The Well QA Podcast

May 22 2024 28 ep. 66 mins
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Join Rev. Katie M. Ladd and producer Andrew Hackett and their special guests for conversations about power, violence, and peace; spiritual journey and pilgrimage; racial (in)equity; how to have difficult conversations; and food, faith, and planet. This podcast, launched during COVID-19, replaces The Well’s public engagements while they are paused. The Well is an intentional community committed to justice and compassion; a place to safely explore issues that affect mind, body, spirit, community, and world; and, a movement committed to contemplative action.

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Looking Inward, Living Outward with Daniel Wolpert

May 22 2024 63 mins  
Our guest this week on The Well QA is Daniel Wolpert. We discuss his newest book "Looking Inward, Living Outward". Daniel Wolpert, a healer and student of the spiritual life, worked as a research scientist, psychologist, farmer, and teacher, before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS). Co-founder and Executive Director of the Minneso

Jenny Smith and Justin White on Poetry and Grief

Apr 05 2023 68 mins  
Our guests on The Well QA Podcast are author/pastor Jenny Smith and pastor Justin White to discuss grief. Rev. White is the pastor at Stanwood UMC. He is a spiritual director and retreat leader as well as the former chair of The Well’s board. Pastor Justin’s dad passed away unexpectedly last fall. He understands grief from the side of walking with others through it and as some

Norman Wirzba on Agrarian Spirit

Sep 30 2022 60 mins  
We welcome a wonderful guest this week on The Well QA Podcast! Norman Wirzba is Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute of Ethics at Duke University. He has authored such books as "Agrarian Spirit", "This Sacred Life", and "Food and Faith". His research and teaching interests are at the intersections of theology, philo

Dr. Cornel West on King’s Philosophy of Non-violence

Jun 28 2022 112 mins  
Dr. Cornel West joins the Seattle Regional Poor People's Campaign, The Well, and the WA State PPC for a talk on King's Philosophy of Non-Violence. This talk is in preparation of the Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls on June 16. Presenters: Dr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. We

The Poor People's Campaign with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Jun 08 2022 52 mins  
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a leader in the Red Letter Christian movement and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. With the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, he co-authored “The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and he Rise of a New Justice Movement.” Jonathan is a pastor, author, speaker, and a leader in the movement seeking to cre

Brian McLaren on "Do I Stay Christian?"

May 18 2022 58 mins  
Our guest today is Brian McLaren who is a pastor, public theologian, popular speaker, and prolific author. He is a faculty member of The Living School and podcaster with Learning How to See, which are part of the Center for Action and Contemplation (with Richard Rohr). His newest book comes out May 24; it is titled "Do I Stay Christian? A Guide for the Doubters, The Disappointed, a

Challenging Thoughts on John’s Passion with Wes Howard-Brook

Apr 15 2022 51 mins  
Wes Howard-Brook is a retiring instructor of New Testament at Seattle University. He is an author of several books, including Come Out My People, John’s Gospel & The Renewal of the Church, and his most recent book Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected (2nd - 5th centuries). He co-leads Abide with Me with his life partner Sue Ferguson Johnson. They have led

AJ Levine on John’s Passion, Christianity, and Antisemitism

Apr 14 2022 57 mins  
Amy-Jill is our guest this week. We talk about Easter, Holy Week, and anti-semitism within Christianity - specifically the Gospel of John. Amy Jill Levine is the Rabbi Stanley M Kessler distinguished professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at the Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. AJ is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita.

Janet Wolf and Non-Violent Organizing

Mar 08 2022 93 mins  
Janet Wolf is our guest this week on The Well QA Podcast. Janet has worked as a poverty rights organizer, United Methodist pastor with urban and rural congregations; college and seminary professor; learner, teacher, and animator with think tanks inside prisons. She recently retired from the Children’s Defense Fund where she was focused on public theology, transformative justice

Dr. Wil Gafney on the Advent Season

Dec 16 2021 65 mins  
Our guest this week on The Well QA Podcast is womanist biblical scholar, the Dr. Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. is the Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. She is the author of Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to Women of the Torah and of the Throne, a commentary on Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah in the Wisdom series; Daughters