Sandbox Cooperative Podcast
In an often contentious, fractured society, Sandbox Cooperative seeks to build an extended community of listeners; knocking down walls of division with curiosity and conversation. Twice a month we explore topics that people are actually talking about, considering them through a lens of spirituality, humor and discovery. You’ll discover a permission giving platform to explore new ideas with an ever-growing perspective of our world, and as the hosts regularly say, “there is always more room in the Sandbox.”
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 121
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2020
Episode 100 | Creativity in the Age of Covid - Part 2
In the middle of navigating the coronavirus pandemic, people everywhere are trying to find creative ways to continue to create their work and develop community. We wanted to profile people who are fi…
Episode 99 | Creativity in the Age of COVID - Part 1
In the middle of navigating the coronavirus pandemic, people everywhere are trying to find creative ways to continue to create their work and develop community. We wanted to profile people who are fi…
Episode 98 | Pandemic Vacation
Drew G.I. Hart at Sandbox Cooperative (Live Event Revisit)
For today’s episode, we’re revisiting our live event with Drew Hart. To dig deeper, visit SandboxCooperative.com and click on the discussion tab.
On May 7, 2017 we welcomed Drew Hart for one of our Sa…
Episode 97 | Of Groundhogs and Seasons
A few weeks ago a groundhog told us how much longer winter would last, and that a new season is right around the corner. It got us thinking about seasons in our own lives, paying attention to where w…
Episode 96 | Thank You Notes
In today’s episode we talk about gratitude. What would it look like for us to practice gratitude more consistently? How might that shape our view of our lives and the world around us?
Web comic, I’m H…
Episode 95 | Your Song to the World
Dale Fredrickson is a teacher and a poet. He is the author of multiple books and albums, most recently Blessed is the Man. Blessed is the man is the story of how men can grow their capacity for mutua…
Bonus | Holiday Break and a Poem
We hope you are all enjoying the holidays and have the chance to be rested and encouraged this season. We’ll be taking a short break from the podcast, but will be back in mid-late January. In the mea…
Episode 94 | One Coin Found
In today’s episode we talk with Emmy Kegler about her book, One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins. In addition to talking about the book, Emmy shared her experience of tension with …
Episode 93 | Story Time!
Episode 92 | New Life Prison Ministry
For today’s episode, we share our conversation with Rick and Rose Admiral of New Life Prison Ministry in Pella, Iowa. We met Rick and Rose on our trip to Houston last summer and talked with them abou…
Episode 91 | Decolonize Lutheranism
Today we’re excited to share a conversation we had with some folks from Decolonize Lutheranism. What started as an internet meme in response to jokes about Sven and Ole and Lutherans eating Jell-O ha…
Episode 90 | Remember to Breathe
Today marks something a little something different here in the Sandbox as we interviewed Dave about his time away this summer. We had the opportunity to learn a little bit more about his travels and …
Episode 89 | Courage for Community
In this episode we share our conversation with Stephen Bouman, Director for Domestic Mission in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Stephen shares stories about a variety of experience…
Episode 88 | Kindling Communication
In this episode we talked with Ruthie Kolb, owner of Kindling Communication, about how to have healthy conversations around human sexuality and our sexual identities.
Using researched-based best pract…
Episode 87 | Weaving Voices Together
In today’s episode, we’ll hear from two women who represented the Women and Justice social statement at the National Youth Gathering in Houston, Texas last summer. We had the chance to sit down with …
Episode 86 | Water to Thrive
Many of our conversations over the last several months came from our trip down to Houston last summer.
One of those conversations was with an organization called Water to Thrive, a faith-based America…
Episode 85 | Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Poorly
In our world we see a lot of perfection, end result, and final product, but not a lot of the process of the people and things that inspire us. That might lead us to think our own work isn’t good enou…
Episode 84 | Acts of Wisdom
Have you ever thought: “You know what somebody should do…? Somebody should…” Could it be that the “somebody” you are talking about is you?
Last summer we had the opportunity to meet with Brad Otto, th…
Episode 83 | Immigration and Seeing the Other
In the final episode of our immigration series, we connected again with our friends from St. Michael’s in Albuquerque, New Mexico to see what they have learned over the last 9 months or so since we h…