Podcast Summer

Hang out and discuss some seriously interesting podcasts in the Cockrofts' backyard. Select Tuesdays, from 7:00-8:30 pm. Pick a podcast and a date that works for you! Find all the details and podcast links below—no need to sign up. For questions and the Cockrofts' address, email Kim Cockroft.

Brene Brown and Adam Grant on Finding Our Ground

Tuesday, June 23

What are your top two values, and how do they shape the way you lead at work and at home? How do you motivate and inspire others from those values rather than from fear? Parents, organizational leaders, and workplace professionals alike will find this discussion relevant.

Led By: Luke Yoder

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Wonder Cabinet
Rebecca Solnit: Hope After the End

Tuesday, June 30

How do you deal with the emotional toll of living in a time of dissolution? What if the crisis we’re witnessing is actually grounds for hope? Writer and activist Rebecca Solnit, author of "The Beginning Comes After the End,” makes the case that something is dying, all right — because something better is being born.

Led By: Lindsay Masters

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On Being: Loss, Yearning, Transcendence with Nick Cave 

Tuesday, July 21

Australian musician, writer, and actor Nick Cave eloquently talks about the universal condition” of yearning and the “spirituality of rigor” he discovered after the deaths of his two sons.

Led by: Laura Cogan & Linda Raquer

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On Being: On Knowing What We’re Called To

Tuesday, July 28

There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from. On a front edge of this reality, which will affect us all, lawyer and climate activist Colette Pichon Battle is a singular model of brilliance and graciousness of mind, spirit, and action. After Hurricane Katrina made “a crack in the universe,” Battle returned home from Washington, D.C. to Louisiana with a whole new life and calling.

Led by: Cindy and John Shea

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Plain English: Why American Happiness Just Fell off a Cliff

Tuesday, August 18

America is wealthier than ever, unemployment is low, and wages are strong. By traditional measures, the economy is thriving. So why do so many Americans still feel unhappy? This podcast explores the economic, psychological, media-driven, and political forces behind America’s growing ‘happiness recession’—and what it means for the future of American life.

Led by: Martin Cockroft

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Ezra Klein: The More You Study Consciousness, the Weirder it Gets 

Tuesday, August 25

Consciousness is this amazing, mind-bending riddle. It’s the only thing any of us truly knows. And yet we barely understand it. Science writer Michael Pollan’s new book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, shows that the closer you look at consciousness, the weirder it gets. 

Led by: Chuck Power

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Questions? Email Kim Cockroft, Director of Faith Formation.