Listen to a rich conversation between Host Dick Staub and the Reverend Earl Palmer as they discuss the works of Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and Gary Haugen, examples of Christians as Peacemakers.  Suggested reading: Letter from Birmingh

What are the outer limits of faith and prayer? How do they manifest in the Book of Job? What insights into this epic tale of suffering can a modern poet and playwright offer? Listen as Earl Palmer and Dick Staub explore “The Book of Job" and J.B.: A P

KindlingsFest  2014 was all about Coming to Your Sense. In this short vignette, Susie Johnson shares her passion for helping guests come to their senses through food and hospitality.

Malcolm Guite reads another of his poems during KindlingsFest 2014. The 9th sonnet on his sequence of 15 sonnets for the stations of the cross, taken from Sounding the Seasons: Seventy sonnets for Christian year.  This sonnet is called ‘Jesus falls fo

A short reading of "Descent" by Malcolm Guite, from Kindlingsfest 2014. "Descent" is published in The Singing Bowl and also recorded as a song Descent - Good Company - The Songs of Steve Bell. Here is the full poem: They sought to soar into the skies,

During our annual Christmas show  we explore what “call” and “journey" mean during the Christmas season. With the injustices of Ferguson and in New York City framing the current culture, our panel reflects on what Christian tradition and the music

Malcolm Guite, as introduced by Scott Cairns, is “a thoroughly engaging teller of tales, a theologian, priest, and poet whose central passion appears to be relationship, connection, apprehending the sacredness off all persons."  He is the author of T

Handel's "Messiah" has never lost its popularity since the day it was first performed in London in the 1742. What were the circumstances under which George Handel composed this iconic masterpiece? How did his intentions with structure and text shape the

KindlingsFest 2014 was all about “Come to Your Senses." Our first evening was an enthusiastic, round table conversation about the distinctions and elements of a generative, creative faith community, thrown in with some humorous trivia to test our friend

Gillian Flynn’s 2012 best-seller “Gone Girl” has captured the book clubs of the world with its fast paced, plot twisting tale of romance, marriage and revenge in modern life. With the film version directed by David Fincher starring Ben Affleck and R