Interviews

The Dark Road Heading Out of Town
Posted November 16, 2018 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Matthew Stillman in conversation with Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins on the road during the 2018 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour. Matthew Stillman (MS): So we are sitting here in...
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Interview: Stephen Jenkinson with Christopher Ryan from Tangentially Speaking
Posted November 1, 2018 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making...
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Before An Audience
Posted October 26, 2018 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
The life that awaits anyone who’d make a go of it on the road - even for a while, even when invited to do so, even when the venues are...
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Interview: Terra Informa – Stephen Jenkinson on Death, Grief, and the Withering World Tree
Posted October 10, 2018 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
In this interview, author and culture activist Stephen Jenkinson speaks with Terra Informer Dylan Hall about death, grief, and his new book, ‘Come of Age: a case for elderhood in...
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Future Primitive: Elderhood in Troubled Times
Posted August 21, 2018 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
In this week’s episode Stephen Jenkinson speaks with Joanna about: the etymology of the word “catastrophe”; the journey of descent into the mysteries of life; the fundamental function of elderhood;...
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Listen – The Visionary Activist Show KPFA Radio Interview – Death, Sex, Money, Power, Age
Posted March 9, 2018 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Death, Sex, Money, Power, Age: all sacred – orthodoxed into Taboo, now liberated back to vernacular sacred, through the agency of Stephen Jenkinson – filing scouting reports from the life-death...
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Laurie Brown’s Pondercast ‘Death’ Interview With Stephen Jenkinson
Posted January 12, 2018 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Is 2018 the year you will die? Laurie Brown starts the new year with Stephen Jenkinson, contemplating death. "Welcome to 2018! Your year of ____________. (fill in the blank). Ah...
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New Interview: Banyen Books & Sound with Stephen Jenkinson
Posted November 3, 2017 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Farah Nazarali from Banyen Books & Sound interviews Stephen Jenkinson in the lead up to Stephen's upcoming day long teaching in DIE WISE Making Meaning in Vancouver, BC at the...
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Interview: Sanity and Soul – A Conversation with Stephen Jenkinson Facilitated by Vera de Chalambert
Posted October 10, 2017 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Dying well is not a matter of enlightened self-interest or personal preference. Dying well must become an obligation that living people and dying people owe to each other and to...
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