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Six Ways From Sunday
by Ben Wilson
Six Ways From Sunday is a podcast for open minded seekers and curious hearts. With a new episode every second Friday, we share personal stories of human spirituality and dive deep into the unanswerable questions that face us all. Guests over the last 6 years have included artists, activists, mental health specialists, Indigenous elders, grief and loss experts, ministers, therapists, LGBTQ2S+ leaders, a regenerative rancher and an entrepreneur who has summited Mount Everest. Welcome to this inquisitive and inclusive space where all ideas and beliefs centred in love are free to be shared and questioned.The host of Six Ways From Sunday, Ben Wilson, has been a professional filmmaker and storyteller for 12 years, and has been asking difficult questions for much longer. This podcast is a passion project that started when the Bashaw United Church and Ponoka United Church formed an innovative collaborative ministry model, Rising Spirit Ministry. If you'd like to get involved with Rising
Episodes
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Eric Gaudet - Treating The Whole Person
Eric Gaudet has spent the last decade as Bashaw's local friendly pharmacist, getting to know families and individuals in this small town and becoming an indispensable part of the community as a primary care provider. In a rural community without a hospital and with family doctors in extremely…
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Lorne Gushue - Life In Yellowknife After The Wildfire Evacuation
Lorne Gushue is a member of the worship committee at Yellowknife United Church, an affirming church located in a large public building in downtown Yellowknife. In the aftermath of wildfires that threatened homes, health and livelihoods, the needs of the local community have been top of mind for...
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Daniel McMillan - Facing The Storm
It feels like we're all facing one kind of storm or another right now, whether it's the strain of increased living costs, interest rates and inflation, or the lack of affordable housing, or the pain of feeling isolated, lonely and disconnected. Debt, food insecurity and homelessness are on the…
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Rev. Robin King - All Things Are Possible, Even Miracles
Robin has a way of always presenting a new and refreshing perspective on an old story. Miracle stories, like the feeding of the 5,000 or the gospel story of Peter walking out to Jesus on the water, are stories that we've heard so many times we almost forget to "think" about them. So in this…
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Donna Ross - Indigenous Elder, Consultant and Educator
Donna Ross is a 33-year educator. She is a Cree-Métis from Saskatchewan and member of the One Arrow First Nation, Treaty Six territory. Donna began her teaching career as a classroom teacher with Tsuut’ina Nation and continued to support First Nations learners in subsequent positions with Siksika...
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Shandi Bleiken - Coming Out In Faith
Shandi is a queer poet and organizer in Lethbridge. In this episode we discuss the origins of Shandi's incredible poetry, the genesis of her bold and impactful community project called the "Coming Out In Faith Monologues", and her own personal faith journey and coming out story. We also talk…
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Victoria Bucholtz - Drag Performer, Educator & Activist
Victoria Bucholtz (She/Her) holds a doctorate in History from the University of Calgary, with a cognate field in gender theory. Victoria is a LGBTQ+ facilitator and currently teaches at Mount Royal University. She is a transgender rights activist, entertainment producer, and drag queen. An avid...
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Jason Clark - Connecting With Youth
Jason Clark has worked in youth ministry for many years and has recently moved to our little town of Bashaw, Alberta where he's now running the Bashaw Youth Foundation, working with youth at the Bashaw School and also getting involved as a leader in our Bashaw United Church. His energy and...
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Jackie Northey - These Are OUR Children
The Christmas season is a time of giving, generosity and coming together as a community, no matter where you live. But there's something going on in the tiny little community of Bashaw that is unusual and almost inexplicably magical, and it is literally transforming lives. You could look at the...
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Kevin Kossowan - Creator of "From The Wild"
"From The Wild" is a web film series that explores incredible journeys in wild food and beautiful, wild spaces. Its creator, Kevin Kossowan, is an award winning filmmaker and foodie who has worked with Michelin Star chefs and filmed on almost every continent on the planet. He's been a blogger…
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Mandy Spiller - Small Town Leaps of Faith
Finding our place where we feel a sense of belonging, purpose, security and happiness is what all of us hope for in life, and Mandy seems to have found all of it right here on Main Street, in Daysland, Alberta. But like all great rewards it hasn't come without great risk and hard work. This is…
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Vik Maraj - "The Day I Woke Up"
Vik Maraj is the co-founder of Unstoppable Conversations in Edmonton, AB. He helped create and lead an international high-growth education company, developed curriculum and taught hostage negotiation for Canada's National Police, resolved international disputes within the UN, and galvanized an...
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Rev. Robin King - Set Sail With Jesus and Moana
What is this, a podcast studio, a community theatre stage, or a church? The answer is yes, it is all three. And on any other given day it's also a movie theatre, a space for worship, for grief support groups to meet, for a baptism, communion, funeral or a wedding. In other words, it's a space for...
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Ary Vreeken - Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a Christian Response to Hunger
Ary Vreeken is the Alberta regional representative for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a partnership of 15 Canadian churches and church-based agencies working together to end global hunger. It is estimated that up to 828 million people on our planet currently do not have "food security", meaning…
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Rev. Robin King - It's Summer And (Holy Moses!) We're Doing A Lot!
Holy Moses! is the name of this year's summer church program for kids, happening right now at the Ponoka United Church and starting up on Monday at the Bashaw United Church. It's the first in-person summer day camp that we've been able to run in three years, but it's a program that Robin King and...
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Miranda Martini - Affirming Connections
Affirming Connections is an organization that's placing itself at the intersection of faith communities in southern rural Alberta communities and the LGBTQ2S+ community, making valuable connections among churches interested in becoming an "Affirming" ministry. As part of their work, Affirming...
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Harry & Chris - Founders of Rainbow Camp
I love stories about big and impactful things emerging from small, unlikely places. So the story of Rainbow Camp popping up from the tiny, remote Northern Ontario community of Thessalon - a camp that is changing and saving lives - was one I really wanted to learn about and share with you! Ten…
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Daniel Schneider - Professional Comic Book Artist
I was recently sitting in a movie theatre, half way through watching Dr Strange - Multiverse of Madness, when things started getting pretty deep and existential! Thinking about my own life, the concept of other potential parallel realities and universes, it occurred to me that the Marvel universe...
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Lewis Cardinal - Indigenous Spirituality Educator & Activist
One of the many organizations Lewis is involved with is the Parliament of the World's Religions. As a trustee and member for many years, Lewis has shared his Indigenous culture and spirituality at global tables and conversations that he describes as being like "the Olympics of world religions"…
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Jocelyn Bell - Editor/Publisher of Broadview
Working as a freelance writer for the the United Church Observer 20 years ago, Jocelyn realized she had a passion for journalism and for sharing stories that inspire, inform and challenge her readers. Over the last two decades she has seen journalism evolve into the digital realm, the rise of...
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Rev. Robin King - Springing (Slowly) Back To Life
We've just celebrated Easter, tulips are breaking through the soil as snow banks quickly melt (again), and our faith communities are returning (again) to in-person events. As we collectively re-examine what it means to be in community, to engage with our congregations, to meet the evolving needs…
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Tara Shannon - Artist & Author of "Rabbit & Bear"
Tara Shannon's childhood nickname "Bear" took on a whole new identity when 3 years ago she began drawing rabbits and bears and her sketches turned into powerful and tender moments of conversation and reflection between the two illustrated characters. "Rabbit and Bear" became her outlet for years...
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Ben Campbell - Regenerative Rancher, Mystic & Movie Star!
My friend Ben Campbell is a tough person to write a bio for, so even deciding how to describe this podcast episode and our invigorating conversation is challenging. I first met Ben through a video project where we did some winter filming at his family's ranch near Black Diamond, in the Alberta...
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Rev. Robin King - Spring Back To Life!
Pandemic restrictions are lifting again and the heaviness of two years of pandemic living is starting to feel like it could begin to lift. Spring is right around the corner and the Earth is beginning to stir with the promise of new life. And, this week we marked the beginning of the season of…
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Ernest Barbaric - Executive Coach, Entrepreneur, Artist & Student Of Meditation
Ernest wears a lot of hats (insert bald joke here lol), but like all of us, he's not defined by his career or various roles in life. In this episode we talk a lot about purpose and what creates a meaningful life, we talk about some of Ernest's spiritual journey, passions and entrepreneurial...
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Heather Buelow - 5, 6, 7, 8, and Pivot!
Heather Buelow has been the owner of Dancer's Edge Studio for 19 years. Like many business owners she is no stranger to change, but nothing compares to the wild ride she's been on these last two years where she's had to pivot, pivot, and pivot again. The pandemic has been especially challenging…
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Rev. Robin King - He's Back, And He Brought Stories
Robin shares a lot of stories with our community of faith. Not only through his weekly blog posts and weekly Sunday morning sermons, but also in the form of children's plays and even books that he's written and self published. I know, right? We're pretty lucky! Well, for the last 3 months Robin…
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Kyle Simmers - Mural Artist & Graphic Novelist
Kyle Simmers graduated from the Alberta University of the Arts with a Bachelor of Design in illustration, and has been building a colourful portfolio of mural art over the last several years with their brother Derek Simmers, including 4 new projects right here in their hometown of Bashaw…
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Carrie Domstad - Walking With God In & Out Of Church
Carrie is one of those people in our community who make you realize that having "a church family" is about so much more than who you see sitting in the pews on a Sunday morning or who's involved in the committees, meetings, fundraisers or lay leadership. She's the perfect example of "BEING the...
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Zoe Raemer - Stories Of LGBTQ Activism In The NWT
Zoe Raemer has seen massive transformation over the past 30+ years in LGBTQ rights and social justice in the North West Territories. Earlier this week she joined Ben over zoom from her home in Victoria, to share some incredible stories about the LGBTQ rights movement in Yellowknife and her...
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Tony Snow - Indigenous Minister, Chinook Winds Region
Tony Snow is a member of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation and grew up on Treaty No. 7 land at Morley, Alberta, where his father Dr. Rev. Chief John Snow Sr. attended the Morley Indian Residential School. Tony is a Day School Survivor who now works as the Indigenous Minister of the United Church of...
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Rev. Robin King - A Reminder To Love
We are observing and celebrating some really important things this month. June is Pride Month and also National Indigenous History Month, and there is a lot of work to do (as a Church, as communities and as a county) to bring about the healing, reconciliation, inclusivity and equality that is...
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Joyia Chakungal - Founder of HomeTree and Manifestor of Magic
Joyia has been on an inward journey the last several years, letting go of external expectations and back toward herself. She's dedicating herself to the practice of being authentic, empowered, fulfilled and free, and is now helping others to do the same in their own lives. In this conversation...
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Dieulita Datus - The Story Of Ubuntu - Mobilizing Central Alberta
"Ubuntu" is an African proverb that means "I am, because we are", and it's the driving force and organizational purpose of the not-for-profit organization Ubuntu - Mobilizing Central Alberta, cofounded by Dieulita Datus in Lacombe, Alberta. Dieulita, cofounder Sadia and their team, are committed…
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Rev. Robin King - In The Tide of Easter
We're still in the tide of Easter, a season of grappling with what it means to come face to face with a living Jesus. I know, lately it's easy to look around and feel like it's more like we're still in the season of Good Friday. But no matter what's going on in the world, He is risen. But as…
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Brady Wilson - Family In My Belly
My uncle, Brady Wilson, has been one of my role models in life and in my own spiritual journey for just about 40 years. Today, we're exploring Brady's own human spirituality journey, and he shares a recent epiphany that he experienced which brought him closer to a sense of oneness with all…
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Rev. Robin King - The Longest Lent In History
In March, 2020, we began an important and difficult journey. That journey has included isolation, loss, and a lot of reflection about what's really important. When we've allowed it to be, it's been a time filled with deeply meaningful soul work, relationship building, and some much needed self...
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David Hayward - The Naked Pastor
David Hayward is the NakedPastor! After 30 years in the church, he left the ministry to pursue his passion for art. His work challenges the status quo, deconstructs dogma, and promotes critical thinking. Remind you of anyone? It should, because David's art, his books, his blog, and his rabble...
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Rev. Robin King - Lent Has No Meaning, Until You Create It
What are the ways that love gets out into the world from within us? First, you have to find it, and that reconnecting with source - with the universe, with God - is where we remember we are loved and we ARE love. That is what the season of Lent is supposed to be about. Not in a way that has us...
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Bill Harder - Grieving as a Community, During a Pandemic
Our community has recently been struck with numerous tragedies, and in the midst of a global health crisis that has caused enough loss, stress, isolation and pain on its own, we're left fumbling to find ways to grieve the deaths of loved ones. We may not be able to gather in person, but we can...
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Rev. Robin King - We Are Jonah
Welcome back to the Six Ways From Sunday Podcast! This first episode of the 4th season of the show explores two well known stories and how they both relate to the current state of our world and recent events. As always, we hope your own spiritual journey is enriched by this conversation, and that...
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Heather MacKenzie - 10 Months of Self Isolating With an Immunocompromised Husband
Heather, Justin and their two young children have been in lockdown mode since the middle of March. This is their 10th month of isolation as a family, because Justin is severely immunocompromised and would likely not survive a case of COVID-19. Heather shares what this journey has been like for…
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Rev. Robin King - Observing Remembrance
Most of us are fortunate to know war, conflict and violence not as our own personal memories, but as a historical concept or as a present day far away reality. Still, we know the importance of pausing to reflect and appreciate, and remember, what other have lost in order that we have the current...
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Rev. Stephen Harper & Rev. Robin King - Carrying On After 7 Months
Church - that safe space where all are welcome, a sanctuary from the rest of the world where we come to find that quiet centre, connect with others, with God and with our deeper self, where we are spiritually nourished and recharged. And just when we need that more than ever, our churches are...
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Rev. Robin King - By What Authority?
Our world is really struggling with authority right now. The word "authority" often makes us think of control, power, governance and rule. Jesus wasn't really about any of those things though, and yet we certainly think of Jesus as having had "authority" in his ability to perform miracles, heal…
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Rev. Robin King - Call Of The Wild
Each summer, the incredible leadership team of Robin, Lori and Brielle (with the support of many other helping hands) put on an incredible summer camp program at the Bashaw United Church and Ponoka United Church. Picture dozens and dozens of kids singing, laughing, learning and crafting! So what…
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Rev. Robin King - Approaching Doomsday
The clock is ticking closer and closer to "midnight". The Doomsday Clock is a symbol first developed in 1947 that represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe. In 1953 when the US tested its first hydrogen bomb they moved the hands of the clock to 2 minutes to midnight. It's moved...
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Rev. Robin King - Carrying On With Church - It's An Essential Service
The rules have changed again, and many churches are reopening their doors and resuming in-person worship services after 3 months of empty sanctuaries. Robin recently asked, in this week's "mid-week reflection" Facebook video, why we come to church. Seriously, why do you go to church? What do you...
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Paul Andrew - Student of Dene Nation Spirituality
The Dene Nation has existed for over 30,000 years in Canada, with one language and many dialects. Paul Andrew, a Dene elder in Yellowknife, who describes himself as "a student of Dene spirituality" shared this Dene greeting with me: Nakale, negha dagot'e? (Good morning, how are you?) Response…
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Pam Rocker - Writer & Speaker, Atypical Activist, Super Gay
Pam is super passionate about LGBTQ2S+ equality, faith, love, and laughter, and she uses her art and gifts as a musician, writer, playwright and speaker to educate, advocate and inspire. Recently, Pam has been part of a movement in Calgary to ban conversion therapy, and her story about that work...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Six Ways From Sunday is a podcast for open minded seekers and curious hearts. With a new episode every second Friday, we share personal stories of human spirituality and dive deep into the unanswerable questions that face us all. Guests over the last 6 years have included artists, activists, mental health specialists, Indigenous elders, grief and loss experts, ministers, therapists, LGBTQ2S+ leaders, a regenerative rancher and an entrepreneur who has summited Mount Everest. Welcome to this inquisitive and inclusive space where all ideas and beliefs centred in love are free to be shared and questioned.The host of Six Ways From Sunday, Ben Wilson, has been a professional filmmaker and storyteller for 12 years, and has been asking difficult questions for much longer. This podcast is a passion project that started when the Bashaw United Church and Ponoka United Church formed an innovative collaborative ministry model, Rising Spirit Ministry. If you'd like to get involved with Rising
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