aijcast

We revisit part of our 2020 conversation with songstress Naima Shalhoub, speaking about her work as a teacher and advocate, the importance of her Lebanese heritage, and her latest album SIPHR.

Our collaboration with Cara Fears Johnson and Carlton Johnson resulted in the song We Are One. We release it as a standalone bonus episode!

The song We Are One is the result of our collaboration with Cara Fears Johnson and Carlton Johnson (Presbyterian Mission Agency). Listen in on our creative process as this song of inclusion and welcome comes to life!

• Listen to part two of our collaboration.

• Listen to part one of our collaboration.

Listen to the song.

In celebration of the June release of his third book All God’s Children, we revisit our 2017 conversation with minister, community activist, speaker Terence Lester, where he recalls his earliest experiences with unhoused people, the founding of Love Beyond Walls, and how his work and advocacy are ways of incarnating God’s love.

We continue our collaboration with Cara Fears Johnson (Georgia Resiliency Program) and Carlton Johnson (Presbyterian Mission Agency) imagining a song about hospitality, sources of inspiration, and about the importance of self-acceptance.

In a conversation recorded backstage at Wild Goose Festival in 2021, musical duo HuDost (Moksha Sommer and Jemal Wade Hines) talk about musical collaboration, lyrics that deepen beyond their intended meaning, and moving beyond compartmentalization. Plus, we share a couple of their songs from the Wild Goose main stage!

We begin our collaboration with Cara Fears Johnson and Carlton Johnson (Presbyterian Mission Agency) talking about our cultural empathy gap, the mixed bag of technology, and the importance of music to the two of them.

Listen to our previous aijcast conversation with Carlton.

We wrap up our process with visual artist and pastor Darci Jaret (Park Avenue Baptist Church, Art in the Image) speaking about our song, the importance of taking artistic risks, and the life-giving act of collaboration.

• Listen to part three of our collaboration.

• Listen to part two plus of our collaboration.

• Listen to part two of our collaboration.

• Listen to part one of our collaboration.

In sacred memory of Tortuguita, we present the official version of Weelaunee (Soft Forest Bed), our protest song written in collaboration with Darci Jaret (Park Avenue Baptist Church, Art in the Image).

As a bonus episode, we share a version of our protest song with Darci Jaret (Park Avenue Baptist, Art in the Image) reimagined as a pop punk anthem.