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
To Be a Tree
Ken Gibble reads his poem "To Be a Tree" from the November 2020 issue of Messenger magazine. Carolyn Strong plays "Sweet Hour of Prayer".
Speaking Truth to Power, part 8
Anna Lisa Gross speaks with Carla Gillespie and Carol Lindquist with lectionary scriptures for October 25, 2020. Nancy Miner plays “It is well” on piano. This is episode 8 in a Messenger Radio seri…
Speaking Truth to Power, part 7
Anna Lisa Gross speaks with Lauren Seganos Cohen and Dawn Blackman with lectionary scriptures for October 18, 2020. Nancy Miner plays “My Life Flows On” on piano. Learn more about Dawn in this Public…
Speaking Truth to Power, part 6
Earlier this year, the Church of the Brethren’s Womaen’s Caucus offered a panel on “Speaking Truth to Power.” Continuing the conversation, Anna Lisa Gross interviews Leah Hileman here on Messenger Ra…
Speaking Truth to Power, part 5
Earlier this year, the Church of the Brethren’s Womaen’s Caucus offered a panel on “Speaking Truth to Power.” Continuing the conversation, Anna Lisa Gross interviews Pam Grugan and Ben Bear here on M…
In the name of Jesus
One of the first two English slave ships to carry West Africans to the New World was named Jesus. Church of the Brethren Publisher Wendy McFadden considers ways Christians over centuries have taken t…
Speaking Truth to Power, part 4
Earlier this year, the Church of the Brethren’s Womaen’s Caucus offered a panel on “Speaking Truth to Power.” Continuing the conversation, Anna Lisa Gross interviews Audri Svay and Dana Cassell here …
Speaking Truth to Power, part 3
Earlier in 2020, the Womaen’s Caucus offered a panel on “Speaking Truth to Power.” Continuing the conversation, Anna Lisa Gross interviews Melisa Leiter-Grandison and Ruthann Knechel Johansen here on…
Speaking Truth to Power, part 2
In July 2020, the Womaen’s Caucus of the Church of the Brethren had a panel “Speaking Truth to Power.” Continuing the conversation, Anna Lisa Gross interviews Bobbi Dykema, Chris Douglas, and Eric Bi…
Speaking Truth to Power, part 1
In July 2020, the Womaen's Caucus had a panel "Speaking Truth to Power." Continuing the conversation, Anna Lisa Gross interviews Mary Scott-Boria, Katie Shaw Thompson and Kathryn LaPointe here on Mes…
Today we have a sponge cake
There will be a significant number of life’s broken eggs filling up the basket on your journey and mine. What will they become?
Nancy Sollenberger Heishman, director of the Office of Ministry for the…
At a loss
In this pandemic, nearly everyone is feeling loss in some way. Walt Wiltschek, pastor of the Easton Church of the Brethren, discusses allowing space to grieve in this episode of Messenger radio.
Waiting
Wendy McFadden, publisher for the Church of the Brethren, reads her poem "Waiting," from the May 2020 issue of Messenger magazine. Nancy Miner plays the piano and Monica McFadden provides the introdu…
Capstone Community Gardens, pt 3
In the final episode of the Capstone series, we talk to Eric, a young adult from the Navajo reservation in New Mexico. He did something pretty radical—he decided to transplant his life for a bit, wor…
Capstone Community Gardens, pt 2
Land rights struggles, forging relationships in a tense racial climate, and a whole array of volunteers—this is the second part of Nathan Hosler’s interview with David Young of Capstone Community Gar…
Capstone Community Gardens, pt 1
How does someone go from being the Chief of Police in North Manchester, IN, to starting a garden project in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward? Find out in the first of a three-part series from the Office…
A Simple Life, Extraordinary Work
David Bassett, the founder of the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund, recalls the adventures of his life in a conversation with Sara White, an intern from the Church of the Brethren Office of Pub…
Chosen to Bear Fruit - Thomas Dowdy
Recorded July 15, 2015 at Annual Conference in Tampa, Florida
My Nearly Perfect Apple Tree (and Why I Want to Cut it Down) - Don Fitzkee
Recorded July 14, 2015 at Annual Conference in Tampa, Florida
Create a Clean Heart Within Us - Katie Shaw Thompson
Recorded July 13, 2015 at Annual Conference in Tampa, Florida