The Rabbit Room Podcast

Happy Election Year! If ever we needed a booster shot of civility in public discourse, surely we need it in 2016. In this episode, Thomas McKenzie narrates a series of events in which he is subjected to most uncivil discourse, and A. E. Graham discusses the importance of civility and the via media in her own career as a political speechwriter.

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Ben Shive is one of Nashville’s great musical collaborators. In this episode, he discusses the calling of the collaborator with Jonathan Rogers and Pete Peterson.

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Pete Peterson and John Barber discuss Jeff Nichols’ latest film, Midnight Special.  

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John Barber and Pete Peterson discuss the merits of Batman vs. Superman before moving on to Jeff Nichols’ acclaimed film, Take Shelter.

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Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jenny Youngman recently released her new album titled The Girl with Good Intentions, and in this episode of the Rabbit Room podcast, producer Andrew Osenga interviews Youngman about the creative process and difficulty of making the record.

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In the days before its release, Jill Phillips and Andy Gullahorn fell in love with Ben Shive’s The Cymbal Crashing Clouds. They decided to corner Ben in the kitchen and make him reveal all his super-secret powers of writing and recording. This podcast is the result.

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This episode is taken from the Hutchmoot 2012 session titled “Tales of New Creation” by Thomas McKenzie, Jennifer Trafton, and Pete Peterson. In this third part (of three), author A. S. “Pete” Peterson discusses the ways in which our world, our lives, and our art are the context out of which the great epic of a new age is being written.

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This episode is taken from the Hutchmoot 2012 session titled “Tales of New Creation” by Thomas McKenzie, Jennifer Trafton, and Pete Peterson. In this second part (of three), children’s book author Jennifer Trafton talks about what she writes, why she writes, and as George MacDonald said, the “great good that is coming, is coming, is coming.”

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This episode is taken from the Hutchmoot 2012 session titled “Tales of New Creation” by Thomas McKenzie, Jennifer Trafton, and Pete Peterson. In this first part (of three) Father Thomas lays down the theological underpinnings of the session in which we discuss the ultimate hope of the Christian faith and the ways in which we engage that hope in our creative efforts.

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At Hutchmoot 2012 Andrew Peterson and Travis Prinzi led a session titled “Tales of the Fall.” Here in part two, Andrew discusses the ways in which sadness plays an important part in our literature and our lives.

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