Growing OId at Mid-Life--Discovering Hope, Health and Wholeness

<p>This podcast addresses issues of aging, spirituality, and the potential for the aging process to be a time of rediscovering life’s meaning, one’s purpose, and coming to peace with ourselves and others. The aging experience is a unique space for the regeneration of our spiritual, emotional and even physical selves that leads to an integration and wholeness undiscovered earlier in the life course. Conrad L. Kanagy, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at Elizabethtown College (PA) where he has been teaching for nearly three decades. He is also an ordained Protestant minister. Five years ago Dr.Kanagy was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at the age of 52 years. This podcast emerges out of that diagnosis and some of what he has learned. Dr. Kanagy is a seasoned and successful podcaster, creator of a podcast entitled “A Church Dismantled.” The current podcast will air each Tuesday at 6:00 a.m. for the next 18 months and will feature episodes of Dr. Kanagy's personal journey as well as interviews with experts in the field of aging and geriatrics/gerontology, individuals at various stages of the aging process, and with spiritual advisors and chaplains about the aging process. Conrad gratefully acknowledges the following sponsors of the podcast: Mennonite Health Services, Landis Communities (Lancaster, PA), and Stewardship Advisors (Mount Joy, PA). </p>

A love letter to my cancer, the dismantling is of God, and that old song from Wheaton College

With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

04-20
10:15

Fallen trees, Chihuly glass, and a friend to walk me back home

With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

04-19
08:48

Rebooting the podcast, addressing my denial, and the book review of a fellow journeyer

With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

04-19
09:11

It's like everyone has Parkinson's Disease

With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

04-19
07:54

A Hindu colleague, an old cemetery, and the book of Hebrews

With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

04-19
07:08

Conrad Kanagy and Steve Lindsey Share Their Experience of the "Wisdom Project"

In the Fall, 2022, Conrad Kanagy led Garden Spot Village residents and Elizabethtown College first year students through a collaborative story-telling course, where students visited GSV twice and residents visited the College twice. In this podcast, Conrad and Steve (CEO of GSV) share their reflections on the value of such intentional intergenerational experiences.  With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

01-18
01:33

Interview with Evon Bergey and Larry Guengerich of Landis Communities

Great interview with the leadership of Landis Communities--sponsors of the podcast! With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

11-28
32:09

The value of intergenerational relationships: an interview with Scott Miller

Scott Miller is the Chief Marketing Officer of Garden Spot Village and a major reason that we have an intergenerational partnership between Elizabethtown College and GSV. With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

11-01
30:58

What my students thought of the "Mash-Up" when old met young

With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

10-05
08:06

A mash-up breaks out when the "old folks" from Garden Spot Village crash my classroom!

With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

09-28
10:21

"Keys to Life in the Fourth Quarter" with Larry Nikkel

A delightful visit with 80-year old Larry Nikkel, former CEO of Prairie View Psychiatric Hospital (Newton, KS) and President of Tabor College. Larry has created a list of "keys" to living well in the latter quarter of one's life, though he claims he is only at the mid-line! Chock-full of wisdom and the value of faith! With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

09-23
44:25

Understanding a Fighter's Journey with Dr. Conrad Kanagy

This podcast details Dr. Conrad Kanagy's personal journey with Parkinson's Disease. It looks at how to fight the disease and Dr. Kanagy shares his own tips on how to fight back against PD. Dr. Kanagy is interviewed by Chloe Lantz, an Elizabethtown College student, for her podcast entitled "Parkinson's Disease: Gaining Hope and Healing." With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

09-22
25:48

"How to Retire Early and Love It" with Marty Lehman

In this episode my guest Marty Lehman reflects on her counter-cultural decision to retire early, the origins of that decision, the surprises, and how she keeps the day of her death in front of her. This is a wonderful interview in which we discover someone who actually has chosen to do what the literature tells us is most helpful as we grow older. Listen as Marty describes the path not often taken! With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

09-06
28:04

Tony Der Kinderin, born in 1940 in Rotterdam, talks to Generation Z

With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

08-24
37:28

Financial Advice as We Age with John Simkins of Stewardship Advisors LLC

Stewardship Advisors LLC of Mt. Joy, PA is a financial sponsor of this podcast. In this episode Advisor John Simkins gives an overview of the current financial climate and his recommendations for discerning wisely as we age! With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

08-09
29:09

Harvesting wisdom as we age: An interview with CEO Steve Lindsey of Garden Spot Village

In this interview, Steve discloses what he has learned personally about wisdom, what others have conributed to his understanding of the value of wisdom, and how we all benefit when we do the hard work that harvests the wisdom within us! A wonderful interview with great insight from Steve! With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

07-28
35:05

Why digging in the dirt of our lives is so important as we age

With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

06-20
16:57

Amnesia is not forgetting--it is failing to remember

I have recently created a new podcast sponsored by Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village. The initial sessions are on storytelling as we age, and the importance of doing so. I've worked with students for thirty years on this kind of  activity, and am now in the throes of telling Walter Brueggeman's marvelous, mysterious, and divine life story.You may access the podcast at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1923064 which currently has three episodes. Over time you will begin hearing the voices of others more than mine--older folks writing and telling their stories, undergrads from Etown College relaying the stories of elderly but dearly loved grandparents, caregivers, physicians, and gerontologists. I also offer a six-week (12 hours total) workshop on storytelling that you can enroll for 100.00 at this link.  The workshop will begin toward the end of July and run through December. The sessions will be audio and video recorded so if you can't attend any or all you can still purchase the recordings. The link for registering is here https://poynt.godaddy.com/checkout/415bf8c0-3554-4af3-a592-a5934c760734/agingstories, With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

06-11
07:08

Learning to remember our stories and how we produced new worlds

In this third episode, I offer questions to prime the pump of your well of memory, a well that for good reason, often remains covered up and untapped. But there are good things in that well. And the bad? Well, that comes with it. But as an older person you are not the same as when you experienced the bad the first time, and revisiting the well just might be the place of healing. With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

06-10
16:44

Learning to discover the "sacredness" of our stories as we age

In this second episode, I begin a four episode series of coaching listerners to tell and write their stories. I offer a formal course in story-telling that I will offer more details about in future episodes. But you may want a paper and pencils for this episode! With gratitude for their sponsorship and support: Mennonite Health Services, Stewardship Advisors LLC, Landis Communities, and Garden Spot Village!

06-10
28:05

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