Tag: Podcasts
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Scholars Do More than Write
Part of what excites me about audio scholarship is getting to share and engage with other researchers’ ideas in their own words and their own voices. In every academic field in which I’ve studied and contributed (education, ministry/theology, engineering), I’ve always been puzzled by the disconnect between how research actually happens and how we recognize…
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Faith-Adjacent Spaces Are Where Religion Intersects Everything Else
If you’ve been following along in the story of my dissertation research, you’re probably enjoying getting to know Tapestry and their model for “starting with the work” in order to be and to become a community. But if you’re like me, or even like Tapestry’s co-directors as their organization has developed, then it might be…
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On the power of bonus episodes
When you write your dissertation as a podcast, there isn’t a great way to do footnotes. I do have some footnotes in my manuscript, at my committee’s suggestion. But I didn’t make any effort to register them in the audio episodes. Basically, I decided people who would care about footnotes would be willing to do…
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Introducing ‘Becoming Tapestry’
I made it! On April 13, 2022, after more than 1,100 hours of work on the project excluding coursework, a committee comprising education and communication scholars Lalitha Vasudevan, Ioana Literat, Detra Price-Dennis, and Patricia Martínez Álvarez accepted my dissertation as submitted. I will receive my doctoral hood May 23 in a ceremony at the Louis…
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Something creative: A story about the Thrilling Adventure Hour
Because I now blog elsewhere(s), this space has apparently turned into a blog about sermons and my podcast obsessions. To continue in that latter vein, allow me to share a recent bit of silliness. I just participated in a fantastic workshop by the Center for Digital Storytelling as part of a continuing education project through Virginia…
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Sarah Lumbard introduction at e-Formation 2013
So I’ve spent much of the first year of my new job helping plan e-Formation 2013, a conference on faith formation for a connected digital world. Yesterday, I had the distinct pleasure of introducing our keynote speaker, Sarah Lumbard, vice president of content strategy and operations at NPR (she was really great, by the way, but…