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The Sapphic Book Review2025 Holiday Podcast Episode 1Send us a textIt's the fourth annual holiday podcast! TJ O'Shea, Angela Dawe, Quinn Riley, Kris Bryant, Morgan Lee Miller, J.J. Arias, Tagan Shepard, Haley Cass & Monica McCallan, Bryce Oakley, Jen Lyon, Jamey Moody, Ally North, Rita Potter and Clare Ashton answer my holiday questions! To support this podcast, you can buy me a coffee at sapphiclaura is Bringing you fun chats with the best authors in sapphic fiction.Support the show
2025-12-1745 min
The Christian Channel Podcast#61 – David HenrieDavid Henrie talks Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, family, and faith with Clare McCallan.
2025-10-0811 minThe Christian Channel Podcast#61 – David HenrieDavid Henrie talks Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, family, and faith with Clare McCallan.
2025-10-0811 minThe Sapphic Book ReviewHoliday Podcast 2024Send us a textMy guests, Kat Jackson, Ana K. Wrenn, Carrie Byrd and Rosyln Sinclair, Ana Hartnett, Clare Lydon, E.J. Noyes, Haley Cass and Monica McCallan, J.J. Arias, Cari Hunter and Eliza Lentzski spread some holiday cheer and answer some holiday questions! Episode two will be up on Monday! To support this podcast, you can buy me a coffee: sapphiclaura is Bringing you fun chats with the best authors in sapphic fiction.Join my Partreon patreon.com/SBRHappyHappyHourSupport the show
2024-12-2040 min
Jesus Calling: Stories of FaithFinding God in Our Spiritual Deserts: Sarah Kroger & Clare McCallanThis week, we are delighted to have Sarah Kroger, a talented singer/songwriter and worship leader from Nashville, Tennessee. Sarah shares the early days of her creative exploration while facing bullying, and how when she attended a transformative youth conference, she realized that faith could be something that was alive in your life, not just a box to be checked off on Sundays. Later in the episode, we’ll hear from Clare McCallan, an accomplished author and creative director of St. Joseph's Home for Artisans in Boston. Clare shares her experience of taking a leap of faith, ba...
2024-08-0824 min
Pivotal PeopleCourage to Create with artist and author Clare McCallanSend us a textAuthor Clare McCallan shares her vision of nurturing the creative side of any reader with her latest book, "Courage to Create: Unleashing Your Artistic Gifts for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness." She believes we all hold the potential to craft masterpieces that celebrate the divine. She started an artists' community in Boston called The St. Joseph's Home for Artisans, which has become a sanctuary for faith-driven creators in the city of Boston.Art has the profound power to connect us to the core of our humanity, a theme we explore in this co...
2024-07-2932 min
Can I Laugh On Your Shoulder?#404 How to use your creative gifts for the glory of God with Clare McCallanMy guest this week is Clare McCallan. She founded and serves as the Creative Director at St. Joseph's Home for Artisans, is a touring spoken word poet, and host of the podcast Letters From the Least. She is also the creator and host of The Renaissance Room and co-host of This Is The Day on CatholicTV, where she works as a writer. I am so excited to have her on the show today to talk about her upcoming book Courage to Create: Unleasing your Artistic Gifts for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, which serves as both a roadmap...
2024-07-1728 min
No Set Path: Entertainment Break-In Stories35 - Filmmaking as a Vocation w/ Artists in Residence at St. Joseph's Home for ArtisansIn this episode we interview four current artists in residence at St. Joseph's Home for Artisans, the only operating Catholic artist residency in the United States, in Boston, MA.
We talk through how to balance filmmaking with other aspects of vocation, how faith can help in the pursuit of a creative career, and overcoming our individual obstacles (from healing from Guillain Barré syndrome, to navigating being a first-generation Mexican American storyteller).
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2:47 - FERNANDO J. LIMBO III - Residency Co-Founder from Boston, MA
5:44 - Finding peace to cultivate creative freedom
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2024-07-0452 min
Pop Culture CatechismWhat Was I Made For? - Billie, Barbie, & Clare McCallan Gets CanceledWE’RE BACK! And talking about the biggest song of the last year “What Was I Made For” By Billie Eilish from the Barbie movie, and to take us through it we have the poet Clare McCallan. She shares her wisdom (including some spicy hot takes), a bit about her life, and also a really good poem. She also talks about her new book “Courage To Create.” And as an extra special treat, we have guest musician, Isabel Tenney. Episode 84 Show Host: Mike Tenney Show Page: https://www.awakencatholic.org/pop-culture-catechism/what-was-i-made-for-billie-barbie-and-clare-mccallan-gets-cancelled Clare’s Info: Website: http://www.claremcc...
2024-05-231h 06
Sinner Saint SisterModern Dating w/ Clare McCallan S10 E8Clare McCallan sits down with me for some REAL TALK about modern dating— hits and misses, trends and tips— and she says all the quiet parts out loud! You’ll love this frank discussion with someone in the trenches of trying to find a partner in a changing world while maintaining Christian values.
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2023-07-141h 01
The Crab and The Cross#17 Poetry, Calcutta, and Dating as a Catholic with Clare McCallanClare McCallan is a spoken word artist, author, podcaster, and co-host of CatholicTV's morning show, "This is the Day." We discuss how she discovered spoken word poetry on a mission trip in Calcutta and her life as a traveling artist. We also talk about dating as Catholic women. Spoiler alert: no one is having fun...
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2023-03-081h 01
Plaid Skirts & Basic BlackMangers, Not Managers with Clare McCallanWe're dusting off a great episode from our mid-pandemic archive! Recorded in December 2021, author and Spoken Word Poet Clare McCallan joins us to talk about her Advent book of poetry, Mangers and the importance of "being a guest" in someone else's cultural space. Buy Clare's books! OffertoryClareDoing embroideryHot water bottlesSilk flowersBlack Friday Regretful ReturnsHanging out with the Church Office LadiesMarciaSondheim Greatest Hits PlaylistsParadise Square on BroadwayShannonWardrobe UpdatesTargetMattress PadsSocialsMarcia: @stylishlyciaShannon: @t...
2022-12-2256 minThe Sapphic Book ReviewInterview with Lily SeabrookeSend us a textLily Seabrooke joins me to talk about Love On Location, Faux Pas, dinner parties with all the friends, her favorite sapphic books and more. Lily's Amazon page to purchase her books: Amazon.com: Lily Seabrooke: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, KindleJoin my Patreon to hear all of the author Would You Rather games, including this weeks with Lily: Sapphic Book Review is creating Bonus fun with sapphic authors | PatreonYou can also support this podcast by going to Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sapphiclaura
2022-05-3030 min
It's Not That Late with Liv HarrisonEpisode 24: It's Not That Late with Clare McCallanFrom Houston, Texas comes It's Not That Late with Liv Harrison. It's Not That Late is the first ever late night Catholic radio show led by the one and only Liv Harrison. Liv's infectious positivity and ability to command the air waves partnered with her love of story, laughter and bringing people together makes this show a must listen. Get ready to laugh because- it's not that late.
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2021-12-2452 min
Sinner Saint SisterS7E8 Mangers w/Clare McCallanAllison sits down with Clare McCallan to talk about prayer as poetry and making room for whatever we might be feeling this Advent.
Waiting, accepting, journeying and birthing— Clare has a special way of preparing Him room and you won’t want to miss this interview!
You can find Clare @clare_mccallan and you can purchase a copy of her book to accompany you through Advent at https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/9388812/ba342a1cc7fa62542aa94b05d7ef11c9aac7d78e
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2021-12-1149 min
Hearts AblazeWomen as Warrior-Poets: The Feminine Genius and the Intersection of Radical Grit and Radical Softness with Clare McCallanClare McCallan is a spoken word artist and author whose work focuses on the intersection of virtue and adventure. After two North American poetry tours, a film about her work and journey, "Clare McCallan: Little Victories" was released in 2020. She is the creator and host of "Letters to the Least" a podcast that features her original poetry. She was selected as an Artist in Residence at the Grunewald Guild in 2019 and released her first poetry collection, entitled "Stations" in 2020. She now creates art with St. Joseph’s Home for Artisans in Boston.In this episode, Clare and Ma...
2021-11-1352 min
Hearts AblazeBoldness and Humility: The Building Blocks of Christian Community with Corrie MichellCorrie Michell is an Army Officer currently at Flight School at Fort Rucker, Alabama. She is passionate about cars, sports, foreign languages, engineering, and discipleship! She has a lot of experience running bible studies and helping people to form communities around their faith, and she is going to share some wisdom with us today about how best to go about that, especially if you are moving to a new place/parish every few years. We talk about everything from how to faithfully engage with largely Protestant fellowship groups/bible studies to how to find creative ways to connect with...
2021-08-071h 05
Let's Talk About It with Jacque and MeganLust as a Feminine Vice - A Conversation with Clare McCallanWe tend to associate lust as more of a masculine vice but women also struggle. In this episode, Jacque and Megan interview Clare McCallan, author and spoken word poet, who wrote a piece on lust as a feminine vice. Clare talks about the difference between healthy sexual desire and lust, how lust is different from … Read More Read More
2021-05-3142 min
Lesbians on ScreenWrap Up Show - Lesbians On Screen watching Juliantina (ep39)Wrap Up Show
Lesbians On Screen
Season 1 Episode 39
Today we are talking about Juliantina, a lesbian couple featured in the show Amar A Muerte - A Mexican soap opera and they fast gained global popularity.
We look at:
Unanswered Questions
What did Eva Do?
Who’s child did Eva carry?
Is Chivis Psychic
Overriding themes
Meant to be / destiny
Overcoming homophobia
The Queer rep they chose to show
I don’t like labels.
Women judge more harshly than men.
Questioning your sexuality and sleeping with a man.
What would a perf...
2021-03-1042 min
To the Heights44: Spoken Word Poetry, Rejection, and Adventure | Clare McCallanSpoken word artist Clare McCallan joins Olivia to discuss art, adventure, and taking the leap to pursue poetry full time. Support To the Heights
2021-03-0827 min
Roar Like The LambEpisode 8: Life is Hard, But it’s Harder When You’re Right (or wrong)Few things in life are as challenging as conflict and correction, whether you are the one who has to do the correcting or the one being corrected. But the Christian life demands a willingness, in charity, to call our brothers and sisters in faith to greater virtue and holiness.
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For some self-reflection check out: Litany of Fraternal Correction by Clare McCallan
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2021-01-2654 min
Gotta Be SaintsVirtues and Vices - Part TwoSend us a textOn episode thirty-seven of the Gotta Be Saints Podcast, I spoke with Clare McCallan about a recent study she did on virtue and vices. This is part two of our conversation.Biography:Earlier this year, Clare was selected as the Winter Artist in Residence at the Grunewald Guild in Leavenworth, WA. She recently taught a series of online workshops on “Poetry as Protest” for the Guild’s patrons. Similarly, she has spent the last few months trying to make a difference with her art by offering free (virtual) spoken word le...
2021-01-0344 minGotta Be SaintsVirtues and Vices - Part OneSend us a textOn episode thirty-six of the Gotta Be Saints Podcast, I spoke with Clare McCallan about a recent study she did on virtue and vices. This is part one of our conversation.Biography:Earlier this year, Clare was selected as the Winter Artist in Residence at the Grunewald Guild in Leavenworth, WA. She recently taught a series of online workshops on “Poetry as Protest” for the Guild’s patrons. Similarly, she has spent the last few months trying to make a difference with her art by offering free (virtual) spoken word le...
2020-12-2745 min
Letters From the Least2: Calling the Devil by His NameThis episode features a number of Clare McCallan's original poems on spiritual warfare and combatting the devil with art.Support Letters From the Least
2020-11-2328 minLetters From the Least1: On Having a DreamIn this first episode, spoken word poet Clare McCallan introduces herself and this week's topic: On having a dream. She shares three original poems that explore the gift and weight of vocation and ambition.Support Letters From the Least
2020-11-1625 minLetters From the LeastIntroducing: Letters From the LeastGet ready for a brand new Grexly podcast featuring performances and musings by spoken word artist Clare McCallan. Coming to the Grexly podcasting network on November 16th. Support Letters From the Least
2020-11-0400 min
The Catholic Creatives PodcastThe Narthex with Clare McCallanIn the Narthex this month is spoken word artist and thrifting queen Clare McCallan! Clare has traveled all over performing poetry, serving, and bringing the mic to underrepresented voices. She joined us in the Narthex to share stories of her Brooklyn adventures before she jetted off to Washington to be the Grunewald Guild artist-in-residence. If you’d like to bring Clare to perform poetry at your church, school, or home, get in touch with her through Instagram or email.Thanks to this month’s Narthex sponsors: The Little Catholic Box and Sock Religious!Blue Dot Sess...
2020-01-1100 min
Ruah Storytellers LentClare McCallanClare McCallan is an artist, speaker, and poet, who speaks to local Churches and schools about the love of God through spoken word poetry. She is the artist in residence at the Grunewald Guild. Today’s piece is her artistic interpretation told from the perspective of the little drummer boy. For more information about Clare and her work, please visit her website at https://www.claremccallan.com or visit her on Instagram at @clare_mccallan.
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"In Need of a Savior (feat. Andrea Thomas)". Words and Music by Andrea Thomas and the Vig...
2019-12-2006 min
The Show with Edmund Mitchell52: 🎤 Diving Head First into Performing with Clare McCallanClare McCallan joined Edmund, Ali, and Nic to share her journey through the performance art of spoken word. Clare moved out to New York to pursue spoken word poetry, showing up at an open mic on a regular basis to cut her teeth. She performs one halfway through the episode. This was a great conversation about starting out, learning in the context of community, and showing up every day. Really inspired by Clare and the level of commitment she has to learn the craft. Link in bio.
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2019-07-151h 03