Amplify Peace: Creating a Better Story Together
We want to meet and engage the innovators, the doers, and the rebels who are stepping into the breeches of our day. Who are those who are making our world a more loving and compassionate place? Who are the those who are building peace and connections in a horribly divided land? And who are those who are lifting up culture with Kingdom values to promote human flourishing? Let’s have some fun and challenging conversations to help us to think, grow and walk courageously down the narrow road.
Episodes
130 episodes
When “The Other” Becomes Sister: A Conversation with Doreen Vail Pt. 1
What if the person you fear, avoid, or misunderstand is the person whose story could change you?In this episode, Stellar Award–nominated singer, speaker, and storyteller Doreen Vail explores what happens when we cross the lines that sepa...
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Dr. Josh Noblitt Pt. 2 Inside the system, where justice meets humanity.
Imagine your job is to find the story that could mean life instead of death.In this powerful conversation with Rev. Dr. Joshua Noblitt, we go behind prison walls and into the heart of humanity itself. For ten years, Josh wo...
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Dr. Josh Noblitt Pt. 1 Peace with self, healing your inner life.
What if the loudest conflict in your life isn’t with someone else but with yourself?In this powerful conversation, Lisa Jernigan and Rev. Dr. Joshua Noblitt explore what it means to make peace with your own story. As a therapist a...
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Toni Kim Pt. 2 Becoming Whole- Spiritual Formation for Real Life
We’ve been told spiritual formation means more discipline, more doing, more effort. But what if it’s not about striving at all? What if formation is actually about slowing down, paying attention, and letting grace do the shaping?In this ...
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Toni Kim Pt. 1 Shame, The Hidden Driver We Don't Talk About
What if the real force shaping your faith isn’t love… but shame?We rarely talk about it, but shame drives how we see ourselves, how we relate to God, and how we show up in the world. It hides beneath perfectionism, people-pleasing...
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Tre Giles Pt. 2 From Outrage to Peace: How Gen Z is Reimagining Faith
Gen Z is asking bold questions and they’re not settling for shallow answers. In this episode, Lisa and Tre’ Giles explore how young people are searching for belonging and truth, not through programs but through authentic relationships. With his...
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Tre Giles Pt. 1 Radical Hospitality: How Being Seen Changes Everything
What changes a life more - an argument or an open table? In this episode, Lisa sits down with Tre’ Giles to explore his powerful journey from rebellious youth in Colorado Springs to Christlikeness, shaped by radical hospitality, authentic mento...
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Micah Fries Pt. 2: Breaking Barriers, Building a Better Future For Us All
Micah Fries – Multi Faith Neighbors NetworkWhat if the simple act of building friendships that dissolve fear could be the force that changes our future? Religion has long carried a double edge - capable of inspiring love and compa...
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Micah Fries Pt. 1: Faith, Conflict, and the Possibility of Peace
Micah Fries – Multi Faith Neighbors NetworkReligion has shaped history’s greatest acts of compassion and its most devastating conflicts. In the name of religion, too many wars have been fought, injustices carried out, and neighbor...
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What if you got it wrong about what you thought about the other? What if?
What if your opinion of someone - the “other” - was wrong? What if, after a respectful conversation, you still disagreed but began to see them differently - not as an enemy, but as a potential friend, someone you could learn from without agreem...
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The Boy Who Changed Everything – Reviving the Golden Rule
What if the person you’re tempted to overlook is the one who could transform your life?In Ethiopia, a young boy living in poverty stepped into Andrew DeCort’s life. Society had written him off - unseen, dismissed, with nothing to ...
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When the Ground Shifts
Lyndsey Ratchford, World VisionWe are living in a defining moment. The needs of the world feel urgent, the divisions feel deep, and yet the invitation of Jesus is still the same: love, lead, and live as peacemakers.In this ...
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Don’t Just Make a Difference - Change the Story
Lyndsey Ratchford, World VisionWhat if God is calling us beyond “making a difference” to eradicating injustice?In this episode, I talk with Lyndsey Deane Ratchford (LDR), World Vision’s Senior Director of National Donor Eng...
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God in the Desert
In Part 2 of our conversation with Heather Surls, we step into the wilderness - both the physical deserts of the Middle East and the inner deserts of the soul. Heather reflects on how displacement, suffering, and story have formed her faith in ...
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Threads of Identity
Heather Surls, a journalist and author living in Jordan, we explore what it means to truly see the people behind the headlines. Through her time in the Middle East, Heather has learned to listen deeply, honor culture, and build connect...
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Why your view of justice might never be the same.
One man’s journey from inmate to healer - and why your view of justice might never be the same.In this powerful episode, David Prian shares his raw, redemptive story of incarceration, reentry, and finding purpose through serving o...
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From Prison to Purpose: Can Redemption Rewrite the Story?
What if the odds said you’d never make it - but you did?David Prian’s life began in foster care, moved through addiction and incarceration, and could have ended there. But it didn’t. Against all odds, David rose—not just to survive, but ...
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Peace in Practice: Living the Story with Intention and Compassion
In the first episode with Michael Zacharia, Michael shared his story of becoming—navigating identity, belonging, and the complexity of a multicultural home shaped by both Palestinian and Jewish Israeli heritage.Now, we turn toward the pr...
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Palestinian & Israeli: Can One Life Hold Both?
In this moving first episode of a two-part conversation, you’ll meet our guest, Michael Zacharia—an Executive Coach, Mediator, Attorney, author, and peacemaker whose life embodies a question the world is still wrestling with: Can one life h...
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Part 2: Proximity Changes Everything - June 20, 2025
True peacemaking begins when we get close.In Part 2, Nikki Toyama-Szeto unpacks why proximity - not neutrality - is the starting point for justice and healing. Through powerful stories and practical wisdom, Nikki challenges us to m...
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Part 1: The Courage to Choose - June 13, 2025
What would you do if you were offered $1 million?Nikki Toyama-Szeto was - and said no.In this powerful conversation, Nikki shares the radical choices, personal sacrifices, and deep convictions that led her into a life of justice-fuel...
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Part 2: The Prompting That Launched a Movement – May 2, 2025
Today, I’m honored to welcome someone who has been a mentor, a friend, and a bridge-builder in the truest sense of the word—Joe Tosini. Joe is a pastor, global speaker, and the Founder and Visionary of the J17 Movement—a movement rooted ...
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Part 1: A Protestant and a Pope: Friendship, Faith, and the Power of Unity - April 25, 2025
Meet Joe Tosini—pastor, leader and bridge-builder. Joe is the Founder and Visionary of the J17 Movement, a global call to relational unity inspired by the heart of Jesus' prayer in John 17, “that they may all be one.”He is also one of ...
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Anticipating Heaven with Dr. Pamela Pyle - March 7, 2025
How would you define a good death? Most of us don’t wake up thinking about death. It feels distant, something to deal with 'someday.' But what if understanding the end of life could actually help us live more fully today? What if embracing the ...
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Building Bridges Through Shared Humanity - February 21, 2025
In this episode, Joizeth Waldmann discusses how labels and assumptions hinder genuine connection for all of us. Through personal stories of cultural change, you are invited to rethink how you treat others and build bridges of understanding.
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