https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Casey-Tygrett09-25-17.mp3 https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/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.…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Mike-Murphy09-18-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/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…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/John-Lustrea8-2017.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/John-Lustrea8-2017.mp3 John Lustrea joins me on the podcast this week. John is the blog editor and website manager at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. We talk about weddings, marriage, and favorite podcasts. And John introduces us to a new spiritual practice which we demonstrate on the podcast. It…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/melinda-schmidt8-21-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/melinda-schmidt8-21-17.mp3 Melinda joins me once again. If you missed it, she has started a blog. I think she is a wonderful writer and definitely has interesting things to say. The blog is called The Reinvention Experiment. Check it out! We delve into a variety of topics and, of course laugh,…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Daniel-Hill7-31-2017.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Daniel-Hill7-31-2017.mp3 Daniel Hill is the founding pastor of River City Community Church in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago. It is a vibrant, multi-ethnic church. With his new book White Awake, he takes an honest look at what it means to be white. Daniel has wrestled with issues of race and…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/michelle-vanloon08-14-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/michelle-vanloon08-14-17.mp3 Michelle Van Loon joined me again on the podcast. This time we talk about The Perennial Gen, a new blog for middle-aged and older adults. We also talk about God’s discipleship program for us which often involves suffering and hardship. We point to a recent blog post of Michelle’s…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/melinda-schmidt8-7-17.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/melinda-schmidt8-7-17.mp3 It’s great to have Melinda Schmidt back on the podcast. On this week’s episode I read emails from podcast listeners. We get real. I give out info on how to donate to the podcast. If you missed it, you can either give via PayPal or mail a check. For…

https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Caryn-and-Jennifer8-7-2017.mp3https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Caryn-and-Jennifer8-7-2017.mp3 Caryn Rivadeneira and Jennifer Grant join me on this week’s Faith Conversations. The main topic is writing. To be more specific, writing for children and middle grades. Both of these amazing authors have ventured into the children’s literature category and I give their works a big thumbs up. Evidently…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Lori-Neff7-24-2017.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Lori-Neff7-24-2017.mp3 Lori Neff joins me on the podcast this week. We worked together for years on Moody Radio. Today Lori is working as a marketing specialist for InterVarsity Press. We cover a lot of ground on the podcast. We talk radio and publishing and poetry and looking forward after a…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Josh-Larsen7-17-2017.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Josh-Larsen7-17-2017.mp3 Josh Larsen is co-host of the radio show and podcast Filmspotting, as well as an editor and film critic at Think Christian, an online faith and culture magazine. He has recently written Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings. On the podcast we delve into how movies function as expressions to God…