Welcome to the new Nations Media Weekly Podcast!

Discover the stories animating Nations, our values, and mission. Join the Nations staff, creatives, and reformers as we engage in conversations surrounding global events and differing perspectives, share stories from the field, and tease what’s coming from Nation’s artists and storytellers.

Listen in this week as we republish an archival conversation featuring two brave reformers, Maryam and Marziayeh.

Joel sits down for a conversation with Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh, authors of the book Captive in Iran, which chronicles their remarkable stories of conversion, imprisonment and release. Theirs is a story of friendship, brought together by a shared passion for the gospel, forged on the front lines of the persecuted church, and tested in the depths of one of the worst prisons in Iran. We learned about the miraculous ways that God spoke to them in dreams and visions, empowered them to minister and witness to inmates and guards, and ultimately orchestrated their eventual release. Maryam and Marziyeh’s story helps us to develop a more robust understanding of Iran and the growing church there. It was a conversation we were thrilled to have and are proud to bring to you.

Welcome to the new Nations Media Weekly Podcast!

Discover the stories animating Nations, our values, and mission. Join the Nations staff, creatives, and reformers as we engage in conversations surrounding global events and differing perspectives, share stories from the field, and tease what’s coming from Nation’s artists and storytellers.

Wendy Hinman has lived a fascinating life. A writer, Bible teacher, adventure enthusiast and trainer in the global sports ministry movement, her journey of faith has lead her from atheism, into a conservative Christian cult and back out into a healthy, grounded spirituality. During a cultural moment that is ripe for conspiratorial thinking it's crucial to understand the forces that draw people towards cult leaders and communities.

Welcome to the new Nations Media Weekly Podcast!

Discover the stories animating Nations, our values, and mission. Join the Nations staff, creatives, and reformers as we engage in conversations surrounding global events and differing perspectives, share stories from the field, and tease what’s coming from Nation’s artists and storytellers.

Rich Ellerington is a whirlwind of creativity and vision. Leaving behind the safety of an established pastorate in England he moved his family to coastal France to plant a surf-church, he now serves as the International Director of Surf Church Collective, a global movement of surf-churches. Roy Harley is a strategic leader at the helm of the Christian Surfer’s movement as its International Director. Their stories offer a vision of faith as a radical call to adventure, leaving behind the safe confines of the status quo in search of what God is doing on the edges of coastline around the world.

Welcome to the new Nations Media Weekly Podcast!

Discover the stories animating Nations, our values, and mission. Join the Nations staff, creatives, and reformers as we engage in conversations surrounding global events and differing perspectives, share stories from the field, and tease what’s coming from Nation’s artists and storytellers.

James Barkman has traveled the world as a world-class climber, snowboarder, and photographer so when we asked if he’d be willing to embed with the Free Burma Rangers as our cinematographer for the Dispatch series on the frontlines of the longest running civil war in the world, he packed his bags for Burma for a different type of adventure. Back from the field and preparing to return soon we explore a rich conversation filled with insight into a complex conflict and nuggets of wisdom from an uncommon young man.

Welcome to the new Nations Media Weekly Podcast!

Discover the stories animating Nations, our values, and mission. Join the Nations staff, creatives, and reformers as we engage in conversations surrounding global events and differing perspectives, share stories from the field, and tease what’s coming from Nation’s artists and storytellers.

Join us in conversation with Jeff Reinke (MFT & M.Ed), founder of The Relationship Resource and author of "Badly Broken, Deeply Loved" for a thrilling conversation that tracks his own journey from crisis, to character development, to calling as we learn how crucial healthy identity formation and healing is in the quest for a fulfilling and purposeful life.

Welcome to the new Nations Media Weekly Podcast!

Discover the stories animating Nations, our values, and mission. Join the Nations staff, creatives, and reformers as we engage in conversations surrounding global events and differing perspectives, share stories from the field, and tease what’s coming from Nation’s artists and storytellers.

From recycling swing sets for community development to breaking down barriers in war torn communities, Jeff Rosene’s commitment to bringing play and holistic healing to hurting communities is a beautiful endeavor that brings slow and sustainable change through small and unexpected ways.

Visit the link to learn more about Kids Around the World.

https://kidsaroundtheworld.com/play/

Welcome to the new Nations Media Weekly Podcast!

Discover the stories animating Nations, our values, and mission. Join the Nations staff, creatives, and reformers as we engage in conversations surrounding global events and differing perspectives, share stories from the field, and tease what’s coming from Nation’s artists and storytellers.

In this week’s conversation we sit down with Roy Inzunza, a Corporate Chaplain, Entrepreneur, Certified Spiritual Director and Doctoral student in Leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary exploring the confluence of spiritual formation and a theology of work that can reimagine of the role of faith in the marketplace and its power to transform the way we conceive of what constitutes healthy organizational systems and our role in them.

Welcome to the new Nations Media Weekly Podcast!

Discover the stories animating Nations, our values, and mission. Join the Nations staff, creatives, and reformers as we engage in conversations surrounding global events and differing perspectives, share stories from the field, and tease what’s coming from Nation’s artists and storytellers.

Listen in as Steven and Joseph have a conversation surrounding trauma and the healing power of story.

Welcome to the new Nations Media Weekly Podcast!

Discover the stories animating Nations, our values, and mission. Join the Nations staff, creatives, and reformers as we engage in conversations surrounding global events and differing perspectives, share stories from the field, and tease what’s coming from Nation’s artists and storytellers.

The Nations team sat down with jet-lagged Nations President, Joel Parker to debrief and hear stories from his most recent trip to Papua New Guinea where he was shooting for our unfolding episodic Dispatch Series following the work of our friends at Samaritan Aviation.

Welcome to the new Nations Media Weekly Podcast!

Discover the stories animating Nations, our values, and mission. Join the Nations staff, creatives, and reformers as we engage in conversations surrounding global events and differing perspectives, share stories from the field, and tease what’s coming from Nation’s artists and storytellers.

From planting urban forests to leading World Relief's efforts in San Diego serving the growing refugee crisis, Jane Register's life-long commitment to community justice efforts is a beautiful and creative expression of how the work of reformation can evolve and grow.