Join Brandon Nappi, DMin, and Hannah Black, PhD, on this audio pilgrimage from Berkeley Divinity School, the Episcopal seminary at Yale. Journey with us as we contemplate life’s biggest questions together. In this podcast, we interview leaders and scholars as we think through the Church in the world today, theology, leadership, and innovation. Join us on this pilgrimage, where we cultivate hope and find inspiration along the way. New episodes drop every other Monday.
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution's video podcast aims to expand the awareness, accessibility and uptake of new metholodologies in ecology and evolution
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution's audio podcast aims to expand the awareness, accessibility and uptake of new metholodologies in ecology and evolution
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20: Astronomy and Faith with Graziella Zinn
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Astrophysicist Graziella di Tulliio Zinn joins Brandon and Hannah to chat about the beauty of the stars, Graziella’s experience of being a Christian astronomer, the Big Bang, the theology of Disney’s movie Wish, UFOs, the ethics of space junk, astrology, prayer, and more.By Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
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Executive Director of El Hogar Denise Vargas joins us to talk about entrepreneurship. She helps us think in an entrepreneurial way about ministry and grounds innovation in community. We also take a while to chat about Vargas’s life as a poet, to hear some of her poetry, and to talk about how poetry intersects with the work she does at El Hogar.…
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21: Christianity in American Politics with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove joins us from the Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. He describes the making of white, Christian nationalism and helps us see a different path forward, following the teachings of Jesus. He walks us through the reality of the New Right in the 1970s as a way for us to understand our positionality headed into …
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19: Digital Ministry with Lizzie McManus-Dail and Laura Di Panfilo
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Father Lizzie and Mother Laura join us to talk about their vocation stories, how they each ended up doing digital ministry (accidentally), and why they joined forces to create their new podcast, “And Also With You.”By Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
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18: Feminist Theology with Karen O’Donnell
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Academic Dean of Westcott House Karen O’Donnell joins us from Cambridge for an intro to feminist theology. Dr. O’Donnell describes what feminist theology and trauma theology are, talks about her own journey into these fields, and considers where we go from here. Brandon, Hannah, and Karen (of course) also talk prayer and hope.…
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17: The Church and Prayer with Rowan Williams
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The 104th Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams joins Brandon and Hannah to talk about church unity in the face of difference, vocation, and prayer. He explains how to engage in contemplative prayer and offers hope for the future of the church.By Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
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Joy Marie Clarkson, PhD joins us to discuss her latest book You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer. Hannah, Brandon, and Joy talk about what metaphors are and why they’re so useful in preaching, theology, and life. They ponder how humans are more like trees than machines and explore the metaphor of love as disease.…
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15: Ecumenical Dialogues with Jamie Hawkey
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The Rev’d Dr. Jamie Hawkey, Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey, joins us to talk about dialogues between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church. We discuss church unity, prayer in theology, and engaging the public through mysticism and the arts. Jamie, Brandon, and Hannah get a chance to talk about their shared love of Italy.…
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14: Compassionate Leadership with Vicentia Kgabe
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The Rt. Rev'd Dr. Vicentia Kgabe is Bishop of Lesotho. Bishop Vinny is the third woman bishop in Southern Africa and the sixth on the African continent. In 2023, Kgabe was invited by Archbishop Justin Welby to preach at the opening service of the Lambeth conference. Bishop Vinny joins us to talk about leading with compassion rather than power. She …
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13: Songwriting and Spirituality with Craig Minowa
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Craig Minowa is a singer-songwriter and the frontman of Cloud Cult, an indie rock band. In this episode, Minowa shares how his songwriting process is something of a spiritual journey through darkness to light.By Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
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12: Hunkering with Brandon & Hannah
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Join Brandon and Hannah for a special Happy New Year Hunker. Grab a mug of candy cane green tea, because today we’re talking dogs, nativities, dogs in nativities, preaching, prayer, pizza, and more.By Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
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Becca Stevens, founder and president of Thistle Farms, joins us to reflect on her mission-driven work as a “love entrepreneur.” She shares stories from Thistle Farms, her wisdom about ministry outside of the parish, what it means that “love heals,” Thistle Farms Christmas present recommendations, and more!…
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10: Trans Figured with Sophie Grace Chappell
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Today, The Leader's Way podcast turns 10...episodes that is. Happy double digits day! To celebrate, we're sharing a much-requested, much-anticipated episode: a conversation with Professor Sophie Grace Chappell. Listen as Brandon and Hannah chat with Professor Chappell about being a transgender person in a cisgender world. She reflects on her church…
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9: Theology in the Public Sphere with Angela Gorrell
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This week, the Rev'd Dr. Angela Gorrell joins us, and we talk about public theology, hybrid ministry, the Taylor Swift Eras Tour, grief, lament, and joy.By Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
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8: Leadership and the Joy of Parish Ministry with Winnie Varghese
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In this episode, the Rev’d Winnie Varghese, Rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Georgia, joins us to talk about parish ministry. We chat about Mariology, in-person church in the wake of the pandemic, and joy in ministry.By Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
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7: Speaking about Satan with Gabrielle Thomas
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In this Halloween episode, the Rev’d Dr. Gabrielle Thomas and Dr. Hannah Black talk about some of their favorite people: the fourth century Cappadocians. Thomas shares what her research has uncovered about the Cappadocians’ understanding of the devil. Spoiler: He is not a red guy with horns. Rather, our fourth-century guides view him as the enemy o…
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6: A Case for Love with Michael Curry and Andrew McGowan
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In this episode, hear from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Dean of Berkeley Divinity School Andrew McGowan on the centrality of love to Christianity. This live conversation, mediated by nationally bestselling author Deborah Royce, was recorded at the Yale Club in New York City inMay 2023. It celebrates the debut of the film, A Case for Love, a G…
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5: Clergy Wellness with Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell
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Dr. Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell is a research professor at Duke Global Health Institute. In this episode, she shares research findings from the Clergy Health Initiative. She talks about the differences in behaviors between flourishing and burnt-out clergy. Rae Jean shares practical strategies for clergy to guard themselves against burnout as well as h…
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4: Contemplative Practice and the Trinity with Robert Jonas
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The doctrine of the Trinity is as foundational to Christianity as it is elusive and even confounding. While the Trinity seems to many like a distant theological formulation, writer, contemplative teacher, and therapist, Dr. Robert Jonas shares insights about just how intimate, practical, and transformative the Trinity can be in daily life. Revealin…
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What is it like to be the spiritual leader for 75,000 people? What do the challenges of the Church look like from the perspective of an Episcopal bishop, and how does one find hope in a world with so much hardship? Bishop Andrew Doyle handles these questions and more with ease, authenticity, and copious amounts of hope in what feels like a comforta…
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In her latest book, Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion, scientist and theologian Ilia Delio takes up the challenge of reconciling evolution and religion with particular attention to the role of Artificial Intelligence. She argues that AI represents the latest extension of human evolution, which has implications not only for science but …
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1: Brave and Innovative Ministry with Hillary Raining
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How can we sustain ourselves through the rigors and demands of ministry? How can contemplative practices buoy our spirits and our bodies as we seek to serve the Church and the world? How can timeless practices offer timely wisdom to our aching world? This expansive conversation is both deeply traditional and completely fresh as it seeks to wrestle …
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Movement ecology and habitat selection in human resource users
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Sarah and Nils talk about human movement to investigate the differences in movement ecology and habitat selection in human hunters and non huntersBy Sarah Papworth and Nils Bunnefeld
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Measuring functional connectivity using butterflies
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Gary Powney and Tom Oliver explain how using data from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme they can assess functional connectivity - the permeability of landscapes.By Gary Powney and Tom Oliver
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Measuring the importance of species to ecosystems
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Nicholas Gotelli and Fernando T. Maestre discuss simple randomization tests for quantifying the effect of species on ecosystem variables, and the use of "natural experiments" to explore their contribution to ecosystem function.By Nicholas Gotelli and Fernando Maestre
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Shannon Pelini demonstrates experimental equipment designed to test the effects of warmer climates on forest ecosystems - and, particuarly, arthropods.By Shannon Pelini
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Brett Favaro, Simon Fraser University and Vancouver Island University, demonstrates the construction of TrapCam apparatus: an inexpensive camera system developed for the study of deepwater animals and ecology.By Brett Favaro
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Adam Davis demonstrates how field experiments and statistical models can can enable the extrapolation of long-term seed predation rates from short-term dataBy Adam Davis
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Fine-scale environmental variation in distribution modelling
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Greg talks to Elizabeth about the need to acknowledge fine-scale heterogeneity when developing species distribution modelsBy Greg McInerny and Elizabeth Horne
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Integrating ecology into macroevolutionary research
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On the 9th of March, 2011, Methods in Ecology and Evolution sponsored this symposium with over 200 delegates and 12 speakers, held at the Zoological Society of London meeting roomsBy Centre for Ecology and Evolution
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Gurutzeta discusses the impact of partial occupancy on such studies, highlighting the necessity of a careful understanding of a system before deciding whether to sample with replacementBy Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita
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Annette talks to Elizabeth about our common misconceptions surrounding longevity and the ageing processBy Annette Baudisch and Elizabeth Horne
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Fraser demonstrates that the Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT) may be applied to non-nested models by comparison of competing models, through comparison of simulated data setsBy Fraser Lewis
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Unified analysis of ecological niche overlap
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Shane explains the need for new indices to combine data from many different studies, allowing the creation of composite measures of mean niche overlap, which is of interest to population and community ecologists. Shane also demonstrates the R code developed to achieve this goalBy Shane Geange
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Jason talks to Elizabeth about his recently published paper, using GIS data to assess environmental niche variability and population density in stream fishBy Jason Knouft and Elizabeth Horne
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Analogue modelling of the terrestrial carbon cycle
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Martin, Alexandru and Dennis discuss the need for a broad spectrum of approaches in understanding the effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and demonstrate their innovative experimental equipment at the Ecotron Controlled Environment Facility, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, UKBy Martin Lukac, Alexandru Milcu and Dennis Wildman
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Sara Kross, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, shows her fieldsite in New Zealand and a new, portable low-cost remote videography system for monitoring wildlife, developed with Ximena NelsonBy Sara Kross
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Freya talks to Graziella about her work in promoting the use of meta-analysis in ecological studiesBy Freya Harrison and Graziella Iossa
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The art of modelling range-shifting species
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Jane, Michael and Steven talk to Graziella about their new methodologies for modelling the shifting ranges of invasive and displaced speciesBy Jane Elith, Michael Kearney, Steven Phillips and Graziella Iossa
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Arnaud Tarroux talks to Graziella Iossa about his work on the sensitivity of stable isotope mixing models to variation in isotopic ratiosBy Arnaud Tarroux and Graziella Iossa
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Art talks to Graziella about new methods to allow direct comparison of ecological data gathered from different sourcesBy Art Munson and Graziella Iossa
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Aaron Ellison talks to Graziella Iossa from his field site in the middle of the Harvard Forest Hemlock Removal siteBy Aaron Ellison and Graziella Iossa
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Karen and Susan talk to Graziella about their work in establishing a common database for cataloguing and sharing primate dataBy Karen Strier, Susan Alberts and Graziella Iossa
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Douglas Barron talks to Graziella Iossa about his work in developing a meta-analysis of transmitter effects on avian behaviour and ecologyBy Doug Barron and Graziella Iossa
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Phenological estimators using simulated data
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Jean-Pierre talks to Graziella about his work studying the quality of conclusions that can be drawn from phenological datasetsBy Jean-Pierre Moussus and Graziella Iossa
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Matt talks to Graziella about TITAN, a new method for measuring ecological community thresholds to aid in conservation of rare and threatened speciesBy Matt Baker and Graziella Iossa
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Managing invasive species with spreadsheet modelling
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Corey Bradshaw talks to Graziella Iossa about the development of spreadsheet models to aid in reducing invasive animal densityBy Corey Bradshaw and Graziella Iossa
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