Hope In Tension: Recent Episodes
Sam Calhoun
Exploring the tensions and joys of faithful living with curiosity and hope. But also not too seriously šāāļø
This episode is the second of two parts of my conversation with Dan Saxton. He is on staff at a summer camp in Pennsylvania, is a middle school basketball coach, and sat front row at over 30 Penn State football games when he was in college.
In the second part of our conversation, we discuss the concept of lament in various forms, from his and his wifeās experience with multiple miscarriages and family loss, along with resources and practices that they both found helpful over the past few years and how people can effectively love those in their lives going through miscarriage.
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This episode is the first of two parts of my conversation with Dan Saxton. He is on staff at a summer camp in Pennsylvania, is a middle school basketball coach, and has been to every US state except for North Dakota. Sorry, North Dakota.
In the first part of our conversation, we hear more about his journey from engineering to working at a summer camp, how technology impacts our outlook on life, and also the key differences and common threads that campers and counselors are experiencing now vs. when he first started working at camp.
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This episode is the second of two parts of my conversation with Ethan Magness. He is a pastor in Pennsylvania, loves the story of Les Miserables, and has memorized every single Office episode.
In the second part of our conversation, we discuss potential ramifications of our current cultural moment, common misconceptions about Christian theology, and how the idea of absolution makes both the left and the right upset.
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This episode is the first of two parts of my conversation with Ethan Magness. He is a pastor in Pennsylvania, loves the story of Les Miserables, and used to design tattoos in college.
In the first part of our conversation, we discuss the nature of political and religious discourse in America, deconstruction, and the philosophical ideas that play into them with the common thread of āgrace in an age of rageā upending all that we understand about our current environment.
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This episode is the second of two parts of my conversation with Schuyler Kitchin. He is a musician and college ministry leader who just absolutely rocks a moustache.
In the second part of our conversation, we talk about how his faith went through a complete overhaul for the better, enneagram hot takes, and how he thinks people who listen to podcasts are nerds. Sorry.
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This episode is the first of two parts of my conversation with Schuyler Kitchin. He is a musician and college ministry leader who, even though he was born and raised in Maryland, he didnāt start using Old Bay until he moved to Pennsylvania later in life.
In the first part of our conversation, we talk about his unlikely journey into music and how he has learned to process difficult life moments over time.
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This episode is the second of two parts of my conversation with Kim Gendron. She is a good friend of mine from college, is a huge follower of K-pop and K-dramas, and is a Boston sports fan through and through, but we'll forgive her.
In the second part of our conversation, we work to find the difference between liking a culture and engaging with it, discuss her journey to connect with her birth parents, and reflect on our collegeās boardās recent stance on shying away from engaging in racial reconciliation conversations.
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This episode is the first of two parts of my conversation with Kim Gendron. She is a good friend of mine from college, is a huge fan of K-pop and K-dramas, and is pursuing her masterās degree in social work.
In the first part of our conversation, in addition to Vine hot takes, we dive into her experience as a Korean-American adoptee and how her perspective on her heritage has changed over time. We also explore how the Christian spaces she grew up in impacted her and how her faith informs how she reflects on who she is and her experiences in those spaces.
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This episode features the third part of my 3-part conversation with Jackson Clemmer. He was my freshman roommate in college and is currently a youth pastor in Tennessee. Heās incredibly wise and thoughtful and has experienced his own share of life obstacles.Ā
In this episode, we dive deeper into his transition to marriage, the importance of grace in that, and the philosophical basis on how to become the person who truly wants to do the dishes. We also continue our conversations on expectations and friendships that were started in previous episodes.Ā
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This episode features the second part of my 3-part conversation with Jackson Clemmer. He was my freshman roommate in college and is currently a youth pastor in Tennessee. Heās incredibly wise and thoughtful and has experienced his own share of life obstacles.Ā
In this episode, Jackson and I discuss how to create lasting, meaningful community as an adult, specifically after growing up with community more or less handed to us through school. We then circle back on how to cope with unmet expectations and how our lives can end up being fuller and richer once we let go of potential realities that we thought we wanted.
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This episode features the first part of my three-part conversation with Jackson Clemmer. He is currently a youth pastor in Tennessee and was my freshman roommate in college. We became good friends through a difficult breakup I went through at the beginning of college. Heās incredibly wise and thoughtful and has experienced his own share of life obstacles.
In this first episode, we discuss life pivots and how to faithfully approach making a transition that you didnāt anticipate to happen, while also seeing them as the gateways to good situations that we didnāt realize could exist. We then dive into how his perspective on sanctification has shifted over the years, along with his experience with anxiety and burnout.
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Annaliese Allen is an artist and founder of Discovering Authenticity, which is an organization that seeks to help people discover their authentic selves through a guided creative journey. She has lived all over the world, experienced intense relational trauma, and is driven to create spaces for people to heal from their own traumas through art.
In the first part of my conversation with Annaliese, we explore her business, Discovering Authenticity, which guides individuals to a greater understanding of themselves through a creative journey. We also wrestle with the relationship between truth an beauty, and how one's worldview interacts with that question.
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Annaliese Allen is an artist and founder of Discovering Authenticity, which is an organization that seeks to help people discover their authentic selves through a guided creative journey. She has lived all over the world, experienced intense relational trauma, and is driven to create spaces for people to heal from their own traumas through art.
In the first part of my conversation with Annaliese, we explore what it's like to live in different cultures, how to date well, and how to heal from unhealthy relationships.
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Ross Harrington has experienced more life lessons than anyone I know in their mid-20s. Between heading up the US branch of an Australian tech company, a cross-country move from the midwest to Colorado, and a challenging divorce in his early 20s, Ross is able to empathize and speak more to the challenges of life than most people twice his age.
In the second part of my conversation with Ross, we discuss his divorce and how he was able to process that with hope and ultimately grow from such a challenging situation.
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Ross Harrington has experienced more life lessons than anyone I know in their mid-20s. Between heading up the US branch of an Australian tech company, a cross-country move from the midwest to Colorado, and a challenging divorce in his early 20s, Ross is able to empathize and speak more to the challenges of life than most people twice his age.
In the first part of my conversation with Ross, we explore his entrepreneurial journey, particularly in how to approach life with a spirit of failing forward and how to grow through life situations that don't turn out the way we want them to.
Intro Music: Glass House by UTAH
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