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You’re invited to join us for our monthly podcast! Our episodes will feature conversations between Parker and Carrie, focused on Growing Edge topics. Occasionally, we’ll invite some wise and wonderful friends of ours to share their insights on the topic we’re exploring.  

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producer, director & engineer of The Growing Edge Podcast

Allison Quantz is a radio and podcast producer living in Bloomington, Indiana. She is senior producer at With Good Reason, an award-winning, nationally-broadcast radio show from Virginia Humanities. Alongside her work at With Good Reason, Allison is an adjunct instructor of audio production at Indiana University. In 2015, she launched The Briefing from SiriusXM and went on to produce it until late 2017. Her work has also been heard on BackStory with the American History Guys, Café Indiana, Virginia Public Radio, Word of Mouth, Distillations, and PRX Remix.

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Podcast Episode 65: Rebroadcast of The Promise of Loving Kindness, The Problem of Evil.
Podcast Episode 65: Rebroadcast of The Promise of Loving Kindness, The Problem of Evil.

In June Carrie is back in the studio recording a new album and Parker is deep into several creative projects. So this month we are revisiting a podcast that was recorded in May 2022. Episode 65 Podcast The Promise of Loving Kindness, The Problem of Evil In this podcast we explore the poems “What I’ve Learned So Far” by Mary Oliver and “Small Kindnesses” by Danusia Lameris. We also engage with the question pf how we might hold the both/and of our lives—the goodness as well as a clear and present danger, even evil at work in the world. I glad you’re joining us for this episode and hope you’ll visit our Substack page to add your comments to the conversation.

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Podcast Episode 64: A Conversation With Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Podcast Episode 64: A Conversation With Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

I hope you’ll join us 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. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, can be found on an app called Ritual. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, the PBS News Hour, O Magazine, Washington Post’s Book Club, and the Carnegie Hall stage. Her recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding. In 2024, she became poet laureate for Evermore, helping others explore grief and love through poetry. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day, sharing them on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils. Her three-word mantra: I’m still learning. In one word: Adjust. She earned her MA in English Language & Linguistics at UW-Madison.

You can find more about Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, her many projects and works at her website - www.wordwoman.com, Her poem a day blog -One Hundred Falling Veils and books for purchase at Bookshop.org , Amazon & IndieBound.org

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

Please join us for a conversation with Unitarian Universalist Pastor & Activist Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray as we explore three powerful ways to stay engaged and grounded in challenging times. Rev. Susan was the ninth president of the Unitarian Universalist Association and the first woman to serve in that position. During her presidency, Frederick-Gray helped launch a program called UU the Vote in 2020. The program had over 500 churches and over 4,500 volunteers reach two million voters during the 2020 election. She was elected after serving congregations in Arizona, Ohio, and Tennessee. In Arizona she was one of the faith leaders in a place many consider ground zero in the fight for immigrant justice, she joined a federal class action lawsuit to stop Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio from raiding businesses in order to charge undocumented workers with felony identity theft. She was among thirty-one UUs arrested in front of the White House during the three-day “Days of Action” organized by an interfaith group to stop mass deportations of immigrants. Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray has been a trail-blazer, a voice for inclusivity, diversity, justice grounded in the kind of love that changes the world! We hope you enjoy and are inspired as much as we were by this powerful interview AND join the conversation right here on Substack.

Episode 58: Cutting Loose—Sometimes from Sorrow, For No Reason, You Sing
Episode 58: Cutting Loose—Sometimes from Sorrow, For No Reason, You Sing

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 feeling lost and listening to the sound of the genuine within them. In these challenging times, this is a poem that has much history and wisdom to share. We hope you’ll join the conversation by listening to the episode and commenting on our Substack page.