The Emerge Detroit Podcast

Interview with the 12 Transforming Leaders interns from this year's Wildemere intern house.  Conversation about living in Detroit, working with various residents of the city, and exploring ministry in the context of all of it.  The music for today's episode comes from Fedde La Grande.

Alex Plum, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Bill Gates, Sr. shoot the breeze about the latest General Conference.  At this even Methodist from all over the world gather to discern how we do church together.  Money and awareness of anit-malaria efforts wer raised.  And the first democratically elected woman president of an African nation address the quaddrennial gathering of her United Methodist denomination.

Conversation with Matt Bistayi about the recent "UnLeashed" event at the Lansing Center and his trip to the "Emerging Church For the Existing Church" conference in Denver. Matt was lead organizer for this second UnLeashed event and gave some times of teaching around "Quadri-living" - or how we live out authentic expressions of our faith in Jesus through scripture, reason, tradition, and experience. Watch for more information on UnLeashed 2009 at getunleashed.org

In this double interview between Andrew Kimball and Carl Gladstone, they explore the history of Christian groups at Albion College and the relationship between these groups after an incident involving the issue of sexual orientation and Christian leadership.  After a number of years the Christian community at Albion is taking big steps to unify after what many have called a 10 year "split."

A conversation with Eric Kieb on the 3rd chapter of Schools for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticiam regarding the role of radical hospitality to the stranger in our emerging missional communities.

Interview with Kathy Maskell of love146.org, and organization working to end child sex slavery and exploitation.  Kathy discusses her role as the U.S. Advocacy Director and the organization's new initiative to hold Craigslist accountable for the prevelance of ads placed through the web site that are used to traffick women and children.  Please check out love146.org for more information on their mission, links to parnter organizations, and briefings on how you can participate in current initiatives.

A sermon based on Isaiah 58:1-12 calling for us to fast well. This text causes us to re-examine how we fast during Lent. Is it just a time for putting on ashes and drawing attention to how repentant we are?

Follow up phone conversation with Ben about his recent time spent working at First UMC Birmingham.  Don't forget to visit: the Penny Project.

Ben Bower shares his message from Ablion College's Wednesday Night Chapel about the Penny Project. This effort to raise one penny for every person in sub-saharan Africa infected with HIV/AIDS is moving toward its 8 millionth penny (out of a 23 million penny goal). Ben reflects on this project's witness to God's economy in the face of sickness and death. Visit the Penny Project web site or join the facebook cause to help us reach this goal!

Second in our ongoing conversations about this amazing book.  Today, Tim Ziegler and D.G. Hollums join Carl in a conversation about Shane Claiborne's chapter on God's economy of radical sharing, enough, and relationships between rich and poor rather than ecclesial brokerage systems.