Coffeepot Fellowship Podcast

Hear diverse leaders share their best and personal stories. We ask each guest for their story of biggest blunder or trial and about a happiest moment in their life. Every episode reminds us what it takes to be an accomplished leader. Bring your coffee or listen on the run. We'll deliver your daily pick-me-up.

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Coffee with Martha Spong

Martha Spong has been raised up by a throng of similarly spirited women. She is the Executive Director of RevGalBlogPals(.org) and the Editor of There's a Woman in the Pulpit. She's a United Church of Christ minister who spoke to me while she was looking out the window on the steeple of her wife's Presbyterian Church. She tells a great story about returning to preach at the Southern Baptist Church in which she was raised.

Dec 11, 2015•20 min

Coffee with Julia Seymour

Julia Seymour claims neither to drink coffee nor have developed magic hands when she was ordained in 2008. I, however, bet she's been involved in some pretty miraculous stuff (before and after 2008). From her view of Northern Lights Boulevard in Anchorage Alaska she's welcomed a moose (see picture) and many, many more. Catch a prayer of hers on our website or in the published book There's a Woman in the Pulpit.

Dec 10, 2015•27 min

Coffee with Ruth Perkins Lee

Rev. Ruth Perkins Lee is the Director of Ministries for the global office of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). Ruth and her hospice chaplain husband have two young yet independent daughters. A recent CBF initiative around sabbatical is probably not unrelated to Ruth's frequent rediscovery of how very isolated faith leaders are. Hear some healthy ideas here so that you and your faith leaders are finding the space and support needed for congregations and their staffs.

Dec 09, 2015•27 min

Coffee with Scott Larson-McGuire

One of Rev. Scott Larson-McGuire's stories involves receiving an anonymous letter. There really is nothing more infantile than an anonymous letter. If you are unwilling to have a mature discussion then you do not have the right to cloak yourself behind anonymity. If you are cloaked then your opinion should be too. Anonymity indicates that the author is severely in the wrong. If you are intimidated by the person to whom you wish to deliver a message then bring a (silent) pastor or friend for supp...

Dec 08, 2015•45 min

Coffee with Kendall Ratliffe

Kendall Ratliffe is not the first seminary graduate I've interviewed who has felt called to ministry within the church until after graduation. Their stories remain cliffhangers, to some degree, of whether they will return to serve professionally in churches. In each case, in my clear opinion, it is the church's loss if these leaders take their gifts elsewhere.

Dec 07, 2015•23 min

Coffee with Stephanie Rice

I use to sing the background music to "Rice Rice Baby" by Vanilla Ice whenever Stephanie Rice would walk into one of our seminary classrooms. Except the day she came in wearing a giant chicken costume. That threw me a little. If you want to hear the awesome song Stephanie sang at my ordination service check out the show notes on our website coffeepotfellowship.com. Stephanie actually left our Baptist seminary to become a Methodist pastor, by attending Union Presbyterian Seminary. Then she left V...

Dec 04, 2015•24 min

Coffee with Michelle Bodle

The day before Thanksgiving Cindy Hardy interviewed Michelle Bodle for The Coffeepot Fellowship Daily Podcast. Cindy is the Networking Chaplain with United Faith Leaders and Michelle pastors two congregations in Pennsylvania. Cindy and Michelle know one another because of a United Methodist outreach to young seminarians. Being a single female leader in churches gets explicit airplay today.

Dec 03, 2015•14 min

Coffee with Jim Peak

Jim Peak is a VP and the CFO at The Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. He embodies a wonderful confluence of qualities. He is a pastor. He has his PhD. He is an accomplished musician. The tone of his natural voice has a gentleness with almost no edges. During our interview it was hard not to think about how easily his voice would be able blend, as desired, in most choral performances or how very pastoral he could be in a counseling situations when hard things need to be said without provo...

Dec 02, 2015•34 min

Coffee with Arthur Jones

Arthur Jones is a 5th generation Methodist pastor and the founder of The Well, a 750 plus contemporary congregation in Plano, Texas. He is also a coauthor with his father, Bishop Scott Jones, of Ask: Faith Questions for a Skeptical Age . Arthur is another courageous guest in his willingness to be completely vulnerable and honest....

Dec 01, 2015•18 min

Coffee with Rachel Hackenberg

What's a muggle? What does it mean to tweet? What's fracking? Language changes. It develops. In writer and reverend Rachel Hackenberg's words, "Language helps us get at our faith." Hear more of Rachel's words in this awesome and interesting episode.

Nov 30, 2015•36 min

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