Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church Summer Podcast Series
Welcome to the BMPC Summer podcast, a limited podcast series from Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church for this season when we cannot be together as a church, but we can still be church together. Through the summer months we will share conversations between the pastors, with mission partners, community partners and members of our congregation who are doing some remarkable things in these days. We hope that this podcast will be a little piece of the church community that you can take with you in the car, on a walk, and even if you are able to travel this summer as we look forward to a time soon when we can all be together again.
Episodes
28 episodes
Being an Incarnate Community - A conversation with Agnes Norfleet
This is the final episode of this second season of the podcast. As we look towards the end of the summer and fall, Rebecca Kirkpatrick and Agnes Norfleet chat together about their experience of the pandemic and what Agnes is looking...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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28:27
Changing the Moral Compass: A conversation with members of the BMPC Anti-Racism Taskforce
Today’s podcast features a longer conversation among three members of the BMPC Anti-Racism Taskforce - Chuck Speed, Joan LaLeike and David Jones. All three of them share what initially drew them to our congregation, what it is like to be a pers...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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49:54
Critical Race Theory: A Conversation with Anita Friday
Today’s podcast features a conversation between Rebecca Kirkpatrick and Anita Friday, local activist, anti-racism educator and attorney. They talk together about the increased attention being given to Critical Race Theory around the count...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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37:25
The Lasting Effects of the Pandemic: A Conversation with Dr. Carl Reynolds
Today’s podcast features a conversation between Frank Pottorff and BMPC member Dr. Carl Reynolds. Carl is a physician and cardiologist at Penn Medicine and practices at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. Carl is also a clinical assistant profess...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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29:27
Last Summer in St. Paul: How One Church Stepped into the World in the Wake of George Floyd's Murder
Today’s episode features a conversation with the Rev. Kirsten Fryer a pastor for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America who serves a small urban congregation in St. Paul. Minnesota. In the wake the murder of George Floyd, Kirsten’s congrega...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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44:37
Being a New Pastor in a Pandemic
Today’s episode features a conversation between the Rev. Brian Ballard and the Rev. Leigh DeVries as they chat together about what it has meant for both of them to have spent their first two years in ministry primarily navigating the pandemic a...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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29:21
The Crisis in Lebanon: A Conversation with Elmarie Parker
Today’s episode features a conversation with The Rev. Elmarie Parker who serves as a PCUSA Mission Co-Worker in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Since 2013 Elmarie and her husband Scott have worked in partnership with the Presbyterian Church in the reg...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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39:15
The Power of Sacred Spaces
Welcome to season two of the BMPC Summer podcast, a limited podcast series from Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church for this season when we cannot all be together as a church, but we can still be church together. On this first episode The...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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34:51
Being the Church Together This Fall
Today’s episode is the final installment in our Summer Podcast series. As we look to what Church life will be like this fall, the Revs. Rebecca Kirkpatrick and Frank Pottorff talk about how we will continue to be a virtual church together, incl...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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35:10
Being a Part of the Global Church - a Conversation with the Rev. Rachel Pedersen
In today's episode, the Rev. Rebecca Kirkpatrick and the Rev. Rachel Pedersen, BMPC Associate Pastor for Children and Family Ministry, share stories about Rachel's experience of the global church in Ghana, South Africa, China and the United Nat...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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34:06
The BMPC Regathering Taskforce
As the church and community continue to manage new ways of being and being together, BMPC formed a Regathering Taskforce to help us determine when and how we can return to church safely. In today’s episode, The Rev. Rebecca Kirkpatrick talks wi...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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32:29
Caring for Children Even When Schools Closed
One of the hard parts of this pandemic for families all over the world has been how it interrupted schools and the ways that schools care for students and families. As we look ahead to the unknowns of the next few months we continue to wonder w...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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29:41
Voices from the Choir
As we all continue to miss worshiping with one another here on our church campus, the Sanctuary Choir has especially missed the close community they have created over many years of singing and leading the church in worship. On today’s very spec...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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28:55
The Fullness of A Baptismal Identity
Practices surrounding the Sacrament of Baptism have shaped differing Christian traditions for centuries and even led to conflicts and schism among Christian believers. In today's episode, Rebecca Kirkpatrick is joined again by Dr. Joshua Yoder,...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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37:04
The Voice of Young People in our Congregation
The youth of our congregation have experienced the pandemic in their own ways as schools were closed and plans cancelled for the foreseeable future. Even in the midst of these changes, they have words of wisdom and hope for our community. Today...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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32:41
Mission as Partnership - a conversation with the Rev. Christopher Holland of the Common Place
What is true partnership when it comes to Mission locally and around the world - genuine collaboration, friendship and shared values? Today's episode features a conversation with the Rev. Chris Holland, the pastor of New Spirit Community Presby...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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44:22
Equality and Collaboration in Leadership - a conversation with Lynn Yeakel
Today's episode features a conversation with longtime BMPC member Lynn Yeakel. Lynn is the Director of Drexel University College of Medicine’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership and founder of the nationwide Vision 2020 Initiative, tha...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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30:05
Energy, Intelligence, Imagination and Love - a conversation about our Presbyterian ordination vows
Will you seek to serve the people with energy, intelligence, imagination, and love? This is just one of the nine questions that every Presbyterian Minister, Elder and Deacon answer when they are ordained and installed to service within the chur...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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32:38
The Art of Spiritual Companionship
In this episode, the Rev. Brian Ballard is joined by Patricia Danzon, BMPC member and certified spiritual director, who regularly practices at our church’s Middleton Counseling Center. Patricia shares a bit about her work as a spiritua...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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33:12
Studying Scripture Piece by Piece
Biblical scholarship has so many levels of expertise and nuance that can be both fascinating and overwhelming. In today's episode, the Rev. Rebecca Kirkpatrick has a conversation with her husband, Dr. Joshua Yoder on some of the basics of bibli...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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37:53
Raising Our Children to be Church Musicians
In today's episode Rebecca Kirkpatrick is joined by Edward Landin Senn our Assistant Music Director. Together about what it means for the church to be a place where children learn to love music and grow into their identity as musicians an...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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24:04
A Sabbath for Creation and the Work of Environmental Justice
The pandemic has illuminated our human impact on the environment around the world as our use of energy and fossil fuels has dramatically reduced in this moment. In today's episode Rebecca Kirkpatrick has a conversation with The Rev. Rebecca Dri...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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30:10
The Radical Hospitality of Broad Street Ministry
Join Rebecca Kirkpatrick for a conversation with Mike Dahl, Executive Director of Broad Street Ministry and The Rev. Laura Colee, Pastor, at Broad Street. In their conversation together Mike and Laura share the ways the pandemic has impacted th...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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33:09
Making Music as a Virtual Church - a conversation with Jeffrey Brillhart
In this episode, Rebecca Kirkpatrick and Director of Music Jeffrey Brillhart discuss how the choir has continued their work even as we have all been staying at home. Jeff also shares fascinating stories from his early days as a church musician ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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35:56
Caring for the Church in Body and Spirit
In today's episode the Rev. Brian Ballard has a conversation with our Parish Nurse, Carol Cherry, about her work and leadership in this season of our church life. Carol shares her calling to this specialized ministry as well as the ways that sh...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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31:32