Latest West side Podcast Episodes
Voices of the "Sacred Peace Walk" 2024
Bar Crawl Radio - April 12, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsRebecca McKean and I walked during Easter week 2024 in the desert north of Las Vegas to the Nevada Nuclear Bomb Test Site– with a community of people who know about the imminent danger of a targeted and ready-to-go American nuclear arsenal. This BCR podcast will not counter the insanity of th...
We Are Guantánamo: U.S. Courts are Surreal w/Gabor Rona
Bar Crawl Radio - March 15, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThis is a must listen conversation with Gabor Rona -- Law Professor at Cardozo Law School – and in the past served as the International Legal Director of Human Rights First. For over 20 years our government has imprisoned 100s of innocent Muslim men in the Guantanamo Prison and tortured them r...
We Are Guantánamo: 7 Voices
Bar Crawl Radio - March 08, 2024 15:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings“We Are Guantanamo” – in other words – you and I -- all of us identifying as "American" are complicit – and insofar as the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp remains an active US military and illegal entity – it belongs to us. Since 2002, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp has held 779 Muslim men acc...
Libraries/Radically Open Spaces: Emily Drabinski & Lauren Comito
Bar Crawl Radio - March 01, 2024 15:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsFor this BCR program, we talked about that age-old American tradition – book burning – or more precisely – thought control. Our guests were two brave librarians – practicing a profession that is at the core of any effective democracy. Emily Drabinski heads-up the American Library Association ...
Two Jewish Israelis
Bar Crawl Radio - February 16, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsFor this BCR program, we spoke with two Jewish Israeli's. Nahum Schnitzer is my cousin. Ariella Dubrowin is my cousin once removed. Both have raised their families in Israel, Nahum -- 40 years – Ariella – 20. The conflict in Gaza has encased their world in ways that neither I – nor most of you l...
Poverty & American Justice
Bar Crawl Radio - February 09, 2024 15:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn 1963, when the Supreme Court overturned Gideon v Wainwright, Justice Hugo Black wrote: “Even the intelligent and educated layman requires the guiding hand of counsel at every step in the proceedings against him. Without it, though he be not guilty, he faces the danger of conviction because he...
UWSers Helping Prisoners of Conscience
Bar Crawl Radio - January 26, 2024 15:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMay 1961 -- Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International, wrote that he was sickened by governments imprisoning citizens for speaking or singing in protest. The work of Amnesty International continues around the world and on the Upper West Side with members of Group 11. Since the early 1970s...
I want to say Kaddish.
Bar Crawl Radio - December 31, 2023 17:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSharing the joyful and angry sounds of our city at the end of a year of retching violence. Let the human-made turbulence of 2023 pass quickly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Human Rights Reloaded
Bar Crawl Radio - December 29, 2023 15:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn 1948, all nations signed onto a document stating that the way a government treats its citizens can be judged by the rest of the world. This December, 2023, is the 75th Anniversary of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [UDHR]. Joining us for this conversation on the...
AI & Human Health
Bar Crawl Radio - December 23, 2023 14:42 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThis BCR conversation may seem complex but its also simple – and – will possibly end human existence. If your physician can access all of your medical records, she will do a better job. And if generative AI knows all about the health of every human -- what then? We talked with two experts devel...
Anti-Nuclear Gadflies: Martha Hennessy & Brian Terrell
Bar Crawl Radio - December 15, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsLate November, 2023 -- John C. Wester -- Archbishop of Sante Fe -- spoke at the Church of Our Savior at E. 38th Street and Park Avenue. About 200 were gathered to honor the 43rd anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day – and – to consider the abolition of nuclear weapons. At the United Nations t...
Sustainable Banking: Amalgamated Bank & Ivan Frishberg
Bar Crawl Radio - December 08, 2023 19:39 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhat is a bank? What is a bank for? Can a bank fight evil and right wrongs? Or is a bank no more than a profit-seeking shark working for its investors? Or - both? For this BCR program we had a conversation about a little bank that could … that is, could make our lives better through respons...
Three Women Composers
Bar Crawl Radio - November 17, 2023 15:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAccording to Britannica, a musical composition is the art of conceiving and creating music. I love to sing, and I very much enjoy listening to music. That part I get, but to compose music, to pick out the notes, the instruments… I’m completely at a loss. Fortunately, we have three women compo...
Eleanor Roosevelt's Trip to the Pacific War
Bar Crawl Radio - November 03, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe are looking forward to sharing a conversation about a great American -- Eleanor Roosevelt. Shannon McKenna Schmidt has focused her literary work on travel. She has written for National Geograpic, Traveler, Nashville Public Television and Arrive magazine – and has appeared on Morning Joe and...
Thy Will Be Done? Week 6 Luke 22:39-46
West Side Poplar Bluff - October 22, 2023 17:49 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week we see that the process of discerning God's will for our lives is found in prayer. Prayer is the primary way to process our will from God's Will.
NYC's Natural Waters
Bar Crawl Radio - October 20, 2023 13:07 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBCR likes NYC and our like has grown since we learned about NYCH2O. For this program we talked with the founder and leader of NYCH2O – Matthew Malina. Matt works to educate New Yorkers about their city’s local water ecology – in order protect our natural water resources -- and with Peter Frish...
Thy Will Be Done? - Week 5 - Romans 12:1-2
West Side Poplar Bluff - October 15, 2023 18:41 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week we see that God gives His people His wisdom, by giving us His Spirit. The Holy Spirit guides the believers every step.
Thy Will Be Done? - Week 4 - Hebrews 4:12-13
West Side Poplar Bluff - October 08, 2023 18:11 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week we learn some practical tools to discerning God's Will through God's Word. The Bible is the lens through which we look at all of life's desicions.
Thy Will Be Done? - Week 3 - Proverbs 3:1-8, 11-12
West Side Poplar Bluff - October 01, 2023 18:03 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week we see that We as Christians are able to discern anything in our lives when we trust God with everything in our lives!
Thy Will Be Done? - Week 2 - Hebrews 5:11-14
West Side Poplar Bluff - September 24, 2023 18:02 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week we learn about discernment. We see that God's Will is that we would grow towards maturity by developing discernment.
Thy Will Be Done? - Week 1 - Psalm 40:6-8
West Side Poplar Bluff - September 17, 2023 17:53 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week we see that God's Will is that we live God's way as revealed in God's Word for the glory of God's Son, Jesus!
25th Kateri Peace Conference
Bar Crawl Radio - September 15, 2023 18:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsRebecca McKean and I drove to Fonda, NY for the 25th Annual Kateri Peace Conference. We spoke with several major players in the contemporary "no war" peace movement in the United States -- who are working to help the rest of us see the insanity of war and its link to the climate disaster. The v...
Thy Will Be Done? - Intro Ephesians 5:15-17
West Side Poplar Bluff - September 10, 2023 17:47 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAm I Doing God's Will? By far is THE MOST asked question among Christians. In this series we break it do we know and why is it important. This week we "set the table" and lay down some framework for this series. Our Goal for this series is a disciples deepest joy is found in discovering and doin...
Drag On! Art and Politics
Bar Crawl Radio - September 10, 2023 14:31 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBecky and I went on a tempestuous drag race at Gebhard’s Beer Culture Bar as we dug down into Drag culture with two young NYC Drag Queens following their command performance for an Open Streets event. We talked with Drag artists Ann Arky and Vampy Von Thickums Galore who had recently performed ...
// The Rest of the Sermon // Pillars of Truth - 1 Timothy 5:17-6:2
West Side Poplar Bluff - September 04, 2023 13:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSome Labor Day Love = Late post of The Rest of the Sermon! (You might get 2 this week! Crazy!) Take a listen for the questions Pastor Jason asks at the end about how "Pillars of Truth" has impacted you. Write in and tell us! Then, REALLY take a listen for all the things coming up in the life of ...
Pillars of Truth - 1st Timothy 6:1-21
West Side Poplar Bluff - September 03, 2023 17:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAs we wrap up our series, "Pillars of Truth", we see that the fight for godliness and contentment is a good fight! If you missed any of the sermons in this series you can always catch the ones you missed on here or our Youtube channel!
Pillars of Truth - 1 Timothy 5:17-6:2
West Side Poplar Bluff - August 27, 2023 17:50 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week we see how Church members should treat leadership. We honor God by honoring those in positions of authority.
The Rest of the Sermon // Pillars of Truth - Week 12
West Side Poplar Bluff - August 25, 2023 05:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe boys are back in town! (And by "town" we mean the studio...). Take a listen as Pastor Alex and Pastor Jason talk about everything from widows to the heat wave, and give us a deeper insight into Sunday's sermon. This episode is Sponsored by: Matt Phillips at First Choice Insurance 573-68...
Pillars of Truth - 1 Timothy 5:1-16
West Side Poplar Bluff - August 20, 2023 17:55 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week, as we continue our series, we see that in God's household we care for each other with grace and honor.
Pillars of Truth // 1 Timothy 4:6-16
West Side Poplar Bluff - August 16, 2023 17:25 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSuccess is like Godliness... it's not random! Our Big Idea this week is the The Gospel + Discipline = Godliness! Take a listen to hear all about how we should "eat and exercise" and what we should ELIMINATE and REPLACE!
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