Throughout Season 3 of Rumors of Doing Good, Ken and Rob have been taking time to answer a few questions from listeners they have received over the last few years.
In today’s season three finale, Rob and Ken takes the time to answer the question of what advice they would give to their younger selves and those who are looking to start doing good in their neighborhood. Thanks for taking the time to tune in to this season of Rumors of Doing Good!
Rumors of Doing Good: S3 E12 Doing Good 101
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In today’s conversation Rob and Ken are joined by Deborah Loyd who you might have guessed is Ken’s partner. In 1998 at an invitation from a friend, they moved to Portland Oregon USA and helped start a church called The Bridge with those in the subcultures. The Bridge offered refuge and a safe space for those who did not fit in but nevertheless loved Jesus with their hearts and proved it by sharing their love for others.
Deborah is a remarkable woman who is passionate about healing and helping folks find a pathway forward for their lives. Join us as she shares with us her adventures of starting The Bridge as well as her experiences of making space for those who feel misjudged and disenfranchised.
About Deborah:
Deborah is a professor, conference speaker, leadership coach, writer and pastor. Her organization, Finding Forward, expresses her passion to empower people to find their voices and vocations. She has written a book called Your Vocational Credo: Practical Steps to Discover Your Unique Purpose. Together with Ken, she has three grown children and two granddaughters.
Rumors of Doing Good: S3 E11 Deborah Loyd – Helping folks on the Edge Find Their Voice and Meaning in Life
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In today’s conversation Rob and Ken are joined by Andrea Campanale from Kingston upon Thames, in Southwest London, England.
In 2005 a friend approached Andrea with an unexpected spiritual experience. Andrea found it difficult to find the words to help her friend, and connect the experience with her own faith. Becoming more aware of spiritual seekers in her community, Andrea began to attend her local green fair to come alongside spiritual seekers.
From this experience, Andrea created Sacred Space Kingston which grew out of the realization that many people are seeking greater meaning to their lives but don’t necessarily expect to find that in the church or through organized religion. Andrea and her friends have found the divine is best encountered through friendship in community, by appreciating the natural world and when they are able to express their uniqueness in creativity.
Towards the end of the conversation, Andrea mentions the book The Go-Between God by John V Taylor that is worth reading.
About Andrea:
Andrea is the first Licensed Lay Pioneer in Southwark Diocese and is the founder and leader of Fresh Expression of Church, Sacred Space Kingston. She was a Mission Partner with Church Mission Society for 12 years and, in that capacity, completed both a Foundation Degree, with Oxford Brookes University, and an MA, accredited by Durham University, in Theology, Ministry and Mission. Most recently she has set up a social enterprise, Spiritual Practices Pilgrimages, to provide led pilgrimages for spiritual seekers to sacred sites in the British Isles and is also a member of the Transforming Shame Network and, the online, In:SpiritSpace team.
Rumors of Doing Good: S3 E10 Andrea Campanale – Coming Alongside Spiritual Seekers & Steampunks at Green Fairs
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In today’s conversation, we reflect on how not everyone has had a positive experience with those who are seeking to do good such as faith based communities, the foster care system, the police and so on.
What if every interaction you had with someone trying to do good was painful, what if every interaction you had with a person in the support system made you feel like a waste of time. We take the time to reflect on how we might respond to someone who has been traumatized by those who ended up doing more harm than good.
Please be advised that part of our conversation might be triggering for those who have been affected by sexual abuse.
Rumors of Doing Good: S3 E9 What If…
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In today’s conversation Rob and Ken are joined by Sesay Abdul Rashid from Makeni Town, Sierra Leone where he and his family noticed hundreds of children living out on the streets, having lost their families due to the Ebola Epidemic in 2014.
Previously a teacher, Sesay and his family began to recognize the knock-on effects of Ebola. Parents were dying, leaving children to fend for themselves, especially girls as they are most vulnerable to exploitation. The family volunteered to take vulnerable girls into their home to provide shelter, love and care. As a result, the Hope Orphanage was born, hosting 74 children.
To this day, the orphanage receives no funding from the government and the family pays to care for the girls, covering their education, clothes and medical needs out of their own pockets.
Sesay and his family would love to expand their orphanage and support more children. They have partnered with Punk 4 The Homeless, which puts on charity punk gigs in the U.K., to raise the necessary funds to expand the orphanage and care for the girls. We are invited to participate in the work of the orphanage to care for these girls by donating to the Orphanage here.
Rumors of Doing Good: S3 E8 Sesay Abdul Rashid – Caring for Orphans Devastated by the Ebola Epidemic in Sierra Leone
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In today’s conversation Rob and Ken are joined by Elizabeth Sparks from Tacoma, Washington USA where she lives and works with the Catholic Worker community for the past seven years.
Since 1983, the Tacoma Catholic Worker seeks to build community defined by deep respect and mutual belonging with their houseless neighbors. They do this by providing a place to stay for houseless folks as well as folks who have been previously incarcerated so that they can work on their goals towards stability.
Join us as Liz shares her remarkable story of providing radical hospitality and how living in community with folks who don’t have a place to call home has impacted her.
About Liz:
Liz and her partner & husband Paul, have lived in this community for 7 years and in Tacoma for over 20 years. She works with guests, volunteers, neighbors & staff to maintain the home on their block with different programs & purposes as well as a garden in the center that hosts their hospitality. Paul and Liz together have enjoyed putting their energies in relationship with their neighbors in the downtown and hilltop neighborhoods. Through the years living in this community, she has learned to mediate projects to maintain the homes & land. Liz finds purpose in being of support to her community and wants to continue to find ways to live in a thriving place for everyone there.
About the Catholic Worker:
The Catholic Worker Movement traces its beginnings to 1933 when Dorothy Day and three others distributed a newspaper called The Catholic Worker in New York City. It sought to bring attention to the plight of the poor and marginalized.
As distribution of the paper swelled in the following years, Dorthy Day and others attempted to live out the ideals they wrote about by starting “houses of hospitality” for the poor and “farming communes” for the unemployed. Thus a worldwide movement was born and continues to this day.
For more info about the Catholic Worker and the Tacoma Catholic Worker community, visit the following links:
Rumors of Doing Good: S3 E7 Elizabeth Sparks – Opening the Doors of Hospitality and Creating Community with Folks without Homes
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Throughout Season 3 of Rumors of Doing Good, Ken and Rob will be taking time to answer a few questions from listeners they have received over the last few years.
In today’s conversation, Rob and Ken take the time to answer the question of what keeps them from giving up on themselves when doing good becomes hard. Listen in to their candid conversation as they share their innermost thoughts on what keeps them motivated.
At the beginning of today’s conversation, Ken asks Rob on what he has been up to lately. Rob replied to Ken’s question sharing how he has been coaching leaders who are seeking to do good to live and lead well in the places they live.
Rumors of Doing Good: S3 E6 What Keeps You from Giving up on Yourself?
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In today’s conversation, Ken and Rob are joined by Vivian Labib Nouer, an award winning artist and social entrepreneur from Cairo, Egypt. Initially an interior designer, she decided to combine her skills in marketing and interest in the arts to showcase local artists struggling to market themselves.
However on a life-changing trip to Upper (read lower) Egypt, Vivian encountered many poor families who depended on the women of the family for economic survival. Moved with compassion, she decided to use Charisma Arts as a way of empowering these women to sell their art and handicraft by giving them a platform to share and sell their art so they can support their families. Since then the artisans Vivian has empowered as a social entrepreneur have grown to include refugees, prisoners, orphans and other folks who find themselves marginalized.
About Vivian:
Born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, Vivian graduated from Helwan University’s Fine Arts College. She worked as a graphic designer, interior designer and then as a marketing manager for various companies before starting Charisma Arts. Vivian has won numerous awards for her work including being recognized by the Egyptian Culture of Ministry for distinguished cultural projects in 2009.
In our conversation, Vivian talks about being invited to give a talk at TedxCairo in 2014 on the role of art in serving society. You can watch her Tedx talk here:
Rumors of Doing Good: S3 E5 Vivian Labib Nouer – Empowering Folks in the Margins through Social Entrepreneurship
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How we make sense of our world is shaped by the culture in which we find ourselves. In contrast, uncommon sense can be described as thinking outside of the box that culture presents us with.
In today’s conversation, Ken and Rob talk about how the prevailing common sense of Western culture may not always be helpful in seeking to engage or trying to help people in doing good. At times we may need to tap into uncommon sense in order to engage more meaningfully with folks. Join Rob and Ken as they explore what uncommon sense might look like in a world that seeks to live in a box.
Rumors of Doing Good: S3 E4 Uncommon Sense
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In today’s episode, Ken and Rob continue their conversation with Peter and Liz Digitale Anderson who happen to live a few blocks away from where George Floyd was murdered by a white male police officer in Minneapolis Minnesota.
As community peacebuilders, Liz and Peter decided to journey with their neighbors towards healing and justice in light of Floyd’s murder. Join us in part two of our conversation with Peter and Liz as they share their remarkable story of re-imagining justice and safety in their neighborhood.
About Liz & Peter:
Liz and Peter Digitale Anderson live with their family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they are activists and community peacebuilders with Peace Catalyst International. Peter teaches skills for interpersonal conflict, social change, and nonviolence, while organizing ways for folks to get involved in movements for racial healing and justice. Liz is focused on using community singing as a way to build community and inspire people to embody joy, hope, and resistance
Rumors of Doing Good: S3 E3 Peter & Liz Digitale Anderson – Re-imagining Justice and Safety in Light of George Floyd’s Murder, Part II
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