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The Growing Edge
Episode 61 Revisiting The Power of Story & Song With John McCutcheon
Today Parker and I will be revisiting our conversation with musician, master songwriter, storyteller, multi-instrumentalist, author, activist, seven-time grammy nominee, John McCutcheon. In this episode we explore the power of story, song and what it means to speak with compassion, clarity and a sense of humor in these challenging times You can hear John’s most recent album "A Field of Stars" on Spotify, Itunes or by checking out his website www.folkmusic.com Parker and I loved this interview and we're so happy to revisit our conversation with John McCutcheon.
2025-07-31
1h 13
The Growing Edge
Podcast Episode 60: A Conversation with Unitarian Universalist Pastor & Activist Susan Frederick-Gray
Podcast Episode 60: A Conversation with Unitarian Universalist Pastor & Activist Susan Frederick-Gray by Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer
2025-06-05
50 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 59 - Conversation about imothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny.
Please join us for a conversation about historian Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny. Carrie and Parker discuss four of the twenty hallmarks of authoritarian governments addressed in Snyder’s clear and informative work. The book is relatively short, but chock-full of insights, stories and practical advice when navigating the very real challenges of our times. We’ll look at the large overarching symptoms of an existential threat to our democracy, but also how to bring it home and to focus upon the power we each have in our daily and personal lives for defending and preserving our most deeply held v...
2025-03-27
1h 04
Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet
Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 7
Episode 7, entitled New Moon, New Year, celebrates the December 30th “black moon,” and the impending new year, commencing with Michigander Carrie Newcomer’s video for the song “Sanctuary.” This beautiful song was inspired by a letter she received from her good friend, Quaker writer Parker Palmer, who was responding to her wanting to know what can we do now, when things seem so bleak. Parker’s response is both hard and easy — we do what we can, and when we falter, we need to find sanctuary and refuge where we can, in the beauty nature still retains, in friends and family, an...
2025-02-28
28 min
The Wonder Dome
#156 A Hospitable Space (with Parker Palmer & Ariel Burger)
Return guests Parker Palmer (author, activist, educator, and co-host of The Growing Edge) and Ariel Burger (scholar, musician, rabbi, and author of Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom) join Andy in sharing music, poetry, and reflections on humanity’s current moment with generous wisdom and insight. Parker and Ariel speak to what it means to be “awake” to the realities of hardship and suffering experienced by others; to be a witness rather than a spectator; and how through the compassionate creation of “hospitable spaces” we can engage with one another across even the most cavernous of divides.
2025-01-22
1h 09
The Growing Edge
Episode 58 February 2025- Cutting Loose
Join Parker and Carrie for a conversation about William Stafford’s poem “Cutting Loose”. In this episode we explore the way that disillusionment or feeling lost can bring with it a powerful sense of reality, faithfulness and new direction. Parker and Carrie talk about their own experiences of feeling lost and listening to the sound of the genuine within them. In these challenging times, this is a poem that has much history and wisdom to share. We hope you’ll join the conversation by listening to the episode and commenting on our Substack Page at https://tinyurl.com/25tmtbhf.
2025-01-21
43 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 57: Unexpected Hope in Improbable Actions: A New Conversation with John Paul Lederach
Join Parker and Carrie for a conversation with Notre Dame’s Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding, John Paul Lederach, about his Pocket Guide for Facing Down a Civil War. This new booklet draws upon Lederach’s experience as a renowned peace practitioner who has mediated conflicts around the world. Here, he provides thoughtful, sometimes surprising ideas and advice on how to navigate, disrupt and mitigate the patterns that lead to deeper conflict, with attention to what is happening right now in U.S. politics.
2024-09-29
1h 05
The Wonder Dome
Throwback Thursday Ep: #104 Showing Up For Life (with Parker Palmer & Carrie Newcomer)
This Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes featuring long-time collaborators Parker Palmer and Carrie Newcomer. Parker is a celebrated author, educator, and activist. He and Carrie, the award-winning singer and songwriter, have produced a number of stage productions centered around collective healing and reimagining of our democracy. They have co-written songs, turned poetry into music, and hose The Growing Edge podcast - which is a beautiful venue for discovery and growth. This conversation explores the many voices and cultures we’ll need to weave together if we're going to repair and restore the sacr...
2024-09-26
1h 25
The Growing Edge
Rebroadcast Episode 22 Revolutionary Love - A Conversation With Author:Activist Valarie Kaur
This month Parker Palmer is taking a sabbatical. This is a re-broadcasting our June 1 2020 conversation with Author/Activist/Filmmaker Valarie Kaur. In this episode we discuss her book " See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love". Two months after the 2016 election, Valarie spoke words that went viral, offering millions of people a lasting image of hope, the kind of hope we still desperately need today: “The future is dark. But what if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb but the darkness of the womb?” Those words became the seeds of The Revolutionary Love Project, a move...
2024-07-31
51 min
Eavesdrop With Meena®
Music & Resonance: Carrie Newcomer
Singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer shares her journey through music, poetry, and spirituality. Carrie discusses the profound impact of language and music, her inspirations, and the importance of balancing creation and performance. She also performs two of her songs, "You Can Do This Hard Thing" and "Book of Questions which will resonate deeply with listeners. • The Growing Edge Podcast: Co-hosted by Carrie Newcomer and Parker Palmer. Available on Apple iTunes, Spotify, and at newcomerpalmer.com/podcast • Carrie’s Substack Blog: https://carrienewcomer.substack.com/ • New Album - "A Great Wild Mercy": • Available on all major music platforms. • Website: http://carrienewcomer.com • Soc...
2024-07-25
1h 08
The Growing Edge
Episode 56: “Toughness for a Gentle World”—A Conversation about May Sarton’s Poem “An Observation”.
In this episode, Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer explore May Sarton’s poem, “An Observation.” Gardening is rich with metaphors for a well-lived life. Amend and prepare the soil. Plant the seeds, tend them, and weed out whatever impedes growth. Marvel at the process and share the harvest: we’re here to feed one another as well as ourselves. “An Observation” offers a less obvious metaphor: a well-lived life needs to be both gentle and strong, tender and fierce. We hope you’ll join us for this rich conversation!
2024-06-01
48 min
The Ripples Pondcast
Getting Along Better
This is the audio recording of our monthly Zoomy Zoom with the Team Ripples Patreon Community (https://www.patreon.com/RipplesGuy for more info). This month we followed up last month's "Why Can't We Get Along" talk on polarization with a deeper dive into some of the ideas and resources we touched on previously. The notes and links from the session are pasted below. If you'd prefer to watch the video replay you can watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pl3jRVBuN-sPEBBLE: Similarity Index https://www.allsides.com/similarity
2024-05-02
33 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 55: A Conversation With Quaker Author Phillip Gulley
In this episode, Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer have a conversation with author/pastor/theologian Philip Gulley. Gulley is a pastor, an author, a source of wisdom and hope, and a clear and prophetic voice in progressive theology & spiritual activism in these challenging times. He has written 22 books, including the Harmony series recounting life in the eccentric Quaker community of Harmony, Indiana, several collections of essays including the best selling "Porch Talk", and a memoir called "I Love You, Miss Huddleston" which was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In addition, he has co-authored with James Mulholl...
2024-03-29
52 min
The Next Right Thing
319: Finding Vocational Clarity with Parker J. Palmer
Today we're continuing our conversations with people who have a lot of wisdom to offer when it comes to leaving rooms and finding new ones. My guest today is a writer, speaker and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality, and social change. He is the founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal and his name is Parker J. Palmer. He's the author of 10 books including one of my favorites, Let Your Life Speak. He's a member of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, and he lives together with...
2024-03-14
50 min
Thee Quaker Podcast
Quaker Musician Carrie Newcomer Finds Songs in the Silence
Award-winning singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer has been called a “prairie mystic” for her meditative, poetic lyrics and folk-infused melodies. Carrie is also a thoughtful Quaker, whose faith comes through in her music, her poetry, and her podcast with author Parker Palmer.On this episode, Carrie shares how she came to Quakerism, how she writes from a place of meditation and silence, and, of course, she sings a few songs for us.Learn more about Carrie Newcomer on her website.Visit our episode page for discussion questions, a transcript, to comment, and more!From...
2024-03-13
38 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 54: Revisiting A Sand County Almanac—A Conversation with Buddy Huffaker
In this episode Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer have a conversation with Buddy Huffaker,the Executive Director of the Aldo Leopold Foundation . We discuss the 75th anniversary of Aldos Leapold’s environmental classic A Sand County Almanac. the continuing work of the Leapold Foundation, the concept of Land Ethic, climate change and our individual and community work to heal of our natural world.
2024-01-31
58 min
The Growing Edge
Rebroadcast of Episode 28 A Reason For Delight - A Conversation With Poet, Ross Gay
In this episode Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer revisit favorite episode with Author/poet Ross Gay, who has touched countless readers with his books A catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude, Beholding, The Book of Delights, Incitements to Joy, AND The book of (more) delights”. This episode was recorded in December of 2020, and in it we discuss finding, noticing and experiencing delight as a daily practice, joy as an act of resistance and the importance of creating a connection to one another and to the natural world. We’re happy you’re here to join us for this "delightful" and thoughtful conver...
2023-11-30
49 min
The Pastor's Call Podcast
Ep. 60 - Shadrak Owuor, Grace Episcopal Church
About the Guest: Shadrak grew up in an Anglican pastor's home in Kenya. Feeling the call to ministry in his teenage years, Shadrak began the process to pursue ministry. After attending higher education opportunities in America, and coming back after a loss in his family, Shadrak is now Priest-in-Charge at Grace Episcopal Church in Port Huron, MI where he serves the community and seeks to demonstrate his passion for Christ through pastoral care. Recommended Books: The Courage to Teach, Parker PalmerTaking Care, Carrie DoehringImages of Pastoral Care, Robert DykstraEpisode Sponsored by: Blue Water Free Me...
2023-11-29
40 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 53: The Inner Roots of Democracy - Holding Difference & Prophetic Voice
In this podcast Parker and Carrie wrestle with when and how we creatively hold the tension of our differences, and when differences are to grievous and do not yield to creative tension holding. We explore the meaning of “We Shall Over Come” and the power of prophetic voice in these challenging times for the democratic system. Carrie also sings the title track “A Great Wild Mercy” from her newest album. For more about generative spaces for democracy and the common good check out Parker’s book "Healing The Heart of Democracy"
2023-09-30
50 min
Take Heart
Resourcing Yourself: Listening to Your Life as a Caregiver
In this first episode of season 4, Amy Brown kicks it off with a topic close to her heart: resourcing yourself as a caregiver. Amy shares her personal journey of learning to listen to her own life and prioritize self-care. Drawing from her experiences and the insights of women like Jennifer Dukes Lee and Taylor Elise Morrison, Amy explores the importance of asking ourselves questions like, “How am I contributing to my own chaos? Where am I feeling disconnected? Where do I need rest or space?” She suggests that finding moments of rest and joy, and letting go of the cons...
2023-09-05
12 min
Spirit in Action
Growing Edge of Parker Palmer & Carrie Newcomer
Two great guests: the amazing thinker & author, Parker Palmer, is joined by the wonderful singer, songwriter, & world healer, Carrie Newcomer.
2023-08-31
55 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 52 The Call To Public Service: A Conversation With Indiana State Senator Shelli Yoder
In this podcast, Carrie and Parker speak with Indiana State Senator, Shelli Yoder. We explore together Shelli’s history and vocation in passionate public service, as well as reclaiming the word politics and politician, holding difference and finding common ground. In a time when the most extreme and strident voices are more likely to get media sound bytes, it was deeply moving and encouraging to be in conversation with someone doing faithful and thoughtful daily work in public service. For more about creating generative spaces for democracy and the common good, check out Parker’s book Healing The Heart of Demo...
2023-07-31
53 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 51: All Real Living Is Meeting: Is Community Possible
In this podcast, Carrie and Parker talk about our individual and collective longing for safe and generative community. We’ve always been tugged between our western culture’s drive toward individuality and our desire for a meaningful life together. In this Post-covid time, people are a little rusty at being in community. We are also reassessing what meaningful community looks like and how we choose to participate. Carrie and Parker explore how meeting happens in the space between us, and how critical it is to be mindful about how we hold that space. Gathering in circles is an ancient practice that...
2023-06-01
50 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 50: A Conversation with Scott Russell Sanders, author of “Small Marvels”
In this podcast, Carrie and Parker talk with author Scott Russell Sanders about his new book Small Marvels. Scott’s work often explores the spirit of place, our relationship with the natural world, and creating communities of care and generosity rather a culture of fear and division. In this episode we talk about what inspired the stories in this lovely work, and share thoughts about the power of story and creativity. I hope you’ll join us for this heart-opening conversation.
2023-03-31
55 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 49 An Exploration of The poem "Thanks, Robert Frost"
Parker and Carrie hope you'll join us as we explore the poem "Thanks, Robert Frost" by David Ray. Inspired by the poem, we revisit parts of our history and talk about reframing the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what has shaped us. Staying true to the facts as best we can, we explore ways of holding our experiences with greater compassion for others and ourselves, valuing all that we can learn when we’re able to befriend our own and others’ mistakes.
2023-01-31
56 min
Take Heart
Changing How We Persevere Through Life’s Challenges with Amy J. Brown
How do you keep going when life is relentlessly hard? What can be done to persevere when the diets, exercise, and ‘better’ systems have not succeeded? Listen in as Amy shares some well-earned advice she has learned through her journey. Learn to change HOW you persevere through the ups and downs of parenting a child with disabilities or behavioral needs. January 3, 2023; Ep. #109Show Links:Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer J.R. BriggsScripture mentioned: Psalm 13Show Takeaways: [3...
2023-01-03
11 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 48 journalist/author/poet, Judith Valente and monk/poet/photographer Brother Paul Quenon
Join Parker J Palmer and Carrie Newcomer in conversation with journalist/author/poet, Judith Valente and monk/poet/photographer Brother Paul Quenon. We explore their friendship and creative collaborations as well as what it means to be intentional about “being” in a hectic and often uncertain world. Brother Paul Quenon and Judith Valente are co-authors of the books: How to Be: a Monk and a Journalist Reflect on Living & Dying, Purpose & Prayer, Forgiveness & Friendship; and The Art of Pausing: Meditations for the Overworked and Overwhelmed. You can read more about both authors at www.judithvalente.com and www.monks.org/monks...
2022-11-30
50 min
Take Heart
Misconceptions About Rest with Amy, Carrie, & Sara
Today’s collaborative episode dives into the topic of rest. It's no secret that special needs moms are tired, not just physically but emotionally and spiritually too. We often deny our limits or go full speed for so long that we don't even recognize our need to stop. We assume this hurried pace is normal. Amy, Carrie, and Sara address five common misconceptions about rest and some ways to combat the hurried pace.November 22, 2022; Ep. 108Resources Mentioned:Parker Palmer, Let Your Life SpeakShow Takeaways: [2:37] I’ll have time to rest later...
2022-11-22
37 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 47: Reunion—A Conversation with Jerry Colonna
In this conversation with Jerry Colonna—co-founder and CEO of Reboot, an international executive coaching and leadership development firm—we range from childhood wounds and the way they can distort our adult roles, to race in America and role leaders can play in helping to build the Beloved Community. Jerry’s new book “Reunion: Leadership and the Journey to Belonging,” explores how being a better human means the ability to brave the truth and then actively engage in debunking myths of sameness, dismantling “othering" systems, and working directly for the wellbeing of the dispossessed and disinherited. Please join us for this timely, fasc...
2022-09-30
58 min
The Wonder Dome
#104 Showing Up for Life (with Parker Palmer and Carrie Newcomer)
Returning to The Wonder Dome this week are long-time collaborators Parker Palmer and Carrie Newcomer. Parker is the author of many books and a celebrated teacher and educator. Carrie is the writer of many songs and creator of many albums and she too is a celebrated educator and teacher in her own right. Together they have produced a number of stage productions centered around collective healing and reimagining and healing our democracy. They have co-written songs, turned poetry into music, and host The Growing Edge podcast - which is a...
2022-08-04
1h 25
The Growing Edge
Episode 46: Reforming What Was Deformed
Parker and Carrie talk about the challenges of staying in dialogue during divisive times, how to claim agency and the courage to stay engaged. Many of us were raised with a household rule to never talk about religion or politics in polite company. In this episode we unpack and reframe the true meaning of the words "religion" and "politics". We explore defining politics as not a listing of current events, but as a conversation about the holding of power and religion as not being about the particulars of theology, but as the quest for meaning. By redefining these terms, we might...
2022-07-31
56 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 45 Podcast The Promise of Loving Kindness, The Problem of Evil
In this episode Parker & Carrie explore how to hold and acknowledge the presence of evil and great goodness in our world. In this honest and open hearted conversation they visit two poems that encourage reflection and insights on this topic, holding the tension of the heaviness we sometimes feel and what we can do in our daily lives to maintain perspective and hope.
2022-05-31
54 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 44:Memory, Witness & Lessons From Elie Wiesel's Classroom - A Conversation With Ariel Burger
This month on The Growing Edge podcast. Parker and Carrie talk with Ariel Burger, author, teacher, and artist whose work integrates spirituality, the arts and strategies for social change. An Orthodox-trained rabbi, Ariel received his Ph.D. in Jewish Studies and Conflict Resolution under Elie Wiesel. We explore topics from Ariel's book Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom, his work as founding director and senior scholar of The Witness Institute, the nature of hope, navigating conflict, and the intersection of spirituality and art. It’s a conversation that stimulates reflection and inspires hope.
2022-04-30
1h 00
The Growing Edge
Episode 43:Rebroadcast -From Polarization to Healing: Conflict Transformation W/ John Paul Lederach
This month on The Growing Edge Podcast we will be revisiting our Feb 2021 conversation with John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus of International Peace Building, and internationally respected expert in conflict transformation. John Paul describes the stages that lead to violence in a society, as well as the ways people heal and create communal networks of change. In a time when we are all deeply concerned about the tragic violence happening The Ukraine, The Growing Edge is revisiting this Powerful conversation about how hope for a more peaceful world happens in daily and personal ways as well as through community, national...
2022-03-31
1h 05
Shift the Power
The Circle of Trust with Parker J. Palmer
Parker J. Palmer is a celebrated author, activist, and Founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal. Parker created the Circle of Trust® approach after a decade of living and learning at Pendle Hill, a Quaker community and retreat center. The approach is a social technology of time-tested principles and practices to create a safe space to nurture personal and professional integrity. In this episode, Tyler and Parker examine the critical role that building trust and modeling vulnerability play in driving us to our best outcomes, as individuals and organizations. Read the transcript for the episode here. ...
2022-03-15
37 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 42 A Conversation With Poet Lynn Ungar - Pandemic
In this episode, Carrie & Parker welcome poet Lynn Ungar. In 2020 Her poem "Pandemic" went viral and introduce her insightful, spiritual, wry and sometimes political writing to a wider audience. We consider two different poems and discuss the role of the artist in public discourse.
2022-02-28
1h 01
The Growing Edge
Episode 41: A Conversation With Theologian/Author Diana Butler Bass
In this episode Parker & Carrie discuss spirituality, justice and living authentically with author and theologian, Diana Butler Bass. Diana talks about her history as a person of faith, the challenges for woman in theological settings, her writing and work with "The Cottage" as an ongoing exploration what it means to live a life of revolutionary love.
2022-02-01
1h 06
The Growing Edge
Episode 40: How To Fly - A Conversation With Author/Poet Barbara Kingsolver
In this episode Carrie & Parker welcome Author/Poet Barbara Kingsolver. Together they discuss the natural world, mortality, the promise of ambiguity, making, the writer's life, knitting and her new book of luminous poetry How To Fly (in Ten Thousands Easy Lessons.
2021-12-31
52 min
The Wonder Dome
#80 Until Now (with Carrie Newcomer)
Those of you who have been listening for a while know that I care deeply about the creative process. About the ways in which insight can come to us from the most unexpected places. One of our opportunities as human beings is to show up for whatever life brings. Carrie Newcomer is someone who embodies that as fully as any of us might hope for.Carrie is a songwriter, a recording artist, a performer, and an educator. She co-hosts the podcast, The Growing Edge, with one of my mentors and heroes Parker Palmer. She makes...
2021-12-09
1h 09
The Growing Edge
Episode 39:The Gift of Presence with Poet & Educator Naomi Shihab Nye (rebroadcast)
This month on The Growing Edge podcast we revisit our December 2018 conversation with poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Naomi has received numerous honors for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, and the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. She is currently the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate. In this conversation we read and discuss her luminous poem, “Shoulders” and explore the gift of being present to the small moments of our lives. We loved this conversation, and still treasure the life-giving ideas and stories that came up as we talked. Warmest Greetings of the season fro...
2021-11-30
59 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 39:The Gift of Presence with Poet & Educator Naomi Shihab Nye
This month on The Growing Edge podcast we revisit our December 2018 conversation with poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Naomi has received numerous honors for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, and the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. She is currently the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate. In this conversation we read and discuss her luminous poem, “Shoulders” and explore the gift of being present to the small moments of our lives. We loved this conversation, and still treasure the life-giving ideas and stories that came up as we talked. Warmest Greetings of the season fro...
2021-11-30
59 min
Take Heart
Living In the Land of What If: Dealing With Fear
Sometimes, fear disguises itself as other emotions, and it’s important to recognize it for what it is. Fear of the future can paralyze us. In this episode, Sara, Amy, and Carrie dive into recognizing fear, dealing with fear of the future, and some practices for living led by God’s love.November 23, 2021; Ep. 62Timestamps & Key Topics:0:21- Intro1:03- Pushed By Fear Or Led By Love3:37- Recognizing Fear9:45- Fear of the Future17:26- Don’t Live in “What If” Land20:20- Led By Love25:03- Ground Level Practices27:35- A Prayer29:41- OutroEpisode Lin...
2021-11-23
30 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 38 The Angels & The Furies
In this episode Carrie and Parker discuss May Sarton's powerful poem, "The Angels & The Furies." In this conversation we talk about the angels and furies of our nature. In these times when many of us are wrestling with what to do with our furies in life giving ways, what does it mean to be "perfectly human but never perfect"? How do we also incline our heads and notice where the graces of our lives appear and support our own better angels? And finally, how do we balance the both/and of our lives.
2021-10-31
55 min
Soul Cafe Podcast
EPISODE 2 WITH SPECIAL GUEST CARRIE NEWCOMER
EPISODE 2 NOTES FOR SOUL CAFÉ PODCAST—October 2021Special Guest: Carrie NewcomerAs always the Soul Café Podcast begins with Della Mae singing Rude Awakenings---an awakening is a rousing from sleep or a rousing from inactivity or indifference. We then introduce Carrie Newcomer our guest is has been described by the Boston Globe as a “Praire Mystic”. And Rolling Stone Magazine says, “she asks all the right questions”. Carrie is a singer/songwriter and author that has released 19 albums. We start the conversation with some light stuff like Carrie telling us about her dog and she actually has...
2021-10-01
50 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 37: Writing From The Margins & The Red Thread - A Conversation with Author Parker J. Palmer
In this episode Carrie and Parker continue their conversation about creativity and the undivided life, writing from the "margins", following a call to and beyond the growing edge, and the red threads that run through Parker's work over the past 50 years. This podcast also features one of Parker's poems, "The Poem I Would Have Writ."
2021-09-30
59 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 36 Until Now: Creativity At The Growing Edge
In this episode Parker and Carrie take a moment to talk about Carrie's newest companion projects Until Now CD & Until Now: New Poems. They discuss the themes that run through these two companion pieces; resilience and uncertainty, loss, discover and being in process. They discuss how creativity can be expressed in a traditional art form, but also in how we approach our relationships, parenting, community, vocation and as a spiritual practice. We'll be giving a sneak peek listen to the new songs and poetry before it's release date, September 10, 2021.
2021-08-31
50 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 35: Learning In Public - A Conversation With Courtney Martin
In this episode Parker and Carrie are in conversation with author, journalist, activist, Courtney Martin, about her new book, Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School. Courtney has a popular Substack newsletter, called Examined Family, and speaks widely at conferences and colleges through out the country. She is also the co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, FRESH Speakers Bureau, and the Bay Area chapter of Integrated Schools. We're both very moved by Courtney's new book and her open, honest, informed and humble presentation of the story of this book, which reads like a memoir an...
2021-07-31
58 min
Heart's Desire & Social Change
Bonus: Parker Palmer & Listening for Vocation
Fr. Dan talks with Parker Palmer, a writer, speaker, activist, and founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal. They explore how to follow the true calling of one’s heart, the struggles often encountered on the journey to the heart’s desire, and continued discernment through retirement.Resources:Parker Palmer's biographyLet Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker PalmerOn the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old by Parker PalmerThe Growing Edge with Parker and singer Carrie NewcomerTheir song, "The Music Will Play On"
2021-07-29
57 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 34 - Real Change: A Conversation With Sharon Salzberg
A conversation with beloved meditation teacher and founder of The Insight Meditation Society. In this episode we explore the practice of mindfulness and meditation to deepen our own lives and sustain our capacity to stay engaged and serve others. We discuss Sharon's book "Real Change" and her work with diverse groups to process suffering and create a sustainable positive change. Sharon leads us and our Growing Edge listeners in a short mindful meditation.
2021-06-30
58 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 33: Rebroadcast of "A Conversation with Author/Poet Mark Nepo
Because Carrie was in the studio this month working on a new album, we decided not to record a new podcast for June. Instead, we are revisiting our 2019 interview with our dear friend, Mark Nepo, poet and author. In this interview we explored what it means to show up as our authentic self and how when we are in touch with our deepest human experiences we are in touch with our shared human experience. Mark Nepo has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. Beloved as a po...
2021-05-31
1h 01
The Growing Edge
Episode 32: Identity, Resiliency & Spiritual Calling - A Conversation with Dr. Luther E. Smith Jr.
For our May, 2021 podcast, we welcome Dr. Luther E. Smith Jr., Professor Emeritus at Candler Seminary, author, educator, pastor, mystic, and elder. In this episode we talk about how identity is shaped and expanded and how conversations about race could be more authentic and powerful. We also explore what it meant for him to follow a spiritual calling and the experiences that led him to his friendship and academic study of author and mystic, Howard Thurman.
2021-04-30
1h 03
The Growing Edge
Episode 31: The Power of Story & Song with John McCutcheon
Parker and Carrie welcome singer songwriter, activist John McCutcheon, musician, activist and spiritual seeker. He has 41 albums to his credit, has received six Grammy Award nominations and worked for 40 years bringing together intelligent thoughtful songs, fearless commentary and music for social change. In this episode we talk about the power of music to connect and inspire, the dignity and value of each human being told in story and song, spiritual seeking and embracing the role of elder.
2021-03-31
1h 12
The Growing Edge
Episode 30: From Polarization to Healing, with John Paul Lederach
For our March, 2021 podcast, we welcome John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding, and internationally respected expert in conflict transformation. John Paul describes the stages that lead to violence in a society, as well as the ways people heal and create communal networks of change. Please join us for this insightful conversation. "Peacebuilding is walking toward a horizon. You never really reach the end of that walk, but it gives you an orientation.”
2021-02-28
1h 04
The Labyrinth and the Thread
Parker Palmer on telling the truth, community care, and being born baffled
Many thanks to our guest Parker Palmer! You can find Carrie Newcomer and Parker Palmer's retreat series and podcast "The Growing Edge" at https://www.newcomerpalmer.com/ The Labyrinth and the Thread focuses on mental health and creativity. If you need support, here are some resources to find mental health professionals: Psychology Today Directory: National directory of therapists. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists Therapy for Black Girls: Find trusted, culturally competent therapists. https://therapyforblackgirls.com/ Trans Lifeline: Peer support by and for trans people. https://translifeline.org Support this podcast
2021-01-22
29 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 29: The Handing Over Time
In this episode, Carrie and Parker reflect upon the happenings of 2020. They discuss challenges we've faced in the past year as well as focus and evidence for hope in the new year. They explore the idea of living in the "Tragic Gap" and living into creative citizenry. They read Mary Oliver's lovely poem "Starlings in Winter" and discuss grief and getting past it, and what is is putting lift into their boots. Carrie performs the song "The Handing Over Time" By Carrie Newcomer and Gary Walters
2020-12-31
50 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 28: A Reason For Delight - A Conversation With Poet, Ross Gay
In this episode, Carrie and Parker have a conversation with Poet, Ross Gay, author of The Book of Delights & Be Holding. We talk about Ross's books, his thoughts about finding delight in his daily life as a daily practice, joy as an act of resistance and the importance of creating a connection to one another and to the natural world. We hope you'll join us for this "delightful" and thoughtful conversation.
2020-11-30
48 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 27: Where Do We Go From Here - A Post Election Conversation
In this episode, Carrie and Parker ask how We the People can help renew the American body politic post-election. How do we have open-hearted conversations across lines of difference, without blinking facts or backing away from critical issues of equity and justice? As we step into the future, knowing we will help create it one way or another, how do we ground ourselves to do the hard work ahead, holding to hope and joy as we go?
2020-11-17
58 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 26: From The Heartland To The White House & Home —A Conversation with Preeta Bansal
Carrie and Parker have a conversation about the Inner work of democracy and the common good with Preeta Bansal. Preeta was Solicitor General of the State of New York, then as General Counsel in the Obama White House, where she played a major role in the Office of Management and Budget during the financial collapse of 2008. Preeta now finding expression in ServiceSpace, an ecosystem in which she is a global anchor and volunteer and which draws upon network science, the role of emerging technologies, and the work of inner transformation.
2020-09-29
58 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 25 "Anchored In The Current" A New Book About The Enduring Influence of Howard Thurman
In this Growing Edge Podcast, we talk with author, educator, and activist Gregory Ellison II about his new book, Anchored in the Current, a collection of essays about the enduring influence of mystic, theologian, and civil rights activist Howard Thurman.
2020-08-30
52 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 24 "The Music Will Play On”
In this Growing Edge Podcast, we explore mortality, living with presence in the pandemic, the importance of creativity and collaboration—and we debut our new single, "The Music Will Play On” (lyrics by Parker, music by Carrie).
2020-07-31
50 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 23 -A Ritual To Read Each Other -
The July Growing Edge Podcast features a poem that illumines the American uprising for racial justice and our role in it. Carrie and Parker explore William Stafford’s poem, "A Ritual to Read to Each Other". Taking one verse at a time, they talk about the light the poem sheds on this moment of national awakening and our response to it. The work now required to rid the U.S. of structural racism has been left undone for 240 years—the road ahead is long and we need light along the way. Photo by Tobias Adams Conversation Starters about The Growing Edge...
2020-06-29
51 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 22- Revolutionary Love - A Conversation With Valarie Kaur
In this Growing Edge Podcast, Parker and Carrie talk with author, attorney, filmmaker, and activist Valarie Kaur. In her new book, See No Stranger: A Memoir & Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, Valarie invites us to a revised and renewed version of the historic nonviolent movement for social change.
2020-05-31
50 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 21: Gardening In The Dark
In this Growing Edge Podcast Parker J. Palmer & Carrie Newcomer have an open hearted conversation about maintaining hope in the time of covid-19. They describe the many layers that come up when we ask one another, "How are you?" There are conversation starter pdf on the Growing Edge website to discuss the topic of this conversation with others in your life.
2020-04-30
55 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 20 - A Conversation About Living In Uncertain Times
Carrie and Parker explore many questions about living with uncertainty, disruption, and revelation in this time of coronavirus. What helps us grow and still our hearts? What comes up personally and emotionally when we slow down? What do we have no control over, and what is in our realm of care and influence? What experiences in the past can help us navigate what we are experiencing now? What new understanding and skills might we acquire. How do we respond to this new window into what it means to be "at risk”? On the other side of this experience, what opening, what invi...
2020-03-31
54 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 19: A Conversation w/ Over The Rhine - Musicians Karin Bergquist & Lindford Detweiler
Carrie and Parker have a heart opening conversation with musicians Karin Bergquist & Linford Detweiler (Over The Rhine). They explore the creative process, the spiritual and personal threads that run through their music, balancing inward and outward engagement, creating community and “thin places in the world.” We discuss of three of their beautiful songs, “Betting on the Muse” “Broken Angels” and “Meet Me At The Edge Of The World.”
2020-02-29
59 min
The Growing Edge
Growing Edge Feb 2020 Episode 18
In this episode Carrie and Parker explore Wendell Berry's poem "The Wild Geese" and that what we need is here, within us and between us.
2020-02-10
45 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 17: New Year's Revolutions
Join Parker and Carrie as they explore the idea of New Year’s Revolutions. At the turn of the year many of us engage in the cultural practice of New Year's resolutions. Often these intentions have to do with visiting the gym more frequently, diet or creating a more desirable habit to replace an old one. But what would it be like to begin the year with with a series of New Year's revolutions? What is a New Year's revolution and how could this new way of looking at intention and change be of benefit in the coming year? We ho...
2020-01-03
41 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 16 "Questions Before Dark" A Conversation About Living With Questions
Join Carrie and Parker as they explore Jeanne Lohmann's, "Questions Before Dark” “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
2019-11-28
42 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 15 The Violence of Overactivity—The Wisdom of Living at the Speed of Soul
Join Parker and Carrie for a conversation about this powerful Thomas Merton quote, and how they personally wrestle with overactivity and try to reclaim the wisdom of living at the speed of soul.
2019-10-29
44 min
Song of the Soul
Loving Beyond Knowing
With her music, Carrie Newcomer shines light, raises up hope, and brings us home to that perfect center in our hearts, the place where the Divine and our very best both reside.With 3 new CDs and 3 years additional experience since our last visit, we're overdue to have her back. Carrie Newcomer lives in south-central Indiana, and has released a total of 18 CDs; Carrie periodically shares the stage with writer & profound thinker, Parker Palmer, in a collaboration called The Growing Edge.
2019-10-18
55 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 14 The Growing Edge of Navigating Conflict
In our September podcast, Carrie and Parker take on the topic of conflict on the personal, vocational, and political growing edges of our lives. We live in divisive times, culturally and politically. For many of us, navigating these complexities with family, friends, and colleagues has become challenging. When navigating conflict, what helps you stay true to yourself and your deepest values and beliefs? What touchstones and practices give you guidance in engaging other viewpoints creatively, and help you "know when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em?"
2019-08-31
1h 02
The Growing Edge
Episode 13: A Conversation With Beloved Author/Poet/Educator Mark Nepo
Join Parker and Carrie for a heart opening conversation with Author/Poet/Educator Mark Nepo as they discuss what it means to show up as our authentic self, balancing our inner and outer lives, and how when we are in touch with our deepest human experiences we are in touch with our shared human experience. Mark Nepo has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyt...
2019-07-30
59 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 12: Within Us & Between Us is Everything We Need
Join Parker and Carrie for our July podcast where we explore the concept of abundance. The very idea of “the growing edge” is rooted in the confidence that more life, new life, is always possible. In this conversation we discuss how community not only creates abundance—community is abundance. We explore the life-giving expansion that happens when we abandon the idea that we must “go it alone," risk connecting with others, and generate a sense of "enoughness" in ourselves and in the world.
2019-06-29
50 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 11 A Conversation w/ Author Gregory Ellison lll
Our friend Greg Ellison is Professor of Pastoral Care & Counseling at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He is founder of Fearless Dialogues, a nonprofit that creates unique spaces for unlikely partners to have hard, heartfelt conversations on taboo subjects like racism, classism, and community violence. Ellison’s research focuses on caring with marginalized populations, pastoral care as social activism, and contemporary mysticism. He is the author of Cut Dead But Still Alive: Caring for African American Young Men, and Fearless Dialogues: A New Movement for Justice. He also has a book in progress with Westminster John Knox Press: Anchored in...
2019-05-31
49 min
The Not Old - Better Show
#352 Carrie Newcomer - Singer, Songwriter, Poet
Carrie Newcomer - Singer, Songwriter, Poet Music Today Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and this is episode #352. As part of our Music Today series, our guest is singer, songwriter, poet, Carrie Newcomer. This will be a very special show because our guest, Carrie Newcomer’s music is just wonderful. Carrie Newcomer has been called a “prairie mystic.” She’s best known for her story-songs like “Betty’s Diner,” which we’re listening to, now. With Carrie Newcomer, you get at the raw...
2019-05-16
31 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 10 The Growing Edge Internal & External Pushback
To live an undivided life, to follow the call to wholeness, may at times feel lonely when others express discomfort, concern, or view what we are doing as dangerous. Join Carrie and Parker as they discuss the May question of the month, “Have you ever needed to follow a path where you felt lonely or misunderstood, perhaps getting active pushback? If so, what helped you persist and carry through?”
2019-04-30
53 min
The Growing Edge
The Growing Edge Episode 9 - From Frozen to Fallow to Flowering
Carrie Newcomer and Parker J. Palmer discuss long winters and new seasons of growth and The Growing Edge Quesion of the Month. "What have you learned for the long winters of your life and/or those seasons of new growth and unexpected light?"
2019-03-30
47 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 8 Mud and Miracles
Parker and Carrie discuss The Growing Edge Question of The Month for March. March is the season of spring, mud and miracles. How do you hold the eternal mix of mud and miracles in your life? What do you learn from this process? What do you regard as miraculous, and how do you give thanks for it?
2019-02-28
47 min
The Growing Edge
Growing Edge Episode 7 - The Fast Track & The Call to Stillness
Carrie and Parker discuss The Growing Edge February question of the month. In February nature maintains a state of stillness in order to nurture its own growing edges. But we live in a culture that values (and sometimes requires) speeding. Parker and Carrie discuss slowing, stopping, lying low whether by choice or necessity. What do we learn, what can only happen when given time and space? What does it mean to live at the speed of our own souls?
2019-01-31
44 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 6 Begin Again
It’s no accident that January takes its name from the Roman god Janus, the god of "gateways and beginnings." Parker and Carrie explore the idea of endings, beginning again, beginner's mind and the question "Where are you feeling called to ‘begin again’? Are there areas of your life and work where you’re feeling stuck, where would it be life-giving for you—and maybe for others—to gather up what you’ve learned and make a fresh start? ”
2019-01-03
46 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 5 A Conversation About Gifts With Special Guest Poet Naomi Shihab Nye
Parker J Palmer and Carrie Newcomer are joined by special guest the poet, Naomi Shihab Nye. A reading of Naomi's poem "Shoulders" and a conversation about the concept of gift, giving and paying attention.
2018-11-29
58 min
The Growing Edge
Episode 4 Where The Personal Meets the Political at The Growing Edge
Carrie and Parker discuss where the personal meets the political at the Growing Edge, focusing on the human heart as the first home of democracy. What personal work will help us navigate the kind of troubled times that ask us to be better people than we ever thought we'd need to be? Parker describes the politics of the broken hearted.
2018-10-30
58 min
The Growing Edge
Episode Three: The Slow Blossoming
Carrie and Parker discuss the October Growing Edge Question of the Month. "What do you want to name and claim as a way you are flowering today that you could only hope for in the past? What do you want to celebrate about the way your life has opened over the years as it reaches for the sun?” Often we think of personal and spiritual growth as an effort to achieve some goal in the future. But it’s equally important to look back and celebrate the growth we’ve achieved over the past five or ten years ago in that p...
2018-09-28
48 min
The Growing Edge
The Growing Edge Episode Two: Fear, Courage, To See and Be Seen
Parker and Carrie discuss the September question of the Month, fear, courage, mentors and what it means to see and be seen. It’s September, the start of the school year. For many kids, it’s an exciting growing edge moment and scary at the same time. When you’ve felt afraid on the growing edge of your adult life, what has helped you walk into your fear toward what excites you? What helps you keep fear from blocking your next steps toward your “deep gladness”?
2018-08-22
40 min
Freedom Loves Company
On the Brink of Everything: A Conversation with Parker Palmer About Growing Old
Parker J. Palmer, Founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal, is a world-renowned writer, speaker and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He has reached millions worldwide through his nine books, including Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, and Healing the Heart of Democracy. He is collaborating with singer/songwriter, Carrie Newcomer, in a project called The Growing Edge. His tenth book is On The Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old.
2018-08-21
52 min
The Growing Edge
Episode One - August Question of the Month - Finding Hope in Hard Times
Episode 1 - Welcome to our first episode and conversation about the August 2018 Question of the Month. "In the past, when you’ve felt a “growing edge” in your life, what signs let you know that something new was calling you? What did you notice as you followed those signs—and what did you learn from that experience about life on the growing edge?"
2018-07-30
38 min
Talk of the Towns | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Talk of the Towns 4/13/12
Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Engineer: Joel Mann Issue: Education Program Topic: Renewing the Courage to Teach Key Discussion Points: a) What drew each of you to work in education? Are there other factors that inspire teachers older and younger to take up the “leading forth” or education of the next generations of learners? b) What are some of the values of the profession? (what values do teachers profess?) c) What are some of the conditions and external factors that cause teachers to lose heart? (criticism about teacher effectiveness, failing schools, policies that dictate teaching to the...
2012-04-13
58 min