Reports From The Spiritual Frontier

Ben is co-hosting a new podcast, “Climate Changed”, about finding faith, life, and love in a climate-changed world, with in-depth interviews with activists, poets, philosophers, and others about how we can make sense of the climate-changed moment we’re in. Subscribe to the new podcast here: https://climatechanged.podbean.com/ Check out the first two episodes when they’re released [...]

Join us for our final episode, as Beth Estock interviews Ben about his experience over five years of hosting Reports From the Spiritual Frontier. Episode Highlights Include: What changes and patterns Ben has seen over his five years hosting Reports Why American Christendom is done COVID-19 as a moment of reckoning for the country and [...]

Join us for a recording of Ben’s conversation with Bill Mckibben, founder of 350.org and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, founder of the Hip Hop Caucus as part of the BTS Center’s series, “Unlocking Possibility: Catalyzing Spiritual Imagination in Uncertain Times”. Episode Highlights Include The connection between racial justice and climate justice How climate change is a [...]

Join us for a recording of Ben’s conversation with Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III of The Black Church Food Security Network and Pastor Emily Scott of Dream and Visions to imagine a new church, as part of the BTS Center’s series, “Unlocking Possibility: Catalyzing Spiritual Imagination in Uncertain Times”. Episode Highlights Include:  Stories of possibilities [...]

Join us for a recording of Ben’s conversation with Casper ter Kuile and Erica Williams Simon about Imagining a new Democracy, as part of the BTS Center’s series, “Unlocking Possibility: Catalyzing Spiritual Imagination in Uncertain Times”. And, in case you didn’t hear the news in our previous episode, we’ll be wrapping up this podcast at [...]

Join us for a recording of Ben’s conversation with Rob Hopkins and Dominique Christina about the art and practice of imagination in uncertain times in the BTS Center’s series, “Unlocking Possibility: Catalyzing Spiritual Imagination in Uncertain Times”. Episode Highlights Include:  Why imagination is so important and so hard to access in our current moment Re-imagining [...]

Join us for a little more of our conversation with Ciona Rouse, as she shares about the gift of open Sunday mornings and supportive friends. If you haven’t heard it yet, check out our full conversation with Ciona, “Resting On A Limb On the Tree of Knowledge”. Support us by: Subscribing to us on Apple [...]

Join us for an updated conversation with poet Ciona Rouse, first about her experience of the pandemic and our national reckoning with racism, and then about her journey from cradle United Methodist and pastor’s kid out of Christianity. Episode Highlights Include:  Ciona’s upbringing as a pastor’s kid and her experience as a denominational employee Her vocation as [...]

Join us for a little more of our conversation with Ophelia Hu-Kinney, as she shares about why she’s United Methodist. If you haven’t heard our full conversation with Ophelia, make sure to check it out: “Why Not Take A Leap of Faith For Once?” Support us by: Subscribing to us on Apple Podcasts (or wherever [...]

Join us for an updated conversation conversation with Ophelia Hu-Kinney, of Queering the Kindom and the Reconciling Ministries Network, about what she’s learned over the course of thee pandemic, about her journey into Christianity in early adulthood and her continual process of re-conversion. Episode Highlights Include:  “I referred to myself as an atheist who wanted [...]

Join us for a dialogue between Elaine Heath and Wayne Jacobsen, as they dialogue about the common ground and meaningful differences in their understandings of what it means to be part of authentic spiritual community. Episode Highlights Include:  What does it mean to be connected to the Church? The role of structure and accountability The [...]

Join us for a post-pandemic, updated conversation with Wayne Jacobsen, as he shares his journey out of congregational Christianity into a different way of being church and what these last few months have taught him about God and being in community with one another. Episode Highlights Include:  “You may have left the congregation, but how [...]

Join us for an updated conversation with Elaine Heath of the Missional Wisdom Foundation and the Community At Spring Forest, as she shares about what COVID-19 and protests around racial injustice have taught her about spiritual community; as well as about her journey into United Methodism and a contemplative path for institutional renewal. Episode Highlights [...]

Ben has a quick announcement about new(ish) episodes coming out for the podcast starting next week. Take a minute (yes, literally one minute) to hear more!

Join us for a recording of Ben’s conversation with Kenda Creasy-Dean of Princeton Seminary and Paul Nixon of the Epicenter Group for a frank discussion of the future of faith communities after COVID-19. This is the finale for our series, “Creativity, Compassion, and the Coronavirus”, in collaboration with the BTS Center, examining ways that faith [...]

Join us for a conversation with activist, scholar, and pastor Rev. Dr. Kapya John Kaoma about what we can learn about resilience and joy in times of uncertainty and suffering from our sisters and brothers in the global south. This continues our series, “Creativity, Compassion, and the Coronavirus”, in collaboration with the BTS Center, examining [...]

Join us for a conversation with Casper Ter Kuile of The Sacred Design Lab about religious and non-religious spirituality during our pandemic, including what it means to create meaning and mark time in moments of spiritual disorientation. Casper Ter Kuile is host of the award-winning podcaster and researcher, whose work has been featured in the [...]

Join us for a conversation highlighting our host, Ben Yosua-Davis, and Dr. Elizabeth Parsons as featured guests on a recording of the BTS Center’s Zoom Meetup, “Let’s (Not) Return to Normal”, exploring what this pandemic has revealed about our country and our faith communities and what it would look like to create a better normal [...]

Join us for a conversation between Ben (our host!) and Melissa (his spouse!) as they talk about what it’s like to weather a pandemic while living on an island. This continues our series, “Creativity, Compassion, and the Coronavirus”, in collaboration with the BTS Center, examining ways that faith communities can respond well in this COVID-19 [...]

Join us for a conversation with Andrea Lingle, mother of four and staff writer with the Missional Wisdom Foundation, about parenting during COVID-19. This continues our series, “Creativity, Compassion, and the Coronavirus”, in collaboration with the BTS Center, examining ways that faith communities can respond well in this COVID-19 moment.  Support us by: Subscribing to [...]