Best Michael Mckibben Podcasts (2024)

Guest Teacher JoAnn Hummel teaches from the "pearl of the psalms", Psalm 23, lending us a fresh perspective on a well-known passage.By Frisco Community Church

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Mix Tape: Greatest Hits | Week 3 - Rahab | Jos 6:22 - 25 42:03

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Guest teacher Steven Christopher shares the story of Rahab and how she began a generational standard of welcoming the outsider.By Frisco Community Church

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Mix Tape: Greatest Hits | Week 2 - Joseph | Gen 50:19-21 34:54

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Pastor Michael continues our Greatest Hits series with a survey of Joseph's life (Gen 30 - 50). He closes by sharing Three Keys to Flourishing as observed from the life of Joseph.By Frisco Community Church

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Mix Tape: Greatest Hits | Week 1 - Noah's Ark | Gen 6:1 - 8:21 38:14

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We kick off our Summer Mix Tape series with the theme, Greatest Hits. Pastor Michael walks us through the story of Noah's Ark with a sobering twist.By Frisco Community Church

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UNCOMFORTABLE | Week 11 - You're a Zebra | 1 Peter 5:6 - 11 27:58

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As Pastor Michael closes our series in 1 Peter, he reminds us of a very stark warning Peter gives the readers of his letter.By Frisco Community Church

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UNCOMFORTABLE | Week 9 - WWJD | 1 Peter 4:12-19 28:19

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It's a Family Sunday and Pastor Michael preaches a message to the kids in the room that's applicable to people of all ages.By Frisco Community Church

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UNCOMFORTABLE | Week 10 - Run, Don't Walk | 1 Peter 5:1-5 33:50

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Pastor Michael preaches a sermon on Father's Day on from 1 Peter 5:1-5 revealing criteria, where if ever met, he says you should run, don't walk to the nearest exit.By Frisco Community Church

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UNCOMFORTABLE | Week 8 - The Main Point | 1 Peter 4:1-11 28:00

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Pastor Michael leads us through the 'preachy' section of Peter's letter where Peter encourages his readers to do something central to Christianity.By Frisco Community Church

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Ursula Goodenough: Science and the Sacred 53:24

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"Cultural understandings can be very rapid, they can also be sometimes very resistant to change, which is part of the problem, but the evolution of culture is something we can and should think about in a very different way from biological evolution, which takes a long time--and the fact that cultural evolution can turn on a dime can be very encoura…

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UNCOMFORTABLE | Week 7 - W.I.M.P. | 1 Peter 3:12 - 22 27:19

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One of our Elders, Steve Gamble preaches a compelling sermon on being a W.I.M.P. from 1 Pet 3:12-22.By Frisco Community Church

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UNCOMFORTABLE | Week 6 - Syllabus | 1 Peter 3:8 - 11 38:21

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Pastor Michael teaches from the "syllabus" of being part of Christian Community with a couple introspective exercises within. *Please note, due to technical issues during the capture of the sermon, the audio quality of this message may be poor.By Frisco Community Church

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UNCOMFORTABLE | Week 5 - Taboo | 1 Peter 2:18-3:7 40:52

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Pastor Michael teaches on some topics within Peter's letter that were "taboo" for the 1st Century Asia Minor Church who received his letter and for our church today.By Frisco Community Church

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UNCOMFORTABLE | Week 4 - Action | 1 Peter 2:11 - 17 30:01

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Pastor Michael teaches from one of the more "uncomfortable" passages in our UNCOMFORTABLE series as we learn about the importance of Action in our faith.By Frisco Community Church

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Just Me: The Spring Creek Project lecture 35:42

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This week I have something a little different. I was asked to take part in the Collective Climate Action lecture series for the Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University. These are the same folks who asked me to do a keynote five years ago, which turned into the essay that’s in the wonderful book All We Can Save. I struggled with this one, as…

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Minor Key Week 3 | Lament for Justice 25:51

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Lament is a tool missing from the toolbelt of Western culture yet prevalent in Scripture and other cultures. Join us for a 4-week study on how to lament.By Frisco Community Church

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Minor Key Week 2 | Corporate Lament 32:35

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Lament is a tool missing from the toolbelt of Western culture yet prevalent in Scripture and other cultures. Join us for a 4-week study on how to lament.By Frisco Community Church

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Minor Key Week 1 | What is Lament? 36:06

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Lament is a tool missing from the toolbelt of Western culture yet prevalent in Scripture and other cultures. Join us for a 4-week study on how to lament.By Frisco Community Church

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Minor Key Week 4 | Personal Lament 32:53

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Lament is a tool missing from the toolbelt of Western culture yet prevalent in Scripture and other cultures. Join us for a 4-week study on how to lament.By Frisco Community Church

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UNCOMFORTABLE | Week 3 - House of Living Stone | 1 Peter 2:4 - 2:10 30:04

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Pastor Michael teaches us of the attributes of being a Jesus followerBy Frisco Community Church

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UNCOMFORTABLE | Week 2 - Holiness | 1 Peter 1:13 - 2:3 33:04

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Guest teacher Rev. Dr. Eric Willis preaches on how to live a life of holiness.By Frisco Community Church

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UNCOMFORTABLE | Week 1 - Faith | 1 Peter 1:1-12 35:53

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Pastor Michael kicks off a new series in 1 Peter, UNCOMFORTABLE. Living faithfully in an "us against them" world.By Frisco Community Church

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Michael Eliason: What Our Cities Could Look Like 1:12:06

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"If we had a climate leader like Anne Hidalgo, the Pike/Pine network itself, going from Capitol Hill, which is dense enough to support its own pedestrian zone and car-free streets, could be car-free or mostly car-free down to the water, there'd be this wonderful green interchange between Capitol Hill and downtown and there's really wonderful opport…

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Lauren Regan: They're Doing This Because We're Winning 1:18:27

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"Because the one thing they will never have that we have is numbers, and moral high ground. Most of us are doing this because we care, it's coming from a place of love, often we're doing it in our volunteer time--and the government and corporations will never match that." ____ Lauren Regan is the legendary founder, executive director, and staff att…

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Paul Koberstein & Jessica Applegate: Canopy of Titans 1:07:10

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"The clear-cuts were littered with these big old logs, they were just lying there rotting in the sun, and we asked Dominick DellaSalla, the scientist who was our tour guide, what's that all about, and he said 'they're really picky about which logs they bring back to market, so if they see flaws in the wood they'll just leave it behind...70% of the …

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George Monbiot: Nourishing Ourselves and the Wild 1:18:23

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"Our ignorance of the soil really impedes our efforts to reach what I see as the holy grail here, which is low-impact, high-yield farming. There's plenty of high-impact, high-yield farming, and plenty of low-impact, low-yield farming, but neither of those are the answers that we need to find. We have this enormously challenging thing that we face, …

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Justin J. Pearson: Doing Nothing Was Not an Option 59:02

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"The climate crisis that we have now, the environmental justice crises that we have now, are because there was not an investment or concern about the communities that are feeling the brunt of these illnesses when these facilities were being created, when these plans were being made. If we had cared about climate change, if we had cared about the en…

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Paul Gilding: Disruption and (Positive) Change 1:09:24

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"We need regulation, we need policy, we need community pressure, we need expectations, we need movies, we need poetry...we need all these things that drive us to a certain behavior, because we have got a lot of good sides, and they're not brought out by our current society and our current economic model, they are repressed and destructed by it. The…

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Rachel Heaton: Recognizing Our Place 1:21:04

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"Standing Rock was like the beginning and the end of various parts of my life. I feel like I was asleep before Standing Rock. When I took my children out there it became more about recognizing our place on Earth as human beings and realizing that if we don't have our children in those spaces, how are we going to pass that knowledge on, or how do we…

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Adam Welz: Field of Wonders (at Risk) 1:15:07

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"Start by just learning the names of the bumblebees in your garden and the butterflies that fly past your room, of the birds, and it's not hard...and once you open that door, once you start, it's this neverending unfolding field of wonders, as crazy and naive as that sounds, and I wouldn't be able to live my life without it." ________ Adam Welz is …

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Season 2 Introduction 2:48

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Just a quick hello to note that the second season is coming soon! My guests will include cultural educator and mountaineer Rachel Heaton, lawyer Lauren Regan, Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson, and writers Adam Welz, Paul Gilding, Ursula Goodenough, George Monbiot, Paul Koberstein, and Jessica Applegate. Stay tuned!…

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Lise Van Susteren: Turning What We Know into What We Do 1:16:59

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“The issues that we attempt to suppress and sweep under the rug--or repress, which means we sweep under the rug unconsciously—they don’t go anywhere, they just go in the darker crevices of our mind and then, like poisoning in groundwater, they seep into us, unconsciously, and we feel stressed and anxiety, and when it reaches a certain level we beco…

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Craig Santos Perez: Caring for the Earth and Each Other 44:18

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“To me, that is the power of poetry, where we can take these fragments of our lives, of our psyches, and of our emotions, and to really conjure something new—not necessarily something whole and complete, but something that's beautiful and something that's empowering and inspiring from these ruins of history and migration and so on, and so that's wh…

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Lhadon Tethong & Tendor Dorjee: Connection, Contentment, & Independence 1:50:37

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“One of the words for which I haven’t been able to find an English equivalent is the word ‘nyingjey’...you'll hear Tibetans say this word very often, if you have a friend who is a little bit down, or there is a suffering animal nearby or a wounded bird or a wounded deer on the road… nyingjey, nyingjey. It's an expression of compassionate empathy, b…

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David Abram: A Shadowed, Exquisite, Holy World 1:15:48

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"It's about being a part of, and participant in, a world that is shot through with loss, predation, grief, and yet it's all that shadowed difficulty that also makes this world so exquisitely beautiful, so holy." Cultural ecologist, geophilosopher, and performance artist David Abram is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and The Spel…

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Interlude: It's all about Connection 19:55

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I had some scheduling issues with folks, so I took this opportunity to do a short episode that attempts to begin to tease out some of the overlaps and intersections of my guests so far, and where those might lead. Coming next week will be a great interview with David Abram, followed by (in some order, perhaps not this one) Jerome Foster II, Craig S…

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Kathleen Dean Moore: Bird-Graced World 1:02:40

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"The ability to imagine what it's like to be inside another person's mind or another person's life is the beginning of compassion...and it seems to me too that moral imagination is a necessary condition for hope. When you set out to think of something new, then you have a reason to think it might be possible. If you can't imagine anything better th…

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Bill McKibben: Bringing us to Attention 1:18:15

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"Sometimes [kindness] means waking people up, and that's what movements do...when we build movements, one of the reasons we do it is to bring people back to attention." ____ Bill McKibben needs no introduction. He’s the author of The End of Nature, which was the first layperson’s book about climate change, and a book that had a profound influence o…

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Sonia Shah: Stewardship, Flux, and Migration 1:16:58

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“I do think it's very important to be connected to your place, even if those places change, you have to be a student of that place. So this is what we've tried to teach our kids, is that wherever you end up, that you become a steward of that place, you become a student of that place, and you look after that place because you are part of it. When yo…

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Naomi Klein: Stamina, Transformation, & Collective Joy 1:13:27

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“We have an economic system that is very profitable for the winners, and they’re not that interested in the level of change that IPCC report after IPCC report is telling us we need: fundamental transformation of virtually every aspect of society….So how do we build the political power that wants that transformation?” Naomi Klein needs no introducti…

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Jeremy Lent: Towards an Ecological Civilization 1:14:22

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"We need to start to imagine what would it look like if we actually built a civilization that was designed from the outset to set the conditions for all people to flourish on a regenerated, living earth.” Jeremy Lent is a former tech entrepreneur, and the author of The Patterning Instinct, which George Monbiot called "perhaps the most profound and …

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Introduction (A Bit of Background) 6:14

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Just a bit of stage-setting for how I came to this podcast, and what I hope to offer in it....By Emily Johnston

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Bill McKibben - 3/20/23 (Special Palindrome Date for Last Show!) 48:47

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Vermont author, educator, environmentalist, and Co-founder of 350.org and Th!rd Act Bill McKibben, in a conversation about his 2022 memoir, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened (Henry Holt & Co). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered b…

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Nathaniel Ian Miller - 3/13/22 56:16

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Vermont Author Nathaniel Ian Miller in a conversation about his novel, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven (Little Brown). This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guest, Nathaniel Ian Miller, who recently heard someone extoll the virtues of writing about one’s work. Nathaniel commented that he liked this idea, and that he would lik…

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Trailer — A Wild and Beautiful World 1:50

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Who do we have to become, in order to preserve the chance of a wild and beautiful world that includes humans?By Emily Johnston

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Brad Kessler - 2/27/23 51:04

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Award-winning Vermont Author Brad Kessler in conversation about his 2021 novel, North (Overlook Press). One review of Brad Kessler’s work, a blurb by the author Chris Abani, mentions the way that Brad lets his characters’ dignity lead the story. I love this observation, and have been thinking a lot about it. This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to …

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Caroline Lea - 2/20/23 44:00

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British Author Caroline Lea, whose new novel is PrizeWomen (Harper Perennial). This week's Write the Book Prompt was suggested by my guest, Caroline Lea. It's an assignment she sometimes gives to her students. Go somewhere you wouldn't normally go, and write about it. (Don’t get arrested, she says. Or if you do, don’t blame her!) Her students have …

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Emily Forland - Archive Episode (2/13/23) 57:11

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An interview from 2015 (with our old music!) with literary agent Emily Forland, of the Brandt Hochman Agency in New York. This week’s Write The Book Prompt is to write about a season you are not presently experiencing. Is it warm where you are? Write about the cold. Is spring coming on? Write about the fall. Work from memory, as much as you can, an…

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