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City As Playground
by Leadership Foundations
Explore the anthropological, sociological and theological significance of seeing your city as a playground rather than a battleground
Episodes
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Contemplation and Action
In this episode, Dan Cardinali, President/CEO of Independent Sector, joins us to explore how a posture of contemplation and action can meaningfully contribute to human flourishing in our urban world.
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the Street and the Academy
Cities, by their very nature, point us to the contradictions and paradoxes that are an inseparable aspect of our world. To love cities - as the Leadership Foundations global network seeks to embody - is to embrace these contradictions. Join us in this episode where we explore the contradiction…
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The Bible and The Newspaper - An Introduction
How do we navigate today's urban world - holding the bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other? How do we navigate the tension of contemplation and action, street and the academy in our active engagement in the city? Join us for this new City as Playground series as we'll be exploring…
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Praying with Poetry, Redux
G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “The reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry is too fierce, too fascinating and too practical in its demands.”* In this 2021 finale podcast episode, we welcome back Fr. Steve Lantry, SJ for a special Advent/Christmas...
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Can You Imagine A Playground? The Canvas that is NYC
Can you see a playground amidst the countless smells, sights, and sounds of New York City? Jeremy Del Rio, Executive Director of Thrive Collective, Leadership Foundation of NYC, joins us to describe how this vision of the City as a Playground is coming to life in the City that Never Sleeps. He...
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Can You Imagine a Playground? - A Just City
Can you imagine a city that is just? A city where everyone - regardless of background, birth family, race, or creed - receives what they need to fully thrive as human beings... Justin Beene, President of the Leadership Foundation of Grand Rapids, Center for Community Transformation (GRCCT), joins...
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Can You Imagine a Playground? - Courageous Leadership
At the center of transformation in our world's cities is leadership - women and men who deeply love their city and are committed to it becoming more like a playground. Join us as Melody Rodriguez and Alma Vargas from Proyecto Mole in Tacoma, Washington talk about developing young people as…
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Can You Imagine A Playground?
In this year-end series of 2021, we're returning to our roots, letting our imagination guide us as we explore more deeply the animating metaphor of Leadership Foundations: our world's cities as playgrounds. Join us as we hear from LF leaders from various cities as they imagine their own city as a...
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Imagining Abundance: Conversation To Be Continued
Can you imagine God's economy of abundance even in places where resources appear so scarce? Can you see it? Join us as we wrap up this City as Playground podcast series, Imagining Abundance, recapping our conversations of seeing abundance throughout the Leadership Foundations network in...
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Imagining Abundance in Phillipi, West Virginia
The story of West Virginia is one often told only describing its entrenched poverty, widespread opioid use, and coal -dependent economy. Ruston Seaman, president of New Vision, Leadership Foundation of Phillipi, West Virginia tells us a different story. Join us as Ruston describes his community...
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Imagining Abundance - Reimagining Fresno‘s Economy
In Fresno, the Center for Community Transformation Leadership Foundation is reimagining the local economy of God's abundance. An economy where the city is full of practicing and prospective entrepreneurs starting and sustaining small businesses of every shape... A local economy nourished by a...
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Imagining Abundance in Bloemfontein, South Africa
Homelessness, prostitution, government corruption. Amidst some of these dire circumstances in South Africa, only exacerbated by COVID-19, the Towers of Hope Leadership Foundation is living into God's economy of Abundance. Learn how they are imagining abundance in their city - where the most...
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Imagining Abundance - An Introduction
Can you imagine our world's cities as places of abundance? Places where God's excessive love for God's children is on full display? Where everyone, including the most vulnerable, receive all that they need to lead lives full of promise? Join us this series as we explore what God's invitation of...
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Traditioned Innovation:Wrapping up the Converation
Cohost Rick Enloe and Leadership Foundations President Dave Hillis review the territory of this seven episode series on Traditioned Innovation. How can people of faith and good will work together to innovate in our cities by drawing from our rich faith traditions? What might it look like to come...
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Love & Basketball: Transformation in Nairobi, Kenya
The Nairobi Leadership Foundation is transforming one of the world's largest informal settlements, Kibra, through the power of relationships. In this podcast episode of the Traditioned Innovation series, Executive Director Gideon Ochieng describes how they're using basketball courts to bring…
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Traditioned Innovation: Learning to Pray
Is prayer still relevant today, in our post-modern 21st century urban world? Does our 2,000+ year-old faith tradition have anything to teach us about praying today? Join us as acclaimed author and public figure Fr. James Martin, SJ discusses Ignatius of Loyola, our bustling cities, and his…
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Traditioned Innovation: An Invitation into Brave Space
What if instead of seeking safe spaces, we worked to create brave spaces, spaces where we could bring our deepest selves, our deepest vulnerabilities to the table in a way that might make real transformation possible? Rev. Jen Bailey, founder of the Faith Matters Network joins us to explore the...
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Upside Down Hospitality & Prison Reform
How does reform really happen? We continue our conversation from last episode with Dr. Richard Beck, exploring the prison ministry and reform work of three Local Leadership Foundations - Next Chapter: The LF of Rochester, MN, the Memphis Leadership Foundation, and the Dallas Leadership…
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Traditioned Innovation: Upside Down Hospitality & The Little Way
Dr. Richard Beck - Author, blogger, and professor of psychology at Abilene Christian University - joins us to discuss the psychology of why we get so stuck in our tribal ruts. He suggests that an often overlooked Saint, Therese of Lisieux, offers a simple, yet profound way of finding ourselves...
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Traditioned Innovation: A Way of Proceeding
Is leadership about making important decisions? Or is it more about a way of going about making decisions? To borrow a phrase from the Jesuits, what is a "way of proceeding" that allows us to move forward together in these uncertain times? We are join by Lisa Slayton, Leadership Foundations board...
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Traditioned Innovation - An Introduction
With the beginning of the new year, 2021 brings plenty of uncertainty along with it. How do we approach this new and uncertain future? How do we seek long-term change in our world's cities, when we don't even know what will happen tomorrow? Could it be that the deepest resources of our traditions...
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Praying With Poetry - An Advent 2020 special
As a special Advent gift, Jesuit priest, Fr. Steve Lantry, SJ is our guest to describe how how poetry can serve as a means and method to pray. Join us as Fr. Steve shares a few of his favorite poems and demonstrates how poetry can aid us in our encounter with God and to enter more deeply into in...
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Public Theology for the Common Good
How do the deep resources of our faith help us to more deeply engage the Public Square? Can a Public Theology help us find a way through these divided and polarized times to work together toward the Common Good? Anne Snyder, the Editor-in-Chief of Comment Magazine and the host of Breaking Ground…
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Eucharistic Leadership, A Review (Rebroadcast of Episode 37)
In this rebroadcast episode, host Rick Enloe and Leadership Foundations president Dave Hillis explore the Eucharistic shape of life and leadership - what it means to be taken, blessed, broken and given.
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Forgiveness And The Art Of Collaboration
A Conversation with Rachel McPherson of Mutuality In this podcast we explore what real, authentic collaboration is and how it can help us out of our deep ruts of resentment and rivalry. Rachel McPherson, Founder and CEO of Mutuality, joins us to share about nurturing collaborations amongst the...
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Partisanship and Christ's Healing Power | A Conversation with Jim Wallis
In this City as Playground episode, Jim Wallis -- founder of Sojourners and author of the recently released Christ in Crisis: Why we Need to Reclaim Jesus -- join us. Together, we explore Jesus' distinct response to our all-too-human tendency to build walls, make enemies, and create deep divides…
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Can Reform be Nonreactive? - Policing in America and Leadership
Nicholas Sensley, President and CEO of the Institute for American Police Reform joins us to talk about policing, the need for reform, leadership, and how to bring about real, lasting and comprehensive change.
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Leadership as Accompaniment
Pancho Argüelles, Executive Director of the Living Hope Wheel Chair Association, joins us for this episode exploring spiritual and social aspects of Accompaniment.
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Immigration and Leadership Amidst a Pandemic
How do immigrants survive in cities during a pandemic? Sam Rajshekhar - President of the YuvaLok Leadership Foundation in Bangalore, India - and Noah Baskett - Director of Global Advancement for Leadership Foundations - join the podcast to discuss the challenges that immigrant communities face...
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Leadership and the Challenge of Racial Injustice
Cornelius Williams- president of the Resurgence Leadership Foundation based in Atlanta, Georgia - joins host Rick Enloe and LF President Dave Hillis to reflect on the current racial turmoil throughout the US. Cornelius reflects on his own leadership journey, the enduring work that's needed to…
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You Can Only Act Within the World You Can See
Join host Rick Enloe and Leadership Foundations President, Dave Hillis, as they explore what nonreactive leadership looks like in this time of pandemic. They'll explore how The Art of Seeing is so critical in leadership, what holiness has to do with the city as a whole, and hear from Dan…
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City as Playground? You've got to be Kidding Me!
Leadership in a time of Covid - Part I - Join Leadership Foundations President, Dave Hillis, and podcast host Rick Enloe as they introduce a conversation on what real Leadership looks like amidst a time of crisis. For this multipart series we'll be exploring the notion of "Nonreactive…
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The Leaders in Leadership Foundations
This episode begins a new series of the LF podcast which will feature the heroic stories of leaders throughout the LF network. Rick and Dave begin by discussing Bob Terry’s definition of leadership as well as Marshall Gant’s framework of storytelling which will be used in the upcoming interviews…
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A 40 Year Legacy: Sustaining A Movement- Episode 45
In the final episode of the series celebrating LF’s 40th year of work, Dave and Rick are joined by CIS Founder and LF Board member Bill Milliken. They talk about the inauguration of the Colangelo Carpenter Innovation Center (CCIC) in Washington DC, ideas from organizational theorist Richard...
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A 40 Year Legacy: Cultivating Global Impact- Episode 44
In this episode, Dave and Rick are joined by Leslie MacKrell, Partner at The Bridgespan Group. Together they discuss the intensive Bridgespan project and how it better positioned LF to cultivate and drive global impact. Listen here and send in any questions you would like answered to...
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A 40 Year Legacy: The Common Square- Episode 43
In this episode, Dave and Rick explore how LF has ventured into the public sector over the past 40 years. Together they delve into the necessity of engaging all sectors of the city- from political to social service to religious- on behalf of the common good. Listen here and send in any questions...
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A 40 Year Legacy: An Emerging Organization- Episode 42
In this episode, Dave and Rick discuss the emergence and evolution of the LF organization. Together they explore the formation of LF as we know it today and how LF has balanced the tension between organic and organizational realities over the last 40 years. Listen here and send in any questions…
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A 40 Year Legacy: A Global Fellowship- Episode 41
In this episode, Dave and Rick discuss LF's organizational development over the course of its 40-year history. With a clip from LF founder Reid Carpenter, the conversation explores the early years of fellowship, the importance of the Incarnation, and the emergence of a robust global organization....
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A 40 Year Legacy: A Theology As Big As The City- Episode 40
In this episode, Dave and Rick continue to discuss LF's 40th anniversary and look back at key pieces of the LF theological framework. The conversation includes clips from Dr. Ray Bakke, a pivotal voice since LF's early years, reflecting on why loving the city was not just important, but...
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A 40 Year Legacy: The Founding Story- Episode 39
In this episode, Dave and Rick continue their conversation about LF's 40th anniversary. Together they discuss key moments, people, and ideas that contributed to the founding of the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation in 1978. Complete with words from our founder Reid Carpenter, they look at how this...
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A 40 Year Legacy- Episode 38
In 2018, Leadership Foundations marks its 40th anniversary. In this episode, Dave and Rick discuss the importance of remembrance and set up our next podcast series which will explore significant events over the last 40 years that have brought us to where we are today and position the LF network…
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Eucharistic Leadership Review- Episode 37
How does the Eucharist impact and shape leadership? In this episode, Dave and Rick look back on the last 10 months and our dive into the idea of Eucharistic leadership and its four movements- taken, blessed, broken, and given. Together they discuss the key questions and lessons that surfaced and...
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Eucharistic Leadership: Given- Episode 36
What is the purpose of being given and how does it impact leadership? In this episode, Dave and Rick talk with Jack Fortin, Chair of the Leadership Foundations Board and Senior Fellow at Augsburg College, about the importance of this action in Eucharistic leadership- being given for the sake of…
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Eucharistic Leadership Whispercast: Given- Episode 35
How does power shape leadership? Can one lead without being in control? In this Whispercast, Dave and Rick dive into the fourth and final movement of Eucharistic Leadership, being given. Join them as they discuss how this notion can shape our leadership and move us to empower others. This sets up...
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Eucharistic Leadership: Broken- Episode 34
What if our identity is not wrapped up in getting it right or being perfect? In this episode, Dave and Rick talk with Kris Rocke (Executive Director of Street Psalms and LF Senior Associate) about his experience of the third movement of Eucharistic leadership, being broken. They dive into the...
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Eucharistic Leadership Whispercast: Broken- Episode 33
What does brokenness have to do with leadership? In this episode, Dave and Rick introduce the third movement of Eucharistic leadership, being broken. They discuss how this counter-intuitive movement is vital to the vision of the city as playground. This sets up our next full-length podcast where...
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Eucharistic Leadership: Blessed- Episode 32
Take a moment to listen to the latest episode of the City as Playground Podcast. What does it mean to be blessed, even in the midst of life’s most challenging realities? In this episode, Dave and Rick talk with Sara Melchior (LF Network Relations and Development Associate) about her experience of...
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Eucharistic Leadership Whispercast: Blessed- Episode 31
Take a moment to listen to the latest episode of the City as Playground Podcast. What does it mean to be blessed as a leader? In this Whispercast, Rick and Dave introduce the second movement of Eucharistic leadership, being blessed. They discuss Eucharistic leadership and how mercy and blessing...
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Eucharistic Leadership: Taken- Episode 30
Take a moment to listen to the latest episode of the City as Playground Podcast. How can fostering humility in leadership help us be more effective and life-giving leaders to those we serve? Rick and Dave talk with Larry Lloyd—President of Memphis Leadership Foundation and LF Vice President of...
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Eucharistic Leadership Whispercast: Taken- Episode 29
Take a moment to listen to the latest episode of the City as Playground Podcast. Is leadership simply possessed by the luck of the draw, or is it a gift that each of us have the ability of cultivating? In this Whispercast, Rick and Dave—using the Taken movement of Eucharistic leadership—explore…
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Explore the anthropological, sociological and theological significance of seeing your city as a playground rather than a battleground
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