Western Friend Podcast

Episode 12 of the Western Friend Podcast features a keynote address by Bridget Moix from the last in-person gathering of Intermountain Yearly Meeting, 2019. Bridget Moix is the General Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), and she also leads two other Quaker organizations affiliated with FCNL: Friends Place on Capitol Hill and FCNL Education Fund. The keynote address e...

Episode 11 of the Western Friend Podcast features a conversation with two recent presiding clerks of Western yearly meetings – Molly Wingate of Intermountain Yearly Meeting (IMYM) and Lucretia Humphrey of North Pacific Yearly Meeting (NPYM) – as they discuss experiences and insights they have gained through decades of living as Quakers in "military towns" -- Colorado Springs, CO, and Gre...

In episode 10 of the Western Friend Podcast, join us for an informative and moving conversation on death, life, and everything in between with Michele Shields. Michele is a   member of the Honolulu Friends Meeting and the Director of Spiritual Care Services emerita and research scholar at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. She discusses the importance of listening, the Spir...

Episode 9, In Search of an Honorable Bank, features an interview with Treasurer of Multnomah Meeting in Portland, OR. Theresa Deibele. Following the interview, hosts Jon and colin offer a remix where they dig into a few highlights from the interview. You too can join us for the next live interview! Join us on Tuesday, April 12th at 7pm Pacific Time. You can find more information, and the Zoom link...

In Episode 8 of the Western Friend podcast, the hosts speak with sociologist, writer, and activist Paula Palmer.  A member of Boulder Friends Meeting (IMYM), Palmer  co-coordinates “Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples,” a program of Friends Peace Teams. In this episode, Paula shares about:  the importance of collaboration and relationships listening and learning from locals Quaker histor...

On this episode of the Western Friend Podcast, we chat with agrarian scholar and progressive advocate Daniel O'Connell. We speak about his journey, his activism, his spiritual practice, and his book, In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California . This episode was recording with a live virtual audience! To join our next recording on Tuesday, February 8t...

This episode features a conversation with poet and undergraduate student Gabriela Portillo Alvarado. Gabriela shares about their faith, their research, and their poetry (including an exclusive poem read for the first time!). Presented in three segments, this episode begins with the interview, followed by the Q and A session with attendees and closing with the remix, where the hosts of the Soul For...

This episode of the Western Friend Podcast features the keynote address from the 2021 annual session of Pacific Yearly Meeting. Gabriela Portillo Alvarado and Avacha Jiltonilro speak and share their poetry on the Yearly Meeting’s theme of: “Love and Justice: Heeding the Spirit’s Power Within and Among Us.” Following the keynote speakers, you'll hear the remix where we reflect on the two poet’...

On this episode of the Western Friend Podcast we are joined by Cherice Bock. Cherice works as a Creation Justice Advocate with Oregon Interfaith Power & Light and Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, and you can find more about her amazing work HERE .  A few themes from  this episode are:  our interconnectedness  the importance of listening to how other species and parts of creation speak up to us...

This episode of the Western Friend Podcast centers on the keynote address presented by Cherice Bock at the 2021 annual session of North Pacific Yearly Meeting.  Titled “Courage, Fear, and Care: Creating Resilient Communities to Meet Climate Justice”, Cherice explores some of the challenges we face in pandemic times and offers steps that we can take, individually and collectively, to address them. ...

In episode two of the Western Friend Podcast, we bring you a critical conversation with José Santos Woss, the Director of Justice Reform for Friends Committee on National Legislation.  We explore how he came to Quakerism as a young Black Latino man, the meaning he finds in his work, and several of the urgent projects he’s working on at the moment including advocating to end perpetual punishment an...

In this first episode of the Western Friend Podcast, we bring you the keynote address that José Santos Woss presented to Intermountain Yearly Meeting in June 2021. José Santos Woss is the Director of Justice Reform for Friends Committee on National Legislation. Following the keynote, Jon Stoll and colin cole of Soul Force Ones dig deeper into some of the key ideas presented in José’s powerful addr...