The One Where We Ask About How to Walk With Those With Trauma

Agnes Chen is a Mom to 4 beautiful babes, a Registered Nurse, and the founder of Starlings Community, a not for profit committed to co-creating a community that advocates for healing supports for children who have been impacted by society’s stigma of a parent’s addictions. Although she spends much of her free time volunteering at local Calgary organizations working to influence the creation of trauma-informed Governments, she most loves spending her free time exploring with her family and laughing with friends. https://www.starlings.ca/
    
    Christina Conroy is a prof at Ambrose University. From her Ambrose biography she "works in the area of contemplative and constructive theology with expertise in residential school history (and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada) as well as indigenous-settler relations.  Current research interests include the intersection of neuroscience, epigenetics and trauma with Christian theology."


22. Agnes Chen and Christina Conroy on Trauma

The One Where We End Up Talking About Anointing

David Goa’s work, rooted in the Orthodox Tradition, focuses on deepening the capacity of the faithful to think through the gifts of the Christian tradition: the spiritual life, the theological traditions, and our responsibility to the public world. Four themes are at the centre of his concern: the Incarnation, the Trinity, the spiritual life as a journey toward wholeness, and the meaning of Ecclesia in service to the life of the world.

We ask him about what it means to be in relationship with those of different faiths.

He was the founding Director of 
The Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life
Curator of Folklife and Head of Collections at
Provincial Museum of Alberta (now Royal Alberta Museum).   

Check out his current online exhibition U Encounter: What it Means To Be Human
And find more of David’s work at www.davidgoa.ca


21. David Goa on Interfaith Relationships

The One Where We Talk Mystery and Authenticity

Laura Beth is a preacher, speaker, author, and creative artist focusing on "working with churches in seasons of change and transition, or working with churches to give tired, hardworking pastors much-needed breaks."   She is on track to graduate from Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, IN with an MDiv and has been ordained through University Baptist Church (Cooperative Baptist Fellowship) in Bloomington, IN. 

She is the author of Shattering Masks: Affirming My Identity, Transitioning My Faith published under the name Laura Bethany Taylor.

You can find out more information about Laura Beth’s work at www.laura-bethany.com



20. Laura Bethany Buchleiter on Mystery and Authenticity

The One Where We Talk Community and Diversity

In this episode we talk to Pastor Jeremiah Bašurić about embodying the kind of community Jesus created and what a diverse community requires.  Hospitality and  truth-telling, celebration and kenosis, conflict and a radically transformed imagination - they are all needed. We talk about living in uncomfortable community and more than anything, Jeremiah reminds us all about this good news that holds these deeply incisive conversations. This is a good news conversation if ever there was one. 

Jeremiah Damir Bašurić is currently a Chaplain at The Mustard Seed and a Commissioned Pastor at mosaicHouse Church, a multi-cultural Christian Reformed church plant in Edmonton. From his Croatian father he has developed a love for soccer. From his Filipino mother he has developed a love for singing. When he is not eating Filipino food or playing music, you can find him hiking in the mountains with his Canadian-Dutch-Frisian wife Sarah, who is a registered nurse.

You can find Jeremiah’s writing as a columnist with the Do Justice Blog,a publication on justice issues with a Reformed Accent.
https://dojustice.crcna.org/columnists


19. Jeremiah Bašurić on Diversity in Community

The One Where We Talk Health of a Larger Body

In this episode we talk about public health, vaccines and how we are all undeniably intertwined.  What might our embodied faith have to say about this?   

This is a global conversation for our times, so we invited Heather Bensler, a registered nurse and a tenure-track instructor at the UofC in the Faculty of Nursing to talk to us about how public health functions and how these vaccines came to be. Heather has a background in public health, medical missions, and obstetrics nursing. She is a Jesus follower and looks for ways to connect her faith with her work. During the pandemic she has worked with 19toZero, a coalition of healthcare professionals working to address Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy.

We know that not everyone agrees about health measures and vaccines and we know that the pandemic has taken a toll on our interconnected society in every possible way.  We know also know that vaccine hesitancy is often not helpfully conflated with anti-vax sentiments. And we have all experienced having bad motives assigned to us if we think differently than someone else.  And that never feels good.   

So in the spirit of having good conversations, we hope you find this episode a space of grace-filled communication about fraught and important things .  

For excellent information on vaccines, Heather recommends:
www.19toZero.ca
www.Christianandthevaccine.com



18. Heather Bensler on Public Health

Zaak and Jacqui explore what the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation means.

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