Archived Podcasts

Unexpected, sometimes quirky, insight into the big questions about who are we, what is really going on, and how we can bring good into this mundane, sublime, spiritual, and sometimes silly world of ours.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player.

We Christians do ministry in incredibly different ways. But you wouldn’t know if it you only talk with people in your own circle. 

Music and the Church with Sarah Bereza podcast connects thoughtful people across denominations and across professions, from pastors and musicians, to theologians and historians.

These conversations don’t just bring you answers—they shed light on new and different questions, assumptions, and priorities.

Check out these popular episodes:
+Congregational Participation at Mass, with Mary Catherine Levri
+“A Noisy Church Is a Living Church,” with Anita Smallin
+Virtuosity, Amateurism, and Amateurishness in Evangelical Worship Music, with Joshua Kalin Busman

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For 50 years between them, Pastor Bill Smutz and musician Sarah Bereza have survived and thrived in churches big and small, urban and rural, good and not so good. With generous hearts and healthy boundaries, they share practical advice for church staff about working smart, cutting out the bs, and embracing the good in ministry.

Listen here or on your favorite podcast player.

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Do you want a more sustainable—and enjoyable—writing life? Then this podcast is for you.

On this show, Nicole Roccas and I and talk about building a healthy writing process. We explore ways to improve habits, discuss our own experiences, and share new tools we’ve found.

Listen here or on your favorite podcast player.

Other Media

Looking for new organ rep? Your Sunday Service is a Youtube show dedicated to organ music for church services, mostly at easy and intermediate levels.

It’s produced by the Organ Media Foundation and includes Sarah Bereza as one of the hosts. Check it out here.

Right now, our lives are rapidly transforming. We don’t know yet how we’ll be changed as individuals or how our communities will change in the long-term—but the change is surely happening, and we can be active in creating the New that this transformation brings. In this season of First Conversational, we’re exploring stories of transformation—times when by choice or circumstance people found themselves or their lives changing in fundamental ways.

First Conversational is hosted by Dr. Sarah Bereza and the Summer 2020 season features stories from FCC members Dr. Paul Evensen, Ann Kittlaus, Dr. Katherine Buchowski, and Paul Brady.

All four episodes of the first season of First Conversational are available on podcast streaming platforms like Apple PodcastsGoogle Podcasts, and Spotify.