Podcasts about Plymouth Church

Sixty years with Plymouth Church

Philip dives into the work involved in planning not one, but two seasons: His 54th as Organist and Choir Master at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, and the 54th season of VocalEssence. As Philip notes, "People love challenges in choral music" and both seasons deliver. We discuss the business of being a music director in these two seasons, and the efforts required to get them ready for launch. Then we talk through details behind the six major concerts in VE's 54th year.

Episode 18 welcomes 5-time Grammy winning drummer and composer Stewart Copeland to unravel his latest composition, the oratorio Satan's Fall. In this episode, brother Chris steps in for Tim as Philip and Stewart discuss the intricacies of the source text, Milton's epic Paradise Lost. As for composing, "The most important thing in any piece of music is rhythm," says Philip. "That's it. It starts with rhythm. I always say (to a choir), 'You've got just three things to deal with... you've got rhythm, notes, and words... and you learn them in that order.'" The trio discuss the commissioning process, writing specifically for choir and Stewart's assertion that in Satan's Fall, "choir is boss." Thanks to Cody Boudrot for engineering. Photo credit: Ali Rogers/Pranalens Music in episode 18: Opening montage is a collection of VocalEssence and Plymouth Church choir moments plus Philip Brunelle on organ and conducting orchestra. The closing moment is a segment from Act I of Stewart Copeland's Satan's Fall from Milton's "Paradise Lost". The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburg, Matthew Mahaffey conducting; God (bass Hayden Keefer), Satan (bass Scott O'Neal) narrators, Raphael (tenor Nathan Granner), Raphaella (soprano Jamie Chamberlin) and the Messiah (soprano Stephanie Sue Curtice). Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisCEHVdMjk

The ideas which created the American Republic do not come down to us from John Locke or other oligarchical spokesmen of the British Empire. If you wish to understand the truth about America, study instead the sermons of John Robinson of the Plymouth Church; or the writings of Cotton Mather; or Benjamin Franklin's lifelong pursuit of scientific investigation. It is all there, plain as the nose on your face: Man is a rational, creative being. He can make discoveries. He can advance his condition. He can love his fellow men and women. He can willfully create a better future for his posterity. He can create a Republic which will embody those principles and defend them. Read along here, https://www.larouchepac.com/it_s_time_to_learn_real_american_economics_part_6

The pandemic has altered church life in ways we are still discerning. For Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York, the disruption dissolved lines between home life and church life, and it pushed congregational members to explore creative callings in new, innovative ways. In this episode, Journalist Eliza Gray and Pastor Brett Younger discuss the way COVID shifted their engagement and ministry in church community. Plymouth Church is one of thirteen congregations taking part in Collegeville Institute's Communities of Calling Initiative. The Communities of Calling Initiative is a five-year program that grants congregations funds to design a new project or enhance existing ministries that help Christians discover and deepen their sense of God's calling in their lives

When have you felt most alive before God? In this episode, Carol Davis Younger shares her vocational story of becoming a writer, which has deepened her spiritual journey and sense of God's presence. Through creating curriculum and hosting church writing groups centered on Scripture, she invites others in her congregation at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, NY to use writing as a tool of discernment and as a form a prayer.

A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, sketches of life and character, humorous stories, touching home scenes, and tales of tender pathos, drawn from the bright and shady sides of the great under world of New York. By Mrs. Helen Campbell, City Missionary and Philanthropist; Col. Thomas W. Knox, Author and Journalist; and Supt. Thomas Byrnes, Chief of NY Police and Detectives. With highly interesting descriptions of little known phases of New York life; and an account of Detective Byrnes' thirty years' experiences and reminiscences written by himself from his private diary. With an introduction by Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., Pastor of Plymouth Church. This volume aims to give scrupulously exact descriptions of life and scenes in the great metropolis under three different aspects: 1st, "As Seen by a Woman;" 2d, "As Seen by a Journalist;" 3d, "As Seen and Known by a Chief of the New York Detective Bureau." Published in 1897. The source text contains over 250 sketches and illustrations, which the listener is encouraged to enjoy along with the audio. Genre(s): Social Science (Culture & Anthropology), True Crime, Christianity - Other --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/3daudiobooks0/support

THE HOUSING CRISIS, ANTI-DEMOCRACY ASSAULT IN GA, DREAM DRUMMING & MARCH, AN END TO AZ INSANITY? Our very packed GREEP Zoom #59 opens with a deep, difficult descent into the terrible crisis of homelessness.  As the Democrats fail to stem the eviction crisis, we look toward 3 million Americans shelterless and on the streets. We hear from RAY MCCLENDON of the Atlanta NAACP about the terrifying fascist assault of the gerrymandered Georgia legislature against the state's democratic election apparatus. MAUREEN TAYLOR tells us of the crisis in Michigan's voting procedures and the mass marches against it. CHARLES MORELAND lays out the major progress being made toward the upcoming August 27-30 DREAM events for DC Statehood, a Green Earth & Justice. JOEL SEGAL describes the upcoming August 30 Summit/Roundtable for voting rights & justice at the Plymouth Church in DC.  Joel also lays out plans for SMART ALEC, the exciting new coalition for drafting progressive legislation. CHASE IRON EYES confirms there will be a Drum Circle in Lafayette Park the morning of August 30, followed by the delivery of a solar panel and plan for a Clean/Green White House. We end with an amazing report from Arizona and RAY LUTZ on how he, JOHN BRAKEY & STEVE ROSENFELD turned a complete fiasco into an important democracy learning event for the whole nation. There is much more in this action-packed session on grassroots democracy.  Don't miss it!  

Lynnae Marty Hentzen and Olivia Hicks are joined by Amy Elbert, leader of Plymouth Church's Creation Care and Justice Coalition, and Lois Schultz, a key member of Plymouth's Creation Care and Justice Coalition and the facilitator of the Interfaith Green Coalition.

866-988-8311 info@republickeeper.com Why Christian’s can’t vote Democrat – Reason #2 – It makes you disloyal to Jesus What is a Christian https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/religious-liberals-want-to-change-what-it-means-to-be-a-christian-voter “There’s a saying: ‘Religion is always political but never partisan,’” said Nikira Hernandez-Evans, the pastor at Plymouth Church. Hernandez-Evans said she’s comfortable preaching about specific issues, but isn’t planning on discussing 2020 politics with her congregants. As the pastor of a “progressive Christian congregation,” she added, “it is not ever my job to tell people what to believe.” During the 2016 Republican primaries, Pope Francis said Trump’s anti-immigrant worldview made him “not a Christian.” “When people say ‘Christian voters’ they mean white people and they mean conservatives” who likely oppose abortion and gay marriage, said Natalie Harwood, a member of the First Unitarian Church of Des Moines. Harwood works at a Planned Parenthood clinic and is a diehard supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders. She’s also a person of faith. Given her values, Harwood said, “‘Christian voters’ is a very alienating term. I fall into those categories. But I don’t feel like I’m a part of that, even though I’m Christian.” In the 2016 general election, 63 percent of Iowa voters who supported Hillary Clinton were Protestant or Catholic. She won 33 percent of the vote among Iowans who said they attend religious services one or more times a week. “I don’t care what a candidate’s faith is,” said Nathan Kirstein, who works at an organization that advocates for people with disabilities. The more important question for him, Kirstein said, was whether a candidate’s platform matched up with his own faith principles of fairness and compassion. “Whether you’re Muslim, Hindu, atheist, it doesn’t matter. What are your values?” “Values and character and moral compass are important to me, and rise above electability,” said Deborah Svec-Carstens, a state government lawyer who is pursuing a master’s degree at the Iowa School of Theology. The group’s pastor agreed. “My faith informs me,” Naomi Kirstein said. A candidate “doesn’t have to say ‘I’m Christian’ for me to vote for them. But I want to hear how their issues — because of my faith — connect to the poor, the oppressed, taking care of the earth.” “When I look at the Republican Party, and what Jesus says in the Bible, I see no similarity at all,” Heideman said. Scheffler felt the same way about Democrats. “As a bible-bleeding evangelical, I believe the scriptures are not open to interpretation,” Scheffler said. Progressive Christians “don’t preach the gospel. They preach a social doctrine of whatever fits their personal agenda.” Christians on the left view society’s ills through a “collectivist” lens, she said, while those on the right typically see the same problems in individualistic terms. Of course, liberals have argued for decades that the conservative position ignores systemic racism and other forms of structural inequality. What is a loyal democrat? Christian Deconstructionists Ten commandments monuments etc. Replacement religion is ready to go - Scientism Humanism Enviromentalism How long before Christmas and Easter are removed from the calendar? Our schools have become places open to anything except traditional Christianity Christians are pressured not to reveal their faith or risk ridicule. Anti- Marriage The Democrat Party, as you know, also considers the deconstruction of traditional marriage to be one of its crowning achievements. Meanwhile, Jesus explicitly defined marriage as a covenant between a man and a woman (Matthew 19:5), and Scripture more than once condemns homosexual relationships as "degrading," "unrighteous," and "depraved" (1 Corinthians 6:9, Romans 1:26). Granted, the Bible condemns all forms of fornication -- homosexual or otherwise -- and many (all?) Christians of every political persuasion have struggled to obey these difficult commandments. But can we, as Christians, fundamentally deny God's authority in this area? It is one thing to stumble, but can we say, "Man can do what he pleases in the realm of sexuality and it is not a sin because God was mistaken"? Yes, we can certainly say that, but can we say it as Christians? This is what the Democrat Party stands for now. It asserts the absolute supremacy of the human will. It strives for a society where the whims of the individual not only override every previously existing law, institution, and tradition, but are celebrated as sacrosanct. Say what you want about that, but you cannot say that it is Christian. Perhaps nothing better encapsulates the new Democratic creed than its most recent cause du jour, transgenderism. Although the Bible tells us that we were made male and female (Genesis 5:2), the Democrat Party declares that a man exercises total agency over his own biology, and that citizens should be forced by law to recognize and affirm his self-centered delusions.

In honor of Juneteenth 2020, the anniversary of the day in 1865 when the news was finally delivered to Galveston, Texas that slavery in the United States had been abolished, we are returning to an episode from earlier in our season. "Free Brooklyn" tells two important stories about the struggle for freedom: a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 and the story of Weeksville, Brooklyn's historically Black neighborhood.

This season on Alameda Family Talk, Senior Minister Rusty Tugman is talking with Alameda members about how they’re adjusting to life during this COVID-19 pandemic. This week, Rusty talks with Matthew Dowling, minister at Plymouth Church of Christ in Michigan, and a former member at Alameda. Rusty and Matthew talk about COVID-19 and discuss topics, such as why does God allow something like this … Continue reading AFT – Season 4 – Episode 2: Matthew Dowling

Today we are speaking with Erica Cooper. She is a Christian minister with a background in grief support in hospice settings. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband Chris and daughter Rosie, and is serving as Assistant Minister at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights. Resource links:Griefshare.orgdougy.orgcompassionatefriends.orgstephenministries.orgFor more information and links visit www.yourenotalonepodcast.com.Music by Ryan Doss.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes have been on the rise in New York City. In fact, the NYPD reports that they're the most common type of hate crime in the Big Apple.  On this week's Cityscape, two faith leaders share their thoughts on the rise of anti-Semitism in New York City, as well as the role they think progressive communities of faith should play in combatting hate.  Our guests are:  Reverend Brett Younger, Senior Minister at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights Serge Lippe, Senior Rabbi at Brooklyn Heights Synagogue

Anti-Semitic hate crimes have been on the rise in New York City. In fact, the NYPD reports that they're the most common type of hate crime in the Big Apple.  On this week's Cityscape, two faith leaders share their thoughts on the rise of anti-Semitism in New York City, as well as the role they think progressive communities of faith should play in combatting hate.  Our guests are:  Reverend Brett Younger, Senior Minister at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights Serge Lippe, Senior Rabbi at Brooklyn Heights Synagogue

Four hundred years later, this country has yet to reckon with the legacy of slavery. And that is no less true for Brooklyn. This episode, we’re taking a cue from The 1619 Project and telling important stories about the struggle for freedom, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Heights’s Weeksville as a site of resistance and power before the Civil War.

This week's band: Quiana G, Nate B, Triip Coolin, Keegan Jhasai, Grady, Hanan, Deb, Rell Be Free, @justcallmenas, Noah, Sam, Autumn Featured Guest interview: Grady Sample: Dr. Rev. Kelle Brown, lead pastor, Plymouth Church 10/29/2019 recorded by Hanan @onedesertflower

As New York City has seen a rise in bias incidents and vandalism, Reverend Brett Younger, Senior Minister at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, and Serge Lippe, Senior Rabbi at Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, visit to talk about anti-Semitism, the role that progressive communities of faith -- like their own -- have in countering hate, and their upcoming "sermon swap" on July 19 and 21. For more, visit BHSBrooklyn.org and PlymouthChurch.org

As New York City has seen a rise in bias incidents and vandalism, Reverend Brett Younger, Senior Minister at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, and Serge Lippe, Senior Rabbi at Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, visit to talk about anti-Semitism, the role that progressive communities of faith -- like their own -- have in countering hate, and their upcoming "sermon swap" on July 19 and 21. For more, visit BHSBrooklyn.org and PlymouthChurch.org

As New York City has seen a rise in bias incidents and vandalism, Reverend Brett Younger, Senior Minister at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, and Serge Lippe, Senior Rabbi at Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, visit to talk about anti-Semitism, the role that progressive communities of faith -- like their own -- have in countering hate, and their upcoming "sermon swap" on July 19 and 21. For more, visit BHSBrooklyn.org and PlymouthChurch.org

Rev. Brett Younger, Senior Minster of PlymouthChurch.org. Speaking on social issues and the services of the church year around and during this holiday season.

For thousands of African-American enslaved people -- escaping the bonds of slavery in the South -- the journey to freedom wound its way through New York via the Underground Railroad.  The Underground Railroad was a loose, clandestine network of homes, businesses and churches, operated by freed black people and white abolitionists who put it upon themselves -- often at great risk -- to hide fugitives on the run. New York and Brooklyn were vital hubs in this network but these cities were hardly safe havens. The streets swarmed with bounty hunters, and a growing number of New Yorkers, enriched by Southern businesses, were sympathetic to the institution of slavery. Not even freed black New Yorkers were safe from kidnapping and racist anti-abolitionist mobs. In this podcast we present some of the stops in New York along the Underground Railroad -- from offices off Newspaper Row to the basement of New York's first African-American owned bookstore. You'll be familiar with some of this story's leading figures like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and Henry Ward Beecher. But many of these courageous tales come from people who you may not know -- the indefatigable Louis Napoleon, the resolute Sydney Howard Gay, the defiant David Ruggles and James Hamlet, the first victim of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. PLUS: A trip to Brooklyn Heights and the site of New York's most famous Underground Railroad site -- Plymouth Church. Support the show.

To mark Human Trafficking Awareness Month in January, Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights hosts a public awareness event Jan. 28th from 12:30-3:30pm, with speakers from the NYPD, a documentary filmmaker who's studied trafficking in Brooklyn, and a trafficking survivor. Beth Fleisher, chair of the Anti-Trafficking Ministry at Plymouth Church tells us more about trafficking--human slavery--here in the city. Plymouthchurch.org

To mark Human Trafficking Awareness Month in January, Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights hosts a public awareness event Jan. 28th from 12:30-3:30pm, with speakers from the NYPD, a documentary filmmaker who's studied trafficking in Brooklyn, and a trafficking survivor. Beth Fleisher, chair of the Anti-Trafficking Ministry at Plymouth Church tells us more about trafficking--human slavery--here in the city. Plymouthchurch.org

To mark Human Trafficking Awareness Month in January, Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights hosts a public awareness event Jan. 28th from 12:30-3:30pm, with speakers from the NYPD, a documentary filmmaker who's studied trafficking in Brooklyn, and a trafficking survivor. Beth Fleisher, chair of the Anti-Trafficking Ministry at Plymouth Church tells us more about trafficking--human slavery--here in the city. Plymouthchurch.org

Rev. Joe preaches on Pentecost on the "Spirit-led Church" that is guided by faith in Christ and the Holy Spirit, not tradition, dogma or legalistic observances. The reading is Acts 2.1-13, and as is the custom at Plymouth Church, Pentecost has a "Celebration of the Tongues" where lay people read verses of the scriptures in many languages. You will hear Arabic, Hungarian, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, Latin, German, and Italian.

Graduating senior Ben Lowry reflects on his favorite scriptures and his experience of growing up in Plymouth Church. Delivered April 30, 2017.

Episode 8 is focused on the business of holiday music specifically, the logistics and work that goes on behind the scenes by a music director to make Christmas and holiday performances what they are. It was recorded in Philip’s office on December 8, 2016. During the episode, Philip talks about selecting and programming music at Plymouth Church and VocalEssence for the holidays, including his sources of programming inspiration. He talks about how to keep programing fresh, and how to learn from your mistakes. He talks about the importance of organizing music selections in the most effective order, focusing on the audience’s point of view, first and foremost. He winds up discussing 16 years worth of conducting the Minnesota Dance Theater’s production of The Nutcracker. We hope you enjoy it!

Rev. Joe preaches on hospitality as a spiritual practice, the first in a series, and on welcoming and including those on the margins, including the LGBTQ community. Preached on the morning that Plymouth Church adopted its Open and Affirming covenant, declaring itself publicly and explicitly as an inclusive church.

Seminarian Diane Seaborn preaches her farewell sermon on Pentecost and Acts 2:1-4, 1 Corinthians 12:1-13. Each person has spiritual gifts for the common good. Delivered May 15, 2016 at Plymouth Church of Belmont.

Three graduating seniors -- Lowell Haska, Ryan Keeth, and Sarah Paolillo -- share testimony for Youth Sunday at Plymouth Church on May 8 (Mother's Day).

We have a very special guest on a very important topic. Historic Brooklyn Church Famous For 19th Century Anti-Slave Ministry Sponsors A Free Event to End Trafficking Plymouth Church Raises Awareness, Takes Action Against Modern-Day SlaveryThe Power of Pipeman is a segment of The Adventures of Pipeman (#pipemanradio) broadcast live on W4CY Radio – (www.w4cy.com), W4VET Radio, and K4HD Radio - Hollywood Talk Radio (www.k4hd.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

Plymouth Church open sings Handel's Messiah Hallelujah chorus as the postlude on Christmas Eve 2015.

The Underground Railroad was an organization of safe houses, churches, schools, and brave people willing to break the law to help slaves escape to safety.  New York City was the site of several important locations, including Plymouth Church, "the Grand Central Station" of the Underground Railroad.  Kate and Kathleen discuss the political mood in NYC at the time and the major "stations" and "conductors" along the dangerous trek to freedom. Two different groups lead walking tours of major Underground Railroad sites: Inside Out Tours leads The Underground Railroad Tour and Viator leads The New York City Slavery and Underground Railroad Tour. John Strasbourg's 2007 New York Times article On the Trail of Brooklyn’s Underground Railroad was extremely helpful with research for this episode.

We've never done such a saucy show -- full of sex, lies, and petticoats. Meet Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn Heights' most notorious resident, and find out about the fascinating and provocative history of the church that turned him into a national celebrity. www.boweryboyspodcast.com

We've never done such a saucy show -- full of sex, lies, and petticoats. Meet Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn Heights' most notorious resident, and find out about the fascinating and provocative history of the church that turned him into a national celebrity. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show.