Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church Summer Podcast Series

In today's episode Rebecca Kirkpatrick is  joined by Edward Landin Senn our Assistant Music Director. Together about what it means for the church to be a place where children learn to love music and grow into their identity as musicians and Edward shares stories from his time as a child singing with the St. Thomas Choir School in New York City. 

The pandemic has illuminated our human impact on the environment around the world as our use of energy and fossil fuels has dramatically reduced in this moment. In today's episode Rebecca Kirkpatrick has a conversation with The Rev. Rebecca Driscoll, Minister for Creation Justice with the American Baptist Church about the ways in which the church is called to be engaged in creation care. 

Join Rebecca Kirkpatrick for a conversation with Mike Dahl, Executive Director of Broad Street Ministry and The Rev. Laura Colee, Pastor, at Broad Street. In their conversation together Mike and Laura share the ways the pandemic has impacted their work of Radical Hospitality in Center City Philadelphia. 

In this episode, Rebecca Kirkpatrick and Director of Music Jeffrey Brillhart discuss how the choir has continued their work even as we have all been staying at home. Jeff also shares fascinating stories from his early days as a church musician and what it means to create music together as a church. 

In today's episode the Rev. Brian Ballard has a conversation with our Parish Nurse, Carol Cherry, about her work and leadership in this season of our church life. Carol shares her calling to this specialized ministry as well as the ways that she has seen the church care for one another during the pandemic. 

In the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent demonstrations and violence around the country, Rebecca Kirkpatrick has an honest conversation with Educator and Activist Anita Friday on the legacy of Racism and White Supremacy, as well as what it means to be experiencing this moment in the life of our country in the midst of a pandemic. 

In this second episode of our BMPC Summer Podcast the Rev. Rebecca Kirkpatrick and the Rev. Dr. Agnes W. Norfleet talk together about being a virtual church in this moment and especially how it has influenced the way that we preach. 

In this premier episode of our Summer Podcast, the Rev. Rebecca Kirkpatrick and the Rev. Franklyn Pottorff share some of their favorite finds in the BMPC archives giving us a window into all of the things that have changed and some of the things that our still the same for this 147 year old congregation.