Common Good Podcast

About Common Good Podcast

This Podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation, and the structure of belonging. It's about leaving a culture of scarcity for a community of abundance. This first season is a series of interviews with Walter Brueggemann, Peter Block, and John McKnight. The subsequent episodes is where change agents, community facilitators, and faith and service leaders meet at the intersections of belonging, story, and local gifts. The Common Good Podcast is a coproduction of commongood.cc, bespokenlive.org and commonchange.com

Publisher

Common Good

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Mar 2018

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 110 episodes have a transcript.

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   21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Beacon Project Podcast Episode 1: Sam Pressler - The Need to Be Needed

   Social psychologist Daniel Yudkin interviews Sam Pressler about the profound human drive to contribute and find purpose in community.

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   22 Apr 2026

   Common Good Podcast x The Liminal Space Episode 7: What Becomes Possible When We Listen Beyond Ourselves with Tristan and Rashid

   In this final episode of the miniseries, Tristan and Rashid step back to reflect on what seven episodes of storytelling from Cape Town have revealed. They revisit the arc of the series, from grounding ourselves in our bodies with Bongeka and Aphiwe, to the critical hope of Ashley and Helene, the courage of Ncedisa, the radical imagination of Leila, and the belonging found at Charlie and Barry’s dinner table. They explore the power and danger of stories, drawing on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “...

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   15 Apr 2026

   Common Good Podcast x The Liminal Space Episode 6: Belonging at the Table with Charlton and Barry

   What if the most radical thing you could do is invite someone to sit at a table with no queue, no power dynamic, and a really good meal? In this episode, Tristan and Rashid introduce two unlikely friends: Charlton Alexander, a tour guide and facilitator who invites people to connect with the city and its stories, and Barry Lewis, an architect from the UK who has spent decades building sandbag homes alongside communities in Cape Town’s townships. Through a clip from the original Liminal Space ...

Inside a recent episode

The Beacon Project Podcast Episode 1: Sam Pressler - The Need to Be Needed

Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's not an either or, it's a both and, right? Because if you look at, you know, we have this chapter, it's chapter five, and it's focusing on these men, we call the chapter yearning. And it's this recognition that like most of the guys we interviewed have no close friends, you know, no connection to community. no kind of role model or purpose in life. But most of them want this. They're yearning for this in their own lives. And what I think was really notable was that no one saw the potential to have purpose and to contribute as something that could be accomplished individually. There was no, oh, I'm going to go to the gym more and that's going to lead to more sense of purpose. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

21 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

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Quality

82

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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