http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/VanLoon-Murphy-4-3-17.mp3 http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/VanLoon-Murphy-4-3-17.mp3 Michelle Van Loon is a marvelous writer and speaker. She is always thoughtful and it was wonderful to have her join Mike and me in our Florida Room for a conversation. Michelle’s latest book is Moments and Days and it is worth the read. I talked with her…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/mike-mchargue03-27-17.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/mike-mchargue03-27-17.mp3 Mike McHargue is a fascinating figure. He was born and raised Southern Baptist, but along the way stuff happened. Questions came. Doubts crept—well, actually—raced in. Marriage and children came and church involvement expanded to the role of Deacon. How do you live as a Southern Baptist Deacon and an…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/erinloechner03-20-17.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/erinloechner03-20-17.mp3 Erin Loechner is a former HGTV.com personality and before the age of 30 had built a fan base of one million women worldwide through her blog Design for Mankind. She’d also earned the title “The Nicest Girl Online.” She had it all with more knocking on her door. What…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/erinstraza-3-13-17.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/erinstraza-3-13-17.mp3 Erin Straza is managing editor of Christ and Pop Culture Digital Magazine, host of Persuasion podcast, and author of Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom From Habits That Bind You. You might guess that she is a thoughtful woman with great outlets for her creativity and thought at her disposal. You’d be right. As we focused…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/mike-murphy03-06-17.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/mike-murphy03-06-17.mp3 My husband Mike Murphy joins me this week on Faith Conversations. We talk about a variety of things including Lent, important self-reflective questions, and lying. Here is the Lenten devotional Mike and I subscribe to and are really enjoying. It is a product of Biola University and their Center…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Suanne-Camfield-02-27-17.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Suanne-Camfield-02-27-17.mp3 Suanne Camfield had a dream, a God-given dream, that took years to come to fruition. Most of us have some kind of dream fermenting in us, but wonder if it will ever be realized. In her book The Sound of a Million Dreams, a memoir, she talks about what it feels…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/leslie-leyland-fields-02-20-17.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/leslie-leyland-fields-02-20-17.mp3 Leslie Leyland Fields is not only an award-winning author of ten books, but also a commercial fisherwoman for four decades working with her husband and six children in a salmon fishing operation on their won island off the coast of Kodiak Island, Alaska. So when someone like Leslie writes about…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/steven-curtis-chapman-02-13-17.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/steven-curtis-chapman-02-13-17.mp3 Steven Curtis Chapman is synonymous with Christian music. His career has spanned 30 years and is still going. He has mentored countless young, up-and-coming artists including those under his own roof. His sons Will Franklin and Caleb have now made their own mark as Colony House. Will’s wife, Jillian Edwards,…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Dale-Hanson-Bourke2-6-17.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Dale-Hanson-Bourke2-6-17.mp3 Dale Hanson Bourke wrote Immigration: Tough Questions, Direct Answers (The Skeptic’s Guide), which makes her the perfect person to help me understand immigration and refugees. On the podcast, Dale talks about how people immigrate to the United States and how refugees come to live in this country. She also spends time on the process…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Tara-Owens01-30-17.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Tara-Owens01-30-17.mp3 Tara Owens is senior editor for Conversations Journal. She also provides spiritual direction through Anam Cara Ministries and is a part-time instructor for the Benedictine Spiritual Formation Program at Benet Hill Monastery. She, along with her husband and daughter, make their home in Colorado Springs. Tara focuses on a much neglected…