http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Leslie-Vernick12-26-16.mp3 http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Leslie-Vernick12-26-16.mp3 Leslie Vernick is a wise voice. She is a relational coach with a focus on helping women in difficult relationships. Her latest book, The Emotionally Destructive Marriage, is essential for anyone in a difficult and possibly abusive marriage. On the podcast we talk about how each of us just made…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/esther-emery12-19-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/esther-emery12-19-16.mp3 Esther Emery is effervescent and fascinating. Not only is she a beautiful writer, but her subject matter hit me where it hurts. She disconnected from the internet for a whole year. In her book, What Falls From the Sky, she recounts what precipitated her disconnection and how the quiet space that…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Carolyn-Custis-James12-12-16-1.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Carolyn-Custis-James12-12-16-1.mp3 Carolyn Custis James began her influence on my life when I found a copy of her first book, When Life and Beliefs Collide. Her influence continued with each subsequent book. I’m pleased she could join me this week as we focus on her very relevant book, Malestrom. There are a plethora…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Mike-Murphy-transition12-5-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Mike-Murphy-transition12-5-16.mp3 This week’s podcast is all about a huge transition taking place in Mike’s and my life. He is my guest and we are talking with everyone who encounters transitions in life. So, basically, everyone on the planet. We are leaning into this advent season and leaning into God as…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Episode-59-Mike-Tenbusch.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Episode-59-Mike-Tenbusch.mp3 Mike Tenbusch is fearless. He is inspiring and he has written an important book with a powerful message for anyone who despairs about neighborhoods riddled with poverty and schools with struggling students. In fact, if you give Mike a hearing, God might just tap you on the shoulder to…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Mark-Scandrette11-14-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Mark-Scandrette11-14-16.mp3 Mark Scandrette stopped by my kitchen table to talk about something he and his wife Lisa have written about and are passionate about—and that is, how to create a thriving family culture. In their new book, Belonging and Becoming, Mark and Lisa cast a compelling vision for all that a family…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Makoto-Fujimura09-27-2016.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Makoto-Fujimura09-27-2016.mp3 Makoto Fujimura is an internationally renowned artist, writer, and speaker. He serves as the director of Fuller Theological Seminary’s Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts. Above all, Fujimura is recognized worldwide as a cultural shaper. He is a fascinating person with a deep heart of compassion and…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/john-mike-anita10-28-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/john-mike-anita10-28-16.mp3 My son John came home from South Carolina for a week. He gets married this coming June, so my opportunities to have him join me on the podcast won’t come along as often, and I am always interested to hear thoughts from younger voices. My husband Mike Murphy also…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Brian-McLaren10-4-2016.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Brian-McLaren10-4-2016.mp3 Brian McLaren joins me this week on the podcast. His latest book, The Great Spiritual Migration, grabbed my attention from the first words. As I read the subtitle, How the World’s Largest Religion is Seeking a Better Way to be Christian, I thought about the current election cycle and all that I’m reading…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/James-Martin9-27-2016.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/James-Martin9-27-2016.mp3 Father James Martin makes a return visit to Faith Conversations this week. The focus of our conversation, which includes my husband Mike Murphy as co-host, is Father Martin’s book My Life With the Saints. It is the 10th anniversary of the book’s publication and Father James wrote a new epilogue…