http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/45Mike-Murphy-05-09-16.mp3 http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/45Mike-Murphy-05-09-16.mp3 On this episode of Faith Conversations, my husband Mike Murphy joins me to talk about the art of conversation and to discuss some of the points on his Friday Rumblings, a list that he posts each week on Facebook. You can find his Facebook page here. We get…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Gillian-Marchenko.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Gillian-Marchenko.mp3 Her bio reads like that of many authors. Gillian Marchenko is, besides an author, a speaker, wife, mother, and advocate for individuals with special needs, someone who deals with depression on a daily basis. Her new book Still Life is a memoir. It is her real and raw story, to quote the…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Peter-Enns-4-2016.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Peter-Enns-4-2016.mp3 I grew up in a stream of evangelicalism that deeply valued certainty. I might even say they made it an idol. When I started questioning some of my beliefs, it felt very unsafe to voice that. In fact, in my circles, I watched some become ostracized because of voicing…

http://media.blubrry.com/anitalustrea/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Addie-Zierman2-4-2016.mp3http://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 in…

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…