Latest Love anyway Podcast Episodes

Love Beyond Borders

Love Anyway - July 24, 2019 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
Immigration is a complicated topic, even for adults. Some of us are afraid to say the wrong thing. Others of us fear those who are different. How do we talk about immigration with family members? With kids? On this episode, we start by listening. On our second episode of the season, we hear fro...

Raising Peacemakers

Love Anyway - July 17, 2019 04:13 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
Can kids be peacemakers? Preemptive Love founders Jeremy and Jessica Courtney share how living in Iraq has influenced how they raise their children. With host Erin Wilson, they explore how culture, technology, and war changed their perception of parenting—and invite us all to enter into difficul...

Sneak Peek: Season Two

Love Anyway - July 11, 2019 13:46 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
In the trailer for season two of the Love Anyway podcast, host Erin Wilson and Preemptive Love founder Jeremy Courtney share why it’s important to enter into hard conversations with all kinds of people—including kids. In season two, we’ll explore the fears and questions kids—and the adults in t...

Bonus: Season 1 Recap

Love Anyway - June 19, 2019 11:54 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
We're inviting you to a behind-the-scenes look at the people and stories behind the Love Anyway podcast. Host Erin Wilson joins Ben Irwin, director of communications, for a casual conversation recapping season one with producer Kayla Craig. Hear Erin share her favorite episode and what she find...

Bonus: Border Response

Love Anyway - June 11, 2019 12:01 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
They fled some of the world’s worst violence. Their future is uncertain. How can you stand in the gap for asylum seekers at the border? This special bonus episode of Love Anyway features behind-the-scenes staff calls with Preemptive Love’s programs manager Jennifer Meyerson and donor relations ...

The Way Home

Love Anyway - May 22, 2019 13:20 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
What makes home feel like home? As our work has shown us, restoring homes ruined by war is a first step to bringing whole communities back to life. Preemptive Love co-founder Jessica Courtney shares stories of her Iraqi and Syrian friends who have been displaced and are now remaking their homes...

The Millennials of Iraq

Love Anyway - May 15, 2019 08:39 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
Most of us have a very Western idea of what it means to be a millennial. But we’re all more than stereotypes. We categorize each other into neat and tidy labels because, well, it’s easy. It’s a way to organize cultural ideas. Our social constructs act a way to help us try to understand the worl...

The Border Wall

Love Anyway - May 08, 2019 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
When we’re afraid, we build walls around ourselves. We yearn for protection. To feel safe. We hem ourselves in. And keep others away. But what happens when our felt safety comes at a cost? What happens when our fear of “the other” contributes to others not being protected...or safe? Who is “the...

The Mosque Visit

Love Anyway - May 01, 2019 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
How do we move past fear? Travel with producer Kayla Craig and her pastor husband Jonny as they visit a mosque in the middle of Iowa. Saadia Qureshi, Frontline Coordinator with Preemptive Love, shares her experience as a Muslim woman, chatting with Kayla about what to expect when visiting a mosq...

The Enemy

Love Anyway - April 24, 2019 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
It’s easy to say love anyway. It’s a lot more challenging to live it. We might not all come face-to-face with a literal enemy who wants to kill us, but we all have chances to risk something on behalf of another, by stepping out in love, every single day.In this episode, we ask the questions: Is...

The Longest Night

Love Anyway - April 17, 2019 05:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
What happens when ISIS attacks your team’s aid delivery truck in the middle of the Iraq desert? And what do you do when, that same night, another aid vehicle bringing basic necessities to desperate people, gets shot at in the middle of a US airstrike—mistaken for the very ISIS fighters attackin...

Sneak Peek: Season One

Love Anyway - April 10, 2019 16:04 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
Jeremy Courtney, co-founder of Preemptive Love, and host Erin Wilson look ahead to episode one and share the vision behind the first season of Love Anyway. What can you expect when listening? Creating peace between communities at odds. Remaking what was broken. Ending war. Healing hearts across...

Coming Soon: Love Anyway

Love Anyway - April 03, 2019 02:43 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 276 ratings
This season, Love Anyway will push beyond a simple story. It’d be easy to paint a one-dimensional picture of people and places in the Middle East. But that’s not why we’re here. We’re here to share where we find hope. Where we find possibility and beauty. Because we believe that all of us coul...