Episode 20: Living with Uncertainty Conversation Starter

In this episode, Carrie and Parker explore questions about living with uncertainty, disruption, and revelation during the pandemic.

We hope you'll listen, download our Conversation Starter, and gather with family or friends to talk about this question or anything else that captures your interest in our conversation. We HIGHLY ENCOURAGE using Zoom, Facetime, Skype or some other video platform or engage in conversation at safe social distancing.

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Episode 19: Over The Rhine - Karin Bergquist & Lindford Detweiler - Conversation Starter

Here's our March Question of the Month that will accompany the Conversation Starter.

In this conversation, Carrie, Parker, Karin and Linford talk about the song "Betting on the Muse." In a time when so much in the world feels troubled or out of joint, where do you ground yourself and what do you rely upon? What has always made sense and still makes sense...even in senseless times. How do you experience hope or joy in that grounding?

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Episode 18: What We Need Is Here

In this episode Carrie and Parker read Wendell Berry's poem "The Wild Geese” and explore the idea that what we need is here, within us and between us. We talk about the gifts of those who came before us, the promise that lives in every seed, and how small acts of kindness so often provide what we need..

Episode 18 Conversation Starter If you’d like to use the podcast or our Question of the Month to convene a conversation with others, here are some ideas for framing and seeding the conversation—after everyone involved has listened to the podcast or read and reflected on the Question of the Month:

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Episode 17: New Year's Revolutions Conversation Starter

January 2020 Conversation Starter

In this podcast, Carrie and Parker explore a question that began with a typo! Here’s our Question of the Month: What if, instead of making New Year’s resolutions, we used the turn of the year to commit to participating in a personal or social revolution that feels important to us?

If you’d like to use the podcast or our Question of the Month to convene a conversation with others, here are some ideas for framing and seeding the conversation—after everyone involved has listened to the podcast or read and reflected on the Question of the Month:

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Podcast Episode 16 Conversation Starter: Living The Questions

Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart… Try to love the questions themselves… Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given because you would not be able to live them—and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers. Rainer Marie Rilke

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