The Rabbit Room Podcast is your one-stop shop for all things Rabbit Room. Each month, co-hosts Drew Miller and Leslie Eiler Thompson discuss what you can expect from us in the next four weeks, from Rabbit Room Press to North Wind Manor events to our Podcast Network and more. And sometimes, they'll even talk with a special guest. Be on the lookout for new episodes at the beginning of each month.
In addition, you'll find here an archive of the 64 episodes of the original Rabbit Room Podcast that aired between 2008 and 2018. The Rabbit Room Podcast, as it existed for those 10 years, has been retired in favor of the more focused and diverse series that make up the Rabbit Room Podcast Network.
As Rabbit Room Theatre’s The Hiding Place stage production runs in Nashville, hear how this stage play came to be in a three part series straight from the journal of playwright A.S. "Pete" Peterson. This is is part 3. You can find more information about the show and get tickets at rabbitroomtheatre.com . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As Rabbit Room Theatre’s The Hiding Place stage production runs in Nashville, hear how this stage play came to be in a three part series straight from the journal of playwright A.S. "Pete" Peterson. This is is part 2. You can find more information about the show and get tickets at rabbitroomtheatre.com . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As Rabbit Room Theatre’s The Hiding Place stage production runs in Nashville, hear how this stage play came to be in a three part series straight from the journal of playwright A.S. "Pete" Peterson. This is is part 1. You can find more information about the show and get tickets at rabbitroomtheatre.com . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Co-hosts Drew Miller and Leslie Eiler Thompson are joined by playwright and Rabbit Room executive director A.S. "Pete" Peterson for a bonus conversation of the Rabbit Room Podcast to talk about the brand new Rabbit Room Theatre division and the flagship production adapted from Corrie Ten Boom's beloved The Hiding Place. The Hiding Place, directed by Matt Logan, opens June 30th, 2022 in Nashville at the Soli Deo Center. Learn more about Rabbit Room Theatre and get tickets at rabbitroomtheatre.com...
Co-hosts Drew Miller and Leslie Eiler Thompson discuss what June 2022 holds for the Rabbit Room, from new podcasts to new books to a new documentary series—and even a special Rabbit Room Trivia segment. This is the first of many monthly check-ins, gathering all Rabbit Room news into one convenient place. Show Notes: Find Call It Good and the Artists & Podcast at RabbitRoom.com/podcast or your podcast app of choice. Visit RabbitRoom.com/events to see upcoming North Wind Manor events—lecture n...
Drew Miller discusses the question, “Can we call the Crucifixion beautiful?” with Danny Bryant, pastor of St. Mary of Bethany Anglican Parish, and Steve Guthrie, professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Drew Miller discusses the question, “Can we call the Crucifixion beautiful?” with Danny Bryant, pastor of St. Mary of Bethany Anglican Parish, and Steve Guthrie, professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
John Barber and Pete Peterson reveal and discuss their favorite 10 films of 2017 (and a few of their least favorites). Pete Peterson cheats. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In which John Barber and Pete Peterson discuss the War for the Planet of the Men of Dunkirk of Christopher Nolan of the Apes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In which John Barber and Pete Peterson discuss the dubious merits of Kong: Skull Island and Logan . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pete Peterson and John Barber discuss their top 10 films of 2016 and bat around a few Oscar picks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the previous podcast, we talked with Thomas McKenzie about the novel Silence . In this podcast, we sit down with Mako Fujimura to discuss the the film and his book Silence and Beauty . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Shusako Endo’s Silence is a powerful work of fiction, and is now a feature film by Martin Scorsese. Jonathan Rogers sits down with Thomas McKenzie and Pete Peterson to discuss the enduring power of the book and other similar works like The Power and the Glory . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
C. S. Lewis saw George MacDonald as a kind of spiritual and literary father. These days, however, he’s not so widely read. In this episode, Ron Block explains why we should all be reading MacDonald, and how to get started. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Doug McKelvey is a fountainhead of surprising and interesting facts about cassowaries, a kind of prehistoric ninja bird native to Papua New Guinea. His staggering expertise leads to a discussion of the nature of expertise, the relationship between truth and doubt, and the heartache of writer’s block. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Russ Ramsey and Andrew Osenga have found that jest is an important part of the grieving process. In this episode, they cover sickness, death, floods, and the television show Nashville with unexpected good humor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Happy Election Year! If ever we needed a booster shot of civility in public discourse, surely we need it in 2016. In this episode, Thomas McKenzie narrates a series of events in which he is subjected to most un civil discourse, and A. E. Graham discusses the importance of civility and the via media in her own career as a political speechwriter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ben Shive is one of Nashville’s great musical collaborators. In this episode, he discusses the calling of the collaborator with Jonathan Rogers and Pete Peterson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pete Peterson and John Barber discuss Jeff Nichols’ latest film, Midnight Special. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
John Barber and Pete Peterson discuss the merits of Batman vs. Superman before moving on to Jeff Nichols’ acclaimed film, Take Shelter . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jenny Youngman recently released her new album titled The Girl with Good Intentions , and in this episode of the Rabbit Room podcast, producer Andrew Osenga interviews Youngman about the creative process and difficulty of making the record. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the days before its release, Jill Phillips and Andy Gullahorn fell in love with Ben Shive’s The Cymbal Crashing Clouds . They decided to corner Ben in the kitchen and make him reveal all his super-secret powers of writing and recording. This podcast is the result. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This episode is taken from the Hutchmoot 2012 session titled “Tales of New Creation” by Thomas McKenzie, Jennifer Trafton, and Pete Peterson. In this third part (of three), author A. S. “Pete” Peterson discusses the ways in which our world, our lives, and our art are the context out of which the great epic of a new age is being written. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This episode is taken from the Hutchmoot 2012 session titled “Tales of New Creation” by Thomas McKenzie, Jennifer Trafton, and Pete Peterson. In this second part (of three), children’s book author Jennifer Trafton talks about what she writes, why she writes, and as George MacDonald said, the “great good that is coming, is coming, is coming.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This episode is taken from the Hutchmoot 2012 session titled “Tales of New Creation” by Thomas McKenzie, Jennifer Trafton, and Pete Peterson. In this first part (of three) Father Thomas lays down the theological underpinnings of the session in which we discuss the ultimate hope of the Christian faith and the ways in which we engage that hope in our creative efforts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
At Hutchmoot 2012 Andrew Peterson and Travis Prinzi led a session titled “Tales of the Fall.” Here in part two, Andrew discusses the ways in which sadness plays an important part in our literature and our lives. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On July 4th, 2013, Under the Radar will host its first-ever music festival. It’s called Escape to the Lake and it’s got more than a little of the Hutchmoot vibe to it, so we sat down with UTR’s founder, Dave Trout, and talked with him about the genesis of both the UTR radio show and the Escape to the Lake weekend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
At Hutchmoot 2012 Andrew Peterson and Travis Prinzi led a session titled “Tales of the Fall.” Here in part one, Travis discusses the ways in which our fallen world is reflected in the literature we read. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
At Hutchmoot 2012 we invited Greg Greene and Wes driver, the creative team behind Nashville’s Blackbird Theater Company, as well as Broadway actor Stephen Trafton, who has appeared in shows such as Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera , to discuss the many ways in which faith and theater interact to provide a deep and meaningful experience. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
At Hutchmoot 2012 we put together a group of musical collaborators from various backgrounds to discuss the ways in which they work together to create. The teams are Ron Block and Rebecca Reynolds, who wrote Ron’s latest (2013) album; Don Chaffer and Lori Chaffer, the husband and wife band Waterdeep; and Ben Shive and Cason Cooley, music producers who worked together on Andrew Peterson’s album Light for the Lost Boy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
