Latest Phillips seminary Podcast Episodes
Interfaith Conversations
Committing Faith in Public - September 22, 2023 21:29 - 40 minutesBefore his retirement from Phillips, Gary Peluso-Verdend met with several faith leaders for a series of interfaith conversations. On this episode, Gary talks with the Rev. Barbara Prose, who until recently served at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s All Souls Unitarian Church. Email Kurt Gwartney with your que...
Phillips Student Services Members and Their Journeys
Committing Faith in Public - April 13, 2023 10:30 - 21 minutesWhat drives a person to seminary? What makes one choose a life of service and ministry in an everchanging world. Committing Faith in Public host Kurt Gwartney interviews Phillips Theological Seminary Student Services members to get their perspectives on why they chose their journey. This episode,...
Committing Faith in Public: Braver Angels
Committing Faith in Public - April 28, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutesIt has become cliché to note that America is highly polarized. Polarization has become something like the weather: something to complain about rather than act on. Braver Angels is an organization dedicated to depolarize America and to revive the spirit of our democracy. One cannot imagine a mor...
Committing Faith in Public with Loren Richmond
Committing Faith in Public - April 13, 2022 20:50 - 25 minutesWhat does one do with the master of divinity degree these days? The answer is not necessarily simple! In this episode of committing faith in public, the Rev. Loren Richmond (MDiv 2013) talks about his journey after seminary. He has been a church pastor, a church planter, a hospital chaplain, and...
Committing Faith in Public with Marcia McFee
Committing Faith in Public - January 21, 2022 16:56 - 34 minutesMarcia McFee, PhD, is one of the speakers and is worship designer for this year’s Remind and Renew, January 25-27, at Phillips Seminary and online. She is a visiting professor at Redlands University where San Francisco Theological Seminary finds its home. With a PhD in Liturgical Studies and Et...
Committing Faith in Public with Chelsea Yarborough
Committing Faith in Public - January 13, 2022 14:00 - 32 minutesThe Rev. Dr. Chelsea Yarborough is one of the speakers this year at Phillips’ Remind and Renew event, January 25-27, in Tulsa and online. She is assistant professor of liturgical studies at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL. Dr. Yarborough recently completed her PhD at Va...
Committing Faith in Public with Victoria Loorz
Committing Faith in Public - January 11, 2022 02:40 - 38 minutesVictoria Loorz, MDiv, is one of the speakers at this year’s Remind & Renew Conference at Phillips and online, January 25-27. Rev. Loorz is a "wild church pastor," an "eco-spiritual director" and co-founder of several transformation-focused organizations focused on the integration of nature and s...
Committing Faith in Public: "Songs of Conscience, Sounds of Freedom"
Committing Faith in Public - September 16, 2021 20:20 - 36 minutesOn this special edition of Committing Faith in Public, Gary Peluso-Verdend walks and talks with Woody Guthrie Centerexecutive director Deana McCloud through the exhibit, “Songs of Conscience, Sounds of Freedom.” This traveling exhibit debuted in Tulsa and is at the WGC through October 11. Liste...
Committing Faith in Public with the Rev. Dr. Annie Lockhart-Gilroy
Committing Faith in Public - July 29, 2021 18:44 - 26 minutesIn September 2020, Center for Religion in Public Life director Gary Peluso-Verdend interviewed Dr. Lockhart-Gilroy, Assistant Professor of Christian Education and Practical Theology. Besides introducing her work generally, Dr. Lockhart-Gilroy talked about the book which she co-edited and to which...
Committing Faith in Public with the Rev. Dr. Lisa Barnett
Committing Faith in Public - July 15, 2021 14:10 - 27 minutesOne of the most unfortunate pieces of data from graduate seminary graduating student interviews is which courses graduands wish they had fewer of: history. In this pivotal era of the churches’, the nation’s, and the planet’s lives, there is a great deal of re-imagining and re-telling history hap...
Committing Faith in Public with the Rev. Dr. Charisa Hunter-Crump
Committing Faith in Public - June 10, 2021 16:12 - 26 minutes“What were the challenges of doing and being church during a pandemic? How prepared was your congregation? What were the learning curves you embraced? What did you learn about church that you might not have known or that became more or less important? What did you start that you will continue doi...
Committing Faith in Public with Lisa Davison
Committing Faith in Public - May 03, 2021 22:26 - 25 minutesIn October 2020, Center for Religion in Public Life director Gary Peluso-Verdend interviewed Dr. Lisa Davison, the Johnnie Eargle Cadieux Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Denominational Formation. Dr. Davison joined the Phillips faculty in 2010. Sin...
Committing Faith in Public with the Rev. Dr. Lisa Davison
Committing Faith in Public - May 03, 2021 22:26 - 25 minutesIn October 2020, Center for Religion in Public Life director Gary Peluso-Verdend interviewed Dr. Lisa Davison, the Johnnie Eargle Cadieux Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Denominational Formation. Dr. Davison joined the Phillips faculty in 2010. Sin...
Committing Faith in Public with Cartoonist Marlin Lavanhar
Committing Faith in Public - April 23, 2021 14:46 - 26 minutesMany listeners and readers will know the Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar as the senior pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Marlin is well-known in Tulsa and, in UU circles far beyond Tulsa, for his preaching, leadership, and for his community work in matters of race and of race and...
Committing Faith in Public with Vic Hunter
Committing Faith in Public - November 11, 2020 16:35 - 39 minutesWhen the Nazi regime essentially nationalized the Christian churches in Germany, making them one of the legitimizing arms of their evil program, some church leaders capitulated and embraced their roles. Others resisted. One of the most famous expressions of that resistance was the Barmen Declara...
Committing Faith in Public with Russell Cobb
Committing Faith in Public - August 17, 2020 19:15 - 34 minutesDr. Russell Cobb, currently Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, is a longtime Tulsa who wrote many essays for This Land Press. Some of those essay and other writings are the basis of The Great Oklahoma Swindle...
Committing Faith in Public with Chaplain Jacob George
Committing Faith in Public - June 03, 2020 19:58 - 37 minutesChaplains can be found in all kinds of institutional roles these days, from Tyson Foods to the military and hospitals. The Rev. Dr. Jacob George is the director of pastoral care at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa. After years in hospice work, he moved into the hospital setting. He is a Clinic...
Committing Faith in Public with Toby Jenkins
Committing Faith in Public - April 18, 2020 22:17 - 39 minutesCommitting Faith in Public with Toby Jenkins, Oklahomans for Equality Oklahomans for Equality is a state-wide 40-year old organization that seeks equal rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) individuals and families through advocacy, education, programs, alliances, a...
Committing Faith in Public: Talking Reconciliation is Not Enough with the Rev. Robert Turner and the Rev. David Wiggs
Committing Faith in Public - February 29, 2020 23:09 - 32 minutesCommitting Faith in Public: Talking Reconciliation is Not Enough with the Rev. Robert Turner and the Rev. David Wiggs In this special collaborative edition of the Boston Avenue United Methodist Churchpodcast ASCENDS, its hosts are joined by co-host, Dr. Gary Peluso-Verdend from the Committing F...
Committing Faith in Public with Jesse Ulrich
Committing Faith in Public - January 31, 2020 23:04 - 30 minutesCommitting Faith in Public Podcast with Jesse Ulrich What was it like growing up Jewish in Tulsa, attending a nearly all African-American elementary school where one was a dual minority, then having the experience of living in a large Jewish community in Boston before returning to Tulsa? Jesse...
Committing Faith in Public Talking Theology and Impeachment
Committing Faith in Public - January 21, 2020 23:04 - 40 minutesCommitting Faith in Public Talking Theology and Impeachment Sit down with two Phillips faculty to talk about theology and impeachment and what do you get? A half hour of insight, perspective, and something to chew on. Dr. Joe Bessler, the Robert Travis Peake Professor of Theology and acting dea...
Committing Faith in Public with State Senator George Young, Sr.
Committing Faith in Public - January 10, 2020 22:57 - 40 minutesCommitting Faith in Public Podcast with State Senator George Young, Sr. The Rev. Dr. George Young, Sr., is well known to Phillips’ audiences as a double alumnus (master’s and doctoral degrees), adjunct instructor, and former trustee. In addition, we know him as a long-time pastor who cultivated...
Committing Faith in Public with Aliye Shimi
Committing Faith in Public - December 20, 2019 22:47 - 38 minutesCommitting Faith in Public Podcast with Aliye Shimi Aliye Shimi is the executive director of Tulsa’s oldest ecumenical/interfaith organization, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry. In that role, and in the MANY volunteer hours Aliye gives, Aliye is among the fiercest and kindest advocates for justice, ...
Committing Faith in Public Podcast with the Rev. Clark Frailey
Committing Faith in Public - December 12, 2019 22:43 - 29 minutesCommitting Faith in Public Podcast with the Rev. Clark Frailey, Public Education Advocate There are not many organizations these days that are able to create coalitions that cross partisan divides. But the Rev. Clark Frailey, pastor of Coffee Creek Church(Southern Baptist) in Edmond, OK, has fo...
Committing Faith in Public with the Revs. Marlin Lavanhar and Carlton Pearson
Committing Faith in Public - December 05, 2019 22:39 - 32 minutesCommitting Faith in Public Podcast with the Revs. Marlin Lavanhar and Carlton Pearson When folks from around the country think of religion in Tulsa, they are likely to think about Oral Roberts University, Victory Christian, or Rhema Bible. But many don’t know about All Souls, the largest Church...
Committing Faith in Public with the Rev. Chris Moore
Committing Faith in Public - November 22, 2019 22:35 - 31 minutesCommitting Faith in Public Podcast with the Rev. Chris Moore A trip to the Southern Border. A nativity display on the church lawn. A chain-link fence. An act of contrition that is misunderstood. A signboard message connecting the words “Jesus” and “Migrant.” How it all became a national story d...
Committing Religion in Public with the Rev. Dr. Ray Owens
Committing Faith in Public - November 15, 2019 22:26 - 34 minutesWhat leads a congregation to start what became Oklahoma’s first public partnership school, and what has been their experience with the venture? The Rev. Dr. Ray Owens, senior pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church in Tulsa, addresses these and other matters related to the Greenwood Leadership Aca...
Committing Faith in Public with the Rev. Shannon Fleck
Committing Faith in Public - October 31, 2019 15:27 - 31 minutesThis is the podcast for people who want to be inspired by individuals and communities of faith doing good work in public. Our guests tell stories of their work to weave a more just, kind, and diversity-inclusive society. Our first guest is the Rev. Shannon Fleck, executive director of the Oklah...
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