COBCast - The Church of the Brethren Podcast
A collection of recordings from Church of the Brethren conferences, sermons, and other events.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 53
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2024
Voices of Death Row Support Project: Dina Milito
As founder Rachel Gross retires after 45 years of directing the Death Row Support Project, faithful penpals share stories of their relationships with people sentenced to death. In this episode, Rache…
Voices of Death Row Support Project: Ruth Aukerman
As founder Rachel Gross retires after 45 years of directing the Death Row Support Project, faithful penpals share stories of their relationships with people sentenced to death. In this episode, Rache…
Voices of Death Row Support Project: Jess Hoffert
As founder Rachel Gross retires after 45 years of directing the Death Row Support Project, faithful penpals share stories of their relationships with people sentenced to death. In this episode, Rache…
Voices of Death Row Support Project: Paul Stutzman
As founder Rachel Gross retires after 45 years of directing the Death Row Support Project, faithful penpals share stories of their relationships with people sentenced to death. In this episode, Rache…
Voices of Death Row Support Project: Kurt Borgmann and David Waas
As founder Rachel Gross retires after 45 years of directing the Death Row Support Project, faithful penpals share stories of their relationships with people sentenced to death. In this episode, Rache…
Voices of Death Row Support Project: Paige Butzlaff
As founder Rachel Gross retires after 45 years of directing the Death Row Support Project, faithful penpals share stories of their relationships with people sentenced to death. In this episode, Rache…
A Special Christmas Eve
Duane Grady reads "A Special Christmas Eve" from the December issue of Messenger. Kara Miller plays "In the bleak midwinter" and Nancy Miner plays "Let all mortal flesh keep silent" and "There's a so…
Are we still at the tomb?
"Why don’t we…
There is a place for you at the table
A large kitchen table was the place they were unconditionally loved. Paul Grout tells the story in "A place for you at the table." Violin by Jan Fischer Bachman.
Tones like prayers
That's our church
From our foundation, the essence of the Church of the Brethren is the willingness of women and men to study scripture together until we reach consensus, regardless of how long that takes. Sometimes i…
Advent Waiting
Anna Lisa Gross and Nancy Faus read an excerpt from Angela Finet's Advent devotional, "Do Not Be Afraid" and ponder waiting. Piano recording by Lucas Finet.
Autumn
Randal Westfall describes how the long, hot days of summer give way to the cool, crisp air where night and darkness are lengthening, when both night and day are equally balanced. Autumn is about slow…
Pent-up Emotion
A lot of emotion is being released as pandemic restrictions are phased out. How many rituals have we missed? How many formal occasions, how many worship experiences? How many losses are not yet griev…
Family Visits
A poem about the poet's experience of a new way of communicating with family during the pandemic.
"The experience of this new thing is for me profoundly spiritual—a foretaste of heaven which, I now s…
Arise and shine
How do roosters related to prophecy? Tom Wagner explains the connection in his Advent article "Arise and shine". Kara Miller plays "In the bleak midwinter" on piano.
Speaking Truth to Power, bonus episode
Joanna Davidson Smith shares the poem Revolution for this bonus (and final) episode of Speaking Truth to Power for Messenger Radio. Learn more about Joanna’s work.
Continue the conversation with the…
Speaking Truth to Power, part 10
Barbara Daté ministers to us on this latest episode in the Speaking Truth to Power series. For such a time as this, amid uncertainty, violence, illness, grief, Barbara’s words heal. Learn more about…
