Latest Gatherers Podcast Episodes
#059 - What Makes A Canadian
What We Will Abide - December 06, 2019 14:55 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhile Part 1 focused mainly on mental health and constructive coping mechanisms to deal with anxiety and depression, in this episode we consider what so-called “American” values are —as opposed to Canadian values— and spend a good chunk of time critiquing the U.S. health care system. There's al...
#058 - This Time is Different
What We Will Abide - November 07, 2019 05:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsI don’t know Sarah Jickling, but we talked for an hour about anxiety, depression, alter egos, pole-dancing, and just how goddamn big Canada is. I met her on Instagram, via the quirk of a misplaced hashtag. Not long ago, I loathed and readily excoriated social media and its tentacles, as they wor...
SPECIAL - Come As You Are "Concert Album"
What We Will Abide - October 31, 2019 21:52 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHere is a live album of sorts; Liz Fulmer and her band playing at Tellus360 on August 18, 2019, for the Come As You Are words and music event. This is just the music. SONG LIST 1) Come As You Are (Nirvana) Liz Fulmer: Vocals, Piano; Allan Dutton: Guitar. 2) Today (Smashing Pumpkins) Liz Fulm...
#057 - Come As You Are Bonus Episode
What We Will Abide - October 24, 2019 03:32 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn episode #56: Come As You Are: Words and Music, Jamie Beth Cohen and Liz Fulmer shared their thoughts on the live concert they gave at Tellus360. Here, What We Will Abide offers bonus material from the concert. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#056 - Come As You Are: Words and Music
What We Will Abide - October 18, 2019 12:15 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJamie Beth Cohen's Wasted Pretty is a YA novel set in 1992, a year in which grunge, indie pop, and new wave all seemed to get along. In a special live event at Lancaster's own Tellus 360 this past August, Cohen teamed up with local musician Liz Fulmer to present "Come As You Are," a concert duri...
#055 - Waveland Chapter IV: Bridging Cultures
What We Will Abide - October 07, 2019 12:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"If you want to see humanity at its most vulnerable, a refugee camp will give you that image." Mustafa Nuur immigrated to the US after a 10-year stay in a refugee camp in Kenya. He is originally from Mogadishu, Somalia and has lived in Lancaster PA since 2017. In chapter IV of What We Will Abi...
#054 - A WWWA Short (Person): JSS Takes a Seat
What We Will Abide - September 18, 2019 04:10 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA certain 7-year-old explains his choice to sit out the Pledge of Allegiance at school. Music by Here Inside. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#053 - I've Got Work to Do: Rabbi Jack Paskoff
What We Will Abide - September 17, 2019 14:19 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"It's all about the wrestling," Rabbi Jack Paskoff tells me, as we rattle up 95 North on our way home from Washington DC. He drives like a New Yorker: aggressive and confident with an air of 'I got this.' It's sort of the same way he serves his community–out front and fearless while also remainin...
#052 - Changing the World, One Taco at a Time
What We Will Abide - September 09, 2019 11:58 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThough they were happy running Lancaster's favorite bottle shop and pizza joint, The Fridge, Zach Miller and Erin Schram decided to leave the United States after the election of 2016. Following a 2+ year sojourn in New Zealand, they have returned, seeking more time with family and the perfect tac...
#051 - Waveland Chapter III: In One Place
What We Will Abide - August 08, 2019 18:13 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIt's easy to lose sight of privilege; if you're an American citizen, it's something you probably don't think about, ever. But Andrea Alarcon has thought about what it means to be a citizen every day of her life since she learned she couldn't get a driver's license at age 16. The obstacles only c...
#050 - American Cynic, Part 4
What We Will Abide - April 02, 2019 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe fourth installment of the apparently ongoing series of interviews with my father, collectively entitled "American Cynic." In this episode, my father and I review an array of unpleasant encounters: with law enforcement officers; on the basketball court; and with mysterious, vehicle-napping Ma...
#049 - American Cynic, Part 3
What We Will Abide - September 26, 2017 00:28 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe final installment of the American Cynic series surveys life in New York City in the first half of the 20th century: Mirrors shattered by errant baseball bats, squandered investment opportunities, and a street race for the ages. Also, why nobody is funny. Subscribe on iTunes Hosted on A...
#048 – American Cynic, Part 2
What We Will Abide - September 19, 2017 04:23 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAbout year ago, I interviewed my father about his past, specifically his experience as a soldier in the Vietnam War. This time, I ask him to survey his 76 years as a lay critic of American foreign and domestic policy. The conversation ranges wide as my father ruminates on presidential doings an...
#047 – On the Ground: Michael Deibert
What We Will Abide - August 26, 2017 14:13 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJournalist Michael Deibert has called several countries --if not continents-- home, and has written several books, including In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico, and most recently Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History, which came out earl...
#046 – Am I Right?
What We Will Abide - August 01, 2017 15:39 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn just a few short weeks the Stone Independent School will embark on our inaugural academic year. Two of the classes are my own creations: United States History through the lens of the economics of slavery; and the history of Israel/Palestine. I’m sharing my process for building these classes ...
#045 – Pain is Normal: Roey Shmool
What We Will Abide - July 24, 2017 03:40 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis story is about pain, both mental and physical, and it’s about how these two kinds of pain are very much connected, despite our culture’s insistence that they’re not. It’s also about our unwillingness to admit that we’ve made mistakes, big mistakes, even though an admission would certainly l...
#044 – Anniversary
What We Will Abide - July 15, 2017 15:57 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA year ago, I started this podcast, in which I interview people providing local solutions to systemic problems. My wife Jamie Beth, who has known me for nearly two decades, sees me as an introvert. So, to her, this has always seemed like a strange project to take on. In this episode, she asks me...
#043 – A Working Government: Christina Hartman
What We Will Abide - July 06, 2017 06:03 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsI began my conversation with Christina Hartman as I always do, by telling the origin story of What We Will Abide, which involves seeing the world through despairing eyes. I was certainly surprised when she countered with a parallel story of her own that has played out along a similar timeline. ...
#042 – Bill Maher Knows Nothing (About Islam)
What We Will Abide - July 04, 2017 03:13 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMahfuz Meherzad is the president of the United Islamic Association of Lancaster County and is an adjunct Political Science professor at Chestnut Hill College and Millersville University. Prof. Meherzad and I took part in a panel discussion back in May in which five representatives of different ...
#041 – Torah is Light: Aryeh Bernstein
What We Will Abide - June 04, 2017 23:23 ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAryeh Bernstein is a Chicagoan, an Israeli citizen, a teacher, and a seeker of social justice. He wears his Judaism on his sleeve, as well as beneath his shirt. Each day he dons a “talit katan” with its fringes that hang from a traditional garment he wears beneath his outer clothing. It’s one o...
#040 – Collapse Episode: Dr. Jim Delle
What We Will Abide - May 19, 2017 02:43 ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsFor a while now, I’ve frequently and ubiquitously espoused a theory derived largely from the work of Daniel Quinn which is this: Humans lived as hunter-gatherers for most of their existence on earth. Somewhere along the line, this way of life, built and maintained largely to be in harmony with t...
#039 – Character Assassination: Jeremiah Miller Revisits the Trial of Clay Shaw
What We Will Abide - April 25, 2017 01:51 ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJeremiah Miller’s play, Guilty Parties of New Orleans, will be given a staged reading with seasoned actors this coming Friday night, April 28th, at Community Mennonite Church, as part of the Theater of the Seventh Sister Spoken Word series. It largely deals with the trial of Clay Laverne Shaw, a...
#038 – Rep. Lloyd Smucker Invitation: Extended
What We Will Abide - April 23, 2017 22:02 ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA couple of months ago I made an amateur overture to Representative Lloyd Smucker of the 16th Congressional district of Pennsylvania to be a guest on What We Will Abide, but didn’t get a response. Perhaps I didn’t explain myself well enough the first time, so I’m giving it another go. Music by ...
#037 – Who Am I Here: Jocelyn Park of Lancaster Transplant
What We Will Abide - April 21, 2017 03:36 ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJocelyn Park is originally a street punk Quaker from Delco (Delaware County, PA). She arrived in Lancaster, PA five years ago by way of Sydney, Australia, and found that starting over socially was a daunting prospect. Since then, she has launched Lancaster Transplant, a local organization design...
#036 – A Ministry of Presence: Rev. Susan Minasian
What We Will Abide - April 03, 2017 03:15 ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsLast month, after nearly a decade as Franklin & Marshall College’s chaplain, Susan Minasian has moved on, back to her home state of Virginia, where she will serve as pastor at Sojourners United Church of Christ in Charlottesville. Her tireless work on the college campus and all across Lancaster ...
#035 – Running & Riding to Recall a Rapidly Fading Past
What We Will Abide - March 27, 2017 10:30 ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe fundamental flaw in our civilization is that it’s convinced itself that it’s the best way to live. But there are cracks in the drywall. In a conversation that starts off about running, veers into politics and concludes with donkeys, Christopher McDougall and I examine the damage. Then, a vi...
#034 – Condemnation
What We Will Abide - March 15, 2017 16:28 ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe real story is corruption large and small: A Conestoga Board of Supervisors chairman appropriates $69 worth of mulch and doesn’t pay for it until 5 months later; the zoning board slaps The Stand’s barn with condemnation notices, seemingly out of the blue. What do these two events have in co...
#033 – Places Unknown; People Like Us
What We Will Abide - March 11, 2017 14:53 ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn December of 2008, I interviewed my father about his experience in Vietnam. Just this past summer, I interviewed him again for What We Will Abide and it appears as Episode 16, “American Cynic.” But, back in 2008 I also interviewed my mother about how she experienced his time in the Army. After...
#032 – Waveland Chapter II: Far Away Home
What We Will Abide - February 26, 2017 23:52 ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe BBC recently noted that, per capita, Lancaster, PA absorbs and resettles more refugees than any other city in the United States. In fact, it’s part of the city’s heritage. Madap Sharma was one of those refugees who came to the U.S. with his family after fleeing his home country of Bhutan. E...
#031 – An Invitation to Congressman Lloyd Smucker
What We Will Abide - February 26, 2017 00:15 ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDear Congressman Lloyd Smucker, What We Will Abide is a Lancaster-based podcast which serves to tell stories about people who are providing local solutions to systemic problems. You want to solve local problems – that’s why you ran for congress. I invite you to take part in an interview for Wh...
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