Project Zion Podcast
Welcome to the Project Zion podcast. This podcast explores the unique spiritual and theological gifts Community of Christ offers for today's world.
Episodes
925 episodes since 2015
757 | Say What?! | Live Event | Meet the New Hosts
Mary Anne Bennet-Ripsam and Kassie Ripsam make their Project Zion Podcast Debut in this recording from their recent live event, Say What? Meet the Hosts. In this episode, these two young women share their hopes and dreams, as well as some of th...
September 17, 2024
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756 | Coffee to Go | Proper 19 Year B
Jesus’ ministry is taking a turn ... toward Jerusalem, and anyone who wants to be a follower will need to “take up [their] cross” and follow him. With each step toward “Jerusalem,” the cost of following gets more and more costly. That’s r...
September 15, 2024
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12:37
755 | Nice to Matcha | Carrie Welch | Called to Apostle
Here’s your chance to get to know Carrie Welch, from Salem, Oregon! Newly called to the Council of Twelve Apostles, Carrie tells her story growing up in Community of Christ and the many unexpected adventures she experienced along Life’s p...
September 13, 2024
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754 | What's Brewing | SPEC 2024 Recap
There’s nothing quite like SPEC ... a place where young people can come together for a week of personal exploration, leadership development, visual and performing arts, worship, all you can eat soft serve ice cream, and ... yes ... a bit of hea...
September 10, 2024
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753 | Coffee to Go | Proper 18 Year B
Dive into the heart of the Christian tradition with us on "Coffee to Go." This week, we're in Mark's Gospel, witnessing Jesus' encounters with a Syrophoenician woman and a deaf man. Join hosts Karin Peter and Blake Smith as they unpack the comp...
September 08, 2024
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15:45
752 | Nice to Matcha | Mareva Arnaud Tchong | Called to the Office of Presiding Evangelist
We know her. We love her. And, many of us have been blessed by her ministry. Meet Mareva Arnaud Tchong! Called to serve as Community of Christ’s next Presiding Evangelist, Mareva will bring unprecedented diversity to this world church leadershi...
September 06, 2024
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38:05
A39 | Awaken to God's Presence | Embodied Lectio Divina
So many things demand our attention, causing us to live our lives in a hurried pace ... rarely offering us a chance to catch our breath, much less pay attention to our breath and the toll stress takes on our bodies. There’s no better time...
September 03, 2024
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751 | Coffee to Go | Proper 17 Year B
Leave it to the Pharisees to pick and choose which laws they want to follow while forgetting something a little more important ... the greatest commandments ... love God, and love one another. Join hosts, Karin Peter and Blake Smith for this we...
September 01, 2024
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750 | What's Brewing | Wasatch Front | Part II
It's time to get a glimpse of what mission and ministry look like in communities of Seekers who are needing a place of welcome and healing for themselves, not to mention communities that look different from week to week and year to year. In thi...
August 30, 2024
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46:51
749 | What's Brewing | Wasatch Front | Part 1
In this What’s Brewing episode, we’re headed to Northern Utah, to what we’re calling the Wasatch Front. Join host Blake Smith as he sits down with Utah Expansion Minister, Laura Pennock, and Salt Lake Pastorate Team Member/Communications ...
August 27, 2024
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748 | Coffee to Go | Proper 16 Year B
Hopefully, followers of Jesus can say, without hesitation, that they believe in Jesus, but is that enough? The world is crazy, and we are faced with so much that can challenge or even scare us. In this episode of Coffee to Go, hosts Karin Peter...
August 25, 2024
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747 | Coffee Buzz | Talk It Out | Stassi Cramm
Issues that threaten the very heart of what we hold dear in Community of Christ also work to divide us as a people committed to following Jesus Christ, the peaceful one. The worst thing we can do is give in to the temptation to stop talking, st...
August 23, 2024
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746 | Climate Brewing | Climate Justice in Great Britain | Andrew Fellows
Nothing screams “call to action” like people dancing around a pink boat that is blocking traffic in central London! At least that was part of what got Andrew Fellows started in the climate justice protesting business. In this episode of Climate...
August 20, 2024
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745 | Coffee to Go | Proper 15 Year B
But I don’t want to eat his flesh and drink his blood. Do I really have to? Thank goodness Jesus talks in metaphor. What he really wants is for us to “abide” in him... to be so closely aligned with him that he becomes for us a life source...
August 18, 2024
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744 | Chai Can't Even | Wes Hodgson
There is nothing better than hearing someone say that one of the reasons they have stayed in the church is because they’ve been “loved to death.” And, that seems to be a recurring theme here at Chai Can’t Even. Kudos to the congregations who ke...
August 16, 2024
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743 | Fair Trade | Linda Stanbridge
Linda Stanbridge is no stranger to Project Zion Podcast. As an advocate for Harmony and the LGBTQIA+ community and as a minister of invitation, Linda has had lots of great things to share ... all of which have been laced with personal stories a...
August 13, 2024
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742 | Coffee to Go | Proper 14 Year B
Believing things about Jesus is good. As a matter of fact, knowing what you believe about Jesus is a great place to start, but it’s not necessarily life-changing. It’s when you come to the point of believing in Jesus that things begin to change...
August 11, 2024
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ES 122 | Coffee Connect | Prodigal Children
Are you a “prodigal?” Have you ever thought you knew a better way for your life only to find out that you had it pretty good? At least you knew you were loved and welcomed. Perhaps it is true that “the grass is NOT always greener...” In this ep...
August 09, 2024
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A38 | Awaken to God's Presence | Finding Calm in the Storm | The Welcoming Prayer (RE-POST EPISODE A2)
Summertime comes with a vengeance this year across much of our world. Sustained high temperatures can have broad impact like damaging crops, illness or death for livestock, widespread power outages, and severe risk of wildfires. Several fires a...
August 06, 2024
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741 | Coffee to Go | Proper 13 Year B
What happens when we’re hungry for something, and it’s not what Jesus is serving? Many, if not all, have been in that place where we’re so hungry that, until we are fed physically, we can’t think about anything else...at least that’s what it fe...
August 04, 2024
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740 | Ministry for Dummies | Music and Our Faith (Cross-posted)
In case you haven’t noticed, music plays a big role in the lives of both Humberto Tinsman and Jacob Ross, creators and hosts of the Ministry for Dummies podcast. And they are back in this cross-post of their fourth episode, Music and Our Faith....
August 02, 2024
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739 | Chai Can't Even | Mike Sherman
It’s encouraging to hear stories of people finding deep welcome and connection in the church ... no matter which congregation they step into. That is the case in the personal stories shared by Mike Sherman of Pensacola, FL with host, Blak...
July 30, 2024
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738 | Coffee to Go | Proper 12 | Year B
Which came first, the chicken or the egg ... abundance or blessing. You may have what you believe is THE correct answer, but apparently, there are sound arguments for both. In this episode of Coffee to Go, hosts Karin Peter and Blake Smith, joi...
July 28, 2024
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737 | Cuppa Joe | Women of the Reorganization | Lizzie Blair
No one in their right mind would sign up to go it alone on the frontier ... raising a family, tending a farm, and everything else that goes with it. Well, no one except the women who were part of the early Reorganization. Women whose husb...
July 26, 2024
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45:05
736 | Chai Can't Even | Kara Sherman
“Yay, we’re at the party. We’re going to a church party!’ Wouldn’t it be great if a few more people felt that way about church ... and not just two-and-a-half-year-olds? In this episode of Chai Can’t Even, host Blake Smith sits down with Kara S...
July 23, 2024
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