Coffeepot Fellowship Podcast

Wendy McCaig is the founder and executive director of Embrace Richmond - a community development organization which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. She is also the author of "From the Sanctuary to the Streets." Wendy is a coach for Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) across the United States.

Sarah Arthur is a fun-loving speaker and the author of numerous books and resources on the intersection of faith and great stories. Her first book was the best-selling youth devotional, "Walking with Frodo: A Devotional Journey through The Lord of the Rings," followed by the award-winning "Walking with Bilbo: A Devotional Adventure through The Hobbit" (both with Tyndale). She's also the editor of the literary guides to prayer series by Paraclete Press, including "Between Midnight and Dawn: A Literary Guide to Prayer for Lent, Holy Week, and Eastertide" (Jan. 2016). A graduate of Wheaton College and Duke University Divinity School, she speaks around the country on the role of stories and imagination in spiritual formation. She lives in Lansing, Michigan, with her young sons and her husband, Tom, pastor of Sycamore Creek Church.

Jemma Allen is an Anglican priest in Aukland, New Zealand, married to another Anglican priest. She is a board member of the RevGalBlogPals group and a contributor to the book "There's a Woman in the Pulpit." She is also a graduate student working to shift the traditional, stigmatized language used discussing suicide.

While this interview touches on very important topics of the language around suicide as well as the finding and losing of faith, it also tells a glorious, touching, real tale of a mother-child reunion and a Happiness Dance. Bring tissues.

My colleague, Kendall Ratliffe, interviewed author and Spence Network leader John Chandler recently. True to most of my experiences with Kendall, I learned a new vocabulary word (pusillanimity) and much, much more. Kendall, thanks for introducing us to John and the great ideas he is putting into practice.

I was quickly out of my depth in this interview with Rev. Ruth Everhart. 37 years ago, in her senior year in college, Ruth and her housemates experienced a traumatic event. At gunpoint they were held captive, robbed and raped. In this two part interview Ruth shares insights, realizations, and questions about her pilgrimage from college, to seminary, to pastoring, to marriage and parenthood, and forward. All of this just before she publishes "Ruined: A Memoir

I was quickly out of my depth in this interview with Rev. Ruth Everhart. 37 years ago, in her senior year in college, Ruth and her housemates experienced a traumatic event. At gunpoint they were held captive, robbed and raped. In this two part interview Ruth shares insights, realizations, and questions about her pilgrimage from college, to seminary, to pastoring, to marriage and parenthood, and forward. All of this just before she publishes "Ruined: A Memoir."

Rev. Eileen Hix is a veteran children's minister at Sidney First United Methodist Church. She has lessons and insights for everyone. As we sat down at a local Sidney, Ohio coffeeshop it felt like the location where all our episodes should take place. We sat in cozy chairs under an enormous, steaming cup of coffee painted on the wall.

Lacette Cross could be a guest on twenty separate episodes of The Coffeepot Fellowship Daily Podcast. In our first episode we scratched the surface of many topics. Please do continue allowing God to pull on the threads that speak to you most today. What is a womanist? Who is Katie Cannon? What is a Jamaican Jump? What is "just love?" We may be the show that provokes many questions and answers one.

My friends and mentors sometimes ask about the podcast, and others may be wondering, “Jay, how do you make any money doing this?” Which evokes immediate laughter because the answer is, “I don’t.” None of wants to charge anyone anything just to help them out. When something is important or can change the world then we just want to do it. And yet everyone needs to eat. So everyone's question comes from a good place. They are concerned about my diet. Right? Well, we'll just see about that. This episode is a little different than usual.

Amy Simpson is an author, a speaker, a life and ministry coach, a freelance writer and an editor. Her books, her degrees, her accomplishments, her speaking and coaching are important resources to share and consume. What you will hear in this episode is why she does what she does. It's her story that holds so much power. It's her story that makes God stand up and say "Thank you, Amy."