A World of Difference

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  • Change Makers EPS 45: Craig Martin on The Good Road, TCK's, Bangkok, racism & LGBTQ+

    As a TV and film producer, director, writer and editor, Craig has produced hundreds of projects, both long and short form. With a Master of Arts in Communications from Baylor University, he has explored a variety of formats including dramatic and journalistic storytelling with a focus on documentary. In addition to his film accomplishments, Craig has written multiple articles for national publications. He also won a national PBS Advertising & Promotion award and was a contributing finalist in a Pictures of the Year International award.

    His work includes the feature-length docudrama The Insanity of God, distributed internationally by Word Films and screened on more than 500 theaters through Fathom Events. This film had a national theatrical release with a viewership of 88,000 and sold $1.2M in tickets. He is Executive Producer on Free Burma Rangers, a Fathom/LifeWay documentary that was screened in theaters nationally in February 2020. Currently, Craig is co-host and producer of the Emmy-nominated TV docu-series called The Good Road. This series explores the world of philanthropy and aired on Public Television in April 2020. It is presented by WETA in Washington, DC. Craig is also producing a podcast called Philanthropology and has written a book called Confessions of a Philanthropologist. 

    Craig lives with his wife and twin 18-year-olds in Richmond, Virginia. He loves his family so much that he even agreed to be the PTSA President for his daughter’s public high school, Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School. Now THAT is a commitment to family!

    Follow The Good Road on Linkedin, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and You Tube.

    Check out Free Burma Rangers on Amazon Prime.

    Follow Craig at: IMDB, Linkedin, or Facebook

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Change Makers EPS 44: Kathy Khang on raising your voice, the Atlanta shootings, questioning your pastor, when to leave a church and handling DARVO

    Kathy Khang is a writer, speaker, and yoga teacher.

    Kathy is the author of Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent and How to Speak Up. She is a columnist for Sojourners magazine and also writes for Faith & Leadership, Evangelicals for Social Actions and Inheritance. She is one of the authors of More Than Serving Tea (InterVarsity Press, 2006), blogs at www.kathykhang.com, tweets and Instagrams as @mskathykhang, posts at www.facebook.com/kathykhangauthor, and partners with other bloggers, pastors, and Christian leaders to highlight and move the conversation forward on issues of race, ethnicity, and gender within the church. Kathy also has worked for the past 20 years with a national parachurch organization.

    She is the author of Alabaster Guided Meditations, Psalms Vol. 1 and 2 (IV Press, 2020). She also serves on the board of Evangelicals for Social Action.

    Ms. Khang was a newspaper reporter in Green Bay and Milwaukee, WI before spending more than two decades in vocational ministry where she focused on leadership development and training leaders in diversity and justice. She holds a BS in journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

    She is based in the north suburbs of Chicago and is honored to be mom to three incredible young adults. 

    Stay In Touch: Connect on Facebook and Instagram with thoughts, questions, and feedback. Rate, review and share this podcast with anyone that would love to listen.  On Clubhouse @loriadbr. Find Us Online: @aworldof.difference on Instagram and A World of Difference on Facebook on Twitter at @loriadbr https://linktr.ee/aworldofdifference or loriadamsbrown.com

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    1 hr 12 min
  • Change Makers EPS 43: Rich Villodas on the Deeply Formed Life, Diversity & Inclusion, New York City & Justice

    Rich Villodas is the Brooklyn-born lead pastor of New Life Fellowship, a large multiracial church with more than seventy-five countries represented in Elmhurst, Queens. Rich holds a Master of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary. He enjoys reading widely, preaching and writing on contemplative spirituality, justice-related matters, and the art of preaching. He's been married to Rosie since 2006 and they have two beautiful children, Karis and Nathan. His first book, The Deeply Formed Life, is now available wherever books are sold.

    You can follow him here on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

    https://linktr.ee/richvillodas

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    1 hr
  • Change Makers EPS 42: Dr. Chuck DeGroat on Narcissism in the Church, Spiritual Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Empathy with Accountability

    Dr. Chuck DeGroat is Professor of Pastoral Care and Christian Spirituality at Western Theological Seminary, MI, and Senior Fellow at Newbigin House of Studies, San Francisco. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and therapist. Chuck has been married to Sara for 27 years, and has two adult daughters.

    He is the author of:

    1. When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community from Emotional and Spiritual Abuse
    2. Leaving Egypt: Finding God in Wilderness Places
    3. Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion and Healing the Divided Self,
    4. Toughest People to Love: How to Understand, Lead, and Love the Difficult People in Your Life -- Including Yourself.

    5. Follow Dr. DeGroat's work on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter

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      1 hr 5 min
    6. Women in the Church EPS 41: Dr. Michelle Ami Reyes on Becoming All Things, AAPI Heritage Month, Asian-American women in the Church
      Dr. Michelle Ami Reyes is the Vice President of the Asian American Christian Collaborative and Co-Executive Directir at Pax. She is also the Scholar in Residence at Hope Community Church and author of Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead to Lasting Connections Across Cultures. Michelle lives in Austin, TX with her husband, Aaron, and two kids.
      Follow her work at: @aachristcollab and @hopeccatx
      and her wisdom on twitter at: @drmichellereyes
      She speaks to us about how proximity to people who are different from us leads to empathy which leads to action.
      She references Dr. Korie Edwards's Christianity Today article on multicultural churches.
      She references Dr. Michael Emerson, a sociologist who says that 70% of multicultural churches still have white male leadership. His book Divided by Faith is insightful on race in the church.
      58 min
    7. Women in the Church EPS 40: Karen Gonzalez on the God Who Sees, Immigrants and the power of stories

      Karen Gonzalez is a speaker, writer, public theologian, and immigrant advocate, who herself immigrated from Guatemala as a child. Karen is a former public school teacher and attended Fuller Theological Seminary, where she studied theology and missiology. For the last 12 years, she has been a non-profit professional, currently working for World Relief, an organization in Baltimore, MD that serves immigrants and refugees. She wrote a book about her own immigration story and the many immigrants found in the Bible: The God Who Sees: Immigrants, The Bible, and the Journey to Belong (Herald Press, May 2019) and is currently at work on her second book.

      Stay In Touch: Connect on Facebook and Instagram with thoughts, questions, and feedback. Rate, review and share this podcast with anyone that would love to listen. On Clubhouse @loriadbr. Find Us Online: @aworldof.difference on Instagram and A World of Difference on Facebook on Twitter at @loriadbr https://linktr.ee/aworldofdifference or loriadamsbrown.com

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      1 hr
    8. Women in the Church EPS 39: Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez on Jesus and John Wayne, the evangelical man box, and how this lens on history shapes the present

      Kristin Kobes Du Mez is Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for the Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, and The Daily Beast, and has been interviewed on NPR, CBS, and the BBC, among other outlets. Her most recent book is Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.

      Stay In Touch: Connect on Facebook and Instagram with thoughts, questions, and feedback. Rate, review and share this podcast with anyone that would love to listen. On Clubhouse @loriadbr. Find Us Online: @aworldof.difference on Instagram and A World of Difference on Facebook on Twitter at @loriadbr https://linktr.ee/aworldofdifference or loriadamsbrown.com

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      1 hr 7 min
    9. Women in the Church EPS 38: Tiffany Bluhm on Prey Tell, discrediting women whistleblowers and speaking up about abuse

      Tiffany Bluhm is the author of Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up. She is a sought after speaker, writer, and podcast co-host of the popular podcast Why Tho, a show answering the existential and nonsensical questions we ask ourselves, with author and speaker, Ashley Abercrombie. She speaks at conferences and events, and her work has been featured in World Vision Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Sojourners, Red Letter Christians, the YouVersion Bible app, Jenny McCarthy Show, and more. As a minority, immigrant woman with a interracial family, she is passionate about women’s equality, justice, and dignity. 

      Stay In Touch: Connect on Facebook and Instagram with thoughts, questions, and feedback. Rate, review and share this podcast with anyone that would love to listen.  On Clubhouse @loriadbr. Find Us Online: @aworldof.difference on Instagram and A World of Difference on Facebook on Twitter at @loriadbr and at https://linktr.ee/aworldofdifference

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      55 min
    10. Women in the Church EPS 37: Dr. Beth Allison Barr on Biblical Womanhood, Complimentarianism, Contradictions in the Church, Medieval History and Women's History

      Dr. Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is associate professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate School at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women’s history, and church history. She is the president of the Conference on Faith and History and is a member of Christians for Biblical Equality. Barr has written for Christianity Today, the Washington Post, and Religion News Service, and is a regular contributor to The Anxious Bench, the popular Patheos website on Christian history.

      Her book The Making of Biblical Womanhood:  How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth releases April 20.

      Dr. Barr on NPR interview from April 15, 2021

      Dr. Barr interviewed by Dr. Scot McKnight on the Kingdom Roots podcast on April 15, 2021

      Stay In Touch: Connect on Facebook and Instagram with thoughts, questions, and feedback. Rate, review and share this podcast with anyone that would love to listen.  On Clubhouse @loriadbr. Find Us Online: @aworldof.difference on Instagram and A World of Difference on Facebook on Twitter at @loriadbr and at https://linktr.ee/aworldofdifference










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      1 hr 8 min
    11. Women in the Church EPS 36: Bronwyn Lea on awkward sidehugs, women pastors, and South Africa/California differences

      Bronwyn Lea has been active for twenty years in vocational ministry to serve, encourage, teach, and mobilize Christians of all ages. A graduate of law school and seminary, she ministers in her local church and also heads up Propel Sophia, the Christian living wisdom resource for Propel Women. Bronwyn is mom to three school-aged kids, who keep her somewhere between hilarious laughter and desperate prayer on any given day. She and her fellow South African husband live in Northern California, where they count the men and women in their church as both friends and family. Learn more at www.bronlea.com.

      Order her book Beyond Awkward Side Hugs:  Living as Christian Brothers and Sisters in a Sex-Crazed World.


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      1 hr 3 min

    About A World of Difference

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    A World of Difference is a leadership podcast for executives and organizational leaders navigating change across cultures, industries, and continents. Hosted by Lori Adams-Brown, a strategic transformation executive with over 20 years of C-suite advisory experience, the show explores organizational effectiveness, executive development, and leadership development through real conversations with leaders who have built and led across borders.