Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast)

Episode 427: The Constitution of Knowledge with Jonathan Rauch

The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch
The Constitution of Knowledge has been called “a book that anyone who cares about truth and democracy needs to read” (Anne Applebaum), “a magnificent integration of psychology, epistemology, and history” (Jonathan Haidt), and “an illuminating exploration of the flight from fact” (Jon Meacham). 
The book’s author Jonathan Rauch is an IHS distinguished fellow and a Brookings Institution senior fellow in governance studies. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and recipient of the 2005 National Magazine Award, the magazine industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. You can Follow Jonathan Rauch on Twitter at @jon_rauch.
Links:
Web Site: https://jonathanrauch.typepad.com/
Purchase The Book On Amazon: https://amzn.to/3gVrnIY

Voices In My Head (The Rick Lee James Podcast) Episode 426 - Selah

Hello Friends,
The Podcast is taking a brief hiatus due to a death in the family. I explain more in this short episode today. I’m grateful to all of you who listen week after week, both nationally and internationally.
 
In the meantime, one of the best ways to support me and my family in the hiatus is by listening to my music, sharing it with friends and pre-saving my upcoming singles on Spotify. I would really appreciate it if you would pre-save my upcoming music on Spotify. The release dates are below as well as links where the songs can be pre-saved.
Thank you again for listening to Voices In My Head, and I look forward to being back with you soon.
Blessings,
Rick Lee James
http://www.RickLeeJames.com
 
 
Release Date - June 25th
You Are My Salvation
Spotify Pre-Save · https://show.co/Q5n8NKF
 
 
 
 
Release Date – July 23rd
Shine A Light In The Darkness
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Episode 425: Sherry Cothran's New Book and Soundtrack - Wild and Holy

Sherry Cothran
Rev. Sherry Cothran, M.Div., has served as senior pastor in United Methodist congregations in Nashville and Chattanooga, TN, for a decade. Formerly a recording artist on Mercury Records, she is an award-winning singer/songwriter and author of two books. Sherry has released four solo CD’s, her music has been featured in t.v. and film. She’s shared stages with hit rock acts such as Goo Goo Dolls, Bare Naked Ladies, Spin Doctors and K’s Choice and toured around the world as the lead singer of a popular rock band, The Evinrudes, before entering seminary and becoming an ordained, United Methodist minister. As a pastor of a multi-cultural, urban church, Sherry began to share stories on her blog, “Peddling Hope in Dystopia” of everyday sacred encounters with those who were labeled “refugee,” “immigrant” and “homeless.” She later shared them in a book that became beloved by readers, Tending Angels: Stories From the Frontlines of Heaven and Earth. Her writing was featured in publications such as Abingdon Women, Interpreter Magazine and Ministry Matters. She was also a regular contributor to the homiletics journal, Good Preacher. She was the artist in residence in 2015 at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and received two grants to develop her creative writing from the Louisville Institute for Pastoral Study. Her story has been featured in various publications including USA Today. Recently, she became the founder and president of the nonprofit, Beloved Woman, a ministry that helps women who are financially disadvantaged to become self-employed or find a pathway to a living wage. She tours regularly, performing, speaking and leading workshops. 
In her new book, Wild and Holy Prophets, Warriors, Harlots & Healers: Women of the Bible, Sherry takes us out into the Bible’s uncharted regions, beyond those selected scriptures that have often been used to tame the feminine spirit, to meet the wild and holy women of the Bible. Blending the brightest in biblical scholarship with her vast experiences, Rev. Sherry Cothran leads us into healing encounters with the Bible’s lost stories of women who were warriors, prophets, harlots, and healers. The book and 10 original songs call us to live free, faithful, and fearless lives. In the pages and songs of Wild and Holy you’ll find new narratives from old stories and awaken to the image of a loving God within.
 
Links:
Wild and Holy Prophets, Warriors, Harlots & Healers: Women of the Bible
Book
Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, and other major online bookstores. 
Book Website: www.wildandholy.org 
 
Sherry Cothran’s Music
Music available on all streaming platforms, iTunes, iheartradio, Pandora, Napster,Spotify or listen free at www.sherrycothran.com
Web Site: http://thescifichristian.com/
 

Episode 424 - The SCi-Fi Christian 10th Anniversary Celebration

Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono join Rick Lee James for A 10th Anniversary Celebration of the SCi-Fi Christian Podcast
I am so glad to welcome my friends Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono back on the show to celebrate 10 years of their amazing podcast community, The Sci-Fi Christian, which has been a huge help and inspiration to me over the years.
--Rick Lee James 
The Sci-Fi Christian, in all its iterations, is about the collision between faith and nerdom. We believe that good genre fiction is about more than just entertainment. We seek to engage with the themes and philosophies behind our favorite stories, wrestling with the big ideas within speculative fiction. We’re unabashedly nerdy and unabashedly Christian. Even if your faith background differs from ours, we look forward to interacting with you at The Sci-Fi Christian!
Links:
Web Site: http://thescifichristian.com/
 

Episode 423 - Dr. Claire Annelise Smith Wants To Help You Out of Your Stress

Dr. Claire Annelise Smith
Author - Help! I Want Out: What To Do When You Are Stressed Out From Keeping It All Together
 
Our topic this week on Voices in My Head is STRESS!
Dr. Claire Annelise Smith is a recovering stressaholic. She knows what it is to push herself to the limit and then crash – repeatedly. Now, as an author, speaker, spiritual mentor and coach she works with busy professional leaders who have forgotten how to hit the pause button.
Whether you are at the stage where you are ready to tear your hair out, feeling stuck, or on the verge of overdoing it, Dr. Claire would love to talk with you and explore options for freeing yourself from a stressed-out lifestyle. 
Dr. Claire's new book is called Help! I Want Out: What to do when you are stressed out from keeping it all together.
She's stopped by for a visit on the podcast today.
 
Links:
Web Site: https://claireannsmith.com/
More From Dr. Claire: https://livingstressedout.com/shop/
The direct link for the book: https://livingstressedout.com/get-help/
Free Handout, "The Top Five Steps for You to Conquer Overwhelm and Stress": https://livingstressedout.com/five-steps/
Upcoming Release
Rick Lee James
You Are My Salvation - New Music Release
Jun 25th, 2021
 
More Info Here
 
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Mister Rogers Quotes on Twitter at @MisterRogersSay.
“Welcome To The Neighborhood: A Mister Rogers Tribute Podcast”:HERE.
 
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In partnership with CRW Radio Promotions, singer, songwriter and worship leader Rick Lee James debuts a brand new radio special. 
The “Thunder Radio Special” can be heard exclusively on James’ official YouTube channel or his website. It was also recently added to Spotify and Apple Music. Radio stations interested in airing the “Thunder Radio Special” can contact Kathryn Ambrose at CRW Radio Promotions at kathryn@westarmediagroup.com.

Episode 422 - Becoming Catholic with Jack Huber

Jack Huber - Becoming Catholic
Our topic this week on Voices in My Head is becoming Catholic. My guest this week is my new friend, Jack Huber. Jack lives in Seattle, Washington. He’s a father and a husband. By trade he’s a social scientist who has worked in the public education and now healthcare industries helping people use data to make better decisions. Jack loves movies, cooking, wine, whiskey and is an avid road cyclist. He also loves reading and listening to podcasts (especially You Have Permission with host Dan Koch, the podcast where I first discovered him.) Jack has had a lifelong Christian journey and is a convert to the Catholic faith and is actively involved at his local Parish. He’s always eager to share his faith and learn from others and he’s here today to share some of his story with us.
 
Upcoming Release
Rick Lee James
You Are My Salvation - New Music Release
Jun 25th, 2021
 
More Info Here
 
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Rick Lee James
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Rick on Bandcamp
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About Your Host: Rick Lee James
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Voices In My Head Podcast www.voicesinmyheadpodcast.com,
Mister Rogers Quotes on Twitter at @MisterRogersSay.
“Welcome To The Neighborhood: A Mister Rogers Tribute Podcast”:HERE.
 
Rick Lee James Radio Special:https://westarchristianmedia.com/rick-lee-james-30-minute-radio-special
 
Get Rick Lee James Latest Album: https://rickleejames.bandcamp.com/
In partnership with CRW Radio Promotions, singer, songwriter and worship leader Rick Lee James debuts a brand new radio special. 
The “Thunder Radio Special” can be heard exclusively on James’ official YouTube channel or his website. It was also recently added to Spotify and Apple Music. Radio stations interested in airing the “Thunder Radio Special” can contact Kathryn Ambrose at CRW Radio Promotions at kathryn@westarmediagroup.com.

Episode 421: The Gospel In Middle Earth with Michael T. Jahosky

Michael T. Jahosky - The Good News of the Return of the King: The Gospel in Middle Earth
 
Although many people today reject Christianity for intellectual reasons, greater numbers of people are rejecting Christianity because it does not engage their imagination. Christians must not only demonstrate that the Christian worldview is true, but that it is also good, beautiful, and relevant. The Good News of the Return of the King: The Gospel in Middle-earth is a book that endeavors to show the truth, goodness, and beauty of Jesus Christ, the gospel, and the biblical metanarrative by engaging the imagination through J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as well as The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. In this book, Michael T. Jahosky proposes that J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is a story about what Jesus' parables are about: the good news about the return of the king. As a work of imaginative fiction similar to Jesus' parables, The Lord of the Rings can bypass both intellectual and imaginative objections to the gospel and pull back the "veil of familiarity" that obscures the gospel for many.
Michael T. Jahosky is the author of The Good News of the Return of the King: The Gospel in Middle-Earth and he has stopped by the podcast for a visit on this episode.
Links Discussed In This Show:
https://lastdunadancom.wordpress.com/
 
WIPF and Stock Publishers
 
Michael T. Jahosky on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelJahosky
 
Michael T. Jahosky on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.jahosky.5
 
Mythic Mission Podcast
 
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“Welcome To The Neighborhood: A Mister Rogers Tribute Podcast”:HERE.
 
Rick Lee James Radio Special:https://westarchristianmedia.com/rick-lee-james-30-minute-radio-special
 
Get Rick Lee James Latest Album: https://rickleejames.bandcamp.com/
In partnership with CRW Radio Promotions, singer, songwriter and worship leader Rick Lee James debuts a brand new radio special. 
The “Thunder Radio Special” can be heard exclusively on James’ official YouTube channel or his website. It was also recently added to Spotify and Apple Music. Radio stations interested in airing the “Thunder Radio Special” can contact Kathryn Ambrose at CRW Radio Promotions at kathryn@westarmediagroup.com.

Episode 420 - Never Settled with Shawn Congleton

Shawn Congleton - Never Settled: a memoir of a boy on the road to manhood
Shawn D. Congleton has lived a life on the move; moving nearly 80 times before he graduated and living in almost 20 states. Since that time, he has spent most of it in Ohio with his wife, Heidi and three girls, Morgan, Jordan, and Brooklyn. He has been an admin clerk for the United States Marine Corps, secretary for Wright State University, youth and young adult pastor at High Street Church of the Nazarene, church planter with Life House Community, secretary with Springfield-Clark Career Technology Center, school counselor for Dunbar High School and Springfield High School, and co-principal with his wife, Heidi at the Eagle & Dove Academy. 
Shawn’s new book, Never Settled: A Memoir of a Boy on the Road to Manhood, is An emotional and brutally honest story that focuses in a large part on Shawn’s relationship with his father. Shawn shares about his fears, his sense of despair and the losses that impacted his formative years as he endured abuse both physical and mental. I’ve known Shawn for almost 20 years and I didn’t even know the half of his remarkable story.  
 
Links Discussed In This Show:
https://shawndcongleton.com/ 
 
Buy The Book "Never Settled" on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3t6SdCf
 
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Get Rick Lee James Latest Album: https://rickleejames.bandcamp.com/
In partnership with CRW Radio Promotions, singer, songwriter and worship leader Rick Lee James debuts a brand new radio special. 
The “Thunder Radio Special” can be heard exclusively on James’ official YouTube channel or his website. It was also recently added to Spotify and Apple Music. Radio stations interested in airing the “Thunder Radio Special” can contact Kathryn Ambrose at CRW Radio Promotions at kathryn@westarmediagroup.com.

Episode 419: Immigration Conversation with Christy Staats

Christy Staats - Midwest Mobilizer for the National Immigration Forum
Since April 2020, the number of people apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) near the Southwest border has been rising steadily. In early 2021, these increases have become a touchpoint in the public debate, with growing concerns voiced about the public health and humanitarian ramifications of increasing migrant arrivals. Should we treat the situation at our border as something to stoke our fears, or as Christians should we treat it as a humanitarian crisis, an opportunity to care for least of these, as Jesus has called us to do?
 
My guest today is Christy Staats. Christy has worked with Cru for 15 years, 11 of which were in the UK and is now affiliate staff. She created Crossings in 2015 for her church in Northeast Ohio to encourage Americans to welcome and come alongside newly arrived refugees in partnership with resettlement and community development organizations and led a similar work with Cru nationally. She was invited to join the Bibles, Badges and Business work of the National Immigration Forum in 2018 and has been organizing and speaking with faith, law enforcement and business leaders about the need for immigration reform since. She is nearly finished with her Masters in Theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She’s here with me today to help us better understand some of the ministry opportunities awaiting us at the Southwest border and some of the challenges that are presented there.
Links Discussed In This Show:
Restitution 
 
Sign Up for Interview with George W. Bush about his new book and immigration 
 
Advocacy to support Dreamers, TPS, and Farmworkers 
 
Advocacy to Increase the Refugee Ceiling 
 
 
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Rick Lee James
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Mister Rogers Quotes on Twitter at @MisterRogersSay.
“Welcome To The Neighborhood: A Mister Rogers Tribute Podcast”:HERE.
 
Rick Lee James Radio Special:https://westarchristianmedia.com/rick-lee-james-30-minute-radio-special
 
Get Rick Lee James Latest Album: https://rickleejames.bandcamp.com/
In partnership with CRW Radio Promotions, singer, songwriter and worship leader Rick Lee James debuts a brand new radio special. 
The “Thunder Radio Special” can be heard exclusively on James’ official YouTube channel or his website. It was also recently added to Spotify and Apple Music. Radio stations interested in airing the “Thunder Radio Special” can contact Kathryn Ambrose at CRW Radio Promotions at kathryn@westarmediagroup.com.

Episode 418: Parafonic Recordings Brandon Shattuck

Parafonic Recordings - Brandon Shattuck
https://www.instagram.com/parafonicrecordings/
 
Brandon Shattuck is a recording/mixing engineer living in Orlando, FL with his wife Elissa and their two kids. Brandon graduated from Trevecca Nazarene University in 2009 with a degree in music business. From 2009 - 2013 Brandon worked as a freelance recording engineer in Nashville, TN, working in many different recording studios across many different genres. In 2013, he and his wife moved to Orlando where in 2014 Brandon opened his own recording studio, Parafonic Recording Studio. There he worked on projects with a vast array of independent bands and artists until closing the studio in 2019. After pursuing alternate career options, Brandon has resumed working on music projects from his home studio since the end of 2020.
Brandon is here with us today to talk with us about recording techniques and to answer some questions for artists about going into the recording studio.
Music heard on today’s podcast can all be found on Parafonic Recordings Spotify Playlist:
 
Holy Vanguard by Cool Hand Luke
Bella by Native Culture
Thread by Wind Words
 
Thank you for listening to Voices In My Head!
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Rick Lee James
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About Your Host: Rick Lee James
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Web Site www.rickleejames.com,
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Voices In My Head Podcast www.voicesinmyheadpodcast.com,
Mister Rogers Quotes on Twitter at @MisterRogersSay.
“Welcome To The Neighborhood: A Mister Rogers Tribute Podcast”:HERE.
 
Rick Lee James Radio Special:https://westarchristianmedia.com/rick-lee-james-30-minute-radio-special
 
Get Rick Lee James Latest Album: https://rickleejames.bandcamp.com/
In partnership with CRW Radio Promotions, singer, songwriter and worship leader Rick Lee James debuts a brand new radio special. 
The “Thunder Radio Special” can be heard exclusively on James’ official YouTube channel or his website. It was also recently added to Spotify and Apple Music. Radio stations interested in airing the “Thunder Radio Special” can contact Kathryn Ambrose at CRW Radio Promotions at kathryn@westarmediagroup.com.