★ Current Podcasts, 4/2008

Colleen asked me to write about the podcasts I’m listening to these days. Turns out that it was almost exactly a year ago that I wrote my last podcast list. Some stuff has changed in the last year, some hasn’t.

A few things to note: I’ve listed the podcast title, and I’ve linked to wherever the podcast links to. I you can’t find the podcast at that link, go to iTunes and search for the title I’ve given.

I’ve noticed that the sermon podcasts that I listen to are basically just people I know, people I want to keep following. I don’t really listen to sermons for information, so the sermons you’ll find in here are all people I know or follow closely in some way.

There’s a lot of sports podcasts in this group! I think partly this is due to the fact that I love a good interview, and even though I perhaps only listen to 10% of the episodes, I also notice that I listen to sports when I’m going to sleep, as they help my brain settle down.

I’d love to know what you’re listening to also!

Christianity / Spirituality

• Allelon.org: Roxburgh Journal – Interviews and discussion about missional leadership, and a discussion about missional orders
• Emergent-UK resources – interviews, teachings, goodies from the UK missional church folks. See in particular the excellent recordings with Dallas Willard, Todd Hunter, N. T. Wright
• Everett Vineyard sermons – Recordings from Wayne Purdom’s new church plan
• Messages from New Life Church @ North Bend – Recordings from fellow North Bend church planter John Morauski’s AG church
• Monastery Podcast – sung prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours with the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
• NOOMA – Preview clips of Rob Bell’s outstanding short films on spirituality
• Ohana Project – sermons from the church we are part of
• Pray-As-You-Go – Daily prayer from the Irish Jesuits. Of all my prayer podcast forms, this one is the best recorded format. I can’t recommend it highly enough
• Prayer from the Taize Community – samplings of the prayer and song of the taize community in France
• Quest Sermon Podcast – Eugene Cho and Quest church in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood
• Simple Church for Simple People – talk from a simple church planter
• Vineyard Church Sutton’s Marriage Course – recordings from the Sutton, UK church’s excellent marriage course
• Vineyard Community Church podcast – Rich and Rose Swetman’s church in Shoreline, WA – sermons
• Zondervan – The Bible Experience – The gospel of Matthew done in theatrical fashion with a wholly African-American cast

Sports

• Baseball Prospectus – stat analysis of baseball
• Elise and Ian on Demand – KJR sports talk radio interviews from the evening crew
• ESPN: The B. S. Report with Bill Simmons – the columnist for espn.com and espn the magazine does a funny podcast
• The Groz on Demand – KJR sports talk radio interviews from the afternoon snow crew
• Groz with Gas-mails – KJR sports talk radio call-in voicemails
• John Clayton On-Demand – KJR talk show with ESPN NFL guru
• Mitch in the Morning On-Demand – KJR morning sports talk show. Mitch does fantastic interviews
• The Pitch – baseball talk
• Podcastaway – from a cruising catamaran circling the Pacific, talking about sailing and cruising

Culture

• Ask a Ninja – funny stuff from Ninja in video podcast format
• Delta Park Project – pop culture and good, gentle humor
• Fly With Me – major airline pilot Joe D’Eon’s podcast about airlines, flight, travel, celebrity
• The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack – two guys talk Lost twice a week
• LostCasts – “We read the forums so you don’t have to”. Especially good at literature references in the show
• The Official Lost Podcast – the producers of Lost mess around with their fans
• This American Life – the outstanding radio show from NPR. The power of story at its best.

Music

• Bono – the Rolling Stone interview – the recordings behind the fantastic printed interview in Rolling Stone magazine. Hearing the voice gives you so much more context than the printed versions
• “Communitas Two” – Talks on Christian meditation from John Main, OSB.
• Dolphinstreet Guitar Lessons and Gear Demos – quick videos and gear demos
• Fender – Interviews and demos of Fender guitar products
• IndieFeed – Alternative and Modern Music – indiefeed.com’s song-a-day in the alternative style. Great for discovering new music
• IndieFeed – Blues Music – indiefeed.com’s song-a-day in the blues style. Great for discovering new music.
• IndieFeed – Hip Hop Music – indiefeed.com’s song-a-day in the hip-hop style. Great for discovering new music.
• Irish and Celtic Music Podcast – Marc Gunn’s collection of Celtic music from around the world
• Irish Guitar Podcast – learn to play Irish music with these audio lessons, sampling for the books the authors have written
• John Lennon – the Rolling Stone podcast – Audio from an interview with John Lennon just after Let it Be was released
• Origin Records Jazz Podcast – Seattle area jazz recording label does a live music podcast
• Pandora Podcast Series – Insights into music from the people who do the Music Genome Project, the best music recommendation system on the planet
• WILCO Podcast – audio and video from the band Wilco

Technology/Work

• David Allen Company Podcast – business productivity talks from the originator of Getting Things Done

Photography

• Photoshop Killer Tips – short video podcasts with Photoshop tips
• Photoshop User TV – from the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, a series of short how-to videos