Podcast appearances and mentions of scott russell sanders

Scott Russell Sanders is a Cambridge-educated novelist, essayist, conservationist, and a distinguished professor of English, emeritus, at Indiana University. He wrote and taught for decades about nature and place, family and community, and the concerns of social justice and ecology, woven together with a spirituality that is rooted in awe and wonder. This conversation, from our archives, explores the joys and disciplines of spiritual imagination, writing, and a well-lived life, in communion with others and within our one shared world. RESOURCES: Earth & Spirit Center website: www.earthandspiritcenter.org Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Scott's website: https://scottrussellsanders.com/ Some of Scott's books: Small Marvels: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/small_marvels.html The Way of Imagination: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/way_of_imagination.html The Engineer of Beasts: A Novel: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/engineer_of_beasts.html A Conservationist Manifesto: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/conservationist_manifesto.html A Private History of Awe: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/private_history_of_awe.html Hunting for Hope: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/hunting_for_hope.html Writing from the Center: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/writing_from_the_center.html

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In this podcast, Carrie and Parker talk with author Scott Russell Sanders about his new book Small Marvels. Scott's work often explores the spirit of place, our relationship with the natural world, and creating communities of care and generosity rather a culture of fear and division. In this episode we talk about what inspired the stories in this lovely work, and share thoughts about the power of story and creativity. I hope you'll join us for this heart-opening conversation.

Sarah speaks with Scott Russell Sanders about his book, Small Marvels: "In Limestone, Indiana, a city tucked away among forested hills, peculiar things happen, often in the vicinity of a jack-of-all-trades named Gordon Mills. Centaurs and nymphs shelter in a local cave, alligators lurk in the sewers, warm snow falls on the Fourth of July, cornstalks rise higher than chimneys, and the northern lights shine down on the municipal dump. Gordon takes such events in stride and deals with them as part of his work on the city maintenance crew. He earns just enough to support a boisterous family, which includes his formidable wife Mabel, their four children, Mabel's parents, and his widowed mother―nine souls packed into an old house that falls apart as fast as Gordon can fix it. Part folktale, part tall tale, part comic romance, Small Marvels revels in the wonders of everyday life. So, welcome to Limestone, Indiana. You won't find it on a map, but you may remember visiting the place in dreams, the rare, blissful ones in which puzzles are solved, kids flourish, hard work pays off, and love endures." If you enjoyed this episode, follow and subscribe to the show: you can find us on iTunes or on any app that carries podcasts as well as on YouTube. Please remember to subscribe and give us a nice review. This way you will always be among the first to get the latest GSMC Book Review Podcasts. We would like to thank our Sponsor: GSMC Podcast Network Advertise with US: https://gsmcpodcast.com/advertise-with-us Website: https://gsmcpodcast.com/gsmc-book-review-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gsmc-book-review-podcast/id1123769087 GSMC YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-EKO3toL1A Twitter: https://twitter.com/GSMC_BookReview Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GSMCBookReview/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gsmcbookreview Disclaimer: The views expressed on the GSMC Book Review Podcast are for entertainment purposes only. Reproduction, copying, or redistribution of The GSMC Book Review Podcast without the express written consent of Golden State Media Concepts LLC is prohibited.

Author of more than 20 books of fiction, essays, and personal narratives, Scott Russell Sanders visits with us to discuss his book, Small Marvels: Stories. The book contains a series of short stories about a fictional family, the Mills family, who lives in a fictitious town in southern Indiana. “All of the stories in the Read More

Scott Russell Sanders is a Cambridge-educated novelist, essayist, conservationist, and a distinguished professor of English, emeritus, at Indiana University. He has written and taught for decades about nature and place, family and community, and the concerns of social justice and ecology, woven together with a spirituality that is rooted in awe and wonder. This conversation explores the joys and disciplines of spiritual imagination, writing, and a well-lived life, in communion with others and within our one shared world. RESOURCES: Earth & Spirit Center website: www.earthandspiritcenter.org Scott's website: https://scottrussellsanders.com/ Some of Scott's books: Small Marvels (forthcoming): https://iupress.org/9780253061997/small-marvels/ The Way of Imagination: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/way_of_imagination.html The Engineer of Beasts: A Novel: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/engineer_of_beasts.html A Conservationist Manifesto: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/conservationist_manifesto.html A Private History of Awe: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/private_history_of_awe.html Hunting for Hope: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/hunting_for_hope.html Writing from the Center: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/writing_from_the_center.html

  Scott Russell Sanders is the author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Hunting for Hope and A Conservationist Manifesto. His most recent books are Earth Works: Selected Essays (2012) and Divine Animal: A Novel (2014). A collection of his eco-science fiction stories entitled Dancing in Dreamtime will be published this fall, and a new edition of his documentary narrative, Stone Country, co-authored with photographer Jeffrey Wolin, will appear in 2017. Among his honors are the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award, the Mark Twain Award, the Cecil Woods Award for Nonfiction, the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University. He and his wife, Ruth, a biochemist, have reared two children in their hometown of Bloomington, in the hardwood hill country of Indiana's White River Valley. "Reading Merton in the Rain" was presented in June of 2017 at St. Bonaventure University for the 15th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society.

Connect with Scott Russel Sanders:  Website: https://www.scottrussellsanders.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-russell-sanders-9616069/ Connect With Stuart Robbins: LinkedIN:https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartrobbins/ Connect With John Philpin: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnphilpin/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jgphilpinWebsite: https://john.philpin.com/ People First:Blog: https://peoplefirst.vision/Newsletter: https://my.peoplefirst.news/Book: https://peoplefirst.pub/People First Network: https://my.peoplefirst.network/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebusequatioFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebusequation/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peoplef1rst 

Scott Russell Sanders defines himself as an "Earth Writer". He has a great passion for the earth and the land - which is perhaps due to the circumstance that his father comes from a family of cotton farmers. He spent his school and university years in Ohio, where he earned his PhD in English. His work as Distinguished Professor in English brought him to Bloomington, Indiana, where he still lives with his family. He has received numerous awards for his literary achievements.

Scott Russell Sanders is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Hunting for Hope, A Conservationist Manifesto, and A Private History of Awe. His recent books include Earth Works: Selected Essays and Divine Animal: A Novel. In August 2020, Counterpoint Press published his new collection of essays, The Way of Imagination, a reflection on healing and renewal in a time of social and environmental upheaval. He is a Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Connect with Scott Russell Sanders: https://www.scottrussellsanders.com/ The Way of Imagination: Essays Connect with Nick Holderbaum: Personal Health Coaching: https://www.primalosophy.com/ https://www.primalosophy.com/unfuckedfirefighter Nick Holderbaum's Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods (T): @primalosophy (IG): @primalosophy Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-primalosophy-podcast/id1462578947 Spotify YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A The Unfucked Firefighter Challenge

In a special episode from the REGENERATE series, Andrew Keen talks to Scott Russell Sanders about his new essay collection, The Way of Imagination. SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS has won more than a dozen major honors, including the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award twice, the Lannan Literary Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His more than twenty books include novels, stories, and essays. He is a distinguished professor emeritus of English at Indiana University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He and his wife make their home in the hardwood hill country of southern Indiana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week I spent a few days with Bloomington’s Scott Russell Sanders, a well-known writer of novels, short stories, children’s books, and essays. His work is generally described as “nature writing” though as we’ll hear, Sanders does not accept this, insisting he’s an “earth” writer. To clarify, I didn’t actually spend time with Sanders – …

Rolling Stone magazine calls Krista Detor’s soul-nourishing music "A small miracle.” A singer/song-writer, her solo albums have reached national and international prominence on the Euro-Americana and Folk and Independent Music charts. She was one of the few artists to perform in the Emmy nominated TV concert Wilderness Plots for PBS where she wrote and sang songs inspired by the book Wilderness Plots by American College of Arts & Letters inductee Scott Russell Sanders. Krista has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe. She has been commissioned to write musical theater and choir pieces around the world from the Indiana Arts Commission to the U.S. Department of State in New Delhi. Krista and her partner, David Weber created the non-profit theater residency The Hundredth Hill Artist Residency in Bloomington, Indiana. From August to October The Hundredth Hill hosted an emerging theater residency, housed New York University graduates who created two new theater pieces, which are being safely staged outside on the majestic property. For more information visit https://www.thehundredthhill.org. Produced in part by the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this bonus episode, Janet McCabe talks with Scott Russell Sanders, who Kathleen Dean Moore described as "an honest man in a time of lies, a wise man in a time of foolishness, a healer in a time of wounds, and a beautiful writer in a time of ugly rants." He taught English at Indiana University and is the celebrated author of more than 20 books including a collection of essays called The Way of Imagination. We talk with him about that most difficult subject of solving our environmental challenges, about his most recent book, and about the wisdom he's accumulated over the years. If you want to reach out with feedback on an episode or with an idea or a pitch, you can send an email to itcpod@indiana.edu. You can also follow us on social media. Our handle is @thisclimatepod. And last but not least, you can leave us a review! It not only helps us, but it helps other listeners find us, and everybody appreciates that.

Carrie Newcomer is an American performer, singer, songwriter, recording artist, author and educator. The Boston Globe described her as a “prairie mystic” and Rolling Stone wrote that she is one who “asks all the right questions.” According to a 2014 PBS “Religion and Ethics” interview, Newcomer is a “conversational, introspective” songwriter who “celebrates and savors the ordinary sacred moments of life and champions interfaith dialogue and progressive spiritualty.” Krista Tippett notes that Carrie is “best known for her story-songs that get at the raw and redemptive edges of human reality.” Newcomer is a committed Quaker and connects her faith, her sense of social justice, and her songwriting. “My songwriting has always had a spiritual current to it. There’s a spiritual current in my life, so there is in my work. Otherwise I’d be censoring something important.”  She has performed around the world for humanitarian efforts and carved out a niche as a folksinger who is also an international emissary for peace and tireless advocate for living a more contemplative life. “I would have to say that my most profound and consistent spiritual practice is songwriting—that idea of sacramental living, of seeing the world as sacrament, seeing life as a sacrament of compassion and forgiveness,” she says. Newcomer has produced 18 solo CDs, eight collaborative CDs, three DVD’s, two LP’s with Stone Soup, and has received numerous awards for her music and related charitable activities. Her most recent album is 2019 The Point of Arrival. She has released two books of poetry & essays, A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays and The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems, Essays & Lyric. Her song “I Should’ve Known Better” appeared on Nickel Creek’s Grammy winning gold album “This Side”, and she earned an Emmy for the PBS special “An Evening with Carrie Newcomer.” Newcomer says one of her greatest achievements is writing a song that has become an anthem for social justice activists. She wrote “Room at the Table” after listening to an interview about the importance of folk music to the American civil rights movement. “So, it’s done in call and response: ‘Let our hearts not be hardened to those living on the margin. There is room at the table for everyone.’” She cites Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Bob Dylan, “people creating music and trying to tell story in a poetic way” as influences on her songwriting style. The themes are deep: “There aren’t a lot of black-and-white answers, but… there’s a lot of good questions. I think folks are ready for conversations about questions without being told a pat answer.” She describes her work as “an art form that’s an authentic spiritual relationship that’s pressing in.” She says she has “spent a lifetime trying to describe in language those things we experience that have no words. You do that as a songwriter…Talking about that experience—what is it at the heart of things, right at the center of things. And what is this journey of trying to put into language these things we know, but we have no language for.” Many of the themes in Newcomer’s work come from her friendships and collaborations with activists, authors and religious figures like Parker J. Palmer, Jim Wallis, Scott Russell Sanders and Barbara Kingsolver. She also credits theologians, religious leaders and famous authors as influences. She has done numerous collaborations with authors, academics, philosophers and musicians, including Alison Krauss, Jill Bolte Taylor, Philip Gulley, Rabbi Sandy Sasso. Newcomer explains, “There is simplicity when you don’t know what else to do and then there is simplicity when you can play all sorts of notes and say all sorts of things but you don’t. It’s elegant, myself and all the musicians, it’s a very ego-less kind of playing.” Newcomer has had an ongoing, long-term collaboration with Parker J. Palmer, with whom she has co-written several songs and performed a spoken word/music in live performance, including Healing the Heart of Democracy: A Gathering of Spirits for the Common Good and What We Need is Here: Hope, Hard Times, and Human Possibility. Newcomer and Palmer also are actively collaborating on The Growing Edge, a website, podcast, and retreat. Three of Newcomer’s songs are included in Palmer’s newest book. Newcomer has toured the United States, Europe, Africa and India including performances with Alison Krauss, Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter David Wilcox in shows based on spiritual story. She gives a percentage of her album sales to charitable organizations including the Interfaith Hunger Initiative, American Friends Service Committee, America's Second Harvest, The Center for Courage and Renewal, and Literacy Volunteers of America. “Every album tour I try to partner with a particular social service or justice organization, and I try to choose something that kind of goes along with the themes of that particular album.” In 2009 and 2011 Newcomer traveled to India as a cultural ambassador, including musical performances organized by the U.S. State Department and worked with students of the American Embassy School in New Delhi. In 2011, she released the album, Everything is Everywhere, which featured Amjad Ali Khan and his sons, Amaan and Ayaan on traditional Indian instruments. In 2012, Newcomer made a similar trip to Kenya and performed at various locations in rural Chulaimbo, Kenya at the AMPATH HIV center in Eldoret. She says if she’s learned anything on her goodwill tours, it is that kindness will save the world. Not necessarily grand gestures, but simple small acts of compassion that she says are like the country cousin who sings in the kitchen and does the dishes before she’s even asked. Newcomer also speaks and teaches about creativity, vocation, activism, and spirituality at colleges, workshops, conventions, and retreats. She often explores the connection between creativity and the spiritual life. Newcomer’s first theatrical production, Betty’s Diner: The Musical, was performed at a sold out run at Purdue University in 2015 and is now available to interested theaters, universities, and spiritual communities. Newcomer is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the 2019 Shalem Institute’s Contemplative Voices Award. In 2016, Newcomer presented the Goshen College commencement address and was awarded an honorary degree in Music for Social Change. In 2010, Rich Warren, host of the Midnight Special radio program, selected Carrie Newcomer as one of the 50 most significant singer-songwriters of folk music for the last 50 years. Warren also selected her Geography of Light as one of his favorite CDs for 2008. Newcomer was born in Dowagiac, Michigan on May 25, 1958 to James B. Newcomer and Donna Baldoni Newcomer. Her mother was raised Catholic, a first generation American from an Italian family and her father was raised Methodist with a background as Mennonite and Amish. Newcomer grew up Methodist, but her fury with the traditional church’s treatment of women led her to find spiritual community with the Quakers. She began writing songs as a teenager and performing in restaurants, coffeehouses and at benefits and festivals. She began her university studies at Ball State University and then Goshen College. Newcomer spent five months teaching art in an elementary school in San Isidro, Costa Rica. In Costa Rica, she encountered the silent- unprogrammed Quakers in Monteverde. “It felt like home,” she says. She completed her studies at Purdue University and received a B.A. in visual art and education. Newcomer is married to Robert Shannon Meitus, an entertainment and intellectual property lawyer. She has one daughter, Amelia Newcomer Aldred. Carrie lives in the woods of southern Indiana with her family. Join us in conversation with this gifted artist and soulful performer!

In this sermon we explore the theme of Epiphany, the disclosure of something previously unknown. We look at a story by Scott Russell Sanders about trying to see a comet in the night sky, the story of creation and how the Spirit broods like a hen over creation, how everything is charged with grandeur of God (thank you Mr. Hopkins), a story by Flannery O’Connor about a racist bigot who sees the light, and what it all has to do with Jesus’ baptism.  

What is the relationship between silence and music? This week's guest, acclaimed folk musician and educator Carrie Newcomer, helps us to explore this provocative question. "To do music you have to be comfortable with silence... a song without the pauses is just cacophony. You have to be able to breathe, and take a breath. Juxtaposition: the sound, and the moments of pause." — Carrie Newcomer Carrie Newcomer's CDs include The Point of Arrival, The Beautiful Not Yet and Kindred Spirits. She has been described as a “prairie mystic” by the Boston Globe and one who “asks all the right questions” by Rolling Stone. She regularly works with Parker J. Palmer in live programs, including Healing the Heart of Democracy: A Gathering of Spirits for the Common Good and What We Need is Here: Hope, Hard Times, and Human Possibility. Newcomer and Palmer also are actively collaborating on The Growing Edge, a website, podcast, and retreat. Three of Newcomer’s songs are included in Palmer’s most recent book, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old. Other special collaborations include presentations with neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor, author Rabbi Sandy Sasso, and environmental author Scott Russell Sanders. "I've always been a seeker.... I was the little kid who asked the questions you weren't supposed to ask in Sunday School." — Carrie Newcomer Carrie lives in the woods of southern Indiana with her husband and two shaggy dogs. Find her online at www.carrienewcomer.com. Visit The Growing Edge at www.newcomerpalmer.com. This is part one of a two-part interview. To listen to part two, click here. "What I discovered is that you never see the world or anyone or anything the same once you've blessed it. Once you've looked at it that way, it's hard to look at it as anything else anymore." — Carrie Newcomer Some of the resources and authors we mention in this episode: Carrie Newcomer, The Point of Arrival Carrie Newcomer, The Beautiful Not Yet (CD) Carrie Newcomer, The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems, Essays and Lyrics Carrie Newcomer, Kindred Spirits Carrie Newcomer, Everything is Everywhere Carrie Newcomer, A Permeable Life (CD) Carrie Newcomer, A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays Carrie Newcomer, The Gathering of Spirits Parker J. Palmer, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old Marilynne Robinson, Gilead Beyoncé, Beyoncé Bill Harley, First Bird Call Mary Oliver, American Primitive: Poems Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing The song "Holy as a Day is Spent" is from the album The Gathering of Spirits. The song "The Beautiful Not Yet" is the title song of the album The Beautiful Not Yet. The song "Learning to Sit Without Knowing" is on the album The Point of Arrival. "I live in southern Indiana; something really good happened to my writing when I gave myself permission to sound like a Hoosier! What I mean by that is that I gave myself permission to sound like the person I am. I'm so midwestern — I am the lady that brings the casserole when someone's sick, you know, and I'm just really comfortable with that... my truest voice, my most powerful voice would always be my most authentic voice, my most connected voice." — Carrie Newcomer Episode 64: Silence, Song, Blessing and Waiting: A Conversation with Carrie Newcomer (Part One) Hosted by: Cassidy Hall With: Carl McColman, Kevin Johnson Guest: Carrie Newcomer Date Recorded: May 9, 2019

What is the relationship between silence and music? This week's guest, acclaimed folk musician and educator Carrie Newcomer, helps us to explore this provocative question. "To do music you have to be comfortable with silence... a song without the pauses is just cacophony. You have to be able to breathe, and take a breath. Juxtaposition: the sound, and the moments of pause." — Carrie Newcomer Carrie Newcomer's CDs include The Point of Arrival, The Beautiful Not Yet and Kindred Spirits. She has been described as a “prairie mystic” by the Boston Globe and one who “asks all the right questions” by Rolling Stone. She regularly works with Parker J. Palmer in live programs, including Healing the Heart of Democracy: A Gathering of Spirits for the Common Good and What We Need is Here: Hope, Hard Times, and Human Possibility. Newcomer and Palmer also are actively collaborating on The Growing Edge, a website, podcast, and retreat. Three of Newcomer’s songs are included in Palmer’s most recent book, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old. Other special collaborations include presentations with neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor, author Rabbi Sandy Sasso, and environmental author Scott Russell Sanders. "I've always been a seeker.... I was the little kid who asked the questions you weren't supposed to ask in Sunday School." — Carrie Newcomer Carrie lives in the woods of southern Indiana with her husband and two shaggy dogs. Find her online at www.carrienewcomer.com. Visit The Growing Edge at www.newcomerpalmer.com. This is part one of a two-part interview. To listen to part two, click here. "What I discovered is that you never see the world or anyone or anything the same once you've blessed it. Once you've looked at it that way, it's hard to look at it as anything else anymore." — Carrie Newcomer Some of the resources and authors we mention in this episode: Carrie Newcomer, The Point of Arrival Carrie Newcomer, The Beautiful Not Yet (CD) Carrie Newcomer, The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems, Essays and Lyrics Carrie Newcomer, Kindred Spirits Carrie Newcomer, Everything is Everywhere Carrie Newcomer, A Permeable Life (CD) Carrie Newcomer, A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays Carrie Newcomer, The Gathering of Spirits Parker J. Palmer, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old Marilynne Robinson, Gilead Beyoncé, Beyoncé Bill Harley, First Bird Call Mary Oliver, American Primitive: Poems Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing The song "Holy as a Day is Spent" is from the album The Gathering of Spirits. The song "The Beautiful Not Yet" is the title song of the album The Beautiful Not Yet. The song "Learning to Sit Without Knowing" is on the album The Point of Arrival. "I live in southern Indiana; something really good happened to my writing when I gave myself permission to sound like a Hoosier! What I mean by that is that I gave myself permission to sound like the person I am. I'm so midwestern — I am the lady that brings the casserole when someone's sick, you know, and I'm just really comfortable with that... my truest voice, my most powerful voice would always be my most authentic voice, my most connected voice." — Carrie Newcomer Episode 64: Silence, Song, Blessing and Waiting: A Conversation with Carrie Newcomer (Part One) Hosted by: Cassidy Hall With: Carl McColman, Kevin Johnson Guest: Carrie Newcomer Date Recorded: May 9, 2019

Recorded live Sunday, April 8th, 2018 , In A Dark Time, The Eye Begins to See, by Scott Russell Sanders, Guest Speaker. Click to play this service recording, or subscribe to our podcasts in the iTunes store to download new episodes automatically to your computer or smartphone. See the Podcast Guide for more help.

Yaël Ksander speaks with author Scott Russell Sanders and photographer Jeff Wolin on the occasion of a new edition of their book Stone Country: Then and Now.

Anne and Sarika discuss what they appreciate, but also find problematic about Scott Russell Sanders's essay about male privilege, "The Men We Carry In Our Minds." The transcript for this episode can be read here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1w33K1CVyZd8wpfyjuminR9vwKjb5WUCL Music for this episode is called "Slam" by The Artisan Beats; credit goes to Lev Tkachuk and their music can be heard here:https://www.jamendo.com/track/1398081/slam

Today, we talk about a character with as depressing a name as his backstory! Hooray? Show Notes: Run Time: 87:33 Right off the bat, we get started with the story of the FIRST Absolute Zero! Surprise! Just after the 3 minute mark, we lose our highly focused train of thought and devolve into madness, discussing the difference in scariness between Nazis and Nazi Ghosts. And then what to do about ghosts. We do this for... minutes. And then return to the backstory of the first Absolute Zero. There's no excuse for our behavior. We do get into some of the backstory of the Golden Age of Sentinel Comics in the first fifteen minutes of this episode. We also goof around a bit.  Then! We finally get into Absolute Zero. The Absolute Zero you all know and love, that is. At 19:28, I get ahead of myself and talk about a thing that I wanted to save for the Q&A portion... but it didn't get cut, so you get to hear what it sounds like when I change my mind on something I'm saying! Yay? Behind the scenes! Around the 25 minute mark, we talk about Absolute Zero & Tachyon's Sentinels Book Club! Both of those members of the Freedom Five have book recommendations for this episode! from Absolute Zero: The Force of Spirit, by Scott Russell Sanders from Tachyon: The Eight, by Katherine Neville Our answer to the first letter read in the Q&A segment (a bit after the 40 minute mark) explains why we have two Absolute Zeroes. There was a reason from the real world?! Not the fictional world Adam and Christopher spend the bulk of their lives living in?! Look, I'm as shocked as you are. Next week, we talk Vengeance!

Carrie Newcomer's songwriting has impressed the likes of Billboard, USA Today, and Rolling Stone, which wrote that she "asks all the right questions". Newcomer speaks and teaches about creativity, vocation, activism, and spirituality at colleges, conventions and retreats. She has shared the stage with performers like alison Krauss and writers like Parker J. Palmer, Jill Bolte Taylor, Philip Gully, Scott Russell Sanders, Rabbi Sandy Sasso and Barbara Kingsolver. Newcomer has written two collections of essays and poetry as companion pieces to recent albums: A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays, and The Beautiful Not Yet: Essays, Poems and Lyrics. In 2016, Goshen College awarded her with an honorary degree of Bachelor's of Music in Social Change during a ceremony in which she delivered the college's commencement speech. Newcomer lives in Indiana and joins Access Utah to talk about her album, The Beautiful Not Yet.

A brief discussion of publishing and self-publishing, and a reading from Scott Russell Sanders' novel DIVINE ANIMAL

Writer-storytellers Philip Gulley and Scott Russell Sanders joined singer-songwriters Tim Grimm and Krista Detour in a performance that weaves together stories and music in a Bicentennial celebration of all things Hoosier. We revisit a 2015 interview Travis DiNicola did with ISO Maestro Krzysztof Urbanski to learn about the upcoming Out of this World: Cosmos Music Festival. Sharon Gamble invited actor Bill Simmons to talk about his role and the creative process. Bill will be seen in an upcoming performance of David Hare's relationship comedy/drama Skylight at Theatre on the Square.

Scott Russell Sanders and the Importance of Community