Best Crossing Swords Podcasts (2024)

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Should Just Stop Oil... Just Stop?!?! 1:39:11

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Alright guys welcome back to another episode of CrossingSwords. Jake is back and ready to take on the worlds issues. From Donald Trump, The general election result and Just Stop Oil jail sentences its been a busy few weeks and Jake's ready to help Andrew tackle it all! Not An episode you wanna miss! As always you can find us @ https://crossingsword…

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Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024) 1:00:16

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Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theatre, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles, yet with her US citizenship scrutinised due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong—a defiant misfit—innovated nuanced performances to subvert the racism and sexism…

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Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024) 1:26:14

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Returning to the New Books Network is Doug Greene, here to discuss his book The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky (Routledge, 2024). Split into three main parts, the book first surveys Kautsky’s own life and thought, starting with his early interest in socialist politics and turn towards Marxism, followed by a slow but steady turn away …

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Yoram Meital, "Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) 1:03:50

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Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present. Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as a…

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Janine P. Holc, "The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust" (Brandeis UP, 2023) 55:47

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Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland, and its surrounding towns to worksites in Germany. Believing that they were helping their families to survive, these young people were thrust into a world where they labored at textile work for twelve hours a day, lived…

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Dan Gutman, "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" (Holiday House, 2024) 49:34

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Dan Gutman is the renowned, prolific author of some 190 books for kids from kindergarten up to middle school. His books include Rappy the Raptor (picture book) and the "My Weird School" series (early readers) about kids who go to a school in which all the grownups are crazy. Over thirty five million books have been sold . He has also written “Wait!…

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Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Shepherd of Hermas: A Literary, Historical, and Theological Handbook" (T&T Clark, 2021) 1:08:34

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Written in Rome as a book with revelatory intentions, the early Christian work known as the Shepherd of Hermas flourished especially in the second, third, and fourth centuries CE, was quoted as scripture by several church fathers, and, on the balance of manuscript attestation and translations from Greek to other languages, “is one of the most widel…

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Jeremy Black, "Histories of War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2024) 36:03

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A global account of histories of war, from Antiquity to the present day, Histories of War (Pen & Sword Military, 2024) shows how the varied modes of representation record political, cultural and social developments as well as military events. Covers all forms of discussion and commemoration from statuary to scholarship, films to novels. Important n…

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Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History" (Oxford UP, 2019) 57:04

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Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives. Pacifists in the United States were either simplistic and naïve, or they were fellow travelers of the Soviet Union. Peace proposals coming from the Soviet Union were nothing more than propaganda. Activists in Europe,…

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Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024) 1:17:16

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This enlightening book reframes the history of hip-hop—and this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left an undeniable impact on music. First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game (Twelve, 2024), hip-hop is not just the music, and women have played a big role in shaping the way it looks today. …

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Nicholas Orme, "Going to Church in Medieval England" (Yale UP, 2021) 1:10:27

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For people in medieval England, the parish church was an integral part of their community. In Going to Church in Medieval England (Yale University Press, 2021), Nicholas Orme describes how parish churches operated and details the roles they played in the lives of their parishioners. While there was a considerable variety of experience over the cent…

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Communion in the Crucifixion 36:00

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A new MP3 sermon from Reformed Presbyterian Church in San Anto is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Communion in the Crucifixion Subtitle: Guest Preachers Speaker: Seni Adeyemi Broadcaster: Reformed Presbyterian Church in San Anto Event: Sunday Service Date: 7/21/2024 Bible: Galatians 2:20 Length: 36 min.…

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Harnessing the Power of Setbacks | Amy Shoenthal | 586 28:29

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Amy Shoenthal, USA Today bestselling author of "The Setback Cycle: How Defining Moments Can Move Us Forward," joins Bill Sherman on the Thought Leadership Leverage podcast. Amy is a seasoned journalist and marketing executive with 20 years of investigative reporting. Her passion for profiling founders, executives, and leaders who take risks and cre…

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The Cross is the Life of the Way (Part 1) 31:00

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A new MP3 sermon from The Cross Fellowship is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Cross is the Life of the Way (Part 1) Subtitle: Why Cross Fellowship? Speaker: Dr. David P Murray Broadcaster: The Cross Fellowship Event: Sunday - AM Date: 7/28/2024 Bible: John 6:27-57 Length: 31 min.…

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Christ Providing for the Needy 43:00

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A new MP3 sermon from Cornerstone Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christ Providing for the Needy Subtitle: Communion Season, Summer 2024 Speaker: Gavin Beers Broadcaster: Cornerstone Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 7/28/2024 Bible: Luke 9:10-17 Length: 43 min.…

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The Gospel Feast 52:00

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A new MP3 sermon from Cornerstone Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Gospel Feast Subtitle: Communion Season, Summer 2024 Speaker: Gavin Beers Broadcaster: Cornerstone Presbyterian Church Event: Special Meeting Date: 7/27/2024 Bible: Isaiah 25:6 Length: 52 min.…

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An Awful Sword 45:00

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A new MP3 sermon from Cornerstone Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: An Awful Sword Subtitle: Communion Season, Summer 2024 Speaker: Gavin Beers Broadcaster: Cornerstone Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 7/28/2024 Bible: Zechariah 13:7 Length: 45 min.…

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Swati Chattopadhyay, "Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 56:47

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Swati Chattopadhyay's book Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2023) recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginali…

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Kate Brandes, "Stone Creek" (Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2024) 48:57

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Kate Brandes' new novel, Stone Creek (Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2024) introduces readers to Tilly and Frank Stone. Seventeen years ago, after living as a fugitive, Tilly Stone (then, age 13) is left to fend for herself in remote Pennsylvania when her infamous eco-terrorist father disappears under mysterious circumstances. She tries to forget the dams they b…

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David M. K. Sheinin and David S. Koffman, "Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation" (Brill, 2024) 1:05:45

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This book puts two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of the U.S. into conversation with one another. At times contributor-pairs directly compare unique aspects of two Jewish histories, politics, or cultures. At other times, they juxtapose. Some chapters focus on literature, poetry, theatre, or sport; others on immigration,…

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Susan Stryker, "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:00:15

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Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (Duke UP, 2024) showcases the development of Stryker’s writing from the 1990s to the present. It combines canonical pieces, such as “My Words to Victor Frankenstein,” with her hard to find earlier work published in zines and newsletters. Brought tog…

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Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023) 1:03:13

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Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2023) is a work of creative nonfiction tracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroine. It begins in Cairo, 1963. Four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age 27. For the next three decades, it’s as if Enayat never existe…

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Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024) 46:06

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Is Orwell still relevant today? In Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century (Norton, 2024), Laura Beers, a Professor of History at American University examines the life and writing of Orwell to offer lessons for contemporary politics and society. The book examines the influences that shaped Eric Blair’s nom de plume, as well as show…

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Rachel M. Scott, "Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making" (Cornell UP, 2021) 1:05:23

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By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making (Cornell University Press, 2021) highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is reshaped into modern Islamic state la…

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Rochelle Potkar, "Coins in Rivers: Poems" (Hachette India, 2024) 32:49

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Fierce and unflinching, Rochelle Potkar's poetry springs from the deeply personal and ripples out to the world, capturing lovers' whispers and reverberations of explosions with equal ease. Vividly depicting love, grief, anger, and defiance, these poems glimmer like coins beneath the water surface, tethered with the weight of wishes clinging to them…

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Nik Ribianszky, "Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865" (U Georgia Press, 2021) 1:17:42

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In Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865 (U Georgia Press, 2021), Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender and violence to examine family, community, and the tenacious struggles by which free blacks claimed and maintained their freedom under shifting international governance from Spanish colonial rule (1779…

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Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:10:06

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Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Kate Hext is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema …

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Disarming Christian Nationalism (with Pastor Caleb Campbell) 1:02:31

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Host Curtis Chang sits down with Pastor Caleb Campbell, author of the new book Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor. Caleb shares his powerful journey from disenfranchised young churchgoer to neo-nazi, and ultimately, his transformation into an evangelical pastor with a desire to reach adherents of Christian Nationalism. …

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Premee Mohamed, "The Siege of Burning Grass" (Solaris, 2024) 41:39

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Premee Mohamed’s novel The Siege of Burning Grass (Solaris, 2024) is set during an ongoing war between two empires: Varkal and Med’ariz and follows Alefret, a founder of Varkal’s pacifist resistance who has been arrested and imprisoned by his own country. When the opportunity for freedom presents itself, Alefret must decide how willing he is to col…

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Neoliberalism and the University, Part 1 53:16

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This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media a…

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Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024) 55:16

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It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called ELECTRA, and an increasing num…

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Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023) 37:23

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What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel (U Virginia Press, 2023), Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritua…

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Forgotten Ummah--Muslims in China 1:02:25

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This episode is the first of two episodes this season on Muslims in China. Here Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talk to Darren Blyer about his book Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke UP, 2022). Darren is a sociocultural anthropologist at Simon Fraser University, whose book explores how islamophobia and c…

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Ellie Laks, "Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between" (New World Library, 2024) 47:25

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In Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between (New World Library, 2024), Ellie Laks recounts the extraordinary journey that started with her first teacher, Buddha -- not the religious figure, but a rescued miniature Hereford cow. One evening Buddha wrapped her neck around an exhausted …

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Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022) 1:06:04

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Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactly what Edward Kaplan and I discussed in our interview about his recent book, The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age (Cornell UP, 2022). The current Dean of the School of Strategic Landpower at the US Army War College, Kaplan recounts…

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A. J. Berkovitz, "A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) 53:15

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The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as drinking water and uttering one's last words. And within a scriptural universe, no work exerted more force than the Psalter, the most cherished text amo…

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Politics in Action 2024: Myanmar Update 26:32

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Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, and discussed the broader implications of events in these countries for the region. After the event, each of the six speakers sat for a podcast to chat with Dr Natali Pe…

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Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz, "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" (Reaktion Books, 2024) 42:46

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Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mitchel P. Roth and Dr. Mahmut Cengiz unfolds the gripping history of weaponized mail, offering the first ever comprehensive exploration of this sinister phenomenon. Spanning two centuries, the book unveils the history of postal bombs, describing the evolution of both explo…

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Robert Baker, "Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics" (MIT Press, 2024) 1:02:56

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The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics. In Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics (MIT Press, 2024), Robert Baker tells the counter history of the birth of bioethics, bringing to the …

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Elena Borisova, "Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life" (UCL Press, 2024) 57:11

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Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. Moving beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet migration, it foregrounds the experiences of those who ‘sta…

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Gathered together in my name 39:00

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A new MP3 sermon from St David's Bridge Strict Baptist Chapel is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Gathered together in my name Subtitle: Gathered together Speaker: Rowland Wheatley Broadcaster: St David's Bridge Strict Baptist Chapel Event: Midweek Service Date: 8/1/2024 Bible: Matthew 18:20; John 14:13-14 Length: 39 …

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The Saint's Priority in this Fellowship 54:00

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A new MP3 sermon from Grace Fellowship Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Saint's Priority in this Fellowship Subtitle: Communion of the Saints Speaker: Mark Gervais Broadcaster: Grace Fellowship Baptist Church Event: Camp Meeting Date: 8/1/2024 Bible: Ephesians 6:4 Length: 54 min.…

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The Saint's Obligations in This Fellowship 57:00

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A new MP3 sermon from Grace Fellowship Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Saint's Obligations in This Fellowship Subtitle: Communion of the Saints Speaker: Mark Gervais Broadcaster: Grace Fellowship Baptist Church Event: Camp Meeting Date: 7/31/2024 Bible: Hebrews 10:24-25 Length: 57 min.…

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The Saint's Fellowship With Christ 47:00

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A new MP3 sermon from Grace Fellowship Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Saint's Fellowship With Christ Subtitle: Communion of the Saints Speaker: Mark Gervais Broadcaster: Grace Fellowship Baptist Church Event: Camp Meeting Date: 7/30/2024 Bible: Philippians 3:10 Length: 47 min.…

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Why the Lord's Supper is a Means of Grace 38:00

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A new MP3 sermon from Grace Bible Church of Conway is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Why the Lord's Supper is a Means of Grace Subtitle: Misc. Wednesday Speaker: Jeffrey D. Johnson Broadcaster: Grace Bible Church of Conway Event: Midweek Service Date: 7/31/2024 Length: 38 min.…

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Let My People Go (with Matt Osborne) 1:16:45

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LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED: The topic of today’s episode is human trafficking and crimes against children, usually sexual crimes, and sometimes ritual abuse and organ harvesting. Matt Osborne has worked with OUR Rescue (originally Operation Underground Railroad) for ten years; he left his CIA career to join this NGO and is now one of the longes…

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"Catamaran" Magazine: A Discussion with Catherine Segurson 27:34

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Catherine Segurson is the founding editor of Catamaran. She’s a painter, videographer and creative writer who graduated from the Master of Fine Arts program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Prior to founding Catamaran 12 years ago, she worked at both Zeotrope and ZYZZYVA literary magazines. California-based Catamaran focuses ofte…

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Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong (1842-1981) (Chinese U of Hong Kong Press, 2023) 52:50

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How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city’s changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management? Today’s book is: Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong, 1842-1981 …

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Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024) 54:31

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The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. The Portuguese got there first, persuading the Spanish to fund expeditions trying to go the other direction, sailing westward across the Atlantic. Roger Crowley, in his new book Spice: The 16th-Century…

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