Stories from The Well

This is part two of today's podcast of talking with Jeff Porter and Cortez Johnson from our band at The Well. Here is our conversation with Cortez, with a hopeful perspective on life with all it's challenges. Make sure you listen all the way to the end for an original song by Cortez and Arthur Thompson called, "Missing My Father". If you'd like to know more about where Cortez is playing in the Tulsa area, check out his website: Cortezjohnsonbass.com Missing My Father, by Arthur Thompson, Cortez Johnson and Fred Smith used with permission, copyright 2020 Arthur Thompson

This is part one of today's podcast of talking with Jeff Porter and Cortez Johnson from our band at The Well. Jeff has some incredible thoughts about what he's learned in his life and what it means to live intentionally. Listen for some memorable phrases like "accidentally used by goodness", "the issues are in the tissues" and my favorite: "wake up, grow up, clean up and show up..."! Here's his playlist of everything he's recorded!: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7bVnBirBLGVGVzn5GFReUr?si=l1E1W0LERWWYRtDH39hddQ&app_destination=sms

For our 2023 New Years episode of Stories from The Well Podcast, Denise talks with college student Titus Wright about his journey of starting over and how he had to work through grief, self-understanding and changing directions during the past 2 years.

Today Denise mixes it up with some personal stories and music about hope and living into the promise of God being with us. The song "These Dreams" performed by Parker Ferrell and Briana Wright of Nightingale. You can find more of their music on nightingaleband.com. Denise sings a cover of  "All Belong Here" by The Many, themanyarehere.com and an original song she wrote, "Christmas Blessing".

In this conversation, Denise chats with 2 of The Well's musicians, Alexandria Nicole and Angelo Hurling about life, their work as artists and the intersection of their music with a world still needing us to do the hard work of making things right. Connect with us at thewelltulsa.org.

In our 6th episode of Stories from The Well, Denise & Anthony continue our conversation with author and pastor, Eric Costanzo about his new book, "Inalienable" written with Matthew Soerens and Daniel Yang.

In our 5th episode of Stories from The Well, Denise & Anthony talk with author and pastor, Eric Costanzo about his new book, "Inalienable" written with Matthew Soerens and Daniel Yang.

In part two of this episode, Denise continues the conversation with her daughter, Lanie, about navigating her own spiritual journey and decontstruction during college in the often near-sighted evangelical world of the Bible belt. If you'd like to chat with us about anything in this episode, send us a message at denise@thewelltulsa.org or laniegracemckinney@gmail.com. If you'd like to know more about The Well, visit us at thewelltulsa.org.

In this episode, Denise talks with her daughter, Lanie about navigating her own spiritual journey and decontstruction during college in the often near-sighted evangelical world of the Bible belt.

Storytelling from Luke chapter 3. What did it look like for John to be such an impactful leader and get out of the way so people would see God setting things right through Jesus? He chose to be a stagehand and road paver.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://demckinney.wordpress.com/2021/12/26/remembering-michael/