The @ Sea podcast started out to be (and I hope continues to be) a helpful and hopeful guide through sometimes murky or turbulent cultural waters. Some of what that looks like is talking to people I don’t align with politically, ideologically, culturally,… Not because it’s enough to simply “celebrate diversity” but because the discipline … Read More
I feel like I’ve always been aware of the sociopolitical battle lines between differing thoughts on “abortion” or preemptive war, but the comprehensive, nearly wholesale division and split between people with competing ideologies nowadays is … heartbreaking and scary. In other words, it’s no longer just that I think you’re wrong about this or that; … Read More
Often enough, the topic of pain gets tied up into the same kind of conversations had about “evil.” Spoken of as a “problem” or a thing to be avoided. A thing that diminishes the human experience and limits relationships. Oddly, pain, including physical pain, is perhaps the most common human experience. in the eternally wise words … Read More
Take a brief tour through some of the key moments in conversations that defined Season 3 of the podcast. My guests: – Dominique Dubois Gillard – Sandra McCracken – Carlos Whittaker – Jeremy Cowart – Michael Mcbride – Matt Shotwell – Scott Erickson – Jonathan Merritt – … Read More
I would suggest that Dr. King’s ideas didn’t change history. Instead, the expression of those ideas, in practice and in form – in marches and essays and in speeches and in film, changed history. So long as those ideas remained in his mind, they’d have been beautiful and inspiring but rather useless. Dr. King had … Read More
Douglas Adams, in his wonderful book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy,” suggested that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. Well, I turn 42 on Jan 1, which means this is the year I figure it all out. We’ll see how that works out. In the meantime,… … Read More
