The C4SO Podcast with Bishop Todd Hunter

A Healing Lent continues on the podcast with a conversation with the Revs. Matt Tebbe and Spencer Ruark, co-rectors (along with C4SO Podcast host Ben Sternke) of The Table in Indianapolis. We talked about the toll the Covid-19 pandemic has taken, and the ways we are seeking nourishment and healing this Lent. Announcements and Links: [...]

C4SO's focus during Lent this year is called A Healing Lent: Practices for Post-Traumatic Growth Through a Pandemic. We will be examining the effect of Covid on our lives, talking with guests about how the pandemic has impacted their lives, leadership, families, and faith communities over these last two years, with the hope of coming into [...]

Last year, Bishop Todd appointed the Rev. Kimberly Deckel as the Bishop’s Liaison for Women in Leadership, and Kimberly asked the Rev. Amanda Holm Rosengren to serve on her team. We talk to Kimberly and Amanda about their new roles and the supportive spaces they hope to create for C4SO’s clergywomen. Check out the story [...]

Scholar and writer Greg Thompson joins us to talk about the sacred work of storytelling, and how sharing the story of the Underground Railroad can promote racial healing and justice. Greg Thompson is a scholar, artist, writer, and producer whose work focuses on race and equity. He currently serves as Executive Director of Voices Underground, [...]

Our Black History Month focus continues with the Very Rev. Leon "Mac" McKenzie discussing what the church can learn from Malcolm X, and why it's important for us as Christians to listen to those outside our faith traditions, and outside our faith. Leon McKenzie is the Pastor of Preaching and Teaching at Redeemer Community Church [...]

We talked with artist Steve Prince, the artist we are celebrating during Black History Month, asking him about what got him started in art, how his artistic process works now, why he does what he does, and his experience as a Black artist. Steve is a mixed media artist, master printmaker, lecturer, educator, and art [...]

We kick off 2022 with a word of encouragement for the diocese from Bishop Todd, focusing on faithful, contextual mission in the midst of relentless cultural shifts, and ending with a blessing spoken over our churches. Announcements and Links: Our Cycle of Prayer Spotlight ministry this week is Trinity Northside in Atlanta, GA, led by the Rev. Jon Ziegler.

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we’ve enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to tell us a favorite Advent or Christmas hymn, giving u...

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we’ve enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to tell us a favorite Advent or Christmas hymn, giving u...

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we’ve enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to tell us a favorite Advent or Christmas hymn, giving u...

This is a BONUS episode in our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. We’ve been talking about favorite old hymns for the season, but we also have worship leaders and pastors writing new music for Advent, Christmas, and beyond, and we wanted to highlight a song that emerged last year at Cornerstone Tulsa : “Come Lord Jesus,” co-written by pastor Jon Odom, Jonathan Van Ris...

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we’ve enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to tell us a favorite Advent or Christmas hymn, giving u...

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we’ve enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to tell us a favorite Advent or Christmas hymn, giving u...

We continue our series on Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we’ve enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to tell us a favorite Advent or Christmas hymn, giving u...

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We start a new series today called Melodies of Hope: Hymns From Advent and Christmastide. Each year, our churches sing a familiar rotation of Advent and Christmas hymns, often without knowing their meaning and context. To provide a fresh take on the Christmas carol canon, we’ve enlisted eight worship leaders, songwriters and thinkers from around C4SO to tell us a favorite Advent or Christmas hymn,...

In this final episode of our mini-series on church planting in C4SO, we discuss something that often happens in church planting, but isn’t talked about a lot: when church planting doesn’t work out, and the church needs to close its doors. Our guests are the Rev. Kimberly Deckel and Rev. Andrew Stravitz, who were planting All Souls in Phoenix together, and the Rev. Adam Jones, who was planting Merc...

We are hosting a mini-series on church planting in C4SO. Often church planting is a young person’s game, but in this episode, we discuss what it’s like to plant a church when you’re not so young anymore! Our guests are the Rev. Billy Steen, planting All Souls South Placer in Rocklin, California, and the Rev. John Gorin, planting Holy Trinity Church in Silicon Valley. Announcements and Links: All C...

We are hosting a mini-series on church planting in C4SO. In this episode, we discuss what it’s like to start gathering publicly for worship. Our guests are the Rev. Sandy Richter, who is planting Christ our Peace in Oak Park, Illinois, and the Rev. Austin Becton, who is planting Good Shepherd Nashville in Nashville, Tennessee. You can find out more about Christ our Peace on Instagram or Facebook ....

We are hosting a mini-series on church planting in C4SO. In this episode, we discuss the realities of the “pre-launch” phase of church planting, before any kind of public gathering. Our guests are the Travis Lowe, planting Trinity Anglican Church with his wife Mickey in Tampa, Florida, and James and Happy Madden, planting St. Luke Medical District in Dallas, Texas. To find out more about the Lowes...

We are hosting a mini-series on church planting in C4SO. In this first episode, we talk with Bishop Todd about his vision for church planting in the diocese. Then we chat with the Rev. Brad Swope, C4SO’s Director of Church Planting, about the practicalities of planting in C4SO, and two exciting new initiatives: a church planting residency program and an upcoming church planting boot camp. Email Br...

We finish our series on The Gifts of Anglicanism for the Body of Christ, focusing on the deep expression of social justice in the Anglican tradition, and why it’s vital to hold together the concerns of both spiritual formation and social justice. Our guest is the Rev. Bill Haley, Anglican priest and Executive Director of Coracle , an organization that seeks to inspire and enable people to be the p...

We continue our series on The Gifts of Anglicanism for the Body of Christ, focusing on the church calendar and how it can be a source of vitality, community, and spiritual formation in our lives. Our guest is the Rev. Dr. W. David O. Taylor, C4SO’s Scholar-in-Residence for Arts, Media, and Culture. David brought some serious scholarly chops to this discussion! David is the author of several books,...