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 8.0 - Jason Clark & Deep Church

This week on the podcast Josh Case, our EU correspondent, interviews Jason Clark from Deep Church. This is Part Two of the interview. You can find Part One here.

Jason is what we call a vintage blogger, meaning that’s he’s been around a while and pretty much respected by everybody in the blogging community. Jason also is a point person for developing Emergent in the UK. Currently, Emergent-UK has over 3,000 pastors and leaders from a broad range of church streams/denominations, involved in ongoing discussion and a resource network, which he oversees.

You can find out more about Jason here. Jason also podcasts here (Emergent related) and here (church talks).

Joshua and Jason talk about Deep Church and a few other things. Be sure to stop by and check out his site and our good friend Josh Case’s site.

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ep 7.8 - Corporate Responsbility w/ Ariah Fine

Ariah is back for another hard hitting edition of our Corporate Responsibility series.As mentioned in the podcast, Ariah has his first book out that he self-published. If you want to be a part of the cool crowd and support our/your friends, then this is the place and way to do it. If you want to buy it directly from him, here’s the place to do it and if you want to do it through Amazon, then you can do that as well here.It’s called Giving Up and here is an excerpt,

Carter Owen was on top of the world. The successful owner of Nelius Incorporated, with a home in the prestigious Garden Hills, Carter and his family had little to worry about. An abandoned factory, a once famous professor, and an ancient philosophy book turns their world upside down. With their values and the world as they know it in question, the Owen family stands on the brink of doing something they never thought possible…giving up.

And here are a couple of links that Ariah mentioned in the podcast: Non-Toxic Paint and Corporate Responsibility Monday’s backlinks.

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New Freebie Up

We try to make it worth your while to leave the closed world of iTunes and check out our website. We do this by trying to bait and switch you with a “freebie” hosted on the website. So this month we’ve got a free sample chapter from Doug Pagitt’s new book, A Christianity Worth Believing. You can also hear Doug reading Chapter 1 of the book here. Doug also recently unveiled his new website at DougPagitt.com.

ep 7.3 - Corporate Responsibility with Ariah

We’re a little early this week with the releasing of the podcast. But I’m (Josh) heading out of town for vacation this week and Nick is in an RV in the middle of Australia. So our busyness is your gain. If you consider getting our podcast 2 days early a “gain”. Be sure to stick around for the whole podcast as Anna joins me for a Tall Skinny section and the announcement of some big news.

This week Ariah is back for another edition of the Corporate Responsibility section of the podcast. He talks with his good friend Daniel Burt who was featured on the Oprah Show for their freegan lifestyle. Daniel and his wife Amanda are dumpster divers and proponents of the freegan lifestyle. You can check out their info on Oprah’s site or you can just visit their blog. And you can also check out the segment that came on right before their interview of some dumpster divers in New York City.

Also be sure to check out Ariah’s blog.

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