https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Episode-52-Katherine-Willis-Pershey09-26-16.mp3 https://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Episode-52-Katherine-Willis-Pershey09-26-16.mp3 Katherine Willis Pershey joins me on the podcast this week. Her book, Very Married: Field Notes on Love & Fidelity, is the focus of our conversation. With a foreword by Eugene Peterson, and endorsements from Glennon Doyle Melton, Sarah Bessey, and Seth Haines, you know you have a winner! It…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Episode-51-Michelle-Van-Loon9-19-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Episode-51-Michelle-Van-Loon9-19-16.mp3 Michelle Van Loon is an author and speaker. You can find her writings a variety of places. She is a regular contributor to Christianity Today‘s popular Her.meneutics blog for women, and she blogs for the Patheos.com Evangelical channel. Her recent release, Moments and Days, is the focus of this week’s Faith Conversations.…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Episode-50-Brenda-Garrison9-12-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Episode-50-Brenda-Garrison9-12-16.mp3 Brenda Garrison is someone I met years ago at a Hearts at Home conference. She and I were both workshop presenters. I immediately liked her. Her energy and enthusiasm were contagious! You’ll hear her energy on the podcast. Fast forward a few years. Brenda is now a grandma and…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Episode-49-Shauna-Niequist9-5-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Episode-49-Shauna-Niequist9-5-16.mp3 When your life has revolved around bigger and better and faster, it’s hard to slow down. That pretty much describes most of us born and raised in the west, especially in the United States. Shauna Niequist is no different. Growing up in a mega church and then joining the…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Episode-48Ruth-Everhart8-29-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Episode-48Ruth-Everhart8-29-16.mp3 I first encountered Ruth Everhart‘s writing while reading a friend’s blog post. I knew I had to read her book Ruined. I also knew I could hardly bear to read her book Ruined. When Ruth was a senior at a small midwestern college, two armed intruders held her and her 4 roommates captive and took…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Episode-47-Tracey-Bianchi8-22-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Episode-47-Tracey-Bianchi8-22-16.mp3 Tracey Bianchi is, first and foremost, a friend. She also happens to be one of the pastors at the church I attend. Since my husband is one of the pastors, too, to take the pressure off of him, I consider Tracey to be my pastor, and she is a great…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Episode-46-Michael-Cieslak-8-15-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Episode-46-Michael-Cieslak-8-15-16.mp3 I met Michael Cieslak for the first time via email. He happened upon the Faith Conversations podcast and took a moment to email his appreciation. We share the fuller story on the podcast. A number of weeks later he emailed an article and suggested I might try to book,…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Episode-45-Melinda-Michelle8-8-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Episode-45-Melinda-Michelle8-8-16.mp3 Melinda Schmidt and Michelle Van Loon join me again on the podcast. This time we talk about life transitions and their accompanying grief.     We’ll talk about how people respond to others in transition and how to best walk alongside someone in that season of life. Each of us are…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Episode-44-Mike-Murphy8-1-2016.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Episode-44-Mike-Murphy8-1-2016.mp3 It’s always a fun time to have my husband, Mike Murphy, on the podcast. He is a good thinker and has helped me learn how to think deeper and broader about a variety of issues. He is a pastor, and so Christian faith colors everything he says and does.…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Episode-43-Chris-Fabry7-25-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Episode-43-Chris-Fabry7-25-16.mp3 Chris Fabry and I go back 33 years. I was the first babysitter for his and Andrea’s first child while they took a parenting break to play tennis. An inexperienced babysitter, I was just glad Erin stayed asleep the entire tennis match! Our friendship goes beyond the parent/babysitter relationship, however.…