Sidewalk Skyline Podcast

Kevin Rogers

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. 16h ago

    AI and Imago Dei in the Arts (Patty Kingsley - part 2)

    This is part two of my interview with Patty Bowman Kingsley. Patty is a cross-disciplinary creative with proven experience in transformational arts practice, including studio, collaborative, and live experiences. Serving within diverse sectors, she uses creativity as her primary medium, employing inspired solutions to creative challenges, while facilitating growth within individuals and communities alike. Kingsley believes creativity and connection transform culture — everywhere — every time, without exception. Whether you meet Patty at a trade show, corporate training, art-infused learning within schools, as a speaker, or in the community, or in her studio, you will find her engaged in applied creativity. In her varied career as a creator, art director, and the Canadian administrative director of a national arts charity Patty’s passion for building community through relationships affords her open doors and opportunities to serve with art, in hospitable ways. Raised in Durham Region, Ontario, Patty Bowman Kingsley leads transformational change within public, private, for-profit, NFP, and Charitable settings.  With influence in both governance and practice, she creates innovation that is both attainable and sustainable.  Patty’s passion for honour, capacity for foresight, and her proven skills in arenas of complex innovation, has been seasoned over thirty years of commitment to the human endeavour within communities of diverse interest and background.

  2. Sep 1

    Workplace Pastor (David Dwarka interview)

    The focus of David Dwarka's work is to provide spiritual and mental health support to employees in a workplace environment. As Mission Canada was praying about who could take over this opportunity to serve as a workplace chaplain, a role that was begun by a previous Mission Canada worker, David is the perfect person to step in to fill the gap... and this corporate setting is right in David's hometown of Burlington, Ontario. As a licensed mental health professional and an ordained minister with the PAOC, workplace chaplaincy provides David with the opportunity to engage with people in two area of life that he values - their mental health and their spiritual wellbeing. David knows the importance of reaching people right where they are, leaning into everyday conversations and interactions with a listening and supportive ear. With over ten years of ministry experience, he knows that it is often in moments of crisis that people realize the need to confidentially welcome someone into their challenging situations and troubling thoughts. Wellness and wholeness can result when wise counsel is intentionally sought out and occurs in a safe place and space. And when it does, home and family life improve, social relationships strengthen, and workplace challenges often lessen. David values being able to journey with people, providing encouragement, empathetic listening, and being a sounding board for life's many challenges. David's heart is to help people discover what he has come to understand throughout his life: That God not only loves people, but He is interested in the details of their everyday life. David desires to see people living to the full, as God intended (John 10:10). Mission Canada is thankful for workers who are welcomed into corporate workplace settings to engage employees in their time of need. Because, in that environment, everyone wins!

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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.