Podcast – Tokens

Welcome to part one of our two-part Thanksgiving Special, in which we take a look back at Tokens' very first Ryman show from 2010. In this episode of Dispatches, we hear some of Buddy Greene's magic on harmonica, host Lee C. Camp's monologues, two most outstanding performances by IBMA Entertainers of the Year Cherryholmes, and some very fine old hymns sung amidst the wondrous acoustics of 'the mother church of country music,' Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. We close with a classic piece by the Tokens Radio Players. Be sure to check back next week for part two of our Thanksgiving Special. We hope you enjoy this episode of Dispatches. Be sure to let all your friends know about our socio-cultural experiment here. Remember, you can subscribe to Dispatches from the Buckle on ITUNES. And be sure to follow DISPATCHES ON TWITTER for all the latest. And, if you enjoyed this podcast and live in near Nashville, you should think about joining us on November 18, 2012 for our next Tokens at the Ryman. We’ve got quite the lineup planned. Visit our TICKETS page for more information. Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

We are pleased to feature a very special episode of Dispatches from the Buckle, a bit longer than our normal middle Tennessee drive time podcast episode length, with host Lee C. Camp sitting in his family room along with Andrew Peterson who brought along his guitar and good stories. We talked about, and Andrew played and sang about, both Andrew’s new album, as well as the fifteen year anniversary of the death of Rich Mullins, featuring special performances of LAND OF MY SOJOURN and HELLO OLD FRIENDS. Plus we talked about being swept up into THE YEARLING, old hymns, Pink Floyd, and O Holy Night. (What can we say about that, except that once again, We Break Down False Dichotomies.) So Andrew closed us out with a favorite old hymn of his. A Most Outstanding Dispatches episode, if we might say so ourselves. We hope you enjoy this episode of Dispatches. Be sure to let all your friends know about our socio-cultural experiment here. Remember, you can subscribe to Dispatches from the Buckle on ITUNES. And be sure to follow DISPATCHES ON TWITTER for all the latest. We're drawing ever closer to Tokens at the Ryman Auditorium on November 18. We've got quite the lineup planned. Visit our TICKETS page for more information. Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

This week's Dispatches from the Buckle arrives, yes, a day late. But technical glitches have forced this. Nevertheless, we're back with our second podcast on 'eschatology.' Today, we examine how eschatology is not merely a private, religious category, but rather it is a public category. Eschatology involves the things in which we place our hope and visions for the way things are supposed to be. Along the way, we discuss the notion of 'proleptic' eschatology, something Lee makes all his students learn about. Then we hear Andrew Peterson sing his eschatological hymn, 'After the Last Tear Falls.' And we conclude with Buddy Greene's very fine rendition of 'Shall We Gather at the River.' We hope you enjoy this episode of Dispatches. Be sure to let all your friends know about our socio-cultural experiment here. Remember, you can subscribe to Dispatches from the Buckle on ITUNES. And be sure to follow DISPATCHES ON TWITTER for all the latest. And don’t forget about the upcoming Tokens Show at the Ryman Auditorium on November 18. Visit our TICKETS page for more information. Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

Welcome to Dispatches from the Buckle. This week we begin thinking about eschatology. We begin with Odessa Settles singing a wonderful version of 'I am a Poor, Wayfaring Stranger' from our very first Tokens Show. After that Lee C. Camp, your host of Dispatches, gives you the first-in-human-history-so-far-as-we-know-with-absolutely-no-research-to-back-up-that-claim Seven Minute Speed Lecture. In it, Lee introduces terms like 'telos,' 'neo-platonism,' and 'new heavens and new earth,' which you can casually throw about during your next lunch-break conversation. We close with our Most Outstanding Horeb Mountain Boys' rendition of the 'Cherokee Shuffle,' featuring Aubrey Haynie on fiddle. We hope you enjoy this episode of Dispatches. Be sure to let all your friends know about our socio-cultural experiment here. Remember, you can subscribe to Dispatches from the Buckle on ITUNES. And be sure to follow DISPATCHES ON TWITTER for all the latest. And don't forget about the upcoming Tokens Show at the Ryman Auditorium on November 18. Visit our Tickets page for more information. Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

This week sees our double-0 seventh episode of Dispatches from the Buckle. In it, we continue with clips from our 'Justice Songs' Tokens Show. First up, we have an interview with Will D. Campbell, author of the very fine Brother to a Dragonfly. Next Odessa Settels performs a beautiful rendition of 'Were You There.' We conclude with a lighthearted revisit of 'Tales from the Bible Belt' about the English-only Bill proposed in the Tennessee legislature a few years back. We hope you enjoy this episode of Dispatches. Be sure to let all your friends know about our socio-cultural experiment here. Remember, you can subscribe to Dispatches from the Buckle on ITUNES. And be sure to follow DISPATCHES ON TWITTER for all the latest. Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

This week, we are pleased today to bring you some more segments from our “Justice Songs” episode. We begin with one of Jeff Taylor's fine arrangements for our Class and Grass segment. Next, we are privileged to revisit the very first appearance of Brother Preacher. We close with an authentic back-porch, improvised rendition of that very fine old hymn "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood." We hope you enjoy this week's episode of Dispatches from the Buckle. Be sure to let all your friends know about our socio-cultural experiment here. Remember, you can subscribe to Dispatches from the Buckle on iTunes. And be sure to follow Dispatches on Twitter for all the latest. Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of www.TokensShow.com and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of Who Is My Enemy?

What might justice look like if we frame it as constructive equity for the good of the community instead of mere retribution? Join us this week and next for clips from our Justice Songs show. We start out sharing a segment from our friend Buddy Greene, "Hard Times Come Again No More." After that we will share with you an interview with my friend and attorney Brad MacLean who has worked extensively with capital death cases. And we leave you with a fiddle special by Mr. Stuart Duncan—one of Nashville’s very top fiddle players, and thus, of course, one of the world’s finest—an old song entitled "Blackberry Blossom." Want to download the whole "Justice Songs" episode? Order it on our store here. Be sure to let all your friends know about our socio-cultural experiment here. Remember, you can subscribe to Dispatches from the Buckle on iTunes. And be sure to follow Dispatches on Twitter for all the latest. Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of www.TokensShow.com and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of Who Is My Enemy?

Giving you yet more nourishment for the great spiritual struggle entailed in any election year, we thought it efficacious to bring you part 2 of our late summer guide to theology and politics, going deep into the Tokens archives, from the election season of 2008. We start you out with a rendition of "Power in the Blood," a song that most folks would think to have nothing to do with politics, until you realize that the history of human politics is, in too many ways, the history of blood-letting. After that, we’ll hear an interview with Professor Randall Balmer, author of God in the White House, a bit of wisdom from our first Preacher Man on the Tokens show, Dear Preacher Man, and an interview with Sojourners founder and author of God's Politics and The Great Awakening, Jim Wallis. Remember, you can subscribe to Dispatches from the Buckle on iTunes. And be sure to follow Dispatches on Twitter for all the latest. Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of www.TokensShow.com and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of Who Is My Enemy?

For this episode of Dispatches from the Buckle, we pull out of the catalog some segments of our Tokens show done last presidential election year, including an interview with Shane Claiborne (pictured below) and Chris Haw about their book Jesus for President, a Monty-Pythonesque telling of the parable of the weeds and the wheat, plus Our Most Outstanding Horeb Mountain Boys did a bit of Dixie land jazz to help us get in the mood for politics. We hope you enjoy. See you next week. Remember, you can subscribe to Dispatches from the Buckle on iTunes. Likewise, you can subscribe to our RSS Feed on Feedburner. Be sure to follow Dispatches on Twitter for all the latest. Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of www.TokensShow.com and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of Who Is My Enemy?

Welcome to the second installment of Dispatches from the Buckle. In this episode, we start you out with a classic instrumental, “Redwing,” performed by our Most Outstanding Horeb Mountain Boys, featuring special guest Ron Block playing the banjo. Additionally, we share with you one of our old Tokens Radio Player sketches we did after a bill made it’s way to the Tennessee Legislature to permit hand guns in bars. And we conclude with a rendition of "We're Climbing Jacob's Ladder." Remember, you can subscribe to Dispatches from the Buckle on iTunes. Likewise, you can subscribe to our RSS Feed on Feedburner. Be sure to follow Dispatches on Twitter for all the latest. Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of www.TokensShow.com and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of Who Is My Enemy?

The premiere episode of "Dispatches from the Buckle," the soon to be award-winning podcast derivative of and indebted to and in full synchronicity with the Tokens Show. Much fun to be had here. Spread the word. Subscribe in iTunes. Or listen here. Episodes to be released weekly. This is going to be great fun. In this initial podcast Lee explains a bit about the Tokens Show, revisiting some Beethoven inspired Class and Grass along the way. Additionally, an excellent interview with Hal Holbrook, an Emmy and Tony Award winning actor, best known for his portrayal of Mark Twain, is included in this episode. The next Tokens Show will be at the Ryman Auditorium, November 18. Keep an eye on our Tickets page for updates. Show CDs can be purchased in our store, along with other bits and bobs of Tokens paraphernalia. Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of www.TokensShow.com and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of Who Is My Enemy?