Keeping Dad Alive

12/15/2022

New Bonus Episode now posted: "Archives, Sibs, and Toss"

Join Margaret and Kerry as they sift through and dispose of their parents' legacy, finding moments of sorrow, humor, and peace.

Richard and Eunice left behind a 100 boxes’ worth of personal papers and family records. Margaret and her sister Kerry must dispose of it all.

12/27/2021

Dear Listeners,
I’m Margaret Poethig and I have some news about my dad Richard. He passed away on November 22, in 2021, at 96. He died, with exquisite grace, of old age.

This episode of the podcast was recorded last year, but never posted. It's titled, "Requiem for Impossible Matter"
https://keepingdadalive.com/season2-requiem-for-impossible-matter/

Richard imagines life after death on an undiscovered planet in a far-flung galaxy where he can recreate his life with his beloved wife Eunice.

Thank you for listening.

11/17/2021

Episode 6 (Season 2): Mr. Richard
Richard is in hospice and bed bound and needs caregivers 24-hours-a-day. He marvels at all the attention. For his caregivers, it’s a vocation in the deepest sense of the word. Richard makes a case for more public support for caregiving.
Find a link to the podcast in the replies.

09/15/2021

Episode 5 (Season 2): A Bold Move to a New World
Richard is about to embark on his final journey. He recounts an earlier voyage by train, boat, and plane with his young family to their new home in the Philippines. On a stopover in Japan, Richard attends a conference about his new vocation: the urban-industrial mission of the church.

Richard is about to embark on his final journey. He recounts an earlier voyage by train, boat, and plane with his young family to their new home in the Philippines. On a stopover in Japan, Richard attends a conference about his new vocation: the urban-industrial mission of the church.

08/15/2021

08/13/2021

Episode 4 (Season 2): Hellish Jobs
What does vocation mean to someone in a hellish job? The Ministers in-Industry-Program put seminarians to work in steel mills to teach them what the industrial system does to people.

If you've ever had a hellish job, and even if you haven't, you'll get a new perspective on it from Richard and Margaret in this episode of the Vocation Season.

https://keepingdadalive.com/season2-episode4-hellish-jobs/

07/23/2021

Episode 2 (Season 2): Good Will
People popped up in Richard’s life and gave him direction. Call this vocation, good will, or “breaking the spell”—each one altered the course of his life. And it started with the neighbor, Mrs. Masek.

https://keepingdadalive.com
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07/23/2021

Finally! A new episode of Season 2:
Episode 3 - Henny and Ernest

"Richard, the son of a working class father and a mother with higher aspirations, found a way to honor them both through his vocation. Richard’s sister Erna helps memorialize their resilient lives."

07/10/2021

Zach - whoever you are - thank you for listening and maintaining Keeping Dad Alive’s 5-star rating on Apple podcasts.

06/23/2021

Episode 1 (Season 2) - Cosmic Theologian, is now available.

Margaret asks "why do you talk so much about vocation?” Richard’s surprising answer spans time and space—from Luther’s understanding of Beruf that launched the Protestant Reformation to Richard’s current theological ideas about what holds the universe together.

At the start of Season 2, Margaret asks “why do you talk so much about vocation?” Richard’s surprising answer spans time and space—from Luther’s understanding of Beruf, which launched the Protestant Reformation, to Richard’s current theological ideas about what holds the universe togethe...

06/20/2021

Listen to the trailer for Season 2 — On Vocation

‎Society & Culture · 2020