A podcast showcasing the best advocacy campaigns from past and present. Learning the lessons from social and political campaigns that have made an impact. A tool for campaigners and those that are interested in how change happens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Join hosts Jonathan and Steve on The Front Yard Mission Podcast as they Equip believers with practical ideas and tools for reaching their communities with the gospel. With Jonathan’s and Steve’s personable and humorous approach, each episode offers listeners easily implementable strategies and real-life examples to kickstart their Front Yard Mission. As part of a Front Yard Mission movement, this podcast provides valuable insights and encouragement for listeners to connect with their neighbo ...
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Do you love cookies and decorating them? Anne Yorks has been on the cutting edge of cookie decorating for over a decade. She has also been a Front Yard Missionary from day one. She and her family truly live it out in their neighborhood and primarily in their business. Anne is the founder of The Flour Box, an online resource for cookie decorating su…
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Tim is a native of State College, PA and he met his wife Sarah met at Penn State and they now have three girls. Tim has been on staff with City Light church for the past decade and recently moved to Manhattan to plant a church. Tim is an entrepreneur and founded the marketing company Digital Culture. In this episode we talk about what it’s like to …
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On this episode we are joined by Bill Tibbetts. Bill was the former Dean of the College of Business and Technology at North Central University. Bill is now the Vice President of Education and Multiplication at the Stone Table. The Stone Table engages in various gospel initiatives with people worldwide, while also emphasizing business as mission. Th…
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This season we are exploring what living on mission looks at work. In this episode we talk with author and the president of The Stone Table, Erik Cooper. The Stone Table is a global missions organization rooted in the marketplace. They help leverage the profits from marketplace businesses to fund strategic global missions projects around the world.…
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Dave Runyon: Author of "The Art of Neighboring"
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21:37This week we go back to a conversation that Jonathan had we had with one of the OG’s of the love God, love neighbor movement, Dave Runyon. We’ve been fans of Dave and his book he wrote with Jay Pathak the “Art of Neighboring.” We were fortunate to have Dave read an early copy of Front Yard Mission and endorse it for us. We think you will find this …
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Live: Trust and Truth, Campaigning in the Disinformation Age
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1:22:22An expert panel of seasoned campaigners who have dealt with disinformation and falsehoods, our first live panel event sheds light on how campaigners can navigate the issues and counter conspiracy theories, lies and half-truths. The panel consisted of Dr Charles Kriel, who is co-Founder of Metrotone Media, co-Director of the documentary People You M…
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Stefen Wisniewski: Two Time Super Bowl Champion
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44:06It’s Super Bowl week and we sat down with Stefen Wisniewski, a two-time Super Bowl champion with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. Stefen talks about what it’s like to not just be an elite NFL lineman, but also what it’s like to love your neighbor that lines up against you or your back up who’s trying to take your job. Whether you…
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Tricia (Brock) Baumhardt: Lead Singer of Superchick.
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48:31Come listen in on our conversation with the Grammy nominated lead singer of Superchick. Were you a fan like me of this band in the 2000's? Tricia serves on the Front Yard Mission board and she happens to be the voice of our podcast. Over the years she and her band have been creators of some of the most innovative music ever in Christian Music. She …
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What a blast to talk with arguably the greatest American Ninja Warrior on what it's like to be a Front Yard Missionary to the Ninja community. He'll also share how he has overcome the disappointment of missing winning one million dollars not once but twice by a mere second.By Front Yard Mission
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We were so honored to do a once in a lifetime interview with the incomparable Karolyn Zuzu Grimes from the Christmas Classic "It's a Wonderful Life." She made the movie when she was six old and never saw it until she was forty when the Target corporation approached her about an Ad campaign. After she saw the power of the movie she then became an am…
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Loving your neighbor during the holidays with Dree Hogue
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49:32One of the best ways to love our neighbors is during the holidays. The chairman of the Front Yard Mission board, Dree Hogue is all about it. She starts celebrating Christmas in July and then just never stops. There is something deeper going on than just an elf on a shelf, jingle bells, and Christmas Cheer. Listen to why Christmas is so important to…
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Dr. Kush Kanodia is a multi-award-winning campaigner on disability rights and is Sheila Mackechnie Foundation’s Campaigner of the year. His own disability has fuelled his lifelong commitment to social justice. He shifted from a successful investment banking career to focus on disability rights. In this episode, we discuss three successful disabilit…
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The Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen movement wants the city of Berlin to transfer real estate into public ownership, expropriating the city’s large corporate landlords: those who have more than 3,000 units (an estimated 11% of the city’s housing stock). Launched in 2018 but dating back to 2010, the initiative focused on increasing rents and poor-qu…
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Episode Six – Obstacles to Front Yard Mission
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33:05Loving our neighbor is simple but not always easy. If you are living out Front Yard Mission you will be faced with difficulties. Don’t sweat it that’s completely normal. In this episode, we identify the top obstacles to Front Yard Mission and how to overcome them.By Front Yard Mission
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The Corn Laws were a series of trade restrictions and tariffs on imported grain (wheat, oats, barley and rye – not corn) that were in effect in the UK from 1815 to 1846. The Passed by Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in response to a strained post-war economy, they were intended to favour domestic agriculture by making it more difficult to import grai…
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The best way that we can love our neighbors is by sharing Christ with them. Steve and Jonathan have a conversation on demystifying sharing the gospel. Our lives should be lived in a way that provokes a response from our physical neighbors and our affinity neighbors. Learn what it means to be prepared to give an answer for the hope that we have.…
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The New Testament has a culture of invitation. Over twenty times in the Gospels Jesus invites others to follow him. Andrew invited Simon aka Peter to meet Jesus. Matthew invited his motley crew to a dinner to meet Jesus. Most of us if we are Christ followers came to a relationship with Christ most likely through an invitation. Steve and Jonathan di…
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The guest on this episode is Laura Coryton, a British campaigner, feminist activist and author who started the "Stop taxing periods, period" campaign in 2014, while she was still a student. The campaign sought to abolish the 'tampon tax' in the United Kingdom by making menstrual products exempt from VAT. The campaign and petition on Change.org succ…
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Lynx began their anti-fur campaign back in the mid 1980’s. By using innovative advertising and media campaigns such as the famous David Bailey ‘Dumb Animals’ poster and cinema commercials, consumer attitudes towards the wearing of fur in the UK changed dramatically. Most department stores used to have fur salons and fur could be found almost everyw…
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The great commandment is not just a cute little suggestion, it is what God requires of every Christ follower. Paul Benjamin in his book The Equipping Ministry said that people need at least five positive interactions with the gospel before they consider following Christ. In this episode, Steve and Jonathan discuss what love is, why we love, and how…
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Prayer is not the prework of Front Yard Mission it is THE work of Front Yard Mission. If you are attempting to live out the Great Commandment it must start with prayer. In this episode, Steve and Jonathan share why prayer in your Front Yard Mission is the most important rhythm and a simple practical way to regularly pray for your neighbors.…
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Climate Change: Senior Swiss women vs the Government
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37:32In a really fascinating example of litigation-led campaigning, a group of senior women in Switzerland argue that - because they suffer more from frequent and intense heatwaves - Switzerland must do its bit to keep global heating below 1.5ºC. KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz (Senior Women for Climate Protection) is a group of elderly women in Switzerland, i…
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Episode One – The DNA of Front Yard Mission
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35:33In the first episode of the Front Yard Mission podcast get to know our hosts Steve and Jonathan and their story of why they are so passionate about Front Yard Mission. They discuss the DNA of Front Yard Mission and why they believe it is the most important thing a Christ follower should be doing.By Front Yard Mission
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Stop Funding Hate is a pressure group which asks companies to stop advertising in, and therefore stop providing funds for, certain British newspapers that it argues use "fear and division to sell more papers". It was launched in August 2016, by a group of people who came together online to highlight how some British newspapers were using hate and d…
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Yaseen Aslam is a great example of a 'lived experience' campaigner. He started working as a private taxi or ‘minicab’ driver in London in 2006 and moved to taxi firm Uber when the company launched its Uber X service in 2013. Between 2015 and 2021, he and other Uber drivers campaigned to ensure that the company treat its drivers as “workers” which e…
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This spisode features an interview with Angela Madden, the Financer Director and Chair of WASPI - the Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign. In 1995 the John Major government raised state pension age from 60-65 to bring in line with men. In 2011, a new Pensions Act was introduced that shortened the timetable to increase the women's pensio…
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Marcus Rashford is a professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Manchester United and England. He has launched and been involved with quite a few campaigns, most notably on child food poverty. in this episode we talk with Jo Ralling, who helped to run the feed the future and the #EndChildFoodPoverty campaigns for the Food Foundation,…
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In the 1970s and 80s, 4,689 British haemophiliacs were treated with blood products contaminated with HIV and Hepatitis C. More than half of them have died. At the time, the medication was imported from the US where it was made from the pooled blood plasma of thousands of paid donors, including some in high-risk groups, such as prisoners. If a singl…
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The British Anti-Apartheid Movement was at the centre of the international movement opposing the South African racial segregation system, Apartheid . By the late 1980s the UK Movement had unleashed a number of campaigns and branches and become one of the most powerful international solidarity efforts in history. In this interview we feature three p…
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Emilye Crosby, professor of history and the coordinator of Black Studies at SUNY Geneseo, and Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor for the History Department in the Ohio State University, reflect on the tactics and strategies of the Freedom Riders. The Freedom Rides were a key part of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s and the Rid…
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Tackling air pollution in a city like London is a big and important job. Mum's for Lungs founder Jemima Hartshorn explains how setting up and running a community-based, grassroots campaigning organisation on a part-time basis is both inspiring and challenging. Crowdsourcing campaign ideas and operating a parent-friendly model are some of the ways i…
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Jubilee 2000 was an international coalition movement in over 40 countries that called for cancellation of poor country debt by the year 2000. The campaign was hugely successful, leading to large quantities of debts being cancelled. Here I speak with Adrian Lovett, formerly Deputy Director of Jubilee 2000 and leader of the successor organisation, Dr…
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Together for Yes is an abortion rights campaign group in Ireland. It campaigned successfully for a Yes vote in the 2018 referendum to remove the Eighth Amendment's constitutional ban on abortion in Ireland. In this episode I talk with Ailbhe Smyth, an Irish academic, and the founding director of the Women's Education, Resource and Research Centre a…
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This episode is on the campaign for equal marriage in the uk, sometimes referred to as gay marriage. The interviewee is Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of Humanists UK. Andrew was very much involved as a leader of the campaign which led legislation to allow same-sex marriage in England and Wales. The legislation was passed by the UK Parliament 10 ye…
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In this episode, long-time friend and collaborator Chris Stalker and I look back at some of the previous campaigns that the podcast has covered and try to tease out some common lessons and insights for campaigners and people interested in campaiging think about. Chris lives in Brooklyn, New York and has over 30 years of experience working in the no…
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The start of season 2! I speak with Paul Afshar who is spokesperson for the campaign end our cladding scandal. The scandal in the UK started to come to the fore after the grenfel tower fire. In June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in west London,. 72 people died, two later in hospital, with more than …
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Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice is a campaign that has called for accountability for the UK Government Response to Covid and for the lessons to be learned so that mistakes are avoided in future pandemics. In this episode Campaign Director Nathan Oswin tells us how the campaign has been successful, and what the challanges were. You can join h…
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Better Together Campaign: Scottish IndyRef
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46:20Blair McDougall explains the success of - and the stories around - the Better Together Campaign which set out the case for staying in the UK during the Scottish Independence Referendum of 2014. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.By Steve Tibbett
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I speak to Hugo Tagholm from Surfers Against Sewage who have been campaiging UK government and water companies to end sewage pollution in rivers and the ocean. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.By Steve Tibbett
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Joe Blott talks about the campaign to stop the European Super League proposal, which included some of Europe's biggest clubs and collapsed within 72 hours after widespread criticism from fans, players and governing bodies and politicians. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.By Steve Tibbett
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My guest is Helen Pankhurst, women's rights activist and great grandaughter of Emily Pankhurst, and togther we examine the Suffragette's role in the campaign for women's suffrage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.By Steve Tibbett
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Peter has been campaigning since the 60s on issues of human rights, democracy, LGBT freedom, and global justice. From the late 70s onwards, he proposed a single, comprehensive Equal Rights Act to harmonise the uneven patchwork of equality legislation. This proposal was eventually secured with the passage of the Equality Act 2010. In 1994, he named …
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The Windrush scandal erupted in 2018 when it emerged that many British people who arrived from the Carribean before 1973 were being wrongly detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation, and in some cases wrongly deported from the UK by the Home Office. Guy Hewitt exaplains how the campaign to get justice for the affected was a kind of…
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Clive Stafford Smith is the founder of Reprieve and the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center and in this episode we talk about his role in the long running campaign to close the prison on the US military base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. To date, Clive has helped secure the release of 69 prisoners from Guantánamo Bay (including every British prisoner) …
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In November 2015 London's Metropolitan Police was forced to apologise to seven women "tricked into relationships" over a period of 25 years by officers from two undercover police squads. The officers involved - just some of 140 officers who took part in such operations - had eventually vanished, leaving victims feeling as if – in their words - they…
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This podcast features back to back interviews with two experts on the slave trade and the British campaign to end it: Dr Richard Huzzey, Associate Professor of History at Durham University and Dr Richard Benjamin, Head of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. the two Richards talk about aspect of the campaign to end the slave trade, and wh…
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in the 2000s AIDS campaigners took the issue of access to free drugs for HIV and AIDS global ... and won. With Kirsty McNeill and Simon Wright from Save the Children UK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.By Steve Tibbett
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Episode 5 contains an interview with Kumi Naidoo, the South African Secretary General of Amnesty International, and well known campaigner on global poverty, climate justice and human rights. He covers and touches on several campaigns including Make Poverty History, Anti-Apartheid and climate change campaigns. Kumi speaks frankly about the current s…
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This interview is with Fiona Weir who is talking to me today about the Ozone layer campaign which led to phase out of most products that deplete the ozone, such as aerosols and air conditioning coolants with chlorofluorocarbons. Scientists first discovered a hole in the ozone layer hole in 1985 and attributed its appearance to the use of CFCs. Frie…
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