City as Playground

Exploring the unique promise of cities as places of human spiritual and social flourishing.

Contemplation and Action

The Street & the Academy

Cities, by their very nature, point us to the contradictions and paradoxes that are an inseparable aspect of our world. To love cities – as the Leadership Foundations global network seeks to embody – is to embrace these contradictions.

Join us in this episode where we explore the contradiction and tension between two sources of authority – the Street and the Academy – and how both have something to teach us about our urban world.

Praying With Poetry – Advent 2020

In this special Advent 2020 podcast episode, Fr. Steve Lantry, SJ joins us to explore how poetry can serve as an aid to deepen

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Public Theology for the Common Good

How do the deep resources of our faith help us to more deeply engage the Public Square? Can a Public Theology help us find

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Eucharistic Leadership (Rebroadcast of Episode 37)

In this rebroadcast episode, host Rick Enloe and Leadership Foundations president Dave Hillis explore the Eucharistic shape of life and leadership – what it

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Forgiveness and the Art of Collaboration

A Conversation with Rachel McPherson of Mutuality In this podcast we explore what real, authentic collaboration is and how it can help us out

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Partisanship and Christ’s Healing Power | A Conversation with Jim Wallis

In this City as Playground episode, Jim Wallis — founder of Sojourners and author of the recently released Christ in Crisis: Why we Need

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Is it Possible for American Policing to be Reformed?

A case for nonreactive leadership in a “knee-jerk solution” world Is policing beyond repair? Is defunding the only answer? Helping us address these questions,

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Accompaniment: The Simple Power Of Walking Alongside

Pancho Argüelles, Executive Director of the Living Hope Wheel Chair Association, joins us for this episode exploring spiritual and social aspects of Accompaniment.

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