THE GOOD ON WOOD PODCAST
A Production of St. Stephen's University and the Jim Forest Institute
“If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.” - Daniel Berrigan SJ
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The Good on Wood podcast explores the lives of dangerous disciples, holy mischief makers, contemplative activists, and ordinary radicals in hopes that their witness would inspire a new generation of Jesus followers to get up, get out, and get into some "good trouble."
As we navigate together a world of violence and hostility, facing and grieving the reality of wars and rumours of wars, we pray these conversations will help us cultivate embodied political theologies as a way through.
Join Jarrod McKenna (award winning peace activist and pastor) and Steve Schallert (community organiser, kingian nonviolence specialist and consultant) as they interview scholars, activists, historians and friends of Dorothy Day, Daniel Berrigan, Howard Thurman, Jim Forest, Desmond Tutu, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Simone Weil and many other faithful radicals upon whose shoulders we have the privilege to stand.
Steve Schallert
Steve is a longtime community organiser, educator and practitioner of Kingian Nonviolent Conflict Transformation living and practicing in Cape Town, South Africa. Mentored by the Catholic Worker Movement and Plowshares tradition, for the past two decades Steve has helped develop and facilitate dozens of faith rooted peacebuilding schools in diverse conflict and post-conflict contexts such as Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon, and South Africa. He also serves as the Director of International Solidarity with Iziko Lamaqabane, a faith-based support centre for urban peace and justice practitioners.
Jarrod McKenna
Jarrod is an award winning peace activist,
pastor, and nonviolent social change educator raising his family on Noongar boodja, in the hills which are now called Perth, Australia. Since the age of 21, he has initiated communities of prayer and service, sharing his home with those who would otherwise be homeless, drug addicted, returning from prison or seeking safety from war and persecution. Jarrod is the founding CEO of Common Grace, a movement of 50,000+ Christians advocating for “beauty, generosity and justice," the founder of First Home Project and an initiator of the national Love Makes a Way movement.