https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/adeledougcalhoun03-11-19.mp3 https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/adeledougcalhoun03-11-19.mp3 Most of you know I’m an Enneagram fan. I use the Enneagram with spiritual direction clients and I love how this tool, in the hands of the Holy Spirit, can transform lives. On this week’s podcast, I have the joy of talking with long-time friends, Doug and Adele…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/carameredith03-04-19.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/carameredith03-04-19.mp3 Cara Meredith joins me on this episode of Faith Conversations. Her memoir, The Color of Life: A Journey Toward Love and Racial Justice, tells her story of growing up in a white bubble where everyone looked just like her. Then she fell in love with the son of a black civil…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dominiquegilliard02-25-19.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dominiquegilliard02-25-19.mp3 Grateful to be joined on the podcast by Dominique Gilliard. His book, Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating For Justice That Restores, is a critical book to read if you have interest in advocating for the poor or interest in what is happening racially in our country. Gilliard says that mass incarceration has become…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/jonathanbrooks02-18-19.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/jonathanbrooks02-18-19.mp3 Jonathan Brooks joins me on the podcast this week as we talk about Church Forsaken, which is all about practicing presence in neglected neighborhoods. Jonathan, known as “Pastah J,” is pastor of Canaan Community Church in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. He has a master of divinity in Christian Community Development from Northern…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/melindaschmidt02-11-19.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/melindaschmidt02-11-19.mp3 Melinda Schmidt joins me on the podcast as we follow up on the ancestry topic of last week. We step into a conversation on using our gifts and teaching others to open them up to spiritual practices and scripture in new ways. Mentioned: Immerse Find Melinda: • blog •…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/melindamichelle02-04-19.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/melindamichelle02-04-19.mp3  Melinda Schmidt and Michelle Van Loon join me on this week’s Faith Conversations to talk about ancestry. We had a long conversation in a text thread between us talking about family and those boxes of pictures that are waiting to be sorted through. Michelle wrote a beautiful line where…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MikeMurphy01-28-19.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MikeMurphy01-28-19.mp3 It’s been a while since Mike Murphy has joined me on the podcast. Always provocative, this episode is no different. We talk about Martin Luther King Jr., the late poet Mary Oliver, and we certainly touch on political things as we use Mike’s Friday Rumblings from January 25, 2019,…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dianashiflett01-21-19.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dianashiflett01-21-19.mp3   Diana Shiflett has been leading people into the heart of God for years. She has been opening up the world of spiritual practices to them in the context of community. She joins me on Faith Conversations this week to walk us through a number of the spiritual practices…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MichelleDeRusha01-14-19.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MichelleDeRusha01-14-19.mp3 Have you ever thought of decluttering your heart, mind, and soul? Or do you even have a handle on what that might look like? When we start letting go of false identities, our relationships change including our relationship with God. On this week’s Faith Conversations, Michelle DeRusha joins me…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ruthhaleybarton01-07-19.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ruthhaleybarton01-07-19.mp3   We talk about time away with God, then often never get around to it. Ruth Haley Barton joins me on the podcast to focus in on her latest offering, Invitation to Retreat. If you are like me, in this new year, you want to make it happen and not…