You can also check out some other fine folks that we support such as The Church Basement Road Show and The Homebrewed Christianity Podcast. The Homebrewed guys are recording some nice interviews so be sure to check out their podcast and subscribe to it. And check out the calendar for the Church Basement Road Show so that you can swing by and have a rip roaring good time with some crazy holy ghost revialists. They also have some good videos up on YouTube. Hopefully I can be lucky enough to be in one soon. Or maybe I can just get my picture made with Kirk Cameron.

You can check out Ryan’s blog here and The Cobalt Season site here. You can also find his design work at Sharp Seven Design. They were the ones who did all the design work for the Jesus for President Book by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw.

Sara is also the author of How to Hack a Party Line: The Democrats and Silicon Valley and co-editor of Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan and the anthology Opposite Sex. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Out, The Progressive, La Jornada and Salon, among others. She has written extensively on military affairs, politics and culture. The founder of St. Gregory’s Food Pantry, she lives in San Francisco with her family.

In this podcast, Sara and Josh talk about food, farming, and the centrality of the table in the Christian life.

We’re biased, but we think this is good stuff as always.

This week’s episodes features Ori Brafman, author of The Starfish & The Spider and Sway. Josh and Ori talk about some of the changing dynamics in leadership, networks, and organizations. They even touch on terrorism and micro-finance for the fun of it. (more…)

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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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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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.

In this episode we hear three full tracks from her newest album, The Geography of Light, and get to hear a little bit about each song. She also shares what she finds so compelling about the Quaker Communities.

So give the episode a listen and hear some new music.

Her website, which is quite beautiful, is located at CarrieNewcomer.com

From the website:

“For singer/songwriter Carrie Newcomer, beauty is discovered in the midst of the ordinary. Life is experienced in the spaces between darkness and light. Truth is found in the bond between music and word.”

On her website you can get more information about her music, tours, workshops she leads, and even a healthy dose of activism sites.

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