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 50 | Practice Makes Purpose
In this episode, we talk with Paul Schroeder, author of Practice Makes Purpose: Six Spiritual Practices that Will Change Your Life and Transform Your Community. Paul is a social entrepreneur, author,…
Episode 49 | But What’s Next?
Just a couple of weeks ago, not far from us here in Rochester, there was a bombing at a mosque in Bloomington, MN. And less than a week ago, white supremacists and Nazis gathered in Charlottesville, …
Episode 48 | Words Are Hard
In today’s episode, we talk about language. In its simplest form, language is made up of words that we use to express something. But from cultural context, personal experience, external pressures, th…
Episode 47 | The Night Ministry Saunter with Lyle Beckman
Lyle Beckman is a night minister with the San Francisco Night Ministry, a ministry that provides care, counseling, referrals, and crisis intervention to anyone in any kind of distress, every night of…
Episode 46 | Freedom Isn’t Finished (with Jo and Chuck)
While we were in San Fransisco last summer, we had the opportunity to talk with Chuck Lewis and Joanne Chadwick. Chuck is a retired pastor and night minister. Jo is also retired after a career workin…
Episode 45 | Kissing Fish with Roger Wolsey
Roger Wolsey is the director of the Wesley Foundation United Methodist Campus Ministry at University of Colorado at Boulder. He’s also a writer, and the author of Kissing Fish, an introduction to pro…
Drew G. I. Hart Q&A (Live Event)
On May 7, 2017 Sandbox Cooperative welcomed Drew G. I. Hart to the Sandbox stage. This podcast contains the Q&A portion of the evening event.
Drew is a professor at Messiah College with ten years of p…
Drew G. I. Hart at Sandbox Cooperative (Live Event)
On May 7, 2017 Sandbox Cooperative welcomed Drew G. I. Hart to the Sandbox stage.
Drew is a professor at Messiah College with ten years of pastoral experience. He studied Biblical Studies at Messiah C…
Episode 44 | One Thing, Part Four (Samir Selmanovic)
All of this week we’re sharing responses to the question we asked each of our guests on our road trip: “If you could tell everyone in the world one thing (not that they would necessarily agree, but t…
Episode 44 | One Thing, Part Three (Jason Storbakken)
All of this week we’re sharing responses to the question we asked each of our guests on our road trip: “If you could tell everyone in the world one thing (not that they would necessarily agree, but t…
Episode 44 | One Thing, Part Two (Linda Kay Klein)
All of this week we’re sharing responses to the question we asked each of our guests on our road trip: “If you could tell everyone in the world one thing (not that they would necessarily agree, but t…
Episode 44 | One Thing, Part One (Vince Anderson)
All of this week we’re sharing responses to the question we asked each of our guests on our road trip: “If you could tell everyone in the world one thing (not that they would necessarily agree, but t…
Episode 43 | Transformation and the Common Ground with Tim Otto
Tim Otto is pastor at The Church of the Sojourners in the Mission District of San Francisco and author of Oriented to Faith: Transforming the Conflict Over Gay Relationships. Tim shared with us a bit…
Episode 42 | Shane Claiborne and the Nagging Problem of Jesus
In today’s episode we talk with Shane Claiborne – an activist, founder of The Simple Way, and author of Executing Grace: How The Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us. We spoke with Shan…
Episode 41 | The Thrill of the Hunt
It’s the season of Easter Egg Hunts, and kids will be seeking out every last egg and piece of candy in the coming week. We start out in life enjoying the search, the hunt, and the discovery. But over…
Episode 40 | Get Organized with Nicole Deane
This episode features our conversation with Nicole Deane, who we had the chance to meet on our road trip last summer. When we spoke with her, Nicole was working with Planting Justice, a non-profit fo…
Episode 39 | Nine Beats (Part Two)
In part two of our Nine Beats conversation we talk with Matt Valler and Mark Scandrette from the Nine Beats collective about some of the ways they are helping to interpret the Beatitudes in a new way…
Episode 38 | Nine Beats (Part One)
Somewhere between a story and a dream, there is a whisper of another world, a different rhythm rising… An international collective of amazing troubadours, poets, rebels, provocateurs, sages & activis…
Episode 37 | Battle Axes and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
Is this story real? Did it actually happen? Does it matter? Why do we have an expectation that if stories matter, they must be “factual”? What if stories of all kinds are teaching tools about what it…
Episode 36 | The Abundance of Music and Cinnamon Rolls
In this episode, we spoke with doctors Chris Hawley and Sam Romeo about a series of house concerts they host as a part of their medical practice at Romeo Medical Clinic.
Romeo Medical Clinic started i…