Podcasts about seattle first baptist church

In our last conversation of the year, we hear from the Next Generation Ministries Pastor of Seattle First Baptist Church to share about her joy of Advent, ministering to children and learning to be flexible in uncertain times.

Rev. Samuel Kim from Japanese Baptist Church and Rev. Anita Peebles from Seattle First Baptist Church share freely about how they see Easter in light of sheltering in place.

What do you do when you realize you have everything you think you’ve ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? In the summer of 1999, Moby released Play—the album that arguably defined the millennium and catapulted him to superstardom. He joined us for a reflection on the bling and bluster of the celebrity lifestyle with the second volume of his memoir, Then It Fell Apart. Moby met with KUOW’s Ross Reynolds for a conversation that dives into his extraordinary life story—hanging out with David Bowie and Lou Reed, Christina Ricci and Madonna, taking ecstasy for breakfast, drinking bottles of vodka, and sleeping with supermodels. Moby and Reynolds explored the ephemeral nature of stardom and the reasons such a lifestyle cannot last, why it fell apart. Sit in for firsthand recollections from a titan of modern music, and a shocking and unforgiving look at the banality of fame. Moby is a singer-songwriter, musician, DJ, and photographer. He has released 15 studio albums, including Play, 18, and most recently Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt. The first volume of his memoirs, Porcelain, was published in 2016. Ross Reynolds is the Executive Producer of Community Engagement at KUOW. He is the former co-host of KUOW’s daily news magazine The Record and KUOW’s award–winning daily news–talk program The Conversation. Recorded live at Seattle First Baptist Church by Town Hall Seattle on May 10, 2019. 

Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility. And according to theoretical physics professor Michio Kaku, this departure of planet Earth may soon become a necessity. He called us together to explore the process by which humanity may gradually move away from the planet and develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. Kaku highlighted climate change, depletion of finite resources, and other factors that pose a threat to our species, and asserted that we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave Earth altogether in order to survive. Revealing new developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology, Kaku described a feasible human future in which habitable cities are built on Mars and nanoships travel on near-light-speed laser beams to reach nearby stars beyond our own solar system. Join Kaku to imagine a future in which humanity may finally fulfill its long-awaited destiny among the stars. Michio Kaku is a professor of physics at the City University of New York, cofounder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including Beyond Einstein, The Future of the Mind, Hyperspace, Physics of the Future, and Physics of the Impossible. He is the science correspondent for CBS This Morning and host of the radio programs Science Fantastic and Exploration. Recorded live at Seattle First Baptist Church by Town Hall Seattle on April 10, 2019.

When veteran author Siri Hustvedt discovered her old notebook along with early drafts of a never-completed novel, she found herself caught in a dialogue between her past and present selves. The product of this juxtaposition was Memories of the Future, her new novel that brings together themes that have made Hustvedt among the most celebrated novelists working today. Hustvedt took Town Hall’s stage to provide a glimpse into the process of the novel’s creation, and to reflect on the internal decade-spanning conversation that emerged alongside it. She met in conversation with journalist Lauren Du Graf to enlighten us on the novel’s themes: the fallibility of memory; gender mutability; the violence of patriarchy; the vagaries of perception; the ambiguous borders between sensation and thought. Join Hustvedt and Du Graf for an exploration of sanity, madness, and our dependence on primal drives such as sex, love, hunger, and rage. Siri Hustvedt is the internationally acclaimed author of a book of poems, six novels, four collections of essays, and a work of nonfiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. Her novel The Blazing World was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Lost Angeles Book Prize for Fiction. She has published numerous papers in scholarly and scientific journals, and her work has been translated into over thirty languages. Lauren Du Graf has written about film, art, music, and literature for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Oxford American Magazine, and elsewhere. Her research and writing have been supported with fellowships from the Camargo Foundation, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Recorded live at Seattle First Baptist Church by Town Hall Seattle on March 25, 2019. 

The viral video of the chimpanzee Mama embracing her friend—biologist Jan van Hooff—one final time before her death touched the hearts of millions. Renowned biologist Frans de Waal captured the essence of that story in Mama’s Last Hug, asserting that humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy. De Waal made his way to Town Hall’s stage for a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals. He offered the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we don’t have a single organ that other animals don’t have, and the same is true for our emotions. He discussed facial expressions, the emotions behind human politics, the illusion of free will, animal sentience, and—of course—Mama’s life and death. Join de Waal for a story that opens our hearts and minds to the many ways in which humans and other animals are connected, and a shared message of continuity between us and other species. Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. He has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, and he is the author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, among many other works. He is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory University’s Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Recorded live at Seattle First Baptist Church by Town Hall Seattle on March 19, 2019. 

At the verge of turning forty, Peter Sagal—host of NPR’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!”—started running seriously. And much to his own surprise, he kept going, faster and further, running fourteen marathons and logging tens of thousands of miles on roads, sidewalks, and paths all over the United States and the world. Now his feet have carried him to Town Hall’s stage to reflect on the trails, tracks, and routes he’s traveled with recollections from his book The Incomplete Book of Running. He shared stories of running charity races in his underwear, attempting to “quiet his colon” on runs around his neighborhood, and the experience of running as a guide to visually impaired runners. With humor and humanity, he connected his emotional experience of running to discussions of body image and the similarities between endurance sports and sadomasochism. Join Sagal for a funny, wise, and powerful meditation about running—and about life. Peter Sagal is the host of the Peabody Award-winning NPR news quiz “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”, the most popular show on public radio, heard by five million listeners each week. He is also a playwright, a screenwriter, the host of “Constitution USA with Peter Sagal” on PBS, a one-time extra in a Michael Jackson music video, a contributor to publications from Opera News to The Magazine of the AARP and a featured columnist in Runner’s World. He’s run fourteen marathons across the United States. Ross Reynolds is executive producer for Community Engagement. His projects include the person to person conversation event ‘Ask A…’ and That’s Debatable: Amazon is Good for Seattle. Prior to his current job Ross hosted “The Record” (2014-2015) and “The Conversation,” KUOW’s award winning daily news talk program (2000 – 2014). Ross came to KUOW in 1987 as news director and in 1992 became program director. As program director, he changed the station’s format from classical/news to news and yet more news. Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Brooks Running. Recorded live at Seattle First Baptist Church by Town Hall Seattle on Sunday, November 11, 2018. 

This is the last week with Rev. Anita Peebles who is the Associate Pastor for Next Generation Ministries at Seattle First Baptist Church. We discuss her work on atonement theology for children. Atonement theology is more or less the meaning of Jesus’ life, death, resurrection and ascension. It can be very heavy stuff so Anita’s strategy for presenting this to children is really fantastic and I think super helpful for even adults who are learning about atonement for the first time or just trying to explore their theological understandings of god more

Rev. Anita serves as the Associate Pastor for Next Generation Ministries at Seattle First Baptist Church.

Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who has been called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time. He took Town Hall’s stage to share his explosive and deeply personal memoir Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen. Vargas was joined by Seattle-based feminist writer and activist Ijeoma Oluo. Together they discussed Vargas’ tale, focusing not on the politics of immigration but on the sense of homelessness, the unsettled and unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like Vargas find themselves in. Vargas recounted his experiences passing as an American and being forced to lie about his identity and his origins. Join Vargas and Oluo for a call to action and a meditation on what it means to not have a home. Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and a leading voice for the human rights of immigrants. He is the founder and CEO of Define American, the nation’s leading non-profit media and culture organization that fights injustice and anti-immigrant hate through the power of storytelling. Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker and activist. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Stranger, Washington Post, ELLE Magazine, NBC News and elsewhere. She has been the Editor at Large at The Establishment since 2015. Her New York Times bestselling first book, So You Want To Talk About Race, was released January 2018 with Seal Press.   “After 25 years of living illegally in a country that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom.” -Jose Antonio Vargas, from Dear America   Recorded live at Seattle First Baptist Church by Town Hall Seattle on Friday, September 28, 2018. 

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. There was no meaningful background check, and he used his real name despite his notoriety as an award-winning investigative journalist. Four months later he had seen enough, and in short order he left to write an exposé that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Bauer joined us with excerpts from his book American Prisons: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment to weave a much deeper reckoning with his experiences. He shared his insider account of the private prison system, revealing how these establishments are not incentivized to tend to the health or safety of their inmates. Join Bauer for his blistering indictment of the private prison system and the powerful forces that drive it, and learn the sobering truth about the true face of justice in America. Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, Atlantic Media’s Michael Kelly Award, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, and at least 20 others. Bauer is the co-author, along with Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal, of a memoir, A Sliver of Light, which details his time spent as a prisoner in Iran. Recorded live at Seattle First Baptist Church by Town Hall Seattle on Tuesday, September 25, 2018. 

How to live well, even joyously, while accepting our mortality is a vitally important philosophical challenge. Author and cellular immunologist Barbara Ehrenreich shared insight from her latest book Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer, and tackled the seemingly unsolvable problem of how we might better prepare ourselves for the end—while still reveling in the lives that remain to us. We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds, and even over the manner of our deaths. But Ehrenreich shared the latest science which shows that the microscopic sub-units of our bodies make their own “decisions,” and not always in our favor. Ehrenreich was joined onstage in conversation with KUOW’s Ross Reynolds. Together they delve into the cellular basis of aging and showed how little control we actually have over it, starting with the mysterious and seldom-acknowledged tendency of our own immune cells to promote deadly cancers. Ehrenreich described how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. Join Ehrenreich and Reynolds for thoughtful considerations of the aging process (and our control over it) and the offer of an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe. Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of over a dozen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. She has a PhD in cellular immunology from Rockefeller University and writes frequently about health care and medical science, among many other subjects. Ross Reynolds is the Executive Producer of Community Engagement at KUOW. He creates community conversations such as the Ask A events, and occasionally produces arts and news features. He is the former co-host of KUOW’s daily news magazine The Record and KUOW’s award–winning daily news–talk program The Conversation. Recorded live at Seattle First Baptist Church by Town Hall Seattle on Wednesday, May 2, 2018.