Design and Religion

About Design and Religion

We envision a world where design and religion work together to spread love, empathy, and charity faster than divisiveness, selfishness, and hate. To achieve this, we aim to bring the stories of those driving this change—both big and small—into the spotlight, allowing ideas for positive transformation to spread quickly and reach those who need them most.

Publisher

Van Shea Sedita And Rev Dr. Nate Phillips

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Nov 2024

Latest episode

30 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

51 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Mar 2026

   Look for the Helpers 12: Dignity, Love and Respect

   In this episode of Design and Religion: Look for the Helpers, Kim Eppehimer shares the deeper logic behind her work with Friendship House, Limen Recovery + Wellness, and the broader “One Big House” vision. She explains that the partnership between these organizations grew from a clear need: people seeking housing stability, recovery, and support are often forced to navigate a fragmented system that pushes them from one place to another. Her central conviction is simple and powerful: people ne...

2. 

   26 Mar 2026

   Look for the Helpers 11: Food & Community

   This episode of Design and Religion continues the “Look for the Helpers” series with Cathy Kanefsky, President and CEO of the Food Bank of Delaware. The conversation opens with the larger theme of help itself: what it means to become a helper, how people are shaped by hardship, and why some leaders are drawn into work they never originally planned to do. Cathy shares her own path into nonprofit leadership through deeply personal experience. She reflects on raising twin sons born extremely pre...

3. 

   24 Mar 2026

   Look for the Helpers 10: Building Homes and Hope

   This episode centers on Kevin L. Smith’s long vocation of service through Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County and the way his housing work and Christian calling have grown together over time. Kevin describes a formative sense of calling, “be with my people,” which led him through a Mennonite volunteer program to Habitat for Humanity in Fresno and then back home to Delaware, where he has now spent three decades building homes, community, and hope. He also reflects on his more recent ordi...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 21 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

30

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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