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The Common Good Podcast episodes

February 01, 2021 Common Good News - Monday February 1, 2021
Welcome to Common Good News, the Monday edition of the daily podcast from Vote Common Good.

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53 min
January 25, 2021 Common Good Morning - Preview
Common Good Morning is a brand new daily podcast brought to you from Vote Common Good. Our team of hosts will cover politics, theology and more all with the focus of helping people of faith and good conscience work toward the common good.

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15 min
January 11, 2021 This Guy Has Got to Go Right Now
We thought this podcast series had come to it's logical conclusion, but this guy is still a danger to our democracy even in his last few days in office. This guy has got to go right now.

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 the Executive Director at Brand New Congress. @RobbRyerse

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1 hr 3 min
November 20, 2020 A conversation with Josh Dickson, the National Faith Engagement Director for the Biden Campaign
Doug Pagitt sits down with Josh Dickson to talk about the key role faith voters played in this election. As the National Faith Engagement Director for the Biden Campaign, Josh built a coalition of faith leaders that arguably helped win the election.

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1 hr
November 13, 2020 This Guy is Gonna Go
In this Post-Election wrap up, Doug and Robb celebrate the fact that, despite Trump's inability to concede, this guy is gonna go on January 20th.

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 the Executive Director at Brand New Congress. He and his wife, Vanessa, co-pastor Vintage Fellowship in Fayetteville, Arkansas. @RobbRyerse

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57 min
August 07, 2020 This Guy Has Got To Go - Episode 14
It seems that every day Donald Trump offers up fresh reasons he is unfit to be president. In this installment of This Guy Has Got To Go, Doug and Robb discuss the myriad reasons this president has got to go.

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 the Executive Director at Brand New Congress. He and his wife, Vanessa, co-pastor Vintage Fellowship in Fayetteville, Arkansas. @RobbRyerse

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1 hr
August 06, 2020 Electionary 8.4
During this weekly digital gathering we are guided by artists, theologians, preachers, activists, and communicators through music, prayer, and a reflection on a Biblical passage that will help us understand the significance of our faith in this election.

Electionary Reflection:
Dr. David P. Gushee, Ph.D. has been the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Faith and Public Life at Mercer University since 2007.

In January 2016 he was elected President-Elect of the Society of Christian Ethics. He is a columnist for Religion News Service in Washington.
Gushee served as president of Evangelicals for Human Rights, an organization advocating for an end to torture, especially that sponsored by the United States government.

Where We Find Ourselves:

Rev. Dr. Michael W. Waters is an award-winning author, professor, activist, and founding pastor of Joy Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Dallas, Texas. @RevDrMikeWaters

Sign up for Rev. Waters' four week course of study on systemic racism and the Black experience: Makes Me Wanna Holler

Prayer:
Amy Sullivan has covered religion and politics as an editor at TIME, Yahoo,the Washington Monthly, and National Journal. She is the author of “The Party Faithful” and co-host of the podcast Impolite Company. @sullivanamy

Musician:
Joel Weir is a songwriter and priest in the Orthodox Church in America. @joeldavidweir

Panel:

Brian McLaren is a pastor, author, activist, speaker and leading voice for the emerging church. McLaren is also associated with postmodern Christianity and progressive Christianity and is a major figure in post-evangelical thought. @brianmclaren

Patrick Carolan had been the executive director of the Franciscan Action Network since 2010 before joining Vote Common Good in 2020. He is also a co-founder of the Global Catholic Climate Movement, an organization working on global climate justice issues as well as Faithful Democracy, a faith coalition focused on the issue of Money in Politics, working to educate on the corruptive influence of big money on our democracy.

Samir Selmanović Ph.D., PCC serves as Co-Chair and Director of Strategy and Partnerships at Vote Common Good. @samirselmanovic

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

You can join the Electionary Livestream every Tuesday at 8:00p.m. ET via Facebook or Zoom.

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1 hr 1 min
August 04, 2020 This Guy Has Got To Go - Episode 13
It seems that every day Donald Trump offers up fresh reasons he is unfit to be president. In this installment of This Guy Has Got To Go, Doug and Robb discuss the myriad reasons this president has got to go.

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 the Executive Director at Brand New Congress. He and his wife, Vanessa, co-pastor Vintage Fellowship in Fayetteville, Arkansas. @RobbRyerse

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54 min
August 03, 2020 Jesus and John Wayne - A conversation with author Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Doug sits down with author, historian and speaker Kristin Kobes Du Mez to discuss her new book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for the Washington Post, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Christian Century, and Religion & Politics, and has been interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition, CTV, the CBC, and by CNN, the New York Times, the Economist, the Christian Post, PBS News Hour, and the AP, among other outlets.
1 hr 2 min
August 02, 2020 Boys State - A conversation with filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
On today’s show, host Doug Pagitt talks with filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine. Their newest project, Boys State, follows a thousand teenage boys attending a weeklong summer camp where they build a representative government from the ground up.

The film won the U.S. Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and is set to be released in August.

Check out the trailer for Boys State here.

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26 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…