Peace Talks
36 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhat does love look like in action? Tune in to “Peace Talks,” brave conversations hosted by Vanessa Sadler and others, to meet leading activists and practitioners who are modeling exceptional work in the areas of justice and peace.
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Recap & Reconnect: Steve Prince
April 18, 2024 17:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBBishop Todd Hunter and Director of Content and Community Katie Haseltine recap our recent interview with Steve Prince. Stick around after their conversation for a contemplative meditation led by Peace Talks host Vanessa Sadler as a way to reconnect your heart to God's. Support the show
Steve Prince
April 11, 2024 18:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBIn this compelling interview with artist Steve A. Prince, guest host Suzie Lind explores how the Scriptures shape art and love infuses it. Prince is a joyful storyteller and "the first recipient of the gift of [his] art." Find out why. Steve A. Prince is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and he currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is the Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Muscarelle Museum at William and Mary. Prince received his BFA from Xavier...
Recap & Reconnect: Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries
April 05, 2024 14:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBBishop Todd Hunter and Director of Content and Community Katie Haseltine recap our recent interview with Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries. Stick around after their conversation for a contemplative meditation led by Peace Talks host Vanessa Sadler on 1 Corinthians 13, as a way to reconnect your heart to God's. Support the show
Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries
March 28, 2024 19:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBPeace Talks continues exploring the role of art in faith and life with this tender and encouraging interview with Leslie Roberts and Bryanna Russell from Sanctuary Mental Health MInistries (an organization that equips the Church to support mental health and wellbeing). Leslie and Bryanna share with Vanessa why they've chosen to use art as a medium to give permission, belonging, and support to those struggling with mental health challenges. They also describe the formation, justice, and peac...
Recap & Reconnect: Dr. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
March 21, 2024 17:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBBishop Todd Hunter and Director of Content and Community Katie Haseltine recap our recent interview with Dr. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt. Stick around after their conversation for a contemplative meditation led by Peace Talks host Vanessa Sadler on Galatians 5:22-23, as a way to reconnect your heart to God's. Support the show
Dr. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
March 14, 2024 19:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBWe are honored to bring you the next episode in our series with prophetic voices in the visual arts, music, and poetry. Dr. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt challenged how we see things, offered a new way to take in images, and connected all of it to our theology of creation. You don't want to miss this incredible conversation! Dr. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt is an Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and a Little Endowed Scholar. She received he...
Laura James
February 15, 2024 22:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBPeace Talks Season Seven kicks off with a fascinating conversation with artist Laura James. Vanessa and Laura discuss what it means for art— and Jesus—to be accessible, how art can help us personalize Jesus, and why "art for the people" is a meaningful category. Whether you consider yourself "artistic" or not, this conversation is for you. Laura James has been working as a professional artist and illustrator for over twenty years. In addition to painting sacred images from various religions...
J.S. Park
November 22, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBPeace Talks is honored to present this conversation between host Vanessa Sadler and J.S. Park. Part memoir, part manual on grief, and all heart, J.S. (Joon) offers a glimpse into his life as the son of Korean immigrants, as a hospital chaplain at a Level 1 Trauma Center, and as a father. Join us for this tender exploration of how to show up to our own and others' grief. J. S. Park is a hospital chaplain, published author, viral blogger, and teaching pastor. He has spent the past six years ...
Barbara Peacock
October 27, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBVanessa's interview with Dr. Barbara L. Peacock is quite simply a delight. Even as they discuss the most difficult issues facing Christians today, Barbara brings us back to Jesus and joy. You will be challenged and encouraged in equal measure. Dr. Barbara L. Peacock is the award-winning author of Soul Care in African American Practice. She received the Award of Merit from Christianity Today, and the Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture and Dallas Willard Award (MIDWC) announced Sou...
Kaitlin Curtice
October 09, 2023 21:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBOur interview with Kaitlin Curtice is like a good conversation with a friend. Kaitlin shares her journey to create spaces of healing care that balance fierce truthtelling and gentleness. She also offers comforting wisdom on how to navigate liminal spaces. Join us for this inviting conversation! Kaitlin Curtice is an award-winning author, poet-storyteller, and public speaker. As an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi nation, Kaitlin writes on the intersections of spirituality and identity and...
Eugene Cho
September 20, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBIn this wide-ranging Peace Talks interview, Rev. Eugene Cho warns against being a one-song karaoke monster as an activist and offers the simple practice of sharing a meal as the precursor to hard conversations. He also laments using the words jerk and overrated in his book titles. Find out why. Eugene is President/CEO of Bread for the World, a Christian advocacy organization urging U.S. decision makers to do all they can to pursue a world without hunger. Eugene co-chairs the U.S. Nutrition...
Cindy S. Lee
August 31, 2023 17:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBPeace Talks is honored to bring you this thoughtful and important conversation with Cindy S. Lee, author of Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation. Lee unveils what we miss when we choose to see spiritual formation from only one angle. She also describes what healthy—and unhealthy—unforming looks like and explains that the spiritual formation world has always been diverse—we just didn't see it for what it always was. And Vanessa and Cindy talk a lot about doors. Find out why! Ci...
Lisa Sharon Harper
August 10, 2023 17:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBPeace Talks Season 6 Debuts with an Interview with Lisa Sharon Harper and a New Format! Lisa Sharon Harper is a prolific speaker, author, and activist and the founder and president of FreedomRoad.us. Ms. Harper is the author of several books, including The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong can be Made Right (2016) and Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World (2022). A columnist at Sojourners Magazine and an Auburn Theological Seminary Senior Fellow, Ms.Harper has appeared on ...
Shane Claiborne
June 09, 2023 13:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBPeace Talks is honored to bring you this thought-provoking interview with Shane Claiborne. Every question and answer came down to some version of "Will we believe what Jesus said and act as Jesus did?" This episode will challenge you and inspire you. 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 li...
Dan Allender + Linda Royster
May 18, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBPeace Talks is honored to welcome Linda Royster and Dan Allender to the show! Our wide-ranging conversation covered trauma as alienation from self, racism as a projection of unhealed wounds, epigentics as legacy and so much more. Don't miss this tender and thoughtful hour. Linda Royster has been called to traumatized populations since 1997. Linda holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology Graduate School and is a Licensed Clinical Ment...
Jemar Tisby
April 20, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBJemar Tisby left it all on the floor in this Peace Talks interview. The list of topics covered is long and fascinating: The lack of attention to racial issues is spiritual malformation Post-2020, racial awareness is crucial but not enough Racial justice is a way of life, not a side dish Black History Month is a kind of cultural liturgy Justice takes sides Jemar's description of a Jesus addict You don't want to miss any of it! Jemar Tisby is the author of the New York Times bestselli...
Tory Baucum
April 06, 2023 17:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBPeace Talks is pleased to welcome Dr. Tory Baucum to the show! Dr. Baucum is a noted peacemaker and spoke with us about his work in Poland over the last decade. He also covered so much more including how the Bible can be a tool to divide people or bring them together, what he learned hanging out at the Warsaw train station at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and what his abolitionist legacy means to him. Dr. Tory Baucum, Director of the Center for Family Life at Ben...
Katelyn Beaty
March 16, 2023 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBPeace Talks is pleased to welcome Katelyn Beaty to the show! Our wide-ranging conversation with Katelyn began with Christian celebrity and continued to find its way to spiritual formation—particularly how the American church values the fast growth of membership over the quiet, slow growth of becoming like Christ. She reflects on the transactional, consumer-oriented nature of American spiritual formation and laments that we are not shaped to believe that pursuing justice is a part of Christia...
Charles Robinson
February 23, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBYou do not want to miss this conversation with Charles Robinson. Charles wonders why Christians are not at the forefront of the environmental movement. We dig into how God revealed Himself to the Native Americans long before the Mayflower and what we all have in common. He also defines justice as the assumed human dignity of all. Charles Robinson, along with his wife Siouxsan, founded The Red Road, an organization dedicated to serving and celebrating Native Americans and ministering the lo...
The Repentance Project: Kristy Wallace + Bill Haley
February 01, 2023 18:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBOur conversation with Kristy Wallace and Bill Haley is one for the books. Kristy and Bill share their vision of and stories from The Repentance Project. Engagement that follows awareness and repentance that leads to repair are two of the major themes with lament, resilience, and love sprinkled in. We hope you enjoy this thoughtful conversation as much as we did. Kristy Wallace is the director of The Repentance Project. As an undergraduate student, she studied Afro-American Studies and Publi...
Rich Villodas
December 08, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBOur conversation with Rich Villodas can't be missed, as it is full of profound, yet tangible applications for a life lived in pursuit of Jesus and justice. Rich Villodas is the Brooklyn-born lead pastor of New Life Fellowship, a large multiracial church with more than seventy-five countries represented in Elmhurst, Queens. Rich holds a Master of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary. He enjoys reading widely, preaching and writing on contemplative spirituality, justice-related matters,...
Lisa Colón DeLay
November 10, 2022 06:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBWe’re delighted to welcome teacher, spiritual director and podcaster Lisa Colón DeLay to join us for a brave conversation about formation, justice and peace! Originally from Puerto Rico and now based in Philadelphia, Lisa has an MA in spiritual formation and a passion for leading others in formational practices. When she’s not interviewing guests like Krista Tippett, Parker J. Palmer and Seth Godin on her podcast, Spark My Muse, she’s teaching in many settings from graduate schools to worksh...
Anniversary Reflections w/ Vanessa Sadler + Bishop Todd Hunter
October 20, 2022 17:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBWe’re celebrating one year of brave conversations about formation, justice and peace! In this special One-Year Anniversary episode of Peace Talks, Director of Content and Community Katie Haseltine interviews hosts Vanessa Sadler and Bishop Todd Hunter! Vanessa is a trauma-informed, certified spiritual director and Todd is an author, speaker and teacher who founded the Center and The Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others [C4SO]. They discuss their favorite Peace Talks guests, why formati...
End Slavery Tennessee
September 22, 2022 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBEnd Slavery Tennessee's (ESTN) joins PEACE TALKS to share their mission of promoting healing of survivors and strategically combating human trafficking in Tennessee. ESTN began as a grassroots nonprofit but is now the regional point of contact agency for human trafficking referrals in the 41 counties of Middle Tennessee. ESTN is currently creating a Survivor Restoration Campus that will offer a 2-year Residential Program that begins and ends with safe and stable housing, an oasis where survi...
Curtis Zackery
September 01, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBCurtis Zackery ["CZ"] joins PEACE TALKS to discuss what it means to truly rest, how Jesus embodied rest, and how the need for rest is deeply embedded in our human DNA. CZ is a pastor at Church of the City in Franklin, Tennessee, and author of Soul Rest: Reclaim Your Life. Return to Sabbath. CZ also helms an organization called Find Rest that seeks to help spiritually depleted Christian leaders find rest. In this interview, he reveals how our misaligned view of rest has its roots in an identi...
Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
August 12, 2022 05:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBDr. Soong-Chan Rah joins PEACE TALKS to talk about lament as a practice of disruption, the persistent narrative of white superiority, and the dangers of Western cultural captivity. A well-known pastor, author and speaker, Dr. Rah is the Robert Boyd Munger Professor of Evangelism at Fuller Seminary and has written many books, most recently Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times. In this interview, Dr. Rah explores how we as Christians are called to give up our historical domin...
Anthony Hendricks
May 27, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBAnthony Hendricks joins PEACE TALKS to share his work in the world of racial reconciliation. Anthony is a pastor and speaker who teaches on urgent issues of biblical unity, race, justice and anti-racism at universities, churches, schools, and businesses around the country. In this interview, he dives into his vision for holistic peace making and peace building and why American Christians are so often compelled by the culture rather than the cross. » Subscribe to PEACE TALKS: https://www.yo...
Gabrielle Beam
April 29, 2022 11:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBGabrielle Beam joins PEACE TALKS to talk about the lifelong connection between literacy and justice. Gabrielle is a seasoned inner-city pastor and the founder of Rise to Read, an organization focused on eliminating early childhood illiteracy in her home of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Gabrielle shares about the well-trodden path from illiteracy to incarceration, ways she helps kids begin reading on level, and what happened when Rise to Read began to distribute the Jesus Storybook Bible. » Subs...
Justin Giboney
March 31, 2022 05:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBBishop Todd Hunter and Vanessa Sadler welcome the great Justin Giboney on this episode of Peace Talks. Tune in for a rich conversation full of biblical truths and responsible activism. Justin Giboney is an attorney, political strategist and ordained minister in Atlanta, GA. He is also the Co-Founder and President of the AND Campaign, which is a coalition of urban Christians who are determined to address the sociopolitical arena with the compassion and conviction of the Gospel of Jesus Chris...
Sheila Wise Rowe
February 28, 2022 14:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBCo-hosts Vanessa Sadler and Bishop Todd kick off Season 2 of Peace talks with Sheila Wise Rowe. Sheila is a truth-teller who writes passionately about matters of faith and emotional healing. She advocates for the dignity, rights, and healing of abuse survivors, those carrying racial trauma, and racial conciliation. For over twenty-five years Sheila has been a counselor, educator, writer, spiritual director, and speaker. She is a member of the Community Ethics Committee of Harvard Medical S...
Gregory Thompson
January 17, 2022 06:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBVanessa & Bishop Todd could have talked to hours to this month's guest (and good friend) Greg Thompson. He is a scholar, writer, and artist of diverse creative background whose work focuses on race, religion, hospitality, and democracy in the United States. He serves as Executive Director of Voices Underground, an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad outside of Philadelphia; Research Fellow in African American Heritage at Lincoln University (HBCU); and as Creat...
Dennae Pierre
December 15, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBVanessa Sadler and Bishop Todd Hunter jumped at the chance to talk to Dennae Pierre. She is co-director for the Crete Collective and leads the Surge Network in Arizona. She also serves as one of the Co-Directors for City to City North America. She has an MA from Covenant Theological Seminary and D.Min from Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan). Dennae is also the author of Healing Prayers to Resist a Violent World. She is married to Vermon, the lead pastor at Roosevelt Community ...
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
November 15, 2021 13:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBPeace Talks was thrilled to welcome Kristin Kobes Du Mez to the show. She is a New York Times bestselling author and Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, and Christianity Today, and has been interviewed on NPR, CBS, and the BBC, among other outlet...
Michelle Ami Reyes
October 12, 2021 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBIn the inaugural episode of Peace Talks, Vanessa Sadler and Bishop Todd Hunter dialogue with Michelle Ami Reyes. Michelle Ami Reyes, PhD, is the Vice President of the AACC and Co-Executive Director of Pax. She is the Scholar in Residence at Hope Community Church and author of Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead to Lasting Connections Across Cultures and Becoming All Things Study Guide and Conversation Cards. Michelle lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two amazing kids. Supp...