Amplify Peace: Creating a Better Story Together

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In this episode, Elizabeth Neumann, national security contributor for ABC News and former counterterrorism advisor, draws on years of experience studying extremism and violence to name a hopeful truth: the Church is not sidelined in this cultural moment. It is essential.

Elizabeth walks listeners through the path toward radicalization and extremism, showing how words, rhetoric, and narratives shape culture long before violence ever appears. From a Jesus-centered perspective, she invites the Church to reclaim its role as a healing presence, one that forms people in love, humility, and peace rather than fear and grievance.

This conversation challenges followers of Jesus to consider how everyday language and reactions shape the world around us, and how peacemaking can become a faithful response in fractured times.

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What if the song inside of you is the very thing someone else needs to survive their hardest moment?

In this episode, Stellar Award–nominated singer, speaker, and storyteller Doreen Vail takes us deep into the sacred intersection of music, healing, and calling. Her voice has comforted people in their final days, lifted men sitting behind prison walls, and opened hearts that had almost given up on joy.

Doreen shares powerful stories from nursing homes, hospital rooms, and prisons—moments where God used her voice to bring peace, dignity, and hope when words weren’t enough. She reminds us that healing doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it sounds like a single note. A whispered lyric. A song breathed into a quiet room.

Doreen invites you to see your voice - spoken or sung as a gift meant to be shared. Not polished. Not perfect. Just offered.

This episode will stir something in you.
 It will make you listen differently.
 And it might awaken a song you’ve been holding inside for too long.

Listen in and discover what healing sounds like.

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What if the person you fear, avoid, or misunderstand is the person whose story could change you?

In this episode, Stellar Award–nominated singer, speaker, and storyteller Doreen Vail explores what happens when we cross the lines that separate us and discover connection in unexpected places.

Doreen shares why most of us enter rooms guarded, why authenticity is rare, and what allows someone to finally exhale and be fully themselves. She names the shift that happens when we stop meeting each other as “the other” and start seeing each other as human.

You’ll hear her reflect on:
 • How authenticity changes the atmosphere
 • Why belonging is a universal need
 • What heals us when we show up honestly
 • How curiosity dismantles fear

This conversation is warm, honest, and deeply human.
 It will challenge you to ask:

Who have I labeled as “the other,” and what small step could I take toward them today?

Listen in. Let your heart stretch.

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Imagine your job is to find the story that could mean life instead of death.

In this powerful conversation with Rev. Dr. Joshua Noblitt, we go behind prison walls and into the heart of humanity itself. For ten years, Josh worked as a Mitigation Specialist on death penalty cases listening to the stories of those society often refuses to see. His job was to uncover the human story behind the crime to help the court, and the world, remember the person.

This episode goes where few are willing to go: into the intersection of justice, mercy, and redemption. Lisa and Josh explore what it means to truly see someone, even in their brokenness, and how that act of seeing becomes a form of peacebuilding.

Together, they unpack hard questions about justice, trauma, forgiveness, and restoration and what it means to believe in the possibility of redemption when the world says it’s too late.

Listen in to discover how peace shows up in the unlikeliest places and what it can teach us about our own capacity for compassion and courage.

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What if the loudest conflict in your life isn’t with someone else but with yourself?

In this powerful conversation, Lisa Jernigan and Rev. Dr. Joshua Noblitt explore what it means to make peace with your own story. As a therapist and theologian, Josh brings deep insight into how our inner dialogue shapes the way we see the world and ourselves. Together uncover why the words we speak to ourselves matter, how healing begins, and how finding inner peace changes everything about how we love, lead, and live.

If you’ve ever struggled with self-criticism, shame, or simply feeling disconnected from yourself, this episode offers both wisdom and hope.

Listen in and begin your journey toward peace with self.

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We’ve been told spiritual formation means more discipline, more doing, more effort. But what if it’s not about striving at all? What if formation is actually about slowing down, paying attention, and letting grace do the shaping?

In this conversation, Lisa continues with Toni Kim, Director of Spiritual Care for the National Association of Evangelicals. With a background in theology from Yale, Regent College, and Harvard, and nearly two decades in pastoral ministry, Toni brings uncommon depth and clarity to what spiritual formation really means. Her experience helping others navigate faith, identity, and healing gives this episode a grounded and transformative perspective.

Together, they explore how formation integrates the head, heart, and body and how the small, ordinary moments of life can become sacred spaces of growth and renewal.

You’ll learn:

• The difference between discipleship and spiritual formation
• How head, heart, and body all play a role in becoming whole
• What happens when we stop trying to fix ourselves and start living integrated lives
• Why formation is less about rules and more about relationship

This episode will challenge what you thought spiritual growth looked like and invite you into something truer, gentler, and far more transformative.

If you’re tired of trying to be “better,” maybe it’s time to learn how to be whole.

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What if the real force shaping your faith isn’t love… but shame?

We rarely talk about it, but shame drives how we see ourselves, how we relate to God, and how we show up in the world. It hides beneath perfectionism, people-pleasing, and even spirituality, quietly scripting how we live.

In this episode, we talk with Toni Kim, Director of Spiritual Care for the National Association of Evangelicals, who’s spent years studying how shame forms us and how freedom and healing is possible. Toni helps us unpack how to recognize shame’s voice, why it’s so powerful, and what freedom looks like when we finally name it.

This isn’t a conversation about guilt or failure. It’s about the transformative impact of healing.

You’ll discover:

• The subtle ways shame disguises itself as spirituality
• How shame shapes your inner life without you realizing it
• Why real spiritual growth begins with honesty, not performance
• Practical ways to move from shame to wholeness

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Gen Z is asking bold questions and they’re not settling for shallow answers. In this episode, Lisa and Tre’ Giles explore how young people are searching for belonging and truth, not through programs but through authentic relationships. With his gift for storytelling, Tre shares personal experiences and memorable quotes from his journey - from the Peace Corps in West Africa to mentoring students and walking with marginalized communities. He paints a picture of a generation becoming a prophetic voice, calling the church back to its ancient, transformative roots. His stories will stay with you long after listening so have a pen ready to take notes.

Tre Giles: National Director of Campus Engagement at Alpha USA.

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Website: https://alphausa.org

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trelgiles

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What changes a life more - an argument or an open table? In this episode, Lisa sits down with Tre’ Giles to explore his powerful journey from rebellious youth in Colorado Springs to Christlikeness, shaped by radical hospitality, authentic mentorship, and the transformative power of being truly seen and heard. Through stories of mentors who welcomed him in, professors who recognized his potential, and encounters in West Africa that taught humility, Tre paints a picture of faith that is rooted not in certainty but in openness, empathy, and belonging. His storytelling is rich with quotes and lived wisdom that will leave you both challenged and inspired.

Tre Giles: National Director of Campus Engagement at Alpha USA.

Contact Info:

Website: https://alphausa.org

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trelgiles

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Micah Fries – Multi Faith Neighbors Network

What if the simple act of building friendships that dissolve fear could be the force that changes our future? Religion has long carried a double edge - capable of inspiring love and compassion, yet also fueling division, oppression, and mistrust. In today’s world, those tensions remain. But what if there’s another way forward?

In Part 2 of this series, we continue our conversation with Micah Fries - Director of the Multi-Faith Neighbors Network, Director of Engagement at Glocal.net, and co-editor of Islam & North America: Loving Our Muslim Neighbors. Drawing from his years as a pastor, global minister, and bridge-builder among Christians, Muslims, and Jews, Micah explores what it takes to move beyond suspicion into friendship.

This episode asks us to consider:

·       What happens when we show up fully present, with curiosity and humility?

·       How might our conversations change if we began from the position of friends, not strangers?

·       What barriers - fear, mistrust, or indifference - live in our own hearts and communities, and what would it look like to rethink them?

·       What practical steps can neighbors take to choose peace, even when it’s hard?

This is an invitation to lean in, listen to understand, and even examine ourselves with honesty. Because peace isn’t passive. Peace begins when we dare to show up and imagine a better future together.