Carrie Newcomer: Finding the Sacred in the Commonplace

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0:01: Intro

1:47: Introduction to interview with Carrie Newcomer

2:36: Newcomer on "being midwestern"; a "true and authentic voice"; midwesterners as "polite firebrands" (e.g. Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Parker Palmer)

5:50: Newcomer on being a songwriter

8:17: Newcomer on the "really good questions" of life

9:30: Newcomer on becoming a Quaker; "my best words come out of the silence"

11:20: Clip of Newcomer's song "Geodes"

11:53: Newcomer on response to "Geodes"; geodes as a metaphor for paying attention to miracles

14:04: Clip of Newcomer's song "Where You Been"

14:35: Newcomer on life being less rich when we miss the miracles in life

15:24: Newcomer on writers getting to "live twice"

16:15: Newcomer on album "Regulars and Refugees"

16:45: Newcomer on the blur of the sacred and secular; "I get a chance to offend everyone"

18:17: Newcomer on playing in different venues

19:15: Newcomer on following "as the way opens"; on not putting  the sacred in a box

21:30: Clip of Newcomer's song "Map of Shadows"

21:58: Newcomer on liminal spaces

24:01: Clip of Newcomer song "Two Toasts"

24:53: Newcomer on working with Parker Palmer & Scott Russell Sanders

26:56: Newcomer on activism

31:52: Clip of Newcomer song "Leaves Don't Drop (They Just Let Go)"

31:25: Newcomer on the reality of change

34:2o: Clip of Newcomer song "Clean Edge of Change"; stepping into the unknown

36:31: Introduction to Brian Ellison's reflection on Gerard Manley Hopkin's poem "God's Grandeur"

37:08: Ellison reads "God's Grandeur"

38:24: Ellison reflects on "God's Grandeur"

41:24:  Outro, Promo of next week's show with Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow, pastor of Mission Bay Community Church and "2.0 Candidate" for Moderator of Presbyterian Church (USA).