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The Telos Channel, hosting the suite of Telos podcasts | Undaunted: In our divided and dangerous world, how can we choose peace? Join us on our journey to find answers, guided by radical peacemakers and their stories from the front-lines. When conflict seems intractable, these conversations give us the courage to choose a different way—a way of justice, healing, and hope. | The Check-in: an every-other-week deep dive into headlines from Israel/Palestine and across the world, where we wade into the complexity of seemingly intractable conflict to discover the power of peacemaking to heal us, our community and our world.
Episodes
125 episodes
The Check-in: Advent in Palestine
With Christmas on the horizon, what does it look like to not just take the Advent stories seriously, but also the land out of which they came?In this episode, we invite our listeners who come from the Christian tradition to encounter a n...
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The Check-in: Blessed Are the Others with Andrew DeCort
What does it take to be humanely happy? Perhaps it's the very journey of the peacemaker that helps us discover the answer to this question, and it might not be the journey you would expect. Theologian, author, and peacemaker Andrew ...
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The Learning Corps: Ashlee Eiland (Listening to Understand, 3)
Before we can hope to heal our world, we must first learn to see it how it actually is. By listening to understand, we cultivate our curiosity while surfacing the motivations and views that underlie the issues that divide us. But what does this...
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The Learning Corps: New York Peace Institute (Listening to Understand, 2)
Before we can hope to heal our world, we must first learn to see it how it actually is. By listening to understand, we cultivate our curiosity while surfacing the motivations and views that underlie the issues that divide us. But what does this...
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The Learning Corps: Abara - Beyond Borders (Listening to Understand, 1)
Before we can hope to heal our world, we must first learn to see it how it actually is. By listening to understand, we cultivate our curiosity while surfacing the motivations and views that underlie the issues that divide us. But what does this...
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The Check-in: One Year with Robi Damelin
It’s been a whole year. A whole year since the region was upended by the violent attacks of October 7, and the 365 days of onslaught on Gaza. Now expanded into Lebanon. What has it meant for our friends in the region? And what can w...
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The Check-in: One Year with Jack Saba
It’s been one year. A whole year since the region was upended by the violent attacks of October 7, and 365 days of merciless onslaught on Gaza, now expanded into Lebanon. What has it meant for our friends in the region? And what can...
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The Check-in: On the Ground in Lebanon
This week, we were joined by the pastor of City Bible Church of Beirut, Marwan Aboul-Zelof. He gives us an on-the-ground perspective of what's happening in Beirut right now (recorded Friday Sept. 27, before the Israeli invasion or the Iranian s...
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The Learning Corps: Naila and the Uprising (Women and Nonviolence, 4)
Women are often at the forefront of effective nonviolent movements for peace and justice across the world. But their stories are often not the ones being told in mainstream spaces.Over the next few weeks, we’re focusing our next Learning...
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The Check-in: Global Sunday of Mutual Flourishing
We have an invitation for you, your church, and your faith communities. Join us Sunday, October 6th for a Global Sunday of Mutual Flourishing. After almost an entire year of witness and reflection, the time is now to speak with a collective voi...
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The Learning Corps: Noam Shuster-Eliassi (Women and Nonviolence, 3)
Women are often at the forefront of effective nonviolent movements for peace and justice across the world. But their stories are often not the ones being told in mainstream spaces.Over the next few weeks, we’re focusing our next Learning...
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The Learning Corps: Combatants for Peace (Women and Nonviolence, 2)
Women are often at the forefront of effective nonviolent movements for peace and justice across the world. But their stories are often not the ones being told in mainstream spaces.Over the next few weeks, we’re focusing our next Learning...
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The Learning Corps: Shadia Qubti (Women and Nonviolence, 1)
Women are often at the forefront of effective nonviolent movements for peace and justice across the world. But their stories are often not the ones being told in mainstream spaces.Over the next few weeks, we’re focusing our next Learning...
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The Check-in: Apartheid
Perhaps one of the most contested terms when it comes to talking about Israel/Palestine. Many in our network ask: What does “apartheid” really mean? Is it a fair word to use in this context? If so, why is there such a strong reaction to it? And...
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The Check-in: CUFI and Christian Zionism
This week, the largest Christian Zionist lobbying organization is hosting its annual conference. Featuring politicians, commentators, and religious leaders, the Christians United For Israel annual summit will represent the convictions and polic...
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The Learning Corps: The Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth, and Reconciliation (Gun Violence in America, 3)
What will it take to address gun violence in America, and what might peacemaking have to say about it? These last few weeks, we have taken some time to hear from visionary peacemakers addressing the issue in creative, imaginative ways.
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The Learning Corps: Together Chicago (Gun Violence in America, 2)
What will it take to address gun violence in America, and what might peacemaking have to say about it? These next few weeks, we’re taking some time to hear from visionary peacemakers addressing the issue in creative, imaginative ways. ...
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The Check-in: Greg’s Last Words for 2024
Telos’ Co-founder and President Greg Khalil is spending the rest of 2024 on a sabbatical from Telos. In this conversation, we get the chance to hear from him one last time before the long break. He speaks honestly about the crisis c...
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The Learning Corps: Beating Guns (Gun Violence in America, 1)
What will it take to address gun violence in America, and what might peacemaking have to say about it? These next few weeks, as we close out Gun Violence Prevention Month this June, we’re taking some time to hear from the visionary peacemakers ...
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The Check-in: A Communal Call to Lament and Repentance
On June 11th, many of us from the Christian tradition gathered together for an evening of lament and repentance in Washington, DC. A night to grieve, but also to transform our grief into the work of imagining a new world and beginning to build ...
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The Check-in: The Ministry of Presence
Nearly 8 months after October 7, what message do the Palestinians and Israelis living in the land have for those of us watching from the US?A group of about a dozen faith leaders traveled with Telos last week to meet with our partners on...
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The Check-in: Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Advocacy
With the nation embroiled in debates over the campus protest movement, we sat down with a few experts and eye witnesses to discuss: what are our misconceptions about the protests, how can we become better advocates for the flourishing of all (i...
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The Learning Corps: The Descendants Project
Welcome to the Learning Corps podcast, the newest show on the Telos Channel! Together, we’ll excavate the core issues of conflict with experts from around the world, to uncover the path forward toward creative action in our communities.
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The Check-in: What’s Happening at Columbia?
Massive student protests at Columbia University in solidarity with Gaza were met with swift and intense repression by university administrators and NYPD over the weekend, leading to the arrests of more than 100 students. Greg Khalil, Pr...
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The Check-in: What's Iran Got To Do With It...Part 2
After Israel’s strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Iran launched a barrage of 300 missiles at Israel from sites around the Middle East. While around 99% of the projectiles were intercepted before landing, the retaliatory response repre...
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