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The Growing Edge
by Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer
The Growing Edge Podcast is hosted by Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer. In this podcast Carrie, Parker and exciting guests will explore new life on the growing edge - personally, vocationally and politically. What's your growing edge?
Episodes
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Episode 64 - Rebroadcast of The Promise of Loving Kindness, The Problem of Evil
Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer Rebroadcast a podcast recorded in May 2022. In this podcast they explore the poems “What I’ve Learned So Far” by Mary Oliver and “Small Kindnesses”. Danusha Laméris. and revisit a conversation about holding and navigating the "both/and" of complex times—the...
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Episode 64: A Conversation With Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Join Parker and Carrie for this heart opening conversation with poet, storyteller and wise woman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Rosemerry is a poet, teacher, speaker and writing facilitator who co-hosts “Emerging Form,” a podcast on the creative process.
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Episode 63: A Conversation With Author Christy Berghoef - The Nature of Belonging & Being Rooted
Join Carrie Newcomer and Parker J. Palmer for a beautiful conversation with author/contemplative photographer Christy Berghoef. Christy is a published author, speaker, mother of four, common good communications consultant, contemplative photographer, musician, wanderer, and wonderer. Christine is…
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Episode 62 A Conversation With Musician, Author, Activist David LaMotte
Join Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer as they explore peacemaking in divided times with David Lamotte. David has a wide-ranging career as a singer-songwriter with a dozen albums and performances across all fifty states and five continents. He’s the author of four books, including two for...
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Episode 61 Revisiting The Power of Story & Song With John McCutcheon
Today Parker and I will be revisiting our conversation with musician, master songwriter, storyteller, multi-instrumentalist, author, activist, seven-time grammy nominee, John McCutcheon. In this episode we explore the power of story, song and what it means to speak with compassion, clarity and a...
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Podcast Episode 60: A Conversation with Unitarian Universalist Pastor & Activist Susan Frederick-Gray
Podcast Episode 60: A Conversation with Unitarian Universalist Pastor & Activist Susan Frederick-Gray by Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer
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Episode 59 - Conversation about imothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny.
Please join us for a conversation about historian Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny. Carrie and Parker discuss four of the twenty hallmarks of authoritarian governments addressed in Snyder’s clear and informative work. The book is relatively short, but chock-full of insights, stories and practical...
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Episode 58 February 2025- Cutting Loose
Join Parker and Carrie for a conversation about William Stafford’s poem “Cutting Loose”. In this episode we explore the way that disillusionment or feeling lost can bring with it a powerful sense of reality, faithfulness and new direction. Parker and Carrie talk about their own experiences of...
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Episode 57: Unexpected Hope in Improbable Actions: A New Conversation with John Paul Lederach
Join Parker and Carrie for a conversation with Notre Dame’s Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding, John Paul Lederach, about his Pocket Guide for Facing Down a Civil War. This new booklet draws upon Lederach’s experience as a renowned peace practitioner who has mediated conflicts…
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Rebroadcast Episode 22 Revolutionary Love - A Conversation With Author:Activist Valarie Kaur
This month Parker Palmer is taking a sabbatical. This is a re-broadcasting our June 1 2020 conversation with Author/Activist/Filmmaker Valarie Kaur. In this episode we discuss her book " See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love". Two months after the 2016 election, Valarie...
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Episode 56: “Toughness for a Gentle World”—A Conversation about May Sarton’s Poem “An Observation”.
In this episode, Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer explore May Sarton’s poem, “An Observation.” Gardening is rich with metaphors for a well-lived life. Amend and prepare the soil. Plant the seeds, tend them, and weed out whatever impedes growth. Marvel at the process and share the harvest…
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Episode 55: A Conversation With Quaker Author Phillip Gulley
In this episode, Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer have a conversation with author/pastor/theologian Philip Gulley. Gulley is a pastor, an author, a source of wisdom and hope, and a clear and prophetic voice in progressive theology & spiritual activism in these challenging times. He has…
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Episode 54: Revisiting A Sand County Almanac—A Conversation with Buddy Huffaker
In this episode Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer have a conversation with Buddy Huffaker,the Executive Director of the Aldo Leopold Foundation . We discuss the 75th anniversary of Aldos Leapold’s environmental classic A Sand County Almanac. the continuing work of the Leapold Foundation, the...
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Rebroadcast of Episode 28 A Reason For Delight - A Conversation With Poet, Ross Gay
In this episode Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer revisit favorite episode with Author/poet Ross Gay, who has touched countless readers with his books A catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude, Beholding, The Book of Delights, Incitements to Joy, AND The book of (more) delights”. This episode was...
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Episode 53: The Inner Roots of Democracy - Holding Difference & Prophetic Voice
In this podcast Parker and Carrie wrestle with when and how we creatively hold the tension of our differences, and when differences are to grievous and do not yield to creative tension holding. We explore the meaning of “We Shall Over Come” and the power of prophetic voice in these challenging...
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Episode 52 The Call To Public Service: A Conversation With Indiana State Senator Shelli Yoder
In this podcast, Carrie and Parker speak with Indiana State Senator, Shelli Yoder. We explore together Shelli’s history and vocation in passionate public service, as well as reclaiming the word politics and politician, holding difference and finding common ground. In a time when the most extreme...
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Episode 51: All Real Living Is Meeting: Is Community Possible
In this podcast, Carrie and Parker talk about our individual and collective longing for safe and generative community. We’ve always been tugged between our western culture’s drive toward individuality and our desire for a meaningful life together. In this Post-covid time, people are a little…
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Episode 50: A Conversation with Scott Russell Sanders, author of “Small Marvels”
In this podcast, Carrie and Parker talk with author Scott Russell Sanders about his new book Small Marvels. Scott’s work often explores the spirit of place, our relationship with the natural world, and creating communities of care and generosity rather a culture of fear and division. In this...
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Episode 49 An Exploration of The poem "Thanks, Robert Frost"
Parker and Carrie hope you'll join us as we explore the poem "Thanks, Robert Frost" by David Ray. Inspired by the poem, we revisit parts of our history and talk about reframing the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what has shaped us. Staying true to the facts as best we can, we...
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Episode 48 journalist/author/poet, Judith Valente and monk/poet/photographer Brother Paul Quenon
Join Parker J Palmer and Carrie Newcomer in conversation with journalist/author/poet, Judith Valente and monk/poet/photographer Brother Paul Quenon. We explore their friendship and creative collaborations as well as what it means to be intentional about “being” in a hectic and often uncertain...
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Episode 47: Reunion—A Conversation with Jerry Colonna
In this conversation with Jerry Colonna—co-founder and CEO of Reboot, an international executive coaching and leadership development firm—we range from childhood wounds and the way they can distort our adult roles, to race in America and role leaders can play in helping to build the Beloved...
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Episode 46: Reforming What Was Deformed
Parker and Carrie talk about the challenges of staying in dialogue during divisive times, how to claim agency and the courage to stay engaged. Many of us were raised with a household rule to never talk about religion or politics in polite company. In this episode we unpack and reframe the true...
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Episode 45 Podcast The Promise of Loving Kindness, The Problem of Evil
In this episode Parker & Carrie explore how to hold and acknowledge the presence of evil and great goodness in our world. In this honest and open hearted conversation they visit two poems that encourage reflection and insights on this topic, holding the tension of the heaviness we sometimes feel...
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Episode 44:Memory, Witness & Lessons From Elie Wiesel's Classroom - A Conversation With Ariel Burger
This month on The Growing Edge podcast. Parker and Carrie talk with Ariel Burger, author, teacher, and artist whose work integrates spirituality, the arts and strategies for social change. An Orthodox-trained rabbi, Ariel received his Ph.D. in Jewish Studies and Conflict Resolution under Elie...
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Episode 43:Rebroadcast -From Polarization to Healing: Conflict Transformation W/ John Paul Lederach
This month on The Growing Edge Podcast we will be revisiting our Feb 2021 conversation with John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus of International Peace Building, and internationally respected expert in conflict transformation. John Paul describes the stages that lead to violence in a society…
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Episode 42 A Conversation With Poet Lynn Ungar - Pandemic
In this episode, Carrie & Parker welcome poet Lynn Ungar. In 2020 Her poem "Pandemic" went viral and introduce her insightful, spiritual, wry and sometimes political writing to a wider audience. We consider two different poems and discuss the role of the artist in public discourse.
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Episode 41: A Conversation With Theologian/Author Diana Butler Bass
In this episode Parker & Carrie discuss spirituality, justice and living authentically with author and theologian, Diana Butler Bass. Diana talks about her history as a person of faith, the challenges for woman in theological settings, her writing and work with "The Cottage" as an ongoing...
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Episode 40: How To Fly - A Conversation With Author/Poet Barbara Kingsolver
In this episode Carrie & Parker welcome Author/Poet Barbara Kingsolver. Together they discuss the natural world, mortality, the promise of ambiguity, making, the writer's life, knitting and her new book of luminous poetry How To Fly (in Ten Thousands Easy Lessons.
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Episode 39:The Gift of Presence with Poet & Educator Naomi Shihab Nye
This month on The Growing Edge podcast we revisit our December 2018 conversation with poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Naomi has received numerous honors for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, and the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. She is currently the...
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Episode 39:The Gift of Presence with Poet & Educator Naomi Shihab Nye (rebroadcast)
This month on The Growing Edge podcast we revisit our December 2018 conversation with poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Naomi has received numerous honors for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, and the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. She is currently the...
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Episode 38 The Angels & The Furies
In this episode Carrie and Parker discuss May Sarton's powerful poem, "The Angels & The Furies." In this conversation we talk about the angels and furies of our nature. In these times when many of us are wrestling with what to do with our furies in life giving ways, what does it mean to be...
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Episode 37: Writing From The Margins & The Red Thread - A Conversation with Author Parker J. Palmer
In this episode Carrie and Parker continue their conversation about creativity and the undivided life, writing from the "margins", following a call to and beyond the growing edge, and the red threads that run through Parker's work over the past 50 years. This podcast also features one of Parker's...
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Episode 36 Until Now: Creativity At The Growing Edge
In this episode Parker and Carrie take a moment to talk about Carrie's newest companion projects Until Now CD & Until Now: New Poems. They discuss the themes that run through these two companion pieces; resilience and uncertainty, loss, discover and being in process. They discuss how creativity…
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Episode 35: Learning In Public - A Conversation With Courtney Martin
In this episode Parker and Carrie are in conversation with author, journalist, activist, Courtney Martin, about her new book, Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School. Courtney has a popular Substack newsletter, called Examined Family, and speaks widely...
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Episode 34 - Real Change: A Conversation With Sharon Salzberg
A conversation with beloved meditation teacher and founder of The Insight Meditation Society. In this episode we explore the practice of mindfulness and meditation to deepen our own lives and sustain our capacity to stay engaged and serve others. We discuss Sharon's book "Real Change" and her…
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Episode 33: Rebroadcast of "A Conversation with Author/Poet Mark Nepo
Because Carrie was in the studio this month working on a new album, we decided not to record a new podcast for June. Instead, we are revisiting our 2019 interview with our dear friend, Mark Nepo, poet and author. In this interview we explored what it means to show up as our authentic self and how...
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Episode 32: Identity, Resiliency & Spiritual Calling - A Conversation with Dr. Luther E. Smith Jr.
For our May, 2021 podcast, we welcome Dr. Luther E. Smith Jr., Professor Emeritus at Candler Seminary, author, educator, pastor, mystic, and elder. In this episode we talk about how identity is shaped and expanded and how conversations about race could be more authentic and powerful. We also...
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Episode 31: The Power of Story & Song with John McCutcheon
Parker and Carrie welcome singer songwriter, activist John McCutcheon, musician, activist and spiritual seeker. He has 41 albums to his credit, has received six Grammy Award nominations and worked for 40 years bringing together intelligent thoughtful songs, fearless commentary and music for…
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Episode 30: From Polarization to Healing, with John Paul Lederach
For our March, 2021 podcast, we welcome John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding, and internationally respected expert in conflict transformation. John Paul describes the stages that lead to violence in a society, as well as the ways people heal and create communal...
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Episode 29: The Handing Over Time
In this episode, Carrie and Parker reflect upon the happenings of 2020. They discuss challenges we've faced in the past year as well as focus and evidence for hope in the new year. They explore the idea of living in the "Tragic Gap" and living into creative citizenry. They read Mary Oliver's…
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Episode 28: A Reason For Delight - A Conversation With Poet, Ross Gay
In this episode, Carrie and Parker have a conversation with Poet, Ross Gay, author of The Book of Delights & Be Holding. We talk about Ross's books, his thoughts about finding delight in his daily life as a daily practice, joy as an act of resistance and the importance of creating a connection to...
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Episode 27: Where Do We Go From Here - A Post Election Conversation
In this episode, Carrie and Parker ask how We the People can help renew the American body politic post-election. How do we have open-hearted conversations across lines of difference, without blinking facts or backing away from critical issues of equity and justice? As we step into the future,...
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Episode 26: From The Heartland To The White House & Home —A Conversation with Preeta Bansal
Carrie and Parker have a conversation about the Inner work of democracy and the common good with Preeta Bansal. Preeta was Solicitor General of the State of New York, then as General Counsel in the Obama White House, where she played a major role in the Office of Management and Budget during the...
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Episode 25 "Anchored In The Current" A New Book About The Enduring Influence of Howard Thurman
In this Growing Edge Podcast, we talk with author, educator, and activist Gregory Ellison II about his new book, Anchored in the Current, a collection of essays about the enduring influence of mystic, theologian, and civil rights activist Howard Thurman.
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Episode 24 "The Music Will Play On”
In this Growing Edge Podcast, we explore mortality, living with presence in the pandemic, the importance of creativity and collaboration—and we debut our new single, "The Music Will Play On” (lyrics by Parker, music by Carrie).
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Episode 23 -A Ritual To Read Each Other -
The July Growing Edge Podcast features a poem that illumines the American uprising for racial justice and our role in it. Carrie and Parker explore William Stafford’s poem, "A Ritual to Read to Each Other". Taking one verse at a time, they talk about the light the poem sheds on this moment of...
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Episode 22- Revolutionary Love - A Conversation With Valarie Kaur
In this Growing Edge Podcast, Parker and Carrie talk with author, attorney, filmmaker, and activist Valarie Kaur. In her new book, See No Stranger: A Memoir & Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, Valarie invites us to a revised and renewed version of the historic nonviolent movement for social change.
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Episode 21: Gardening In The Dark
In this Growing Edge Podcast Parker J. Palmer & Carrie Newcomer have an open hearted conversation about maintaining hope in the time of covid-19. They describe the many layers that come up when we ask one another, "How are you?" There are conversation starter pdf on the Growing Edge website to...
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Episode 20 - A Conversation About Living In Uncertain Times
Carrie and Parker explore many questions about living with uncertainty, disruption, and revelation in this time of coronavirus. What helps us grow and still our hearts? What comes up personally and emotionally when we slow down? What do we have no control over, and what is in our realm of care…
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Episode 19: A Conversation w/ Over The Rhine - Musicians Karin Bergquist & Lindford Detweiler
Carrie and Parker have a heart opening conversation with musicians Karin Bergquist & Linford Detweiler (Over The Rhine). They explore the creative process, the spiritual and personal threads that run through their music, balancing inward and outward engagement, creating community and “thin places...
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The Growing Edge Podcast is hosted by Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer. In this podcast Carrie, Parker and exciting guests will explore new life on the growing edge - personally, vocationally and politically. What's your growing edge?
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