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Faith and Common Ground
by Jesse Kearns
Jesse Kearns and Amber St Clare are the creators of Faith and Common Ground podcast. We are excited to seek out the best interfaith voices in order to provide listeners with concrete ways to transform the world and make it the best place to live.
Episodes
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Season 6 Episode 8 From Experience to Action
This month on Faith and Common Ground, Jesse and Amber celebrate their longest episode by welcoming two guests who have turned their personal journeys into opportunities to help others. Former journalist Ashiah Bird shares how she found a new calling helping unhoused people find a place to call...
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Season 6 Episode 7 After Deconstruction
What happens when you’ve been hurt by religion, struggled with addiction, questioned the institutions you once trusted—and yet you don’t walk away from faith? In this episode, we talk with Angelica about her very honest, very complicated, and deeply meaningful spiritual journey. Her story doesn't...
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Season 6 Episode 6 The Courage to Question
This week we revisit a conversation we somehow forgot was already in our archives! Emily G. shares her journey of deconstructing from the Mormon church, followed by a conversation with Kathy Fernandes of the Center for Spiritual Living about why faith and intellect don't have to be at odds. Two...
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Season 6 Episode 5 When Faith Doesn't Fit Anymore
What happens when the faith you've inherited no longer fits? In this second episode of our series on religious deconstruction, Amber and Jesse talk with Frederic Jones and Larry Love, authors of Called: A Faith and the Forward-Looking, about "spiritual exiles" and the search for a faith beyond...
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Season 6 Episode 4 Losing Faith While Finding Meaning
For this episode of Faith and Common Ground, Amber and Jesse explore the growing phenomenon of spiritual deconstruction. Drawing from real stories shared online by Christians, Pagans, and New Age practitioners, this episode examines what happens when people begin questioning the beliefs and...
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Season 6 Episode 3 When Things End Well
From the end of life to the end of the world, how do we face what comes last? Jesse and Amber hear from two hospice caregivers about how to show up with compassion, honesty, and grace when it matters most and then we explore how many world religions imagine the end of time.
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Season 6 Episode 2 The Scandal of Jesus and the Language of Destiny
This week Amber and Jesse welcome authors Pastor Robert Morton and Karyn Chabot for a conversation that lives right in the heart of what Faith and Common Ground is about—honest faith, deep questions, and unexpected places of connection.
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Season 6 Episode 1 - Healing Self and Others
Jesse and Amber welcome Christopher Armstrong and Nicola Turner to talk about a variety of topics related to health and healing including mutants and over-caffeinated Americans. No. Really.
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Season 5 Episode 9 - Ancient Women's Wisdom
Amber and Jesse go international in this episode, welcoming two healing practitioners from Canada and Scotland. Maria Seraphina explores the practice of intergenerational healing, while Abigail Hinds shares insightful guidance on the importance of breast health.
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Season 5 Episode 8 Health and Wholeness with Gail Alibozek
This week, Jesse and Amber are joined by holistic health expert Gail Alibozek—certified in health restoration, a medical malpractice survivor, and a powerful voice for patient advocacy. She opens up about her journey and the restorative role herbal medicine can play in whole-person wellness.
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Season 5 Episode 7 "Joys and Concerns"
Amber and Jesse take a walk through Chico California's annual "A Touch of Chico" fair to ask people what their greatest joys and most pressing concerns are. Crystal Lively also visits the studio to talk about her fourth annual Gratitude Walk and how gratitude fits into our joys and concerns theme.
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Season 5 Episode 6 Picking Up Good Vibrations
In this episode, Jesse and Amber welcome back two returning guests to the table. Jennifer Conlin joins us for a follow-up on Jesse’s acupuncture treatment, and Stefani Pearsall shares insights on navigating difficult times with a higher vibrational frequency.
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Season 5 Episode 5 A New Way to Read with David Deveaux and Sober Living with Jim Secola
David Deveaux joins Amber and Jesse to share a different method of teaching kids to read. Then "Papa" Jim Secola talks about living sober for 18 years and his work helping others achieve sobriety.
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Season 5 Episode 4 - Healing Paths and Mystical Wisdom
In this episode, Jesse and Amber welcome Jennifer Conlin who shares her inspiring journey to becoming an acupuncturist and how Eastern healing traditions transformed her life and practice. Then, Shane Montane offers a thoughtful introduction to Kabbalah, helping us understand its rich mystical...
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Season 5 Episode 3 Interfaith Living with Laurie Howard and Holistic Medicine with Jeanette Conery and Dr Klobodu
Laurie Howard, a self-proclaimed "JewBuh" talks about what it's like to be a practitioner of Judaism and Buddhism and Dr. Michelle Klobodu and Jeanette Conery address research on holistic treatments for metabolic syndrome.
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Season 5 Episode 2 Responding to Community Needs
Jenny Hildenbrand and Erin Haley join Jesse and Amber at the Radical Hospitality table to share how they responded to felt needs in their community and found out they're the only ones in town who did!
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Season 5 Episode 1 Building Houses and Good Relationships
Amber and Jesse get a late start in 2025 with Sophia Penisu, our youngest guest on the show, who is serving people and planet by learning about Net Zero Building. We also have Amber Flood, an old friend of Amber St Clare who shares about receiving and giving spiritual direction for people in need.
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Season 4 Episode 15 End of the Year Reflections
Jesse and Amber share how they maintain common ground despite their differences and set some intentions for the new year.
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Season 4 Episode 14 Stop the Hate Panel and Hillary Crosby
Jesse and Amber attend the annual Chico Area Interfaith Council dinner and host a panel for the council's Stop the Hate Campaign followed by a one-on-one interview with one of the panelists, Hillary Crosby.
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Season 4 Episode 13 Naked Seeds with ME Young
Author ME Young visits the studio to discuss her book "Naked Seeds" and give us a perspective on how she serves people and planet.
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Season 4 Episode 12 Psychological and Religious Perspectives on Hate
Guest co-host Crystal Trimble joins Amber and Jesse to chat with Chico State professors Marv Megibow and Jim Anderson about the origins of hate and what we can do to navigate in a world where hate seems to be on the increase.
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Season 4 Episode 11 Learning to Share Sacred Space
On this second episode of our series on "United Against Hate," Chico State University Professors Daniel Veidlinger and Jed Wyrick join Jesse and Amber at the table to talk about interreligious relationships and how people from different religious traditions can set aside differences and learn to...
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Season 4 Episode 10 Addressing Hate with Zic and Syd
This month we start a new series called "United Against Hate" where we will discuss solutions to what seems to be an increase in hateful attitudes and actions in the public arena. Isaac Uhunmwauanghu and Syd Hayn join us in the studio to discuss the problem of hate and what we can do to address it.
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Season 4 Episode 9 You Want to Be a What?
Sadee Whip, author of Savage Awakening and Rev. Gail Hill, pastor of First Baptist Church in Chico, California share how their life experiences shaped the way they serve others.
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Season 4 Episode 8 Service to People and Planet
Jesse and Amber welcome Rakel Kieding and Stefani Pearsall to the show to talk about service oriented work for people and planet. And of course, Amber and Jesse manage to find a way to bring up their two favorite subjects - trauma and psychedelics!
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Season 4 Episode 7 Answering the Call with Jannae Rice and and Robert Morton
Jesse and Amber welcome two spiritual workers to the table today - Jannae Rice, a licensed mental health counselor associate, certified nutritionist, and body worker and Robert Morton, pastor of the Bethel AME Church in Chico, California.
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Season 4 Episode 6 Becoming a Coalition Builder with Marie Wallace
Marie Wallace, a project coordinator for the Drug Free Communities Coalition of Healthy Rural California, shows us how overcoming a traumatic past can lead to a call to be a Coalition Builder. Marie's story is informational, educational and most importantly inspirational!
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Season 4 Episode 5 Becoming a Reiki Master with Ashley Kerns
Ashley Kerns takes us on a journey through her early faith experiences, struggles with addiction and a spiritual "time out" during COVID to become a Reiki Master.
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Season 4 Episode 4 Becoming a Rabbi with Lisa Rappaport
We're starting a series about people who have been called to helping and healing ministries. Today Rabbi Lisa Rappaport joins us to take us through her journey through science and education to her call to spiritual leadership and service.
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Season 4 Episode 3 The Beauty of Hospice Ministry
Amber receives a spiritual care assessment from Rev Chaplain Mary Kearns to see if she's ready for hospice. Don't worry. Amber is fine. Really. Mostly.
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Season 4 Episode 2 Lunar Magic with Renée Starr
Amber and Jesse welcome Renée Starr back to the show to teach us about lunar magic and how to be a human being in alignment with the cosmic clock without getting caught up in the hustles of life.
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Season 4 Episode 1 A Wild Ride With Padma Bonku
We haven't been very good about translating our radio show into podcast format. For almost three months we were either broadcasting live at our local radio station without a way to record our shows or we were dealing with subjects and events that were very specific to our audience in Chico,...
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Season 3 Episode 4 Renee Starr: Goddess, Priestess, Witch
Jesse and Amber have a "what people don't get about my tradition" interview with Renee Starr, author, teacher, Goddess, Priestess and Witch!
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Season 3 Episode 7 Adventures in Egyptian Oils and Salvia With Shane Clayton
Amber and Jesse go on a field trip to Shane Clayton's Butte County retreat cottage to discuss Egyptian oils as well as the medicinal properties of salvia divinorum. Visit Shane at www.wandering-stars.net
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Season 3 Episode 6 Our Community Speaks Out!
Jesse and Amber step out of the studio to ask folks in our community marketplaces, "What does abundance mean to you?" and "Is Karma a real thing?" Join us as we consider these thought-provoking topics and how our local community responded.
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Season 3 Episode 5 Adventures in Traditional Ecological Knowlege
Jesse and Amber talk with environmental educator Ali Meders-Knight about Traditional Ecological Knowledge and how it is being used to restore lands and rebuild communities destroyed by the 2018 Camp Fire. Also "Chef," a joins us to talk about his experience as an indigenous person who learned how...
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Season 3 Episode 3 Suicide Crisis with Kristy Collins and Eileen Brownell
Jesse and Amber talk to Kristy Collins and Eileen Brownell about the startling number of youth and young adult suicides in Butte County, California after the 2018 Camp Fire. What is at the heart of the problem and what are some potential interfaith solutions?
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Season 3 Episode 2 Matthew 25 Christians
Amber and Jesse interview retired professor Donald Heinz to discover what it means to be a "Matthew 25 Christian."
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Season 3 Episode 1 Overdose Trauma
Jesse and Amber interview a panel of people at a sound healing session who witnessed a drug overdose and rendered aid. What happens when the ones who are called to help people journey through healing from trauma experience trauma themselves?
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Season 2 Episode 11 2022 Year In Review
Amber and Jesse review the best of 2022 in movies, books, acts of kindness, new ideas and much more!
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Season 2 Episode 9 - What You Don't Understand About Astrology
Jesse and Amber invite Kevin "Kosmic Kev" Durkin to the table to dispel myths about astrology and to clarify the difference between western astrology and Vedic astrology. Bonus - Kev does a reading for Jesse and Amber and analyzes their individual and shared ministry!
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Season 2 Episode 8 - What You Don't Understand About Judaism and Religious Science
Kristy Collins, director of the Chico Hillel Jewish Student Union at Chico State University comes to the table to dispel some myths and misconceptions about Judaism. Crystal Lively from the Center for Spiritual Living explains her experience with Religious Science and shares a community project...
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Season 2 Episode 7 - What You Don't Get About My Faith: Pagans and Christians
Amber and Jesse begin a new series about dispelling the myths and stereotypes people place upon some religious traditions. This week Jesse interviews Amber about her Pagan traditions, and Amber interviews Jesse about his Christian faith.
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Season 2 Episode 6 - Holistic Health
Yoga therapist Jeanette Connery joins Jesse and Amber at the table to talk about utilizing yoga as trauma therapy. Our second guest is Rebecca "the Fridge Fairy" Lampke, founder of Chico Community Refrigerator who is out on the front lines of her community providing basic needs to hungry people.
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Season 2 Episode 5 - Religious Trauma and the Table of Grace
Amber and Jesse interview Emily G, a woman who experienced religious trauma in her church and talk about the tools she uses to heal. Amber and Jesse also have a conversation about what they mean when they talk about "the table."
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Season 2 Episode 4 - Faith in Action
For our first segment, Amber and Jesse interview Alyssa Hoffman, director of the Tiny Pine Foundation about her ongoing work with building tiny houses for wildfire survivors. Music Therapist Leanne Wade joins Jesse for our second segment focusing on how music can help heal trauma.
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Season 2 Episode 3 - The Challenge of Moral Injury
Rita Nakashima Brock joins Jesse and Amber at the table to share some of her groundbreaking work in treating moral injury. Plus Nicole Shackleford, founder of Be With, introduces us to trauma informed yoga.
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Season 2 Episode 2 - Compassion in the Midst of Crisis
Jesse and Amber interview Gail Hill, director of Safe Space Winter Shelter who works hard to inspire other people to practice compassion to people on the margins. Our other guest is Dr. Emily Hartman who shares a healthier and more holistic way of looking at cosmetic surgery.
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Season 2 Episode 1 - Faith, Psychedelics, Trauma and Ethics
After a COVID Sabbatical, hosts Amber St Clare and Jesse Kearns are back with all new shows. This episode Jesse and Amber interview Alexandra Kriz, founder and director of the Phoenix Nest Community Project that offers ketamine therapy for trauma victims. Also, Kat Kjelstrom Holmes, a retired...
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Faith and Common Ground Episode 12 - "Let's Talk About Death" with Lisa, Mary and Rebecca
Reb. Lisa Rappaport, Rev. Chap. Mary Kearns and Rebecca Senoglu discuss what it means to have a beautiful death.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Jesse Kearns and Amber St Clare are the creators of Faith and Common Ground podcast. We are excited to seek out the best interfaith voices in order to provide listeners with concrete ways to transform the world and make it the best place to live.
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Jesse Kearns and Amber St Clare are the creators of Faith and Common Ground podcast. We are excited to seek out the best interfaith voices in order to provide listeners with concrete ways to transform the world and make it the best place to live.
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