Love. Is it really all we need? As we move into Week 4 of advent this week, we settle in for a close look at this expansive topic. As you might know, for each week of advent, the FMW team brought you a deep-dive conversation featuring special g

Chatting through Advent: A Joy of Surprise, Resistance, and...Taylor Swift

Dec 17th, 2020 1h 13m

It’s pink candle week, ya’ll! As you might know, for each week of advent, the FMW team is bringing you a deep-dive conversation featuring special guests from the CBC community. Where do we go this week? To joy, of course! This year has been o

Chatting through Advent: A Peace Sought, Cultivated, and Sometimes Found

Dec 7th, 2020 1h 3m

We’re now in our second week of this season of anticipation. As you might know, for each week of advent, the FMW team is bringing you a deep-dive conversation featuring special guests from the CBC community. Where do we go this week? Yesterda

Chatting through Advent: A Hope Tied to Courage, Anger, and Skepticism

Nov 30th, 2020 58m 29s

Week 1 of Advent has arrived! How are you observing it this year, Faith Made Welcome listeners? Over the next four weeks the FMW team is observing it by way of deep dive conversations with CBC community members. Yesterday marked the lighting o

Gearing up for Advent: Tradition, Now-and-Not-Yet, and Advent People

Nov 23rd, 2020 1h 5m

This week on the podcast we take some more time to anticipate the season of anticipation! We build on last week’s history of Advent episode with this one wherein you’ll hear Marty and Robin sit down with Cheri and Paul to look at what the adven

Knowing What Came Before: Fireside Chats with LCR, Part 2 - Advent

Nov 16th, 2020 50m 54s

This week on the podcast we continue our fireside chat with Lonnie Rich! In this part of the conversation you’ll get to hear Lonnie, Cheri, and Paul take a closer look at the Advent season and its history. We look at early celebrations of Adven

Knowing What Came Before: Fireside Chats with LCR, Part 1

Nov 9th, 2020 49m 25s

What’s better in mid-fall than some cozy storytelling around the fire? That’s what you’ll listen in on over the next two weeks of Faith Made Welcome. Settle in, grab a warm beverage, hear the gentle crackle of the fire pit (seriously!) and join

Digging in With Hocus Pocus: Faith, Spookiness, and Halloween: Part 2

Oct 26th, 2020 50m 47s

This episode of Faith Made Welcome is the second of a two-part discussion leading us into Halloween! Last episode we chatted through our general impressions of Hocus Pocus, our experiences with trick-or-treating, and some basic history of Hallo

Digging in With Hocus Pocus: Faith, Spookiness, and Halloween: Part 1

Oct 19th, 2020 58m 53s

This episode of Faith Made Welcome is the first of a two-part discussion leading us into Halloween! What do we see when we bring together Hocus Pocus (that’s right, the 1993 Disney film!) with themes of faith and explorations of Christianity?

Caring for Creation: Stewardship of Planet, Community and Self

Oct 12th, 2020 1h 7m

This episode of Faith Made Welcome wraps up our series on the intersections and relationship between faith and science. For today’s episode, we turn our attention to social science and creation care. What does it mean to take care of the wor

Narrating our Health Choices: Public Health, Religious Community, and Issues of Vaccination

Oct 5th, 2020 1h 14m

Today’s episode of Faith Made Welcome is another episode focused on the intersections and relationship between faith and science. For today’s episode, we draw the focus in quite specifically and look at public health, vaccination, religious lib

Troubling the Division: Faith, Science and the Doubt They Share, The Debrief

Sep 28th, 2020 47m 28s

Today’s episode of Faith Made Welcome is something of a bonus episode! If you’ve been listening to this podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia for the last four weeks, you know that we’ve been dig

Troubling the Division: Faith, Science and the Doubt They Share, Part 3

Sep 21st, 2020 46m 49s

With today’s episode we continue the second series of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.If you listened to our last two episodes you know that that this m

Troubling the Division: Faith, Science and the Doubt They Share, Part 2

Sep 14th, 2020 43m 6s

Troubling the Division: Faith, Science and the Doubt They Share, Part 1

Sep 7th, 2020 52m 12s

Today we kick off the second series of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.For the next month and half, our podcast will feature discussions about the inter

Longing For Life: Colorful, Abundant, Unbelievable Life

Aug 31st, 2020 1h 5m

With this episode, we wrap up the first series of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia. If you’ve been listening since Episode 1, you know that throughout the m

Talking About Love: Song of Songs, Radical Love, and Moving Past Purity Culture

Aug 24th, 2020 56m 35s

Here we go with week 3 of the Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.This episode is the third installment in our “What The World Needs Now” series. This four

Negotiating our Covenants: Rules, Promises, or Something More?

Aug 17th, 2020 52m 1s

Welcome to the second episode of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.This episode is the second installment in our “What The World Needs Now” series. This fo

Wrestling with Hope: Prophetic Hope, Defiant Hope, and Shadows of Hope

Aug 10th, 2020 52m 47s

Thanks for checking out the first episode of Faith Made Welcome, a progressive podcast on faith brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.For the next four weeks, our podcast will feature discussions and reflection

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