Aaron is pleased to be joined by a guest co-host for the first time! Herandy Lucas Pino joined Aaron for a wide-ranging interview with Adam Dickson.  Adam is the Director of the Langston Multicultural Center in Johnson City, TN. Adam is a well respected elected official, civic leader, and self-proclaimed "community gadfly."  He is a strong advocate for increasing diversity in predominantly white Appalachia and committed to sharing stories about African Americans in Appalchia.

Herandy serves as an instructor and community liaison at the Langston Center working with Adam. She shares about her experience living in Johnson City as a Latinx Dreamer who recently became a college graduate.

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Show Notes

Herandy Lucas Pino

Adam Dickson

Langston Center

Appalachian Soul

Josh Mancuso

DEI Alliance

Bethel Christian Church-Jonesborough, TN

Grace Temple Church Eternal Life Center-Johnson City, TN

St. Mary's Catholic Church-Johnson City, TN

First Baptist Church-Jefferson City, TN 

Hopwood Memorial Christian Church-Milligan University, TN

Pioneer Grocery-Jonesborough, TN

Milligan University

WJHL article about 2019 ETSU Regionalism Summit focusing on disparities in health, education, and economic opportunities

Welcome to part 3 of a 6 episode series exploring VALUES that can guide our individual lives as well as the cultures of our faith communities and organizations to be healthier. In this episode Aaron discusses Respect.

Growing out of the first two values of Humility and Hospitality, Aaron suggests that embodying a posture of Respect with those we disagree with offers us the gift of having our views and ideas challenged. Aaron encourages listeners to intentionally get outside our comfort zones, seek out relationships that will stretch us, and find new voices to listen to.

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Show Notes

Mitch Stein with Pond

Brené Brown Unlocking Us Podcast with Aiko Bethea-Inclusivity at Work: The Heart of Hard Conversations

Jamin Rathbun's Trinity Arts Center

The Dispatch

David French

Preston Sprinkle's Theology in the Raw

Richard Rohr's Center for Action and Contemplation

Jemar Tisby

Danté Stewart

Tyler Burns

Propaganda (Prop Hip Hop)

Tim Otto

Luke Wilson

Colby Martin

Jackie Hill Perry

Megan Tschanz

Kate Bowler

Jamie Ivey

Marla Taviano

Brie Stoner

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Sarah Heath

Rachel Spears

Aila Malik

Becky Endicott

Adam Dickson

The Langston Center

Herandy Lucas Pino

Pond is the most powerful, positive disruptor of the non-profit sector I've encountered in my time in the industry. Offering a marketplace where non-profits are paid real dollars to discover the best business and technology solutions in the industry, Pond is flipping the business paradigm on its head. I was truly humbled to be joined by Pond's Co-Founder and CEO Mitch Stein. Mitch shares about his entrepreneur journey and how his time serving on the Board of the LGBTQ Center of New York inspired him to launch this incredible tech startup.

Digging into faith and spirituality, Mitch shares honestly about some of the harmful experiences he had growing up in the church as he became aware of his identity as a gay man. Mitch asks me a few questions as well, giving me a chance to share how my own Christian faith is continuing to grow and evolve.  We both lean into and reflect on the power of listening to the stories and experiences of others.

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Show Notes

Pond's website-joinpond.com

Mitch Stein on LinkedIn

The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick

The Center-The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of New York

Padrón & Co.-A Houston-based marketing and design company that redesigned the Unleash Generosity website

This bonus episode is a companion to episode 15 (Season 2 Episode 3) with Daniel Silliman, news editor for Christianity Today . Daniel's months of investigative journalism led to the revelation of sexual and emotional abuse by Christian apologist and founder of RZIM, Ravi Zacharias.

In the bonus episode we focus primarily on Daniel's book, Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith.

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Show Notes

Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith

CT Article: Ravi Zacharias’s Ministry Investigates Claims of Sexual Misconduct at Spas

CT Article: Inside RZIM, Staff Push Leaders to Take Responsibility for Scandal

CT Article: NDAs Kept These Christians Silent. Now They’re Speaking Out Against Them

In the second of a six part VALUES series, host Aaron Scott discusses the posture of Hospitality.  This episode builds on the first value of Humility discussed in Episode 14 (Season 2 Episode 2). 

The Humility conversation focused on the reality that none of us are perfect and we all need to learn and grow by listening to others experiences and perspectives. Growing out of the foundation of Humility is the key message of Hospitality: everyone is welcome and needed to show up as their full-selves. 

Aaron connects the importance of welcoming everyone to show up authentically with the previous episode's interview with Daniel Silliman. Daniel's reporting for Christianity Today demonstrates the type of trauma and harm that can accompany cultures of silence in religious and non-profit organizations. While a posture of Hospitality does not guarantee we will all agree about difficult topics, ensuring we create cultures of honesty and accountability that rejects silence is essential to creating true inclusion and healthy belonging.

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Show Notes

Brené Brown's Dare To Lead Podcast interview with Aiko Bethea-Inclusivity at Work: The Heart of Hard Conversations

Trauma, abuse, and violence in faith communities is a challenging topic because our spiritual communities should be safe spaces. Unfortunately, faith leaders are routinely being identified as abusers and ousted from their roles because of inappropriate behavior. In many cases, faith communities and non-profits are both failing to prevent abuse and actively trying to cover it up.

For people of faith, regardless of our spiritual traditions or beliefs, we must wrestle with what it means when faith communities and organizations are the source of such trauma. We must ask ourselves and be willing to wrestle with hard questions. 

Today's guest is Daniel Silliman, news editor for Christianity Today . Daniel's months of investigative journalism led to the revelation of sexual and emotional abuse by Christian apologist and founder of RZIM, Ravi Zacharias.   

Please be advised, mature content is discussed in this episode, including sexual and emotional abuse.

We also discuss:

• Daniel's training as a historian with expertise in American Evangelicalism and his book, Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith 
• His involvement in Christianity Today's podcast, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill

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Show Notes

Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith

CT Article: Ravi Zacharias’s Ministry Investigates Claims of Sexual Misconduct at Spas

CT Article: Inside RZIM, Staff Push Leaders to Take Responsibility for Scandal

CT Article: NDAs Kept These Christians Silent. Now They’re Speaking Out Against Them

CT Article: Sexual Harassment Went Unchecked at Christianity Today

CT Article: Safeguard Gaps Leave Refugees Vulnerable to Sexual Abuse, Exploitation 

Eerdmans Youtube Interview about Reading Evangelicals with Kristin Kobes Du Mez
author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Englewood Review of Books Youtube Interview about Reading Evangelicals with David Kiger

Host Aaron Scott introduces Humility as the first of six core values that will be described throughout Season 2. Each of the other five values (hospitality, collaboration, respect, intentional engagement, and radical imagination) will be featured in an upcoming episode.

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Season 2 begins with Aaron sharing about his personal and professional journey over the last 18 months that included the break between seasons 1 and 2. Aaron then plays a segment of a sermon by Tim Ross titled Climbing the Mountains delivered at Hopwood Christian Church on 5/1/22. Reflecting on the sermon, Aaron casts a vision of what to expect in season 2 of the podcast including in-depth guest interviews and a six episode series on the following values: humility, hospitality, collaboration, respect, intentional engagement, and radical imagination.

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Show Notes

Hopwood Christian Church Worship Service Livestream. Tim’s sermon begins at 46:34.

Richard Rohr Meditation on The Two Halves of Life Adapted from his book, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks