In The Corner Back By The Woodpile

We're back in our favorite decade to talk Prodigal, Bourgeois Tagg and Steve Scott, all with help from TrueTunes.com's John J Thompson! To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!  

Artist and musician Jace Seavers tell his epic story of living nearly a decade in the Jesus People USA commune in Chicago. Consisting of good memories and nightmares both, the experience would affect his thinking and art for the rest of his life. Includes stories of Steve Scott, Daniel Amos, Cause and Effect, Crashdog, The Crossing and Rez Band. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here! (Jace with one of Rez Band's original bass guitars)  

Law and Liberty's Brian Smith joins us to talk about religion, government, history, objectivism and integralism, how they can get along and how they often don't.   To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!    

On this episode we hear from one man who watched his church attempt to reach a historically discriminated against group of folks, which apparently required a discrimination of a new kind.     To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

The nature of silence, not being fond of children, recognizing one's own deficiencies, the laying-low wisemen and much more are what we get up to talking about on this philosophical discussion Back By the Woodpile.   To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Knowing others through their written words, trapped inside of time within a small room, enemies using your past words against you and other troubles are what's at hand on this philosophical episode of In the Corner Back By the Woodpile!    To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

The 1980's had their share of parties, fights and bullies, of which we're going to get a earful via another ensemble guest episode!  To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

We're back in Evansville, Indiana getting a tour of an long-gone electrical motor shop where the characters, life lessons and laughs were plentiful.  To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

There's so many charities and government programs that might give some aid but in the process foster dependency or encourage fraud. One organization has become successful of helping some of the most hopeless folks transform themselves and escape the cycles of drugs, poverty and low expectations. Peggy Gardner of Greater Faith Community Action Corporation shares both stories of failure and success but some of the formulas they've found that works. Mrs. Gardner also shares what happens when a black woman decides to have breakfast with klansmen.  To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Educator Derek Luptak lets us ride sidecar in alongside Ulysses and his crew as he gets in a tangle with cyclops, sirens, goddesses, bad weather, time, terrible decisions, just to name a few. In the process we learn about heroes, home, cancel culture, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Juana Rosa Pita and so much more.   (Penelope by Matt Andrews) To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Author Lisa See comes Back By the Woodpile to give us a history lesson on the Jeju Island, the Haenyeo women divers and how it ties to her book The Island Sea Women. (Memorial to the victims of the 4.3 Incident)   To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

We're going back to school, sharing mostly stories of teachers- the good, the bad and the foxy- we had back in the 1980's! To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!  

Lin Zhao was an enthusiastic member of the Chinese Communist Party but in time her comrades would sentence her to death. Professor Xi Lian comes Back By the Woodpile to tell the story of this important figure for the hope of democracy in 21st China.  To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Brenton Dickieson of A Pilgrim in Narnia comes Back By The Woodpile to talk about C.S. Lewis, his work The Great Divorce and how it factors to Christianity's challenges of today. 

Professor Ricardo Pau-Llosa returns back to the Woodpile to share some of his poetry, his thoughts on some of his art collection and on the default politics of artists.  To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!  

Stories of working in the 80’s! On farms, in restaurants, grocery stores and in even at space camp. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!  

(Meal with sinners by Sieger Köder) Travis McCool of Table Gathering joins us using the previous In The Corner Back By the Woodpile episode to talk about where the ground lays between being engaged with the world without losing one's soul in the process.  To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Talking about two histories: the progressive Christians of the early 20th century compared with the progressive Christians of now. It's a bit of a grim get together featuring Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Charles Darwin, Walter Rauschenbusch, Henry Emerson Fosdick, Leopold and Loeb, Helen Keller, Richard Rohr, U2 and a whole lot more! To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!  

Deferred dreams, liars enslaved by their words and the tyrants in all of us is what we're talking about on this philosophical episode!   To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!

Taneya Koonce comes on the podcast to talk about her adventures in genealogy. We'll talk about shaking stories out of the family tree, the challenges of getting information of those with ancestors that had been enslaved, Alex Haley and much more. (Jim and Carrie Turner family) (Searching for gravestones)     To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here! To hear on Spotify, click here!