http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Addie-Zierman2-4-2016.mp3 http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Addie-Zierman2-4-2016.mp3 How do you know God is real? That’s one of the questions Addie Zierman explores in her latest memoir Night Driving. On the podcast this week, Addie Zierman is her usual authentic self. Growing up in an emotionally charged, fire-filled faith, Addie’s journey looks dramatically different today than it did…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Beth-Slevcove4-11-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Beth-Slevcove4-11-16.mp3 Beth Slevcove joins me on the podcast this week. She’s written a helpful book titled Broken Hallelujahs, which deals with the grief we experience due to the big and small losses of life. Who hasn’t experienced loss on some level, right? This has been a season of loss for me. Unexpected…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Dan-Allender3-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Dan-Allender3-16.mp3 Dan Allender has always been at the forefront when it comes to healing sexual abuse and talking honestly about it in the context of the Church and Christian community. 25 years ago he wrote The Wounded Heart. You can imagine that much has changed in the last 25 years as…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/James-Martin3-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/James-Martin3-16.mp3 I haven’t spent much time thinking about how I’ll die let alone the last words I would utter. This is Holy Week and I thought it appropriate to invite Father James Martin, a favorite author of mine, to join me on the podcast to talk about the Seven Last Words…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Marilyn-Gardner3-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Marilyn-Gardner3-16.mp3 Marilyn Gardner is an adult third-culture kid who was raised in Pakistan. She is a public health nurse and is married to Cliff. She birthed 5 kids on 3 continents and then she and Cliff raised them in Pakistan and Egypt. Living now in Cambridge, Mass., she makes trips…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Janet-Davis1.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Janet-Davis1.mp3 Janet Davis is one of my all time favorite people on the planet. In 2007 she rocked my world with her book The Feminine Soul. Currently, in my season of grief, her book Sacred Healing is touching me deeply. This week on the podcast Janet talks about Tiny, Giant Choices. As usual, Janet takes…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Natasha-Robinson.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Natasha-Robinson.mp3 Natasha Robinson is passionate about many things, but at the top of her list is mentoring. She has been actively involved in what she calls intentional discipleship for years. Thankfully for us, she’s committed the ‘how’ of all that into a book called Mentor for Life. Some of the things…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/John-Burke3.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/John-Burke3.mp3 I’ve always been skeptical about near death experiences. I’ve never given any of those movies the time of day that tell the story of someone who has gone to heaven and come back. I roll my eyes at those things and think, “Seriously, you expect me to believe that?” Enter…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PanelAMJTime.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PanelAMJTime.mp3 I love a good conversation. I like sticking to singular topics, but I also enjoy when a variety of topics are raised and the dialog meanders over the river and through the woods and back again. I have no expectation to arrive at grandmother’s house! My husband Mike Murphy…