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You’re invited to join us for our monthly podcast! Our episodes will feature conversations between Parker and Carrie, focused on Growing Edge topics. Occasionally, we’ll invite some wise and wonderful friends of ours to share their insights on the topic we’re exploring.  

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Parker J. Palmer, Co-host of The Growing Edge Podcast

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producer, director & engineer of The Growing Edge Podcast

Allison Quantz is a radio and podcast producer living in Bloomington, Indiana. She is senior producer at With Good Reason, an award-winning, nationally-broadcast radio show from Virginia Humanities. Alongside her work at With Good Reason, Allison is an adjunct instructor of audio production at Indiana University. In 2015, she launched The Briefing from SiriusXM and went on to produce it until late 2017. Her work has also been heard on BackStory with the American History Guys, Café Indiana, Virginia Public Radio, Word of Mouth, Distillations, and PRX Remix.

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Episode 57: Unexpected Hope in Improbable Actions: A New Conversation with John Paul Lederach”
Episode 57: Unexpected Hope in Improbable Actions: A New Conversation with John Paul Lederach”

Join Parker and Carrie for a conversation with Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding Univ. of Notre Dame, John Paul Lederach, about his new booklet “The Pocket Guide for Facing Down a Civil War”. This new booklet draws upon Lederach’s insights and experience as a renowned peace practitioner and mediating conflicts worldwide. In this new booklet he provides thoughtful, sometimes surprising ideas and practical advice on how to navigate, disrupt and mitigate the patterns that lead to deeper conflict - with attention to what is happening currently in our local and political landscape.

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Podcast Rebroadcast of Episode 22: “Revolutionary Love: A Conversation with Author/Activist Valarie Kaur
Podcast Rebroadcast of Episode 22: “Revolutionary Love: A Conversation with Author/Activist Valarie Kaur

This month Parker Palmer is taking a sabbatical. This is a re-broadcasting our June 1 2020 conversation with Author/Activist/Filmmaker Valarie Kaur. In this episode we discuss her book " See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love".
Two months after the 2016 election, Valarie spoke words that went viral, offering millions of people a lasting image of hope, the kind of hope we still desperately need today: “The future is dark. But what if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb but the darkness of the womb?” Those words became the seeds of The Revolutionary Love Project, a movement that continues to reframe and lift up the tradition of nonviolent action for social change for our era. Tested and tempered by suffering, but rising up with hope and joy, Kaur explores with us how to how to love others, love our opponents, and love ourselves in ways that will bring us closer to the Beloved Community.

The Growing Edge June Podcast: Episode 56: Toughness For A More Gentle World —A Conversation with Parker & Carrie About May Sarton’s Poem “An Observation”.
The Growing Edge June Podcast: Episode 56: Toughness For A More Gentle World —A Conversation with Parker & Carrie About May Sarton’s Poem “An Observation”.

In this episode, Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer have a conversation exploring May Sarton’s thoughtful poem, “An Observation” Gardening is rich with metaphors for a well-lived life. Amend and prepare the soil. Plant the seeds, tend them, and weed out whatever impedes growth. Marvel at the process and share the harvest: we’re here to feed one another as well as ourselves. May Sarton’s poem offers a less obvious metaphor. A well-lived life needs to be both gentle and strong, tender and fierce.

We hope you’ll join us for this rich conversation!

Episode 55: A Conversation With Quaker Author Phillip Gulley
Episode 55: A Conversation With Quaker Author Phillip Gulley

In this episode, Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer have a conversation with author/pastor/theologian Philip Gulley. Gulley is a pastor, an author, a source of wisdom and hope, and a clear and prophetic voice in progressive theology & spiritual activism in these challenging times. He has written 22 books, including the Harmony series recounting life in the eccentric Quaker community of Harmony, Indiana, several collections of essays including  the best selling "Porch Talk", and a memoir called  "I Love You, Miss Huddleston" which was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In addition, he has co-authored with James Mulholland several works of theology and progressive faith including "If Grace Is True" and "If God Is Love", followed by "If the Church Were Christian".

I hope you’ll join us for a powerful conversation about living authentically into our deepest values and naming the more extreme voices of the Christian Nationalism and Maga Christianity as political movements with little to do with a philosophy of justice, inclusion and radical love.

Phillip has recently joined the Substack platform with “Plain Speech: With Phillip Gulley.” We hope you’ll check out his many works and subscribe to his Substack offerings.