Sandbox Cooperative Podcast

In this episode, we spoke with doctors Chris Hawley and Sam Romeo about a series of house concerts they host as a part of their medical practice at Romeo Medical Clinic.

Romeo Medical Clinic started in 2002 with the idea that a medical practice should care for the whole person and not just the body. They believe that the human health journey should involve health at every level including our World, Body, Mind, Spirit and Soul. Physicians and traditional medical practices are well designed to care for the body, but not as designed as well to care for the mind, spirit and soul. Romeo Medical Clinic chose to add house concerts as a whole health tool because nothing speaks to spirit and soul better than the vulnerable music of singer-song writers. They have a unique gift that causes our spirits to soar and healing for our souls. Romeo Medical Clinic loves to make use of any tool that truly heals and is both scientifically and poetically true.

A few months ago we had the chance to talk with New York Times best-selling author Rob Bell. We talked about failure, rejection, and what it means to be human.

Rob is the author of books like Love Wins and the host of his own podcast — The RobCast. He toured with Oprah Winfrey on her “Life You Want Tour,” and he was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. But he’s never been on the Sandbox Cooperative Podcast. Until now.

Our traditions help us make meaning, but they can also become stagnant. How do we keep ourselves from cutting a perfectly good chunk off the end of a perfectly good Christmas ham? In other words, can we shed some of the unhelpful, rigid nature of our traditions and instead allow them to bring meaning to our experiences? And how might we pass those traditions on from one generation to the next?

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Our traditions help us make meaning, but they can also become stagnant. How do we keep ourselves from cutting a perfectly good chunk off the end of a perfectly good Christmas ham? In other words, can we shed some of the unhelpful, rigid nature of our traditions and instead allow them to bring meaning to our experiences? And how might we pass those traditions on from one generation to the next?

Fake News has been making headlines as of late as stories and news sources that are based on false information have been gaining our trust. In the Age of Fake News, it’s hard to know what to believe sometimes. But if there’s one thing we know it’s that we can’t let these stories drive us to such opposition that we can’t actually talk with and learn from each other.

How Fake News Goes Viral, The New York Times
How to self-check the news and get the facts, Minnesota Public Radio
6 in 10 of you will share this link without reading it, The Washington Post

On October 30, 2016 Sandbox Cooperative welcomed Regina Mustafa to the Sandbox stage. This podcast contains the Q&A portion of the evening event.

Regina lives in Rochester, Minnesota and is the founder of Community Interfaith Dialogue on Islam, a local organization focused on sharing reliable and accessible information on Islam, as well as promoting healthy interfaith dialogue. She shared some common misunderstandings about our Muslim neighbors, the struggles and joys of living in the United States as a Muslim given our current political and social climate, and helped us ask a very important question together – why is interfaith dialogue so important? And maybe even more at the heart of it – why is it important for each of us to be in relationship with those who aren’t like us?

More about Regina at Community Interfaith Dialogue on Islam (CIDI), @cidi_cidimn, Regina Mustafa on Facebook

On October 30, 2016 Sandbox Cooperative welcomed Regina Mustafa to the Sandbox stage.

Regina lives in Rochester, Minnesota and is the founder of Community Interfaith Dialogue on Islam, a local organization focused on sharing reliable and accessible information on Islam, as well as promoting healthy interfaith dialogue. She shared some common misunderstandings about our Muslim neighbors, the struggles and joys of living in the United States as a Muslim given our current political and social climate, and helped us ask a very important question together – why is interfaith dialogue so important? And maybe even more at the heart of it – why is it important for each of us to be in relationship with those who aren’t like us?

More about Regina at Community Interfaith Dialogue on Islam (CIDI), @cidi_cidimn, Regina Mustafa on Facebook

On October 30, 2016 Sandbox Cooperative welcomed Regina Mustafa to the Sandbox stage. This podcast contains the Q&A portion of the evening event.

Regina lives in Rochester, Minnesota and is the founder of Community Interfaith Dialogue on Islam, a local organization focused on sharing reliable and accessible information on Islam, as well as promoting healthy interfaith dialogue. She shared some common misunderstandings about our Muslim neighbors, the struggles and joys of living in the United States as a Muslim given our current political and social climate, and helped us ask a very important question together – why is interfaith dialogue so important? And maybe even more at the heart of it – why is it important for each of us to be in relationship with those who aren’t like us?

More about Regina at Community Interfaith Dialogue on Islam (CIDI), @cidi_cidimn, Regina Mustafa on Facebook

On October 30, 2016 Sandbox Cooperative welcomed Regina Mustafa to the Sandbox stage.

Regina lives in Rochester, Minnesota and is the founder of Community Interfaith Dialogue on Islam, a local organization focused on sharing reliable and accessible information on Islam, as well as promoting healthy interfaith dialogue. She shared some common misunderstandings about our Muslim neighbors, the struggles and joys of living in the United States as a Muslim given our current political and social climate, and helped us ask a very important question together – why is interfaith dialogue so important? And maybe even more at the heart of it – why is it important for each of us to be in relationship with those who aren’t like us?

More about Regina at Community Interfaith Dialogue on Islam (CIDI), @cidi_cidimn, Regina Mustafa on Facebook

We intentionally recorded this episode of the podcast before any election results came in as a time capsule to ourselves. What do we really hope for? How do we respond when our hopes are dashed and we are disappointed? What about the day after? Well, it is now November 9, 2016 — the day after — and many are disappointed. So let’s pull out the time capsule and reflect on these ideas – Hope, Disappointment, and the Day After.