ep 8.6 - Robert Costa

This is the last podcast that Nick sends from Australia. It is amazing to think that we have kept this podcast weekly from two sides of the earth, but that is the power of The Nick and Josh Podcast.

Robert Costa lives in Melbourne, Australia and does work in produce as well as sitting on the board of Presence International Ministries. We found out about Presence when our friend Mike gave Nick some DVD about the end times. Very much in the vein of Andrew Perriman’s The Coming of the Son of Man.

This is a short interview where Robert Costa shares some of his theology. Enjoy the end of the Aussie accents. (Well maybe one or two more).

The music was from Deerhoof.

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ep 8.5 - Michael French

On our latest episode, our European Correspondent, Joshua Case, talks with Reverend Michael French, MA, Ma (Econ), who has worked as Rector to Holy Trinity Anglican Church and for the Anglican UN office in Geneva, Switzerland. Reverend French has worked the intersections of faith and development for over 20 years and in June 2008 will become the Director of Advocacy for World Vision UK. Through the course of this interview, Mike challenges us to consider what it means to be patient advocates for justice not merely on a global scale, but also in our personal networks.

ep 8.4 Dave Andrews’ Waiters Union

This week Nick talks to Dave Andrews from the Waiters Union. The Waiters Union is a community of people that live in West End, an aging suburb in Brisbane, Australia.Dave and the Waiters are active in the community in all sorts of ways. He is an author, musician, activist, speaker, and teaches classes at local universities on community development.He works to find sustainable ways to live and be a community of integrity in the area of West End. All of his work involved the underprivileged - refugees, mentally unstable, destitute - all of these make up a congregation that is treated with dignity and respect.

Dave’s website is here, where you can read more articles, listen to his music, or hear more about the waiter’s union.

Nick also wrote up a review of three of his books on his blog here.

This is the website that launched with his latest book Plan Be - a guide to using the beatitudes to transform the way you relate to the world around you.

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ep 8.3 - Lisa Ray: Parents For Ethical Marketing

This week’s episode is with Ariah Fine interviewing Lisa Ray from the blog Corporate Babysitter. Ariah and Lisa talk about ethics and marketing and consumerism and how they’re all intertwined in a system geared towards influencing our children. If you’re a parent, want to be a parent, expecting to be a parent . . . I wouldn’t miss this episode for anything.

You can find Lisa’s blog at Corporate Babysitter - Parents For Ethical Marketing.

Links to blog post covered in the interview: 1) Baby Einstein site revamp, 2) Media conferences in Minneapolis, 3) The Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood

Correction: The reference to FCC in the interview is supposed to be concerning the FTC.

And remember you can buy Ariah’s new book here or here.