Melanie Penn

Cultivated: A podcast about faith and work

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Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.7 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Melanie Penn’s career has led her from Classical music to Broadway to her current work as a singer songwriter. We talk about what it’s like to make a pivot in your career, about making art as an adult, and about how 9/11 and Tim Keller led her back to Jesus. Follow Melanie on Instagram for updates about her new record and meditations on the Christmas story at https://www.instagram.com/melaniepenn/?hl=en This episode was produced by Mike Cosper It was edited by TJ Hester It was mixed by Mark Owens Our music today is by Melanie Penn. Our Theme Song is by Roman Candle. Special thanks to John and Jenna Starke for letting me turn their kitchen into a recording studio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find
0:07.5	clear answers to tough questions about Christianity. Learn to explain your faith with courage and
0:13.3	compassion. Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail Del Rosario at Apologeticsky.com.
0:22.2	Mike, I live in New York.
0:23.3	I talk so fast.
0:24.8	There's no way I can talk at my normal rate of speech.
0:27.3	I don't care how fast you talk.
0:29.0	This is fine.
0:29.9	The whole thing's done in 20 minutes.
0:31.5	It's done in 20 minutes.
0:31.8	Just warn everyone.
0:32.8	Like, I really talk fast.
0:34.1	Okay.
0:34.5	You know what you really should do. We should kick this thing off with you doing a call back to like one of your Greece performances or something like that.
0:41.9	Yeah, the one than I went. It was an ordinary day. I woke up on a wave. I filled a sail and made
0:49.9	my way to the shore I blew through the center of your town came up on your house
0:56.3	waited there for you to come to your screen door I asked you can you hear me blow
1:03.0	though you don't know where I'm coming from or where I go my musical life my musical journey is so tied to my faith journey because I think I'd say my first solo at church when I was six at a Christmas Eve service at the Falls Church in Falls Church, Virginia.
1:25.7	And I sang once in Royal David's City on Christmas Eve.
1:29.2	And it was a solo.
1:30.7	And I was like, yes, this is for me.
1:34.7	And I didn't really, I didn't embrace Christianity till later in my life.
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