http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/mike-murphy1-23-17-1.mp3 http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/mike-murphy1-23-17-1.mp3 My husband, Mike Murphy, joins me again as we continue our series on how to move forward when we are stuck. We look at some of the stages of grief and talk about how to refocus our lives after loss. We also open up the Faith Conversations mailbag…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Mike-Murphy-01-16-17.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Mike-Murphy-01-16-17.mp3 My husband, Mike Murphy, joins me on the podcast to talk about how to move forward with our lives when we get stuck. Ever happened to you? My guess is, if you have breath in your lungs, it has happened to you. And when it happens to us, it affects those around…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Renee-Swope01-09-2017.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Renee-Swope01-09-2017.mp3 Everyone longs for meaningful relationships! Community is modeled first by the Trinity–Father, Son, and Holy Spirit–but even with that ultimate model we struggle to develop deep friendships. Sometimes our issue is to admit our need for deeper relationships. Renee Swope is part of the (in)courage community, and they’ve put together…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Tish-Warren01-02-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Tish-Warren01-02-16.mp3 Tish Warren captured my imagination with the concept of life viewed through the lens of liturgy in her book Liturgy of the Ordinary. Annie Dillard’s words, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” are a touchstone for the book, a quote from which everything emanates.…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Leslie-Vernick12-26-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/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 a…

http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/esther-emery12-19-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/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/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Carolyn-Custis-James12-12-16-1.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/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/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Mike-Murphy-transition12-5-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/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/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Episode-59-Mike-Tenbusch.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/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/3954060/anitalustrea.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Mark-Scandrette11-14-16.mp3http://media.blubrry.com/3954060/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…