Sidewalk Skyline Podcast

Kevin Rogers
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Sidewalk Skyline Podcast

A spiritual exploration of urban centres in Canada. Host Kevin Rogers interviews and provides noteworthy content to see how Christian faith is being expressed on city streets from coast to coast.

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    Entrepreneurs In Love (Mike and Lisa Difazio)

    Michael Difazio and Lisa Shurrock were two young, successful entrepreneurs in Windsor Ontario. As they fell in love, they did not realize how God would appear in their lives to disrupt business as usual and surprise them with miracles. Here’s my interview as they share the lessons they’re learning about trusting God with everything.

    1h 16m

  2. FEB 1

    Hope And Light In Cobourg (Leigh-Ann & Thomas Davidson)

    After a couple years working in Mission Canada with Street Level Advocacy (Peterborough), Leigh-Ann Davidson felt the call to launch new initiatives in Cobourg, Ontario. Along the way, her biggest supporter (who happened to be her husband Thomas) joined in her efforts in reaching out to the street-affiliated and homeless population in the small city of Cobourg. Together they are ‘Hope And Light Urban Outreach’ making a difference in a place of intensifying need.

    1h 21m

  3. JAN 15

    The Nine Lives Of Joe Ritchie

    Joe Ritchie grew up with a history of trauma and abuse that nearly killed him. At age fifteen he was in a car accident that left him quadriplegic and without hope. After three times of dying and being resuscitated, it would be a vision of Jesus that would change his life trajectory. Today Joe serves as part of the pastoral team at Windsor’s New Song Church. Listen as he shares transparently about his struggles with addiction and the journey to freedom.

    1h 32m

  4. JAN 1

    Weaving Hope From The Unraveled Church (Alan Roxburgh interview)

    Alan Roxburgh is a pastor, teacher, writer and podcaster with more than thirty years’ experience in church leadership, consulting and seminary education. I first heard of him through my friend Karen Reed who will be co-hosting our conversation today. Karen has been a past guest on the podcast and is very much entrenched in a life of loving her neighbours, a true example of intentional community building.

    1h 14m

  5. 2024-12-15

    Why I Help People Take Drugs (Dr. Meera Grover)

    Today, I’m talking with Doctor Meera Grover who works in Calgary, Alberta extensively in the field of addiction medicine. Working in Vancouver’s notorious downtown eastside to pay for her theological education at Regent College, Meera Grover was faced with questions about whether or not providing people who use drugs with sterile supplies and a place to inject contravened her faith. She knew she wanted to care for people with addiction but did not know how to do so in a way that fit with her own moral code. She wrestled with these questions over the years and through her transition, from nursing to becoming a fully licensed physician who specializes in addiction medicine.[1] Meera has written a book entitled “Why I Help People Take Drugs”. In this interview we delve into the often contested practice of harm reduction and the importance of the human connection in addressing addiction issues.

    1h 11m

  6. 2024-12-01

    The Shift Every Decade (Bob Gal interview)

    Bob Gal has been an iconic figure in my life for 40 years. From my first recollections of his speaking at youth retreats and leading street ministry outreaches, he has been a man that has followed the cloud by day and fire by night. He and his lifelong sweetheart Karen live in Edmonton, Alberta where he serves as our oldest Mission Canada urban worker at the age of 74. Today I want to hear Bob’s reflections as we review his relationship with Jesus and the nuanced perspective shifts for each decade.

    1h 13m

  7. 2024-11-15

    Complex Trauma And RE/ACT (Tim Fletcher interview)

    Tim Fletcher is the Founder and President of RE/ACT (Recovery Education for Addictions and Complex Trauma). He used his skills as a pastor and counsellor to develop a program to help the people he cared for overcome addiction. He realized the need for individuals to first become equipped with tools, and then put those tools into practice in a healthy, safe and loving environment - and herein lies his unique skill. During his early years, he learned that everyone has a loved one who struggles with addiction, and many people struggled with unrealized addictions and unhealthy coping techniques. He found that 97% of addicts also struggled from Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) - corroborating the research of Dr. Gabor Maté. After researching C-PTSD which was identified as, “A series of events that occur where a victim feels unsafe, and as such, develops mental disorders which inhibit them from coping in stressful or harmful circumstances”, he concluded that research was showing that there is a physical difference between the brains of those who grew up in loving and nurturing homes and those who didn’t – before any addiction became prevalent.

    1h 12m

  8. 2024-11-01

    Healing Spiritual Cataracts (Tim Meisenheimer)

    Timothy Meisenheimer has spent decades on the streets with beatitude vision, first in Ottawa and now in Windsor, Ontario. This was his session at the Our City Windsor 2024 conference. Tim takes seriously the path of Jesus in his sidewalk vision of the Kingdom of God.

    57 min
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A spiritual exploration of urban centres in Canada. Host Kevin Rogers interviews and provides noteworthy content to see how Christian faith is being expressed on city streets from coast to coast.

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  • Creator
    Kevin Rogers
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2020 Kevin Rogers
  • Show Website
    Sidewalk Skyline Podcast

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