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Spiritual Formation - Introduction Part 2 - Ground Rules

Heritage Fellowship Church - July 08, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
This week, we invite you to join us as Casey continues the introduction to our new series on Spiritual Formation. This week's discussion will focus on the ground rules for the journey of a follower. Support the Show.

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UNEXPECTED SUMMER: God Unites

First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, MO - July 07, 2024 15:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
The unity of God's people for God's purpose is a beautiful and powerful thing. Scripture: 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10

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Riverboats on Willamette towed barns, fetched fish

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - July 05, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
The Willamette River was running high and wild on the morning of Feb. 5, 1890, as Alden and Arthur Graham set out from Oregon City in their sternwheel riverboat for the daily run to Portland. They arrived in Portland in what must have been record time, dodging logs and small floating buildings ...

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For teenage sailor, visit to Portland ended in a life sentence

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - July 04, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
Like the hero of an 1800s “cautionary tale,” 17-year-old Joseph Swards stepped off the ship, fell in with bad company, got caught up in a robbery that went horribly wrong — and in the end was lucky he wasn't hanged. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeator...

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The Group Fishing Divvy Bikes Out Of Lake Michigan

The Block Club Chicago Podcast - July 03, 2024 14:44 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratings
So many bikes litter the lake that the Fire Department, the rideshare company and a group of volunteers dubbed the Divvy Fishers Society can barely keep up. Host - Jon Hansen Reporter - Mack Leiderman Read More Here Want to donate to our non-profit newsroom? CLICK HERE Who we are Block Clu...

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Roseburg’s ‘Champagne Riot’ was probably not what you think

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - July 03, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
The year after the Civil War ended, the partisans of North and South still clung to their resentments in Douglas County. On Christmas Day, those hard feelings broke out in a knock-down-drag-out that left two men dead. (Roseburg, Douglas County; 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeato...

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Tall talker from The Dalles was Oregon's own 'International Murderer o' Mystery'

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - July 02, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
He called himself James Cook, and spoke with an English accent. But when asked about his past, he spun fanciful and ever-changing stories full of world travels, tiger hunts, shanghaiings and the like; he went to his death a total enigma. (The Dalles, Wasco County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, s...

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After Being Shot At, The 'Army Of Moms' Leader Might Quit

The Block Club Chicago Podcast - July 02, 2024 10:50 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratings
Tamar Manasseh, founder of Mothers Against Senseless Killing, is considering disbanding the group, which keeps watch over Englewood blocks, after she and fellow organizers were shot at and her pleas for help have been ignored. Host - Jon Hansen Reporter - Jamie Nesbitt Golden Read More Here ...

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Ben Holladay, Abigail Scott Duniway were old friends of hers (WPA oral-history interview with Minerva Thessing)

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - July 01, 2024 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Minerva Thessing. Ms. Thessing grew up near Milwaukie in the 1860s and was friends with some of Oregon's most famous pioneer characters, from Ben Holladay to Abigail Scott Duniway. She also seems to have had a knack for psychic matters. (For ...

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Spiritual Formation - The Journey of a Follower Intro Part 1

Heritage Fellowship Church - July 01, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Join us this week as Dr. Casey kicks off our exciting new series on spiritual formation. Come along on this transformational journey as we discover how to become who we already are. Support the Show.

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UNEXPECTED SUMMER: God Saves

First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, MO - June 30, 2024 15:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Relationships are complicated. The story of Saul and David illustrates how we can honor those with whom we have mixed legacies. Scripture: 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27

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West Coast was the Detroit of fishboat engines

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 28, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
The engines that went into these old-school boats were slow, heavy, primitive, and built in one of several factories in San Francisco. In fact, until the mid-1930s San Francisco Bay was the Detroit of the marine-engine industry; the Union Gas Engine Company, est. 1885, was one of the very first m...

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Conquering The Cubs-Sox Red Line Doubleheader

The Block Club Chicago Podcast - June 28, 2024 10:50 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratings
Eighteen innings of baseball over nine hours in 90-plus-degree weather, with a packed train ride in between? It takes guts, a game plan, at least a few hot dogs and a high tolerance for booze and losing baseball. Host - Jon Hansen Reporter - Mack Liederman Read More Here Want to donate to ou...

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How the Prineville Vigilantes were defeated without a shot

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 27, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
Crook County citizens finally decided they'd had enough of the secretive lynchings and killings; they banded together and defeated the gang of masked riders without a single shot being fired. (Prineville, Crook County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1212a-prineville-...

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Lynching kicked off scary vigilante era in Prineville

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 26, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
In Crook County, the early 1880s were like something out of a Louis L'Amour novel: Masked riders galloping around by night, dispensing what they saw as justice. It all started with the lynching of an innocent man. (Part 1 of 2) (Prineville, Crook County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https:/...

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What Is The True Chicago Accent -- And Why Is It Dying?

The Block Club Chicago Podcast - June 26, 2024 10:50 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratings
The so-called “Chicago accent” is one of the city’s greatest exports, alongside Italian beef, deep-dish pizza and up-and-coming sketch comedians. But most associate a particular kind of sound to the average Chicagoan. But there are actually many Chicago accents with different origins, and they...

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To return to sea, ship had to ‘sail’ through the woods

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 25, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
After Columbia Lightship broke its lines and drifted ashore, the salvage bid was won by a house-moving company from Portland — which, rather than trying to pull the stranded ship off the beach, built a road, trucked it over the peninsula, and launched it in Baker Bay. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop...

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Ed Burke Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison -- Here's Why.

The Block Club Chicago Podcast - June 24, 2024 20:55 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratings
DIRKSEN FEDERAL COURTHOUSE — Former Ald. Ed Burke, the longest-serving alderman in Chicago history, was sentenced to two years in prison Monday, six months after he was convicted of racketeering and a suite of other crimes committed while he was in office. Federal Defense Attorney Mike Leonard ...

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The fortune-telling mind reader's story (WPA oral-history interview with 'Miss Smith')

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 24, 2024 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
WPA writer William C. Haight's 1939 oral history interview with a fascinating fortune-teller he identified only as 'Miss Smith,' in her tea-room business in Portland's Carlton Hotel. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001945/ )

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Waiting Well as a Son or Daughter of God

Heritage Fellowship Church - June 24, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
How do we wait well?  Join us this week as Ben Cantwell delves into this intriguing question. Support the Show.

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UNEXPECTED SUMMER: Facing Goliath Today

First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, MO - June 23, 2024 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
We face Goliaths of all kinds in our lives. God provide the resources for us to face them. Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:1, 4-11, 40-49

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Putting Off

Jeffersontown Baptist Church - June 23, 2024 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
JBC is a place where you don't have to be fluent at "church" in order to start or continue a journey with God. Our hope is that you will find JBC to be a place where you can grow through studying God's Word, reach those around with the saving news of the Gospel, and worship God in spirit and truth.

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Storied editor lost feud with Oregon’s first woman doc

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 21, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
On any list of Oregon “firsts,” there’s one name that almost never pops up - Dr. Adaline M. Weed. Which is understandable, because although Dr. Weed was the first female physician in the Oregon Territory, she was not a “regular” doctor – she was a hydropathist, a practitioner of “water cure.” Ma...

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The Chicago Artist Turning Cicadas Into Jewelry

The Block Club Chicago Podcast - June 21, 2024 10:50 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratings
When Sophia Catania learned that there would be a massive invasion of cicadas in the Chicago area, she was thrilled.  That’s because she turns cicadas into jewelry.  In 2020, Catania began taking walks “as a way to stay sane” during the pandemic, she said. Her casual walks soon turned into nat...

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Horrifying asylum poison mix-up left dozens dead

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 20, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
Sent downstairs to fetch a pan of powdered milk, a kitchen assistant at the Oregon State Hospital dipped his scoop into the wrong bin — and brought back six pounds of roach poison. It was mixed into the eggs and fed to 467 people. (Salem, Marion County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://...

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West Coast’s first novel was a torrid page-turner

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 19, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
She had a record of uninhibited and acerbic writing; she was preparing what appeared to be a super-racy tell-all memoir; and she had just secured a divorce from a prominent community member about whom they’d all heard some pretty tantalizing rumors. What was not to like? (French Prairie, Marion C...

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Oregon’s literary legacy built on “true confession”

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 18, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
MARGARET JEWETT BAILEY WAS not only Oregon’s first author of novel-length fiction, she was also the West Coast’s first published female author, and its first female newspaper journalist. She was also one of the most colorful characters of a remarkably colorful age. She could be absolutely savage...

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Quiet Zone Established Around Downtown Women’s Clinic Targeted By Protesters

The Block Club Chicago Podcast - June 18, 2024 10:50 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 115 ratings
An ordinance establishing a noise-sensitive zone around a Downtown woman’s clinic passed City Council Wednesday, ending an eight-month battle spearheaded by Ald. Bill Conway (34th). Host- Jon Hansen Reporter - Melody Mercado Read More Here Want to donate to our non-profit newsroom? CLICK HER...

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He's been workin' on the railroad, all the livelong day (WPA oral-history interview with Joseph Stangler, former railroad worker)

Offbeat Oregon History podcast - June 17, 2024 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings
WPA writer William C. Haight's oral history interview with Joseph Stangler, a 62-year-old veteran of James J. Hill's railroad building workcrews who was reinventing himself as a concrete artist. This oral history is a fascinating glimpse into the life and work of one of the wandering workmen who ...

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Waiting on the Lord: Encounter God as Father

Heritage Fellowship Church - June 17, 2024 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
This week, we are honored to listen to several fathers in our congregation as they share their insights on encountering God as a father through the journey of fatherhood. Support the Show.