A podcast designed to bless youth ministers, youth pastors or anyone who help teens grow into the men and women God created them to be. David Rubio sits down with various special guests to talk about issues relating to congregational youth work and teen/youth spiritual development.
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Our congregation is a place where Jewish and non-Jewish people gather to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We study the Tenach (Jewish Scriptures) and the Brit Chadashah (New Covenant) as one text. Since we recognize that the foundations of our faith are Jewish, we emphasize and express our Jewish heritage through biblically based, culturally relevant worship and holiday observances. In addition, we endeavor to develop a Messianic mishpochah (family) pursues healthy, loving, spiri ...
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What makes a great Catholic homily, and what goes into the art of delivering it well? “Preach” is a new weekly podcast from America Media that features a diverse cast of the finest Catholic preachers. Each week, preachers open up their hearts and minds, sharing their spiritual lives, approaches to interpreting scripture and techniques for preparing the best homilies. On each episode, listeners will meet Catholic preachers, learn about their communities and hear their Sunday homilies, deliver ...
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This podcast was created to take a deeper dive into our community stories, our city development and anything and everything Chandler. The key is to educate, inform and entertain Chandler residents by hearing from our community leaders, residents, businesses, non-profits, and various city departments on numerous city-wide topics of interest.
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The Listen, Organize, Act podcast focuses on the history and contemporary practice of community organizing and democratic politics. Alongside this specific focus are two others: the first is to explore how organizing connects democracy and religion, particularly at a local level; the second is to explore the visions and practices that shape small 'd,' participatory democratic politics. The name of the podcast reflects these concerns. Through a series of conversations with folk who live and b ...
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We are equipping nonprofit leaders with best practices and resources that grow generosity to enhance your mission. In each episode, we tackle a topic related to growing generosity to your nonprofit and answer the three most critical questions for success. Our promise to you is that we won't take up a ton of your time - you have donors to cultivate - and we will give you actionable items you can start using right away. We will focus on foundational donor first principles and best practices. T ...
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Agape Speaks is the Podcast of Agape Brewing Community, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to Brew Beer, Build Community, and Change the World, founded and run by the Rev. Jamie Green Klopotoski. Rev. Jamie is an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ and the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, but considers herself a nontheist humanist. She graduated with a BA in Religion and Jewish Studies from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and a ...
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661332, The Preaching With Soul Podcast is geared for preachers who wish to preach with soul by going deep into the text. It is primarily geared towards beginning to intermediate preachers, but even expert preachers will gain something by listening to these episodes.
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The term “justpeace” is a combination of two key words: justice and peace. This podcast features stories and reflections about justpeace at the intersection of theology, development cooperation, peacebuilding and sociology. A special focus is put on faith-based development. What are Christian perspectives on fighting poverty, working for reconciliation and a more flourishing world to live in? Named by John Paul Lederach as “challenge of the 21st century”, justpeace can be seen as the biblica ...
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Top preaching takeaways from the National Eucharistic Congress
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At the start of every “Preach” episode, we state the mission of the show: “We take you into the minds and hearts of some of the finest preachers in the Catholic Church; we listen to their homilies, learn what makes them great and draw inspiration to keep preaching the Good News.” This mission informed our decision to send host Ricardo da Silva, S.J…
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Writing a homily after the Trump assassination attempt
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“There were people who came up to me and said, ‘thank you for saying what you said about the rhetoric. I hope that the Biden people get this message.’ And then other people would stop and say, ‘thank you for what you said. This is [what] Trump people really need to hear.’” Greg Kandra shared, “so I think somehow by the grace of God, I walked to tha…
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Meet a ‘perpetual pilgrim’ on her way to the National Eucharistic Congress
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“We’re like the apostles,” says Shayla Elm. “We’re getting to walk with Jesus, like the apostles did; getting to learn from him, getting to see the ways that He brings people to Him that maybe you didn't think twice about, the people on the fringes.” On this episode of “Preach,” host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., talks with Shayla Elm, one of 24 young ad…
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How the Eucharistic Revival can help us love God more deeply
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“The Eucharist is the food that makes us hungry,” says Joe Laramie, S.J., so when he preaches, he hopes to stir his congregation “to deeper hunger for the Lord, to grow in deeper devotion to him.” Joe, the National Director of the Pope’s Prayer Network and a preacher for the National Eucharistic Revival, preaches for the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordina…
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Made in Chandler: A Look Into Downtown Chandler Businesses
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Have you ever wondered how some businesses got their start or thinking of starting your own business? Tap in with Betsy Lizer and Made in Chandler on this episode of Voices of Chandler, the podcast. Betsy talks to the owners of both Mingle + Graze and 28 Gorilla on what brought them and their businesses to downtown Chandler, the challenges of being…
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Try writing your next homily in a coffee shop
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A homily is a public speech, so it only makes sense to write it in public, says Scott VanDerveer, who mostly writes his homilies sitting at a long shared table in a coffee shop. “I love looking up at whoever’s in line at the cash register at that moment and thinking, ‘Would this guy, or would this woman care about what I’m saying at all; would this…
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A surefire way to lose your congregation’s attention is to start a homily with “In today’s Gospel reading,” says Thomas Groome. “The purpose of good preaching,” he says, “is to bring our lives to God and God to our lives.” A preacher’s job, then, is to facilitate a meaningful conversation between the two. This week on “Preach,” Tom, a professor of …
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Preachers: Tell a story that will stay with your listeners long after the homily is over.
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Though Jesus preached in parables that still captivate us, not every story told in a homily has a similarly lasting impact. The Rev. Christopher Clohessy shares how preachers can craft stories that linger long after Mass is over. This week on “Preach,” host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., is joined by another South African priest. Chris is a priest of the …
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Ron Hansen on bringing fiction-writing techniques to homily writing
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Ron Hansen has written award-winning novels that have been turned into Hollywood hits. As an ordained deacon, he crafts equally compelling homilies. This week on “Preach,” Deacon Ron Hansen, a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Washington and a prolific author, preaches for the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Year B. His homily reflects…
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Build A Beautiful Desert Landscape with H2wHOa and The AZ Plant Lady
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Have you ever killed a plant? Then this episode is for you. Tap in with Water Conservation Specialists, Tiffany Yand and Emily Dejesu, as they talk to Noelle Johnson, also known as the AZ Plant Lady, for this month's H2wHoa! segment on Voices of Chandler, the podcast. Noelle talks about how she started her desert friendly landscaping work, her curr…
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What young adults most need to hear in a homily
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While most parishes struggle to attract young members, Saint Clement Parish in Chicago stands out with a mostly young adult congregation. This week on “Preach,” the Rev. Peter Wojcik, the pastor of Saint Clement Parish in Chicago, Ill., preaches for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B. In his homily, he reflects on the depth of Jesus’ committed love…
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A preacher should offer the congregation a challenge—not cheap grace
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Gemma Simmonds, C.J., a theologian and sister at the Cambridge Theological Federation in Cambridge, England, preaches for the Fifth Sunday in Easter, Year B: In her homily, she reflects on her experience of poverty in Brazil, giving significance to Christ’s words: “Make your home in me as I make mine in you.” Then, in the conversation with host Ric…
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Bishop Stowe preaches on the climate crisis for Good Shepherd Sunday
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“I think there's a major concern for living more in harmony with creation, which is a result of conversion,” says Bishop John Stowe, OFM Conv., “But I think Pope Francis is also, as our good shepherd, calling us to greater urgency to act because time is slipping away and we haven't done much.” Bishop John Stowe is a Conventual Franciscan, the third…
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To be a good preacher, pray more and read widely
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Good preaching requires mastery of rhetoric, in particular the tools of repetition and organization. “Otherwise, they’re not gonna remember,” says John Baldovin, S.J. “This is a no-brainer, but beginning, middle and end, and not trying to make too many points” are key to a compelling homily. He also adds with hyperbolic emphasis, “If you want to be…
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Striking a chord: The debate on singing in the homily
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“Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!” This is how Kim Harris starts her homily for the Second Sunday of Easter—in joyous song. “When Thomas first the tidings heard / How they had seen the risen Lord / He doubted the disciples’ word. Alleluia!...” Such daring from the ambo has long struck a controversial chord with preachers and liturgists alike, promptin…
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When preparing to preach, treat your homily like music
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In the Judeo-Christian tradition, God often makes Godself known through sound: be it a voice from a burning bush, a resounding clap of thunder or the blast of a trumpet. “God is revealed through sound,” affirms Ed Foley, O.F.M. Cap. “I think of a homily as sound theology,” he adds, “it’s acoustic engagement.” When preparing to preach, Ed, the Duns …
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Ukraine military chaplain: Preaching hope to a world at war on Good Friday
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When reflecting on the life, death and resurrection of the Lord while living in a state of military invasion and active war, Andriy Zelinskyy, S.J., says that “everything becomes more authentic.” For this Jesuit priest, who serves as the chief military chaplain of the Ukrainian-Greek Catholic Church, the task of preaching to those suffering in Ukra…
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A Preacher’s Guide to Holy Week: These are long liturgies. Be brief!
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The liturgies of Holy Week need to be seen as a unity. With two weeks remaining before the start of this summit of the Christian year, the “Preach” team sought the expertise of two esteemed liturgical scholars and practitioners to give preachers a whistle-stop tour of the readings and liturgies for this sacred week. In conversation with “Preach” ho…
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Father Rob Galea’s preaching strategies for reaching disengaged youth
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“Explain the resurrection to me in two minutes without using any church language.” This is the challenge that Father Rob Galea sets for his staff to ensure they can easily relate to the young people they serve. “That takes practice, and that takes hanging out with the kids and understanding the way they speak, the way they reason.” Rob, originally …
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How a deacon’s past as a taxi driver fuels his preaching
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The best formation Deacon Steve Kramer has ever received were the four summers he spent as a taxi and limo driver. “It really prepared me for pastoral counseling,” he says of his year’s shuttling people back and forth. “They sit, they open their heart, and pretty much they figure out that they’ll never see you again. So they open up in a different …
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Meet a woman who teaches priests to preach
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“Effective preaching is like good butter sinking into warm toast,” says Karla Bellinger. “You’ve gotta give the Holy Spirit a little bit of time to do some work.” As the founding executive director of the Institute for Homiletics at the University of Dallas and president of the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics, Karla is filled with bi…
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Try something new this Lent: Map out your homilies like an org chart
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Russell Pollitt, S.J., approaches his homilies in a manner unlike any other preacher the “Preach” team has yet seen. While some rely on verbatim manuscripts, detailed linear plans, or simply loose notes, when this South African Jesuit priest sits down to write his homily after praying on the Scriptures, the first thing he does is produce an org cha…
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The Vatican’s chief liturgist on why preachers need to take their homilies more seriously
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Cardinal Roche opens the Lenten season on “Preach: The Catholic Homilies Podcast” with a heartfelt message taken from the Scripture readings for Ash Wednesday: “Come back to me with all your heart.” When asked by host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., why he chose the theme of “Welcome Home” and not to preach “in a heavier way,” to emphasize the penitential …
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You may have seen that we haven’t had any episodes for the last two weeks. We are taking a break after the bumper set of episodes we put together for you during the Advent and Christmas seasons. We are reviewing the results of our survey—which you can still respond to here— and planning our offering for Lent. In the meantime, in this great week whe…
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The star first leads the wise men to Jerusalem—where Old and New Testament meet—not Bethlehem
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Preaching on the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, David Neuhaus, S.J., explores a curiosity in the story of the Wise Men’s journey from the East to the Bethlehem manger. “Why didn’t the star take them straight to Bethlehem? Why did it take them to Jerusalem?,” he asks. "I think it took them to Jerusalem, as we are always taken to Jerusalem, b…
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A Syriac Catholic priest and father in Bethlehem preaches on the Feast of the Holy Family
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Yunan Frédéric, a Syriac Catholic priest living in Bethlehem with his Latina-American wife and their three children, preaches on the Feast of the Holy Family, even though the Syriac Church does not observe this feast in its liturgical calendar. For the past two years, he has served as the pastor of the Syriac Catholic community in Bethlehem; a smal…
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