee #2 at The WELL and “the first online community manager” The WELL: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community by Katie Hafner “The Epic Saga of The WELL” by Katie Hafner for Wired Bruce Katz, former owner of The WELL “Salon Magazine Buys a Virtual Community” by The Associated Press Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant, co-founders of The WELL “Users Bet $400,000 on The WELL, an Original Online Hangout” by Don Clark for The Wall Street Journal, about Salon Media Group selling The WELL to a group of community members Cindy Jeffers, former CEO of Salon Media Group, who opted to sell The WELL shortly after joining the company Pete Hanson, long time developer at The WELL, who Gail describes as one of the community’s “champions” “Au Revoir, Table Talk” by Mary Elizabeth Williams for Salon, about Salon’s closure of their Table Talk community Fotolog, a photo sharing site “It’s Time for Online Community Software to Allow Members to Download Their Content” by Patrick Community Signal episode about IMDb’s message board closure ipernity, a photo sharing site used by Gail’s mother Wikipedia page for PicoSpan, the software that powers The WELL “Don’t Piss in The WELL” by Earl Vickers, a folk song about The WELL “Online Community Building Concepts” by Gail (written in 1994) Transcript View the transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be grateful if you spread the word. Thank you for listening to Community Signal.

Parenting fails are a such a big part of this podcast, I thought it would be fun to create a countdown of the best parenting fails shared on the show. Because who doesn’t love a countdown? Now, obviously, it is really strange to say one parenting fail is better than another. That’s obviously not the case. But there have been some really entertaining stories shared on the show. Of course, like any countdown, there are probably some stories that should have made the list but didn’t. And there are probably some stories ranked too high or too low. The reality is that all of these stories are great for parents to hear, and the takeaway I hope you get from listening is that we all make mistakes, but it’s better to laugh than get stressed out to the point of crying. So this is part 1 of 3 episodes counting down the "best" parenting fails shared on the podcast. Parents in Part 1 of the countdown include: 30. Norine Dworkin-McDaniel, one of moms behind the Science of Parenthood book and website, who was interviewed in episode 9 of the podcast. 29. Karen Alpert, the New York Times bestselling author of I Heart My Little A-Holes and I Want My Epidural Back, who was interviewed in episode 31 of the podcast. 28. Rosie Pope, who starred in the Bravo Network's Reality Show Pregnant in Heels, who was interviewed in episode 30 of the podcast. 27. Mary Elizabeth Williams, author of A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science and Cancer, who was interviewed in episode 35 of the podcast. 26. Brian Gordon, creator of the Fowl Language webcomic, who was interviewed in episode 29 of the podcast. 25. Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor in chief of the Huffington Post, who was interviewed in episode 34 of the podcast. 24. Asha Dornfest, author of Parent Hacks: 134 Genius Shortcuts for Life with Kids, who was interviewed in episode 56 of the podcast. 23. Clint Edwards, author of This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, who was inteviewed in episode 10 of the podcast. 22. Amy Bellgardt, the mom who runs Mom Spark, who was interviewed in episode 57 of the podcast. 21. Mike Spohr, editor of BuzzFeed Parents, who was interviewed in episode 36 of the podcast.

This week we’re wrapping up our summer series of parenting fails. I hope it’s been helpful for you to hear other parents share their fails, not only because the stories are often entertaining, but because I think it’s helpful to hear that no parent is perfect. No matter how hard we try or how much we love our kids, parenting fails are inevitable. The best thing we can do for our kids is just say sorry and try not to make the same mistakes again. Parenting is stressful enough without beating yourself up for past mistakes. Parents featured in this episode include: Mary Elizabeth Williams from Episode 35. Mary Elizabeth is the author of A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science and Cancer. Mike Spohr from Episode 36. Mike is the editor of BuzzFeed Parents. Christopher Monks from Episode 37. Chris is the editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Jeannie Gaffigan from Episode 38. Jeannie is comedian Jim Gaffigan’s writing partner. She also happens to be his wife and co-writer on the Jim Gaffigan Show, which I highly recommend if you haven’t seen it yet. Sarah Maizes from Episode 41. Sarah is the author of Got Milf?: The Modern Mom’s Guide to Feeling Fabulous, Looking Great, and Rocking A Minivan.

Mary Elizabeth Williams was diagnosed with a rapidly fatal form of cancer while her kids were only 6 and 10 years old. In this episode, we talk about how she responded to her diagnosis and how she told her kids. We also talk about new treatments and what advice she has for parents struggling with a terminal illness. Mary Elizabeth’s story has a happy ending. She is healthy and has a new book that tells her complete story titled A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science and Cancer. But there are many parents with young children who still don’t know how their story will end. If you want to help them in some way, Mary Elizabeth suggests donating to Gilda’s Club, which provided tremendous support to her and her family. As Mary Elizabeth puts it, cancer is not a one person disease. It impacts everyone in your life.

Mary Elizabeth Williams recounts her experience as one of the first successful patients to receive immunotherapy for malignant melanoma. It was no walk in the park. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“You have stage 4 cancer,” these were words that established writer, Mary Elizabeth Williams never thought she’d hear. With slim hopes of survival, she was introduced to a breakthrough new treatment, immunotherapy. We dive into this scientific breakthrough as well as the emotional experience of cancer. It’s estimated that 1 in 3 people will experience […] The post EP 23 – Cancer: New Hope and Healing appeared first on .

Mary Elizabeth Williams talks about her experience with cancer and how to talk to your kids about cancer and other serious matters. Her new book is A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer. Jeffrey Masters interviews. Click Here to Download the Podcast on iTunes After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma—a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer—journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock. She takes a once-in-a-lifetime chance and joins a clinical trial for immunotherapy, a revolutionary drug regimen that trains the body to vanquish malignant [...] The post Mary Elizabeth Williams | A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles | Author Interview appeared first on Book Circle Online.

Mary Elizabeth Williams talks about her experience with cancer and how to talk to your kids about cancer and other serious matters. Her new book is A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer. Jeffrey Masters interviews. Click Here to Download the Podcast on iTunes After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma—a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer—journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock. She takes a once-in-a-lifetime chance and joins a clinical trial for immunotherapy, a revolutionary drug regimen that trains the body to vanquish malignant [...]