https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AJSherrill10-19-20.mp3 https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AJSherrill10-19-20.mp3 AJ Sherrill joins me on the podcast this week to talk about The Enneagram for Spiritual Formation: How Knowing Ourselves Can Make Us More Like Jesus. Maybe you’ve never heard of the Enneagram or maybe everywhere you turn these days you are hearing about the enneagram. It has become a…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/MichelleDeRusha10-12-20.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/MichelleDeRusha10-12-20.mp3 Michelle DeRusha is back on Faith Conversations! We talk about a variety of topics—from the effects of the pandemic on us, now 7 months in, to the devastating loss of a pet, to good reading that can help sustain us during hard times. Find Michelle’s Back Patio Newsletter here.…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RichVillodas10-05-20.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RichVillodas10-05-20.mp3 Five years ago to the day, I began Faith Conversations! I’m now 245 episodes in and I hope I’ve exceeded expectations 🙂 This week’s episode introduces a new voice to me and likely to some of you—Rich Villodas. Rich is the lead pastor of New Life Fellowship, a large…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MelindaSchmidt09-28-20.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MelindaSchmidt09-28-20.mp3 Melinda and me – 2016   My good friend and wonderful conversation partner, Melinda Schmidt, joins me on the podcast this week. We spend time talking about whether or not we can trust ourselves. Many of us have grown up with the verse Jeremiah 17:9 thrown at us about…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/JemarTisby09-28-20.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/JemarTisby09-28-20.mp3   Jemar Tisby joins me on the podcast this week as we talk about his book The Color of Compromise. In our unfolding conversation, we talk about the American church and how it’s been complicit in racism through history. We also dialog about how there has been some progress in fighting…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/JaredByas-09-07-20.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/JaredByas-09-07-20.mp3   Jared Byas joins me on the podcast this week. My son John is in the cohost chair as we talk with Jared about his brand new release Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps Us from Loving Like Jesus. What does living the Christian life actually look…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MelindaKellySchmidt09-07-20.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MelindaKellySchmidt09-07-20.mp3   On this week’s Faith Conversations, Melinda Schmidt joins me along with her daughter Kelly. It’s always instructive looking at Scriptural stories through the eyes of different generations. We take a look at the story of Eve. It’s a story well worth reading again if it’s been a while…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/BrendaSalterMcNeil08-31-20.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/BrendaSalterMcNeil08-31-20.mp3   Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil joins me on the podcast this week as we talk about her powerful new book Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now. Dr. McNeil says that reconciliation is not true reconciliation without justice! In the course of our conversation she tells parts…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/BeckyEldredge08-24-20.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/BeckyEldredge08-24-20.mp3   Becky Eldredge joins me on the podcast this week as we talk about her book The Inner Chapel: Embracing the Promises of God. We take a look at some important questions as well as important spiritual practices as we talk about this “inner chapel,” as Becky describes it. It’s…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/JohnMike08-17-20.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/JohnMike08-17-20.mp3 John Lustrea and Mike Murphy join me once again to discuss a set of Mike Murphy’s Rumblings. We discuss the ones from 8/7/20. We talk about ritual and intention in life, protesting during the national anthem, decision makers and faith leaders as well as all those making impossible decisions…