Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

Question Your Answers with Pastor Kristian A. Smith

This week, we’re diving into faith and doctrine and how it shapes our worldview. Pastor Kristian A. Smith – public theologian, Spiritual Humanist, and digital pastor of The Faith Community Virtual – is here to share about his journey of deconstructing his theology and what can be fruitful and reorganizing when we have the courage and community to ask the big deep questions about faith.Follow Kristian on Instagram  Check out the Faith Community Virtual Read Kristian’s book: Question Your Answers: A Deconstruction Survival GuideSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda

The Wild Edges of Sorrow with Francis Weller

Prentis is joined by Francis Weller - writer, therapist and soul activist. He wrote the Wild Edge of Sorrow and so eloquently shares about the collective responsibility of grief. Prentis and Francis talk about the hero's myth, the emptiness of whiteness and how grief rituals and communal ceremonies help reconnect us to the deep echo chamber of the soul.Check out Francis’ book the Wild Edges of SorrowSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda

All That Mattered with Megan Falley

Poet and writer Megan Falley joined Prentis to share about the life of her late partner Andrea Gibson, and generously offered her learnings on how we can live our lives as richly and fully in the time given. Watch “Come See Me in the Good Light” on AppleFollow Megan on Substack: Things That Don't SuckCheck our her book Drive Here and Devastate MeSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda

Mini Episode: An Outdated Model of Leadership

This week, Prentis shares their assessment that the leadership model in our culture feels outdated.  They share the concept of two leadership qualities that we could begin to possess on the individual or collective level -- will and surrender. And ask the questions-- How do we start to practice fluidity along the continuum of will and surrender to embody new ways of being leaders? And where can we start to look for leadership in odd and unexpected places?The quote Prentis mentions in the episode is by Simon Sinek: “Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.”If you’d like to come play and explore this theme more, join us over on Patreon.Support the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda

Courage Amidst Collapse with Norma Wong

Teacher, author and Zen Master, Norma Wong, is here to talk about her new book, Who we are becoming matters: the courage wisdom and aloha we need in the time of collapse. Norma helps us see further than we can see on our own and asks the question, who do we need to become to meet that horizon? Follow NormaCheck out her book: Who We Are Becoming Matters: The Courage, Wisdom, and Aloha We Need in a Timeplace of CollapseListen to her podcast The Horizon Story with Norma WongSupport the showThe Becoming the People Podcast Team:Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal Music: Mayyadda