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Faith Made WelcomeChatting through Advent: A Love We Offer God, Others, and, ultimately, OurselvesLove. Is it really all we need? As we move into Week 4 of advent this week, we settle in for a close look at this expansive topic. As you might know, for each week of advent, the FMW team brought you a deep-dive conversation featuring special guests from the CBC community. Who do we have on the pod for this special week? Well, who better to talk to us about love than CBC’s most recently engaged couple: Tameika Holly and Courtney Hodge (back from Episode 2!)?
In this episode, they join the FMW crew to discuss the won...2020-12-221h 02Faith Made WelcomeChatting through Advent: A Joy of Surprise, Resistance, and...Taylor SwiftIt’s pink candle week, ya’ll! As you might know, for each week of advent, the FMW team is bringing you a deep-dive conversation featuring special guests from the CBC community.
Where do we go this week? To joy, of course! This year has been one where it’s been hard to keep hope, to cultivate peace, but has it been one short on joy? This week you’ll hear Robin, Marty, Cheri and Paul sit down with church members Marcia Call and Lenny Wrigley to talk through our relationship with joy. In this one you’ll get to hea...2020-12-171h 13Faith Made WelcomeChatting through Advent: A Peace Sought, Cultivated, and Sometimes FoundWe’re now in our second week of this season of anticipation. As you might know, for each week of advent, the FMW team is bringing you a deep-dive conversation featuring special guests from the CBC community.
Where do we go this week? Yesterday marked the lighting of the Peace candle and so today we bring you the “Peace” episode. What a theme for us all to wrestle with this year, right listeners?
This week you’ll hear Marty, Cheri and Paul sit down with church members Jenelle Rosecrance and Athena Burkett to talk through each of the...2020-12-071h 03Faith Made WelcomeChatting through Advent: A Hope Tied to Courage, Anger, and SkepticismWeek 1 of Advent has arrived! How are you observing it this year, Faith Made Welcome listeners? Over the next four weeks the FMW team is observing it by way of deep dive conversations with CBC community members.
Yesterday marked the lighting of the Hope candle and so today we bring you the “Hope” episode. If you’re expecting a cheery conversation about all the things we’re hopeful Santa (or Jesus) might bring us this year...well, you might need a different podcast!
This week you’ll hear Robin, Cheri and Paul sit down with church memb...2020-11-3058 minFaith Made WelcomeGearing up for Advent: Tradition, Now-and-Not-Yet, and Advent PeopleThis week on the podcast we take some more time to anticipate the season of anticipation! We build on last week’s history of Advent episode with this one wherein you’ll hear Marty and Robin sit down with Cheri and Paul to look at what the advent season means for the CBC pastors and their hopes for what it will bring in this most unprecedented year for the CBC community.
In this one you’ll get to hear more about Marty and Robin’s own Advent experiences and hear more about CBC traditions around the season. Then we d...2020-11-231h 05Faith Made WelcomeKnowing What Came Before: Fireside Chats with LCR, Part 2 - AdventThis week on the podcast we continue our fireside chat with Lonnie Rich! In this part of the conversation you’ll get to hear Lonnie, Cheri, and Paul take a closer look at the Advent season and its history. We look at early celebrations of Advent, how the tradition came to the Baptist church, and how it's celebrated within the CBC community.
Along with the pilgrimage through history and tradition associated with Advent, we get an opportunity to explore Lonnie’s overall approach to faith and Christianity. Listen in to learn: what brought Lonnie back to the...2020-11-1650 minFaith Made WelcomeKnowing What Came Before: Fireside Chats with LCR, Part 1What’s better in mid-fall than some cozy storytelling around the fire? That’s what you’ll listen in on over the next two weeks of Faith Made Welcome. Settle in, grab a warm beverage, hear the gentle crackle of the fire pit (seriously!) and join podcast regulars Cheri and Paul as they chat church and religious history our special guest: Lonnie C. Rich!
As Lonnie says in this episode: “Things begin, occur, grow, exist, change, but it’s never in a vacuum.” Together we think about the history of religion, Christianity and the Baptist denomination.
This one ends...2020-11-0949 minFaith Made WelcomeDigging in With Hocus Pocus: Faith, Spookiness, and Halloween: Part 2This episode of Faith Made Welcome is the second of a two-part discussion leading us into Halloween! Last episode we chatted through our general impressions of Hocus Pocus, our experiences with trick-or-treating, and some basic history of Halloween.
Where does this one take us? Deeper into theology! Surprisingly enough: this one will take you from magic mushrooms to transubstantiation. How do we get from one to the other? Perhaps with a bit of hocus pocus! It turns out Hocus Pocus is fertile ground for some unexpected topics. With the film as our cornerstone we ask: how do we d...2020-10-2650 minFaith Made WelcomeDigging in With Hocus Pocus: Faith, Spookiness, and Halloween: Part 1This episode of Faith Made Welcome is the first of a two-part discussion leading us into Halloween! What do we see when we bring together Hocus Pocus (that’s right, the 1993 Disney film!) with themes of faith and explorations of Christianity? Well, that’s what we aimed to find out with this pair of episodes!
Over the next two weeks you’ll hear Marty, Cheri, and Paul sit down and chat these topics out with three guests: Kelley Wool (back from Episode 3), and Zak Wool (Kelley’s “friend” - her word - and Hocus Pocus enthusiast), Eric Spiegel (Cher...2020-10-1958 minFaith Made WelcomeCaring for Creation: Stewardship of Planet, Community and SelfThis episode of Faith Made Welcome wraps up our series on the intersections and relationship between faith and science. For today’s episode, we turn our attention to social science and creation care.
What does it mean to take care of the world we live in? What does this mean, specifically for a Christian community? What does it mean when we consider that we ourselves are part of creation and also require care? In this episode, Marty, Cheri and Paul join with CBC deacon Dr. Dan Edwards to discuss what it means to be good stewa...2020-10-121h 07Faith Made WelcomeNarrating our Health Choices: Public Health, Religious Community, and Issues of VaccinationToday’s episode of Faith Made Welcome is another episode focused on the intersections and relationship between faith and science. For today’s episode, we draw the focus in quite specifically and look at public health, vaccination, religious liberty, and faith communities.
In this episode of the podcast, Cheri, Marty, and Paul are joined by special guest Dr. Heidi Lawrence. Heidi’s research into the history and narratives associated with vaccination choice takes center stage in this episode. Join us as we look at how faith and religious liberty might shape how individuals approach vaccination. Together...2020-10-051h 14Faith Made WelcomeTroubling the Division: Faith, Science and the Doubt They Share, The DebriefToday’s episode of Faith Made Welcome is something of a bonus episode! If you’ve been listening to this podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia for the last four weeks, you know that we’ve been digging into a conversation about science and faith with Dr. Graham Walker of McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia.
In this episode of the podcast, Cheri, Marty, Paul and Robin take some time to debrief from that rich discussion. Recorded immediately after our wrap up with Graham, the Fai...2020-09-2847 minFaith Made WelcomeTroubling the Division: Faith, Science and the Doubt They Share, Part 3With today’s episode we continue the second series of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
If you listened to our last two episodes you know that that this multi-part episode features an in-depth discussion about the intersections and relationship between faith and science. As with our prior episodes, this one features Faith Made Welcome regulars Robin, Marty, Cheri and Paul (if he wasn’t a regular before, he is now!) and Dr. Graham Walker, Marty and Robin’s Theology professor from seminary!
2020-09-2146 minFaith Made WelcomeTroubling the Division: Faith, Science and the Doubt They Share, Part 2With today’s episode we continue the second series of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
If you listened to Episode 5, you know that we’re digging into a multi-part, in-depth discussion about the intersections between faith and science. As with Episode 5, this one features Faith Made Welcome regulars Robin, Marty, Cheri and Paul and Dr. Graham Walker, Marty and Robin’s Theology professor from seminary!
In this episode of the podcast, Graham kicks us off with an important call to...2020-09-1443 minFaith Made WelcomeTroubling the Division: Faith, Science and the Doubt They Share, Part 1Today we kick off the second series of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
For the next month and half, our podcast will feature discussions about the intersections and relationship between faith and science. Today’s episode is the first of a multi-part discussion between Faith Made Welcome regulars Robin, Marty, Cheri and Paul (if he wasn’t a regular before, he is now!) and Dr. Graham Walker, Marty and Robin’s Theology professor from seminary!
In this episode of the po...2020-09-0752 minFaith Made WelcomeLonging For Life: Colorful, Abundant, Unbelievable LifeWith this episode, we wrap up the first series of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia. If you’ve been listening since Episode 1, you know that throughout the month of August we recorded podcasts offering an opportunity for folks in our faith community to further discuss topics from a special sermon series at our church.
That series, titled “What The World Needs Now,” invited guest activist preachers to give us their take on this theme. Today’s episode, which you can watch on our YouTu...2020-08-311h 05Faith Made WelcomeTalking About Love: Song of Songs, Radical Love, and Moving Past Purity CultureHere we go with week 3 of the Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
This episode is the third installment in our “What The World Needs Now” series. This four-week “study” of sorts features discussions and reflection sparked from a special activist sermon series CBC and several other congregations are taking part in this month. Each week in August, an activist preacher is giving us their take on the theme.
Today’s episode is based upon a sermon of this series, which...2020-08-2456 minFaith Made WelcomeNegotiating our Covenants: Rules, Promises, or Something More?Welcome to the second episode of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
This episode is the second installment in our “What The World Needs Now” series. This four-week “study” of sorts features discussions and reflection sparked from a special activist sermon series CBC and several other congregations are taking part in this month. Each week in August, an activist preacher is giving us their take on the theme.
Today’s episode is based upon a sermon of this series, which you can watch on our Youtu...2020-08-1752 minFaith Made WelcomeWrestling with Hope: Prophetic Hope, Defiant Hope, and Shadows of HopeThanks for checking out the first episode of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
For the next four weeks, our podcast will feature discussions and reflection sparked from a special activist sermon series CBC and several other congregations are taking part in this month. Each week in August, an activist preacher is giving us their take on “What the World Needs Now…”
The first sermon of this series, which you can watch on our Youtube Channel, featured Judge Wendell Griffen, an Arkansas Circuit Judge a...2020-08-1052 min