The Allender Center Podcast

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How to Remember a Year

December 24, 2020

How do we remember a year well, particularly a year that many of us may not want to look back and reflect upon? What is...

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Living into the Tension of Advent: Rev. Michael S. Chen

December 18, 2020

In the final episode about what it means to enter the Advent season at such a time as this, Rachael Clinton Chen invites her husband,...

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Living into the Tension of Advent: Cole Arthur Riley

December 11, 2020

Continuing a series of conversations about how we are to live into the tension of Advent in this season, Rachael talks with Cole Arthur Riley—writer,...

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Living into the Tension of Advent: Dr. J. Derek McNeil and Kate Davis

December 4, 2020

“How shall we live into this Advent season at such a time as this?” Each year, the season of Advent invites us to lean into...

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Holding the Tension of Grief, Gratitude, and Grace

November 24, 2020

Though we are just now emerging from the season of Thanksgiving, tomorrow marks the first Sunday in Advent. We hold much gratitude, grief, and tension...

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Engaging Grief and Gratitude

November 20, 2020

This season of Thanksgiving looks quite different than previous years, many of us not gathering with families and loved ones around a table. Acknowledging this...

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Contempt and Kindness in the Kingdom of God

November 13, 2020

Picking up on the theme from last week, Dan and Rachael have a fiercely honest and grief-filled conversation about the influence of polarization, idolatry, and...

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