The Halflight Podcast
The audio liner notes for Joe Day's 2021 album Halflight. In each episode, a guest joins Joe to have an in depth conversation about one song from the album. It’s a podcast about creativity, loneliness, hope, losing faith, relationships, writer’s block, finding faith, evangelicalism, Mars Hill Church, certainty, doubt, church trauma, healing, wonder, surprise, disappointment, prayer, longing; about making the album Halflight. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joeday/support
Episodes
Alex has been through the church-plant ringer a few times. These days when I hear him say something like "*My wealth is in my relationships*" it's always startling because I know a little bit about what he's been through and what it has cost him to uncover that idea. Yet today he keeps plugging away, quietly leading a small church in north Seattle in "*Faithful presence*" to God, self, and others, and doing so with his seeming rele...
When my faith began to unravel, Mike Cosper was one of the people I reached out to. We'd known each other from afar for long enough that I knew he'd have both context and perspective that few people would have. And he did. What I didn't know at the time was that as I shared my story with him, it was in that moment he begun to think "this story needs to be told" and started thinking about making a podcast about it. Specifically the ...
I had always imagined the guest for Don't Let The Fear Capture Your Heart should be the songwriter Sandra McCracken because she strikes me as someone who lives in hope. Not the sanitized, rote cliché, influencer wearing a HOPE T-shirt on an Instagram reel hope. The kind of hope born in the trenches of real life where shit gets messy and hard. Failure. Unmet expectations. Cancer. Divorce. A hope that can find light in those places.&...
Tim Wilson doesn't always quote Def Leopard songs spontaneously, but when he does, he does it with a seriousness and gravitas that transports statements like I'm hot, sticky sweet, from my head to my feet. Yeah! into fodder for a serious discussion on the existential patience required while enduring the long everyday mundanities that occur between life's few mountain-top moments. It's true. He does it in this episode.
Jeremiah Webster’s happy place is a giant Hogwartsian library. Domed ceiling, multiple levels, the coziest light, and teeming with curious people pouring through the pages of poets and philosophers looking for magic. The kind of magic that animates the imagination in the pursuit of the good, the true, and the beautiful. Talking with Jeremiah, you'll see what I mean. He's always ready with a poem, recited (or more accurately, relish...
Sara Billups new book Orphaned Believers is coming out soon, but it has been in the works her entire life. Growing up in an evangelical family the 90s in Indiana didn't quite prepare her for living in Seattle. It took time for her to figure out how to own her faith and be able to talk about it freely. That happened in 2016 as she watched fringe, nationalistic beliefs become mainstream in Trumpy evangelicalism. Since 2018 she's been...
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Joce Aucoin lives for creativity. Whether through her visual art, her writing (if you are interested in creativity at all, her newsletter jump + pray is essential), or her support of creative life of other artists. We met on T...
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Brent James Driscoll (no relation to that other Driscoll) drove into my life in a teal green Prius. It was a borrowed teal green Prius. John Van Deusen & I were on day 1 of our northwest tour and had ran out of gas on Dead Man's Pass ...
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Levi MacAllister (AKA Levi the Poet) has one of the most distinct voices I can think of. A certain presence and force, like gravity turned up a notch, like a voice crying out in the desert to any ear it might reach. The world isn't what i...
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Nirvana’s Nevermind, Pearl Jam’s Ten, R.E.M’s Out of Time, Stone Temple Pilots Core, U2’s Achtung Baby, Alice in Chains Dirt, all came out my freshman year of high school. Me and my friends all belonged to Columbia House because we could get CDs for cheap. When they arrived, I’d peel the cellophane off, press play, and pull the lit...
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