The Allender Center Podcast

Routine and Rituals in Covid-19, Part Two

May 14, 2020

In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen talk with Heather Stringer about her creative process of stepping into a...

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Routine and Rituals in Covid-19, Part One

May 8, 2020

Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen invite Heather Stringer, a facilitator at The Allender Center, therapist, and ritual-maker, to begin a conversation about the...

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Food and Body, Part Three

May 1, 2020

In their final conversation, Dr. Dan Allender, Diane Summers, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, and Matt Tiemeyer, LHMC, explore ways we can heal our relationship with food...

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Food and Body, Part Two

April 24, 2020

Picking up their conversation from the first episode, Dr. Dan Allender, Diane Summers, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, and Matt Tiemeyer, LMHC, continue talking about the connection...

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Food and Body, Part One

April 17, 2020

This week on the podcast, Dr. Dan Allender hosts two guests, Matt Tiemeyer, LMHC, and Diane Summers, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD to begin a three-part conversation...

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Holding the Tension of Holy Saturday

April 10, 2020

Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender have a poignant conversation about making space for the tension and grief of Holy Saturday. In the protestant...

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Preparing for Holy Week in a Season of Fragmentation

April 3, 2020

We find ourselves in the midst of a collective trauma that both exposes, overwhelms, and compounds suffering. In this new reality, as we come upon...

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Love and Courage in a Global Pandemic, Part Three

March 27, 2020

Our world continues to change in monumental ways. In this episode, Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender engage the implications and anxieties of Covid-19,...

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What Does it Mean to Submit to Authority?

March 20, 2020

In their final conversation about authority, Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender return to complex waters to discuss mutual submission, what good authority looks...

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Love and Courage in a Global Pandemic, Part Two

March 19, 2020

Rachael and Dan continue to talk about the impact of Covid-19 and the rapid ways our world continues to change, even in the few days...

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