season 2.6 episode 013: Liza Long and Re-Thinking the Unthinkable
Episode 12: The All That's Holy: Blue Collar Podcast Interview with Liza Long
Craig's got an incredibly talented friend. Liza is an accomplished pianist, can read both Greek and Latin with equal ease, and knows more than anyone should have to about how to find mental health care for kids.
In this episode, Crash-test catches up with….oops, we're having trouble getting the episode edited...
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As we were saying, Crash-test Craig catches up with one of his friends in this episode, Liza Long. Liza is a bit hard to categorize. Her influences run deep and her interests are about as wide as the horizon. Shaped by her Mormon background, educated as a Classics scholar, practicing Roman Catholic who attends a Unitarian church, skilled pianist, poet, and accidental political activist.
Liza’s political activism arose from her own experience as a mother of a child with a severe mental illness. Shortly after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, she wrote an essay on her blog The AnarchistSoccerMom, entitled Thinking the Unthinkable. Immediately going viral, the essay was picked up published by Huffington Post. Soon, millions had read I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother’: A Mom’s Perspective On The Mental Illness Conversation In America, read the essay here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother-mental-illness-conversation_n_2311009.html. Before long, Liza was on Dr. Phil, the Diane Rehm Show, Oprah, PBS Frontline, TED Talks and many other media outlets.
Liza tells her story, and the story of other families, in The Price of Silence: A Mom’s Perspective on Mental Illness.
Follow Liza from multiple online locations: On Twitter, Facebook and YouTube
And, The Anarchist Soccer Mom and at lizalong.com
Christ & Cascadia: An brief interview with Matthew Kaemingk
Christ & Cascadia’s mission is to serve Christian leaders and communities serving in this unique cultural space. Matthew is the Editor-In-Chief of Christ & Cascadia and the Executive Director of the Fuller Institute of Theology and Northwest Culture. He lives in Shoreline, Washington with his wife Heather and their three sons Calvin, Kees, and Caedmon. He grew up sailing in the Puget Sound, camping in the Cascades, and cheering for the Seattle Seahawks.
We will be having more conversations with Matthew as the next Christ &Cascadia Conference get closer.
Learn more about Christ & Cascadia and the annual Cascadia Conference, this year hosting a conference on creation care, November 11th, 2017 in Seattle, WA.
Music in this episode
The Strumbellas – Spirit: You can check out their website at and pick their merch and music there, or at iTunes.
Lady Gaga - The Cure: Available at iTunes and find out more at: Find out more from her site: https://www.ladygaga.com/
Eminem ft. Rihanna - The Monster: on YouTube on iTunes
Hanson - I Was Born: Remember those little kids back in 1992 (I do, I may be the only one only enough)? Well, they grew up and are still making music. Check out their story at hanson.net and pick up their song on iTunes.
