Mile High Theology
Mile High Theology is a young adult podcast and live event exploring the big questions of meaning, belonging and justice. It is sponsored by Saint John's Cathedral in Denver, Colorado.
Episodes
58 episodes
Mile High Theology: A Retreospective
In this bonus episode of Mile High Theology, the podcast's long-time host, Canon Broderick Greer, is interviewed by Evans Ousley, Director of Communications at Saint John's. They reflect on some of their favorite guests and moments from the pod...
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23:50
S6 E7: Reproductive Justice with Niyankor Ajuaj
In our final episode of Mile High Theology, host Canon Broderick Greer speaks with Niyankor Ajuaj of Soul 2 Soul Sisters about reproductive justice. Throughout this conversation, Ajuaj offers beautiful readings and meditations on poetry.
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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45:09
S6E5: The Nicene Creed with Dr. Albert Hernandez
Composed in the fourth century by a council of the Church, the Nicene Creed is said enthusiastically by some Christians, said with crossed fingers by others, and rejected altogether by some others. Dr. Albert Hernández, Associate Professor of t...
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50:11
S6E4: Diving into the Hebrew Bible with Dr. Amy Erickson
In the sixth season of Mile High Theology, we are engaging in conversation with ancient texts. In this episode, Canon Broderick sits down with Dr. Amy Erickson, Associate Professor of the Hebrew Bible at Iliff School of Theology, to discuss the...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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53:47
S6E2: Understanding the Quran with Dr. Aun Hasan Ali
In the sixth season of Mile High Theology, we are engaging in conversation with ancient texts. This fall, we are exploring the three Abrahamic religion’s sacred texts: The Torah, The Bible, and The Quran. In this episode, Dr. Aun Hasan Ali offe...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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1:03:17
S6E1: Exploring the Torah with Rabbi Emily Hyatt
On the newest season of Mile High Theology, we are engaging in conversation with ancient texts. This fall, we are exploring the three Abrahamic religion’s sacred texts: The Torah, The Bible, and The Quran. In this episode, Rabbi Emily Hyatt of ...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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53:48
S5 E8: Innovative Farming and the Climate Crisis
While the climate crisis may make us feel fearful, overwhelmed, or exhausted, many organizations in the Denver area inspire hope for our future. Altius Farms is a local urban farm, which is working toward building stable and lasting farms that ...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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39:32
S5 E7: Health & Housing Justice and the Climate Crisis
As the city of Denver grows, many of our neighbors are becoming displaced due to high cost of living and gentrification. The Globeville Elyria-Swansea Coalition Organizing for Health and Housing Justice (GES Coalition) is advocating to protect ...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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40:57
S5 E6: Black Denver and the Climate Crisis with Pastor Eugene Downing
Historically marginalized people suffer disproportionately from the climate crisis. Environmental hazards, such as pollution, contaminated materials, and industrial waste, often plague low-income communities of color. Pastor Eugene Downing, Sen...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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57:31
S5 E 5: Scripture, Tradition, and the Climate Crisis with the Rev. Canon Broderick Greer
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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59:02
Season 5 Mid-Season Preview with Canon Broderick Greer and Christina Rutland
Canon Broderick Greer and Christina Rutland recap the first half of this season on the climate crisis and give us a preview of the final episodes coming this spring.
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3:39
S5 E4: Environmental Racism, Indigeneity, and the Climate Crisis
American systems actively silence and minimize the voices within Indigeneous communities, resulting in young Native Americans struggling to find representation. Spirit of the Sun, an Indigenous womxn-led nonprofit in Denver, empowers Indigeneou...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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53:45
S5 E3: Reckoning with the Climate Crisis through Music with Logan Farmer
As we learn more and more about the effects of climate change, we find ourselves feeling overwhelmed rather than driven to create change. In his album "Still No Mother," musician Logan Farmer tells the story of our reckoning with the impending ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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31:59
S5 E2: Youth Activism in the Climate Crisis with Leala Pourier
When youth activist Greta Thunberg became a global leader against climate change, she inspired people around the world to recognize the already existing youth activists in their own communities. Earth Guardians, a nearly 30-year-old organizatio...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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37:58
S5 E1: The Eurochristian Roots of the Climate Crisis with Dr. Tink Tinker
As European settlers came to the Americas, they prepared to claim and conquer the land, exploiting its various resources to further human life. Dr. Tink Tinker, Professor Emeritus of American Indian cultures and religious traditions at Iliff Sc...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:03:01
S4 E9: Visual Art with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley
When Canon Broderick's parents renovated their home a few years ago, he gave them one of Lanecia Rouse Tinsley's paintings as a house-warming gift. In a note to his parents, Tinsley wrote, "I am happy one of my creations has found a home with y...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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38:05
S4 E8: National Poetry Month with Natasha Oladokun
"They say, Lord, piety is speaking to you, // but madness is hearing you // speak back." And so Natasha Oladokun stings her audience in her 2020 poem "Black Credit." In line after line, essay after essay, and poem after poem, Oladokun teases ou...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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40:30
S4 E7: Art and Reproductive Justice with Adriann Barboa
Adriann Barboa is a New Mexico policy director of Forward Together, an organization dedicated to ensuring "rights, recognition, and resources for all families" that recently led a people-powered coalit...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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35:14
S4 E6: Sabrina & Corina with Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Kali Fajarado-Anstine's "Sabrina & Corina" seemed to barrel onto the literary scene not so much with a bang, but with the elegance of an experienced skydiver, every short story landing gracefully inside her readers' imaginations. Set primar...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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31:54
S4 E5: Myth-Making with Manuel Aragon
Myth-making is a central dimension of being human and fiction writers are the midwives of that process for the rest of us. Manuel Aragon, a Denver-based Latinx writer, director, and filmmaker reads his short story "The Last Snowstorm" and discu...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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37:19
S4E4: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter
In 2013, Patrisse Cullors coined the hashtag
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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42:08
S4 E3: “What just happened?”: Processing the 2020 Election
In this episode of Mile High Theology, Canon Broderick speaks with the Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey. As we reflect on last week's election, Dr. Lightsey unpacks the circumstances that led her to write "Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology," ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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41:54
S4 E2: Qualified Immunity and Black Lives
After the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department officers on Memorial Day weekend, a wave of law enforcement reform proposals flooded city halls and legislative chambers in cities and states across the country. State Represent...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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26:05