The Common Good Podcast

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The Common Good Podcast episodes

January 06, 2022 Common Good Faith - Rob Schenck of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute
Doug Pagitt sits down with Rev. Rob Schenck, President of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute, to talk about his conversion from a "Reagan Religious Right Christianity" to a more Christ-centered faith serving those Jesus called us to love and resisting the Christian Nationalism movement within the Evangelical world.

The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute

Costly Grace by Rob Schenck

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

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1 hr 5 min
January 04, 2022 Common Good Politics - The GOP Stranglehold on State Legislatures
Doug Pagitt and Vote Common Good's Political Organizer Robb Ryerse discuss the Republican stranglehold on state legislatures and what Democrats can do about it. Plus, the difference between horrible behavior and criminal behavior and why 4.5 million Americans quit their jobs in November.

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

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1 hr 4 min
December 31, 2021 Common Good Politics - The Insurrection Inside the Capitol
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the breaking news that Trump's advisors had planned an insurrection INSIDE the capitol codenamed the Green Bay Sweep which, according to Trump's Director of Trade Peter Navarro, involved 100 members of Congress acting as "blockers" for "quarterback" Mike Pence.
52 min
December 30, 2021 Common Good Politics - Top Ten Political Stories of 2021
Robb Ryerse gives us his Top Ten Political Stories of 2021 and Doug Pagitt makes a few predictions for 2022.

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

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1 hr 2 min
December 22, 2021 Common Good Faith - Advent: the Season of Hopeful Longing
Doug Pagitt, Stephany Rose Spaulding, Laura Truax and Dominique Gilliard close out this season of Common Good Faith by reflecting on the meaning of Advent and Christmas.

Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s new book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege was released in August of 2021 to rave reviews.@DDGilliard // facebook.com/dominique.dg.7

Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.

@revtruax // facebook.com/laura.truax1

Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).

@drstephanyrose // facebook.com/stephanyrose

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

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54 min
December 21, 2021 Common Good Politics - The ”Real Reason” Manchin Torpedoed Biden‘s Build Back Better Bill
Doug Pagitt and Vote Common Good's Political Organizer Robb Ryerse talk about Joe Manchin's "real reason" for sinking the Build Back Better Act, Biden's Covid response, and more.

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

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1 hr 14 min
December 20, 2021 Common Good News - Why We‘re NOT Heading for Civil War II
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich take a look at the week's headlines: Manchin Sinks Build Back Better, Omicron Surges, Why Comparisons to the Civil War are Unfounded, and a Teacher Feeds 5,000 Students.
59 min
December 17, 2021 Common Good Economics - Professor Fadhel Kabob Explains Inflation
Economics Professor Fadhel Kaboub takes us to school and explains inflation: what actually causes it and how to reign it in. Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss the common good implications. Follow Fadhel on Twitter @FadhelKaboub

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

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1 hr 4 min
December 16, 2021 Dora Rogriguez - A Survivor‘s Call for Compassionate Border Policy
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with Dora Rodriguez who was just 19 when she fled El Salvador's civil war in search of a better life in the US. She survived the brutal journey, but many in her group died in the Arizona Desert. Now decades later, Dora is helping migrant families and calling for more compassionate border practices and immigration reform.

You can contribute to Dora's work at Salvavision.org

Watch Dora's Story here: https://youtu.be/8r4E3r1kuWg

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

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28 min
December 14, 2021 Common Good Politics - Bombshell Text Messages from January 6
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the bombshell text messages to Trump's Chief of Staff during the January 6 Insurrection from Fox News hosts, Don Jr. and more.

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt

Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

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1 hr 8 min

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Vote Common Good is inspiring and mobilizing people of faith to make the common good their voting criteria.

Tuesdays we talk Politics, Wednesdays we talk about how Faith should compel us to…