We continue our talk with entrepreneur Natalie Chan as she shares her journey establishing OWN Academy and the challenges she has faced confronting rigid structures and mindsets. Her successes as well as her setbacks will be an inspiration to you on your own life journey.

Get ready to go Beyond the Pale with Natalie Chan!

Show Notes:

1:04 Steve’s Intro

5:26 Challenging set structures

14:10 Diversity and New Perspectives

17: 34 Pushing through to achieve your goal

29:40 Overcoming setbacks

Natalie Chan is an educator and entrepreneur who is helping to rethink and reshape new ways of learning for the 21st century. She shares her story of entering the corporate world only to then see a different path leading her to addressing areas of justice and the betterment of society through new educational paradigms.
Go Beyond the Pale with Natalie Chan!

Episode Index:

1:12 Intro to episode with Steve & Tammy

9:50: What pulls us away from what we are used to?

17:00- Natalie’s story begins

28:00 - Opening our mind to other cultures

35:00- Entering the corporate world

36:40- Creating opportunity despite rejection

49:36- How do we learn?

In Episode 71 Christine & Mark continue their story and share about Christine's new position as an "Intergenerational Missioner" for the Anglican Church. How she seeks to connect various generations with each other and the church has implications for all of us in an increasingly changing society.

Get ready to go Beyond the Pale with Mark & Christine Cattenach

Show Index:

00;20 Intro with Steve & Tammy

17:05- Investing resources in people

28:18 Becoming a “Missioner”

38:00 Gungor & The Big Church Day Out

Steve travels to London England on today's episode to sit down with Mark and Christine Cattanach as they share how and why they took a break from church. Their story of hitting the pause button to find their bearings and reflect will be an inspiration on your own journey. Get ready to go beyond the Pale with Mark & Christine Cattanach

Show index:

1:20 - Intro with Steve & Tammy

12:12 - How going to church became a challenge

26:36 - What God wants or what we want?

39:13- Finding church in different places

45:12- Held hostage to “Words from God”?

RTHK Radio 3 film critic James Marsh sits down with Steve to discuss this year's Oscar race, review the Best Picture nominees, and give his predictions of what films will be taking home the gold at the 90th Annual Academy Awards.

Show index:

9:00- Best Supporting Actor

20:50- Best Supporting Actress

35:57- Best Actor

49:08- Best Actress

1:04:00- Best Director

1:15:44- Best Picture

Padraig O' Tuama is a poet, storyteller, musician, and leader of the peace and reconciliation community called Corrymeela in Belfast Northern Ireland. Padraig discusses with Steve his journey as he navigates culture, faith, sexual orientation, and even his understanding of God with a religious structure often at odds. He shares the stories of how he learned to do so in a way that that brought peace to himself and those around him. Go Beyond the Pale with Padraig O'Tuama

Episode Index:
1:07 (intro) Tammy reads selected sections and poetry from Padraig’s book “In the Shelter”

15:12- Growing up Catholic in Ireland

19:54 - Being Catholic in an Evangelical surrounding

34:43 - Living in Community

39:19- Faith & Sexual Orientation

45:35- The Devil? Who is he?

55:05- The Corrymeela Community

1:00:34- “Blessed are the Peacemakers…”

Youth Pastor Rich Kifer, a previous guest on Beyond the Pale, asked if he could chat with me by phone to discuss some questions as he deconstructs, and attempts to reconstruct, his faith. He kindly allowed me to record our conversation as I suggested it might help others who are also processing their faith. Along the way Rich and I discuss hell, suffering, Biblical violence, and some bad church experiences. I even share about the time the church board shut down my high school dance. Yes, Footloose is not just a movie for me.
Get ready to go Beyond the Pale with Rich Kifer

Show Index:

0:53 (Intro) Steve in London England

9:30- Why I can't be an atheist

13:05- Bible Literalism?

24:45- Deconstructing Hell & Salvation

35:30 - Changing "how" we believe rather than "what" we believe

47:09 On Suffering

1:09:28- Reconstruction

Martin Daniel, Beyond the Pale's "geek" correspondent, sits down with Steve & Tammy to discuss and review the latest installment in the Star Wars franchise; The Last Jedi. Does the return of Luke Skywalker live up to the hype? Or does the film fail to deliver?

Get ready to go Beyond the Pale with Martin Daniel!

Steve & Tammy podcast from Hoi An Vietnam on where their faith journey has gone recently and how they are increasingly looking to living in "the now". When we spend our energy looking to the horizon we can overlook they people, needs, and even opportunities that are right in front of us.

Get ready to go Beyond the Pale with Steve & Tammy in Vietnam!

Show Notes:

4:46- Greetings from Vietnam

9:18- How our journey has changed and "living in the now"

14:55- Tammy shares on learning to judge others (and herself) less

24:20- Being freed from appeasing the "monster" God

Award winning author Paul Ellis talks to Steve & Tammy about his new book A.D. 70. Unlike the anxiety produced by many books on prophecy and the fear of being "left behind", AD 70 offers a hopeful and "good news" alternative to the "last days." Drawing on an in-depth study of the scripture alongside forgotten lessons from history Paul reinterprets the dark tales of vengeance and judgement through the lens of grace.

Get ready to go Beyond the Pale with Paul Ellis

Show Notes:

4:42 - (intro) Talking pilgrimage walks with Paul

10:24- Paul explains why the year AD 70 was so important

17:41- Why a Grace author writes a book on the "End Times"

22:34- Talking the Rapture and the Return of Christ

32:08- The "wrath" of God probably ain't what you think.