https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/GregoryColes11-19-17.mp3 https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/GregoryColes11-19-17.mp3 Gregory Coles joins me on the podcast to talk about his personal journey of faith and sexual identity. He talks about what it looks like and feels like to belong nowhere. Choosing to say one is gay sets off all kinds of landmines, especially if the one coming…

https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/MarlenaGraves11-13-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/MarlenaGraves11-13-17.mp3 Marlena Graves—author, writer, speaker, and teacher—joins me on the podcast this week. Marlena has written a terrific book titled, A Beautiful Disaster: finding hope in the midst of brokenness. We spend some time talking about two different passages in the book—first, about how God really sees us, and second, we focus…

https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/NancyLeSourd11-06-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/NancyLeSourd11-06-17.mp3 The New York Times best-selling book Christy by Catherine Marshall celebrates its 50th anniversary. Catherine Marshall, best known for Christy, is the New York Times best-selling author of 30 books. The novel, based on the life of her mother, was once required reading for middle school children in the public school…

https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/KarenMarsh10-30-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/KarenMarsh10-30-17.mp3 Karen Wright Marsh is executive director and cofounder of Theological Horizons, a university ministry. Karen directs daily programs, writes resources and curriculum, teaches weekly classes, mentors students, leads the staff, and speaks at retreats, churches and campus ministries. Karen and her husband live in Charlottesville, Virginia. Besides focusing on…

https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/MaryDeMuth10-23-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/MaryDeMuth10-23-17.mp3 With the hashtag #MeToo showing up all over social media, I knew I needed to record a podcast with Mary DeMuth. She is an author and speaker and has focused on what a Re-storied life looks like–especially after living through sexual abuse or sexual assault. She has written over 30…

https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/mikemurphy10-16-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/mikemurphy10-16-17.mp3 Mike Murphy joins me and we spend time responding to emails, largely about the last two podcasts, so you might want to listen to episode 101 with Melinda Schmidt and Lori Neff, as well as last week’s episode 102 with Mike Murphy and John Lustrea. We talk about friendship…

https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Mike-John10-09-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Mike-John10-09-17.mp3 Mike, John, and Anita at John’s wedding this past summer On this episode of Faith Conversations, I’m joined by Mike Murphy and John Lustrea. It has been a full couple of weeks in the news, and we take some time to talk about some of the news stories that…

https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/lori-melinda09-11-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/lori-melinda09-11-17.mp3 This week I talk with former radio colleagues Melinda Schmidt and Lori Neff. We talk about what we are reading, what we are feeling at this stage of life as we’ve all made a shift in employment, and we laugh together which is no surprise to anyone.

https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Casey-Tygrett09-25-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Casey-Tygrett09-25-17.mp3 Casey Tygrett joins me on the podcast. We focus on a topic near and dear to my heart, Becoming Curious. It just happens to be the name of his book which is subtitled a spiritual practice of asking questions. Casey is the teaching pastor at Heartland Community Church in Rockford, Ill. He…

https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Mike-Murphy09-18-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Mike-Murphy09-18-17.mp3 Hurricane Irma came and went. The aftermath includes what happened before during and after. What does prayer look like in the middle of crisis and in the middle of our everyday lives? Mike Murphy joins me to talk about our thoughts, our emotions, and our spiritual lives in the…