Raising the Conversation Podcast S6Ep4 - Val Lieske
Welcome to "Raising the Conversation", a podcast brought to you by The MacRae Centre for Christian Faith & Culture at Acadia Divinity College.
In Season 6, host Joel Murphy (Director) facilitates conversations surrounding our upcoming "Future of Innovation" focus. This effort will include a Field Guide (releasing April 27, 2026) and an online Discovery Series Event happening May 4 (https://events.zoom.us/ev/AkHl-Gy00CYV2qXWySZa-uxuv1Yvs1ftsffXBr-7fVPgkImneZSD~AnQy8zkmgCz0pz2CHsZnpNX6AmoNL08aE26NI_8sZQrOmrioLqtkNOKkOQ).
This episode's guest is Val Lieske. Val is a Calgary-based playwright who is also the founder and Executive Artistic Director of Fire Exit Theatre. She has a BA in Theatre & Speech from Trinity Guild (UK) and worked for ten years with Alberta Playwrights’ Network. Select plays include; Duty to Warn, Bruised Not Broken, Absence, Sunny Side Up and her solo show, Past Tense. Val is interested in stories that create conversation and explore the idea that there just might be a God.
14 Apr 2026
Raising the Conversation Podcast S6Ep3 - Andy Smits
Welcome to "Raising the Conversation", a podcast brought to you by The MacRae Centre for Christian Faith & Culture at Acadia Divinity College.
In Season 6, host Joel Murphy (Director) facilitates conversations surrounding our upcoming "Future of Innovation" focus. This effort will include a Field Guide (releasing April 27, 2026) and an online Discovery Series Event happening May 4 (https://events.zoom.us/ev/AkHl-Gy00CY....
This episode's guest is Andy Smits. Andy got involved with Power to Change - Students while a student first at Algonquin College, and then at Carleton University in Ottawa. Along with his wife Loni, he joined staff with Power to Change in 2003 and was sent to Montreal to be part of the team that launched the campus ministry in that city.
After spending 17 focusing on reaching English and French students in Quebec with the gospel, Andy is now the National Director of Power to Change - Students. He is also the Executive Director of Next Generation and Future Trends.
7 Apr 2026
Raising the Conversation Podcast S6Ep2 - Sarah Han
Welcome to "Raising the Conversation", a podcast brought to you by The MacRae Centre for Christian Faith & Culture at Acadia Divinity College.
In Season 6, host Joel Murphy (Director) facilitates conversations surrounding our upcoming "Future of Innovation" focus. This effort will include a Field Guide (releasing April 27, 2026) and an online Discovery Series Event happening May 4 (https://events.zoom.us/ev/AkHl-Gy00CY....
This episode's guest is Rev. Dr. Sarah Han. Dr. Han is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Tyndale University and brings practical ministry experience as an ordained minister and theological expertise as an academic. Dr. Han considers herself to be "third culture" Canadian-Korean-Chinese and her formative theology was shaped on the mission field abroad. She has provided leadership in the Canadian immigrant church context for over a decade and has diverse experience in the Canadian public and private sectors. Dr. Han's vocational commitment and theological passion are to critically observe and reflect on how ecclesiology shapes and informs missiology and her research focuses on an intercultural, intergenerational, missional ecclesiology for Canada.
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