We are celebrating actor/writer/teacher Garrett Turner’s role as Ike Turner in Broadway’s Tina (The Tina Turner Musical) as the hit show hits the road. We revisit part of our 2019 conversation with Garrett, speaking about his late introduction to acting, his history on stage and television, and the difference between writing and acting.

Host Marthame Sanders shares some thoughts on the deeper meaning of Christmas and the challenge and hope it brings.

We begin our collaboration process with photographer Eley, talking about outer space, inner space, and the possibility of being changed through relationship.

Listen to our past aijcast conversation with Eley.

We wrap up our collaboration process with pastor/poet Jeremy Green, reflecting back on making the poster for our imagined horror movie One, making art in an increasingly fractured pop culture landscape, and how people are more complicated than we give them credit for being.

• Listen to part three of our collaboration.

• Listen to part two of our collaboration.

• Listen to part one of our collaboration.

In part three of our collaboration with pastor-poet Jeremy Green, we work together on creating a poster for our imagined horror movie One.

• Listen to part two of our collaboration.

• Listen to part one of our collaboration.

See a full version of the poster.

We continue our collaboration with pastor/poet Jeremy Green, talking about the connection between fear and love, what terrifies us, and what our horror movie poster would look like.

• Listen to part one of our collaboration.

We begin our collaboration process with pastor/poet Jeremy Green, talking about the power of horror films, how “family” is being redefined in health ways, and bell hooks’ All About Love.

Listen to our past aijcast conversation with Jeremy.

As we wrap up our collaboration process with filmmaker Weston Manders and look back at the creation of our short film Kudzu, we talk about perfection and fear, co-signing vs. collaborating, and finding God at work in it all.

• Listen to part three of our collaboration.

• Listen to part two of our collaboration.

• Listen to part one of our collaboration.

We revisit part of our 2018 conversation with Tricia Hersey (AKA the Nap Bishop) to celebrate the publication of her book Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto. She discusses the importance of poetry, her performance art alter-ego Lady Terror, and what she learned from Pentecostal preaching at the liquor store.

In part three of our collaboration with filmmaker Weston Manders, we work together on creating a short film called Kudzu.

• Listen to part two of our collaboration.

• Listen to part one of our collaboration.

Watch the film.