In The Corner Back By The Woodpile

Korean-American Sophia Johnson comes Back By the Woodpile to talk about her family's experiences and faith especially in light of the #StopAsianHate news narrative.  To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on Apple Podcasts click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

We're back sharing stories from the 1980's, this time involving pranks, mishaps and the various organic material that exits one's body!  To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on Apple Podcasts click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

On this episode we further the discussion on the tension between traditional and progressive Christianity, where they may both be right and wrong, the Richard Rohr factory, whether violence used in self-defense or defense of others Christ-like and both the evil and goodness that's in us all. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on Apple Podcasts click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!  

Artist Natalie Plasencia comes Back By the Woodpile to talk about her work, faith, the oppressed, her family's escape from Castro's Cuba and that time she met a very congested Bono. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on Apple Podcasts click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!  

Fan Wu is the Chinese-American author of February Flowers and Beautiful As Yesterday. She comes Back By the Woodpile to talk about how different audiences react to her books, what core Chinese elements an immigrant might transfer to their American-born children, the influence of 20th century writer Lu Xun and other topics. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on Apple Podcasts click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Musician, poet and writer Steve Scott returns to talk about selected pieces of his spoken word recordings and story behind their compositions.   To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on Apple Podcasts click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Comic book legend Don Chin comes Back By the Woodpile to talk about The Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, The Unfunny X-Cons and his recently rebooted X-Farce!    To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on Apple Podcasts click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Rosa María Payá is a human rights activist and founder of Cuba Decide, an initiative that is attempting re-introduce democracy to the Cuban island. She is also the daughter of Oswald Paya who founded the Christian Liberation Movement and ultimately gave his life while attempting to better the future of his fellow Cubans. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here! (Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero) (O. Paya and Cepero's crashed car) (Rosa María Payá and Vice-President Pence)

We're out riding around, picking up stories and getting the lay of the land, this time in Boonville, Indiana. And here to give us a tour of this place you never heard of is Spun Counterguy's own father. He'll tell us about the lengths folks will go to eat a Long John Silvers meal, a small town sport that happens to be a federal offense, a murder connected to a massage parlor and the crises of getting ripped off for 7 cents.   To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

(Silverio Portal Contreras blinded by Cuban police beatings and currently imprisoned for protesting against the communist regime)   The American left's hatred for minorities who think for themselves, the love affair between Black Lives Matter and oppressive regimes, the '13 de Marzo' Tugboat Massacre and the kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez- Alberto De La Cruz of Babalublog.com comes Back By the Woodpile to explain it all!   (Black Lives Matter founder Opal Tometi (right) with Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro)   (Victims of the 13th of March Tugboat Massacre) (A US Federal agent preparing to take Elian Gonzalez from his Miami family)   To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Our 4th conversation with musician, poet and thinker Steve Scott where we learn the back stories of a few more songs, hear a tribute to Exit records’ Randy Layton, talk about Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombing inspired-art and get a quick history lesson on old English gospel mystery plays. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Under the clouds of cigar smoke Pastor Joshua Stump comes Back By the Woodpile to talk cancel culture, rest, prayer, the eyes of the dead and flowers springing from cow turds.    To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!  

R.J.M. Blackett professor of history at Vanderbilt University and a historian of the abolitionist movement in the US. He’s written several books including “Building an Antislavery Wall”, “A Thousand Miles for Freedom” and “The Captive’s Quest for Freedom”. But today professor Blackett comes on the podcast to talk about his work “Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery.  To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!  

Mr. Stephen Scott is Back by the Woodpile to talk about his long career in the arts, this time speaking about his move from England to sunny California in the late 1970s and early 1980s. We get to hear about his encounters with such legends as Larry Norman, Mark Heard, Keith Green, Louis and Mary Neely, Charlie Peacock, Mike Roe and the 77s in addition to giving some insight into the recordings of a few of his own compositions. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Musician Jerry Chapman and Alternative Records' Randy Layton come Back By the Woodpile to talk about the upcoming releases of unearthed recordings of Two Pound Planet!    To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!  

Journey to the West researcher Jim R. McClanahan returns to the Woodpile, this time to talk all about Zhu Bajie aka Pigsy! Origins, history, accessories, names and his faint relation to Indiana Jones. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!    

Musician and poet Steve Scott is back, this time to talk about the cultural and spiritual developments that he got to witness in 1960's and 70's Britain.  To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

  Musician and poet Steve Scott comes Back By The Woodpile to talk about not only the messages and history of the Gospel of John but the artistry found in the book as well.    To hear on Stitcher, click here!   To hear on iTunes, click here!   To hear on Spotify, click here!

  Documentary director Jaime Prater talks about his film “No Place To Call Home” which explores the over 70 children and teenagers who claimed to have been abused at the Jesus People USA commune in Chicago, Illinois. Prater relays his own experience of abuse, the making of the film, the fallout of its release and the current condition of his own faith. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!  

We're back in the 1980s talking baseball, football, soccer, karate and one family's escape from communist Vietnam. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!