https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/phileenaheuertz12-24-18.mp3 https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/phileenaheuertz12-24-18.mp3 Phileena Heuertz is a spiritual director, yoga instructor, public speaker, retreat guide, and author. She is also a founding partner of Gravity, a Center for Contemplative Activism. On this week’s podcast, we focus on her latest offering, Mindful Silence: The Heart of Christian Contemplation.   One thing most of…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/KathyKhang12-03-18.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/KathyKhang12-03-18.mp3 Kathy Khang joins me on the podcast this week and she admits it can be hard to speak up, especially due to the ugly climate on social media. But it’s important to speak up and to have our voice rooted in the image of God.   On the podcast,…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/rickmckinley12-10-18.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/rickmckinley12-10-18.mp3 Rick McKinley is the founder and lead pastor of Imago Dei Community and a prolific author. He is a nationally known conference speaker at conferences including Q, Catalyst, and The Justice Conference. He has been putting one foot in front of the other in Portland, Oregon, for many years…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ShawnSmucker11-26-18.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ShawnSmucker11-26-18.mp3 Shawn Smucker joins me to tell a story of friendship. It’s a story of unlikely friendship, actually, and one that is beautiful and hard and inconvenient at times. I highly recommend Shawn’s book Once We Were Strangers: What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor.  …

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MelindaSchmidt11-19-18.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MelindaSchmidt11-19-18.mp3 Melinda Schmidt joins me on Faith Conversations this week. It’s been months since we’ve talked on the podcast and it was a wonderful reunion. You know what it’s like to not talk to a friend for a while—one of those really good soul friends—and when you see them you…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/heathadamson11-12-18.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/heathadamson11-12-18.mp3   Heath Adamson is a speaker at conferences, seminars, universities, and churches. He has an amazing backstory coming out of drug abuse and the occult. He currently serves at Convoy of Hope, a global nonprofit focusing on compassion and justice. The focus of our conversation on the podcast is Grace in…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/karenswallowprior11-05-18.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/karenswallowprior11-05-18.mp3 Karen Swallow Prior is an award-winning professor of English at Liberty University and she is an acclaimed author. If you follow her on social media you know that she not only posts thought-provoking articles but also possesses a quick wit.   Our conversation on the podcast centered around her…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gracekim10-29-18.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gracekim10-29-18.mp3   Grace Ji-Sun Kim joins me on the podcast this week as we talk about Healing Our Broken Humanity. Grace and her co-author Graham Hill have written about practices for revitalizing the church and renewing the world. We touch on only some of those practices. Lament and repentance as well as…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/natasharobinson10-22-18.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/natasharobinson10-22-18.mp3   Natasha Robinson joins me on the podcast this week to talk about what it could look like to choose freedom and courage in a divided world. Natasha is an international speaker, leadership consultant, mentoring coach, and the founder of Leadership LINKS, Inc. She is a graduate of the…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/amyjuliabecker10-15-18.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/amyjuliabecker10-15-18.mp3   Amy Julia Becker joins me on the podcast this week to talk about privilege through the vehicle of her book, White Picket Fences: Turning Toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege. The word privilege is one that provokes strong reactions. People often become defensive. Amy Julia Becker talks about…