Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church Summer Podcast Series

This is the final episode of this second season of the podcast. As we look towards the end of the summer and fall, Rebecca Kirkpatrick and  Agnes  Norfleet chat together about their experience of the pandemic and what Agnes is looking forward to in this next moment for the church and the world. 

Today’s podcast features a longer conversation among three members of the BMPC Anti-Racism Taskforce - Chuck Speed, Joan LaLeike and David Jones. All three of them share what initially drew them to our congregation, what it is like to be a person of color in our community, and their hopes for BMPC as we continue with our Anti-Racism work into the future. 

Today’s podcast features a conversation between Rebecca Kirkpatrick and  Anita Friday, local activist, anti-racism educator and attorney. They talk together about the increased attention being given to Critical Race Theory around the country. Anita herself was just recently involved in a public debate in the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District over the move to ban the teaching of CRT in TE classrooms. 

Today’s podcast features a conversation between Frank Pottorff and BMPC member Dr. Carl Reynolds. Carl is a physician and cardiologist at Penn Medicine and practices at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. Carl is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Perelman School of medicine at the university of Pennsylvania. 

Today’s episode features a conversation with the Rev. Kirsten Fryer a pastor for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America who serves a small urban congregation in St. Paul. Minnesota. In the wake the murder of George Floyd, Kirsten’s congregation was called upon to respond with grace and compassion in service to their local community and the world.  

Today’s episode features a conversation between the Rev. Brian Ballard and the Rev. Leigh DeVries as they chat together about what it has meant for both of them to have spent their first two years in ministry primarily navigating the pandemic and how it has shaped the way they will forever approach pastoral ministry.

Today’s episode features a conversation with The Rev. Elmarie Parker who serves as a PCUSA Mission Co-Worker in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Since 2013 Elmarie and her husband Scott have worked in partnership with the Presbyterian Church in the region as well as other ecumenical bodies supporting their work in the face of the Syrian refugee crisis and especially now in the midst of a severe economic and political crisis in Lebanon. BMPC has supported Scott and Elmarie since 2016 through Presbyterian World Mission and she shares what the support means to our partners in the region.  

Welcome to season two of the BMPC Summer podcast, a limited podcast series from Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church for this season when we cannot all be together as a church, but we can still be church together. 

On this first episode The Revs. Rebecca Kirkpatrick and Frank Pottorff reflect on what the significance of sacred spaces are in our lives as individuals and as a church, and what it has meant to try to recreate the feeling of being in our sanctuary together as a virtual church over the past year 

Today’s episode is the final installment in our Summer Podcast series. As we look to what Church life will be like this fall, the Revs. Rebecca Kirkpatrick and Frank Pottorff talk about how we will continue to be a virtual church together, including a church wide study of theologian Ben Myers' book on the Apostles' Creed and the creation of small connection groups for adults in the church. 

In today's episode, the Rev. Rebecca Kirkpatrick and the Rev. Rachel Pedersen, BMPC Associate Pastor for Children and Family Ministry, share stories about Rachel's experience of the global church in Ghana, South Africa, China and the United Nations. Rachel talks about how these experiences shaped her pastoral identity and how her international background informs the way that we connect children in our congregation to the Body of Christ around the world.