What will you do with your restless seasons?

Join me for conversations with writers, artists, and friends about the restless places where we
find God in everyday life.

E9// To bless it and leave it
Casey Tygrett Casey Tygrett

E9// To bless it and leave it

This week on the podcast I talk about how we look at former stages of our life & our faith and learn to bless what was good, but leave behind what we cannot take with us. Much of the content from today’s podcast is taken from my book The Gift of Restlessness: A Spirituality For Unsettled Seasons.

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E8//Bread, Longing, and God with Kendall Vanderslice
Casey Tygrett Casey Tygrett

E8//Bread, Longing, and God with Kendall Vanderslice

In this episode we talk with writer, speaker, and gastronomist Kendall Vanderslice about food - specifically, how food connects to the greater story of our life and faith. Our conversation is drawn from her most recent book, On Bread Alone: A Baker’s Reflections on Hunger, Longing, and the Goodness of God.

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E7//A Launch, A Beginning
Casey Tygrett Casey Tygrett

E7//A Launch, A Beginning

This episode celebrates LAUNCH DAY for my new book (and the namesake of this podcast), The Gift of Restlessness: A Spirituality For Unsettled Seasons. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, you can get one here and here.

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E6//On Belonging with Marlena Graves
Casey Tygrett Casey Tygrett

E6//On Belonging with Marlena Graves

Today we talk with author, activist, and professor Marlena Graves about our restlessness around belonging and how racism is, at the core, a spiritual formation issue.

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E5//SAFETY AND LONGING WITH JEFF CROSBY
Casey Tygrett Casey Tygrett

E5//SAFETY AND LONGING WITH JEFF CROSBY

Today we talk with Jeff Crosby about the restlessness of needing to feel safe and how we listen to our longings in restless times.

His book, The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longing Of Our Hearts comes out on May 23.

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e4//Making (And Unmaking) the Bed
Casey Tygrett Casey Tygrett

e4//Making (And Unmaking) the Bed

On this episode of the podcast, I talk about attachment and belonging through the metaphor or making (and unmaking and remaking) our bed. Much thanks to Dr. Renita Weems for the illustration of making the bed, as quoted in Barbara Peacock’s book Soul Care In African-American Practice. (p. 78)

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The Archives

Here are a few wonderful conversations from the otherWISE Podcast…

Aaron Niequist

A conversation about spiritual formation and
Aaron’s book The Eternal Current

Emily P. Freeman

We talk about how to choose the “next right thing”

Aundi
Kolber

On how to approach our trauma & struggle by “trying softer”

Kathy
Kang

Talking about how “Jesus wasn’t white” and why that matters

chuck DeGroat

On what happens when narcissism infects church leadership

K.J.
Ramsey

Finding transformation within our suffering

Brenda Salter
McNeil

How followers of Jesus must engage in racial reconciliation

Kristin
Kobes
Dumez

How John Wayne set the tone for white evangelicals to engage with power and politics

Kaitlyn Schiess

On how politics flow our of our spiritual formation

Padráig O’Tuama

The hopeful way poetry brings us through our grief

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