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On this episode of The Common Good Podcast, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down to examine the latest actions, statements, and political maneuvers from Donald Trump over the past week. From rhetoric that divides to policy positions that undermine democratic norms, Doug and Robb highlight why these recent developments demand a response from people of faith, conscience, and common sense.
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Trump Won’t Leave the Stage — But in 914 Days, This Nightmare Presidency Will Be Over
Donald Trump made a spectacle of himself on the World Cup stage. But in 914 days, this nightmare presidency will be over!
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the fallout of a presidency run amok—including the cringe-worthy moment an American president was so starved for attention that he tried to hijack the success of World Cup athletes in front of millions.
Unfortunately for the United States and the world, this behavior isn't limited to poor sportsmanship. It directly impacts the policies and actions of the U.S. government.
The Presidency isn't supposed to solve all of our problems, but it certainly shouldn't be the problem.
Join Doug and Robb for this crucial conversation about how we navigate a historically problematic administration
It will not always be like this. Trump will be gone. We will remain.
The political events of this week remind us that nothing and no one lasts forever.
Soon, this national nightmare will be over. Not soon enough, and the damage will take generations to repair, but it will end. Trump and his conspirators will be out of power. It is up to us to be sure the replacements care for the common good.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about it on this week's podcast.
Now that Trump has failed at celebrating the country, and weakened us at home and across the globe, we turn our sights to the freedom that can come to our country when in November, we vote MAGA Republicans out of power.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about it on this week's podcast.
Today on the Common Good Podcast, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse lament the Freedoms and Hope of America lost under Trump.
Including conversation about the current state of American democracy. Following a turbulent week of actions by Donald Trump and recent pivotal rulings from the Supreme Court, Doug and Robb break down the profound impact these events are having on foundational American liberties.
Together, they discuss why a robust, united pro-democracy movement is no longer just an ideal, but an urgent necessity to restore and protect freedom for all Americans. From shifting legal precedents to political rhetoric that challenges democratic norms, this episode examines how citizens can actively engage to safeguard the future of the nation's common good. Tune in for an insightful analysis of this week's biggest headlines and a roadmap for democratic renewal.
Doug Pagitt talks with Katie Gaddini about her new book, Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power The Christian Right.
For decades, political pundits on the Left have dismissed conservative Christian women as politically passive or brainwashed—voters simply following the instructions of the men in their lives.
But that narrative completely misses the reality on the ground. In this episode of The Common Good Podcast, host Doug Pagitt sits down solo with sociologist Dr. Katie Gaddini to discuss her groundbreaking new book, Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right.
Drawing from nearly a decade of immersion, participant observation, and deep ethnographic interviews, Dr. Gaddini unpacks the massive, highly organized, and heavily female pipeline driving modern American conservatism.
From the "Mama Bears" taking over local school boards to high-powered White House legal operatives, Gaddini pulls back the curtain on a movement of women who view themselves not as victims of a patriarchal structure, but as holy warriors appointed "for such a time as this."
Join us for a fascinating, nuanced conversation that moves past political caricatures to explore how these strategic organizers have permanently realigned the landscape of American politics and what we can do in response.
On this episode of The Common Good, hosts Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse dive deep into a news cycle defined by manufactured distractions and hidden influences.
The conversation begins with a sober look at the geopolitical landscape, tracking the continued danger radiating from Iran as regional instability threatens to boil over. Yet, while critical national security concerns demand the country's full attention, Donald Trump remains hyper-focused on an entirely different kind of swamp: the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The hosts unpack the administration's bizarre obsession with the botched "American Flag Blue" renovation—now a peeling, algae-ridden public relations disaster—and the outright lies and wild conspiracy theories being spun to deflect from executive incompetence.
Finally, the discussion turns to the bombshell investigative reports surrounding Tulsi Gabbard following her sudden exit from her senior national security role. Doug and Robb unpack the disturbing evidence detailing her deep, long-standing ties to a secretive religious sect. They examine how the group’s leadership actively worked behind the scenes to dictate her policy positions, raising critical questions about autonomy, judgment, and the quiet forces shaping American political power.
For a deeper look at the breaking investigations into these behind-the-scenes dynamics, you can watch this report on Tulsi Gabbard's ties. This investigative video breaks down the specific internal memos and confidential communications that detail how outside spiritual guidance directly shaped her congressional career and legislative decisions.
Here is part 2 of the training we did for the Michigan Democratic Rural Caucus on Connecting with Faith Voters
Welcome to The Common Good Podcast, the show where we actually call a circus a circus.
On today’s special Monday episode, hosts Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse wade through the absolute wreckage of another disastrous week for the Trump administration. First up, they take a look at the utter embarrassment over the weekend, where Trump decided the best use of presidential dignity was playing hype-man at a UFC fight—because nothing says "stable leadership" quite like clinging to cage-fighting crowds for validation.
But the nonsense doesn't stop at the arena. Doug and Robb dive into the mounting disaster in the Middle East, breaking down the administration's latest self-inflicted Iran debacle. And finally, the receipts are in: they’ll analyze the brutal new polling numbers showing the MAGA movement in a total freefall as voters finally get tired of the chaos.
It's a packed show, and the gloves are officially off.
Title: Boos, Ballots, Bailouts, and Buffoonery: The Desperate Gasp of a Crumbling Ego
Hosts: Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse
Listen Time: 42 minutes of pure, unvarnished reality
Summary:
The wheels aren't just coming off the MAGA wagon—they've bounced down the highway and caused a ten-car pileup. This week, Doug and Robb take a front-row seat to the latest, loudest public meltdown of Donald Trump, and honestly? It's a trainwreck you can't look away from.
First up, the guys dissect the absolute embarrassment of his recent press interview. Watching Trump completely lose his mind under standard, baseline journalistic scrutiny wasn't just bad politics; it was a masterclass in fragile panic. It turns out that when you can't hand-pick the reporters or script the questions, actual accountability is a totally undefeated opponent.
Then, we're heading to Madison Square Garden—because nothing says "man of the people" quite like getting thoroughly booed out of a Knicks game. What happens when a man who survives entirely on heavily curated, ego-stroking rallies steps into a real-world sports arena? A thunderous, highly localized reality check. We unpack that beautiful, unfiltered chorus of boos and why everyday Americans are completely done buying the snake oil.
Finally, Doug and Robb tackle the exhausting, broken-record delusion of "stolen elections." We contrast his desperate, fictional grievances with the very real, unbelievably wasteful legacy of his time in office.
Is the movement facing an irreversible decline, or are we just watching a cornered political grift double down on pure chaos? Join us for a candid, faith-rooted, and delightfully savage conversation about truth, accountability, and actual common sense.
What We're Dragging This Week:
* The Interview Meltdown: Why a simple Q&A sent the fragile former guy into an absolute tailspin.
* The Garden Variety Rejection: Breaking down the Knicks game chorus of boos. Spoiler alert: regular people don't do fake.
* The "Stolen" Delusion: Deconstructing the pathetic rerun of false election claims that absolutely everyone outside of his echo chamber is tired of hearing.
* The Receipts on Waste: A look at the staggering, self-serving wastefulness of a leader who treated the public trust like a personal piggy bank.
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Trump's 250 Flop
We are supposed to be ramping up to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, but instead of a unified national moment, the White House has turned it into a partisan vanity project. The result? High-profile organizers, artists, and corporate sponsors are quietly quitting and pulling out of the committee. It’s hard to sell a message of "national pride" when the administration’s actual governance is driving people to actively opt out of the celebration.
Quagmire in Iran
This administration's biggest, heaviest failure: their absolute inability to wrap up, de-escalate, or successfully conclude the military conflict in Iran.
The Forever War Redux: Despite all the tough-guy rhetoric about "swift victories" and "maximum pressure," the administration has dragged the country into a costly, draining quagmire with no viable exit strategy.
The Competency Crisis: The sheer hypocrisy of a White House trying to wave the flag for a 250-year milestone while simultaneously sending American resources and lives into an endless, unstable conflict that the public never wanted. It’s a stark, devastating display of strategic incompetence.
The Primary Takeaway: Yesterday’s Voters Send a Message
Turning to yesterday's primary results, that proves the MAGA armour is seriously cracking.
The Anti-War Backlash: Yesterday's primary numbers show a massive surge in voter turnout, driven by a public that is deeply exhausted by foreign intervention and domestic chaos. Extreme, rubber-stamp candidates backed by the administration took major losses.
The Search for Sanity: While the administration is busy fighting an endless war abroad and bleeding staff at home, voters yesterday rallied behind candidates who offered a clear exit ramp—stability, structural accountability, and an absolute refusal to treat global security like a reality TV show.
The "Art of the Deal" or the Art of the Fold? 🤡
Trump's big bold strategy to choke out Iran just hit a brick wall, and his newly announced framework is a masterclass in backing down. Trump talked a massive game about forcing an "unconditional surrender," demanding zero nuclear enrichment, and threatening to blast Iran "back to the Stone Ages." But after a few drone strikes, a naval blockade standoff, and a spiked global gas crisis, he settled for a deal that looks like a copy-paste of the 2015 nuclear pact.
In this episode, we expose how the administration literally negotiated against its own red lines and ended up caving to Tehran's demands just to stop the bleeding.
Inside this episode:
🛑 How Trump’s absolute maximalist red lines completely vanished
💰 Why the U.S. is giving up $25B in frozen assets just to stop the fighting
🇨🇳 The hilarious workaround of shipping nuclear stockpiles to China
🕊️ Why his own party is calling this a "disastrous mistake" and a massive retreat
If you love watching politicians break their own absolute promises and try to spin it as a historic victory, hit that subscribe button.
Drop your thoughts in the comments: Did Trump just get thoroughly out-negotiated by Iran?
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Trump Has Gone Full Mob Boss and Acts Like a Don
Trump isn’t just bending the rules anymore — he’s desteroying them for his own benefit, and daring anyone to stop him. On this episode of Common Good, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse dig into what happens when the most powerful office in the world gets treated like a family business and a protection racket rolled into one.
We’re talking about a president who has turned the federal budget into a personal slush fund, steered contracts and influence toward his family and allies, and governed with the kind of impunity that used to be reserved for the untouchable. This isn’t politics as usual. This is something different — and it deserves to be named clearly.
From the deals that benefit Trump Tower to the policy moves that pad the pockets of people closest to him, the pattern is impossible to ignore. The mob boss doesn’t need to break the law if he gets to write it. And right now, he’s writing a lot of it.
Doug and Robb don’t pull punches on this one. If you’ve been feeling the weight of what’s happening and wondering whether anyone is willing to say it out loud — this episode is for you. We believe government should serve people, not enrich the powerful. We believe the common good is worth fighting for. And we believe the first step is telling the truth about what we’re actually dealing with.
Listen. Share. And pass it along to someone who needs to hear it.
From Iran to Voting, to Ballrooms and Cosplay Religious Dedications, to Dismantling Essential American Promises, this administration's cruelty and buffoonery are devastating America at home and around the world.
We The People, are the response.
We talk about it all today on the Common Good Podcast.
In this episode of The Common Good, host Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse dive into a difficult but necessary conversation: the profound internal brokenness of Donald Trump and how that personal fracture is manifesting as a national crisis.
For years, we have analyzed the policies, the tweets, and the political maneuvers. But today, we look deeper. We explore the idea that the chaos we see in our streets, our courtrooms, and our communities is a direct reflection of a leader whose own character is defined by a lack of empathy, a disregard for truth, and an insatiable need for self-preservation.
When a leader is unable to model wholeness, the nation they lead begins to splinter.
Inside the Conversation:
• The Anatomy of Brokenness: Why Donald Trump’s personal character isn't just a "private matter," but a public health hazard for our democracy.
• Mirroring the Chaos: How a presidency built on grievance and division trains a citizenry to treat one another with the same hostility.
• The Moral Reckoning: Why people of faith and conscience must move beyond "lesser of two evils" thinking to demand leaders who are fundamentally whole.
• Pathways to Healing: If the nation is breaking because the leadership is broken, how do we begin the work of repair from the ground up?
The "Common Good" isn't just a political goal; it’s a spiritual and social necessity. Join Doug and Robb as they unpack why America’s recovery depends on moving past the era of the broken man and toward a future of shared integrity.
Doug Pagitt was a guest on Runaway Nation, hosted by Alex Wagner.
They talked about Trump and faith voters.
Corruption vs. The Common Good The tide is turning. This week, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse dive into why more Americans are walking away from the Trump administration’s "loyalty over law" culture. It’s not just politics—it’s a moral reckoning. Why the shift? • The "Easter Miracle" Narrative: Calling aggressive military moves "divine acts" is backfiring with voters of faith. • Pay-to-Play Politics: From the DOJ to global trade, the line between public service and personal profit has vanished. • The Resistance Surge: State leaders and former allies are finally saying "enough" to federal overreach. Listen now and join the movement to put the Common Good over corruption.
On this episode of the Vote Common Good podcast, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse unpack one of the most jarring Easter messages ever delivered by an American president. Instead of a message of peace, Donald Trump used Easter morning to issue a profanity-laced threat against Iran—warning of attacks on power plants and infrastructure and declaring the country would be “living in Hell” if it didn’t comply with U.S. demands. He even ended the message with the phrase “Praise be to Allah,” adding to the confusion and controversy.  Throughout Easter weekend, Trump and members of his administration framed military actions in explicitly religious terms—calling a rescue mission an “Easter miracle” and invoking faith language to justify war.  Doug and Robb ask the deeper questions:•What happens when religious language is used to justify violence?•How are people of faith responding—including some of Trump’s own allies?•And what does this moment reveal about leadership, morality, and the future of the country? This conversation connects Trump’s Easter message to a broader pattern—escalating threats, blurred lines between faith and nationalism, and a presidency increasingly defined by chaos, contradiction, and crisis
Missiles flying.
Markets shaking.
Corruption rising.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse connect the dots on Trump’s Iran war, the economy, and the cost of it all.
Due to schedule issues, we recorded on Monday this week.
Trump's disastrous policies and decisions are moving record numbers of people away from him and the Republican Party.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse take a Common Good look at the terrible, awful, no good last week in Trump's America.
One Betrayal Too Many is the title of Rich Logis autobiography of being a MAGA star and then leaving. It is also the experience of millions of people in the United States today.
We hear Rich's story and about his book today.
www.LeavingMAGA.org
Trump’s biggest lies are to himself.
These lies then come out of his mouth and the country has to respond.
From claims about the economy and the war in Iram, to Gaza and Israel; to the 2020 election and the Epstein files, Donald Trump’s repeated lies and self-deception continue to shape public life in the United States.
In this episode, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about how these self-reinforcing claims impact our politics, our shared understanding of truth, and the health of our democracy. When leaders repeat a narrative often enough, it can become its own reality—with consequences for the entire country.
But this conversation is not only about critique. It’s about responsibility. Together they ask what people of faith and conscience are called to do in a moment when truth is contested and grievance dominates the public square.
Join Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse as they name the moment we’re in—and call us again toward the Common Good.
Trump attacks Iran to "spark the return of Jesus," according to Military Generals.
This Ill-fated military action damages all involved.
The complete dangerous clown show of this administration puts us all at risk.
On this week’s podcast, we dive into what can only be described as an Olympic-level disaster for the Trump administration. We’ll unpack how his officials embarrassed themselves on the global stage at the Olympics, with behavior that raised eyebrows worldwide. Meanwhile, his immigration policy decisions stirred outrage at home, leaving families in limbo and tensions high. And we can’t ignore the economic front—jobs are lagging, markets are unsteady, and confidence is slipping. We’ll break down this perfect storm and what it means moving forward.
We talk about the most disturbing and the most hopeful aspects of our life in America today. From Good Bunny, Bad President, Immoral ICE and the Common Good Call
Live from Minneapolis, the Common Good Podcast digs into a fast-moving political moment. We break down the surprise Democratic wins in Texas and what they signal about shifting voter energy heading into 2026. Then we turn to urgent updates on ICE activity in Minneapolis and beyond—what’s happening on the ground, what’s changing, and why it matters for communities, faith leaders, and democracy itself.
We also unpack the latest developments around the Epstein files and the growing questions about accountability, transparency, and power in America.
Hosted by Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse, this live conversation connects the headlines to deeper moral questions about justice, truth, and the common good.
Live, timely, and unfiltered—join us.
Jessie Schroeder-Craddock recorded the video of Alex Pretti just moments before he was killed by ICE/Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis . He is our guest on the Common Good Podcast.
This harrowing moment that has sparked nationwide outrage and critical questions about federal immigration enforcement and civil liberties.
We’ll hear directly from Jessie about what he witnessed, the moments leading up to the shooting, and how her footage has been part of the public record challenging official narratives.
In addition, we’ll dig into the broader context of what’s happening in Minneapolis with ICE and Border Patrol deployments, including the local political and social backlash, community responses, and ongoing protests against aggressive federal immigration enforcement — especially in light of multiple fatal encounters in recent weeks.
🚨 Whether you’re tuning in on podcast platforms or joining the livestream, this conversation is about accountability, community safety, and the urgent need for public awareness around what’s unfolding in Minnesota and across the country.
Don’t miss it — live engagement welcomed.
This week on the Common Good Podcast, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse break down what can only be described as dangerously inept leadership — and why it’s no longer just embarrassing, but genuinely dangerous.
From Trump once again floating the idea of taking Greenland, to escalating chaos around Venezuela, to an aggressive expansion of ICE enforcement that’s already triggering lawsuits and fear in local communities, the pattern is hard to ignore: reckless actions with real-world consequences.
Doug and Robb talk about how foreign policy bravado turns into global instability, how prosecutions and military power are being dangerously blurred, and why states are now pushing back against federal overreach. But this conversation doesn’t stop at diagnosis.
A central focus of the episode is what Democrats, people of faith, and values-driven citizens can actually do right now — how moral leadership matters in moments like this, how faith communities can organize, speak clearly, and resist fear, and why civic engagement rooted in compassion and courage is essential when institutions are being tested.
This isn’t partisan outrage or performative anger. It’s a grounded, faith-informed conversation about responsibility, resistance, and the work required to protect democracy and the common good.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the chaos — or wondering where your voice fits — this episode is for you.
👉 Like, subscribe, and share — because the common good only survives when people of conscience show up.
What role should faith play in a pluralistic democracy?
Vote Common Good is hosting an online conversation for faith leaders to reflect deeply on the relationship between faith, political power, and democratic responsibility. As religious nationalism and Christian nationalism continue to shape public life, this gathering creates space for thoughtful, non-partisan engagement rather than sound bites or pressure.
Featuring Texas State Representative and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, the event invites clergy and faith leaders to consider how faith can inform public life without being weaponized or imposed—and how spiritual leadership matters in this moment.
The Common Good Podcast — Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down for a sobering, urgent conversation about power, fear, and what it means to protect democracy in dangerous times.
They discuss the Trump administration’s decision to send masked federal agents into American cities like Minneapolis—actions that blur the line between law enforcement and intimidation, and that have already resulted in the killing of American citizens. Doug and Robb wrestle with the moral, legal, and spiritual implications of a government willing to deploy force against its own people.
The conversation also turns global, examining the escalating conflict in Venezuela and how Trump’s approach reveals a broader pattern of abuse of power—at home and abroad. Through it all, they ask the question at the heart of the Common Good: How do people of faith respond when authority is used to dominate rather than serve?
A challenging conversation about courage, accountability, and choosing love over fear when it matters most.
Doug and Robb make their 2026 political predictions. Including a bonus about Trump and Venezuela.
2025 A Nightmare Year in Review & The Brave Responses
On this episode of The Common Good Podcast, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse reflect on what this year reveals, what it has cost the country, and why people committed to democracy, faith, and the common good cannot look away.
This year unfolded as a steady reminder of how damaging the Trump administration has been to democracy, human dignity, and the moral fabric of the country. Month after month brought new controversies—each one reinforcing a pattern of chaos, cruelty, and abuse of power.
January began with sweeping tariff announcements that rattled global markets and raised costs for American families, paired with renewed threats against immigrants and asylum seekers.
February saw attacks on the free press intensify, with journalists publicly targeted and credibility undermined as retaliation for unfavorable coverage.
March brought purges and firings across federal agencies, removing career public servants seen as insufficiently loyal.
April escalated attacks on immigrants and refugees, including rhetoric aimed at Muslim and Somali communities that fueled fear and division.
May highlighted ongoing ethical scandals, as Trump family business dealings continued to blur the line between public office and private profit.
June saw open defiance of court rulings and norms, signaling that the rule of law applied selectively.
July brought renewed pressure on prosecutors, judges, and law enforcement officials perceived as obstacles.
August exposed fresh revelations tied to the Epstein files, raising disturbing questions about power, protection, and accountability.
September featured retaliation against death-row inmates whose sentences had been lawfully commuted, turning justice into vengeance.
October continued assaults on democratic institutions, including elections, oversight bodies, and watchdog agencies.
November amplified nationalist and authoritarian rhetoric, framing dissent as disloyalty.
December closed the year with symbolic and literal damage to democratic norms, including reckless decisions impacting the White House itself and the peaceful transfer of power.
Taken together, this was not a series of isolated incidents—it was a sustained pattern. A year defined by grievance over governance, loyalty over law, and power over people.
A Year of Courage: Month by Month
January
At the inauguration, Mariann Edgar Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, preached directly to Trump, calling for mercy, humility, and care for the vulnerable—naming moral truth in the presence of power.
February
Journalists, editors, and independent media organizations pushed back publicly against attacks on the free press, refusing to self-censor despite threats, firings, and intimidation.
March
Civil rights organizations and state attorneys general filed and advanced court challenges against immigration policies, executive overreach, and retaliatory actions—using the rule of law to slow abuse of power.
April
Faith leaders across traditions organized prayer vigils, statements, and public witness events defending immigrants and refugees, especially Muslim and Somali communities targeted by administration rhetoric.
May
Mass nonviolent demonstrations—including renewed No Kings rallies—rejected authoritarianism and the idea that any leader stands above the law.
June
Judges and career civil servants continued to uphold legal and ethical standards, even as they faced political pressure, proving that institutions still matter when people inside them have courage.
July
Whistleblowers and former administration officials came forward, testifying, publishing, and speaking publicly about corruption, retaliation, and abuses of power.
August
Survivors’ advocates and accountability groups demanded transparency around the Epstein files, insisting that wealth and influence not shield wrongdoing.
September
Abolitionists, clergy, and justice reform advocates spoke out against retaliatory actions toward death-row inmates, reaffirming that mercy and due process are not weaknesses.
October
Voters, organizers, and election workers defended democratic processes—registering voters, monitoring elections, and countering misinformation at the local level.
November
Interfaith coalitions and community groups mobilized against nationalist rhetoric, offering a different vision of patriotism rooted in pluralism and shared dignity.
December
Grassroots organizations closed the year by raising funds, protecting vulnerable communities, and preparing for continued resistance—choosing long-term faithfulness over short-term outrage.
In this episode, with Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse, we dive into the shocking and disturbing details surrounding the latest Epstein file release.
Newly surfaced documents include a deeply troubling letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar, raising urgent questions about power, protection, and the systems that allowed abuse to persist for so long.
Doug and Robb unpack what’s actually known, what’s still unclear, and why this moment matters—not just as a headline, but as a window into how institutional silence, influence, and moral failure intersect. This is an honest, sober conversation about accountability, truth-telling, and why confronting uncomfortable facts is essential if we hope to prevent future harm.
In this video, Doug Pagitt of Vote Common Good is joined by Rev. Lori Walke for a conversation about the context, urgency, and lived experiences behind their recent Guardian op-ed, “We’re pastors. The fight against MAGA Christianity starts locally.” 🗣️ What They DiscussDoug Pagitt and Rev. Lori Walke reflect on:•Why they felt compelled, as pastors, to write this op-ed together•How MAGA Christianity shows up in real congregations, local politics, and community life•The spiritual and moral damage caused when Christian faith is fused with authoritarian power•Why resistance to Christian nationalism does not begin on cable news or in Washington, but in local churches, neighborhoods, and relationships•What faithful, grounded, community-based responses actually look like on the ground 📰 About the Op-EdThe Guardian essay draws from their pastoral work and public engagement to name a hard truth: MAGA Christianity is not a distortion happening “somewhere else.” It is being formed, funded, and normalized locally — and it must be challenged locally by people committed to a deeper, more honest expression of Christian faith rooted in love, humility, and justice. 🔗 Read the full op-ed here:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/21/fight-against-maga-christianity 🙏 Thanks for watchingIf this conversation resonates, consider liking, commenting, and sharing. These are not abstract ideas — they are shaping communities right now and deserve thoughtful, faithful engagement. #FaithAndPolitics #ChristianNationalism #MAGAChristianity #PastorsSpeak #GuardianOpinion #LocalFaith
In moments of national crisis, leadership is revealed—not by strength of ego, but by depth of empathy.
In this episode of The Common Good Podcast, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss Donald Trump’s repeated inability to lead during moments of struggle and tragedy. From public disasters to personal suffering, we examine how a lack of empathy and a pattern of narcissistic behavior undermine the basic responsibilities of moral and civic leadership.
We explore what real leadership requires in times of pain: the capacity to listen, to grieve with others, to take responsibility, and to place the common good above personal grievance or self-promotion. When leaders cannot see beyond themselves, tragedy becomes politicized, wounds deepen, and trust erodes.
This conversation is not about partisanship—it’s about character, accountability, and the kind of leadership a healthy democracy depends on, especially when people are hurting.
Topics include:
• Why empathy is not optional in leadership
• How narcissism distorts decision-making during crisis
• The moral cost of self-centered leadership
• What the common good demands in moments of tragedy
In this week’s episode, Doug and Robb dig into one of the most alarming stretches of the Trump presidency so far. From Trump’s dehumanizing attacks on Somali immigrants to a pair of lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean now raising war-crime concerns, the administration is leaning hard on fear and force while dodging accountability. We unpack Trump’s attempt to seize more control over immigration judges, America’s downgrade in global civic-freedom rankings, and a federal judge’s smackdown of Trump’s unlawful freeze on wind-energy permits.
It’s a week that reveals a dangerous governing pattern: escalating fear, expanding executive power, shrinking democracy, and policies that undermine both human dignity and the common good.
This is the state of America under Trump in December 2025—and why people of conscience need to stay awake, organized, and engaged.
What happens when a presidential administration treats law as optional and accountability as a threat? In this episode, we take a clear-eyed, fact-based look at the cascading legal, moral, and political crises emerging from the Trump Administration in 2025.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse break down the three arenas where these dangers are most urgent:
🔹 State Crime – The misuse of government power, the erosion of checks and balances, and the normalization of authoritarian behavior.
🔹 Sex Crimes – The ongoing legal cases, civil findings, and the cultural impact of excusing or minimizing sexual misconduct by powerful leaders.
🔹 War Crimes – Reckless foreign policy moves, threats to international norms, and the destabilization that follows when presidential power goes unchecked.
We explore how these patterns affect everyday Americans, the rule of law, vulnerable communities, and the future of democracy. And, as always, we talk about what people of conscience can do—how we can respond with courage, clarity, and a commitment to the common good.
In this episode of The Common Good Podcast, we dig into the documented scandals and alleged corruption that defined the Trump administration and why so many Americans see this moment as unprecedented in modern political history. We reflect on what these past years have revealed about our democracy, the stakes of integrity in public office, and why the coming election represents a critical opportunity for renewal, accountability, and hope. Join us for a candid conversation grounded in our shared belief that the common good is neither partisan nor sectarian—it's the foundation of a healthy democracy.
In today’s episode of the Common Good Podcast, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse dig into the growing rift inside MAGA world — the public break between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump.
What does this split really mean? Why is it happening now? And how does it fit into the larger pattern of Republicans, conservatives, and former loyalists quietly (and not-so-quietly) backing away from Trump as his influence weakens?
Doug and Robb unpack the political, cultural, and moral implications of this fracture — and why it signals yet another crack in Trump’s once-unified base.
If you’re tracking the collapse of Trumpism and the rise of a better way forward for the country, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.
This is The Common Good Podcast — where faith, politics, and the fight for the soul of our country come together. With Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talking about the rising resistance to the MAGA movement — a resistance that’s growing stronger in every corner of society.
Now that the shutdown is finally over and we’re less than a year from the midterm elections, the opposition to Donald Trump and his enablers isn’t just speaking out — it’s taking action. From churches to city halls, from college campuses to Congress, people of conscience are organizing for the common good.
And as the Trump administration sinks even lower — now barring prayer groups from meeting in ICE detention centers — we’re asking: what does moral leadership look like in a time like this?
This is where faith meets politics. This is where resistance meets hope.
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Voters sent a clear message in yesterday’s elections: Trumpism is losing its grip, and Democrats have the wind at their backs. In this episode of Good Politics, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse break down the results, the trends, and the growing movement of voters choosing hope, compassion, and democracy over fear, lies, and extremism.
From local races to national momentum, we’re seeing a turning tide — one powered by people of faith and conscience who believe love belongs in politics.
Join us as we unpack what’s next and why the future looks a whole lot brighter for those working for the common good. Join us as we unpack the numbers, expose the nonsense, and highlight the signs of hope for a more just, loving, and democratic America.
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Author and scholar Holly Berkley Fletcher joins Doug Pagitt to discuss her new book The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism. Together, they explore how the experiences of missionary kids reveal deeper truths about faith, power, race, and identity within the evangelical movement. A thoughtful conversation about the cost of calling, the myth of multiculturalism, and what honest faith can look like beyond the missionary narrative.
In this episode, we talk about what’s happening right now in America — prices for everyday essentials like gas, groceries, and housing have gone up since last year, and Donald Trump is doing nothing to help everyday Americans. Instead, he’s busy tearing down not only the East Wing of the White House in his bizarre plans, but also the foundations of democracy itself.
But there’s hope. A growing number of evangelicals are turning away from MAGA extremism, especially when it comes to compassion and immigration. Faith leaders and voters alike are remembering that loving our neighbor means all our neighbors — not just the ones who look or live like us.
Join us as we unpack the numbers, expose the nonsense, and highlight the signs of hope for a more just, loving, and democratic America.
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Donald Trump isn’t just the president — he’s trolling the American people. In this episode, the Common Good Podcast team unpacks how Trump uses mockery, memes, and AI-generated videos to dehumanize and divide. From calling fellow citizens “enemies” to posting disturbing digital fantasies of violence, Trump turns cruelty into spectacle — and spectacle into power.
We explore what this means for our national character, for people of faith, and for those who still believe democracy requires decency. How should good-hearted Americans respond when a president treats his neighbors as targets and his followers as props? What does it mean to resist — not with outrage alone, but with love, truth, and common good?
Join us for a deep dive into the dangerous normalization of Trump’s trolling and how people of conscience can reclaim public life from the politics of humiliation.
What does it mean to live in Donald Trump’s delusions about what America is and should be—especially as people of faith?
He calls our cities “hellholes,” treats political opponents as enemies, and talks about Gaza with no regard for human life. These aren’t just political statements—they reveal a worldview of fear, resentment, and revenge.
Join Vote Common Good's Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse for a candid conversation about how faith invites us to live differently—to choose truth over delusion, hope over fear, and love over division.
Donald Trump recently said people should “prove to God you are good enough to go to that next step.”
His childish and immature understanding of goodness and morality shows that being 79 years old doesn’t necessarily mean having the maturity of an adult — sometimes it’s closer to that of a 7-year-old boy.
This kind of moral immaturity puts our nation at risk in profound ways.
In this episode of the Common Good Podcast, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse unpack what Trump’s comments reveal about his worldview — and what it means for people of faith and conscience as we work for the common good.
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On this episode of The Common Good Podcast, Doug Pagitt talks with Brian Recker, author of the new book Hellbent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love.
Brian, a former evangelical pastor, takes us inside his journey of questioning one of Christianity’s most entrenched doctrines — the idea of eternal damnation. He argues that the fear of hell has distorted Christian faith, fostering shame, exclusion, and toxic relationships, and he invites us to imagine a different path: a spirituality grounded in love, connection, and justice.
We talk about what it means to reframe salvation, how to let go of fear-based religion, and why the way of Jesus still matters — not because of hell, but because of love.
Welcome to the Common Good Podcast. In this episode, Doug Pagitt sits down with Father Pete Nunnally, an Episcopal priest, writer, and visionary leader behind the new Water and Wilderness Church. Together they dive into Pete’s forthcoming book, Catching Hope, which offers a fresh vision of faith rooted in renewal, resilience, and community.
Their conversation explores not only Pete’s personal journey and the inspiration behind his work, but also the larger state of Christian faith in America today. Doug and Pete wrestle with some of the biggest questions facing the church: How do we remain faithful in an age of division? What does it look like to embody Christ’s love when MAGA Christianity and Christian Nationalism threaten to distort the gospel? And how can communities of faith nurture hope and courage in these turbulent times?
This episode is a heartfelt, honest, and hopeful dialogue—inviting listeners to imagine a Christianity that resists fear, rejects authoritarianism, and returns again and again to love as the way forward.
In this episode of Common Good Candidates, I talk with Mark Pinsley, a Democrat running for Congress in Pennsylvania. Mark’s district is one of the very few actually competitive Congressional districts in the country. It’s a critical race for Democrats to flip the House.
Mark shares his journey from business leader to public servant, and why he believes government should work for people—not the wealthy and powerful. We dig into his values and priorities and what surprises him most as a congressional candidate.
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In this episode of the Common Good Podcast, Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse confront the rising tide of political violence in America. In the wake of the tragic murders of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump has excused right-wing violence as “stopping crime” while casting the political left as “people who hate America.” Doug and Robb take on this dangerous rhetoric and the way it distorts our public life.
They discuss how we, as people of faith and conscience, must respond—not with silence, fear, or retaliation, but with a renewed commitment to peace, justice, and the common good. Together, they reflect on how faith communities, civic leaders, and everyday citizens can push back against this toxic narrative and stand together against violence in all its forms.
This conversation is both sobering and hopeful—calling listeners to courage, clarity, and a deep commitment to nonviolence as the only way forward for a healthy democracy.
Rev. Dr. DeWayne Davis is a dynamic community leader, ordained minister, policy strategist, and now a candidate for mayor of Minneapolis. A Mississippi Delta native, he began his career in Washington, D.C., serving as a legislative aide on Capitol Hill and later as Domestic Policy Advisor for The Episcopal Church, where he helped lead the fight for marriage equality before the U.S. Supreme Court. Known for his persistence—what he calls his “pestering history”—he’s been a tireless advocate on issues ranging from LGBTQ+ rights and healthcare to housing, voting rights, and reproductive justice.
In 2013, DeWayne and his husband moved to Minneapolis, where he served as Senior Pastor at All God’s Children Metropolitan Community Church and now leads Plymouth Congregational Church, a historic congregation deeply engaged in justice and community service. He also serves as the first openly gay Black chaplain of the Minnesota Senate, bringing spiritual guidance to landmark legislation on abortion access and LGBTQIA+ rights.
Today, as he campaigns to become mayor, Dr. Davis brings together grassroots compassion, pastoral leadership, and the hard-earned policy expertise he gained in Washington to help guide Minneapolis into its future.
In this episode of Common Good Candidates, Robb Ryerse sits down with Jordan Wood, a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Maine. We talk about what it will take to rebuild trust in government and put people—not special interests—at the center of our politics.
We dig into affordable housing and the broader kitchen-table economics affecting Mainers and families across the country: rising rents, wages, and jobs, small-business vitality, and common-sense steps to make life more affordable.
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It may look like the MAGA movement is marching in lockstep, but cracks are showing. Right-wing media voices and everyday supporters are quietly stepping back, embarrassed and humiliated by Trump’s harmful actions.
On the Common Good Podcast, we dig into these shifts, exploring what they mean for faith, politics, and the future of our democracy. With wit, candor, and hope, Doug and Robb pull back the curtain on the stories shaping our public life—and highlight the growing movement of people choosing the common good over chaos.
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Trump's self-serving vanity is on full display now in ways that are hard to fathom, even when we see it in full display.
We will find courage and a path forward to rebuild the common bonds of this country and limit his power in the midterms.
In is episode of Common Good Candidates, Robb Ryerse, political director of Vote Common Good, sits down with Sanjyot Dunung, candidate for Congress in Illinois’s 8th District. Sanjyot shares her story as a business leader, author, and advocate for democracy, and talks about why she’s stepping up to serve at a pivotal moment for our country.
We discuss her vision for bringing common sense, integrity, and compassion back to Washington—and how her life experience shapes the way she’ll fight for her community.
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Trump has deployed military forces in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles — and says he’s open to doing the same in other cities.
In this Vote Common Good Podcast episode, we break down what’s happening, why it matters for democracy, and how people of conscience can respond before it spreads.
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In this episode of the Vote Common Good Podcast, we dig into the behind-the-scenes story of how Donald Trump cheated Senator Lisa Murkowski by undoing the very things she negotiated in the so-called “big beautiful bill.” What does it say about Trump’s leadership—and the price Republican lawmakers are paying for cutting deals with him?
PLUS: We’ve got a major announcement about the future of this podcast.
And we check in with Robb Ryerse, our good friend and progressive pastor running for Congress in Arkansas. Hear what’s happening on the ground and how faith voters are responding.
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Finding Faith and Hope while Trump humiliates
Shockingly, and of course, Trump is still dodging the truth, taking bribes, hurting Americans, and violating the law.
And, the price of eggs and other items has skyrocketed.
From the podcast today, we will bring you a little bit of faith and hope to help you through these trying times
Finding Faith and Hope while Trump harms and distracts.
Shockingly, and of course, Trump is doing all he can to distract from his presidential failures and his cover-up of the great likelihood that he is on the Epstein list.
From the podcast today, we will bring you a little bit of faith and hope to help you through these trying times
Today on the Vote Common Good Podcast, we’re joined by Billy Ray — the acclaimed screenwriter behind Hunger Games, Captain Phillips, The Comey Rule, Breach, and more.
But Billy isn’t just telling stories on the screen — he’s helping shape the story of our democracy.
He works with Democratic candidates across the country, helping them speak with clarity, courage, and conviction.
🎧 Tune in as we talk movies, messaging, and the role storytelling plays in saving democracy.
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Epstein won't go away for Trump.
And, what should pastors do about candidate endorsements?
The Trump Stopper Has Arrived -Congress is Broken and a New Candidate Will Change That.
A complicit Congress is about to turn MAGA’s worst ideas into law by passing this terrible Bill. What can Americans do about it, and what impact will it have?
Your friends at the Common Good Podcast take you along this rocky and scary journey to try to save America from the worst politicians imaginable.
We all have reasons for seeing the runious leadership of Donald Trump. For some people this weeks attack on Iran was a violation of promise he made.
For others, his treament of people is a violation of the promoise our country has made.
For others the attack on deomocracy is a violation of promise we all made.
Many reasons to stop supporting the same man.
We will talk about it all on today's Common Good Podcast.
The People have spoken and many would like to amend their statement from November.
And, the violence under Trump continues.
And, Trump blames his own immigration deportation policy for his failure.
Trump Has Pulled Us Into Authoritarianism with Military Deployment in US.
Trump has accelerated authoritarian tactics by deploying military forces against U.S. citizens during protests, using federal agencies to arrest individuals without due process, and encouraging bans on books and academic speech he deems unpatriotic. His administration has supported defunding and dismantling programs that provide congressional oversight, while promoting loyalty tests for civil servants and suppressing dissent through intimidation and media discrediting. By centralizing power, threatening governors, and undermining democratic norms, Trump continues to erode the institutional checks that safeguard freedom in America.
Today we talk with Amanda Edwards who is running for Texas 18th Congressional District.
We also reflect on how a President of the United States can continue or show his incompetence by spreading utter nonsense and conspiratorial lies.
Today we talk with Amanda Edwards who is running for Texas 18th Congressional District.
WE also reflect on how a President of the United States can continue or show his incompetence by spreading utter nonsense and conspiratorial lies.
Trump Attacks Americans on Memorial Day.
A day reserved for recognizing the painful loss of life that our war and military service have inflicted on Americans, the president of the United States did not take the non-partisan approach of honoring the lives lost. He attacked, lied about, and demeaned fellow Americans.
It was just another day in the most divisive Presidency in American history.
Since Trump took office, he has led the most divisive presidency. Our nation has ever seen. He threatened governors, vilified judges, took bribes from foreign autocrats, stripped funding from our institutions of higher education and programs that help those in need of food assistance in this country and medical care here and around the world, targeted immigrants, shredded our constitution, eroded our Democratic norms.
Trump attacks Springsteen, Swift, and Bono, adding to his targets in his ongoing attack on Americans and America.
Trump has attacked the credibility of Military Generals, the Press, Judges, Politicians, Average Americans, and now is spending his time as Commander in Chief attacking musicians.
These are the actions that political "strong men" make; he consistently acts like one.
What does all this mean for faith and politics in the US and globally?
Let's Talk Poe Leo XIV with Catholic Leaders and what is all means.
Today Robb Ryerse and Doug Pagitt are joined by two Catholic Leaders - Miguel Diaz, Ambassador to the Holy See, Ret
and Denise Murphy McGraw, Catholics Vote Common Good, National Co-Chair
What does all this mean for faith and politics in the US and Globally?
"Pope Tump" and other Nonsense from the Outlaw President on today's Common Good Podcast.
Trump's ignorance, Lawlessness, and country-harming policies are on full display again this week.
From disrespecting the Papalcy to telling kids to be happy with fewer gifts at Christmas, to taking mortgages from veterans the pain continues to roll from Trump's administration.
It's Not On The Knuckles - Knuckle Head Trump is Wrong Again
Trump's ignorance, Lawlessness and country-harming policies on full display
Another nightmare week in the US due to Trump and his team.
The incompetence doing the lawful, important work shines brightly again. Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about details and responses to this mess.
Another nightmare week in the US due to Trump and his team.
The incompetence doing the lawful, important work shines brightly again. Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk details and responses to this mess.
And, Robb's nominations this week for who had "The Dumbest Week in the Administration."
Trump's "Home Grown" Attack on US Citizens.
Trump told the El Salvadorian President he would need to build five more prisons where Trump could send American Citizens that he wants to deport.
And, he said that he doesn't know what the laws are concerning his ability to deport US Citizens to an El Salvadorian prison.
Robb's nomination for who had "The Dumbest Week in the Administration."
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse will discuss that sick reality and the rest of the week's news as Trump continues to harm the country through foolishness, ignorance, and arrogance.
How The Trump Admin and Elon Musk's Foolishness Hurts Us All - The Common Good Podcast
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the week's news that Trump continues to harm the country due to foolishness, ignorance and arrogance.
Elon Musk shows why he has no business in Government.
Trump Leads Most Anti-Christian Presidency Ever - Part 2
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the week's news that Trump continues to harm hungry children and destroy the safety net of the most vulnerable.
The courts are stopping Trump on some, but not all, of his dangerous actions.
Trump Signals Dangerous Incompetence
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the week's news that Trump’s team discussed war plans on the Signal app and accidentally included a reporter. All involved should be fired.
The courts are stopping Trump on some, but not all, of his dangerous actions.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the week's news and how the struggling Trump Administration is sending our surrogates like Lara Trump to tell us that "we should be kissing the feet of Trump and Elon Musk."
They also talk about the struggling economy, tariffs, and the mass layoffs and deportations.
Doug Pagitt from Vote Common Good talks with Rich Logis about his group Leaving MAGA.
Rich went from being an "all-in" MAGA booster and spokesperson to helping others leave the chaos and lies.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss what can be done about the hazardous decisions being made by Donald Trump.
They also show what is behind his motivations and worldviews that are so at odds with what is best for the United States and the World.
Doug, Robb and Dan discuss the tip of the Trump Chaos Iceberg on the Common Good Podcast.
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Doug, Dan and Robb discuss the latest lawlessness from the Trump administration. Courts or Congress seem uninterested or unable to stop him.
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Trump enacted tariffs on our neighbors and allies before immediately backtracking after the Stockmarket got spooked. Elon Musk, an unelected oligarch, now has access to the nation's checkbook. Plus, JD Vance gets the message of Christianity completely wrong.
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Christian Nationalism has served as one of the philosophical underpinnings of Trumpism .
"America First" has a religious partner - Christian Nationalism.
Doug Pagitt talks with Eric English about this and his book, "The Kingdom of Man."
What can those who care for the Common Good do in response to week two of the Trump onslaught? Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse share insights and reflections on week 1
What will the first days of the next Trump administration look like? Will his extreme picks for cabinet positions be approved by the senate? Doug, Dan and Robb discuss.
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Donald J Trump is officially a Felon.He is a Criminal.And, he is also the President-Elect.We have to come to grips with this reality and we seek the well-being of our Democracy.Doug Pagitt reflects on these realities.
What The Faith Hope and Love?!
Donald Trump won the election - and it wasn't even close. Doug, Dan and Robb spiral further into despair and discuss the disastrous things Trump says he will do on Day One.
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With only 41 days until Election Day, Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss what candidates - and Vote Common Good - are doing to reach voters.
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Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
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Marjorie Taylor Greene visited Cabot, Arkansas to spread conspiracy theories and divisiveness. Rodney Govens, a Democrat running for congress in Arkansas 1st District, and Robby Bevis, a Republican, decided to throw a Rally For Decency in response. Robb Ryerse sat down with Rodney, Robby and Corey Spangler, City Counsel Member in Cabot, to talk about transcending the political divide in the name of decency and the common good.
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris faced off in a heated presidential debate last night. One candidate looked competent, poised and presidential while the other fabricated unhinged lies about immigrants eating dogs.
Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the good, the bad, the bizarre, and what it means for Election Day.
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris face off in their first presidential debate tonight. Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss what they'll likely be asked about and what's at stake.
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With just two months to go until Election Day, Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss what some are calling America's first "snap election."
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Every Wednesday until Election Day, Vote Common Good's Political Director, Robb Ryerse, will be sitting down with some of the extraordinary, ordinary Americans running for office.
Today's guest is Marisela Jimenez who is running for the Texas State House in District 150.
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Every Wednesday until Election Day, Vote Common Good's Political Director, Robb Ryerse, will be sitting down with some of the extraordinary, ordinary Americans running for office.
Today's guest is David Kim who is running for U.S. House of Representatives in California's 34th District.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse were in the convention center for the DNC. They share what the experience was like and what it means for the election.
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Every Wednesday until Election Day, Vote Common Good's Political Director, Robb Ryerse, will be sitting down with some of the extraordinary, ordinary Americans running for office.
Today's guest is Joe Salerno who is running for U.S. House of Representatives in New Jersey's 2nd District
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and poet Eliza Griswold to talk about her new book, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church. They are joined by Shane and Katie Claiborne who were part of the early Circle of Hope community.
"Through generational rifts, an increasingly politicized religious landscape, a pandemic that prevented gathering to worship, and a rise in foundation-shaking activism, Circle of Hope tells a propulsive, layered story of what we do to stay true to our beliefs. It is a soaring, searing examination of what it means for us to love, to grow, and to disagree."
Eliza Griswold is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and poet. Griswold is currently a contributing writer to The New Yorker and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author. He and his wife, Katie helped found, and still live in, The Simple Way community in Philadelphia.
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Every Wednesday until Election Day, Vote Common Good's Political Director, Robb Ryerse, will be sitting down with some of the extraordinary, ordinary Americans running for office.
Today's guest is Michelle Higgs who is running for Indiana House, district 60.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's political headlines including Donald Trump's glitch-plagued livestream interview with Elon Musk on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
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Tim Walz is the Veep.
What does it mean?
Doug and Robb break it all down.
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Every Wednesday until Election Day, Vote Common Good's Political Director, Robb Ryerse, will be sitting down with some of the extraordinary, ordinary Americans running for office.
Today's guest is Caitlin Draper who is running for U.S. House in Arkansas 3rd district.
https://caitlinforarkansas.com
To see if there's a Common Good Candidate in your area, check out:
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Every Wednesday until Election Day, Vote Common Good's Political Director, Robb Ryerse, will be sitting down with some of the extraordinary, ordinary Americans running for office.
Today's guest is Ty Pinkins who is running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi.
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To see if there's a Common Good Candidate in your area, check out:
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Every Wednesday until Election Day, Vote Common Good's Political Director, Robb Ryerse, will be sitting down with some of the extraordinary, ordinary Americans running for office.
Today's guest is Jennifer Lee who is running for the Texas State House, district 55.
www.jennifer4texas.com
To see if there's a Common Good Candidate in your area, check out: www.candidatesforcommongood.com
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Every Wednesday until Election Day, Vote Common Good's Political Director, Robb Ryerse, sits down with some of the extraordinary, ordinary Americans running for office this year.
Today's guest is Joel Levi who is running for Indiana State Senate, District 20.
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To see if there's a Common Good Candidate in your area, check out:
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Every Wednesday until Election Day, Vote Common Good's Political Director, Robb Ryerse, will be sitting down with some of the extraordinary, ordinary Americans running for office.
Today's guest is Kyle Kilbourn who is running for the U.S. House in Wisconsin's 7th district.
To see if there's a Common Good Candidate in your area, check out:
www.candidatesforcommongood.com
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In this new podcast series, Vote Common Good's Political Director, Robb Ryerse, sits down with some of the extraordinary, ordinary Americans running for office this year.
Our first guest is Kaylee Peterson who is running for the U.S. House in Idaho's 1st District. www.kayleeforcongress.com
To see if there's a Common Good Candidate in your area, check out:
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Daniel Deitrich discuss the ramifications of the Supreme Court ruling that presidents have sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution after leaving office.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich break down the (very few) highs and the lows of the CNN presidential debate between President Biden and former-president Trump.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich talk about the week's political news and make predictions on whether or not Trump will show up for Thursday's presidential debate against Joe Biden.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the week's political news and make predictions on Trump's co-conspirator for the promised damage he will do if elected.
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Doug Pagitt talks with astrophysicist Paul Wallace about the earth's second moon, the Northern Lights and a huge cosmic explosion happening this summer.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse talk about the political news including Trumnp's take on prayer - he thinks it's a contest he is winning, that his supporters are proud to support a felon, the state of the economy, and more.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Daniel Deitrich take a spin through the political news with a common good lens including the historic conviction of former president Trump and what it means for the 2024 election.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse take a spin through the political news with a common good lens.
Doug can't say " Inevitable Irrelevance."
Trump's continued violation of the law and all kinds of weirdness from Republicans.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse take a spin through the political news with a common good lens.
They also talk bout what it takes for the US to not fall to the worst impulse of MAGAism
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Today's guest is running for Congress in Arkansas' First Congressional District.
Rodney Govens is uniquely qualified for this role and he tell us why.
www.RodneyForCongress.org
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse engage the political stories of the week from a Common Good Perspective.
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Doug and Robb talk Trump's current nonsense, Biden's upward swing, and the state of national politics.
Astrophysicist Paul Wallace joins Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich to talk about the solar eclipse happening April 8, and what astronomers have learned from studying eclipses over the centuries.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt sits down with NPR political corespondent and author Sarah McCammon to talk about her new book The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living and Leaving the White Evangelical Church.
Sarah McCammon is a National Political Correspondent for NPR and co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. Her work focuses on political, social and cultural divides in America, including abortion policy and the intersections of politics and religion.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug, Robb and Dan discuss a busy week in politics, including both Trump and Biden solidifying their primary wins paving the way for a rematch that literally no one is excited about.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Vote Common Good recently hosted several screenings of the new film about the rise of Christian Nationalism called God and Country. Doug Pagitt and Kristin Du Mez, both featured in the film, sat down after one of the screenings to discuss the project and take questions
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both facing hurdles in their presidential campaigns, but one has bigger problems than the other.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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At The Parliament of the World's Religions, Doug Pagitt sat down with Master Wizard Oberon Zell who founded the Church of All Worlds and Carl Bonebright, Director of Education and Publishing for The Troth, an Inclusive Heathenry organization.
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Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's political headlines, including Biden's "enthusiasm gap," Donald Trump becoming a shoe salesman, and Jon Stewart's return to The Daily Show.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Over the summer, Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich participated in the Parliament of the Worlds Religions in Chicago. Doug sat down with Surbhi Pandya to talk about her faith and how she created a board game to help kids (and curious adults) learn about Jainism.
https://surbhipandya.com
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug, Robb and Dan take a look at the week's political headlines and discuss why people on across the political spectrum don't want Trump or Biden to run.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin are decades-long friends, they are both faith leaders, and, they seriously disagree about Donald Trump.
Over the last 2 years, they have texted regularly about those disagreements.
They are now bringing that conversation to this livestream/podcast.
Their love for each other will be on display and so will their perspectives.
And, there might even be a song or two.
Welcome to “Red Hat - Blue Hat Talk”
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich just returned from Eagle Pass, TX where they engaged with the "God's Army" Trucker Convoy which was bristling with Christian Nationalist messaging. Vote Common Good also supported local faith leaders raising their voices against Gov. Abbott's dangerous "invasion" rhetoric.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's political headlines including the appeals court ruling that Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity in the Jan. 6 case. Plus, the right-wing conspiracy that Taylor Swift and the NFL are working together on behalf of Biden.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's political headlines including the "Army of God" trucker convoy heading to the southern border.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt talks with Liz Cooledge Jenkins.
They talk all things women and church—drawing on Liz's new book "Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women’s Humanity from Evangelicalism."
The book spent some time as the Amazon #1 bestseller in Women's Spirituality.
They discuss the connections we could draw between the book and the current political climate, from how Christian love and care should include removing bans and restrictions on abortion, to refusing to vote for candidates who normalize basic disrespect toward women, to being willing to make waves in our churches (rather than settling for veneers of niceness) toward the common good.
Liz argues in the book that even in the warmest and most welcoming evangelical churches, patriarchy looms as an ever-present force, suppressing women’s possibilities and debilitating whole communities. Well-intentioned churchgoers and church leaders have bought into deeply-entrenched male-dominated mindsets, power structures, and theologies that are not working—not for women, and really not for anyone.
Liz is a Stanford University graduate (BS in Symbolic Systems) and has an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. She writes at the intersections of faith, feminism, and social justice. She blog at lizcooledgejenkins.com and (formerly) Patheos, is a regular contributor to Feminism & Religion, and has written for other outlets such as Sojourners and The Christian Century
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the political news of the week.
Dean Phillips is running as a Democrat for the nomination against Biden. Why does Phillips, and now Doug, think this is a good idea.
The Republicans who tried to oppose Trump as unfit now show they are unfit by supporting him.
How St. Paul, MN shows the way for election outcomes.
And, more!
Doug Pagitt talks with Dr. Leah Payne. She is the author of the book "God Gave Rock & Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music."
In this book, Leah Payne traces the history and trajectory of Contemporary Christian music in America and, in the process, demonstrates how the industry, its artists, and its fans shaped--and continue to shape--conservative, (mostly) white, Protestant evangelicalism. For many outside observers, evangelical pop stars, interpretive dancers, puppeteers, mimes, and bodybuilders are silly expressions of kitsch. Yet Payne argues that these cultural products were sources of power, meaning, and political activism. Throughout, she draws on in-depth interviews with CCM journalists, publishers, producers, and artists, as well as archives, sales and marketing data, fan magazines, merchandise--everything that went into making CCM a thriving subculture. Ultimately, Payne argues, CCM spurred evangelical activism in more potent and lasting ways than any particular doctrine, denomination, culture war, or legislative agenda had before.
Leah Payne is Associate Professor of American Religious History at Portland Seminary
Doug Pagitt talks with Tony Jones and Tripp Fuller about the new podcast they have produced:
Emerged - An Oral History Of The Emerging Church.
What is, or maybe it needs to be asked, what was, the Emerging Church movement?
From the early 1990's through the mid-2000's there was an exciting movement in Christianity that is often called the Emerging Church movement. What was it, where is it now, and how do all this happen are three questions at the center of the the new podcast Emerged.
Emerged is a Homebrewed Christianity production.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the start of the most important political year yet.
Trump wishes his opponents to "rot in hell" for Christmas. Senators fall in line with him.
Vote Common Good hits the road and Fetterman is more complicated than first blush.
Conservatives turn on Chick-fil-A.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the start of the most important political year yet.
Trump wishes his opponents to "rot in hell" for Christmas. Senators fall in line with him.
Vote Common Good hits the road and Fetterman is more complicated than first blush.
Conservatives turn on Chick-fil-A.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk with Frederic Laloux about the online environmental resource “The Week”.
The Week is a group experience around the crisis we face with the environment and to help us see what’s coming and what we can do about it.
The week is designed around friends or family meeting three times in one week. Each experience includes an informative documentary film and conversation supports to help one another engage in ways to engage to support the environment.
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Doug Pagitt talks with Rev David Moore and Kerry Connelly about their podcast God is Not An Ahole"
David is a pastor, teacher and community organizer.
Kerry is spiritual teacher and activist leader.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse take a spin back through the year to highlight 10 of the wackiest, and also important, political news stories of the year.
Doug Pagitt talks with Andrew Whitehead about his book American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church.
This is not only a threat to religion, it is an attack on the core of American values of freedom, religious liberty, and inclusion.
Andrew is Associate professor of sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University. Indianapolis, where he codirects the Association of Religion Data Archives at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the political topics of the week from a common good perspective.
Topics include Trump promising to be a dictator, Mom's For Liberty Sex Scandal, Trump 91 criminal charges, Texas Abortion laws, and the end of Rudy Giuliani.
Astrophysicist Paul Wallace talks with Doug Pagitt about the sky, stars, and super cool space stuff.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about politics from a Common Good perspective.
They talk Cheney, Santos, Trump, and the political situation for Biden.
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Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk Episode 9
Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin are decades-long friends, they are both faith leaders, and, they seriously disagree about Donald Trump.
Over the last year, they have texted regularly about those disagreements.
They are now bringing that conversation to this livestream/podcast.
Their love for each other will be on display and so will their perspectives.
And, there might even be a song or two.
Welcome to the first edition of “Red Hat - Blue Hat Talk”
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the crucial political news of the week.
MAGA doubles down on Jan 6.
Why are the American Hostages not a bigger deal?
Who killed JFK, is still a thing?
And more.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talks about the crucial political news as we are 350 days from Election Day.
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Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk - Two Friends Who Disagree about Trump.
Today Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin are together in the studio for the first time.
They also talk about their shared experience at the Eagles concert.
Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin are decades-long friends, they are both faith leaders, and, they seriously disagree about Donald Trump.
Over the last year, they have texted regularly about those disagreements.
They are now bringing that conversation to this livestream/podcast.
Their love for each other will be on display and so will their perspectives.
And, there might even be a song or two.
Welcome to the first edition of “Red Hat - Blue Hat Talk”
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Doug Pagitt talks with Caleb Campbell, pastor, author, podcaster, and wonderful human.
Caleb is the author of the forthcoming book Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor.
He is the pastor of Desert Springs Bible Church, in Phoenix, AZ
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the headlines and the importance of the next 12 months in the United States.
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Doug Pagitt talks with Genesis Be.
Genesis Be is not only an author, poet, and painter, but is also the "poet laureate" of Vote Common Good.
The new book People Not Things Genesis Be offers a strikingly honest yet hopeful snapshot of her journey as a queer Black woman in America fighting for the humanity of her community.
Poignant and moving, this debut collection of poetry and paintings from Genesis Be bravely examines what it means to stay hopeful on the arduous journey to freedom.
Drawing on her activism and antiracist work as covered by the New York Times and VICE, Be examines tools of division and challenges our notion of freedom in an effort to combat racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. Equal parts delicate and unapologetic, People Not Things is a powerful debut that will speak to the hearts of readers from all walks of life.
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Doug Pagitt and astrophysicist Paul Wallace talk about vanishing stars, what astronauts should do if they run out of food, and what happened when another planet crashed into earth.
Doug Pagitt talks with newly elected Dauphin County Commissioner Justin Douglas about winning as a Democrat in a typically Republican County.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse take a common good approach to politics. Topics today include the Presidential race and all the troubles with Trump and people not saying "yes" to Biden.
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Maddie Franklin joins Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin who are decades-long friends, they are both faith leaders and, they seriously disagree about Donald Trump.
Over the last two years, they have texted regularly about those disagreements.
They are now bringing that conversation to this livestream/podcast.
Their love for each other will be on display and so will their perspectives.
Welcome to episode 4 of “Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse take a common good approach to discussing the week's political and cultural news.
Including war in Gaza, end of UAW strike, Halloween candy, and more.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse take a common good approach to discussing the week's political and cultural news.
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Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk - Two Friends Who Disagree about Trump. Episode 7
Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin are decades-long friends, they are both faith leaders, and, they seriously disagree about Donald Trump.
Over the last year they have texted regularly about those disagreements.
They are now bringing that conversation to this livestream/podcast.
Their love for each other will be on display and so will their perspectives.
Welcome to episode 7 of “Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk
Doug Pagitt and Astrophysicist Paul Wallace talk about moon volcanos, New Planets, New Elements, and rock group Queen's guitarist, who works with NASA.
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Common Good Politics - In a time of global and national struggle, how do we find Common Good.
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Once again, there is significant talk and energy going into deciding how much money the federal government should spend. Conservatives keep repeating the same old line that the federal budget is like a household budget and that federal debt is like a credit card.
This is not how federal spending works. We talk about that on today’s podcast and live stream.
Often referred to as MMT – Modern Monetary Theory, we will come to understand that the federal government spends money into existence, and when it taxes it removes money from the economy. However, the federal government does not use tax dollars as its revenue.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse engage in all the top political news stories impacting the common good.
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Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk - Two Friends Who Disagree about Trump. Episode 4
Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin are decades-long friends, they are both faith leaders, and, they seriously disagree about Donald Trump.
Over the last year they have texted regularly about those disagreements.
They are now bringing that conversation to this livestream/podcast.
Their love for each other will be on display and so will their perspectives.
Welcome to episode 6 of “Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk
Doug Pagitt talks with astrophysicist Paul Wallace about how and what the universe is, and what to think of NASA's big revelation about UFO's
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Doug Pagitt talks with author and professor David Gushee about his new book "Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies."
Doug and David spoke at the Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina in July 2023.
The book is described as making a robust case for the defense of democracy from its enemies—including Christians—arguing for a renewed commitment to democracy on the part of Christians, by drawing on our own best traditions, not succumbing to mere secular liberalism. Any concerned Christian will leave its pages with eyes wide open to the dangers of our current form of political engagement Readers will gain insight into what democracy is truly meant to be and why Christians once supported it wholeheartedly—and should do so again.
Rev. Prof. Dr. David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, Chair of Christian Social Ethics at Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam, and Senior Research Fellow, International Baptist Theological Study Centre.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about all the happenings in this week's politics and how to find the common good.
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Doug Pagitt talks with Mary Theresa (Terry) Webb about her new book "Following Jesus in the Age of Trump"
The book confronts the issues of Trumpism and Christian Nationalism.
Dr. Webb asks readers to consider "Which road do you take to follow Jesus?"
How does your Christian faith impact your current political decisions?
Dr. Webb, a seminary-trained evangelical Christian and professional counselor, asks all American Christians these questions and posits to dialogue with them.
She explores following Jesus’ path when Israel was under Roman rule with the compass of the Beatitudes, his teachings and healings; in Nazi Germany under Hitler, and in America today, with Trumpism and Christian Nationalism.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the breaking political news and they talk with Justin Douglas. Justin is running for office in Pennsylvania for Dauphin County Commissioner.
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Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk - Two Friends Who Disagree about Trump. Episode 5
Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin are decades-long friends, they are both faith leaders, and, they seriously disagree about Donald Trump.
Over the last year they have texted regularly about those disagreements.
They are now bringing that conversation to this livestream/podcast.
Their love for each other will be on display and so will their perspectives.
Welcome to episode 5 of “Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk
Today Doug Pagitt talks with Will Samson.
Will has gone through significant personal and religious change and is bringing those lessons to the areas of work, business, and leadership transformation.
Will’s personal story of change from being a former Republican operative who battled addiction and now coaches entrepreneurs trying to leave a better world behind. He can tell war stories about working for Jerry Falwell and plotting world domination with Ralph Reed.
But more importantly, Will has a vision for a more common good world.
Having worked in politics, academia, business, and the religious sector Will’s perspective is broad and deep.
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Our very own Robb Ryerse is running for the State House in Arkansas. Hear about that and the biggest news in politics with Doug Pagitt and Robb. www.Robbforarkansas.com www.votecommongood.com
Doug Pagitt and Paul Wallace talk moon, Big Bang Controversy, India and Japan's leadership on the moon, and the meaning of a common good life here on earth.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, pastor, author, professor, and avid bird-watcher
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the start of the 2024 political season.
What is it about Biden's age that causes so much conflict?
The Convictions of J6 participants continue.
Republican Senator holding up Military Appointments.
And More.
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Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk - Two Friends Who Disagree about Trump. Episode 4
Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin are decades-long friends, they are both faith leaders, and, they seriously disagree about Donald Trump.
Over the last year they have texted regularly about those disagreements.
They are now bringing that conversation to this livestream/podcast.
Their love for each other will be on display and so will their perspectives.
Welcome to episode 4 of “Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk
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Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk Episode 3
Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin are decades-long friends, they are both faith leaders, and, they seriously disagree about Donald Trump.
Over the last year, they have texted regularly about those disagreements. They are now bringing that conversation to this livestream/podcast.
Their love for each other will be on display and so will their perspectives.
And, there might even be a song or two.
Welcome to the first edition of “Red Hat - Blue Hat Talk”
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the politcal news of the week including the criminal enterprise in Georgia, the Repulican debate, Biden's success in Asia and more.
Red Hat/Blue Hat Talk Episode 2
Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin are decades-long friends, they are both faith leaders, and, they seriously disagree about Donald Trump.
Over the last year, they have texted regularly about those disagreements. They are now bringing that conversation to this livestream/podcast.
Their love for each other will be on display and so will their perspectives.
And, there might even be a song or two.
Welcome to the first edition of “Red Hat - Blue Hat Talk”
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the implication of the Trump-backed Enterprise being indicted as a RICO case in Georgia.
Doug Pagitt talks with Astrophysicist Paul Wallace about science news and, likey, birds.
Doug Pagitt talks with pastor Katie Hays. Katie is the pastor of Galileo Church near Fort Worth, Texas.
Katie is a leading voice in all manner of Common Good Faith and has been a national leader within the Disciples of Christ denomination on the importance of standing up to the threat of Christian Nationalism.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk the politics of the week. Including should other Democrats run in the primary for President? Trump's dangerous nonsense of the week. There really is a global child exploitation ring.
Red Hat - Blue Hat Talk Episode 1
Doug Pagitt and Casey Franklin are decades-long friends, they are both faith leaders, and, they seriously disagree about Donald Trump.
Over the last year, they have texted regularly about those disagreements. They are now bringing that conversation to this livestream/podcast.
Their love for each other will be on display and so will their perspectives.
Welcome to the first edition of “Red Hat - Blue Hat Talk”
Doug Pagitt spoke with Tara Eastman at the Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina in July of 2023.
Rev. Tara Lamont Eastman has been writing, drawing, and painting since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Tara’s writing has been published by Sparkhouse, Augsburg Fortress and 1517 Media). Eastman, combines her love of ministry with her love of writing, music and visual arts in numerous projects locally in Western New York and nationally.
She is a graduate of Wartburg Theological Seminary: Theological Education for Emerging Ministry Program, A Youth and Theology Certificate from Princeton Theological Seminary Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary and graduate of the Fellowship For Emerging Leadership with Syracuse University in 2021. They were ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America July 30, 2016.
She has served in various leadership roles over the last thirty years in the fields of ministry, writing, visual art and music. She was the Artist-in-Residence and member of the faculty at the 2013 Princeton Seminary Forum On Youth Ministry and Artist-in-Residence at the 2012 Inhabit Conference in Seattle, Washington, and was a Co-Creator at the 2023 Wild Goose Festival.
Their personal blog, Uphill Idealist, (https://lamont-uphill.blogspot.com/) has been an ongoing source of expression of her theological and creative work for over ten years.
She/her/they is a currently transition pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Jamestown NY and is creator/host of: Holy Shenanigans Podcast (https://holyshenanigans.buzzsprout.com/)
For more information, contact Rev. Eastman at: holyshenaniganspodcast@gmail.com
Doug Pagitt spoke about Faith, Politics, and the Common Good at the Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina in July of 2023.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the crucial political issues of the week (and, a bunch of interesting nonsense as well).
How does large societal changes happen and what can and should be our own roles in those changes? These are questions David LaMotte tackles in his book "You are Changing The World Whether You Like It or Not."
Doug Pagitt talks with David LaMotte about his book and his new Music Video. David is a world-class musician, speaker and author.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about all sorts of common goodery on the common good politics podcast.
Astrophysicist Paul Wallace and Doug Pagitt talk about birding, the age of the universe, solar eclipses, and how to best use science information.
Doug Pagitt talks with Paul A. McAllister of Global Leaders in Unity and Evolvement about faith, the threat of Christian Nationalism, and Paul's lifetime effort to include all ideas and goodness into faith and life.
Trump made public the list of who he will go after if he is ever President again. And the target is the entire Federal Government.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse breakdown the last few weeks in the wild world of politics.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse breakdown the last few weeks in the wild world of politics. And, they talk with Karin Chenoweth, from Democracy and Education, about what is happening in school boards around the country.
Doug Pagitt talks with Rahna Epting of MoveOn.org about organizing for the common good. They also talk about how Rahna got into all this do-goodery and the current state of organizing in this political climate.
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We are joined by Heidi Campbell who is running for Mayor of Nashville, TN. And, we talk about all the Trump recordings, submersibles, the independent legislative theory that was struck down by the Supreme Court and other common good political news of the week www.VoteCommonGood.com
The national nightmare that has been Trump's presence in US government leadership is becoming more clear. The walls are crumbling around him. And, Hunter Biden pleads guilty to failure to pay taxes. And, other Presidential Campaign news - Biden Launches Campaign, Anti-vaxer Candidates in the Race - on both sides. www.VoteCommonGood.com
What “declassifying means, “whataboutism”, a felon being elected even though he could not vote, Law and Order…
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Astrophysicist Paul Wallace and Doug Pagitt talk about the ride in Flat Earth adherents (1/3 of 18-24-year-olds don't believe the earth is a sphere) and how we can find a common good way to truth.
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Mariann Budde is the Episcopal Bishop of Washington DC. She is a great leader and the author of the fabulous book How We Learn to Be Brave. Her responsibilities include the oversight of the National Cathedral and 80+ other churches and institutions in the DC area. One of those churches is St John's Church at Lafayette Square right near the White House. This is the church that Donald Trump used as the backdrop for his egregious "photo-op" holding a bible after ordering the clearing of the square by military personnel. Bishop Mariann's clear condemnation of that action thrust her into national attention. But her bravery and leadership have been growing and in service of the Common Good for decades. Doug Pagitt talks with Bishop Mariann about faith, Common Good, and How To Learn to be Brave.
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Could this be the week Trump is Indicted for espionage?
Ne Republicans are getting in the race. And, some third-party candidates as well.
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about it all for the Common Good.
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We talk about what goes into running for public office and how great TV shows like Ted Lasso and Succession set a framework for how we see the world of politics.
Also, the debt ceiling nonsense and the shaky start of the DeSantis run.
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We find the Common Good Call in all the week's Political News.
Senator Tim Scott is in the Presidential Race.
Republicans keep up the Debt Ceiling Nonsense.
Lies about Immigrants Taking Veteran's Housing Continue.
A Truck with a Nazi Flag inside crashed into White House Barriers.
The debt ceiling is a US Federal Government self-imposed restriction that serves no purpose and causes harm.
We will discuss how the Federal Budget works and why something like an arbitrary "ceiling" is wrong-headed.
The US Federal Government doesn't "spend" money, it creates money. It is a "Sovereign Currency." Like all Sovereign Currencies it is different than all State and Local government spending.
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With the ending of Title 42 there are still many crucial questions about the US Immigration policy at the border.
We discuss a faithful way forward.
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Debt Limit Nonsense, Trump shows he's still a threat, Title 42 is finally over, DeSantis nightmare is about to begin, Congress is again threatened by violence, and even some insightful and encouraging takes on the mad world that is American politics with Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse.
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Doug Pagitt talks with Space-regular Paul Wallace about Space, life and common goodness
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with author Zach Hunt to talk about his new book, Godbreathed, and what it really means for the Bible to be divinely inspired. "What if the imperfections and contradictions in Scripture aren’t an accident? What if they were allowed to be there by the Holy Spirit in order to draw us beyond the literal words on the page and deeper into the spiritual truth God is trying to teach us?"
Zack Hunt has spent the last decade writing about the interplay of faith and politics in the public sphere on his eponymous blog, Substack, and Patheos as well as contributing articles to multiple publications. He’s also made appearances in Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, Huffington Post, and various other media outlets.
Godbreathed: What it Really Means for the Bible to be Divinely Inspired
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down with Dr. Annie Andrews to talk about her work with Their Future, Our Vote, an organization that works for political change on behalf of America's children, specifically around issues like healthcare, climate action, and gun violence prevention.
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Dr. Annie Andrews is a pediatrician and mom who has dedicated her career to fighting for a brighter future for all children. After working as a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina for over a decade, she decided to run for Congress to give children a voice in Washington, D.C.. She was the Democratic nominee in South Carolina’s first congressional district in 2022.
Annie is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina, where she cares for children and adolescents at the Children’s Hospital.
She is a gun violence prevention researcher and community advocate working to reduce the frequency of pediatric firearm injuries with a focus on secure storage counseling.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt chats with Dr. Ruth Backstrom to talk about her book, Igniting a Bold New Democracy: Empowering Citizens Through Game Changing Reforms.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with Rev. Jonah Overton (they/them), a queer and trans community organizer and the lead pastor of Zao MKE Church, to talk about why the church should be Jesus-focused, justice-centered, and radically inclusive.
Rev. Jonah P. Overton (they/them) loves being part of a church that is being recreated and reimagined by people who were historically denied access to traditional Christian leadership. Their favorite thing about Zao MKE Church is experiencing what church looks like when those of us who were left out get to be in charge.
Jonah is extremely passionate about the Bible and reclaiming Christian scriptures for liberation and for the Kingdom. They are so passionate that they started two podcasts: Jonah & the Peacock and Christian Queeries. In Jonah & the Peacock, Jonah interviews others about their relationship to faith and scripture, retelling the texts through a more inclusive and trauma-informed lens. Christian Queeries is a podcast that Jonah and Cameron have together where they answer listener questions about Christianity.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the week in Politics from a Common Good Perspective.
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Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
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Astrophysicist Paul Wallace weighs in on the SpaceX explosion, the failed Japanese moon lander, and the mystery of the most powerful objects in the universe.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Yahoo! News chief national correspondent Jon Ward whose memoir, Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation, recounts his childhood in an insular, nondenominational church, offering a firsthand perspective on the rise of the Christian right.
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In and Out: President Joe Biden is IN for a run for his second term in 2024 while Tucker Carlson is OUT at Fox News.
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Doug Pagitt and Shane Clairborne talk about last Monday's march to the Tennessee Capitol to raise a moral voice in opposition to the expulsion of two legislators, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, from the Tennessee Legislature.
Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He heads up Red Letter Christians, a movement of folks who are committed to living “as if Jesus meant the things he said.”
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Doug Pagitt sits down with pastor and activist Rev. Kaji Douša to talk about being profiled and retaliated against by U.S. Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security for providing aid to migrants along the US/Mexico border. A federal judge ruled in her favor after she sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over a sweeping surveillance program, ruling that federal agents violated her civil rights and retaliated against her for protected First Amendment activity.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and of Yale University, Pastor Kaji is a prolific writer and a celebrated and awarded public speaker. She preaches nearly every Sunday at The Park and is invited as a keynote speaker across the country. Her often fiery media appearances reflect her deep thinking, faithful perspective and quick wit. She is on the editorial board for the United Church of Christ’s Stillspeaking Writer’s Group and the Alumni Board of Yale Divinity School.
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Vote Common Good's Political Organizer, Robb Ryerse, joins Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich to discuss the week's political headlines, including the horrifying surge in laws targeting trans people, Clarence Thomas hiding gifts and vacations from a GOP mega-donor, the stunning ineffectiveness of Rep. Jim Jordan, and more.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
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Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Rachel Laser, the Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, to talk about the role of religion in American public life.
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Astrophysicist Paul Wallace joins Doug and Dan to talk about how AI is being used in space exploration, plus a new theory that suggests gravity can create light.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Dr. Mark Karris to talk about his new book, "The Diabolical Trinity: Healing Religious Trauma Due to Believing in a Wrathful God, Tormenting Hell, and a Sinful Self."
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Catholic priest Fr. Aaron Wessman to discuss his new book, The Church's Mission in a Polarized World.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the historic indictment of a former president, the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, and the Gen Z protests for gun reform in Nashville.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss Biden's misguided attempt to sabotage asylum seekers. Plus, yet another horrific school shooting and the GOP's failed "investigations" into government overreach.
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Doug Pagitt chats with Samir Selmanović about his new project: Turn Lab. Turn Lab cohorts help people change for the better, to "double down on who you are and do what you know needs to be done in the world."
Check out the next cohort of Turn Lab
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Mark Stoddard who was the Performing Arts Director at a megachurch and was forced to resign after speaking out against a right-wing conference held at his church where then-President Trump was a speaker.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Bob Smietana, national reporter for Religion News Service, to talk about evangelicals, Christian nationalism, and his book, “Reorganized Religion: The Reshaping of the American Church and Why it Matters.”
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Astrophysicist Paul Wallace joins Doug and Dan to talk about why NASA and the Department of Energy might be researching the "Dark Ages of the Universe." Plus, several asteroids narrowly missing earth and one caught on film impacting on the moon.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich talk deconstruction: why people deconstruct their faith and why deconstruction is actually the healthy norm in Christianity.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse play a little game of Connect The Dots, pointing out the striking correlation between Trump rolling back railroad safety measures and banking regulations and the recent train disasters and bank failures.
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Astrophysicist Paul Wallace joins Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich to talk about how the James Webb telescope is changing our understanding of the dawn - and eventual death - of our universe. Plus: the Corgi-sized meteorite that landed in Texas and Earths second moon.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich dig into the Seven Mountains Mandate which is the framework for the latest expression of Christian Nationalism in America.
Be sure to check out the new limited series Confronting Christian Nationalism wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's political headlines, including Trump's speech at the CPAC rally and Biden's misguided approach to the border and immigration.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the bombshell story that Rupert Murdoch admitted - under oath - that Fox News colluded with the Trump campaign and knowingly peddled lies about the 2020 election.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss the strong reactions to the "He Gets Us" ad campaign that aired during the Super Bowl, plus what many are calling a revival at Asbury Seminary in Kentucky.
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Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss President Biden's surprise trip to Ukraine, Marjorie Taylor Greene's tweet suggesting a "national divorce", the Republican war on legal immigration and more.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Tamice Spencer-Helms to talk about her new book, Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Martin & George Floyd.
In her powerhouse debut, Tamice Spencer-Helms exposes the leaven of whiteness that pervades so much of Christianity in America today. At a young age, the Black church introduced her to a God of love, empowerment, and joy. But an encounter with White Jesus set her on a path that nearly destroyed her faith altogether. Persistent police brutality against Black people, and the white church’s persistent excuses for it, forced Spencer-Helms to carefully identify how the idol of whiteness keeps Christians captive, and how we can burn the idol down.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's headlines including the railroad disaster in Ohio, mass shooting in Michigan, spy balloons and UFO's, and the "New Generation of Leaders" vying for the Republican presidential nomination like Nikki Haley.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with Astrophysicist Paul Wallace to talk about the mysteries of the universe like a dead star with something like a volcano (but also not actually at all like a volcano) emitting "alien" radio pulses.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the top political headlines of the week including the drama around the Chinese Weather/Spy Balloon and President Biden's upcoming State of the Union Address.
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Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich unpack the misconceptions around the looming Debt Ceiling Showdown and discuss a clip from Stephanie Kelton, author of The Deficit Myth, talking about how federal deficits actually function.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich introduce a brand new podcast series from Vote Common Good and talk about the ways churches and individuals can confront Christian Nationalism.
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Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's headlines including the horrific murder of Tyre Nichols by police, the fight over the debt ceiling, Republicans disgusting conspiracies around Paul Pelosi's attack debunked by video, Covid relief scam investigations and... the government cheese stockpile.
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with Rob Schenck, President of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute, to talk about the Christian church's inaction and outright complicity in the Holocaust, plus the few who stood up against the Nazis and ultimately paid with their lives.
The Rev. Dr. Rob Schenck is an ordained evangelical minister, author of Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister’s Rediscovery of Faith, Hope and Love (HarperCollins), and president of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute, located in Washington, D.C. He holds a Doctor of Ministry from Faith Evangelical Seminary in Tacoma, Washington and is a senior fellow of The Centre for the Study of Law and Public Policy at Oxford. Rev. Schenck is the subject of the Emmy Award-winning documentary, The Armor of Light, and a member of the leadership team for Survivor Sunday, a nationwide day of remembrance for the 30,000 lives lost annually to gun violence sponsored by Prayers & Action. He is also the author of Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister’s Rediscovery of Faith, Hope, and Love (June 5, 2018).
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Today's show is a replay of an interview of Doug Pagitt on Community Conversations with Dr Hayward Horton and Denise Murphy McGraw of Collaborative Media. They discuss how Vote Common Good was birthed out of the small but vibrant progressive evangelical movement, a movement of common good faith.
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Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
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Doug Pagitt, Dan Deitrich, and VCG's political organizer Robb Ryerse discuss the week's political headlines, including Biden's ongoing secret document problem.
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Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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On today's Common Good Podcast and Livestream, Astrophysicist Paul Wallace joins Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich to talk about how the James Webb Telescope is upending our understanding of the early universe. Plus, Saturday's New Moon will be the closest to earth since the Middle Ages.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with Bradley Onishi, scholar, speaker, and co-host of the podcast Straight White American Jesus, to discuss his new book, Preparing For War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism - And What Comes Next.
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Brad Onishi received graduate degrees from UCSB, Oxford University, and L’institut catholique de Paris. As a scholar of religion, he teaches and researches Christian nationalism, the history of Evangelicalism, race and racism in American religion, gender, sex, masculinity, and secularism and secularity. He has taught at UCSB, the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley, Rhodes College, Skidmore College, Central Michigan University, Cal Lutheran University, and the University of San Francisco (current).
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich take a look at the week's top political stories including President Biden's Top Secret documents problem, the GOP's "nihilistic negation" agenda, and the unbelievable George Santos saga.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's political headlines, including the chaos around the vote for Speaker of the House plus President Biden's immigration policies angering both the right and the left.
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Our resident Astrophysicist Paul Wallace sits down with Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich to look back at the science and space breakthroughs of 2022.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss how music, with its scales, theories and intangible intuitiveness, can be a metaphor for less rigid, more expansive spirituality. Plus, how fundamentalism is incompatible with art.
From The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
“The fundamentalist (or, more accurately, the beleaguered individual who comes to embrace fundamentalism), cannot stand freedom. He cannot find his way into the future, so he retreats to the past.”
“Fundamentalism and art are mutually exclusive. There is no such thing as fundamentalist art. This does not mean that the fundamentalist is not creative. Rather, his creativity is inverted. He creates destruction. Even the structures he builds, his schools and networks of organization, are dedicated to annihilation, of his enemies and of himself.”
Speaking of humanism vs fundamentalism: "While the one looks forward, hoping to create a better world, the other looks backward, seeking to return to a purer world from which he and all have fallen."
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2022 was a wild year in the world of politics. Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich look back on the madness and make predictions for 2023.
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On the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich talk about the Winter Solstice, the history of Christmas, and why "the war on Christmas" isn't actually a thing.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the January 6th Committee's historic decision to recommend criminal charges against former-President Trump.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's headlines.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Ani Zonneveld, Founder and President of Muslims For Progressive Values, to talk about how faith can be a catalyst for inclusion, equality and social justice.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down with Stephannie Lane Baker, the Executive Director of Emerge Arkansas, to talk about her work recruiting and training women candidates for office.
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Stephannie Lane Baker has over two decades of experience in political advocacy and organizing work. Highlights of this work include studying the child health impact of estrogens in the Miami table water, fighting for smoke-free environments for restaurant workers, registering voters and serving as a patient advocate at Planned Parenthood, and advocating for safer gun laws with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Her varied public health advocacy work eventually led her to political campaigns, as she realized that the best way to make progress is to help progressive leaders get a seat at the table.
Stephannie honed her political training with Vote Run Lead, Demand a Seat, the Arena Academy, EMILY’s List, and the inaugural Emerge Arkansas bootcamp training. She’s spent the last several years working in campaigns and volunteering for school board, city council, and state representative races. Most recently, she has directed campaign communications at both the federal and state level.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's headlines including Brittney Griners release from a Russian prison, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema abandoning the Democratic Party, Trump's growing legal and political troubles, and Mike Pence's recent interview defending his time as Trump's right-hand-man.
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Astrophysicist Paul Wallace joins Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich to talk about moon landings - past and near-future. Be sure to check out the stunning remastered images from the last moon landing 50 years ago: https://apple.news/AtC-qcmb9SqiYju31AY7N9A
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's political headlines including Trump's growing political and legal troubles.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's headlines including the horrifying shooting at a gay bar in Colorado fueled by hateful rhetoric from right-wing politicians and preachers.
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This Thanksgiving, will you be walking on eggshells or dropping bombshells? Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich talk about how to make the upcoming holidays more enjoyable even if you'll be gathered around a table with people you disagree with politically.
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Professor of Economics Fadhel Kaboub joins Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich to talk about inflation: what really causes it and what we can do to fight it.
Fadhel Kaboub, Ph.D. is President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of economics at Denison University. His research focuses on the Political Economy of the Middle East and the fiscal and monetary policy dimensions of job creation programs. He is a widely published author and his recent work has been presented at many prestigious institutions including the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School, Cornell University, Columbia University, Sorbonne University, and the National University of Singapore.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss Trump's announcement to run for president in 2024.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss the results of the midterm elections and how close it came to a complete disaster for Democrats.
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Was America ever a "Christina nation"? Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich look back to the founding of the United States and discuss what it looks like to be a Christian in America without being a Christian Nationalist today.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with filmmakers Kathi and David Peters to talk about their documentary Postcards From Babylon, based on the book by Brian Zahnd. The film features Shane Claiborne, Kristin Du Mez, Peter Wehner, Lisa Sharon Harper, Walter Brueggemann, Jonathan Merritt, and more on the ways Christian nationalism is incompatible with the Way of Jesus
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss President Biden's recent speeches denouncing MAGA Republicans as "semi-fascists" who are "destroying democracy." Plus, new twists and turns in the FBI investigation into Trump's refusal to return classified documents.
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Economist Fadhel Kaboub, from Denison University, helps us understand how the economy really works when the Federal Government spends money or cancels borrowers debt. And, we see how you, and your children, are not paying for the cancelation of others people debt.
Fadhel Kaboub, Ph.D. is President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of economics at Denison University. His research focuses on the Political Economy of the Middle East and the fiscal and monetary policy dimensions of job creation programs. He is a widely published author and his recent work has been presented at many prestigious institutions including the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School, Cornell University, Columbia University, Sorbonne University, and the National University of Singapore.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich talk about the definition of fascism and why many, including President Biden, are concerned about the Republican party's fascist tendencies.
Astrophysicist Paul Wallace gives us a tour through the planetarium and observatory that is his new office. Plus he and Doug Pagitt talk about the new mission to the moon that could pave the way for trips to Mars.
Doug Pagitt and Paul Wallace discuss new images from the James Webb Telescope of the Cartwheel Galaxy in the Sculptor constellation that is actually two galaxies colliding with each other.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk with Common Good Candidate for Texas County Clerk Linsey Fagan. And, the implications of primaries in Wyoming and Alaska as well as reasons to believe Trump deserves to be prosecuted in New York, Georgia, and by the Federal Government and what that means for the country.
Doug Pagitt and Rabbi Joseph Edelheit discuss how Christian Nationalism and antisemitism have gone hand in hand since the first 23 Jews landed in North America in 1654. They also talk about how to respond to Christian Nationalism today as well as the diversity of Jewish communities in the US.
Doug Pagitt sits down with Terry Chapman, the Director of Convening Communities at the Center for Purposeful Leadership.
Terry Chapman recently retired after serving as a Presbyterian (USA) pastor Church in New Jersey 26 years. He has also served churches in Pennsylvania and Edinburg Scotland.
He continues his vocation as a spiritual director, retreat leader and poet. He works with the Presbyterian Church (USA) supporting newly ordained clergy. As an adjunct professor at New Brunswick Theological Seminary Terry teaches courses in Christian Spirituality. Terry's book "Sabbath Pause" was published in 2012. He is also a Certified Convening Leader practicing the Art of Convening and is Director of Convening Communities at The Center for Purposeful Leadership.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss the news that the FBI raided former President Trump's personal residence in Mar-a-Lago, plus a bizarre and troubling report from CPAC where both Trump and the Hungarian dictator Viktor Orban were speakers.
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Doug Pagitt and Paul Wallace discuss new images from the James Webb Telescope of the Cartwheel Galaxy in the Sculptor constellation that is actually two galaxies colliding with each other.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich share excerpts from Monday's Vote Common Good event in Holland, Michigan to highlight the quiet heroes - most of whom are Republicans themselves - running against bullying MAGA extremists in local elections. West Michigan is just a microcosm of a national rise in aggressive, threatening, bullying tactics by the GOP in local elections for positions like school board and county commissioner.
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich take a look at the week's political headlines including former-president Trump endorsing Eric... in a race between two Erics.
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Today we are joined by Mary Mykhaylova, a Ukrainian living in San Francisco. As a psychotherapist Mary has a unique perspective that can help us understand the suffering of the Ukrainian people due to Russian atrocities, how to avoid Russian propaganda, and the best way to help.
Mary Mykhaylova is a Ukrainian psychotherapist and essayist in San Francisco dedicated to making sure your Ukraine coverage is Ukraine-centered. Rampant Russian propaganda has planted false narratives for years and the West views Russian aggression and Ukraine's prospects through its own subjective lens. The solution: consuming a range of Ukrainian content.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse look at crucial issues facing our civic life and how people of Common Good Faith can engage. Today we talk Christian Nationalism, Politics beyond personal affront, and the votes in states to ban abortion.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich are joined by astrophysicist Paul Wallace to discuss the incredible new images coming from the James Webb Space Telescope - including one of a galaxy born 13 billion years ago.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Paul Martin to discuss how the biggest divide in America is between identities not policies: Liberals vs Conservatives.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss President Biden's calculated decision to publicly greet the Saudi Crown Prince - who almost certainly ordered the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi - with a friendly fist bump.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss a short clip from Vote Common Good's Samir Selmanovic on moving away from narratives that require villains and heroes.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Director Ya'ke Smith and Host Rasool Berry of the new documentary Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom.
Uncover the deep spiritual significance of America’s newest federal holiday with pastor Rasool Berry. Guests include Opal Lee (Grandmother of Juneteenth), Vote Common Good’s Rev Michael Waters, Lecrae, & more.
Emotional, evocative, inspirational, and educational; it is necessary viewing for groups and individuals interested in the history of Juneteenth, and its vital intersection with the Christian faith.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down with Candidate for Common Good Nan Whaley, the former Mayor of Dayton who is the Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio.
For the last eight years, Nan had the honor of serving as the mayor of Dayton, Ohio. She faced some of the toughest challenges — a mass shooting, the opioid epidemic, tornadoes, a broken economy, and now, the COVID-19 pandemic. Through it all, Dayton has come out stronger and more resilient thanks to her leadership. Now she's running for Governor.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with author and public theologian Brian McLaren to talk about his new book, Do I Stay Christian: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned.
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Doug Pagitt and John Pavlovitz talk about faith, politics, and the recent launch of the Empathetic People Network: a safe place for kind people.
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John Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. A 25-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities.
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Jack Jenkins, religion and politics reporter for Religion News Service, sits down with host Doug Pagitt to talk about how the January 6th Insurrection probably wouldn't have happened without the fuel of Christian Nationalism.
Read Jack's piece on the thwarted attack on an Idaho Pride parade here.
Jack Jenkins is an award-winning journalist and national reporter for the Religion News Service. He covers religion. Also politics. Usually both.
He's also the author of the book American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country, published by HarperOne (and you can order it here!)
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich ask the question, how should our religion/faith/spirituality inform our politics? We take a look at recent video from Marjorie Taylor Greene saying Christina Nationalism is something to be proud of, and another GOP candidate saying, "we are the church and we run the state."
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down with Randi McCallian who is running for Missouri's 8th congressional district to talk about why she moved from public health into politics.
Randi McCillian graduated with a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of South Florida, where she also worked in a state perinatal quality collaborative to improve hospital care for infants, and later as the Director of a multi-state maternal and child health program for farm-working families.
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On today's show, we revisit a conversation with professor, historian, and author Beth Allison Barr about her book The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. In the wake of the scathing report of sexual abuse coverups at the highest levels of the Southern Baptist Convention, this conversation about toxic patriarchy is more relevant than ever.
Beth Allison Barr received her B.A. from Baylor University and her M.A. and Ph. D. in Medieval History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on women and religion in medieval and early modern England, especially in how they are viewed and portrayed in sermon literature.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss the rise in inflation - and the even bigger rise in corporate profits - all during an apparent worker shortage.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with Irish poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama to talk about the power of story, who gets to tell what stories, and how The Troubles taught him to look at history through the lens of those not in power.
Pádraig Ó Tuama is a theologian, writer, and conflict transformation practitioner. He is a member and former leader of the Corrymeela Community of Northern Ireland. His books include a memoir, In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World; a prayer book, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community; a book of poetry, Sorry For Your Troubles; and a book of theology and politics co-authored with Glenn Jordan, Borders & Belonging. He hosts the On Being Studios podcast Poetry Unbound. His forthcoming book, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World, will be published in October 2022 and is available for pre-order wherever you get your books.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse are joined by Benjamin Hernandez who confronted Ted Cruz about his lack of action around gun violence prevention. Doug shares about being kicked out of the NRA Prayer Breakfast for calling for prayer for the victims of the Uvalde and Buffalo massacres.
Benjamin Hernandez is an activist, immigrant, father, and supporter of democracy. He has extensive experience organizing for both electoral and non-electoral causes, with a specialty in digital communications and community outreach. He is the Founder of Human Age Digital, Co-Founder of Vote Simple and is part of the leadership team of Indivisible Houston which works to hold elected leaders accountable.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk primaries and runoffs before being joined by Keith Davenport, a Candidate for Common Good from Kansas. He talks about the disastrous Brownback Plan that slashed taxes, gutted government programs, and left working-class Kansans struggling.
"We need a state government that understands our everyday needs - affordable childcare, functioning roads, safe and excellent schools, and good-paying jobs. That’s why I am running for Kansas House District 43. It’s for our common good."
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Astrophysicist, Pastor, Professor Paul Wallace talks with Doug Pagitt of Vote Common Good about the black hole at the center of our galaxy, gravity, spacetime, and... UFO's?
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Pastors Josh Scott and Colby Martin join Doug Pagitt to talk about the journey from conservative Evangelicalism to Progressive Christianity.
Josh Scott is pastor at Grace Point Church in Nashville, TN
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Elisabeth Kraus talks about the deadly serious implications if Roe v. Wade is overturned and how her pro-life stance shifted after a late-term abortion saved her life.
Elisabeth Kraus is a public speaker and educator. She is also an advocate for survivors of sexual assault and for women who have had challenging or miscarried pregnancies.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Pastor Brenda Mitchell of Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety to talk about what people of faith can do to address the plague of gun violence in America.
Brenda K. Mitchell is a Volunteer with Moms Demand Action in South Suburban Chicago where she specializes in Inter-Faith Outreach in the community. In 2005, Brenda’s 31-year-old son, Kenneth, was shot and killed outside a bar. Since her son’s death, Brenda has become a dedicated advocate for gun violence prevention with an emphasis on trauma. She serves on the Everytown Faith Advisory Committee (she is an ordained pastor) and is a certified complicated grief and mindfulness counselor. In addition to her work with Everytown, she is an active member with the gun violence advocacy organization Purpose Over Pain, headquartered in Southside Chicago. She also volunteers as a survivor on a committee with the Mayor's Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down with Hillary Scholten, a former DOJ attorney running for congress in Michigan. Robb also announces the new Candidates for Common Good initiative.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich are joined by resident astrophysicist Paul Wallace who educates us on the search for other habitable planets, a wild new theory called the Anti-Universe, and how the end of the universe as we know it - The Big Crunch - might come sooner than we thought (don't worry, not for at least 65 million years).
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, pastor at Middle Church in NYC and Founder of Raising Imagination to discuss how we talk about Roe v. Wade and abortion.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the bombshell news that the Supreme Court appears to have already decided to overturn Roe Vs Wade, plus the Trump Grand Jury, Ohio Primary and more.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich talk about the fresh direction of the Vote Common Good Podcast and Livestream and moving the digital hub and home of the show to YouTube.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss how Putin became a symbol for masculinity for the American Far Right and Tucker Carlson suggests that men tan their testicles to increase testosterone.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Common Good Podcast Alum Laura Truax to hear about her 35-day silent Ignatian retreat and what we can discover in silence and solitude.
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Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is a pastor, author and spiritual director and holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
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Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich look at the week's political headlines, including the release of thousands of text messages between Trump's chief of staff and Marjorie Taylor Greene about declaring "Marshall Law" days before Biden's Inauguration.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich take a look at recent headlines through the lens of the common good.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with resident astrophysicist Paul Wallace to talk about the cosmos and how birds use the stars to navigate across thousands of miles during migration.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with author, scholar, activist, wisdom-keeper, and Cherokee descendant Randy Woodley to talk about his new book 100 Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth and why indigenous wisdom is needed to literally save the world.
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss recent political headlines including a Tennessee State Senator giving a lesson on homeless Hitler to support a bill criminalizing homelessness.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down with Gretchen Barton of Future Majority and Worthy Strategy Group to talk about the power of narrative and why politicians should make Americans the hero of the story in their messaging.
Gretchen Barton is Principal at Worthy Strategy Group, Research Director at Future Majority, and former policy lead at the Harvard-founded research firm, Olson Zaltman. She has written for the Journal of College Student Development and the American Journal of Health Behavior, and co-authored, Prevalence and Profile: Hazing Among College Students and Points of Intervention. She recently co-authored “The Science of Winning with Stories: Using Agency, Urgency, and Community,” a science-based explanation of why storytelling is the most effective form to engage and move a populace.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with activist, artist and author Andre Henry to talk about his new book, All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope - and Hard Pills to Swallow - About Fighting for Black Lives.
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When the rallying cry “Black Lives Matter” was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the millions for whom the movement caused a political awakening and a rupture in some of his closest relationships with white people. As he began using his artistic gifts to share his experiences and perspective, Henry was aggrieved to discover that many white Americans—people he called friends and family—were more interested in debating whether racism existed or whether Henry was being polite enough in the way he used his voice. In this personal and thought-provoking book, Henry explores how the historical divides between Black people and non-Black people are expressed through our most mundane interactions, and why this struggle won’t be resolved through civil discourse, diversity hires, interracial relationships, or education. What we need is a revolution, one that moves beyond symbolic progress to disrupt systems of racial violence and inequality in tangible, creative ways.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the week's top political stories, including the trial of two men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. At the 30-minute mark they are joined by Kelly Krout, a mother of seven and unexpected TikTok star running for Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich take a look at recent headlines through the lens of the Common Good.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse take an insightful, humorous and common good approach to the weeks news. top 12 political stories discussed for four minutes each.
The Common Good Immigration Tour stopped in Grand Rapids, MI to share stories from our cycling trip along the US/Mexico border. This is an abbreviated version of that event featuring talks from Dora Rodriguez of Salvavision in Sasabe, Mexico, Alma Ruth of Practice Mercy in Reynosa, Mexico, Mark Adams of Frontera De Christo in Agua Prieta, Mexico and Iliana Ponce of Lighthouse Immigration Advocates in Holland, Michigan. Also hear from author and activist Shane Claiborne, Hollywood producer Danny Strong (Dopesick, Billions), and mosaic artist Vanessa Ryerse.
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The Common Good Immigration Tour stopped in South Bend, IN to share stories from our cycling trip along the US/Mexico border. This is an abbreviated version of that event featuring talks from Dora Rodriguez of Salvavision in Sasabe, Mexico, Alma Ruth of Practice Mercy in Reynosa, Mexico, Community Organizer Jesusa Rivera of South Bend, and Juan Constantino of Le Casa De Amistad South Bend.
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Rev. Wendy Hamilton stops by the show to talk about why she is running to be Washington D.C.'s Congressional Delegate.
Rev. Wendy is an ordained minister, social justice advocate, and mother of one, who currently resides in Washington, DC. She is originally from a small town in southern Ohio (Portsmouth).
Rev. Wendy proudly received her Bachelor’s Degree from Howard University (B.S. Human Development, in 1991) and her Master's Degree from Howard University School of Divinity ( M.A. Religious Studies, 2006.) She credits her educational experiences and single motherhood as being two of the most transformative of her life.
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As the horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, millions of refugees are being welcomed into European countries. The world has rallied around the fleeing Ukrainians in a beautiful outpouring of compassion - and yet, it raises the question: why don't we treat refugees and migrants from other countries with the same level of compassion?
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Author, Pastor and LGBTQ Advocate Paula Stone Williams sits down with host Doug Pagitt to discuss the recent wave of laws targeting transgender kids and their parents.
Paula Stone Williams is an internationally-known speaker on issues of gender equity, LGBTQ advocacy, and religious tolerance. She has been featured in TEDWomen, TEDSummit, the New York Times, Red Table Talk, TEDxMileHigh, the Washington Post, NPR, Good Morning America, CNN, ABC News, and scores of other media outlets.
Paula has been a keynote speaker for hundreds of corporations, conferences, and universities around the world. Her TED talks have had over six million views. Paula’s memoir, As A Woman – What I Learned About Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy After I Transitioned was published by Simon & Schuster in June of 2021.
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Terry Esau stops by the show to talk about how and why he founded Free Bikes for Kids and then Free Guitars for Kids. Free Bikes for Kids is on track to give away 1 million bikes to under-resourced kids in the next couple years.
Terry Esau has over 10 years in the non-profit sector, having exercised his leadership as the founder of FB4K in 2010.
In addition, Terry has been instrumental in catalyzing the move from a Minnesota-only platform to the 12 US cities that FB4K currently calls home. Terry has been recognized for his societal contributions both nationally (USA Today Make A Difference award) and internationally (Guinness World Records). In his spare time, Terry is a published author and speaker on various topics, including the ‘Wellbeing of under-resourced kids in America.’ In addition to his bicycle advocacy, Terry is an avid cyclist, musician and artist.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the week's political stories including Ukraine, the Supreme Court, and the Republican's internal struggle against the Freedom Caucus.
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Resident astrophysicist, pastor, professor and birder Paul Wallace joins Doug Pagitt to talk about the 7 biggest questions about the expansion of the universe.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich take a look at recent developments in Ukraine and are joined at the 30-Minute mark by Patrick Schmidt, a former U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer running for Congress in Kansas.
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Patrick Schmidt grew up in a family deeply rooted in Kansas values shaped by six generations of farmers, miners, and teachers. While in the Navy, Patrick served on the USS RONALD REAGAN supporting the battle group’s intelligence team defending U.S. interests from China and Russia. After witnessing the January 6 Insurrection from his Washington D.C. apartment window, Patrick transitioned to the Naval Reserve and returned to Kansas to run for congress.
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As Russian tanks and troops invade our peaceful, democratic ally Ukraine, the conversation about the Christian response to war and violence moves from the theoretical to the real and urgent. David Cramer and Myles Werntz join Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich to talk about their new book: A Fieldguide to Christian Nonviolence.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Dr. Obery Hendricks Jr. to talk about his new book Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith.
Dr. Obery Hendricks, Jr, who Cornel West calls, "one of the last few grand prophetic intellectuals," is a lifelong activist and arguably the most influential African American Biblical scholar writing today.
In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’ aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news.
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the conflict in Ukraine and are joined at the 30-minute mark by Navy veteran and voting rights lawyer Chris Deluzio to hear why he is running for congress in Pennsylvania.
Chris Deluzio is a Pittsburgh native, Iraq War veteran, U.S. Naval Academy graduate, and voting rights attorney. As a lawyer, Chris worked to protect voting rights and our elections in his current role as the policy director at Pitt Cyber and previously at the Brennan Center for Justice. He was part of the Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee with the United Steelworkers, fighting successfully for a union. Chris lives with his wife, Zoe, three young children, and their dog, Yankee Doodle, in Allegheny County.
Chris received a Bachelor of Science degree with merit from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Following graduation from the Naval Academy, he was commissioned as an active-duty surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. Chris’s military service included three deployments, including a tour of duty as a U.S. Army Civil Affairs Officer in Iraq.
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The website GiveSendGo claims to be the #1 Christian Crowdfunding Site" but in reality, it is the center of funding misinformation and lies including the Truck Blockade in Canada.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Jana Riess to talk about her new book The Next Mormons: How Millennials are Changing the LDS Church and how her faith compels her to work toward the common good.
Jana Riess is a writer and editor who has focused on American religions. She earned a bachelor’s degree in religion from Wellesley College, a master’s degree in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a PhD in American Religious Studies from Columbia University. She was the religion book review editor for Publishers Weekly from 1999 to 2008. She then blogged for Beliefnet, and since 2012 writes a blog called “Flunking Sainthood” for Religion News Service.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss recent comments by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez about just how broken and dysfunctional congress really is. At the 30-minute mark, they're joined by Army Veteran Marcus Flowers who shares what motivated him to run for congress in Georgia against Marjorie Taylor Greene, and why extremism and disinformation are such a threat to America.
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"Marcus Flowers has spent his entire career defending the United States. First – he served as an active duty member of the US Army, followed by more than 20 years as a contractor or official for the State Department and Department of Defense.
Marcus has spent a decade in combat zones around the world and has worked on four continents. He has seen first hand the damage done by extremism and disinformation, and he WILL NOT let Marjorie Taylor Greene take us down the same path here in America. Her conspiracy theories may have made her famous, but they haven’t done a thing to help the people in this district."
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss recent headlines and events through the lens of the common good including the Super Bowl Halftime Show, how Covid exposed vulnerabilities in our healthcare system, and the far-right trucker convoy that shit down a US/Canada border bridge.
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Resident Astrophysicist Pastor Paul Wallace stops by the show to talk about the wild new discovery that some black holes emit massive amounts of magnetic energy. Plus, an update on the James Webb Space Telescope, how crypto currency tycoons are jacking up the price of meteorites from Mars, and more.
Paul Wallace, Ph.D is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a Ph.D in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Spoiler Alert: it's white supremacy.
Doug Pagitt sits down with author and activist Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove to discuss the recent wave of "anti-woke" protests and book-banning efforts.
A well-funded network of rightwing organizations (many of the same groups trying to make it harder to vote) is trying to use the fears white people have about the pandemic and calls for racial justice to cosolidate political power. They will say it's about "freedom" and "patriotism." They say it's about "traditional values," as they have for four decades. But it's a cynical campaign to misinform. The school board fights are a manufactured controversy to fuel America's on-going culture wars.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a celebrated spiritual writer and sought-after speaker. A native of North Carolina, he is a graduate of Eastern University and Duke Divinity School.
He lives with his family at the Rutba House, a Christian community and house of hospitality, in Durham, North Carolina. He directs School for Conversion and serves on the Steering Committee of the Poor People’s Campaign. Follow him on Twitter @wilsonhartgrove.
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Doug Pagitt talks with Jacques Berlinerblau about common misperceptions about the separation of church and state and how secularism is "the guardrail that protects democracy." His new book, Secularism: The Basics, is available now.
Jacques Berlinerblau, Ph.D, is Professor of Jewish Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Berlinerblau has published on a wide variety of issues ranging from secularism, to religion and politics, to Jewish-American fiction, to African-American and Jewish-American relations, to American higher education.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down with Dr. Annie Andrews to talk about how her work as a pediatrician and gun violence prevention activist compelled her to run for congress. In the second half of the show, Doug and Robb marvel at the RNC declaring the January 6 Insurrection, "legitimate political discourse."
Dr. Annie Andrews is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston and has been a pediatrician at MUSC since 2009. She cares for children and adolescents from all over the Lowcountry at the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. There she also developed and directed the Advocacy Curriculum for the Department of Pediatrics.
She is a gun violence prevention researcher and community advocate working to reduce the frequency of pediatric firearm injuries with a focus on secure storage counseling and gun safety education in the community. She is an active volunteer with Moms Demand Action, the largest grassroots gun violence prevention organization in the country.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with Ron Mau, Ph.D to talk about how the economy works and the ways Modern Monetary Theory doesn't line up with reality.
Dr. Ron Mau is assistant professor of economics at the University of Mississippi and is broadly interested in the impact of monetary policy on the financial sector in the United States. His work focuses on the impact of Federal Reserve asset purchases, a prominent feature of US monetary policy for the past decade, on lending rates. Asset purchases change household demand for debt-financed expenditures. His work also addresses how this interaction of monetary policy and finance affects standard macroeconomic results related to fiscal policy and asset purchases’ impact on household inequality. @MauMacroTweets
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Jane Turner, a 25-year veteran Special Agent with the FBI who exposed FBI failures in the child crime program. She is now the Director and Chair of Whistleblower Leadership Council and host of the Whistleblower of the Week Podcast on Whistleblower Network News.
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Jane Turner was a highly decorated, 25-year veteran Special Agent with the FBI. She served in the most difficult investigatory positions and was the first women named as the head of an FBI resident agency. She led the FBI’s highly successful programs combating crimes against women and child sex crime victims on North Dakota Indian Reservations. In retaliation for exposing FBI failures within its child crime program, Turner was removed from senior resident agent position.
Turner successfully fought her removal and won a historic victory for all FBI whistleblowers before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She challenged her retaliation in federal court, and won a unanimous jury verdict in her favor, obtaining the largest compensatory damage award permitted under the law for federal employees. Jane also exposed criminal theft of property at the 9/11 crime scene by a handful of FBI agents. She was harshly retaliated against for reporting these violations to the Department of Justice, Inspector General. After a ten-year battle, she prevailed, becoming only one of a small handful of FBI agents to win her cases under the FBI Whistleblower Protection Act.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with screenwriter and messaging maven Dode Levenson to talk about how his faith compels him to work toward the common good, and why giving people an "exit ramp" from ignorant beliefs is more important than feeling morally superior.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss how the Libertarian ethos has infiltrated the Republican Party and how "Covid Restrictions and Other Overreach Bring America Toward a Libertarian Moment" according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss the Joe Rogen debacle, Trump floating the idea of pardons for insurrectionists, and how misinformation is spread and weaponized.
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Astrophysicist Paul Wallace joins Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich to talk about what to do when science, doctors, and "experts" disagree. Plus, mysterious, pulsing space objects and Elon Musk's space trash hitting the moon.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Polarization is killing America. Gregg Hurwitz, bestselling author, screenwriter and political messaging consultant, sits down with host Doug Pagitt to talk about how his upbringing and work in Hollywood prepared him to work toward the common good while not vilifying those on the other side of the political spectrum.
Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times #1 internationally bestselling author of 23 thrillers including the ORPHAN X series. His novels have won numerous literary awards and have been published in 33 languages. Gregg currently serves as the Co-President of International Thriller Writers (ITW). Additionally, he’s written poetry, screenplays and television scripts for many of the major studios and networks, comics for AWA, DC, and Marvel, and political and culture pieces for The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Bulwark and others.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Simon Trautmann to talk about how his faith compelled him to run for office and fight for those on the margins of society.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse, Vote Common Good's Political Organizer, discus the latest political gaffs and headlines. Later, they are joined by Josh Remillard, the combat veteran running for congress in North Carolina against Madison Cawthorn.
Their interview starts at the 32:26 mark.
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Jon Schleuss, President of the News Guild, joins Doug Pagitt to talk about the plight of local journalism and the fight to save it.
Jon Schleuss grew up in rural Arkansas reading the morning Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the afternoon Camden News. He found his way into journalism through college radio. He became the online editor of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette at age 21, moving the paper to do more breaking news, use social media and report live election results. In 2013 he joined the Los Angeles Times as a data and graphics journalist, writing and telling innovative stories using computer programming. He taught journalism students how to code at the University of Southern California. He was part of the group that organized the Times in 2018. He ran for president of the News Guild and won in 2019. Jon lives in Washington, D.C.
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Professor Fadhel Kaboub joins Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse to talk about why inflation happens and why more spending - in strategic areas - is actually the solution.
Fadhel Kaboub, Ph.D. is President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of economics at Denison University. His research focuses on the Political Economy of the Middle East and the fiscal and monetary policy dimensions of job creation programs. He is a widely published author and his recent work has been presented at many prestigious institutions including the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School, Cornell University, Columbia University, Sorbonne University, and the National University of Singapore.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Ani Zonneveld, the president and founder of Muslims for Progressive Values, to talk about how her faith "lights that fire in the belly" to make the world a better place.
Ani Zonneveld is a writer, singer/songwriter, founder and President of Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV), an international human rights organization that advocates for social justice and equality for all, a strong supporter of freedom of expression and of conscience, women’s rights and as an ally, LGBTQ rights. Ani promotes these values at the United Nations by challenging human rights abuses in the name of Islam, and by offering an inclusive understanding based on universal human rights and justice.
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the latest political headlines including the Senate moving forward on doomed voting rights legislation, how redistricting is going to impact the mid-term elections, and Dan Crenshaw snapping at a young girl for questioning his faith.
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Astrophysicist Paul Wallace is back to educate us on the new James Webb space telescope and how it can look so deep into space it's like going back in time to the infancy of our universe.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich make the case that the death penalty is morally problematic, racially biased, and counter to the way of Jesus. And beyond that, it's just a bad idea to give the government the power to kill its own citizens - especially when for every nine people executed, one person on death row is exonerated.
Go to DeathPenaltyAction.org for more info.
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Doug Pagitt spends some time with Rabbi Or Rose of Hebrew College talking about how his Jewish faith compels him to work toward the common good.
Rabbi, writer and social activist, Or Rose is the founding director of the Center for Global Judaism at Boston’s Hebrew College, which provides educational programming and resources on issues of contemporary Jewish spirituality, Israel-Diaspora relations, religious pluralism and environmental responsibility.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the political headlines of the day and then sit down with Dr. Chris Jones, an ordained pastor and nuclear physicist, who is running for Governor of Arkansas against Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich talk with Shari Draayer on the 46th day of her hunger strike for voting rights legislation. Shari is calling on the Senate to get rid of the filibuster and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. You can find Shari on Facebook here or drop her an email of encouragement at shari.draayer@eastern.edu
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss an excerpt from Stephanie Kelton's The Deficit Myth which explains how federal taxes, budgets, and spending are completely different from the state, local, or household level.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse look back at the January 6 insurrection, discussing who was involved, who was responsible, and where we are now.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Rev. Rob Schenck, President of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute, to talk about his conversion from a "Reagan Religious Right Christianity" to a more Christ-centered faith serving those Jesus called us to love and resisting the Christian Nationalism movement within the Evangelical world.
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Doug Pagitt and Vote Common Good's Political Organizer Robb Ryerse discuss the Republican stranglehold on state legislatures and what Democrats can do about it. Plus, the difference between horrible behavior and criminal behavior and why 4.5 million Americans quit their jobs in November.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse talk about the breaking news that Trump's advisors had planned an insurrection INSIDE the capitol codenamed the Green Bay Sweep which, according to Trump's Director of Trade Peter Navarro, involved 100 members of Congress acting as "blockers" for "quarterback" Mike Pence.
Robb Ryerse gives us his Top Ten Political Stories of 2021 and Doug Pagitt makes a few predictions for 2022.
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Doug Pagitt, Stephany Rose Spaulding, Laura Truax and Dominique Gilliard close out this season of Common Good Faith by reflecting on the meaning of Advent and Christmas.
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s new book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege was released in August of 2021 to rave reviews.
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Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
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Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
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Doug Pagitt and Vote Common Good's Political Organizer Robb Ryerse talk about Joe Manchin's "real reason" for sinking the Build Back Better Act, Biden's Covid response, and more.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich take a look at the week's headlines: Manchin Sinks Build Back Better, Omicron Surges, Why Comparisons to the Civil War are Unfounded, and a Teacher Feeds 5,000 Students.
Economics Professor Fadhel Kaboub takes us to school and explains inflation: what actually causes it and how to reign it in. Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss the common good implications. Follow Fadhel on Twitter @FadhelKaboub
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with Dora Rodriguez who was just 19 when she fled El Salvador's civil war in search of a better life in the US. She survived the brutal journey, but many in her group died in the Arizona Desert. Now decades later, Dora is helping migrant families and calling for more compassionate border practices and immigration reform.
You can contribute to Dora's work at Salvavision.org
Watch Dora's Story here: https://youtu.be/8r4E3r1kuWg
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the bombshell text messages to Trump's Chief of Staff during the January 6 Insurrection from Fox News hosts, Don Jr. and more.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich take a look at recent headlines and current events through a Common Good lens. This week they talk about the new Beatles documentary series, the heartbreaking destruction from tornadoes in Kentucky, and Trump's paper trail of treason - a Power Point slide deck outlining a plan to overturn the 2020 election results.
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It's the conclusion of Ride Week - a look back at the We The People Ride for Common Good Border and Immigration Reform. Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss action steps we can all take to change the conversation and change our border practices.
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Why cycle across the country? Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss the effectiveness of "active activism" and are joined later in the show by Rickey Gates, who ran across the continental US after Trump won the 2016 election. You can find his book, Cross Country: a 3,700 mile Run to Explore Unseen America here. Watch the documentary from his 5-month run, Transamericana, for free here.
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The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss how Border Patrol offloads asylum seekers to churches and non-profs instead of providing any level of support to those awaiting asylum hearings. Later in the hour, they are joined by Alma Ruth of Practice Mercy, a faith-based non-profit serving vulnerable women and children at the US/Mexico border.
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The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the political quagmire of immigration policy in America, and what can be done to make it more just, humane, and welcoming.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich kick off Ride Week, a recap of the We The People Ride for Border Policy and Immigration Reform. They talk training tips for a cross-country cycling trip (spoiler alert: it's more doable than you'd think), why having the right bike seat is critical, and the surprising kindness of strangers along the journey. You'll also hear the motivation behind the ride: telling the stories of people like Dora, who survived a traumatic crossing into the U.S. after fleeing civil war and almost certain death in El Salvador.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Vote Common Good's Political Organizer, Robb Ryerse and Producer Dan discuss the week's political headlines including Rep. Boebert's islamophobic attacks on Rep. Omar, Dr. Fauci claps back against anti-science Republicans, Chris Cuomo's attempt to use his media sources to dig up dirt on his brother's accusers, and more.
Robb Ryerse is the Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich wade through the week's political headlines, paying close attention to the continued rise in violent imagery and rhetoric from Republican members of Congress.
Rep. Paul Gosar is censured for posting violent cartoons of him attacking AOC, Rep. Fred Upton on the receiving end of death threats for voting for the Infrastructure Bill, and tips on how to boldly and gracefully speak out against racism at Thanksgiving.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Robb Ryerse, Vote Common Good's political director, talks about the news of the day, including a disturbing weekend of white Christian nationalism on display as Mike Flynn calls for "one nation, one religion, under God."
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Hosts Stephany Spaulding, Laura Truax and Dan Deitrich sit down with Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis to talk about her new book, Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World.
Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
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Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
@drstephanyrose // facebook.com/stephanyrose
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Robb Ryerse takes a look at what a Republican win in Virginia's gubernatorial race and Biden's win passing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill might mean for next year's midterm elections.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Is history repeating itself? Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss how President Biden has backtracked on his promise to forgive student loans and the similarities with Bush breaking his promise to not raise taxes in 1988. Could this cost Biden the next election?
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's political headlines through the lens of the common good.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the 10-point plan put forward by a group of GOP governors to address the crisis at the border. Dan contrasts their alarmist view with his experience in migrant shelters and border towns during his time on the We The People Ride.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Author and speaker Danté Stewart sits down with our Common Good Faith hosts to talk about his new book, "Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle" which reimagines the spiritual virtues of rage, resilience, and remembrance.
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Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021.
@DDGilliard // facebook.com/dominique.dg.7
Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
@revtruax // facebook.com/laura.truax1
Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
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The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's political headlines through the lens of the Common Good.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Laura Truax, Dominique Gilliard, and Dan Deitrich are joined by pastor and author David Swanson to talk about his book Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity.
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Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021.
@DDGilliard // facebook.com/dominique.dg.7
Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
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The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich compare and contrast how each of the living former and current presidents observed the 20 year anniversary of the September 11 attacks, plus discuss Biden's Covid Testing Mandate and the GOP's new battlefield: local school boards.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Monday our country celebrated Labor Day, but many don't know or understand the history and meaning of this holiday. Stephany, Laura and Dominique discuss labor, essential workers, justice, and how many have tried to sanitize the radical, liberating message of Jesus.
Dominique recommended "Stockton on My Mind" as a resource.
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021.
@DDGilliard // facebook.com/dominique.dg.7
Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
@revtruax // facebook.com/laura.truax1
Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
@drstephanyrose // facebook.com/stephanyrose
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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California is set to vote on whether or not to recall Governor Gavin Newsom on September 14. Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse are joined by Paul Swearengin in California to discuss.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Our panel of pastors discuss the We The People Ride and the need for immigration reform.
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021.
@DDGilliard // facebook.com/dominique.dg.7
Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
@revtruax // facebook.com/laura.truax1
Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
@drstephanyrose // facebook.com/stephanyrose
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the disturbing remarks made by Congressman Madison Cawthorn defending Jan 6 insurrectionists as "political prisoners" plus the curious case of the missing lawyer defending said insurrectionists.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss the week's headlines through the lens of the Common Good.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt, Shane Claiborne, Robb Ryerse, Rabbi Joseph Edelheit respond to President Biden using the Bible passage, "Here am I, Lord, send me" in reference to military.
Doug, Stephany and Laura celebrate and discuss the launch of co-host Dominique Gilliard's new book Subversive Witness: Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege.
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.”
Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege was released on August 24, 2021.
@DDGilliard // facebook.com/dominique.dg.7
Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
@drstephanyrose // facebook.com/stephanyrose
Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss Andrew Cuomo's fall from grace and why Democrats seem willing to hold their own team accountable while Republicans tend to turn a blind eye to sexual misconduct allegations - Matt Gaetz for example.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich do the weekly Common Good News Roundup.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Astrophysicist Paul Wallace continue our journey through the solar system with Uranus and Neptune.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director of Vote Common Good and is a pastor, author, and social activist.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Tristan Guyette and Calvin Ryerse of Beyond the Bomb to talk about the movement to rid the world of nuclear violence. Some of the goals of Beyond The Bomb include:
- Adopt No-First-Use: A binding agreement by nuclear-armed states to never use nuclear weapons first would be a critical step toward preventing a disastrous nuclear exchange and pave the way to deep reductions in these arsenals. This can and should begin in the United States, which has no need to rely on the first use of nuclear weapons in any conflict.
- End Sole Authority: No single person should have the power to start a nuclear war that kills millions of people. In these alarming times, we fiercely champion emergency legislation that will restrain the President’s absolute power to use nuclear weapons, like the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act.
- Block A $1.7 Trillion Nuclear Spending Spree: America should focus on funding education, healthcare, and infrastructure — not investing $1.7 trillion in nuclear weapons, which only serve to perpetuate the status quo.
- Increase Superfund Support: The US government must prioritize funding the cleanup of toxic waste left from decades of nuclear weapons production and testing, which does devastating harm to Americans and the environment.
- Enact Restorative Nuclear Justice: Vulnerable communities at home and abroad still suffer from the long-term impacts of the nuclear system and deserve recognition, justice, and reparations.
More info at BeyondTheBomb.org
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Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich chat with co-host Dominique Gilliard about his work as Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. Next week, with the full panel of co-hosts, we'll be celebrating and discussing the launch of Domonique's new book, Subversive Witness.
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021.
@DDGilliard // facebook.com/dominique.dg.7
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the political ramifications of the fall of Afghanistan as well as the parallels between fundamentalist christian factions and the splintering far-right MAGA groups. "Fundamentalism isn't what you believe, it's how you hold those beliefs."
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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In this sobering Monday news roundup, Doug and Dan look for a Common Good response to the tragedies unfolding in Haiti, Afghanistan and here in the U.S.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug and Dan discuss Covid, climate change, the resignation of Govorner Cuomo, the Closing Ceremonies of the Olympics, and more.
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The word 'love' gets thrown around a lot - we use it to describe how we feel about everything from our children to our favorite pair of shoes. But what does Love in the Christian tradition really look like? How do we live it out in our families and communities? Our panel of pastors discuss this and more on today's show.
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021.
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Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
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Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
@drstephanyrose // facebook.com/stephanyrose
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Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Astrophysicist Paul Wallace and Doug Pagitt talk about the amazing nature of Saturn and what it means for understanding earth and our lives.
Our regular Wednesday Panel of Pastors Stephany Spaulding, Laura Truax, Domonique Gilliard, Doug Pagitt talk about the power of and alternatives to "Toxic Masculinity" in our culture and in faith communities.
Doug Pagitt is on location at the US-Mexico border meeting with leaders and organizations working with migrant families and asylum seekers in preparation for our cross-country border ride. Whether you're a cyclist or not, visit WeThePeopleRide.org for details on how you can get involved.
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Dominique, Stephany and Laura sit down with author Melissa Florer-Bixler to talk about her new book How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace.
Melissa is the pastor of Raleigh Mennonite Church, and a graduate of Duke University and Princeton Theological Seminary. She spent times studying in Israel/Palestine, Kenya, and England. Much of her formation took place in the L'Arche community of Portland, OR. Now she prefers the Eno River and her garden in Raleigh, NC where she and her spouse parent three children. Melissa's writing has appeared in Christian Century, Sojourners, Geez, Anabaptist Witness, The Bias, Faith&Leadership, and Anabaptist Vision. Her first book, Fire by Night: Finding God in the Pages of the Old Testament came out in 2019.
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Additional Resources:
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My Anger, God's Righteous Indignation / Willie Jennings (Response to the Death of George Floyd)
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021.
@DDGilliard // facebook.com/dominique.dg.7
Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
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Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich recap the week's political headlines and are joined later in the show by Julie Oliver, Executive Director of Ground Game Texas. Could Texas really turn Blue?
Julie Oliver is a healthcare finance expert who ran two aspirational, 100% PAC-free campaigns for the US House of Representatives in Texas’ 25th congressional district. In addition to her role as Executive Director of Ground Game Texas, Julie serves her community by volunteering weekly at a local food bank and in a volunteer board position for DivInc and has two decades of healthcare finance and tax law experience. She received an undergraduate degree in Accounting from UT Arlington and a law degree from UT School of Law, and lives in Austin with her husband, Matt, five cats, a dog, and their kids.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
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Doug Pagitt and resident Economics Professor Fadhel Kaboub discuss the real function of taxes at the Federal level and why so many leaders and politicians get it wrong.
Fadhel Kaboub, Ph.D. is President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of economics at Denison University. His research focuses on the Political Economy of the Middle East and the fiscal and monetary policy dimensions of job creation programs. He is a widely published author and his recent work has been presented at many prestigious institutions including the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School, Cornell University, Columbia University, Sorbonne University, and the National University of Singapore.
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Doug Pagitt sits down with author, artist, filmmaker and provocateur Frank Schaeffer to talk about surviving fundamentalism, the scientific case for empathy, and his upcoming book Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy.
Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books. Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed writer who overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and self-taught documentary movie director, a feature film director of four low budget Hollywood features Frank has described as “pretty terrible.” He is also an acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction and an artist with a loyal following of international collectors who own many of his paintings.
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Hosts Rev. Dr. Stephany Spaulding, Dominique Gilliard, and Doug Pagitt discuss how to avoid burnout and grow spiritually while doing public activism.
Resources: Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
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Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021.
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Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
@drstephanyrose // facebook.com/stephanyrose
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The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down with Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan to talk common good politics.
U.S. Representative Chrissy Houlahan is an Air Force veteran, engineer, entrepreneur, and educator who is continuing her career of service as the first woman ever to represent Pennsylvania's 6th District in Congress.
Chrissy is the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors who came to America with nothing. She grew up in a military family; her parents met when her father and grandfather flew P3s in the same Navy squadron. She earned her engineering degree from Stanford with an ROTC scholarship that launched her service in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserves, and later earned her M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT.
Chrissy has helped lead several thriving Southeastern Pennsylvania companies including AND1, a basketball apparel company headquartered in Paoli, and B Lab, the organization that launched the B Corporation movement. She went on to serve in Teach for America as a chemistry teacher at Simon Gratz High School in North Philadelphia, and then led and scaled a non-profit helping thousands of underserved students all across America build their literacy skills.
These experiences helped shape her political vision of a great nation united by common values that leaves no one behind. She is committed to fighting for access to quality, affordable healthcare, common sense gun safety, government accountability and transparency, and working to build a strong, stable economy with good jobs and good benefits for everyone
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich take a look at the week's headlines through the lens of the Common Good. Topics include wildfires, mudslides, climate change, Long Covid, and the flying squirrels that captured the heart of Nicholas Cage.
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As vaccination rates stall and the Delta Variant continues to spread, Doug and Dan revisit a conversation with Dr. Erin Wise, MD about vaccine hesitancy that originally aired May 7, 2021.
Erin Wise, MD is an Internal Medicine and Pediatric Hospitalist. She originally hails from Indiana where she completed medical school and residency at Indiana University School of Medicine. One of the great joys of her job is to be able to take care of patients of all ages, from newborns to the elderly and everything in between. When not roaming the halls of the hospital, she can most often be found spending time with her husband and 4 amazing kids.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. H writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich talk about the broken immigration system and why Vote Common Good is committed to changing the conversation around immigration and border practices. While immigration is foundational, it remains one of the most fraught social and political issues in our country. Who can enter this country, who can work here, who can create a family here, and who can become Americans are questions that continue to roil our politics.
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the mob that disrupted Rep. Katie Porter's town hall, voting rights in Texas, 60 years of failed sanctions against Cuba, and more.
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Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
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Laura, Dominique and Doug sit down with poet-priest Malcolm Guite to talk about the intersections of poetry, lament, and justice as well as his new book, David's Crown: A Poetic Companion to the Psalms.
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Malcolm Guite is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. Born in Nigeria to British expatriate parents, Guite earned degrees from Cambridge and Durham universities. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, and the examination of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and British poets. He is currently a Bye-Fellow and chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge and associate chaplain of St Edward King and Martyr in Cambridge. Guite is the author of five books of poetry, including two chapbooks and three full-length collections, as well as several books on Christian faith and theology. Guite has a decisively simple, formalist style in poems, many of which are sonnets, and he stated that his aim is to "be profound without ceasing to be beautiful". Guite performs as a singer and guitarist fronting the Cambridgeshire-based blues, rhythm and blues, and rock band "Mystery Train".
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021.
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Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
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Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich deliver the weekly News Roundup, including turmoil in Cuba, the assassination of Haiti's president, the first billionaire to reach space, and more.
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Today Doug and Dan discuss an interview from C-SPAN of Rep. John Yarmouth explaining how spending at the federal level actually works.
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Doug Pagitt and Producer Dan recap the week's headlines searching for some common good news.
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Origin Stories. Future Stories. How do we tell a story of our own lives, and our nation's life that is accurate, and compelling. With our four faith leaders Laura Truax, Stephany Rose Spaulding, Dominique Gilliard, and Doug Pagitt.
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021.
@DDGilliard // facebook.com/dominique.dg.7
Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
@revtruax // facebook.com/laura.truax1
Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse just can't get over the January 6th Insurrection - and think you shouldn't either. They discuss the six-month anniversary of that infamous day and are joined later in the show by Erica Smith who is running for Senate in North Carolina.
An educator, a minister, a State Senator and a mother of four, Erica Smith has spent her life fighting for working people across North Carolina. Having grown up on a family farm and represented rural North Carolina in the state senate, Erica’s passionate about uniting a diverse coalition of working North Carolinians behind a bold platform for progress. She wants a government that works for all of us instead of just the wealthy and well-connected. Erica’s fighting to build a North Carolina where it doesn’t matter if you’re white, black or brown, whether you were born in the rural west, the rural east or any of the towns and cities in between.
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Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
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Christian leaders from around the country read the words of Frederick Douglass from his speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” originally given on July 5th 1852.
Readers include Lisa Sharon Harper, Rev. Dr. Michael Waters, Alex Mack, Shane Claiborne, Bishop Patricia Davenport, Rev. Sharon Risher, Pastor Jonny Rashid, Rob Schenck, Dave Gibbons, Doug Pagitt, Rev. Wayne Croft, Pastor Jonathan Brooks, Diana Oestreich, Elaina Ramsey, Rev. Dr. Malcolm Byrd, Lindsey Pruett-Hornbaker, Pastor Cean James, Rev. Glencie Rhedrick, Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, Rev. Dr. Donna Jones, Art Hooker, Pastor Mike McBride, Rev. Terrance M. McKinley, and Kimberly K-Lee Johnson.
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Doug Pagitt and resident astrophysicist Paul Wallace discuss the new billionaire space race, the little known Russian mission to Venus, the Pluto planet debate, and more.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich take a look a the week's headlines from a Common Good perspective and Doug challenges listeners to stop fighting strawmen and engage with the most honest, robust argument of the opposing side instead.
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Our hosts, Laura Truax and Stephany Spaulding sit down with Julie Rodgers to talk about her new book, "Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story" as well as her upcoming Netflix film, Pray Away.
Julie Rodgers is the author of Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story. She played a significant role in shutting down Exodus International, the largest conversion therapy organization in the world, and she was the first openly gay person to be hired by an evangelical Christian college. She is featured in Pray Away (2020), a documentary about the movement to "pray the gay away." Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time. If you’re into queer reflections on faith, public life, and chosen family, then subscribe to her newsletter Reimagining Belonging.
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Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
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Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
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Vote Common Good's Political Organizer Robb Ryerse and Producer Dan discuss the week's headlines and lament that Trump still holds sway over the Republican Party - though some of his supporters are getting bored.
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The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
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Doug Pagitt is joined by filmmaker and activist Laura Peniche and Nanci Palacios of Faith in Florida to talk about the Fasting For Freedom initiative. Both Laura and Nanci are DACA recipients and are leading the effort to make DACA permanent and provide a pathway to citizenship.
Faith leaders and directly impacted immigrants are holding the #WeAreEssential Fast for Freedom to shine a spotlight on our nation’s moral obligation to fully and finally include our immigrant siblings as part of the American family.
Several dozen fasters are gathering in stages for at least 3 weeks to encourage Congress to utilize the jobs and infrastructure package and budget reconciliation to codify a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented community members – many of whom have kept our families and our economy functioning as essential workers during the pandemic.
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Originally from Puebla, Mexico, Laura Peniche is an undocumented storyteller, based in Colorado. Her documentary film debut: “No One Shall Be Called Illegal” showcased at the Denver International Starz Film Festival(2011); and she was a key producer in the documentary film: “Five Dreamers”(2018) which has continuously aired on Rocky Mountain and National PBS since its release. Laura has worked as project manager for Motus Theater's UndocuAmerica Project, and actively shared her own immigrant experience on local and national stages as a Motus Theater UndocuAmerica Monologist. Since 2016, she has also been a leader with Together Colorado's immigration committee, doing grassroots organizing with multi-faith leaders. She is also currently Hotline Manager for the Colorado Immigrants Rights Coalition.
Nanci Palacios is a DACA recipient and Lead Community Organizer with Faith in Florida. Nanci has seen fears rise in immigrant communities as local sheriffs have upped arrests and detentions to help federal immigration agents deport immigrants.
Doug Pagitt sits down with author, pastor and therapist Paula Stone Williams about her new book “As A Woman - What I learned about Power, Sex and the Patriarchy After I Transitioned.” In her book and this interview she talks openly and honestly about her her personal journey and what others in the transgender community experience in our society.
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Today we revisit a conversation on the Christian Case for Reparations that aired April 8, 2021. Stephanie, Laura, Dominique and Doug discuss how our Christian faith compels us to not just repent, but to also make amends - reparations - for America's original sins of slavery and land theft.
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Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege will be released on August 24, 2021.
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Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
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Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
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The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the week's politics and politics-adjacent headlines, including Catholic Bishops voting to withhold communion for President Biden, the civil war within the Evangelical world, Trump losing to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a recent straw poll, and how at least one convicted insurrectionist is learning American history for the first time.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt offers a pathway forward out of Cancel Culture.
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What exactly is cryptocurrency and how does it impact our economy? Economics Professor Fadhel Kaboub helps us understand the sometimes confusing world of Crypto, the surprising environmental impact of Bitcoin mining, and why we should be skeptical that the same folks who tanked the economy in 2008 are now champions of cryptocurrency.
Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky brilliantly explains Modern Monetary Theory.
Fadhel Kaboub, Ph.D. is President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of economics at Denison University. His research focuses on the Political Economy of the Middle East and the fiscal and monetary policy dimensions of job creation programs. He is a widely published author and his recent work has been presented at many prestigious institutions including the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School, Cornell University, Columbia University, Sorbonne University, and the National University of Singapore.
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An insurance company insider speaks out on how corporate PR is killing health care and deceiving Americans. Wendell Potter is a self-described "reformed insurance propagandist" who left the industry after blowing the whistle on shady insurance company tactics. He and host Doug Pagitt discuss a the challenges of reforming the deeply flawed American health care system. "It's a David vs Goliath battle, but David can win."
Wendell Potter is the President of the Center for Health and Democracy.
After seeing firsthand how strategic PR and lobbying is used unfairly to tilt the scales toward corporate interests against the people’s interests, Wendell left his corporate career to advocate for meaningful health care reform. He made headlines in 2009 when he disclosed in Congressional testimony how insurance companies, as part of their efforts to boost profits, have contributed to spiraling health care costs and the growing number of Americans without health insurance. He also revealed how insurance companies use their customers’ premiums to wage multi-million dollar PR and lobbying campaigns to influence public opinion and public policy. Since then, he has spoken at more than 200 public forums and authored the award-winning book, Deadly Spin, An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans.
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Today we look at the history of Juneteenth and how being truthful about our past is the only way to build a better future. To that end, Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose gives us a preview of the Truth and Conciliation Summit that she is hosting this week. She is joined by Doug Pagitt, Dominique Gilliard, and Dr. Dena Samuels who is one of the presenters at the summit.
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Dena Samuels, PhD, serves as a mindfulness-based diversity, equity, and inclusion author, speaker, leadership trainer, and consultant. As an award-winning tenured professor, Dr. Samuels taught at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs for 20 years while consulting around the U.S. and beyond. She now consults full-time on mindful, inclusive leadership development, and remains on faculty at the university. She has authored several books and many other publications. Her latest book, “The Mindfulness Effect: an unexpected path to healing, connection, and social justice,” offers 25 mindfulness practices for health/wellness, self-empowerment, culturally inclusive leadership development, social justice and environmental justice.
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021.
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Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, associate professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) and former U.S. Senate candidate for the state of Colorado. She holds a B.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a M.A. in American Literature and a Ph. D. in American Studies both from Purdue University. She is the author of Recovering from Racism: A Guidebook to Beginning Conversations (2015) and Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crisis in Whiteness (2014).
@drstephanyrose // facebook.com/stephanyrose
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The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss President Biden's trip to the G7 Summit, the work to hold domestic extremists accountable, and how the Tea Party paved the way for the MAGA Movement.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Doug Pagitt takes a look at the week's headlines, including why we can't move on from the January 6th insurrection until there is true accountability.
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