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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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