In Conversation with David Goa
David Goa
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About the Show
In Conversation with David Goa is a regular podcast featuring thoughtful guests seeking to move public and religious discourse beyond the ideological silos that limit public understanding.
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Regularly hosts outside guests
32 episodes — long track record
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Recent Episodes
32: Love of Learning Desire for God: Victor Carpay
I am joined by Victor Carpay in this podcast. I never had the pleasure of having Victor in one of the classes I was privileged to teach. We talked periodically in the atrium of Newman, and I glimpsed…
31: Love of Learning Desire for God: Jacqueline Richard
I am joined by Jacqueline Richard in this podcast. I had a lovely afternoon several years ago reading T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets with Jacqueline and her now husband Reid. On that occasion she talked…
30: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: Anna Sidloski
I am joined by Anna Sidloski in this podcast. Anna grew up in Saskatchewan, was largely home school within an intentional community that formed the love of learning and the desire for God. How this…
29: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: Andre Boudreau
I am joined by Andre Boudreau in this podcast. Andre grew up in Calgary and attended the junior seminary of Christ the King for grades 9 through 12. This junior seminary is part of Westminster Abby…
28: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God
Every day I met with these students and their collogues was a delight. Every day as I left the campus, I marveled at what seemed to be unfolding. Students were dwelling in and with great literature.…
27: The Theotokos Joy of Canada Icon with Archbishop Vladika Lazar
Our conversation begins with the history that led to the commissioning of the icon. We then explore the landscape of meaning associated with such icons in the ancient world, their invocation for the…
26: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Todd Weibe
An aspect of Todd’s ministry is embedded in the title of a newsletter he anchors with the provocative title, Evangelically Departed. For the last decade or so, Todd has engaged many and varied…
25: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Eden Jersak
Eden grew up in the bosom of a Mennonite community. Belonging was woven into her childhood. Her mother and other women were leaders within the church. She treasured the piety and pacifism of the…
24: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Donald Sjoberg
I met Bishop Sjoberg in the late 1970s when he was President of the Western Canada Synod. I was developing the Spiritual Life Sacred Ritual gallery at the Provincial Museum and sought him out for…
23: Calum McCracken III
My conversation with Calum began during his undergraduate studies. We talked about his interests in the political life of a number of countries, on international relations and issues of human rights…
22: Calum McCracken II
My conversation with Calum began during his undergraduate studies. We talked about his interests in the political life of a number of countries, on international relations and issues of human rights…
21: Calum McCracken I
My conversation with Calum began during his undergraduate studies. We talked about his interests in the political life of a number of countries, on international relations and issues of human rights…
20: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Richard Topping
We first met a number of years ago when I was curating the international exhibition Anno Domini, Jesus Through the Centuries for the year 2000. I discovered, quite by happenstance, that the marvelous…
19: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Mikel Laurie
Mikel Laurie is pastor of the Highlands Baptist Church in Edmonton. He previously served a United Church. His move from a progressive form of Protestantism to and evangelical church is of particular…
19: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Ray Sawatski
I have had the pleasure over the last decade or so of thinking with Ray Sawatsky about religion and culture. I am delighted to talk with him in this series of conversations on the Ekklesia. He is an…
18: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Pastor Ingrid Cramer-Doerschel
Pastor Ingrid grew up in post-war Germany and navigated the trauma of the war’s shadow. She discusses the habit of taking refuge in church doctrine as a way of avoiding the responsibility for what…
17: Jason West
Jacques Maritain was raised a protestant in France initially studying science at the Sorbonne in Paris. He became disillusioned with the perspective of scientism that dominate the academy. Attending…
15: Ryan Topping
Our conversation begins with a brief reflection on Augustine, Aquinas and Luther with Augustine highlighted as the one who opens the gate in a post-Christian world. Ryan Topping’s early formation was…
14: Lorraine Alison Smith-MacDonald
As a child Lorraine sat on her uncle’s knee watching the television series MASH and eating vanilla ice cream flavored with creme de menthe. Her parents, one Scottish Presbyterian and one Irish…
13: Steve Bynum
Steve grew up on the Westside of Chicago. He received a football scholarship to Notre Dame and has a stellar journalistic record. A small intimate storefront church was central to his formation and,…
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