The Catch with John Fischer

Join us for a Catch Conversation with Rob Frazier of Artists in Christian Testimony. 

Rob enjoyed a 25 year career in Christian music as a songwriter, artist and producer before becoming a pastor and college professor, but still counts making music as one of his greatest joys. Initially coming to Nashville to join the band Petra, he recorded and toured with them briefly and then produced 7 solo albums subsequently, while writing songs and producing projects for other artists in the CCM and mainstream fields. He has over 200 recorded songs in his catalogue. Learn more about Rob here.

Di Patterson, MSG, CPG, is a noted Gerontologist, featured speaker at national and local Aging events, popular workshop leader and prolific writer. She created Success in Aging TV® in 2007 and has received numerous awards for her work. Di is a pioneer in utilizing technology for promoting success in Aging! 

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As Advocacy Chair for Women of Vision, Bobbi Dauderman led the WOV California delegation on Capitol Hill to advocate for the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and served on a national task force on advocacy strategy for Women of Vision. Additionally, she has volunteered for the past 18 years at the Shalimar Learning Center where she tutors young children at risk. She currently is advocating for the Water for the World Act and the Girls Count Act, which will allow girls greater access to education, health and social services, as well as the ability to vote, work and own property. Bobbi received the “More Priceless Than Diamonds” Award presented by Vanguard University’s Global Center for Women and Justice (GCWJ).

Since the summer before graduating high school Russell has written and performed music as well as championed, managed,  promoted and produced events, artists and causes that inspired him.

In one capacity or another Russell has work with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Michael Been, Mark Heard, The Call, Sam Phillips, U2, Robin Lane and The Chartbusters, Rachel Taylor, Bruce Cockburn, the Vigilantes of Love, Andy and many others including John Fischer who he worked with as a coproducer and a cowriter for two albums BETWEEN THE ANSWERS and CASUAL CRIMES. 

Russell was nominated for Grammy in 1994 in the category of the best rock gospel album, for tribute project he produced for a dear friend the late Mark Heard.

In 1998, Russell co-founded The Inside Out Soul Festival, a faith-based social justice music festival now in its 17th year. The SoulFest is New England's largest multi-day music festival.

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Michael McCausland is the Founder and CEO of McCausland Associates International LLC, a Colorado Springs, Colorado based consulting firm focused on providing end-to-end solutions for strategy development and organizational alignment coupled with change management and culture transformation practices. His latest venture is The Leadership Institute For Entrepreneurs (LIFE), birthed out of a desire to equip growth-oriented entrepreneurs with the tools they need to de-risk the startup, grow their business, and scale successfully all in the context of Kingdom principles.

With a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Clark University, Dr. Kenny saw the application of his academic expertise to the commercial world early on. He founded the strategic market research firm, The Right Brain People, in 1972. 

Forty years later, his client list is a “who’s who” of major companies, including 22 of the top 40 advertisers on the Advertising Age list. Using two proprietary methods – Right Brain Research and Brand Strategy Development – Dr. Kenny has worked with more than 600 corporate clients and organizations in 225 product and service categories. Today he is recognized as one of the top consumer psychologists in the world.

Kurt Kaiser studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and earned two degrees from Northwestern University. He has more than 300 copyrighted songs to his name. Kurt joined Word, Inc., in 1959 as Director of Artists and Repertoire and later became Vice President and Director of Music for Word. He has arranged and produced albums for many gifted artists, among them Kathleen Battle, Ernie Ford, Hale & Wilder, Jerome Hines, Burl Ives, Ken Medema, Christopher Parkening, George Beverly Shea, Joni Eareckson Tada, Ethel Waters, Anne Martindale Williams, Christopher Adkins and many others.

In 1992 Kaiser was awarded a special Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for his contributions to the Christian music industry. He received an Honorary Doctor of Sacred Music degree from Trinity College in Illinois and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Baylor University. Kurt received the Hines Sims Award and was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. The Faithfulness in Service Award was presented to him in 2003.

David Horner has taught at the University of Oxford, Denver Seminary, and served as a Visiting Scholar and Research Associate at the University of Colorado. He has lectured in numerous classrooms and university forums nationally and in Europe, and he has written numerous articles and book chapters on ethics, apologetics and ancient and medieval philosophy. Horner serves as Research Scholar for Centers for Christian Study, International, an effort to develop intellectual Christian communities within secular university contexts. He also serves as Executive Director of The Illuminatio Project, whose aim is to bring the light of a classical biblical vision of goodness, truth and beauty into the thinking of the church and culture through strategic research and communication.

After more than 20 years cycling in and out of the criminal justice system, unable to find work, housing or addiction-recovery treatment, Susan mercifully gained freedom and sobriety in 1997 and made it her life’s work to help other women walking in her shoes. She began by meeting women released from prison as they stepped off the prison bus, welcoming them into her home, and urging them to stay as long as necessary to put their lives back together. Susan quickly recognized that her individual efforts were not enough. She saw that women coming home from prison faced tremendous institutional barriers: rules, laws, policies and attitudes that operated to deny them access to employment, student loans, permanent housing, public assistance and many other services. Susan came to understand that real change could only happen through a powerful, grassroots community organizing effort, one that could amass enough political power to bring an end to discriminatory practices, and shift public attitudes in a way that would break the cycle of mass incarceration… and A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project was born.

We are excited to have Os Guinness join us on the show.

Os Guinness is an author and social critic. Great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War II where both his parents and grandparents were medical missionaries – his grandfather having had the privilege of treating the Empress Dowager, the Last Emperor and the Imperial family. A survivor of the terrible Henan famine of 1943, in which five million died in three months, including his two brothers, Os was a witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949 and the beginning of the reign of terror under Mao Tse Tung. He was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford.

Os has written or edited thirty books on a wide range of themes, including The American Hour, Time for Truth, The Call, Invitation to the Classics, Long Journey Home, Unspeakable, and A Case for Civility, A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future, His latest book is The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity

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