Ep 34 - Listening first: how non-Indigenous Christians can engage with the TRC (part 1)
How should non-Indigenous Christians engage in Truth and Reconciliation? What does it really mean to “love your neighbour” on Turtle Island?In this special live panel episode of Undercurrents, recorde...
12 Mar 36min
Ep 33 - Redefining "a good neighbourhood" in Queenston, St. Catharines
What makes a good neighbourhood?Low crime rates? Strong property values? Walkability and good schools?In Episode 33 of Undercurrents, host Ken Ogasawara travels to the Queenston neighbourhood in St. C...
26 Feb 23min
Ep 32 - Giving our best: generosity, specificity and riding the roller coaster with the Material Resources team
In this episode of Undercurrents, host Ken Ogasawara goes behind the scenes with the Material Resources team at Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to explore how relief kits, hygiene kits, school kits,...
12 Feb 23min
Ep 31 - Non-anxious presence, rocky soil and long-term peacebuilding with Rod Friesen
A 30 second scroll through the headlines will give you a glimpse of a world desperately in need of peace. But peacebuilding is not only needed in Palestine and Israel, or Ukraine, or in South Sudan. P...
29 Jan 24min
How do we practice peace in a broken world? - Season 6 TRAILER
How do we practice peace in this broken world? How can we make a meaningful impact in our community? How can we better align our faith and values with our actions?These are the questions we want to ex...
15 Jan 1min
Update 3: Podcast inspiration, refugee sponsorship and building a better life ... with LY
This update episode is with Ly. She shared her story so eloquently and vulnerably back in 2021 in Episode 10 about the impact of MCC’s hand-crafted relief materials how it changed her life. So today y...
4 Des 202534min
Update 2: Pulled teeth, acts of kindness and one last favour with Wayne
This update episode is with Wayne. I got to know Wayne through interviewing him a number of times over 2019 and despite the disruption of the pandemic, I’d still see Wayne occasionally around the offi...
26 Nov 202526min
Update 1: Quitting piano lessons, finding his father and more life updates with PATRICK.
We check in with Patrick - he of the beautiful singing voice and piano lessons - who was featured in the very first pilot episode of Undercurrents. Since I first interviewed him in 2018, life has chan...
15 Nov 202518min
