Co-host of the show and familiar voice, Norah Kratz, sits down with Maida Jaspersen-Neville to discuss inputs and outputs conveyed by different artists throughout history. Joined by Colin Neville, the three share a hearty conversation about the thought process and daily lives of Christian creatives, and some of the elements that they look for in other artwork.

Colin's website

Learn about Gutenberg

Austin Kleon

Sagrada Familia Church

Jon Batiste

Makoto Fujimura

Pop Culture Referenced

The Darjeeling Limited

The Studio (Episode referenced was The Oner)

Dead Poets Society

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Ecclesiastes 3:11

Host - Jason Jaspersen

Co-hosts - Norah Kratz, Claire Marcus, Silas Gawrisch

Producer - Jaksyn Graham

Music Provided By: Renee Geving

If you have any feedback for the show, or have any questions you can reach the podcast at [email protected]

Whistle the Feast is recorded on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College in association with the Christ in Media Institute. Bethany Lutheran College encourages their students, faculty/staff, and community to discover what God has given them at the place for Christian Creatives.

If you wish to learn more about the college, or would like to schedule a visit, visit blc.edu

Join Jason Jaspersen as he sits down with Jacob Kempfert. Conveniently in town for the Evangelical Lutheran Synod convention, Jason was able to connect with this Bethany Alum and talk about his skills harnessed within the walls of the Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center in his time as a student and beyond.

Helpful Links to References in the Episode:

Word of the Podcast: Ephemeral - lasting for a very short time

View some of the Collages Referenced 

Theology of Beauty - Martin Luther

Murky World of Cavefish

Host - Jason Jaspersen

Co-hosts - Norah Kratz, Claire Marcus, Silas Gawrisch

Producer - Jaksyn Graham

Music Provided By: Renee Geving

If you have any feedback for the show, or have any questions you can reach the podcast at [email protected]

Whistle the Feast is recorded on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College in association with the Christ in Media Institute. Bethany Lutheran College encourages their students, faculty/staff, and community to discover what God has given them at the place for Christian Creatives.

If you wish to learn more about the college, or would like to schedule a visit, visit blc.edu

Jason Jaspersen reads A Liturgy Before Consuming Media from the book Every Moment Holy by Douglas Kaine McKelvey. Many creatives often forget the impression their gifts have on the public. Sometimes the message that is expressed does not reveal itself until the finished product. When consuming this season of Whistle the Feast, keep the words of this passage in the back of your mind. You never know what truths will be revealed to you.

Learn More About Douglas Kaine McKelvey

Read Every Moment Holy

Scroll Through Season 1 for more excerpts from Every Moment Holy.

Host - Jason Jaspersen

Co-hosts - Norah Kratz, Claire Marcus, Silas Gawrisch

Producer - Jaksyn Graham

Music Provided By: Renee Geving

If you have any feedback for the show, or have any questions you can reach the podcast at [email protected]

Whistle the Feast is recorded on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College in association with the Christ in Media Institute. Bethany Lutheran College encourages their students, faculty/staff, and community to discover what God has given them at the place for Christian Creatives.

If you wish to learn more about the college, or would like to schedule a visit, visit blc.edu

Our host Jason Jaspersen welcomes back our readers through the reading of God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Welcome back to The Feast!

Helpful Links for References in the Episode:

Follow Along with Jason

Learn More About Gerard Manley Hopkins

Sift through Season 1 to hear more works from this poet and more!

Host - Jason Jaspersen

Co-hosts - Norah Kratz, Claire Marcus, Silas Gawrisch

Producer - Jaksyn Graham

Music Provided By: Renee Geving

If you have any feedback for the show, or have any questions you can reach the podcast at [email protected]

Whistle the Feast is recorded on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College in association with the Christ in Media Institute. Bethany Lutheran College encourages their students, faculty/staff, and community to discover what God has given them at the place for Christian Creatives.

If you wish to learn more about the college, or would like to schedule a visit, visit blc.edu

Hello Feast Readers! It's been a minute. Our creative team has been working tirelessly to concoct a baker's dozen of new conversations for you all to digest! Before we dig into the main course, here is a bit of an appetizer. Something new wrapped in something familiar.

Autumn is a featured season from the Benji Inniger nature documentary: Bold North. Recorded by a mixture of Inniger himself, the Mankato Symphony Orchestra, and the Budapest Scoring Orchestra in Hungary, enjoy the backing track to the awe inspiring nature documentary!

It's good to be back!

Helpful Links for References in the Episode:

Watch the full Bold North documentary

Humans Don't Exist - Benji Inniger's Bethany Gallery Reception (Spring 2025)

Benji Inniger's Spotify

Host - Jason Jaspersen

Co-hosts - Norah Kratz, Claire Marcus, Silas Gawrisch

Producer - Jaksyn Graham

Music Provided By: Renee Geving

If you have any feedback for the show, or have any questions you can reach the podcast at [email protected]

Whistle the Feast is recorded on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College in association with the Christ in Media Institute. Bethany Lutheran College encourages their students, faculty/staff, and community to discover what God has given them at the place for Christian Creatives.

If you wish to learn more about the college, or would like to schedule a visit, visit blc.edu

Many moons ago, host Jason Jaspersen teamed up with the Kratz sisters (Lydia and Norah) to determine in the most meta of fashions how a potential spring semester podcast was going to look. In the late hours of the night on a random Thursday, the three sat in the Bethany Lutheran College podcast studio to determine the name, theme, and stance of a podcast that they'd hope to continue throughout the following months. Enjoy the process that many artists go through when first beginning a project, and stay tuned this fall for Season II of Whistle the Feast!

Shout Outs from the Episode:

Prof. Brian Klebig

Abby Skorenkyi

Colin Neville & Maida Jaspersen-Neville 

Helpful Links to References in the Episode:

Mise en Place

The Ladder of Abstraction

Mad Libs

I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman

Sacred the Thread by Greta van Fleet

Le Festin

Babette's Feast

Wanderer Above the Sea Fog

The Writer's Almanac

Brooklyn Supreme

A New Soul by Yael Naim

Tournament Seeds

1 Seed

2 Seed

3 Seed

4 Seed

Host - Jason Jaspersen

Co-hosts - Norah Kratz, Claire Marcus, Silas Gawrisch

Producer - Jaksyn Graham

Music Provided By: Renee Geving

If you have any feedback for the show, or have any questions you can reach the podcast at [email protected]

Whistle the Feast is recorded on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College in association with the Christ in Media Institute. Bethany Lutheran College encourages their students, faculty/staff, and community to discover what God has given them at the place for Christian Creatives.

If you wish to learn more about the college, or would like to schedule a visit, visit blc.edu

Host Jason Jaspersen recites the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Take a moment out of your day to slow things down and take in these words.

To Follow Along with Jason 

To Learn More About the Poet

Host - Jason Jaspersen

Co-hosts - Norah Kratz, Claire Marcus, Silas Gawrisch

Producer - Jaksyn Graham

Music Provided By: Renee Geving

If you have any feedback for the show, or have any questions you can reach the podcast at [email protected]

Whistle the Feast is recorded on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College in association with the Christ in Media Institute. Bethany Lutheran College encourages their students, faculty/staff, and community to discover what God has given them at the place for Christian Creatives.

If you wish to learn more about the college, or would like to schedule a visit, visit blc.edu

Jason Jaspersen sits down with Bethany class of 2025 graduate, and friend of the podcast, Lydia Kratz. Full of reflection from a worthwhile college tenure and advising past Lydia as well as the younger generation.

Helpful Links to References in the Episode:

Greta van Fleet (Loose inspiration for a formula that brought the name of the podcast)

The Battle at Garden's Gate Album

Stardust Chords

Host - Jason Jaspersen

Co-hosts - Norah Kratz, Claire Marcus, Silas Gawrisch

Producer - Jaksyn Graham

Music Provided By: Renee Geving

If you have any feedback for the show, or have any questions you can reach the podcast at [email protected]

Whistle the Feast is recorded on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College in association with the Christ in Media Institute. Bethany Lutheran College encourages their students, faculty/staff, and community to discover what God has given them at the place for Christian Creatives.

If you wish to learn more about the college, or would like to schedule a visit, visit blc.edu

Jason Jaspersen reciting work from Bethany Lutheran College Studio Art Major: Lydia Kratz. 

Host - Jason Jaspersen

Co-hosts - Norah Kratz, Claire Marcus, Silas Gawrisch

Producer - Jaksyn Graham

Music Provided By: Renee Geving

If you have any feedback for the show, or have any questions you can reach the podcast at [email protected]

Whistle the Feast is recorded on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College in association with the Christ in Media Institute. Bethany Lutheran College encourages their students, faculty/staff, and community to discover what God has given them at the place for Christian Creatives.

If you wish to learn more about the college, or would like to schedule a visit, visit blc.edu

Fresh out of his talk on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College, Pastor Tony Pittenger joins host Jason Jaspersen to discuss George Frideric Handel. Bethany studio arts student, and friend of the podcast, Jack Middleman created a variety of sand art animations to be accompanied by Handel's Messiah, and was unveiled for the first time along with this talk. People like these are not around too often, so enjoy something a little different!

Helpful Links to References in the Episode:

Learn More About George Frideric Handel

View the animations here edited by Bethany Media Arts major, Coleton Pringle

Read into Pastor Pittenger's church: Bethany Lutheran (Port Orchard)

The King of Convent Garden starring Sir Anthony Hopkins

Jonathan Mayer Website

John 8:7-11

Romans 8

Lamb of God Illustration

Host - Jason Jaspersen

Co-hosts - Norah Kratz, Claire Marcus, Silas Gawrisch

Producer - Jaksyn Graham

Music Provided By: Renee Geving

If you have any feedback for the show, or have any questions you can reach the podcast at [email protected]

Whistle the Feast is recorded on the campus of Bethany Lutheran College in association with the Christ in Media Institute. Bethany Lutheran College encourages their students, faculty/staff, and community to discover what God has given them at the place for Christian Creatives.

If you wish to learn more about the college, or would like to schedule a visit, visit blc.edu