https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/RyanCaseyWaller-01-18-2021.mp3 https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/RyanCaseyWaller-01-18-2021.mp3   Ryan Casey Waller joins me on Faith Conversations to talk about something very important. Depression, Anxiety, and Other Things We Don’t Want to Talk About is the name of his book. What makes the topic even more compelling isn’t the fact that Ryan is a pastor and a therapist, but…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MichelleVanLoon01-11-2021.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MichelleVanLoon01-11-2021.mp3   Michelle Van Loon is back with me as promised last week. This week we delve into the topic of regret as Michelle has written If Only: Letting Go of Regret. But first we talk about the unbelievable events of this week as the Capitol building was under siege and filled…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MichelleVanLoon01-04-2021.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MichelleVanLoon01-04-2021.mp3 Happy New Year, Faith Conversations family! Michelle Van Loon joins me as we kick off a new season of podcasts. We take a look back and a look forward as well as talk about our favorite books of 2020 that might become favorites of yours in 2021. We tease…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/MikeMurphy12-21-2020.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/MikeMurphy12-21-2020.mp3 Mike Murphy joins me for my year-ending podcast where we focus on his most recent “Friday Rumblings.” Part social commentary, part spiritual introspection, a worthy weekly read that Mike posts each Friday on his Facebook page. Follow or Friend him here. I will be taking a break next week.…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/MelindaSchmidt12-14-2020.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/MelindaSchmidt12-14-2020.mp3   Melinda Schmidt joins me on the podcast to talk about perseverance. As we release this podcast during Advent, I realize that the theme of perseverance is pervasive in the Christmas story. Certainly it’s a theme of 2020. But where in your life, prior to this calendar year, can…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/DanKimball12-07-2020.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/DanKimball12-07-2020.mp3   When How (Not) to Read the Bible came across my desk, I took a second look because of the parentheses. Then I saw the subtitle: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture. I decided I needed to talk with author Dan Kimball. My…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MelindaSchmidt11-30-2020.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MelindaSchmidt11-30-2020.mp3 Melinda Schmidt joins me this week on the podcast to talk about waiting. We’ve been in a difficult year that has been all about waiting. We haven’t done it particularly well as a country or in our churches. As we enter the season of Advent, the very theme of…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MelindaSchmidt11-23-2020.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MelindaSchmidt11-23-2020.mp3 Melinda Schmidt joins me again as we look at wrapping up 2020 with our year end observations. We are hoping to spark your thinking about your year and give you time before the actual end of the year. As you can imagine, lots of Covid-19 references as well as…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/KathyEscobar11-16-20.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/KathyEscobar11-16-20.mp3   Kathy Escobar is a favorite guest of mine. She is copastor of The Refuge, a Christian community and mission in North Denver, and a trained spiritual director. I’ve talked to her on the podcast about her books Faith Shift and Practicing. This time we focus on a new advent devotional…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MikeMurphy11-09-2020.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MikeMurphy11-09-2020.mp3   Mike Murphy joins me on the podcast this week as we talk about our historic presidential election. We are not used to waiting beyond election night or early the next morning for election results but nothing about 2020 is business as usual. Listen in as we debrief this…