The Embedded Church Podcast

Jeremiah 29:7 calls us to seek the welfare (shalom) of the specific places to which we have been called. During Season 4, we will be exploring what this means for pastors and other leaders as they se…

In this episode, Eric takes the lead in expounding on the book Palaces for the People written by Eric Klinenberg in 2018. Klinenberg is a sociologist at NYU who coined the term "social infrastructure…

In this episode Eric interviews Sara Joy about Jane Jacobs’ pioneering book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Written in 1961 this book represented a scathing critique of orthodox city pl…

In this episode, Sara Joy interviews Eric about the book Home From Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler. Published in 1996, this book remains incredibly relevant for the place where we find ourselves tod…

In this episode, Eric interviews Sara Joy about Jan Gehl’s masterful book, Cities for People. Jan Gehl is an architect who believes that paying attention to how actual humans interact with buildings …

Why is walking so important for our health, wealth, and the environment? Are there particular conditions in a city that encourage (or discourage) people to walk? Does promoting walkability mean we ge…

What makes a city a 'happy city'? Is there a correlation between the wealth of a city and its happiness? According to Charles Montgomery, author of Happy City, happiness is about having meaningful co…

On The Embedded Church podcast, we often make references to terms, books, and urban thinkers that might be unfamiliar to our audience. We decided to address that concern in Season 3, by introducing o…

In this episode, Sara Joy interviews Eric about his most recent book, Three Pieces of Glass: Why We Feel Lonely in a World Mediated by Screens. Released in May of 2020, Eric's book dives into our cur…

In this episode, we talk with Rev. David Wright who is the Assistant to the Pastor of the Peoples Baptist Church (PBC) in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, MA. David is also the Executive Director …

In this episode we talk with Jamison Galt, who is the Pastor of Resurrection Church Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, New York. In its relatively new existence as a church plant, Resurrection Church has alre…

In this episode, we interview Nathan and Kristi Ivey about the work they have done and continue to do through Sojourn Church Midtown in Louisville, KY. With backgrounds in finance and government, the…

In this episode we interview Pastor Thurman Williams, who is the lead pastor of New City Fellowship: West End in St. Louis, MO. Growing up as a son of a Methodist pastor in the suburbs of Baltimore, …

In this episode, we bring Keith Case back to our show to talk about how his church Providencia WPB in West Palm Beach, FL, is pursuing their mission in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. Their church …

In this episode, I talk with my co-host Sara Joy Proppe about her work with Proximity Project. Proximity Project offers educational and consulting services for church leaders who want to leverage the…

In this episode we talk with Karen Wilk who is the pastor of NEW (Neighbourhood Engagement Workers’) Community, a missional community in her neighborhood in Edmonton, Alberta. She shares with us abou…

In this episode we talk with Matt Canlis who is the Pastor of Trinity Church in Wenatchee, Washington. A few years ago, Matt was a Pastoral Assistant in Scotland and discovered the parish model of pa…

In this episode, we talk with Renee and James B Notkin who are co-Pastors of Union Church in Seattle. Union Church is a church plant located in the South Lake Union Neighborhood in Seattle. In planti…

In this episode Chris Barras, the Lead Pastor of Area 10 Faith Community shares about the entrepreneurial heart and spirit that drives how his church has taken shape in their neighborhood of Richmond…

In Episode 7, we talk with Nathan Carter who is a pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois. When the church chose to relocate to an urban neighborhood in Chicago, the leadership asked t…