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In this episode, Dan Cardinali, President/CEO of Independent Sector, joins us to explore how a posture of contemplation and action can meaningfully contribute to human flourishing in our urban world.
Cities, by their very nature, point us to the contradictions and paradoxes that are an inseparable aspect of our world. To love cities - as the Leadership Foundations global network seeks to embody - is to embrace these contradictions.Join us
How do we navigate today's urban world - holding the bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other? How do we navigate the tension of contemplation and action, street and the academy in our active engagement in the city?Join us for this ne
G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “The reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry is too fierce, too fascinating and too practical in its demands.”*In this 2021 finale podcast episode, we welcome bac
Can you see a playground amidst the countless smells, sights, and sounds of New York City? Jeremy Del Rio, Executive Director of Thrive Collective, Leadership Foundation of NYC, joins us to describe how this vision of the City as a Playground
Can you imagine a city that is just? A city where everyone - regardless of background, birth family, race, or creed - receives what they need to fully thrive as human beings...Justin Beene, President of the Leadership Foundation of Grand Rapid
At the center of transformation in our world's cities is leadership - women and men who deeply love their city and are committed to it becoming more like a playground.Join us as Melody Rodriguez and Alma Vargas from Proyecto Mole in Tacoma, Wa
In this year-end series of 2021, we're returning to our roots, letting our imagination guide us as we explore more deeply the animating metaphor of Leadership Foundations: our world's cities as playgrounds.Join us as we hear from LF leaders f
Can you imagine God's economy of abundance even in places where resources appear so scarce? Can you see it?Join us as we wrap up this City as Playground podcast series, Imagining Abundance, recapping our conversations of seeing abundance thro
The story of West Virginia is one often told only describing its entrenched poverty, widespread opioid use, and coal -dependent economy.Ruston Seaman, president of New Vision, Leadership Foundation of Phillipi, West Virginia tells us a diffe
In Fresno, the Center for Community Transformation Leadership Foundation is reimagining the local economy of God's abundance.An economy where the city is full of practicing and prospective entrepreneurs starting and sustaining small businesses
Homelessness, prostitution, government corruption.Amidst some of these dire circumstances in South Africa, only exacerbated by COVID-19, the Towers of Hope Leadership Foundation is living into God's economy of Abundance. Learn how they are im
Can you imagine our world's cities as places of abundance? Places where God's excessive love for God's children is on full display? Where everyone, including the most vulnerable, receive all that they need to lead lives full of promise?Join u
Cohost Rick Enloe and Leadership Foundations President Dave Hillis review the territory of this seven episode series on Traditioned Innovation.How can people of faith and good will work together to innovate in our cities by drawing from our
The Nairobi Leadership Foundation is transforming one of the world's largest informal settlements, Kibra, through the power of relationships. In this podcast episode of the Traditioned Innovation series, Executive Director Gideon Ochieng descr
Is prayer still relevant today, in our post-modern 21st century urban world? Does our 2,000+ year-old faith tradition have anything to teach us about praying today?Join us as acclaimed author and public figure Fr. James Martin, SJ discusses I
What if instead of seeking safe spaces, we worked to create brave spaces, spaces where we could bring our deepest selves, our deepest vulnerabilities to the table in a way that might make real transformation possible? Rev. Jen Bailey, founder o
How does reform really happen? We continue our conversation from last episode with Dr. Richard Beck, exploring the prison ministry and reform work of three Local Leadership Foundations - Next Chapter: The LF of Rochester, MN, the Memphis Leader
Dr. Richard Beck - Author, blogger, and professor of psychology at Abilene Christian University - joins us to discuss the psychology of why we get so stuck in our tribal ruts. He suggests that an often overlooked Saint, Therese of Lisieux, offe
Is leadership about making important decisions? Or is it more about a way of going about making decisions? To borrow a phrase from the Jesuits, what is a "way of proceeding" that allows us to move forward together in these uncertain times?W
With the beginning of the new year, 2021 brings plenty of uncertainty along with it. How do we approach this new and uncertain future? How do we seek long-term change in our world's cities, when we don't even know what will happen tomorrow?Cou
As a special Advent gift, Jesuit priest, Fr. Steve Lantry, SJ is our guest to describe how how poetry can serve as a means and method to pray. Join us as Fr. Steve shares a few of his favorite poems and demonstrates how poetry can aid us in ou
How do the deep resources of our faith help us to more deeply engage the Public Square? Can a Public Theology help us find a way through these divided and polarized times to work together toward the Common Good?Anne Snyder, the Editor-in-Chie
In this rebroadcast episode, host Rick Enloe and Leadership Foundations president Dave Hillis explore the Eucharistic shape of life and leadership - what it means to be taken, blessed, broken and given.
A Conversation with Rachel McPherson of MutualityIn this podcast we explore what real, authentic collaboration is and how it can help us out of our deep ruts of resentment and rivalry.Rachel McPherson, Founder and CEO of Mutuality, joins us
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