Latest Jeremy courtney Podcast Episodes
From 9/11 to January 6
Love Anyway - January 29, 2021 13:18 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsGuests Jeremy Courtney is the founder and CEO of Preemptive Love. He has lived and worked on the frontlines of conflict for over a decade, serving families who’ve been terrorized by violence, poverty, and disease. He’s the author of the book Love Anyway: An Invitation Beyond a World That’s Scary...
After the Capitol Attack: A Way Forward
Love Anyway - January 15, 2021 12:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsGUESTS Jeremy Courtney is the founder and CEO of Preemptive Love. He has lived and worked on the frontlines of conflict for over a decade, serving families who’ve been terrorized by violence, poverty, and disease. He’s the author of the book Love Anyway: An Invitation Beyond a World That’s Scar...
US Election: Voices From the Other Side of War
Love Anyway - October 28, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsMany worry about the risk of violence after the US election. But most Americans have no idea what it’s like to live through political unrest or what to about it. We asked members of our team who've lived through political violence and war what Americans should know.
SPECIAL: Put Your Bodies On The Line
Love Anyway - June 12, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsIn the US, our Black brothers and sisters, whose forced physical, mental, and emotional labor built so many of our communities, are asking for presence from those of us who aren’t Black. And this isn’t new. They've been asking. They’ve been fighting for their lives for four hundred years—four hu...
Unexpected Empathy: Finding Ourselves in Our Global Neighbors
Love Anyway - May 20, 2020 09:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsWhat does empathy have to do with emergency aid? In this final episode of Season 4, Erin Wilson, podcast host and senior field editor, sits down with Jessica Courtney, Preemptive Love's vice president of international programs, for an honest look at what they've learned about themselves as they'...
After Ahmaud Arbery's Killing, Will We Change?
Love Anyway - May 13, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsWe’ll be back next week with our last regularly scheduled episode of season four. But this conversation is too important to wait. Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, was jogging in a southern Georgia neighborhood on February 23 when he was chased, gunned down, and killed by two white men. (Only after a ...
When We Gather Again, Who Will We Be?
Love Anyway - May 06, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsIn this episode, Vjolca Capri gives her first-hand experience of attending a Love Anyway Gathering in central Florida. As a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, she wasn't sure what to expect when Saadia Qureshi invited her to join a roomful of community members, most of whom didn't look or worship like ...
It Starts With a Meal: Healing All That's Tearing Us Apart
Love Anyway - April 29, 2020 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsRemember when we used to eat together? In this episode, we travel everywhere from Atlanta to Iraq for a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to gather around the table with strangers. War begins in our heads and hearts long before it reaches our hands. But that also means the solution can b...
BONUS: Stay Home For Us
Love Anyway - April 27, 2020 09:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsCOVID-19 anywhere is a threat to everyone, everywhere. In this special bonus episode, Preemptive Love team members call in from around the world to share why they are staying home—and exactly who you are helping when you do the same. Because the choices we make in this moment could mean life or...
Off Book: Writing About War, Forgiveness, and The More Beautiful World (And Book Giveaways!)
Love Anyway - April 22, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsIn this episode, Jeremy and senior field editor Erin Wilson share a candid conversation about the themes Jeremy explores in his latest book, Love Anyway. He answers never-before-asked questions, uncovers his writing process, and shares the why behind his vision of how we can heal all that’s tear...
Why Violence Is a Virus (We Can Stop the Spread)
Love Anyway - April 15, 2020 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsHear how late last year, before the coronavirus started it’s deadly spread across the world, Preemptive Love founder Jeremy Courtney was noticing striking parallels between the process for stopping the spread of infectious disease and stopping the spread of violence. Travel back in time to 2016...
On the Road With Preemptive Love (And You're Invited to Our New Tour!)
Love Anyway - April 07, 2020 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsThis first episode of season four takes you behind the scenes of the Love Anyway tour that took place last fall. Peek behind the curtain into the making of the Love Anyway film, a short documentary we created to explore the ideas around how we can heal what’s tearing us apart. We let you in on s...
Looking for the Helpers During COVID-19
Love Anyway - April 01, 2020 13:12 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsWho are the helpers in times of the COVID-19 pandemic? They might be closer than we think. In today’s special episode, we talk with people across the U.S. to explore what it looks like for all of us to not only look for the helpers — but to be the helpers — even in a global pandemic hitting ver...
BREAKING: Coronavirus is Affecting Refugees—Here’s What We’re Doing
Love Anyway - March 12, 2020 08:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsAs coronavirus cases grow worldwide—including in many of the places we serve—this breaking episode shares how the virus, also known as COVID-19, is impacting our displaced and refugee friends in Iraq, Syria, and Mexico. We hear from Preemptive Love team members: Jessica Courtney, vice presiden...
NEW: Listener Survey and Giveaway (And a Season 4 Spoiler!)
Love Anyway - February 17, 2020 20:26 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsAs we prepare new episodes (and spoiler alert: maybe even a second podcast!) we want to know what you think. What do you want to hear more of? Less of? Here’s your chance to chime in: We created a short five-minute survey with you in mind. To say thanks, we’re offering the first 25 people to fi...
Iraq Crisis: When All You've Known is War
Love Anyway - January 09, 2020 18:49 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsThis breaking episode of Love Anyway is a bit different than other time-sensitive episodes we’ve shared. While we want to give you the latest, clearest information on what’s happening between Iran, Iraq, and the US, we also want to take you behind the scenes of a conversation several of us had w...
BREAKING: Assassinations in Iraq
Love Anyway - January 04, 2020 18:15 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsOn Friday, a US drone strike killed two top Iranian and Iraqi military commanders in Baghdad, dramatically escalating tensions across the region. Preemptive Love's Iraq-based staff members Erin Wilson and Ihsan Ibraheem discuss the assassinations and what might come next.
INSIDE LOOK: Refugees Face Violence at US-Mexico Border
Love Anyway - November 21, 2019 22:38 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsWe're in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, responding to the refugee crisis on the US-Mexico border. Earlier this year, we began showing up just across the border in El Paso, Texas, listening, learning, and lending a hand where we could, thanks to many of you. We distributed emergency backpacks and listene...
JUST IN: On the Ground in Syria (A Firsthand Look)
Love Anyway - November 08, 2019 14:45 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsThis breaking episode features firsthand accounts of what's happening on the ground in Syria. After our team heard updates from Erin Wilson and Jen Meyerson about what they saw displaced people facing weeks after the US troop withdrawal in northeastern Syria, we knew we had to pause our regularl...
BREAKING: Crisis in NE Syria (And the Ceasefire That Wasn't)
Love Anyway - October 24, 2019 12:51 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsPreemptive Love is on the ground in Northeastern Syria. This is the biggest crisis we’ve seen at one time...and it’s getting worse. In this breaking episode, hear from our colleagues in the Middle East, who share what they’re seeing unfold. Some of our team members delivering emergency...
Crisis in NE Syria (And the Ceasefire That Wasn't)
Love Anyway - October 24, 2019 12:51 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsPreemptive Love is on the ground in Northeastern Syria. This is the biggest crisis we’ve seen at one time...and it’s getting worse. In this breaking episode, hear from our colleagues in the Middle East, who share what they’re seeing unfold. Some of our team members delivering emergency aid have...
US Withdraws from Syria (And it Could Lead to War)
Love Anyway - October 08, 2019 21:55 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsIt’s been a difficult week across the Middle East, from protests in Iraq to the recent news that the US administration is withdrawing its presence from northeastern Syria. On this breaking episode of the Love Anyway podcast, we hear from our Preemptive Love team about how the decision by the US ...
BREAKING: US Withdraws from Syria (And it Could Lead to War)
Love Anyway - October 08, 2019 21:55 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsIt’s been a difficult week across the Middle East, from protests in Iraq to the recent news that the US administration is withdrawing its presence from northeastern Syria. On this breaking episode of the Love Anyway podcast, we hear from our Preemptive Love team about how the decision b...
BREAKING: Unrest in Iraq (And What We Can Do About It)
Love Anyway - October 07, 2019 16:41 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsIraq is facing its biggest emergency since the rise of ISIS. Protests have erupted in Baghdad and other parts of the country, as young people, fed up with political corruption and a lack of opportunity, take to the streets. At the time of recording, the numbers have grown to more than ...
Unrest in Iraq (And What We Can Do About It)
Love Anyway - October 07, 2019 16:41 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsIraq is facing its biggest emergency since the rise of ISIS. Protests have erupted in Baghdad and other parts of the country, as young people, fed up with political corruption and a lack of opportunity, take to the streets. At the time of recording, the numbers have grown to more than one hundr...
Bonus: How 9/11 Changed Us
Love Anyway - September 11, 2019 03:04 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsSeptember 11, 2001 changed everything. And each year as this day arrives, we pause to remember. We remember when we heard the news, where we were, how we felt. We remember the fear that rose in our throats, the fear the began to change the way we walked in the world, the way we saw each other. ...
Mirrors and Windows
Love Anyway - August 21, 2019 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsWhat are mirrors and windows? And why are they important in our lives and the lives of our families? In our season two finale, we talk with Saira Siddiqui of Confessions of a Muslim Mom, along with Shawn Smucker, author of When We Were Strangers. Saira and Shawn share personal stories exploring...
Talking to Kids About Race
Love Anyway - August 14, 2019 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsBabies begin to notice race at six months old. Children are paying attention. And as we’ve learned this season, what they hear the adults in their lives say and do—or not say and do—deeply influences the people they are—and who they’ll become. Rapper and Preemptive Love's artist-in-residence...
Talking with Kids about War, Violence, & Politics
Love Anyway - August 07, 2019 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsLearn more.
Family Values
Love Anyway - July 31, 2019 14:47 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratingsHow much should kids be involved in shaping our communities? Should we shield children from news about violence and war? In this episode, we attend a vigil with the Oestreich family, who believes community involvement is a core family value. Diana Oestreich has been the key relationships office...
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