Worshipping: ~ing Podcast Interviews

Worshipping (with special guests, Cynthia Neufeld Smith, Katie Graber, and Adam Tice from the Voices Together Hymnal Project)

Season 1, Episode 20 (February 16, 2021)
Producer Ben Wideman sits down with three people who were actively involved with the Voices Together hymnal project - a joint initiative between Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada, published by MennoMedia. In this episode we learn about why it was time to release a new Mennonite hymnal, how this process came together, and some of the unexpected twists and turns along the way in creating the final published product.

Gender and Worshiping with Anneli Loepp Thiessen

Season 2, Episode 11 (March 22, 2022)
In season 1, ~ing sat down with a group of folks on the committee who put together the Voices Together Worship and Song Collection. Anneli Loepp Thiessen was another person who helped with that project, and now she's also an author of a forthcomig children's book about women in music, The ABCs of Women in Music. In this week's episode, producer Ben Wideman sits down with Anneli to hear more about her background and what drew her to this work with Voices Together, as well as exploring what her research in gender and worship through her PhD in Interdisciplinary Music Research.