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Vote Common Good is inspiring and mobilizing people of faith to make the common good their voting criteria. Tuesdays we talk Politics, Wednesdays we talk about how Faith should compel us to care about the Common Good, and Thursdays we talk Science, Space and Economics.
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Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich are joined by resident astrophysicist Paul Wallace who educates us on the search for other habitable planets, a wild new theory called the Anti-Universe, and how the end of the universe as we know it - The Big Crunch - might come sooner than we thought (don't worry, not for at least 65 million years).
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
facebook.com/Paul.Matthew.Wallace / twitter.com/paulmwall / pwallace.net
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Doug Pagitt sits down with Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, pastor at Middle Church in NYC and Founder of Raising Imagination to discuss how we talk about Roe v. Wade and abortion.
Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft is an Activist, Writer, Ordained Minister, Mother and Founder of Raising Imagination. Passionate about the intersection of race, faith, politics, feminism, and parenting, her work is cited on CNN, Refinery29, the Wall Street Journal, WNBC, Bust, Crooked Media, Fox News, and the Women’s March, Inc. She’s presented nationwide on topics including systemic injustice, religion, raising white children as anti-racist, and involving young children in advocacy.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
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Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the bombshell news that the Supreme Court appears to have already decided to overturn Roe Vs Wade, plus the Trump Grand Jury, Ohio Primary and more.
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Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich talk about the fresh direction of the Vote Common Good Podcast and Livestream and moving the digital hub and home of the show to YouTube.
Subscribe at: youtube.com/votecommongood
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss how Putin became a symbol for masculinity for the American Far Right and Tucker Carlson suggests that men tan their testicles to increase testosterone.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Doug Pagitt sits down with Common Good Podcast Alum Laura Truax to hear about her 35-day silent Ignatian retreat and what we can discover in silence and solitude.
Join a meditation group at MeditationChapel.org
Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is a pastor, author and spiritual director and holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Doug Pagitt, Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich look at the week's political headlines, including the release of thousands of text messages between Trump's chief of staff and Marjorie Taylor Greene about declaring "Marshall Law" days before Biden's Inauguration.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich take a look at recent headlines through the lens of the common good.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with resident astrophysicist Paul Wallace to talk about the cosmos and how birds use the stars to navigate across thousands of miles during migration.
Paul Wallace is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
facebook.com/Paul.Matthew.Wallace / twitter.com/paulmwall / pwallace.net
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with author, scholar, activist, wisdom-keeper, and Cherokee descendant Randy Woodley to talk about his new book 100 Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth and why indigenous wisdom is needed to literally save the world.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss recent political headlines including a Tennessee State Senator giving a lesson on homeless Hitler to support a bill criminalizing homelessness.
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down with Gretchen Barton of Future Majority and Worthy Strategy Group to talk about the power of narrative and why politicians should make Americans the hero of the story in their messaging.
Gretchen Barton is Principal at Worthy Strategy Group, Research Director at Future Majority, and former policy lead at the Harvard-founded research firm, Olson Zaltman. She has written for the Journal of College Student Development and the American Journal of Health Behavior, and co-authored, Prevalence and Profile: Hazing Among College Students and Points of Intervention. She recently co-authored “The Science of Winning with Stories: Using Agency, Urgency, and Community,” a science-based explanation of why storytelling is the most effective form to engage and move a populace.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich sit down with activist, artist and author Andre Henry to talk about his new book, All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope - and Hard Pills to Swallow - About Fighting for Black Lives.
You can pick up the book - and a Break Up With White Jesus coffee mug - at AndreHenry.co
When the rallying cry “Black Lives Matter” was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the millions for whom the movement caused a political awakening and a rupture in some of his closest relationships with white people. As he began using his artistic gifts to share his experiences and perspective, Henry was aggrieved to discover that many white Americans—people he called friends and family—were more interested in debating whether racism existed or whether Henry was being polite enough in the way he used his voice.
In this personal and thought-provoking book, Henry explores how the historical divides between Black people and non-Black people are expressed through our most mundane interactions, and why this struggle won’t be resolved through civil discourse, diversity hires, interracial relationships, or education. What we need is a revolution, one that moves beyond symbolic progress to disrupt systems of racial violence and inequality in tangible, creative ways.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss the week's top political stories, including the trial of two men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. At the 30-minute mark they are joined by Kelly Krout, a mother of seven and unexpected TikTok star running for Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich take a look at recent headlines through the lens of the Common Good.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse take an insightful, humorous and common good approach to the weeks news.
top 12 political stories discussed for four minutes each.
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
The Common Good Immigration Tour stopped in Grand Rapids, MI to share stories from our cycling trip along the US/Mexico border. This is an abbreviated version of that event featuring talks from Dora Rodriguez of Salvavision in Sasabe, Mexico, Alma Ruth of Practice Mercy in Reynosa, Mexico, Mark Adams of Frontera De Christo in Agua Prieta, Mexico and Iliana Ponce of Lighthouse Immigration Advocates in Holland, Michigan. Also hear from author and activist Shane Claiborne, Hollywood producer Danny Strong (Dopesick, Billions), and mosaic artist Vanessa Ryerse.
Watch all of the clips from the upcoming documentary at votecommongood.com/we-the-people-ride-documentary.
Watch the full Grand Rapids event at youtube.com/votecommongood
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
The Common Good Immigration Tour stopped in South Bend, IN to share stories from our cycling trip along the US/Mexico border. This is an abbreviated version of that event featuring talks from Dora Rodriguez of Salvavision in Sasabe, Mexico, Alma Ruth of Practice Mercy in Reynosa, Mexico, Community Organizer Jesusa Rivera of South Bend, and Juan Constantino of Le Casa De Amistad South Bend.
Watch all of the clips from the upcoming documentary at votecommongood.com/we-the-people-ride-documentary.
Watch the full South Bend event, which includes talks from Shane Claiborne and Vanessa Ryerse plus music from Dan Deitrich and Brandon Pfiefer, at youtube.com/votecommongood
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Rev. Wendy Hamilton stops by the show to talk about why she is running to be Washington D.C.'s Congressional Delegate.
Rev. Wendy is an ordained minister, social justice advocate, and mother of one, who currently resides in Washington, DC. She is originally from a small town in southern Ohio (Portsmouth).
Rev. Wendy proudly received her Bachelor’s Degree from Howard University (B.S. Human Development, in 1991) and her Master's Degree from Howard University School of Divinity ( M.A. Religious Studies, 2006.) She credits her educational experiences and single motherhood as being two of the most transformative of her life.
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives @RobbRyerse
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
As the horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, millions of refugees are being welcomed into European countries. The world has rallied around the fleeing Ukrainians in a beautiful outpouring of compassion - and yet, it raises the question: why don't we treat refugees and migrants from other countries with the same level of compassion?
Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt
The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich
Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic