Podcasts about what we can

Hello to you Indivisible Whidbey activists listening  in Oak Harbor, Coupeville, Greenbank, Freeland, Langley, Bayview, and Clinton on Whidbey Island, Washington!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.  On Friday 18th April, 2025 I posted my 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday episode entitled “What Difference Can 1 Ordinary Person Make?” about Granny D Haddock who walked across America in her 90th year to bring attention to campaign finance reform. Click HERE to access that episode.As Granny D walked across America she was asked to speak at rallies, churches, community gatherings, and the like. The following is a short piece from a speech Granny D delivered at the Buck Jackson Rodeo Arena in Pecos, Texas on May 14th, 1999:“Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love. You already have your victory because you are changing the world; you are changing the status quo; you are changing the chemistry of things. And changes will spread from you, will be easier to happen again in others because of you because, believe it or not you with your activism are the center of the world.”  CTA: Maybe like me you are coming to realize that activist work is not a job, but a calling to work together. We are called to work together to make the world a better place for all of us doing what we can with what we have for as long as we are needed.Thank you for listening and being one of us!You're always welcome: "Come for the stories - Stay for the magic!" Speaking of magic, I hope you'll subscribe, share a 5-star rating and nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, bring your friends and rellies, and join us! You will have wonderful company as we continue to walk our lives together. Be sure to stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website, check out the Services, arrange a no-obligation Discovery Call, and Opt In to stay current with me as "Wyzga on Words" on Substack.Stories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicALL CONTENT and IMAGE © 2019 to Present Property of Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved. 

Selena Violet shares the journey of her romance trilogy "What We Can't Have," which started as a poem she wrote for her middle school students and evolved into a three-book series about characters connected by one life-changing song.• Story revolves around college students Sidney and Austin who reluctantly partner on a music project• The trilogy follows their "When Harry Met Sally" dynamic with a guaranteed HEA at the end• Features a plus-size protagonist who faces self-image challenges without focusing on dieting• First book in the series ends on a cliffhanger, with the full arc resolving in book three• Began writing seriously during COVID lockdown after years of focusing on other prioritiesWhat We Can't Have – Hollywood Hot ShotsThe right song can touch your soul…             Becoming a songwriter was never on Sydney Campbell's radar. No; she chose a music major to one day inspire children as an educator. But all that changed when she met him…  Paired together on an important assignment, Austin Mitchell—the country star wannabe—quickly becomes the bane of her existence. Majoring in partying, his carefree attitude causes the duo to clash at every turn. Despite the tension, they make beautiful music together, creating a song powerful enough to change the trajectory of their lives… Forced together, the two battle to cope with their budding attraction as they struggle to navigate the pitfalls of the Los Angeles music industry.  Hollywood Hot Shots is the first instalment in the What We Can't Have Trilogy. This story is a spicy, contemporary, opposites-attract novel featuring a curvy heroine and tortured hero that you can't help but fall for. If you like compelling characters, light drama, and spicy scenes, then you'll adore Selina Violet's coming-of-age adventure.About the AuthorSelina Violet is a writer, entrepreneur, and author. She is passionate about sharing her stories with others. She has lived in several metropolitan areas: Pittsburgh, Chicago, Kansas City, and Washington D.C. Her favorite things include: 80s music and movies, concert tickets, and Hershey Kisses. Selina lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her children and a spoiled rescue dog and cat. website: https://selinaviolet.com Instagram: @selinavioletauthor Tik Tok: @selinavioletauthorAbout Victoria:Hey there, I'm Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn't have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!Here's how I can help:

In this insightful episode of What We Can't Not Talk About, Dr. Matthew Breuninger joins us to unpack the complexities behind why many individuals struggle to find lasting love, despite their deep desire and determination. Hosted by the Austin Institute, this conversation delves beyond societal critiques to explore personal obstacles rooted in family dynamics and individual psychology. Resources: Follow Dr. Breuninger on Instagram and Youtube @askacatholictherapist Share Your Reflections – Have thoughts or questions inspired by this episode? Email your insights to the Austin Institute. Stay in the Loop – Visit austin-institute.org for upcoming events and more conversations that matter.

In this episode of What We Can't Not Talk About, Marianna Orlandi continues exploring education, joined by Professor Justin Dyer, Dean of the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. Together, they discuss the profound ideas of C.S. Lewis in his influential book, The Abolition of Man, and explore how modern educational institutions can reconnect with the classical ideal of forming virtuous and flourishing citizens. Justin shares insights from his personal academic journey, emphasizing the transformative role education played in his own life and the crucial need for schools dedicated to civics and leadership. They also tackle why education inevitably involves moral formation, and how understanding natural law helps us address contemporary educational challenges.

In this powerful episode of What We Can't Not Talk About, host Marianna Orlandi welcomes Dr. Anna Bonta Moreland, theologian and professor at Villanova University, to explore the radical, uncomfortable, and ultimately redemptive virtue of forgiveness. Drawing on the character of Dolly from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Dr. Moreland shows how literature and theology—especially the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas—can illuminate what it really means to love sacrificially and forgive heroically. In a world torn between cancel culture and moral relativism, Dr. Moreland argues that forgiveness is not weakness but a virtue rooted in charity. Through Dolly's example and Aquinas' thought, listeners are invited to reflect on whether perfection in love is required, and what it means to love and forgive like Christ—even when it hurts.

Listen to Cover to Cover's shortest episode ever! This episode skips ahead to the regular features: events, Did Ya Know?, and What We Can't Put Down. Hear about new reading challenges, the library's many book discussions, and the team's current titles. 

In this Episode we are joined by Kelly Paxton. Kelly Paxton has more than 20 years of investigative experience. Kelly is a Certified Fraud Examiner, author, and podcast host-founder of Fraudish.This week's episode asks why it is so hard to commit a crime these days! But when people do, what is their motivation behind it! We also look at the nature of surveillance, how it can be used to catch criminals but also the implications of being willing to bring in surveillance devices into your home and life - yes I'm looking at you iPhone! How fraud in the workplace happens, what are the signs to spot for and how to prevent it happening and how sometimes it's not so pretty in pink, as we explore Kelly's specialism, Pink Collar Crime!Key Takeaways:I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me: From personal devices to public spaces, surveillance is a constant presence in our lives. While it can deter crime, it also presents opportunities for criminals to exploit our vulnerabilities.The Impact of Dishonesty: Delving into the profound repercussions of workplace dishonesty on trust and employee behaviours.Pink-Collar Crime: Often committed by low to medium-level employees, primarily women, pink-collar crime is more prevalent than you might think. These crimes are usually subtle, with fraudsters blending seamlessly into their environments.The Impact of Tone at the Top: A company's culture and leadership play a crucial role in influencing employee behavior. Ethical leadership and a positive work environment can discourage dishonest actions.Show NotesThe BeeKeeper FilmLinkedIn page for Avi KleinArtist uses CCTV cameras to selfies back to their Instagram page - VICELinkedIn page for Mish AalNumber Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke FauxNobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can do About It by Daniel Simons and Christopher ChabrisAbout Kelly PaxtonKelly Paxton is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Private Investigator, and Professional Speaker. She also is the founder of the Fraudish (formerly Great Women in Fraud) podcast. She published Embezzlement: How to Prevent, Detect and Investigate Pink-Collar Crime in December, 2020.LINKS FOR Kelly PaxtonLinkedInPink Collar Crime WebsiteKelly's Podcast Fraudish

On today's episode, Jonathan and Sy have a catch-up conversation on the assassination attempt, the Vance VP pick, Biden stepping down, and Harris stepping up. Then they talk with UCLA professor Robert Chao Romero about:-        What everyday life was like for immigrants during Trump's administration-        How MAGA Christians' treatment of immigrants reveals a lack of spiritual discernment-        What Professor Romero would say to immigrants who think voting won't make a difference-        And the complicated, diverse politics of Latine voters in AmericaMentioned in the Episode-            Our anthology, Keeping the Faith-            Tamice Spencer-Helms reading an excerpt of Faith Unleavened-            Professor Romero's Instagram-            And his book, Brown ChurchCredits-            Follow KTF Press on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Subscribe to get our bonus episodes and other benefits at KTFPress.com.-        Follow host Jonathan Walton on Facebook Instagram, and Threads.-        Follow host Sy Hoekstra on Mastodon.-        Our theme song is “Citizens” by Jon Guerra – listen to the whole song on Spotify.-        Our podcast art is by Robyn Burgess – follow her and see her other work on Instagram.-        Editing by Multitude Productions-        Transcripts by Joyce Ambale and Sy Hoekstra.-        Production by Sy Hoekstra and our incredible subscribersTranscriptIntroduction[An acoustic guitar softly plays six notes in a major scale, the first three ascending and the last three descending, with a keyboard pad playing the tonic in the background. Both fade out as Jonathan Walton says “This is a KTF Press podcast.”]Robert Romero: In the context of the life of worship, we are to reflect upon scripture, upon the 2000-year-old tradition of the church, and to add Latino theology, en conjunto, or in community, with the local church, with the global church, with the church that's there with Jesus right now, even. And there has to be a continuity, a harmony between new scriptural interpretations and our ancestors that have gone before us. And so if you just run that test [laughs], that criteria, the MAGA movement through that doesn't make any sense.[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.]Jonathan Walton: Welcome to Shake the Dust, seeking Jesus confronting injustice. I'm Jonathan Walton.Sy Hoekstra: And I am Sy Hoekstra. This is gonna be an interesting episode. Today we're breaking our format a little bit because just so many things have happened since the last time that we recorded. I don't know if you've noticed, Jonathan, a couple of things happened in the news [laughs] since the last time we recorded this show.Jonathan Walton: A few historical events.Sy Hoekstra: Just a few historical events. So we're still gonna have an interview with one of the authors from the anthology that we published on Theology and Politics. This week it will be Robert Chao Romero, who is a lawyer, history PhD, professor, pastor, activist. No big deal, the usual combination of the regular career path that everyone takes. But before we do that, we are going to spend some time talking about the assassination attempts on Donald Trump, the JD Vance pick for Vice President, Joe Biden stepping down, the almost certain nomination of Kamala Harris. And while we will probably talk about a couple of the resources that we've highlighted in our newsletter on those subjects, we're not gonna formally do our Which Tab Is Still Open this time around. There's just too much…Jonathan Walton: There's a lot. There's a lot.Sy Hoekstra: …to talk about, and we wanted to get all that in. Plus the really, really great interview with Professor Romero. But before we get into all of that, Jonathan.Jonathan Walton: Hey, if you like what you hear and read from KTF Press and would like for it to continue beyond the election season, please go to KTFPress.com and become a paid subscriber, and encourage others to do the same. We've got a ways to go before we're going to have enough people to sustain the work we're doing after the election. So if that's you, go to KTFPress.com, sign up, become a paid subscriber, and then tell a friend to do the same thing. That gets you all the bonus episodes of this show, access to our monthly Zoom chats with the two of us and some other great subscribers. And so go to KTFPress.com and subscribe.The Assassination Attempt on Donald TrumpSy Hoekstra: Alright Jonathan. Let's start with the big one. Well, no, they're all big ones.Jonathan Walton: No, they're all big for different people, for different reasons [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: For very different reasons.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: The assassination attempt in Pennsylvania at the rally, just before the RNC. The media reaction to this, Jonathan, has struck me as a little bit odd. I don't know what you've been thinking, but let's hear what you're thinking, what your reaction to the assassination attempt was and to the conversation around it.Not Taking Part in the News Spectacle of the AssassinationJonathan Walton: Yeah. So my immediate reaction was, okay, if this had happened in 2016, I think I would've pulled my phone up and writing things, processing, trying to figure things out, all those kinds of things. When I heard this news, I was on the beach in California with my family, and I honestly was not troubled. And that was weird to me. I was not worried, I was not concerned. I thought to myself, “Man, if I was orienting my life around the decisions of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, I would probably be losing my insert word [laughs], but I'm not.” And I also thought about, oh, if I am someone on the quote- unquote left, my brain would be spinning. How is this gonna be politically, what's the impact? Blah, blah, blah. And I just wasn't. And so in that immediate moment, I felt empathy for folks that were feeling that type of dissonance.And the way that I felt towards Donald Trump actually came from a conversation I had with Priscilla, because she was sharing and just the reality that we don't want to participate in the spectacle of it. Reality in TV is an oxymoron that shouldn't exist. Our lives are not entertainment. The intimacies of life should not be broadcast and monetized and commented on as though all of us are all of a sudden now in a glass, I mean [laughs], to reference not the book, but just the image. But that all of us are now like a glass menagerie that we can just observe one another and comment as if we're not people. Those are the initial feelings that I had.Why Wasn't the Shooter Considered Suspicious?Jonathan Walton: The last feeling that I had was actually highlighted by someone from our emotionality activist cohort. He said that he felt angry because the shooter was labeled as suspicious, but not dangerous. And he said, if this had been a BIPOC person, Black, indigenous person of color, there would've absolutely been a response.Sy Hoekstra: Especially at a Trump rally.Jonathan Walton: At a Trump rally, there would've been a response to a suspicious person of color. That would've been fundamentally different place as evidenced by the very real reality, I think a few days later at an event where there was a Black person that was killed by the police [laughs] near a political rally. So I think there, no, there was an altercation, there was a very real threat of violence between these two people, but the responses to Black people and people of color and the impoverished and all these different things that it, it's just a fundamentally different thing because they saw this 20-year-old kid who isn't old enough to buy alcohol, but old enough to get his hands on an AR-15 to scope out a place and shoot someone wasn't seen as a threat. And I think that is a unique frustration and anger, because I hadn't thought about that, but I hold that too.Sy Hoekstra: Just to emphasize that he was, the local police officers actually did try and flag this person as someone who was suspicious. They didn't do anything about it, but they noted it. You know what I mean?Jonathan Walton: Yeah, yeah, yeah.Sy Hoekstra: Which is even more… Like his behavior was suspicious enough for him to be noticed by law enforcement, but they didn't actually do anything, and then they reported it to whoever was running campaign security, and they didn't do anything about it either.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: And I don't know. Yes, that is a good and sad point, and I appreciate you bringing it up.We Have to Insist on the Value of Trump's LifeJonathan Walton: Well, what about for you?Sy Hoekstra: I mean, I guess my response to, two different angles of response to it. One is to anybody, I know there are people out there who are like, “Trump is a fascist, Trump is a threat to democracy, I just wish he'd been hit in the head.” And I don't think anyone in, I haven't heard anybody in the mainstream media or politicians or anyone saying that, because that would be too far for them in their [laughs] policies and their politeness and all that. But there are people thinking it, and I just, I don't know. I just have to say that we can't do that.Jonathan Walton: Absolutely not.Sy Hoekstra: We can't be the people who dehumanize somebody to that degree. I agree that he's a fascist and that he wants to, and that he is a huge threat to our democracy and all of that. But to then say, “I wish he was dead,” that puts you on his level. That makes you like him, the person who mocks when other people have had assassination attempts on them, like Nancy Pelosi or Gretchen Whitmer. Or who encourages and stands behind all the people who were in the January 6th riot that did actually kill people, right?Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: You don't become him, is what I'm saying to anybody who's thought or been tempted to have those thoughts. We still have to stick to the image of God and everybody as a principal. Even when it's genuinely tempting not to, because there are serious considerations on the other side of that argument [laughs] if that makes sense.Jonathan Walton: Yes, yes.Sy Hoekstra: It's a terrible thing to talk about, but it's, I think it's worth addressing.Jonathan Walton: Absolutely.We Do Not Need to Tone Down Our Rhetoric about Trump's Threat to DemocracySy Hoekstra: But I also have to say the opposite side of like, we must call for unity. We must call to lower the political rhetoric and the political temperature. When it comes to Donald Trump, that is ridiculous.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: That is a, you can't do that [laughter]. And the reason is, first of all, he's the one mocking other people's attempts that have happened on their lives, or riots that actually led to people dying, right?Jonathan Walton: Yes. Yes.Sy Hoekstra: So for him or the people who support him to say, “Oh, now we need to call for unity or rhetoric to come down,” it's hypocritical on their part. Now, that doesn't matter. I'm not trying to just be like whatabouting the Republicans. But the issue is like, there's different kinds of heated political rhetoric. When you obviously accuse somebody of being a threat to democracy, that's a charged statement for sure that you shouldn't say lightly. However, the people who are arguing it now are arguing it on the basis of Donald Trump's words and actions [laughs]. They're making a real good faith argument based on actual evidence. It's heated nonsense political rhetoric when Donald Trump says that there's an invasion at the southern border…Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: …and you're just painting poor people who are fleeing violence, trying to find safety in an opportunity in America as invaders who are here to, well, like he said, killers and rapists and drug dealers and whatever.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: When you're just painting with a broad brush, when you're creating stereotypes, when you're just trying to slide people into a category, that's dehumanization and that's what can lead to violence. When you're actually making an argument against something that people have actually done, like words that people have said and actions that they have taken, that's a different story. And it is true that in a country of 320 million people, even if you make a good faith argument based on facts, that somebody's a threat to democracy, somebody might take that as a reason to shoot at them. But that's not anything over which we have any control.Jonathan Walton: No.Sy Hoekstra: That doesn't mean you stop saying things that are true because they're… you know what I mean? That then I wouldn't say anything about anybody. I would just keep my mouth shut all the time. I can't make any arguments about anything because what if somebody just happens to at the wrong moment take that as license to go attack somebody?Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So all of that stuff seemed like nonsense to me. And then people were like, “Oh, don't talk about how it's gonna help his campaign.” Of course, it's gonna help his campaign. And of course the Republicans are going to use it to help his campaign. We need to be realistic about what we're talking about here [laughs] in the context of our conversation. So I think those were my reactions to all of this. I think because as soon as he was shot at, I, because he wasn't hit, I knew he was fine. So I wasn't particularly scared about it. I didn't have like a lot of emotions around the thing itself, because the guy missed him [laughs].Americans Condemning Political Violence is HypocrisyJonathan Walton: Yeah. I think I'll also say too, it's the idea that all of a sudden, we are gonna step out and condemn political violence, let's be clear. There's an exceptional level of political violence enacted by the United States every single day against its own people, against people around the world. There are 900 bases where political violence is happening. We tried to assassinate a leader a few months ago in the Congo. Let's be clear that the reality of that statement too is just ridiculously hypocritical and ignorant.Sy Hoekstra: Yep.Jonathan Walton: Right. Like just Biden did rattle off some political violence that I think we, the quote- unquote dominant cultural narrative is okay with calling out, but we also have to just name the reality that we are actively participating in things that are politically violent.Sy Hoekstra: All the time.Jonathan Walton: Yeah [laughs] all the time. For example [laughs], Biden said, oh, yeah, we're not gonna ship bombs to Israel anymore, and the reality is we shipped thousands of bombs.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Yeah.Jonathan Walton: That level of comfort with ignorance and hypocrisy and the dissemination, or just sharing that widely, is also something not about the event itself, but our dominant narrative response and the legacy media's response was just, that was disheartening to say the least.Sy Hoekstra: It's a very good point. And I would point out that Trump himself had a general in Iran assassinated [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Right. Yes.Sy Hoekstra: It's just like, it's complete nonsense.Jonathan Walton: He did. Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: For us to be like, “Where does political violence come from in America? I don't know.”Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: The many presidential assassinations and lynchings and pogroms and everything else. Like what? I don't know.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: We should note, by the way, as I'm listening to you talk, Jonathan's at home and children are not in school, they're home from daycare [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Oh, yes. Yes. Our house is very full. Thank you for being gracious.Sy Hoekstra: You'll hear some adorable little voices in the background. I'm sure everyone will enjoy it all.The VP Pick of J. D. VanceSy Hoekstra: Jonathan, let's talk JD Vance. What are you thinking about this pick [laughs]?Vance Is Everything Trump Wishes He Was, and Could Lead for a Long TimeJonathan Walton: Oh, Lord! I think the thing that bothers me about JD Vance, as my daughter screams [laughs], is Donald Trump picked someone who reflects all of the values that he has and wants to espouse.Sy Hoekstra: Yep.Jonathan Walton: So Donald Trump would love to say that he grew up poor and is a working class man, all those things. He's not, but JD Vance, quote- unquote, is. He desperately wants to say he made it and served his country and all the… No, he didn't.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: But JD Vance is a Marine and quote- unquote actually built a business. Now, JD Vance is also exceptionally misogynistic, exceptionally patriarchal, exceptionally individualistic in the way that Bootstrap Republicanism tries to embody itself. And so he chose someone at the same time that did not have the apprentice. That did not go on reality television. That did not spend his life entertaining people, so I think he is going to be taken seriously, which is why he's dragging Donald Trump in the polls. I think what happened is the wholesale remaking of a section of the Republican party that has now taken it over, and he chose a leader that could be the voice of that for the next 25 years. And that I think is sad [laughs] because I do believe in a pluralistic society where people can share ideas and wrestle and make good faith arguments and argue for change and all those things.So I don't want some one party event that happens. At the same time, I think it is exceptionally unnerving and unsettling and destabilizing for someone who holds such views against women that we will absolutely see, obviously when we talk about Kamala Harris. But what he, what Donald Trump blessed and sent out, JD Vance will now bless and send out for the next few decades at least. And that if you wanted to give a new, like a reiteration of Strom Thurmond, here we go. He's 38, he could be talking and on TV and doing things for the next 50 years, and that is deeply unsettling for me.Vance Is a Sellout, but That Probably Won't Matter MuchSy Hoekstra: It's also interesting that he's someone who's doing it as a sellout.Jonathan Walton: Oh, yeah. A thousand percent.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Meaning he was not… he was a never Trumper for a while. He called Trump possibly America's Hitler at one point. And now he totally turned around once he ran for Senate because he saw where the wind was blowing.Jonathan Walton: Exactly.Sy Hoekstra: If nothing else, his Silicon Valley background lets him understand disruption and how to capitalize on uncertainty and when things are changing [laughs]. So yeah, that's an interesting one to me. I kind of wondered if that would make Trumpers not trust him or even not trust Trump, because he isn't… So much of the Trump worldview that he tries to inculcate in people is us versus them, and we need to demand loyalty because there's so much danger out there coming at us. And so a guy who flip flops to become a pro-Trump person, like a lot of… I don't know, there have been a lot of politicians like that who have been distrusted, but maybe he's just famous enough that it doesn't matter. I'm not sure. We'll see as it goes on. There's a possibility that he weakens the enthusiasm of Trump voters, but I don't actually know.Jonathan Walton: They chanted “Hang Mike Pence.” So I don't put that beyond them, beyond anybody.Sy Hoekstra: I see. They can always separate Trump from anybody else, basically.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: He's the exception no matter what [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Right, right, right.Vance Helps with the Tech World, but He's Unexperienced and Hasn't Accomplished MuchSy Hoekstra: Another thing about him is, well, there's a couple of things. One is he is, he was a pick, at least in part to court tech billionaires. He's a Peter Thiel protege. He's basically promising to deregulate all kinds of tech related things. He is helping Trump secure the support of Musk and Zuckerberg and everybody else.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So, I don't know. He was a strategic pick in that sense, I guess. He's also one that was a strategic pick when they were facing Joe Biden.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: Which they're not anymore, and it's an interesting, I don't know, it'll be a different kind of calculation. Now, I've heard some rumblings that some Republicans kind of regret the choice at this point because [laughs] it's gonna be such a different race.Jonathan Walton: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: It's also incredible to me that the entire Republican ticket now has a total of six years of government experience [laughter]. It's just like, so Trump has done it for four years. Vance has done it for two, that's all we got. Six years.Jonathan Walton: Right, right.Sy Hoekstra: Kamala's got that beat like by multiples, by herself with no running mates [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yeah. Right, right, right.Sy Hoekstra: So anyways, that's just kind of a remarkable thing. Vance is also totally, he hasn't done much in the Senate in terms of bills that he's introduced, but he has introduced things that haven't gone anywhere that are just like a bunch of transphobic and anti-DEI and all that kind of legislation. So he's been not doing much, but ideologically on doing the kinds of things that Trump wants a senator to do. So that's another part of the pick, which is also depressing. But let's move on from that sad one.Jonathan Walton: [laughs].Biden Stepping Down, Harris Taking OverSy Hoekstra: Jonathan, what are we thinking about Biden stepping down and the almost certain, possibly the only legal available nomination of [laughter] Kamala Harris to be the President of the United States?The Dynamics of White Boomers Passing Power to Younger BIPOCJonathan Walton: So, yeah, the first thing that I thought of when Biden said he was stepping down was that I knew he was gonna step down when he got COVID.Sy Hoekstra: Huh.Jonathan Walton: I think that's a very interesting thing because when we were in California traveling this past few weeks, we knew four families that got COVID. And then I checked the numbers and I realized, oh, like the numbers in cities are going up because they're still testing water, right? And obviously the most susceptible people are older people and people with chronic health problems. And he is an older person [laughs]. Like, it was another thing…Sy Hoekstra: I don't know if you noticed.Jonathan Walton: …that says you're old, right? Like, and that, that Steve Bannon was right. He started the old train a long time ago, and it has run its course and run him out of the election. So I was not surprised that he was dropping out. The second thing about it though is, and I don't know if there's more writing about this. If you're listening to this and you have read some analysis or commentary, I'd love to read it. But I wonder how boomers are transitioning from positions of power, and if they are or not [laughs]. Because Joe Biden, I think, signifies a generation of people that don't know how to let go of power. And he said that in his speech. He said like, “I have to give up ambition.”And so I think that was an interesting, that's just an interesting thing to think about as there is a very significant, I think in the trillions of dollars' worth of transfers of wealth from that generation to their children and grandchildren. The billionaires that have been minted in the United States are just people inheriting money. So it's just a fundamentally different thing around wealth and power that's happening, I think, as it is power quote- unquote, is given from one older White man to a middle aged Black woman. Right? Black and South Asian. And so the other thing I thought about with Joe Biden is that he also was on the ticket that coordinated Obama.And so he's the meat in the middle of this sandwich that I think is also very interesting [laughs], that he leveraged his power to effectively potentially elect the first two Black presidents of the United States.Sy Hoekstra: Now, to be fair, he did run against the first one in the primary [laughs].Jonathan Walton: He did, and he lost, and then he joined a ticket, right?Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.What We Can and Can't be Grateful to Biden ForJonathan Walton: And so, I think it's interesting that that's a thing. I will also say, for all the people, left, right, center, wherever you place yourself, thanking him and praising him and all these different things, I'm just not on that train.Sy Hoekstra: Huh? Why?Jonathan Walton: I've thought a little bit about this, and I'm continuing to think about this, but there's a tension that I feel generally for the processes and the participation and the hard decisions that we have to make every day that require necessary compromise and then violence as a result. And so when we talk about being grateful for things, like, “Oh, Jonathan, aren't you grateful for like soldiers, or grateful for America?” And it's like, the first thought that I have is, thankful to who for what? Who am I thanking, what am I thanking them for? And I think it's because I just have this resistance, and I desire this purity that only is found in Jesus. This purity, this wonder, this beauty, this justice, this love that is blemishless, right? So I find myself, it's very difficult for me to be like, “Thank you Joe for this work that you did 10 years ago, this work you did five years ago.” It's hard. I'm just like, you know, thanks.Sy Hoekstra: Oh, I see.Jonathan Walton: Blessings on you on the rest of your life. I hope that you are able to flourish and receive all the things that God has. It's very general, very cursory. I don't carry this deep respect, appreciation or anything like that. And I think that just comes from like, I attach people to institutional violence and he represents a lot, a staggering amount of institutional violence. Even though he fought for lots of good things, it's like, yeah, it's hard for me to get on that appreciation bandwagon of the last 50 years of service.Sy Hoekstra: I totally understand that. I thought you were talking about, because a thing that I think you can acknowledge is difficult to do is to step down.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: In the situation that he's in, there are so many people telling him not to. It's so easy, especially if you have that ambition that he's obviously had his whole life.Jonathan Walton: For his whole life, yeah.Sy Hoekstra: Decades, he has wanted to be president, right?Jonathan Walton: [laughs]. Right.Sy Hoekstra: And he just wants to hang onto it and…Jonathan Walton: Let me into the sandbox! Let me in [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: And it's hard to just admit, “I'm tapped out guys. I can't do this anymore.”Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: That is not an easy thing to do. And I do, in spite of all the criticisms that I a hundred percent agree with you with about the time that he spent in the presidency and in Congress and everything else, that's hard. And I can acknowledge when somebody did something hard that is helpful for the country [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.Sy Hoekstra: And because it is hard, I did not expect it. It's interesting that you did, but I didn't know that was coming.Harris and Why Representation is ImportantSy Hoekstra: I also, when it comes to Harris, who by the way, I said Kamala earlier. I'm trying not to do that, because it can't be that the two, Hillary and Kamala, we use their first names. Everybody else we use their last names [laughs].Jonathan Walton: The soft misogyny. I hear you, you're right.Sy Hoekstra: Everybody calls her Kamala though. It's like hard not to.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So I'm not the guy to explain why her running is so historically important in any detail, and there's gonna be a lot of very shallow attempts at talking about representation in the mainstream media. Which is why in the newsletter, I pointed people back to Tamice's book, because in the book that we published, Faith Unleavened, Tamice Spencer-Helms, the author, has a really great excerpt that we published and actually put as a episode of this podcast feed. I'll have the link in the show notes where she talks about, like Kamala Harris just comes at the end of the excerpt, but it's in the context of her talking about the stories of generations of women in her family and how they've served as a barrier or a bulwark against White religion and Whiteness destroying their lives.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: And the story ends in a scene that has never once failed to make me tear up [laughs] even though I edited it like 15 times [laughter] when we were making the book. It ends with her and her grandmother, and her grandmother's basically on her deathbed watching Kamala Harris get sworn in as vice president. And she does an incredible job of emphasizing the power and meaning of something like that happening without really talking about it. You know what I mean? It just is because it's part of her story as she puts it, like the story that Blackness is telling in America. So it's very, very good. If you haven't read it, I would go back and just grab a couple of tissues.And for me, I won't just let that story sit there, and the fact that it is important to sit there, because look, I have a lot of criticisms of Kamala Harris' policies [laughs] as a former prosecutor, as her foreign policy, as all those kinds of things, and I am willing to let all of that sit in tension together. And I will move on with my life, but I don't know if you have more thoughts about that, Jonathan.Resisting the Bigotry that Is Coming for HarrisJonathan Walton: Yeah. The only thing that I would say, and actually it's already happening. But the level of anti-Black, anti-woman, racist, misogynistic, patriarchal flood that is about to happen, will be unprecedented.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: Online right now, even on Fox News, like on Fox News this morning, one of their commentators said, “Kamala Harris is the original ‘hawk tuah girl,' that's how she got to where she is.” Now, if you don't know what that is, I'm gonna explain it very quickly in ways that I hope are not dehumanizing to the person that actually did this and the people that it was said about. But there was a young woman who was taped on TikTok, who was asked about how to get a man more aroused. And she said, you gotta do that Hawk Tua, and that really gets them going. There's a slice of the internet, which we are all becoming more familiar with if you're online, that still desires the Girls Gone Wild videos of the 1990s, the centering of men constantly in sexual pleasure and relationships, and the picture of women only being able to succeed or excel if they are in service to men, and absolutely never achieving anything or earning anything on their own merit.And so I think Ketanji Brown Jackson, when she was certified and confirmed as a Supreme Court nominee, I think will give a slice of the anti DEI, anti CRT, anti-Black female, anti-female narrative, but that will pale in comparison to what we are about to see. And I think followers of Jesus need to resist that at every single level. At every single level if we can. Individual, in our own hearts, like us saying “Vice President Harris” is a way not to participate. Right? Like in an interpersonal level, like not… we have to check other people with this nonsense. And then in an institutional and ideological level, we actually need to communicate as followers of Jesus, that there is no place in the kingdom of God… and I would want to it to be nowhere in the world, for misogyny and misogynoir. Like this mix of anti-Blackness and anti-feminism and patriarchy. So that's the only other thing that I would say, is I just strongly desire in the most emphatic terms I can without using profanity that  [Sy laughs] we need to stand against them. We need to stand against that as followers of Jesus and people invested in the flourishing of other people and ourselves.Sy Hoekstra: It's going to happen. Like you said, it will be a ton. And just thinking back on all the absolute nonsense that was said about Obama over the eight years that he was president. I don't know how much we've progressed from there.Jonathan Walton: No.Sy Hoekstra: And so I just, it will be even worse…Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: As we've already seen, like you've said.Jonathan Walton: With all of that, there's a lot of things to process. There's frustration, anger, numbness, curiosity. Maybe some people are feeling peace. I don't know anybody who's feeling joyful about our political process right now. And so, as we are processing and trying to find hope in times of crisis and things that are difficult, I really want to commend to our listeners the resource that we created called Pace Yourself. So to pray, assess, collaborate, and establish, like to actually engage as a follower of Jesus in community for the long term.Sy Hoekstra: Yep.Jonathan Walton: If you are someone who's sitting here listening and thinking to yourself, “I need a resource like this, I want community like this, I want to engage in this way,” if you're a subscriber already, it's in your inbox. Just search [laughs] in your KTF Press and look through your newsletters that you've received every Thursday. Also, if you are not a subscriber, you could get it for free. Just go to KTFPress.com and become a free subscriber. And it'd be better if you became a paid subscriber, but [laughs] I understand if you don't wanna do that right now. But go to KTFPress.com, become a free subscriber and get that resource. And I also want to comment to you like, we do not have to do these things alone. And so if you are a paid subscriber, you could also join our monthly chats and conversations so that there's a space. It may not be at your church, it may not be at your job, it may not be at your kitchen table. You'll at least have a one-hour Zoom call to talk with some people who want to be redemptive forces in the world. So we'll lay that out there as well.Sy Hoekstra: Absolutely. We've had two of them and they've been really great.Jonathan Walton: Amazing.Sy Hoekstra: And we hope we see you all at the next one.Introducing the Interview Guest, Robert Chao RomeroJonathan Walton: Now we're gonna get into our great interview with Robert Chao Romero. Professor Romero is an associate professor in the UCLA departments of Chicano and Chicana studies. Also, the Central American Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Department. He received his PhD from UCLA and Latin American History. He's also a lawyer with a JD from UC Berkeley. Romero is the author of several books, including Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful, Constructive Conversation, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology and Identity, and The Chinese in Mexico: 1882-1940. The Chinese in Mexico received the best book award in Latino/ Latina studies from the Latin American Studies Association, and Brown Church received InterVarsity Press' Reader's' Choice Award for the best academic title.Romero is also an ordained minister and a faith rooted community organizer. Now, we talked to him about the everyday reality of the lives of immigrants under the Trump administration, what those lives tell us about the spiritual state of the MAGA movement, and the diverse and complicated politics of Latine voters in America. And guys, a lot more. Alright, let's get into the interview.[the intro piano music from “Citizens” by Jon Guerra plays briefly and then fades out.]Sy Hoekstra: Robert, thank you so much for joining us on Shake the Dust today.Robert Romero: It's great to reconnect after a while.The Everyday Suffering of Immigrants under TrumpSy Hoekstra: Yeah, thank you. Just to get started, let's take a… I don't know, a kind of sad walk down memory lane [laughs]. Thinking back to the Trump administration, obviously you have a lot of experience both in immigration, the immigration law world, and in just the world of immigrant churches. And I'm wondering if you could give people a reminder or a picture of what the immigration world was like during the Trump administration.Robert Romero: Sure, I can share a story of one of my students. So in the beginning of the Trump administration, I was teaching a big lecture class, like 400 students. And there was a young woman who came up to me after class one day and said, “Professor Romero, can I get the lecture slides from the last few classes?” And I'm like, “Yeah, sure. What's happening?” And she said, “My mom has papers, she has legal documentation, but she was swept up by an immigration raid in her workplace, and I had to go home and watch my kids, and it took six days before we could find her.”Sy Hoekstra: Oh, wow.Robert Romero: And that's when I knew, oh my gosh, this is gonna be really bad. And so one of the things that launched things off in the Trump world with regards to immigration was an executive order that he passed, which took away any type of prioritization with regards to deportation. Now, the Obama administration was no friend to immigrants, and that's another conversation. But in theory, at least the Obama administration had a prioritization as to kind of who immigration would target as priorities for deportation. And on top of that list before was people with serious criminal convictions, who were undocumented with serious criminal convictions, and then families were at the very bottom. And there was kind of this internal policy. What the Trump administration did through that executive order is take away any type of prioritization, as imperfect as that prioritization was.So my student's mother and the people at her workplace, families, people who had worked in the US for 30 years, they were put on the same level and prioritization as someone who had many serious criminal offenses, for example. And I can tell you that also happened with Pastor Noe Carias that we worked with. He was an Assemblies of God pastor who came to the US in the eighties fleeing civil war. He had his own business, US citizen wife and two US citizen kids, and he was threatened to be deported. So many stories like that, it just created chaos and pain throughout the lives of millions of people.Sy Hoekstra: I'm glad that you brought up that one executive order deprioritizing things, because that's not something that made the headlines. And I know because my wife who listeners to the show would be familiar with, was an immigration attorney at the time, and she was dealing with all these tiny little things that did not make the headlines or whatever, that the Trump administration would just adjust, that would just make things that much harsher and that much more cruel on immigrants. And the result was like the human cost that you were just explaining. And then on the service providers on top of that, it was like if you have to drop everything you're doing and spend a bunch of time making new arguments or appealing cases, or in some cases dropping everything to bring a big class action lawsuit to try and stop some rule change or whatever, that is a decrease in your capacity, that then means you can't work with more people.Like my wife spent a lot of time where she was just taking no new cases on, she was just appealing all the cases that had been denied because of ridiculous rule changes that eventually got overturned. But in the meantime, a whole bunch of clients that would've been eligible for green cards lost the opportunity or whatever. And so I very much appreciate you bringing that perspective.Robert Romero: I remember another example. I remember at the time, the Diocese of San Antonio, Texas, that's one of the largest Catholic diocese in the whole country. They were trying to sponsor a special religious worker and [laughs] their application got denied because ICE wanted proof that they were a legitimate 501 C3 corporation [laughs] the Diocese of San Antonio.Sy Hoekstra: The Catholic church?Robert Romero: The Catholic church, yeah [laughs]. And it's like those kinds of shenanigans.Sy Hoekstra: Oh my gosh.MAGA's treatment of Immigrants Reveals a Lack of Spiritual DiscernmentJonathan Walton: Wow. Oh man. I'm gonna attempt to ask this question without going down too many rabbit trails because that just sounds ridiculous [laughs]. But in your essay, you said, “Jesus warns us soberly in Matthew 25, that our response to immigrants and the poor is a barometer of the sincerity of our relationship with God,” end quote. To you, what does all that stuff we just talked about reveal spiritually about the MAGA movement?Robert Romero: So that interpretation of Matthew 25, that our response to the poor and immigrants reflects our heart with God, that's an ancient tradition. Ancient Christian interpretation, thousands of years. And I think that what that reveals about the MAGA movement, it shows how much the culture of US nationalism that's embedded within MAGA has become so conflated with Christianity in the US that people have lost discernment. They've lost discernment. In other words, this is one of my reflections over the last couple of months. When you really get down to it, these issues that we're talking about, it's a discernment process, spiritual discernment process between what is culture, what is the gospel, what happens when the gospel becomes invited into a culture, and how do you distinguish between the gospel and culture?And now here's the tricky part [laughs]. The gospel has only expressed itself and always only expresses itself through culture. First the gospel came through the Jewish people, enculturated in that context, then became enculturated in the Greco-Roman Hellenistic context among Turkish people, among North Africans [laughs] among Persian people, among all these people. Then it became enculturated later on in more Western Europe, and then in about a thousand AD, like the Vikings, and Christianity becomes enculturated. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's just the reality. And theologians talk about a process though of discernment with regards to enculturation. What is a biblical contextualization of the gospel in a local culture and what's not.And what they say is that the way that you discern, is that in the context of the life of worship, we are to reflect upon scripture, upon the 2000-year-old tradition of the church. And to add Latino theology, en conjunto, or in community, with the local church, with the global church, with the church that's there with Jesus right now, even. And there has to be a continuity, a harmony between new scriptural interpretations and our ancestors that have gone before us. And so if you just run that test [laughs], that criteria, the MAGA movement through that doesn't make any sense. And we can talk more about that, but that's what I've been… thank you for giving me the chance to just throw that out on you, because that's what I've been thinking about. I've been dying to share it and to process it with people.Sy Hoekstra: The immediate response from people in the MAGA movement is, well, from Christians in the MAGA movement at least, would be, we're the orthodox ones and the people who oppose us are the ones with the new interpretations of scripture that are going off the rails and trying to destroy American culture and et cetera, et cetera.Robert Romero: Sure.Sy Hoekstra: So why are you coming to such a radically different conclusion?Robert Romero: So first of all, orthodoxy means right praise, correct praise. That's what it means. So, as we said, this criteria, the context of the life of worship. So as people are worshiping Jesus, we're bearing one another's burdens, we're taking communion, we're praying to God. That's the context first of all that this discernment takes place. And you look at scripture, 2000 verses of scripture that talk about God's heart for the poor, and the marginalized and immigrants, Matthew 25, among about a hundred other verses. So first of all, MAGA would've to contend with that. Tradition, the tradition of the church for 2000 years from the earliest church records where they said it in the Greco-Roman world. “These Christians are so strange. They worship this…” I'll just paraphrase, “They worship this Jesus, but they belong to every culture.You cannot distinguish them by their dress or their language or their clothing, but by the way, they love one another, and they care for those that are poor and marginalized.” And there is a historical record of 2000 years of the church. And what MAGA is doing, it is not in continuity with that 2000 years of church tradition en conjunto, in community, because as Americans, we're so individualistic. People think, I'm gonna go into my prayer chamber, I'm gonna pray for two days and whatever I come out thinking about immigrants, God spoke to me. Doesn't work that way. It's like in community, all these things, the context of the life of worship, scripture, tradition of 2000 years in community with the local church, the global church, and also what theologians talk about is like another principle of continuity again.Whatever MAGA is saying has to… MAGA Christians, at least, there has to be continuity with 2000 years. And if you look at the history, I challenge anybody, there's no continuity there. Anti-immigrant sentiment, there's no continuity. And so that's what I would say first and just to kind of throw out a big concept there, the major concept that we're talking about, it's called inculturation. Inculturation. And how does the gospel enter a culture and transform it? How does a gospel enter a culture and heal it? But sometimes what happens is that a culture can become so culturally Christian that people confuse just the culture with the gospel. And if you run through this criteria, this ancient criteria of discernment, you'll find that's why prophets arise. And that's what's happened with MAGA.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. That's a helpful distinction, I think. Because you could also say, well, there's another tradition starting with the eastern half, the Roman Empire becoming Christian and creating Christian empires for a couple thousand years, right? But I think you're saying that just the phrase, “that's why prophets arise” [laughs], I think is the helpful distinction for me. Yeah.Jonathan Walton: You write about this a little bit in Brown Church, your other great book. There's this unhealthy syncretism, this marriage that has happened. And when you said the word “Orthodoxy” I immediately thought of a conversation I had with a wonderful person on Instagram. I am being facetious. But she said Israel is a nation ordained by God to exist in all these different things around 1948. And then and she said that's the orthodox view, is what she said. What would be your response to someone who divorces their belief in Jesus from the scriptural basis of Jesus and the tradition of, that missión integral, the conjunto that you're talking about, when they make that divorce, what do you do besides go to your prayer closet and pray for them [laughter]?Robert Romero: Yeah. I think that you go to the roots. If those of us who call ourselves Christians, we follow Jesus, and Jesus lived in history in a very specific moment in time, and he had 12 disciples and apostles, and he shared a message with them that he was the Messiah expected by the Jewish community. And that through this Messiah, the whole world would be transformed and saved and redeemed, there's a core message that was passed on from Jesus to the 12, to the leaders, the bishops that they appointed, to established churches. And there was, for the first 300 years of the church, lots of writings, lots [laughs] that established orthodoxy.So there was a core orthodoxy that Jesus established to use that term. I mean, it's anachronistic. Core message. That core Christian message was passed on to the 12. The 12 passed it on a majority consensus as to what that core was, to leaders that they appointed in Egypt, in Turkey [laughs], in Persia, in North Africa. And they had people that they appointed, and there were writings that developed. So, in other words, what I'm saying is you can trace what this major consensus of orthodoxy was pretty clearly through the historical record. And this is what I'm saying about history [laughs]. If you put MAGA through that, it's not in harmony with it.I'll say this though, if you use this criteria, this healthy criteria that have been established by theologians over the millennia, Christianity is not the same as the left either. I wanna make that clear as possible [laughs]. There are lots of Christians who make the same mistake and conflate Christianity with the cultural left, and it's not the same either. So there's room for abundant nuance and complication, but at the same time, there is a complicated, thoughtful process. And one of the things that disturbs me so much is that for the last five or 10 years, with all of the social disruptions in every arena of society, you have this positive desire to try to figure it out. Like what's right, what's wrong? And you have some people who are just holding on to this cultural Christianity, this cultural nationalism as indistinguishable from Christianity.You have some folks who are at the same time going the other extreme and throwing away 2000 years of very imperfect, but still the Christian movement. And things are just so disruptive, this process, I would hope this criteria again, and this is a work in progress for me, of we discern the difference between Christ and culture. We discern what aspects of culture are positive reflections of the gospel or not, or what's represents cultural impurity and what represents the unique reflection of the image of God through culture. We discern that. And I wanna share a quote that I think expresses the mess of the last 500 years. This is from an article by a Filipino theologian, José De Mesa. He's one of my favorite theologians.He is citing missionaries who were going to go to China in 1659. The quote again from 1659, “Can anyone think of anything more absurd than to transport France, Italy, or Spain or some other European country to China? Bring them your faith, not your country.”Jonathan Walton: There you go.Robert Romero: That's it [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Bring them your faith, not your country.Robert Romero: Bring them your faith, not your MAGA movement.Reacting to People Who Think Voting Won't Make a Difference for ImmigrantsSy Hoekstra: I wanna transition a little bit because everything we've talked about so far is a little bit aimed at the MAGA movement, or at White Christians in America. But again, talking about my wife, her family is from Haiti, and during the 2020 election, she made some calls for the Biden campaign down to Miami and to, there's a lot of Haitian voters there, it's a swing state, they needed people calling. So she called potential Haitian American voters and was talking to them about the election. And she had some fascinating conversations [laughs]. But she had a couple people in particular who I think represent a certain segment of immigrants or the one or two generations after immigrants to the US who are not White.And they basically said, what on earth is the point of voting for Biden versus Trump? You were talking before about the Obama administration, and they were just like, Trump, Obama, Bush, we get treated the same. We get deported, we get forgotten, we get left behind. We get approached every four years to put somebody in power who then doesn't really do anything for us. What do you say to that kind of hopelessness?Robert Romero: Yeah. First of all, I totally get it and understand it, because it feels that way so much, so often. So I would first approach it on that level of like, okay, let's process. What are we feeling here? I get it. And then I would say, well, I guess I have a response just as a human being, and then a response as a Christian. So those are kind of related, but different things. I mean, just as a human being, as a US citizen, there was a substantial difference in the treatment of immigrants under the Trump administration. It was just like, it made people suffer. Millions of more people suffered in very specific ways when the policies changed under Trump. Again, under Obama, again, I don't think that he is perfect either, and he caused a lot of harm, but things were way worse. They got way worse.We didn't think they could be, but they got in very practical, specific ways under Trump. So depending upon who we vote for with respect to this topic of immigration, it makes a difference. It makes a huge difference. And that's because every president has the constitutional authority to set immigration policy on their own. They can't pass immigration laws, that's Congress's job, but they can pass hundreds of policies carte blanche, which is what Trump did, at their own discretion and mess people's lives up. That's what I would say. Like just as a human being, and in terms of Trump's potential to come back into office. Just as a human being, oh my gosh, I want our democracy to just survive.And he's signaled so many times that he's willing to just overturn the rule of law, and we can talk about that too. So that's just as a human being. Now, as a Christian [laughs], it's like, I know that there's no perfect candidate, and Jesus is not a Republican or a Democrat. And I know people go off the rails on both sides. At the same time, Christians, I think in good faith, can hold some different political perspectives. If we do that, run through that discernment process that I mentioned, we can come to good faith differences of opinion. We really can. That's just a hundred percent true.Jonathan Walton: I like how you said good faith differences.Robert Romero: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: That feels very [laughs] very important.Robert Romero: [laughs] Yes.Jonathan Walton: [laughs] Because I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, I would love to see an experience like good faith differences, where the other person isn't just dehumanized to the point of like, it's okay to do violence. That the reality that the first step towards violence against someone is dehumanization.Robert Romero: Yeah.The Diversity of Latine Voting and Politics in the USJonathan Walton: And so can we have good faith disagreement. And going along with that, I listen to a lot of podcasts, read a lot of news, sometimes healthily, sometimes to just cope, I think the information [laughs]. But a lot of media outlets like The Run-Up on the New York Times, or Politico, or NPR, they make a big deal out of polling, saying Latine voters, particularly men, are somewhat more pro-Trump than they have been in recent years. And like, what are your thoughts on that talking point? And the diversity of Latin experiences and political thought in America?The Effect of Latin America's Racist History, and its Leftist DictatorshipsRobert Romero: Yeah. I mean, I don't doubt that those stats are somewhat true. I mean, I don't know. I haven't studied them. But I think that within, again we talk about this inculturation process, and how the gospel gets interwoven with bad aspects of culture, sinful even. And, but how the gospel also at the same time, when it engages a culture, it transforms the culture and heals the culture too. And our diverse Latin American Latino peoples, we've got both [laughs]. We have the sin [laughs] and our own colonial history of 500 years that is just as racist as the US history. Just as racist. And so I think that when it comes to more people supporting Trump, and I want to distinguish the support of Trump from a pre-Trump Republican party.Again, not that it was perfect or anything, but I wanna make that distinction [laughs], because there are some Latinos who just feel more aligned with again, the Republican party 15 years ago or something, for some reasons that are not entirely bad. Now, the folks that support Trump and Trump's racism, again, we're super, the Latino people are so diverse in every way imaginable. Politically, socially, economically, racially, ethnically, culturally, religiously. So I wanna make that disclaimer. But at the same time, we have our own 500 years of racism and colonial racist values that are within us. And so if a Latino male voter says, I like Trump because he's just, because I wanted to kick out all the immigrants or something like that, [laughs] then that's where that comes from.And it also comes from holding racist values in Latin America, bringing it here and wanting to fit into the racial system here. I'll say one last example. So in Latin America, for 500 years to this present day, there's a legacy of everybody wants to be called Spanish, quote- unquote.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Robert Romero: Because you had a racial hierarchy and caste system officially for about… let's see, 1492 to 1820 officially, this caste system. And just like in the US, you had a certain legal caste system, these terms of White, which was a legal category, Black, Indian and so forth. In Latin America you had the same thing, but the different terms. They were like Spanish and Black and Indian and Mestizo and Mulatto. And at one point they had dozens of terms. But that created the society in which people who were social climbers wanted to be considered Spanish. And to this day, some people will say that I'm Spanish. And doesn't mean… it's fine if someone's like, if someone immigrated from Spain to Mexico that's great. But we're not talking about that. We're talking about like, no one in their family has been to Spain like in 400 years.So Spanish is sort of, saying I'm Spanish is like a MAGA person saying, “Well, I'm White,” or something. It's like this, it can be. Not always so extreme, but now imagine someone that comes from that context in say Mexico, I can speak for my own context. They come to the US, they find a different racial hierarchy, and they wanna fit in with power. So you become Ted Cruz.Jonathan Walton: [laughs]. This is true.Robert Romero: You become Marco Rubio. Where you're willing to sort of just like… Actually, this is the term, this is another use of the term enculturation. You enculturate yourself fully to the dominant White racist narrative so that you can gain acceptance. And that's what happens. And so I think that some of those Latino Trump voters, again, if they're doing it, I mean, there's other reasons too. But if they're doing it because as an explicit endorsement of anti-immigrant policies, then I would say this is a lot of what's going on. Now, to be fair, some Latinos, and not without reason, are kind of scared off by, like they come from socialist countries that have really in a lot of pain and hurt. And they hear someone on the extreme left of the Democratic party reminding them too much of what it was like in Nicaragua [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: Or Cuba or whatever.Robert Romero: Or Cuba. Yeah, I mean, I remember I was talking to a Cuban taxi driver who had just come to the US five years ago, and he said, “I'd rather someone shoot me than send me back to Cuba.” That's what he said. So it's like, I think there's that going on too. Again, not that that's a hundred percent right or whatever, but it's understandable and I get it too.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, right.Robert Romero: So yeah. Some people just vote Republican no matter what, because of those reasons, and those are not just for no reason.Jonathan Walton: Right. Right, right. There's a history and a context there too that all, all that makes sense. All that makes sense.Outro and OuttakeSy Hoekstra: Thank you so much for that question and all the other insight you've given us. If people want to follow you online or see some of your work, where would you point them?Robert Romero: Sure. So my full name is Robert Chao Romero, C-H-A-O. And if you use that name, you can find me in all the usual places.Jonathan Walton: There aren't a lot of Chao Romeros out there, you sure? [laughs].Robert Romero: Yeah [laughs]. There was one. One person wrote me actually [laughs], but other than him, I think I'm the only one. [laughter].Sy Hoekstra: A guy wrote you just to say we have the same name, I can't believe it [laughter]?Robert Romero: Yeah He was in Brazil or something and he is like, “Is this a coincidence?” But anyways, it's neither here nor there, but, so if you look up my name, you can find me in the usual places, social media.Sy Hoekstra: Great.Jonathan Walton: Nice. Nice.Sy Hoekstra: They'll find all your books [laughs]. And we've put some of them in our newsletter and some of the other stuff, and we highly recommend all of it.Robert Romero: Thank you.Sy Hoekstra: So thank you so much for being with us on the show today. We really appreciate it.Jonathan Walton: Yeah, thank you so much.Robert Romero: It's my pleasure.[the intro piano music from “Citizens” by Jon Guerra plays briefly and then fades out.]Sy Hoekstra: Thank you all so much for listening. Please remember to support what we do and keep this work going beyond this election season. Go to KTFPress.com and become a paid subscriber. Get all the bonus episodes of this show, access to those monthly subscriber chats we were talking about earlier and a lot more. You can also get the anthology and read Professor Romero's essay and everybody else's essays at keepingthefaithbook.com. Alright. Our theme song as always is “Citizens” by Jon Guerra. Our podcast Art is by Robyn Burgess, transcripts by Joyce Ambale, editing by Multitude Productions. We thank you all so much for being here, and we will see you in two weeks.[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.]Jonathan Walton: Welcome to Shake the Dust, sheaking Jesus... What? Sheaking?Sy Hoekstra: Sheaking Jeshush.Jonathan Walton: I don't even know what that means. Okay, [Sy laughs]. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ktfpress.com/subscribe

Ep. 470 Not For Nothin' What We Can't Get Past by Kris & Chris

In this episode of "What We Can't Talk About," Dr. Orlandi is joined by Dr. RJ Snell, Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute, a sister organization of the Austin Institute. They delve into Snell's new book, "Lost in the Chaos: Immanence, Despair, Hope," which tackles the challenges of contemporary life in Western democracies, addressing decadence, disorder, and despair. The conversation navigates the complexities of finding transcendence and hope in a society that doesn't prioritize these values. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophical insights, Snell offers a roadmap to moral reformation and spiritual renewal, embodying philosophy in its purest form—a relentless pursuit of wisdom.

In this episode, Sharona and Bosley introduce the three keynote speakers for the 2024 Grading Conference. They then share some of the new(er) and upcoming publications in the realm of grading reform. If you are looking for something new to read and a conference to attend, this is the episode!LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!Keeping Receipts: Thoughts on Ungrading from a Black Woman Professor, Dr. Laila McCloud, Grand Valley State University and keynote speaker at the 2024 Grading ConferenceThe Tyranny of Content: “Content Coverage” as a Barrier to Evidence-Based Teaching Approaches and Ways to Overcome It, Professor Jeff Schinske, Foothill College and keynote speaker at the 2024 Grading ConferenceGrading for Equity, 2nd Edition, Joe FeldmanOff the Mark: How Grades, Ratings and Rankings Undermine Learning, Jack Schneider and Ethan HuttHuman Restoration Project Podcast Interview with Jack Schneider and Ethan HuttImplementing Mastery Learning, 3rd Edition, Dr. Thomas GuskeyStandards-Based Grading: A School District's Pillar to Student Success: Matteson Elementary School District 162's commitment to student success by ... and high expectations for all students.Failing Our Future, How Grades Harm Students and What We Can do About It, Josh EylerGrading Reform That Lasts, Eight Steps to Transforming Your School's Assessment Culture, A Roadmap to Navigating the Complexities of a Standards Based Grading System, Tom Schimmer, Megan Knight, and Matt TownsleySchoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning, Dr. Susan D. BlumResourcesThe Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education & K-12.Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:The Grading for Growth BlogThe Grading ConferenceThe Intentional Academia BlogRecommended Books on Alternative Grading (Please note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!):

What We Can't See Can Hurt Us :: The War Around Us Part 1 by Rivertown Community Church

What We Can't Do in Heaven

Jesse Coomer is a Human Performance Specialist, Breathworker, and renowned speaker. He trains athletes, CEOs, first responders, military, and everyday people seeking to optimize their performance, reduce their anxiety levels, and live a healthier life through his protocols and techniques. He is also the author of his latest book “The Language of Breath” which releases on Oct 31st In this episode, Jesse and I discuss what it means to develop a well-functioning relationship with your body through breath. We explore the balance between our conscious and unconscious self, myths about breathwork, and how to better handle stressors in our lives. We also discuss various philosophical concepts that relate to a mind-body dualistic perspective. TIMECODES: (1:29) - What Is The Language of Breath? (3:31) - Why Breath Is NOT A Quick Fix Or Hack (6:52) - Exploring The Unconscious (9:30) - Developing a Relationship With Ourselves (11:27) - Breathwork Is A Tool, Not The Solution (13:53) - Relationship Between Our Body & Mind (17:37) - Improving Self-Awareness Through Breath (22:36) - Can We Override Our Unconscious Impulses? (25:45) - Processing Stressors Better (28:48) - What It Means To Feel Your Feelings (34:20) - Descartes, Mind-Body Paradigm, Dualism (42:20) - Limits Of Language (47:20) - Learning Your Own Body (49:55) - Where To Start With Breath (54:39) - Practical Use Of Philosophy (59:16) - Our Crisis Of Freedom (1:05:53) - What We Can & Can't Control (1:09:00) - Benefits of Nasal Breathing (1:15:22) - Nasal Breathing During Exercise (1:19:56) - How To Measure Our Progress With Breath (1:21:12) - Breathwork & Cold Exposure (1:22:44) - Instilling Proper Breathing For Kids For More: Follow Brock on Instagram Follow Brock on YouTube Follow Jesse on Instagram Learn More About Jesse here Order The Language of Breath here Support The Podcast: ⁠ switchback ⁠⁠⁠⁠Electrolytes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Ten Thousand⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Code: COVINGTON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Flux Footwear ⁠⁠⁠⁠| Code: Brock --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/zero-quit-podcast/support

In this episode of Drink While You Think, Kenji Kuramoto & Matthew May share a beer and talk about why they're not involved in the sales process at Acuity.Tune in for topics like...

In his address to the IIEA, Jón Danielsson discusses the ideas contained within his new book, The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do About It. Prof. Danielsson challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, and share his belief that easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail. Instead of the buffers against shocks, it would be better, in his view, to increase shock absorption by diversifying the types of financial institutions we have, a policy that could result in more economic growth and a more stable financial system. He will apply his ideas to the lessons learned from the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse. About the Speaker: Jón Danielsson is one of the two Directors of the Systemic Risk Centre and Reader in Finance at the LSE. Since receiving his PhD in the economics of financial markets from Duke University in 1991, his work has focused on how economic policy can lead to prosperity or disaster. He is an authority on both the technical aspects of risk forecasting and the optimal policies that governments and regulators should pursue in this area. He has written three highly regarded books: The Illusion of Control (Yale University Press, 2022), which was included on the Financial Times “Best books of 2022” list; Financial Risk Forecasting (Wiley, 2011); and Global Financial Systems: Stability and Risk (Pearson, 2013). He has also contributed numerous academic papers on systemic risk, artificial intelligence, financial risk forecasting, financial regulation and related topics to leading academic journals, including Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Econometrics. At the LSE, he teaches courses in technical risk forecasting and on how the global financial system operates. He has also worked for the Bank of Japan and the International Monetary Fund.

 Kenny talks about the battle between what we can control and what we can't control in our minds. He points out that we have free will, which means that we can control certain things, such as our actions and behavior. This is the opportunity and challenge that we have within our minds. We must learn to differentiate between what we can control and what we can't, and use that knowledge to set down the baggage and become better adjusted as a leader.  Ultimately, the goal is to free our minds and become happier. He focuses on what he can control, such as his own negative thoughts, rather than attempting to control the behavior of others. His goal is to help business leaders find freedom through dealing with people.  We should focus on training our brains and using modalities like meditation, journaling, and affirmations so that we can be aware of our thoughts and not get carried away by them.  0:00:06 Navigating the Battleground of What We Can and Cannot Control 0:02:26 "Elevating Consciousness Through Small Business Leadership" 0:04:34 "The Power of Letting Go of Negative Thoughts" 0:09:15 Controlling Negativity and Mental Freedom 0:10:45 Discussion on Taking Responsibility and Releasing Control 0:14:54 Controlling What We Can in Life and Business 0:16:52 " How to Control Negative Thoughts" 0:18:23 "Releasing Anxiety and Finding Bliss"  

In this episode I catch up with Linda Saether who shares her unique journey with me- from practicing medicine to becoming a successful writer. We first met at Medical School and last saw each other when Linda graduated from Pediatrics and went off to VA to practice medicine and grow her family. Over the years I heard she had moved back to FL and changed to Urgent Care but it was only in this interview that I heard the whole story. Illness forced her retirement from clinical medicine yet provided her with the opportunity to pursue her lifelong dream of writing. Her historical fiction novels, which feature fictitious characters, in real events, are a testament to her creativity and talent. Linda also opens up about the challenges of being a new and unknown writer. She discusses the difficulties of self-promotion and the lack of support from small publishing companies. However, commitment to improving her craft led her to take classes on novel and screenwriting, which helped her to learn about structure and format. Despite the challenges she persevered and has become an accomplished author and encourages aspiring writers to take classes and workshops to improve their skills. She also advises them to read as much as possible and to write every day, even if it's just for a few minutes. Overall, Linda's story is an inspiration to anyone who dreams of pursuing their passion, no matter the obstacles. Linda Saether MD https://lindasaether.com Author of "The Angel of the Penny Rose" and "What We Can't Forget" available wherever books are sold. #historical fiction #St. Augustine history #Tudor history #self-publishing #indie publishers To claim CME click here Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward CME credits & more.

  You have probably heard about the Asbury Revival that has broken out in Wilmore KY but do you know how that relates to your church? Today I am going to share a personal revival experience.   Asbury Revival 2023 It is all over social media, it has many talking, and lots traveling to see for themselves. It is the Asbury Revival of 2023. It started on Wednesday, Feb 8th and as of the date of this recording is still going strong. You can google Asbury Revival 2023 to see many accounts of people who have witnessed the experience for themselves.  This isn't the first time Revival has sparked at Asbury College. They have actually had many experiences over the last 100 plus years. I listened to a very interesting account of these instances this morning which you can find here.    My Personal Experience  About 13 or 14 years ago the church I was attending had a scheduled Revival. I believe it was scheduled for 3 or 4 days. I can't remember everything but what I do remember was that people didn't want to leave the building. There wasn't a dismissing prayer at the end of service. People lingered. They prayed and they worshiped. When the praise team got tired, other music was put on, and people kept praying. Revival continued for several more days than scheduled. There were reports of people getting healed, others were seeing visions. There were amazing testimonies and many received blessings of provision during those days.    Your Church can Experience it too! ‭‭“‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.'” Jeremiah‬ ‭33‬:‭3‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Spiritual Gifts - 1 Corinthians 12   This whole podcast was birthed with the idea that another Great Awakening would happen. The fields are ripe for the harvest! And we are Preparing the Church for that Harvest!    How can you as an individual prepare for Revival?  PRAY  PRAISE PAUSE    How can Your Church Prepare for Revival? EXPECT  EQUIP  ENGAGE  ENERGIZE   What do you NEED to DO to be READY?  Thinking about these preparations, what do you or your church need to do to be ready?  Do you know where to start?  Is there something I can help you with? Special Offer In honor of all that is taking place I am going to offer some “Special Rate” Coaching Days each month for the next couple of months.  Right now my plan is to have 2 days a month reserved for Special Rate days.  You will get a 45 minute session for $20. Slots will be limited and based on first come first served.   I am not sure how long I will do this so if you are interested let me know ASAP so I can get you on the list.  My goal is for these sessions to be geared toward helping you or your church “get ready”.   If you're not sure if this would be a good fit for you, send me an email and let's chat about it.    Let's get ready so you and your church are Prepared for the Harvest!   Other Episodes Mentioned:   Our goal is that every episode relates to personal or corporate revival in one way or another. If you missed these previous episodes I encourage you to go back and take a listen. Ep. 003 - What We Can do as Individuals to Prepare for Revival Ep. 006 - The Price of Revival is Surrender with Matt Judkins Ep. 007 - Individual Revival brings Corporate Revival with Joewoody Johnson     Connect with Jacklin:   Effective Ministry Solutions Facebook Effective Ministry Solutions Instagram Preparing the Church for the Harvest Webpage Schedule a Call SIGN UP for the Newsletter This episode was originally published on effectiveministrysolutions.com/episode018.  

PURCHASE LAND IS A BIG DEAL: https://www.landisabigdeal.com/Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comLars Doucet, author of Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too High, Wages too Low, and What We Can do About It, joins The Realignment to argue that Georgism, the economic/political philosophy of Henry George, an often forgotten 19th-century thinker, is the best lens to analyze America's housing affordability and wage stagnation challenges.   

Guest: David Salas   Thomas Watson - “Great men are the mirror by which ordinary men dress themselves.” Who are the “great men” that you would want to emulate their lives? “Older men” includes more than just guys who are older in age than you - some guys might be “younger” than you, but they still are doing things that you can learn from! Theodore Roosevelt - “Comparison is the thief of joy.” But healthy comparison can be an important measuring rod against which you compare your life and progress in specific areas. In our current culture, boys are encouraged (manipulated) to stay stuck in “adolescence” - not mature, not grow up, not become the MEN that God has designed! Psalm 144:12 - May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace David's #1 - CS Lewis, author, cultural commentator - check out the wide variety of his writings - from kids books like The Chronicles of Narnia, to apologetics like Mere Christianity, to sci fi like his Space Trilogy.   J. Budziszewski - The Revenge of Conscience, What We Can't Not Know   Dan's #1 - William Wilberforce, Member of Parliament, almost single-handedly abolished slavery in England - check out Eric Metaxas' book Amazing Grace about Wilberforce (and see the movie with the same title) or read Wilberforce's own words in A Practical View of Christianity. David's #2 - Adoniram Judson, Jr., American missionary to India and several other countries. Learn more about Judson by reading To the Golden Shore or find him in the series of Christian Heroes. Dan's #2 - Frederick Douglass, former enslaved person, social reformer, author, friend of President Lincoln - read more about Douglass in The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass or read his own words in The Collected Works of Frederick Douglass. David's #3 - Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, orator, writer, artist. To learn more about Churchill, check out Stephen Mansfield's book Never Give In or watch Gary Oldman win Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Churchill in Darkest Hour. David's recommendation for reading is The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson. Dan's #3 - John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States AND Congressman! The book that I loved about his battle against slavery was Arguing about Slavery by William Lee Miller. Another excellent book is The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams by Phyllis Lee Levin. The movie I couldn't think of during the podcast is Amistad. Who are your “cloud of witnesses” - the men (and women) who have gone before you and passed the baton along to you - that you seek to emulate? Think about what it means to be a man, look for men who have or are living a life worth emulating, and learn more about them. Training4Manhood is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and donations are tax deductible. You can visit our website at Training4Manhood.com to make a donation using PayPal or can donate with a Zelle account to info@training4manhood.com  

Interview recorded - 2nd of August, 2022On todays episode of the WTFinance I had the pleasure of speaking with Jón Daníelsson, Reader in Finance, Director of the Systemic Risk Centre at London School of Economics and author of the recently released book “The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do About It”.Buy the book here - Amazon - https://amzn.eu/d/4TdNJCfIndependent - https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-illusion-of-control-why-financial-crises-happen-and-what-we-can-and-can-t-do-about-it/9780300234817On the podcast we talked about what is systemic risk, why financial crises occur, what causes them and changes that should be made in the future. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction0:27 - Jon's influence for writing the book?1:04 - What is systemic risk?1:40 - More systemic risk in financial markets?2:39 - Extreme cases in UK and Iceland3:48 - Major factors that increase systemic risk?5:58 - Fools game for Central Bankers and Policy Makers?7:30 - What would the intelligent strategies for regulating financial markets?9:30 - How can Central Bankers and Policy Makers reduce Risk?11:25 - Taking away liquidity with high public and private debt?13:33 - Banks create money16:50 - Central Bank Time lag between decisions20:40 - How will the change occur?25:24 - Balance between protecting consumers and allowing innovation27:34 - Too Big to Fail Banks29:17 - Diversifying the landscape of banking and finance30:28 - Any similarities between today and 2008?31:38 - Credit Suisse having issues recently33:10 - The struggle managing massive companiesJón Daníelsson is director of the ESRC funded Systemic Risk Centre at the London School of EconomicsJón received his PhD in economics from Duke University, where his dissertation focussed on stochastic volatility. His research interests include systemic risk, financial risk forecasting and financial regulations.Jón has written two books, Financial Risk Forecasting and Global Financial Systems: Stability and Risk and published a number of articles in leading academic journals.Jón Daníelsson -Website - https://modelsandrisk.org/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-danielssonTwitter - https://twitter.com/jondanielsson?s=21&t=KugDbCWdW9Cco3SBQ7NpuQWTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfnTikTok - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeUjj9xV/iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-fatseas-761066103/Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

Last episode we talked about discernment – looking at telling the difference between what we can't do, don't want to do, and shouldn't do. It was a great conversation, so if you didn't get to listen to that, go back one episode and listen to our conversation. You might remember at the end of the … Continue reading Episode 202: Recovering – “What We Can’t Do, Don’t Want to Do, and Shouldn’t Do (part 2).”

Doctor John Patrick talks about why you should start a book club. Book Recommendations CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man - https://amzn.to/3yd00UJ Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks - https://amzn.to/3bhHX6M Peter Kreeft, A Refutation of Moral Relativism - https://amzn.to/3xPy8EE Beckwith and Koukl, Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air - https://amzn.to/3n7iEXR J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know - https://amzn.to/3HJkojg Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship - https://amzn.to/3nb5l8Q Rodney Stark, For the Glory of God - https://amzn.to/3ymaW2B Alisdair MacIntyre, After Virtue - https://amzn.to/3yczmLB For a more in depth book list - click below https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/

We discuss a couple legal immunities, one listeners will be familiar with and one that's pretty unknown. The second is being addressed by our special guest, Aliza Shatzman. She is the co-founder of The Legal Accountability Project, a new nonprofit whose mission is to ensure that as many law clerks as possible have positive clerkship experiences while extending support and resources to those who do not. Aliza had a harrowing experience as a law clerk and found that the laws that apply to other government employees often don't extend to those in the judicial branch. She also presents a recent case from the Fourth Circuit about a judicial branch employee who brought a number of claims to try and get around sovereign immunity—and actually succeeded on a few of them. Then Kirby Thomas West of IJ discusses a Fifth Circuit case with terrible facts, but a good outcome on the qualified immunity front. Strickland v. U.S., https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/211346.P.pdf Sims v. Griffin, https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-40457-CV0.pdf Aliza on Ipse Dixit, https://shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/episodes/aliza-shatzman-on-holding-judges-accountable Untouchable Judges? What I've Learned About Harassment in the Judiciary, and What We Can do to Stop It, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4096245 Aliza's Statement for the Record to Congress, https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU03/20220317/114503/HHRG-117-JU03-20220317-SD005.pdf Aliza Shatzman and the Legal Accountability Project, https://www.legalaccountabilityproject.org/ Kirby Thomas West, https://ij.org/staff/kirby-thomas-west/ Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/

Food is the foundation of every healthy lifestyle. It nourishes your cells and becomes fuel for your body… Food is so deeply enmeshed with our culture, and we usually end up with a few favorite foods. But when it comes to staying healthy, some foods are better than others.… There are several hormone, gut, and liverloving superfoods that I keep stocked in my kitchen…   Adding these ten superfoods to your diet will help your body thrive! Tune in today to hear… The three things I've committed to for myself this Spring Lab test information What to focus on after improving your food habits The foods that are rich in magnesium The housekeepers of your immune system And more!   Mentioned in this episode:   Mother's Day Sale: live May 4-9   Hormone Lab Testing   Related Resources:   Essentially You episode #: 215 How Your Diet Can Make or Break Your Hormone Health   Essentially You episode #: 322 How Nutrient-Depleted is Our Food Today and What We Can do About it with Jenn Trepeck   5 Superhero Superfoods You Need Now!   Junk Food Disguised as Health Food   Stop Inflaming Your Thyroid with These 4 Foods

We all have expectations of how things should play out in life, and when things don't go the way that we think they should we find ourselves frustrated or upset. What if we were able to change that outcome by being appreciative? Even if we focus on being appreciative of the smallest thing, we invite more positivity into our lives.  Letting Go of What We Can't Control: HERETony Robbins Expectation vs Appreciation Podcast: HEREBeing the Duel, Win the Day. Support the show (https://www.dueltheday.com/donate)

This Week On Conversation With The Wisdom KeepersGeorge and Sedena answer listener questions and conclude with provocative commentary on What We Can't Take With Us.  For your special offer on The Ageless Living Wisdom Club featuring exclusive audio, video and written material from more than 60 of the World's Leading Wisdom Keepers Go to:www.agelesslivingseries.com/mymembership.

This Week On Conversation With The Wisdom KeepersWhat We Can't Take With Us - Co-hosts George and Sedena Cappannelli, award-winning authors, Co-Founders of AgeNation and Empower New Mexico, Co-Producers of the Ageless Living Television Series now airing on PBS stations around the country explore how our perspectives determine the quality of our lives.This week's featured guest interview is with Sophia Stewart – Author of How to Stay Sane In A Crazy World. Two special short-form features – 1. Sedena's inspiring and informative Enlivened Ageing Skills – Let The Sunshine In and 2. George's Life Achievement Tribute honoring the accomplishments of both the famous and lesser known who have accomplished remarkable things in the second half of life.  Today we honor American poet, author, playwright, Maya Angelou.George and Sedena answer listener questions and conclude with provocative commentary on What We Can't Take With Us.  All in all another delightful, informative and inspiring podcast.Next Week on Conversations With The Wisdom KeepersOur topic – Knockin' on Heaven's Door with the second of our featured interview with Sophia Steward, best-selling author of How To Stay Sane In A Crazy World.For your special offer on The Ageless Living Wisdom Club featuring exclusive audio, video and written material from more than 60 of the World's Leading Wisdom Keepers Go to: www.agelesslivingseries.com/mymembership.

This Week On Conversation With The Wisdom KeepersThe I of The Beholder - Co-hosts George and Sedena Cappannelli, award-winning authors, Co-Founders of AgeNation and Empower New Mexico, Co-Producers of the Ageless Living Television Series now airing on PBS stations around the country explore how our perspectives determine the quality of our lives.This week's featured guest interview is with Dr. Larry Dossey, distinguished physician, NY Times Best Selling Author and expert on consciousness and oneness. Two special short-form features – 1. Sedena's inspiring and informative Enlivened Ageing Skills – Higher Perspective and 2. George's Life Achievement Tribute honoring the accomplishments of both the famous and lesser known who have accomplished remarkable things in the second half of life. Today we honor Swiss Psychiatrist and the Founder of Analytical Psychiatry, Carl G. Jung.George and Sedena answer listener questions and conclude with provocative commentary on The I of The Beholder.  All in all another delightful, informative and inspiring podcast.Next Week on Conversations With The Wisdom KeepersOur topic - What We Can't Take With Us with the first part of our featured interview with Sophia Steward, best-selling author of How To Stay Sane In A Crazy World.For your special offer on The Ageless Living Wisdom Club featuring exclusive audio, video and written material from more than 60 of the World's Leading Wisdom Keepers Go to:www.agelesslivingseries.com/mymembership

This week on the APL nextED Mini-Pod we continue our conversation with Georgia State University Associate Provost Nicolle Parsons-Pollard as she shares ways the University is utilizing data to shape diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.Data drives many of the policy decisions made throughout institutions. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies are no exception. Georgia State University, a well-known research institution, recently received Insight Into Diversity's 2021 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award, a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. The University is implementing an ambitious plan to make further progress in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), following recommendations by its Task Force for Racial Equality last summer, and the implementation steering committee of the Next Generation of Faculty Initiative. Georgia State has developed a robust action plan to support DEI which includes developing inclusive hiring, promotion and retention practices, including the creation of a comprehensive mentorship program for faculty.Dr. Parsons-Pollard joins host Kathleen Gibson this week in part two of their discussion on DEI initiatives and the ways Georgia State is putting data into action.Additional Resources Referenced In This EpisodeDisproportionate Minority Contact by Nicolle Parsons-PollardIHED Burnout Report Equity-Minded Faculty Workload, What We Can and Should Do Now by the American Council on Education (ACE)Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown Georgia State University's Action Plan for Racial Equity & Equality APL nextED is pleased to bring you the APL nextED Mini-Pod, where for a few minutes each week, academic leaders will share insights and perspectives on the most important issues and opportunities facing academic teams.Visit aplnexted.com/podcast to learn more about this week's guest, view video interviews and access the full list of APL nextED Mini-Pod episodes.

Leila Miller is a Catholic author and speaker. She's written four bestselling books, Primal Loss; Raising Chaste Catholic Men; Made this Way; and her latest, "Impossible" Marriages Redeemed. Leila lives in Phoenix, AZ with her husband and children.   Follow Leila's Work:  https://www.leilamiller.net/ (https://www.leilamiller.net/)  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063495013732 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063495013732)  The things we mentioned on the show:   Ark Encounter – Williamstown, KY   https://arkencounter.com/   What We Can't Not Know, by Professor J. Budziszewski  https://www.ignatius.com/What-We-Cant-Not-Know-P2669.aspx 

In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat with Sarah Anderson, a poet, English teacher at Berwick Academy, and co-owner of the Word Barn, a venue that hosts a variety of creative events and workshops in an intimate and inspiring barn and meadow, located in Exeter, NH. For the first time in Creative Guts history, this interview contains a poetry reading, where we are lucky enough to taste a sample of Sarah’s new debut book of poems entitled “We Hold On to What We Can”. We also learn about the creative family Sarah comes from and has continued to build, her advice on writing poetry if you’re looking to dive into the genre, and how the Word Barn was born and brings the community together. Learn more about the Word Barn at www.thewordbarn.com.As always, come hang out with the Creative Guts team online at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.com and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CreativeGutsPodcast and Instagram at  www.Instagram.com/CreativeGutsPodcast

What do we know about Christ's return? That's the question we're addressing on this episode of The Hero of the Story. Listen in as we discuss: How Scripture speaks of the return of ChristThe different views on the second coming and meaning of the millenniumHow this doctrine relates to the gospel and how we live in... The post What We Can (and Can't) Know About the Second Coming [Ep. 250] appeared first on The Gospel Project.

05:57 - Invincible (NO SPOILERS) 09:17 - Good Girls, New Amsterdam, and What We Are Watching 21:20 - Fast 9 and Jurassic Park… together? 31:12 - Oscars Talk 37:33 - Wrestling Reacting To The World 48:53 - What We Can't Shut Up About iTunes: itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-p…d1058622506?mt=2 Facebook: www.facebook.com/CheapestOfSeats/ Nick's Twitter: @Nick_JG_Clement

Allison and Sara talk about where we've been as we approach the year anniversary of the beginning of the pandemic. In addition, they discuss what lessons the MJ Sorority team learned from Covid as it relates to sorority chapter housing, and they shared some things that they predict going forward "on the other side" of the pandemic. Show Notes We referenced several resources that we developed, all of which can be found on our Covid-19 page at mjsorority.com.  Make sure you listen to our first Covid recap episode from last week. What We Can't Stop Talking About Allison can't stop talking about her slow burn playlists. Send her your favorite slow burn music or check out her playlists. Sara can't stop talking about the pandemic wall that she wrote about in her newsletter if you want to read along. Share your pandemic lessons and suggestions with us - email us at realtalk@mjsorority.com.

2020 has been a lot of things...difficult is one word that likely has been in all of our minds among many others. We take some time as the end of the year approaches to reflect on where we have come from and where things still stand in our own journeys as well as the film industry. Let us know how this year has affected you and/or share with us a movie that you were bummed to see pushed back due to Covid. Tap that follow button on Spotify or Apple Podcast to stay up to date on episode releases! Follow us on Instagram: thecinevibes Episode Marks: Introduction & Our Expectations for 2020 (00:59) When the World Stopped Spinning (04:42) The Future After Covid (09:05) The Bubble (18:04) Are Theaters Dead? (23:45) The Impact & Getting Back to Work (31:55) What We Can't Wait to See (38:17) A Tough Year for the Entire World (45:10) Closing Remarks & Connecting With Us (46:27) Music: Intro/Outro - Forgiveness by Patrick Patrikios

This is the podcast where each week we'll meet a guest who’ll help us pay attention to something we should know about, but maybe don’t. In this week's episode we’re talking about food waste; how much we're throwing away, why that's a problem, what we can do to save ourselves meals and money tips and tricks to turn your leftovers or scraps into delicious meals. Max La Manna is a zero waste chef, sustainability advocate, environmentalist and author. His debut cookbook 'More Plants Less Waste' was voted 2020's second most sustainable cookbook in the world, and he shares his tips and tricks to lower your waste output and recipes for exciting meals using food that might have otherwise been wasted on social media. If you want to learn more, here's where to find Max, and his recommendations: Instagram: @maxlamanna Twitter: @max_lamanna Website: maxlamanna.com Something to read: Tristram Stuart - Waste Something to watch: Netflix's ‘The Patriot Act' episode on 'How America is causing Global Obesity' Something to listen to: Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's Podcast 'How to Save a Planet' Get involved and join in the conversation: Follow @gemmastyles and send in your messages and questions to goodinfluencepod@gmail.com

LFHHM Sunday Broadcast, "Together With HIM "Sunday 3pm CDT/CST 6/14/20. Thought: "All We Can Do is What We Can". Thank you for joining Sister Ann Moals and the Laborer's for HIS Harvest Ministries consultants and friends. Don't forget to visit our website for great discipleship resources at www.lfhhm.org. Contact us and sign up to volunteer at https://www.laborersforhisharvest.org Prayer for Salvation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55IF3uAd2nY Special thanks to Union ROG Hill Films at www.unionroghillfilms.com Scriptures: Ephesians 6:13-17, Judges 13:1-2, Philippians 4:13, Judges 13:3-5, 8 Psalms 51:5, Judges 13 – 16, 1 John 2:16, Romans 8:28, John 3:16 Discipleship resource: Think First - Stop the Violence - Community Group Violence Reduction Strategy Program (CGVRS) Template - https://www.laborersforhisharvest.org

FIRST! My book is available for pre-order. yipppeee! Take a look! USA: http://tiny.cc/wildland CANADA: http://tiny.cc/wildlandca UK: http://tiny.cc/wildlanduk On Soul School today they are some insights from the 2004 essay by Paul Graham "What We Can't Say" (I'm reading excerpts). It has intellectual rigor and serves as an important reminder of the purpose of taboos in relation to power, how moral fashion works, and covers resisting our default setting of thinking what we are told to think. I don't embrace all of his examples nor have I landed in the same places as some of his conclusions, but his thesis is a worthy one, and we are wise to listen and be challenged by it. Your support means a lot. View the EXTRAS page at no cost today for more related on this episode, including the link read the full article, and other here: posthttps://www.patreon.com/posts/40056330. Listen now with the AUDIO PLAYER: (When you support this work at Patreon, you unlock hundreds of extras from many episodes and get news on mybook "The Wild Land Within" published with Broadleaf Books - patreon.com/sparkmymuse) SparkMyMuse.com contains over 345 audio episodes, an online store, and resources. Roam around the website and enjoy! Pay-what-you-can as a partner. VENMON: venmo.com/lisadelay PayPal.me/lisacolondelay Listen to a recent episode: • Spark My Muse can thrive when you help in these two ways: 1. Share the program with another person today. 2. Leave a Rating/ Write a Review on iTunes HERE. AND! Don't forget to pick a subscribe option that is best for you at (sparkmymuse.com) below:

T. K. Coleman is the Director of Entrepreneurial Education at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the host of The Revolution of One podcast. As a member of the FEE faculty, he is a prolific writer and speaker and leads workshops on themes related to entrepreneurship, economics, and education. I met T.K. through our friends at The Minimalists podcast, where T.K. is a regular guest. On this podcast, T.K. and I are talking about race relations in America. This topic has made headlines recently, but the stress of being black in the US is nothing new for people who cope every day with a society that refuses to fully accept them. T.K. is one of the best speakers I’ve ever heard describe the struggles facing young people of colour in a system that is biased to favour some over others. He discusses the fundamental fears that keep us divided, the reasons COVID-19 disproportionately affects African Americans and some of the key factors that can help us overcome our differences. Here’s the outline of this interview with T.K. Coleman: [00:00:32] The Minimalists podcast. [00:01:08] The fall of CrossFit founder and CEO Greg Glassman. [00:03:38] Peter Gray; Podcast: Free to Learn: Unleashing the Instinct to Play; Book: Free to Learn. [00:04:19] Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). [00:05:27] Cofounded the Praxis apprenticeship program with Isaac Morehouse. Praxis introductory video. [00:09:11] Nicholas Taleb. [00:12:12] Race relations. [00:17:25] Video: Sapolsky on Depression in U.S. [00:18:22] Struggles: white students vs black students. [00:23:18] Book: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships, by Marshall Rosenberg. [00:23:53] Book: Language and the Pursuit of Happiness, by Chalmers Brothers. [00:24:43] Book: How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. [00:27:57] How to know yourself. [00:28:58] Article: Taking a Walk as a Revolutionary Act by T.K. Coleman and Isaac Morehouse. [00:29:28] Book: Journey of Awakening by Ram Dass. [00:31:06] Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); Russell Harris article on ACT: Embracing Your Demons: An Overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. [00:31:16] Book: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt. [00:32:58] Article: The coronavirus is infecting and killing black Americans at an alarmingly high rate. [00:34:19] Economic, educational, and cultural factors. [00:39:51] The West Memphis Three. [00:42:26] Video: Heartland Future Talks 2019: Robert Sapolsky & Lone Frank. [00:42:35] Book: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition, by Robert Sapolsky. [00:44:16] The war on drugs. [00:46:17] A16Z podcast: What We Can’t Reveal We Can’t Heal. [00:57:33] Book: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst; Video: Robert Sapolsky. [01:08:26] Exposing kids to diversity. [01:13:05] Increasing opportunity rather than giving preferential treatment based on demographic. [01:18:28] Book: The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley. [01:18:33] Video: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "Localism and its Application to Lebanon". [01:18:51] The rich always fear the poor. [01:20:02] Follow T.K.’s work.

Brian and Durrell came by for another conversation about what has been done, is being done, is NOT being done... and most importantly WHAT WE CAN be done to help heal our country! Everything starts with education. Education starts with perspective. Perspective starts with listening... We hope you enjoy listening! Find us on YouTube, Facebook and.... well really anywhere else! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tommy-tle/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tommy-tle/support

Daily Stoic Day 1 and What We Can and Cannot Control by Justin-Finkelstein

It is possible for Christmas to IMPACT FAR MORE than just ONE DAY (or ONE SEASON) in each year. It can impact ETERNITY. Jesus taught us this in his most famous sermon: The Sermon on the Mount. In it, he taught us how we should think about WHAT WE CAN and SHOULD DO with the WEALTH THAT WE HAVE. Jesus taught us the VALUE OF STORAGE! During this SEASON OF SPENDING, his words about STORAGE have amazing RELEVANCE. Listen as Pastor Rick expounds on this amazing truth.*Due to technical limitations, Video content is not available. Audio content will be available by Tuesday (Nov. 26th) at 6pm.*

It is possible for Christmas to IMPACT FAR MORE than just ONE DAY (or ONE SEASON) in each year. It can impact ETERNITY. Jesus taught us this in his most famous sermon: The Sermon on the Mount. In it, he taught us how we should think about WHAT WE CAN and SHOULD DO with the WEALTH THAT WE HAVE. Jesus taught us the VALUE OF STORAGE! During this SEASON OF SPENDING, his words about STORAGE have amazing RELEVANCE. Listen or watch as Pastor Luke expounds on this amazing truth.*Video/Audio content will be available by Tuesday (Nov. 26th) at 6pm.*

Quoting from What We Can’t Not Know: “A paraphrase of the Second Commamdment might be “You shall not use empty speech in connection with God.” … To say this is one of the things we can’t not know–that it belongs not only to biblical injunction but to natural law–is to say that we naturally understand certain things about the relation of speech to reality, a theme to which we return in the Eighth Commandment. Even a liar’s speech expressing something true; it may not tell us the state of the world, but it tells us the state of his heart. What empty God-talk tells us is that where there ought to be God, there is emptiness.”

Quoting from What We Can't Not Know: "A paraphrase of the Second Commamdment might be "You shall not use empty speech in connection with God." ... To say this is one of the things we can't not know--that it belongs not only to biblical injunction but to natural law--is to say that we naturally understand certain things about the relation of speech to relaity, a theme to which we return in the Eighth Commandment. Even a liar's speech  expressing something true; it may not tell us the state of the world, but it tells us the state of his heart. What empty God-talk tells us is that where there ought to be God, there is emptiness."  The Pat Flynn Show If you enjoyed this episode, it would mean the world to me if you could subscribe to, and leave a review for, The Pat Flynn show on iTunes HERE or Stitcher HERE. Reading your reviews and hearing your feedback is what keeps me fired up to make The Pat Flynn Show happen. Thank you!

Oussama Ammar is the co-founder, partner and director of The Family, the investment focused group that's not an incubator, accelerator or VC, but a family of entrepreneurs throughout Europe focused educating entrepreneurs, building infrastructure to empower them and opening them up to a network of smart investors. Oussama is an investor in Compass, Tribe App and... The post Why Europe is Toxic to Startups and What We Can do About It with Oussama Ammar of The Family appeared first on The Syndicate.

What does the 2007 -2008 financial crisis, the Fukushima nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, and Deepwater Horizon all have in common? The small things. Or rather, lots of tightly coupled small things that are overlooked, ignored or covered up. Accidents waiting to happen. In Deep Survival, Lawrence Gonzalez, writes about the fact that accidents don’t just happen, they are assembled carefully, piece by piece. And if just one single piece is missing, the accident simply doesn’t happen. Risk is unavoidable but accidents aren't.   Our world is filled with countless near-misses and close calls, and the truth is, most of the time we never even know how close we came to this or that accident or disaster. This is even truer at the organizational/institutional levels, where risk and complexity combine with organizational culture to increase both the likelihood and the impact of catastrophic failure. My guest on this podcast is Chris Clearfield. Chris brings a novel approach to the study of the challenges posed by risk and complexity. He’s a science geek and reformed derivatives trader, but more recently he’s the founder of System Logic, an independent research and consulting firm dedicated to understanding risk and its interaction with organizational factors. He’s also the co-author, with András Tilcsik, of Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail, and What We Can do About it, which is the topic of our show today. This isn't a conversation just about system failures and why they happen; it's also about what we can do about those failures, about how we can better prepare for, and even prevent many such accidents and failures from happening. “The same kind of culture and decision making that led to the financial crisis also led to BP" - Chris Clearfield  Complex systems generate risk (and fail) in ways that are fundamentally different from the kinds of risks and failures our species evolved to deal with over millions of years, and that the new risk landscape we face requires a new approach to risk management, and really, an entirely new organizational culture. Chris was very insightful during the conversation, as he discussed the emergent properties of many system-wide failures. Many of these disasters were emergent in those systems in the same way as the 2009 financial crisis was “of the system and not an anomaly.” “What would have to be in place for something really bad to happen?" Checklists and Pre-mortems After talking with Chris, I find myself thinking much more in terms of checklists and “pre-mortems” and the like. It’s like we spend most of our lives driving along a twisty mountain highway at night, totally clueless about just how close to the edge of the 500-foot cliff we really came around that last turn. I’m reflecting more and more on what would have to be in place for something bad to go wrong, say driving your car or in managing online bank accounts. What would have to be in place for something really bad to happen and then kind of going back and mentally reverse-engineering and mitigating those things, those pieces, one by one. I hope you find my conversation with Chris as interesting as I did.   Some of the other subjects we discuss include: Why systems fail and how some of these companies handled or weathered different crises much better than others; Tight coupling—where connections come together in a way that’s very hard to stop The most prevalent cognitive biases associated with meltdowns  Black Swan events—and how to find the feathers that predict such events Pre-established criteria in decision making The value of dissent Power cues—including a fascinating example Chris gives of a study they did with physicians’ around body language with patients; The S.P.I.E.S Tool, that goes hand in hand with the Annie Duke episode if you're curious and want to listen to that regarding Thinking in Bets. In other words, we talked about a ton of really interesting and useful subjects, and hopefully, I've “salted” this intro enough to make you thirsty for the whole episode.

On Todays Episode of The Beautfiul Butterfly Radio Show Brought to you by YRN1328 Welcomes Dr. Umar Johnson as we discuss " THE POWER OF PROPAGANDA"  There is alot that we see in the media that plays a significant part on how we view various things that take place....We are going to discuss how Propaganda Works and What WE Can do about it and MORE!!! Feel free to call in with questions or comments at 347-326-9139 Umar Abdullah-Johnson is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist who practices privately throughout Pennsylvania and lectures throughout the country. Umar is a blood relative of Frederick Douglass, the great Black abolitionist and orator. As a school psychologist Umar evaluates children ages 3-21 in an effort to determine if they have educational disabilities and a need for special education services. Umar is considered a national expert on learning disabilities and their effect on Black children, as well an expert on helping schools and parents modify challenging behaviors that can ultimately lead to disruptive behavior disorder diagnoses in Black boys.

This week, we welcome Dr. Jay Budziszewski, author of the book The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man. Dr. Budziszewski is professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin, where he has taught since 1981. He specializes in ethics, political philosophy and the interaction of these two fields with religion and theology. Budziszewski has written widely, in both scholarly and popular venues, about a variety of moral and political issues including abortion, marriage, sexuality, capital punishment, and the role of judges in a constitutional republic. His principal area of publication is the theory of natural law. J. Budziszewski received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1981, and is also author of the books Evangelicals in the Public Square, What We Can?t Not Know: A Guide, and Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law.

Dr. Chris and Fr. Andrew conclude their discussion of J. Budziszewski's book on the Natural Law, What We Can't Not Know The post https://www.sfcatholic.org/prc-episode-72-the-five-furies/ (PRC Episode #72: The Five Furies) appeared first on https://www.sfcatholic.org (Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls).

Dr. Chris and Fr. Andrew discuss J. Budziszewski's book on the Natural Law, What We Can't Not Know The post https://www.sfcatholic.org/prc-episode-71-what-we-cant-not-know/ (PRC Episode #71: What We Can’t Not Know) appeared first on https://www.sfcatholic.org (Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls).

In the final episode of Talkin' Star Wars we talk about how okay the spin-offs are. 00:52 General News We Wanted to Talk About 10:27 Rogue One 52:20 Solo: A Star Wars Story 1:45:10 What We Can't Let Go Of