The Kindlings Muse

Once a month, Earl Palmer digs through books that every thinking Christian needs to read. On this particular evening we will looked at George Macdonald as Earl talks us through Macdonald's Phantastes. We will also examine how Macdonald influenced C.S.Lewis as we look at Lewis' George MacDonald: An Anthology.

The Civil Wars have recently announced the cancellation of all tour dates effectively saying they are breaking up... for now. This is an interview before their Grammy winning album even hit the stores and their star shot high. Windrider co-founder and host Craig Detweiler interviews The Civil Wars about their new break-out album Barton Hollow (This interview was taped at Sundance the week before Barton Hollow's release!) The Civil Wars is a duo comprised of Joy Williams and Alabaman, John Paul White. And yes, they were heard singing their song “Poison & Wine" on Grey's Anatomy! Originally posted 02/15/2011 Consider donating or becoming Kindlings Associate 

Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz came out of nowhere to become a bestseller and went on to be made into a feature film by the same name. He also wrote A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story, Storyline: Finding Your Subplot in God's Story, and Searching for God Knows What. This was an early interview before his works took off, affirming what many other Jesus followers conflicted frustrations with religion and Christianity.   To hear the rest of this interview become a Kindlings Associate.

Taproot Theatre Company's staging of Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries)inspires a conversation on the art and pull of mysteries and thrillers. Join host Jennie Spohr and author Michael Gruber, Bernadette Pajer, Johnathan Longenbaugh and librarian and blogger David Wright as we explore the deep dark depths of this thrilling genre.  

A Dick Staub Interview with Dan Allender, President of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology in Seattle, Washington. Among his many books are the The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness. Dan communicates serious insights with hilarity and grace as evidenced by this interview. His own journey as told in this interview bears witness to those same qualities. If you wish to hear the remaining segments of this interview become a Kindlings Associate.

“What is behind language?" Can the music of Sigur Rós, with its made up lyrics still speak? And with a new album out, Babel, can a British band, Mumford and Sons, with a love of banjos create a new voice of this generation? What is it to listen to music in an intelligent way that isn't just filling the silences? Join host Jennie Spohr and panel Dr. Jeff Keuss, Nathan Marion of Fremont Arts Abbey and Galen Disston from Pickwick, as they debate the elements, quality, structure and fun factor of these two bands and the musical genres they inhabit, along with questions from our live audience.    

This interview with Lauren Winner on Girl Meets God: A Memoir is often requested and reflects the early phases of her journey disarmingly. She is the author of numerous books, including Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline, Real Sex: The Naked Truth about ChastityWinner has degrees from Duke, Columbia, and Cambridge universities, and holds a Ph.D. in history. Lauren teaches at Duke Divinity School, and lives in Durham, North Carolina. She was born to a Jewish father and a Southern Baptist mother, and was raised Jewish. Lauren Winner will be our featured speaker at WinterFest 2013. Come join us! This is Part 1 of a four part interview. To hear the remainder of the interview please become a Kindlings Associate.

In our first show of the Season with Earl Palmer Ministries, Earl takes us through Russian author and Nobel Prize Winner Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's book From Under the Rubble (University Press of America) Written in 1974, Solzhenitsyn's ethical essay is truly ahead of its time if not simply timeless as he challenges individuals and the world at large to a movement from extremism towards a balanced life of Moderation. Earl then compares the similarities of Solzhenitsyn's works with the Apostel Paul's writings calling on the same kind of moderation. Our discussion moves out of the theoretical and into the practical difficulties and need  of living in a repentent posture that owns mistakes and seeks reconciliation and balance. It is not limited to the individual as you will hear the conversation explore it's implications in politics, nationalism, and global dynamics.   To hear more conversation and discussion like this one consider becoming a Kindlings Associate today!

On the afternoon of March 29, 2002 the world was shaken when an 18 year-old Palestinian girl and suicide bomber, entered a market where she detonated a bomb, killing herself, injuring 30 and killing a 17 year-old Israeli girl in what has become known as the  Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing. No one was shaken more than the mothers of the two dead teenage girls, who shared so much in common and yet whose differences brought them to their untimely deaths. In her thought-provoking documentary, To Die In Jerusalem, Director & Producer Hilla Medalia puts a human face on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through two mothers, who struggle to cope with the event that put them in the center of an intractable geopolitical conflict. After conversation with Hilla, we are joined by John and Ed Priddy, producers of the film. We then turn to audience questions. To access  more interviews and discussions like this then become a Kindlings Associate

Kindlings Fest is a celebration of art and ideas and where they intersect with the spiritual.  This years Kindlings Fest on Orcas Island asked, “Can Crabbed age and youth live together?" Through film, talks, panel discussions, art, music and casual conversations we explored what it is that keeps generations apart and what can bring them together.   Each morning at Kindlings Fest, Dr. Jerry Root presented a meditation on the theme. In this Friday morning meditation, Jerry walked through what must be kept of the child in the movement toward adulthood, wherein doubt becomes a freedom that leads to answers others might never receive if the questions weren't asked. What are the elements of the child that must be rediscovered in order to be adults that can cross the generational and cultural divides?  

In August 2007 Dick Staub interviewed C.S. Lewis' stepson Douglas Gresham aboard Sea Cloud II as it sailed on the Irish Sea. This First Century Voyages trip also included presentations from Lewis' Scholar Dr. Jerry Root from Wheaton College. Listen as Dick and Mr. Gresham discuss growing up  with "Jack" Lewis as a step-father - his personality, his scholarship, his faith, to name a few; the loss of his mother, Joy Davidman; filmmaking and bringing the Chronicles of Narnia from book to cinema, as well as, the ongoing work to turn The Screwtape Letters into a film.   If you enjoyed this interview, then become a Kindlings Associate to access more just like it!

Kindlings Fest is a celebration of art and ideas and where they intersect with the spiritual.  This years Kindlings Fest on Orcas Island asked, “Can Crabbed age and youth live together?" Through film, talks, panel discussions, art, music and casual conversations we explored what it is that keeps generations apart and what can bring them together. Each morning at Kindlings Fest, Dr. Jerry Root presented a meditation on the theme. This Thursday morning meditation explores how unforgiveness leads to Crabbiness, and how one might move towards forgiveness to stay off the Crabbed Old Age.

Prometheus and The God Particle: Science Myth and the Origin of All Things:  The Higgs Boson “hit" this summer (2012) as did Ridley Scott's “Alien” prequel “Prometheus.” We go back to the beginning of it all and explore the meaning of the search for our origins. With host Jennie Spohr and panel Dr. Jeff Keuss, and Dr. Christine Chaney Want to hear more shows like this? Become a Kindlings Associate today!

Kindlings mainstays Kevin Miller and Peter T. Chattaway join host Bill Hogg in welcoming Dr. Myron Penner, PhD., to the panel. Myron is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity Western University and an avid follower of Modern Family and college sports. You won't want to miss the wit and wisdom of our panel as they dive into this issue. The archetypal “Leave it to Beaver" family is absent from prime-time programming; instead, nontraditional families have made their way to the forefront of our televisions. As HBO's polygamist family of Big Love wraps up its 5-season run, TLC offers us the Brown family, practicing polygamists of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints faith. The Big Bang Theory and Grey's Anatomy follow young professionals who form community in the absence of loving family. Modern Family, portrays traditional, blended, and homosexual families, all of which grapple with the question, “What does it mean to be a family today?" We  pose the same question to our panel as we explore the messages of prime time's most popular shows.

Of all his memorable interviews, Dick Staub puts this one with Daniel Libeskind at the International Arts Movement Conference in NYC near the top of the list. Libeskind, is a Polish-born Jewish American architect, whose prominent and celebrated buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Denver Art Museum in the United States and the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, United Kingdom. Libeskind won the competition for the master plan to rebuild the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan and in this interview we explore the rich and fertile mind of an architect who brings ideas to life.  To access more rich content like this became a Kindlings Associate