Best Desmond Tutu Podcasts (2024)

Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, November 3, 2024 Tyler Williams Scripture: Genesis 1:26-27, John 1:14, Luke 10:25-29 Main Idea: Fred Rogers showed us what it is to welcome someone and be kind to them just because they are another sacred human being with worth and dignity.

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Julian of Norwich - Generous Love 19:22

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, October 20, 2024 Pastor Hope Ledbetter-Bock Isaiah 49:13-16 Main Idea: “All will be well” because God is love. She shows us God’s generous love toward what God made.

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St. Francis Generous Serving 22:07

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, October 13, 2024 Tyler Williams Matthew 25:31-40 & Philippians 2:3-8 Main Idea: St. Francis shows us a generous serving spirit in the way of Jesus. His generosity was informed by a generous receiving of Christ in those he served. When he served, he thought he was serving Jesus.…

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Shattered Plans/Dreams 25:27

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, October 6, 2024 Austin Holland John 20:24-29

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I'm Terrible, Thanks for Asking - Sickness and Injury 22:11

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, September 29, 2024 Leaning on God and into Community when we're sick or injured. Pastor Tyler Williams Psalm 6:2-4; Mark 2:1-12

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I’m Terrible, Thanks for Asking: Death 23:28

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Worship, September 22, 2024 Speaker: Tyler Willams Scripture: John 11:25 (I am the resurrection and the life) ; Ruth 1:1-18 (the power of and importance of presence, allowing people to journey with you in grief) Main Idea: When we are in the midst of grief from losing a loved one, Jesus reminds us of the hope that w…

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Broken Relationships 27:26

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message,September 15th, 2024 Tyler Williams Scripture: Jacob and Esau (Genesis 32:1-9; 33:1-17) Main Idea: Like Jacob and Esau, we often experience the pain and difficulty of a broken relationship with a friend, partner or family member. It’s stressful and hard and yet God calls us to lean into reconciliation with h…

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UNTITLED & UNCENSORED?? 51:10

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Conversation includes the Hip hop war continues between Kendrick & Drake. To be continued...By ConscienCeD

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September 8 - Mental Health 25:16

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, September 8, 2024 Tyler Williams 1 Kings 19:1-18 Main Idea: Mental illness is often stigmatized by the church. The truth is, depression or other forms of mental illness are not signs that someone's faith is weak. When we are struggling with any form of mental illness, we can remember we are not alone like G…

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Saul - Paradigm Shift 22:51

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, September 1st Main Idea: When Paul meets the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus he was operating with a worldview that was about rigorous rule keeping and protecting the Jewish faith at all costs. After his encounter with Jesus, he operates from a new paradigm, one that centers on treasuring and serving Je…

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Mary Magdalene - Loneliness to Community 20:21

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message August 25, 2024 Tyler Williams Luke 8: 1-3 John 20: 11-18

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Woman at the Well - Hiding to Making Known 24:24

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, August 18, 2024 Tyler Williams John 4:4-39

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Nicodemus - Cautious to Courageous 21:20

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, August 11, 2024 Tyler Williams John 3:1-9, 7:45-51, 19:38-42

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Change of Allegiance 20:40

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August 4 - Matthew - Change of Allegiance Main Idea: Matthew has an allegiance to Rome. He’s a tax collector. Whether it’s out of convenience or something else, his life shows where his loyalty lies even at the expense of his own Jewish people. When he encounters Jesus, he has a fundamental change of allegiance from Rome and collecting taxes to Jes…

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The Gospel According To...Stephanie Leth 18:46

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, August 4th Stephanie Leth Psalm 139: 7-10

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The Gospel According To…Ben Boudreau 24:23

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, July 21st, 2024 Ben Boudreau Matthew 7:24-27

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The Gospel According To…Joy Craig 15:07

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, July 14th Joy Craig Phillipians 4:4-9

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The Gospel According to...Mario 15:11

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message July 7, 2024 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life 1:20:13

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The wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding liked to look around the world for what he called "live human signposts" — human beings who embody ways of seeing and becoming and who point the way forward to the world we want to inhabit. And adrienne maree brown, who has inspired worlds of social creativity with her notions of "pleasure activism" …

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June 30 - Encanto 26:12

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message - June 30, 2024 Speaker Name - Tyler Williams Scripture - 1 Corinthians 12:27-13:3;13

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“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón 1:43

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An impassioned plea, a yearning for connection — the poem U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote when she says all language failed her. Take in Ada's reading of her piece, “The End of Poetry” — and hear her read more of her work in the On Being episode, “To Be Made Whole.” Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six book…

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Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning 1:02:48

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We are strange creatures. It is hard for us to speak about, or let in, the reality of frailty and death — the elemental fact of mortality itself. In this century, western medicine has gradually moved away from its understanding of death as a failure — where care stops with a terminal diagnosis. Hospice has moved, from something rare to something ex…

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June 23 - Aladdin 22:50

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, 23 June 2024 Tyler Williams Philippians 3:1-11

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“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander 1:17

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Today, a poem with a poignant question to live: “...and are we not of interest to each other?” Carry Elizabeth Alexander’s reading of her poem “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” with you — and hear Elizabeth read more of her poetry in the On Being episode, “Words That Shimmer.” Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, author, and educator. Since 2018, she has ser…

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Luis Alberto Urrea — On Our Belonging to Each Other 59:10

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We humans have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and others, Luis Alberto Urrea says, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is an exuberant, wise, and refreshing companion into the deep meaning and the problem of borders — what they are really about, what we do with them, and what they do to us. The Mexican-American border was as cl…

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June 16 - Pinnochio 21:22

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, June 16th, 2024 Pastor Tyler Williams Ephesians 2:1-10

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Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy 59:05

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In our world of so much suffering, it can feel hard or wrong to invoke the word "joy." Yet joy has been one of the most insistent, recurrent rallying cries in almost every life-giving conversation that Krista has had across recent months and years, even and especially with people on the front lines of humanity's struggles. Ross Gay helps illuminate…

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June 9 - Frozen 22:24

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message, June 9, 2024 Tyler Williams Galatians 5:13-25

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Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity 1:16:20

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In this all-new episode, Krista engages biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus in a second, urgent conversation, alongside creative biomimicry practitioner Azita Ardakani Walton. Together they trace precise guidance and applied wisdom from the natural world for the civilizational callings before us now. What does nature have to teach us about healing fro…

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June 2 - Beauty and the Beast 18:23

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Village Church Rolesville Sunday Message - June 2, 2024 Tyler Williams Luke 19:1-10 (Zacchaeus)

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Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan 11:16

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In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Christine Runyan turns our attention to what often evades our awareness — the response of our nervous systems. As part of On Being’s 2021 Midwinter Gathering, she offered this brief, practical, gently guided practice as an invitation to befriend your beleaguered body, to “blanket it with a little bit…

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Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems 1:01:11

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The years of pandemic and lockdown are still working powerfully on us from the inside. But we have trouble acknowledging this, much less metabolizing it. This conversation with Christine Runyan, which took place in the dark middle of those years, helps make sense of our present of still-unfolding epidemic distress — as individuals, as communities, …

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The Gospel in Disney: Lion King 18:45

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Let’s face it, Disney is everywhere. It’s one of the most recognizable brands in the world. Disney has invaded our homes and our lives. And all of us are familiar with Disney movies and how influential they were on us or are on our kids. Let’s admit it, you can’t get the songs out of your head. Often times, we fall into the trap of bifurcating spir…

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“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham 14:26

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We are overjoyed to share this heart-stirring performance with you, which transpired when we invited the ornithologist/poet/former On Being guest J. Drew Lanham to offer some poetry at a live On Being event in January 2024. We could not have imagined the lightning in a bottle that unfolded — a live adaptation of the title poem that appears in Drew'…

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Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt) 1:15:26

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Here is a stunning sentence for you, written by Lyndsey Stonebridge, our guest this hour, channeling the 20th-century political thinker and journalist Hannah Arendt: "Loneliness is the bully that coerces us into giving up on democracy." This conversation is a kind of guide to generative shared deliberations we might be having with each other and ou…

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New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition 11:09

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A taste of a special mini-season of Poetry Unbound — bringing contemplative curiosity and the life-nurturing tether of poetry to the very present matter of conflict in our world. In this first offering, Pádraig introduces the intriguing idea of poems as teachers and ponders Wisława Szymborska’s “A Word on Statistics," translated by Joanna Trzeciak.…

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