Pod and Country

We recently completed our first season but with the holidays upon us, we wanted to put out a bonus episode focused on Halloween.  We hope you enjoy this bit of fun from The Mike and Mari Show featuring our hosts, comedians Michael Bossier and Mari Magaloni Ramos.  The Mike and Mari Show was recorded and broadcast during the pandemic and was on the air for three years.  Here are a few sketches that...

With this episode we conclude our first season by talking with Bruce Neuburger, activist, educator and author of “Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California” and “Postcards to Hitler” which draws on his family’s extraordinary history of resistance to the Nazi regime and reminds us of the importance of confronting hatred and injustice in our own time. We also include a...

Last month, we interviewed Professor Bill Ong Hing, founder of the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic. Professor Hing had a lot to say about our broken immigration system. He suggested things we can do to participate in the fight against mass deportations including showing up for protests, accompanying immigrants to their scheduled court hearings and perhaps most important, to keep humaniz...

In this episode we continue in the best tradition Unitarian Universalism to take it to the streets.  We speak with Bill Ong Hing, a leading voice in the struggle to ensure that immigrants are treated with dignity and fairness under the law that serves all of us regardless of our immigration status.  Bill is a law professor and Associate Dean at the University San Francisco and is the founding dire...

Our previous two episodes gave us a firm grounding in both theological and historical ideas animating Unitarian Universalist thinking and actions in the fight against oppression and tyranny.  With this episode 3, we move out into the world and into our communities.  We seek to listen and learn how best to support the heroes and saints among us on the front lines of resistance and explore how we ca...

Welcome to Pod and Country, an audio magazine for the spirit!  In this episode we’ll  continue our conversation with the Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern and the Rev. John Buehrens. In the previous episode they looked at the theological grounding of the Unitarian response to tyranny and oppression. This time they will take a deep and honest dive into the history of the Unitarian response to tyranny and...

In this episode. we speak with the Rev. John Buehrens. John was the 6th President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, 1993 to 2001 and is the author of several books about the history of Unitarian Universalism. His most recent book is "A Religious Center with a Civic Circumference: Unitarians in San Francisco Since 1850". He also published "Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked...