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CEO of Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI) #podcast walktalklisten.podbean.com Own views. #endhunger #SDGs #IDGs #putdowntheduckie

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Crossing Thresholds: White Wolf Woman — Serving Across Lands and Generations with @Hinauri Nehua-Jackson, a special #podcast series Walk Talk Listen. A Māori–South Korean Indigenous youth leader, climate advocate walktalklisten.podbean.com
#WalkTalkListen #ClimateMigrationFaith #IndigenousFutures

27.02.2026 13:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Migration isn’t only about moving places.
It’s about surviving what forces you to move.
Nidia Bustillos about family migration, violence, healing, and spiritual meaning and how loss can become care for others.
walktalklisten.podbean.com
#CrossingThresholds #FaithAndMigration #Resilience #Healing

28.01.2026 23:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A thoughtful talk with Filip Pedersen on rights, development, peaceful coexistence, and why recognizing your own freedom also means recognizing your neighbor’s. #podcast Episode 225: #FreedomofBelief, Lived #WalkTalkListen #HumanRights #Development walktalklisten.podbean.com

21.01.2026 21:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Instead of retreating, I had to learn how to engage.”
says Lucy Plummer. We talked about youth, mental health, and why engagement still matters when the world feels overwhelming.
Walk Talk Listen, Episode 224
#EngagementNotRetreat #WalkTalkListen #YouthVoices

07.01.2026 23:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Belonging forms early.
Helping is a choice we keep making.
New Walk Talk Listen with Sara Rahim on youth, interfaith action, and quiet leadership with ACWAY.
walktalklisten.podbean.com
#WalkTalkListen #Belonging #YouthLeadership #Interfaith

10.12.2025 16:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#podcast Walk Talk Listen
Benny Rietveld, bassist for #Santana talks about presence, heritage, and why music remains “medicine” in a noisy world.
“One of the most powerful things we can do is help people remember who they are.” Ep 220 walktalklisten.podbean.com
#WalkTalkListen #Music #MilesDavis

03.12.2025 13:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Some journeys change you from the inside out.
New Walk Talk Listen episode with Sibu Szymanowska on travel, identity, and global empathy.
Listen → walktalklisten.podbean.com
#WalkTalkListen #Travel #Transformation #GlobalCitizenship #Empathy #HumanRights @thehybridtours.bsky.social

19.11.2025 12:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Resilience isn’t an outcome — it’s a practice.
New Walk Talk Listen episode with Åsa Jarskog (Inner Development Goals).
🎧 Listen → walktalklisten.podbean.com
#WalkTalkListen #IDG #Leadership #Resilience #HumanFlourishing #innerdevelopmentgoals

12.11.2025 20:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Going against the norm, doing what I did, and how I did it.”
New Walk Talk Listen episode with Hira Aftab on narrative dignity, social-impact travel, and choosing your own path.
#podcast Listen → walktalklisten.podbean.com
#WalkTalkListen #Storytelling #Refugees #SocialImpactTravel

05.11.2025 21:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Resilience. It’s the overcoming incredible odds, but still finding joy.”
Episode 215 of Walk Talk Listen with Sarah Rehman explores love, faith, and finding strength in compassion.
Listen → walktalklisten.podbean.com
#WalkTalkListen #Faith #Resilience #Love #Hope #Peacebuilding

30.10.2025 22:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Walk Talk Listen Podcast | Maurice A. Bloem Walk Talk Listen, an attempt to connect people and make this world a bit better by sharing opinions and experiences based on the belief that everyone’s perspective is true albeit partial. It is also a...

New Walk Talk Listen episode! 🎙️
Maria Lucia Uribe of Arigatou International shares how ethics education & interfaith dialogue nurture children’s dignity and build peace. 🌍✨
Listen here: walktalklisten.podbean.com
#Podcast #FaithInAction #Interfaith #Peace #EthicsEducation #Innerdevelopmentgoals #SDG

01.10.2025 15:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New Walk Talk Listen 🎙️: I talk with Peter Yeboah, leader of CHAG in Ghana. From growing up in a large Catholic family to guiding one of Africa’s biggest faith-based health networks, Peter’s story is about faith, resilience & leadership. 🌍💬
#podcast Episode 207 out now: walktalklisten.podbean.com

27.08.2025 14:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ubuntu in Action: Reflections from the G20 Interfaith Forum in Cape Town - JLI

JLI CEO @mauricebloem.bsky.social joined leaders at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Cape Town under the theme Ubuntu in Action. In his reflections, he calls for bridging the “double literacy gap” between faith & development actors. Read & listen here: jliflc.com/2025/08/ubun...

#IF20 #G20Interfaith

19.08.2025 14:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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From the California desert to global policy, Dr. Sherrie Steiner’s story is about finding what love means in action. In Ep. 205 of #podcast Walk Talk Listen, she shares her journey, research, and why inner growth matters for the SDGs. Check her latest book brill.com Recorded during IFG20 this week.

13.08.2025 06:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ep. 198 of Walk Talk Listen is here!
Chip Gruen talks faith, literacy, & public dialogue—from ancient Christianity to today’s tensions.
Listen via walktalklisten.podbean.com

28.06.2025 08:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🎹 “Keeping the Soul in music alive.”
Episode 197 of Walk Talk Listen features Chicago musician Alexis Lombre
We talk music without borders, purpose, and why saying no is an act of freedom.
🎧 Listen: walktalklisten.podbean.com
#WalkTalkListen #AlexisLombre #Jazz #Boundaries #SoulInSound #Podcast

18.06.2025 22:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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JLI June Updates in Religions & Sustainable Development

📬 In case you missed it: our June newsletter is out!
– Global Town Hall highlights
– Faith & mindset change in Tanzania
– Peacebuilding + SDG action
– New blogs & publications
Read here: mailchi.mp/jliflc/jli-a...
#FaithAndDevelopment #Peacebuilding #SDGs

12.06.2025 11:42 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🎧 Ep. 196 of #podcast Walk Talk Listen w/ Vicki Garlock is live!
She shares her path from neuroscience to sacred storytelling for kids. 🧠📖✨ @learnreligions.bsky.social
Watch the promo + listen via walktalklisten.podbean.com
#walktalklisten #VickiGarlock #100mile #interfaith #spirituality

12.06.2025 14:29 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Just dropped: #podcast Walk Talk Listen Ep. 194 🎧
Sofia Sayabalian shares how curiosity, dance, and digital storytelling can reconnect us to what matters.
🎙️ Listen + move: walktalklisten.podbean.com
#PowerOfDance #WalkTalkListen #IDGs #HumanConnection

28.05.2025 11:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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JLI CEO/President Maurice A. Bloem Featured in Interfaith Dialogue Podcast Episode - JLI

New podcast 🎧

JLI CEO/President joins an interfaith panel in 'Don't Look Up: How Interfaith Dialogue is Leading Change from the Ground Up'.

Faith leaders are leading from the ground with compassion, collaboration, and concrete action

🔗 Listen: jliflc.com/2025/05/jli-...

22.05.2025 09:39 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🎷New Walk Talk Listen ep: Saxophonist #ChelseaBaratz on #Pittsburgh roots, recovery, & leading The Empress & HERA collectives. Music as spirituality, justice, & joy.
#Jazz #Podcast #SDGs #HERA #TheEmpress
🎧 Ep. 193 out now!
walktalklisten.podbean.com

21.05.2025 11:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our CEO/President Featured on the ‘Crossing Faiths’ Podcast - JLI

🎧 Our CEO/President, @mauricebloem.bsky.social , joined
the Crossing Faiths Podcast to talk about faith-based organizations, local leadership & building sustainable communities.
Listen now: jliflc.com/2025/05/cros...

05.05.2025 14:02 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I learned Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterflies symbolize hope, transformation, and the soul’s journey—fitting, as I prepare to part ways with Church World Service after 25+ years. Deep gratitude for this community of courage and care. This isn’t goodbye. It’s… until we meet again. #gratitude

05.05.2025 21:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 Our CEO/President @mauricebloem.bsky.social will be part of a panel for UTRGV’s webinar: “Don’t Look Up: How Interfaith Dialogue Is Leading Change From the Ground Up”

🗓 April 29 | 🕙 10 AM CST

🔗 More info and link to join the event: jliflc.com/event/dont-l...

24.04.2025 13:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New #WalkTalkListen ep 🎙️ w/ Nate Wong @Bridgespan: a deep dive into equity, power, & purpose. Featuring a beautiful Hawaiian song 🌺 + bold thoughts on shifting systems & self. Listen now! #SystemsChange #SocialImpact #Podcast #Hawaii #Trust walktalklisten.podbean.com

30.04.2025 19:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Breaking the Cycle of Polarization” w/ @rudelmar.bsky.social of @actalliance.bsky.social. From Brazil to Geneva, we talk faith, peacebuilding & hope in a fractured world.
🎧 Listen: walktalklisten.podbean.com
#WalkTalkListen #FaithInAction #SDGs #Hope

16.04.2025 13:04 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Faith in Action for Gender Justice w/ Elaine, Paul & Nora
SRHR, theology, courage & care.
Love in practice.
Faith vs. backlash.
Listen now: walktalklisten.podbean.com
#WalkTalkListen #FaithInAction #GenderJustice #ICPD30

09.04.2025 11:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

📌 Tomorrow: Tune into a World Bank webinar exploring how faith and community leaders are helping increase HPV vaccine confidence.
🗓️ April 8 | 🕒 3:30 PM Nairobi | 8:30 AM DC
🌐 Interpretation in English, French & Portuguese
🔗 jliflc.com/event/truste...

#HPV #Vaccination #PublicHealth #FaithInAction

07.04.2025 07:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A special musical compilation featuring Maya Azucena, Lakecia Benjamin, Endea Owens, Amina Scott & many more.
Music as healing, storytelling & connection.
🎶 Tune in: walktalklisten.podbean.com
#Podcast #MusicIsLife #WalkTalkListen

04.04.2025 10:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Grateful to berkleycenter for a timely convo on U.S. strategic religious engagement.
Katherine Marshall: “What is the ethical foundation? Compassion, caring, the common good.”
Nicole Bibbins Sedaca: “U.S. has always been a generous and compassionate nation.”
#SRE #FaithInAction @jliflc.bsky.social

27.03.2025 17:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0