The Ministry Collaborative Podcast

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October 28 It Wasn’t the Recipe That We Needed: A Round Table Conversation on Testimony, Authenticity, and AI
TMC Program Associate Jennifer Watley Maxell speaks with Elizabeth Lynn, Andrew Yeager, and Marthame Sanders about testimony and the power of telling our own stories; why even the most polished AI work still needs a human fingerprint; and what a grandmother’s banana pudding teaches about passing on faith.
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20 min
October 21 Furnishing Our Moral Imagination: A Round Table Conversation on Words, Images, and Faith Formation
TMC Program Associate Jennifer Watley Maxell speaks with Elizabeth Lynn, Andrew Yeager, and Marthame Sanders about what we lose as we read and speak less; whether the church can be a backstop amid a cacophony of competing voices; and why word and image, story and embodiment, belong together in forming moral people.
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18 min
October 14 The Calmest Brain in the Room: A Conversation on Faith and Mental Health
TMC Program Staff Mark Ramsey, Jennifer Watley Maxell, and Beth Daniel speak with Kyle Bender about leading in a world that changes faster than we can adapt, where pastoral care ends and therapy begins, and why compassion may be the church’s most important gift to this moment.
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20 min
October 07 Still Here All Along: The One God Has Placed in Our Way
TMC Program Staff Beth Daniel, Adam Mixon, and Adam Borneman continue their conversation with the Rev. Katie Nakamura Rengers (St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, Honolulu about her recent blog post for TMC, the importance of welcoming questions, and why we need to be able to recognize when Jesus is in our midst.
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13 min
September 30 Here All Along: A Story about the Spirit in Our Backyard
TMC Program Staff Adam Mixon, Adam Borneman, and Beth Daniel speak with the Rev. Katie Nakamura Rengers (St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, Honolulu about her recent blog post for TMC, the Spirit's disrupting and surprising presence, and how she is finding God at work both inside and outside the Church.
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18 min
September 23 We Have to Learn to Listen Differently: Further Conversation on Storytelling
TMC Program Staff Adam Borneman, Ryan Bonfiglio, and Jennifer Watley Maxell continue their conversation with Heather Brown about creating spaces of trust, cultivating good listening practices, and the balance between artfulness and authenticity.
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18 min
September 16 Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News: A Round Table Conversation on Storytelling
TMC Program Staff Jennifer Watley Maxell, Ryan Bonfiglio, and Adam Borneman speak with Heather Brown about crafting spaces for storytelling, the importance and challenge of connecting our stories of faith with Jesus, and why genuine can be better than slick.
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18 min
September 09 I've Seen This, I Believe This, I Wonder This: A Round Table Conversation on Story
TMC Program Staff Mark Ramsey, Adam Mixon, and Beth Daniel continue their conversation on certainty, delving into the connections between my story, the story of the community, and God's story.
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17 min
September 02 Faith Is Not in the Landing, But in the Launching: A Round Table Conversation on Certainty
TMC Program Staff Mark Ramsey, Adam Mixon, and Beth Daniel speak about Ryan Burge's recent post on faith and uncertainty, the give and take between apologetics and relationships, and the importance of remembering that God is durable.
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18 min
August 26 Joy As a Companion to Grief: A Round Table Conversation on Life Together
TMC Staff Adam Mixon and Jennifer Watley Maxell continue a conversation with the Rev. Carla Jones Brown (Oxford Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia) about what it is that gives life; the connection between creativity, hope, and resurrection; and the importance of the "great cloud of witnesses".
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18 min