Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton

By Ruth Haley Barton

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A lively dialogue with Ruth Haley Barton about forging and maintaining a life-giving connection with God in the midst of leading. Learn more at www.transformingcenter.org.

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Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton episodes:

04.01.2024
Easter Monday | Transforming Post-Resurrection Encounters with Jesus (A Replay)
We are revisiting last year’s Easter Monday episode because we found the reflections to still be so timely with the themes we discussed during this season of the podcast. We hope it encourages and blesses you on this Easter Monday. He...
03.28.2024
S22 Ep7: Walking With Jesus in His Suffering During Holy Week
In this special episode, Ruth wraps up our season on suffering and the formation of hope and ushers us into the last few days of Holy Week. Holy Week allows us to practice true unity with Jesus, the “at-one-ment” she...
03.27.2024
S22 Ep 6: A Hope That Does Not Disappoint
This week concludes our conversations with Curt Thompson, MD. Ruth and Curt examine what makes for a safe community. Why is it important to experience places of tension, hurt, and repair in the community? They also discuss the meaning of...
03.20.2024
S22 Ep 5: This is Hard! The Role of Endurance in Forming a Durable Hope
How does endurance or perseverance fit into this process of having a durable hope formed in us? How do we know we are making progress in this endeavor? What do we do with the stories we tell ourselves about the...
03.13.2024
S22 Ep4 | Hope in the Midst of Collective Suffering
This week we are taking a break from our conversations with Curt and his book The Deepest Place to talk about a different aspect of suffering: the communal, unmerited suffering that comes from oppression. Friend of the Transforming Center, Leo...
03.06.2024
S22 Ep 3 | What Does God’s Glory Have to Do With Our Suffering?
What does God’s glory have to do with our suffering? How do we wrestle with the crucifixion of Christ and the issue of atonement as it relates to suffering and God’s anger? How do we determine when we are the...
02.28.2024
S22 Ep 2 | Compassion and Curiosity: Attuning to Different Parts of our Suffering
In this episode, Ruth and Curt dive all the way into the deep end as they discuss attachment, attunement, and internal family systems. The pair also tackle the importance of embodiment in this healing work of suffering and durable hope....
02.21.2024
S22 Ep 1 | What’s Suffering Got to Do With It (Our Transformation)?
What does suffering have to do with our transformation? That is the question Ruth and Curt explore this season on the podcast! In today’s episode, they discuss how the Christian story is the only one that honors suffering, the difference...
02.14.2024
BONUS: Preparing for Lent | Fashioning Your Own Desert
Lent is upon us again. In this special bonus episode, Ruth shares her remarks from our recent live, virtual event designed to help us prepare for Lent. Lent is for everyone, but it has a special application for spiritual leaders,...
12.23.2023
Visio Divina Guided Practice | Assumptions
We were so lucky to have Scott Erickson on the podcast this season! Not only did he share his wisdom and thoughtfulness, but he also shared his art and his spiritual director expertise! Over on Patreon each week we chose...
12.22.2023
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 4: Where is God in the Unfolding?
We’ve reached the end of our Advent journey. Ruth, Scott, and Charity come together one last time to wonder where God is in the darkness, the unfolding, and the journey. Scott shares a story of God’s intimate revelation during his...
12.15.2023
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 3: Where is God in My Humanity?
Ruth, Scott, and Charity continue their journey through Advent with a conversation around Scott’s pieces, Sacred and Mighty. With these images, they explore where God is in our humanity, in our broken, imperfect bodies, and in the mightiness God displayed...
12.08.2023
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 2: Where is God in my Vulnerability?
This week, as Ruth, Scott, and Charity examine Scott’s “cover” of Sister Grace Remington’s beautiful painting Mary and Eve, they delve into womanhood, mothering, and the invitation to embrace vulnerability this advent. Why is it so scandalous to talk about...
12.01.2023
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 1: Where is God in My Uncertainty?
As we mark the first week of Advent we are examining the Annunciation. How do we define a revelation and what does it expose in us? What does a revelation do to our plans and certainty? Where is God in...
11.24.2023
Season 21: Preparing for Advent: Honest Longings, Honest Questions
Advent is upon us again. This season, we’ve invited artist, author, and speaker Scott Erickson to join us. Transforming Center team member Charity McClure is also on the microphone. Together with Ruth, the three will discuss how an honest Advent...
11.15.2023
Season 20: Episode 7 | This is Fun, Y’all: The Joy and Hope of Transforming Worship
Ruth sits down with producer Colleen to wrap up season 20 of the podcast. They share their learnings and highlights from these conversations and Ruth answers a listener’s question about how to bring transformative worship to your congregation if you...
11.08.2023
Season 20: Episode 6 | What about my puppets? Beyond Programming to Worship that Changes Us
David, Charity, and Leo return with Ruth to continue their conversation from last week. In an episode that could have been titled, “Confessions of Professional Christians,” these four vulnerably and candidly share their own struggles with perfectionism at the cost...
11.01.2023
Season 20: Episode 5 | Worship on Earth as it is In Heaven: The Transforming Power of Diversity
We have a full house for today’s episode! Ruth and Rory are joined by David Bailey, Leo Ayala, and Charity McClure. Sunday morning continues to be the most segregated hour of the week and many of us find ourselves longing...
10.25.2023
Season 20: Episode 4 | The Pain and the Promise of Communion
In today’s episode Ruth and Rory are joined by Aaron Damiani, an Anglican pastor, to discuss the worship practice of Communion. Ruth and Rory share about their own painful experiences trying to celebrate the eucharist across denominations in the early...
10.18.2023
Season 20: Episode 3 | Re-thinking Sunday Mornings: Creating Space for God
This week Ruth and Rory brought in podcast producer Colleen Powell to discuss the problem of Sunday morning. Is it even possible to experience transformative worship in a one hour Sunday morning (or Saturday evening) service? Should you stay at...
10.11.2023
Season 20: Episode 2 | Beyond Auto Pilot: Worship that is Spiritually Substantive
In today’s episode Aaron Niequist joins Ruth and Rory to discuss the practices that make up Transforming Worship. They discuss how Covid revealed just how little participation was required in most church services, the temptation leaders face to create emotional...
10.06.2023
FROM PATREON: Principles of Transforming Worship
Today we are sharing a clip from an episode that was released over on Patreon. This is a conversation between Rory and Ruth about what they both consider to be the principles of transforming worship. They draw from the ideas...
10.04.2023
Season 20: Episode 1 | Beyond the Frenzy: Worship that Transforms
We’re back! This season we’re focusing on worship, particularly worship that is transformative. Our season long guest is Rory Noland and we will be working with his book, Transforming Worship: Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered....
08.22.2023
FROM PATREON: A Special Conversation about Justice with Sandra Van Opstal
This is a replay of an episode we released only to patrons of The Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership podcast. While we take a small hiatus from normal programming to attend to the work of The Transforming Center as...
08.08.2023
FROM PATREON: Ask Ruth #8: Questions about A Just Lent
This is a replay of an episode we released only to patrons of The Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership podcast. While we take a small hiatus from normal programming to attend to the work of The Transforming Center as...
07.25.2023
REPLAY Season 17: Episode 5 | The Power of Unplugging
This is a replay of a previous episode of The Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership podcast. While we take a small hiatus from normal programming to attend to the work of The Transforming Center as well as a special...
07.11.2023
REPLAY Season 16: Episode 6 | Second Order Change: Recognizing and Dissolving Stuck Patterns
This is a replay of a previous episode of The Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership podcast. While we take a small hiatus from normal programming to attend to the work of The Transforming Center as well as a special...
06.27.2023
REPLAY Season 10: Episode 7 | The Classic Spiritual Disciplines
This is a replay of a previous episode of The Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership podcast. While we take a small hiatus from normal programming to attend to the work of The Transforming Center as well as a special...
06.13.2023
REPLAY: Season 6: Episode 4 | Finding Your Rhythm on Retreat
This is a replay of a previous episode of The Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership podcast. While we take a small hiatus from normal programming to attend to the work of The Transforming Center as well as a special...
05.16.2023
Special Mini-Episode: A State of the Podcast Announcement
Hello! We’re popping in the podcast feed with a little “State of the Podcast” announcement (don’t worry! It’s not ending!). Ruth gives a peak behind the curtain as to what is happening over at the Transforming Center this year and...
04.10.2023
Season 19: Easter Monday | Transforming Post-Resurrection Encounters with Jesus
He is Risen, indeed! Happy Easter Monday, friends. Today, Ruth helps us celebrate the Risen Christ with five stories of post-resurrection encounters with Jesus. In each story she helps us consider our own invitations to transforming encounters with Jesus that...
04.03.2023
Season 19: Lent Week 6 | Lament: Saying No to Triumphalism
As we head into Holy Week Ruth is joined by Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah to discuss the importance of Lament as a part of justice work. What is lament and why is it important? How does it help us to...
03.27.2023
Season 19: Lent Week 5 | Communal Suffering: Can These Bones Live?
Our dream team from episode one returns this week to discuss communal suffering and the Paschal Mystery. Ruth is joined again by David Bailey and Tina Harris to explore these topics. How do oppressed people experience the Paschal Mystery? What...
03.20.2023
Season 19: Lent Week 4 | Opposing Violent Injustice: Bringing Light to the Darkest Places
Ruth is joined by Gary Haugen on today’s episode. Gary Haugen has spent most of his career fighting injustice at the systemic level as a lawyer and founder of International Justice Mission. Ruth and Gary discuss the moment Gary realized...
03.13.2023
Season 19: Lent Week 3 | The Work of Justice: Healing our Broken Ways
This week, Ruth and Tina are joined by Sheila Wise Rowe to discuss racial trauma and collective healing. What exactly is racial trauma and what is the long term impact of this trauma on people of color? How can the...
03.06.2023
Season 19: Lent Week 2 | Colonialism and Christianity: Bible Translation as a Work of Justice
In week two, Ruth and Transforming Center team member Tina Harris sit down with Terry Wildman, translator of the First Nations Version of the New Testament. The three discuss the tragic impact colonialism has had on indigenous people, the part...
03.03.2023
Season 19: Lent Week 2 | Colonialism and Christianity: Bible Translation as a Work of Justice
In week two, Ruth and Transforming Center team member Tina Harris sit down with Terry Wildman, translator of the First Nations Version of the New Testament. The three discuss the tragic impact colonialism has had on indigenous people, the part...
02.27.2023
Season 19: Lent Week 1| Confession: What We Have Done and What We Have Left Undone
In week one, Ruth brings back Transforming Center team member Tina Harris, and guest Dominique DuBois Gilliard to look at the theme of confession. The three discuss the relational nature of justice, how our silence, inaction, and indifference to injustice...
02.20.2023
Season 19: Lent Ash Wednesday | Invitation to a Just Lent: Learning to Love What God Loves
This season we are focusing on justice as an aspect of spiritual formation and we believe Lent to be the perfect season to explore this connection. Using A Just Passion: A Six-Week Lenten Journey, and the lectionary, we will look...
02.07.2023
Season 18: Episode 5 | What about the Congregation? How Everyone Benefits from a Pastor’s Sabbatical
We are wrapping up our sabbatical season by turning our attention to the congregation; how does a congregation benefit from a pastor’s sabbatical. Ruth sits down with her brother, Pastor Jonathan Haley, to discuss the thoughtful and intentional ways he...
01.31.2023
Season 18: Episode 4 | Are You Willing to Quit Your Job: Sabbatical for the Rest of Us
Are sabbaticals just for pastors? This week, Ruth sits down with guest Andy Crouch to talk about sabbatical from an everyman perspective. Andy has taken full responsibility for his own rhythm of regular sabbaticals by saving up and risking the...
01.24.2023
Season 18: Episode 3 | Boundaries: Protecting What is Precious
Inevitably, every sabbatical will meet a challenge, a place where the outside world creeps in and threatens to call you back to the work you’ve committed to set aside. When that happens, what is a leader to do? Ruth sits...
01.17.2023
Season 18: Episode 2 | More Than a Vacation: Planning for a Meaningful Sabbatical
We have two extra special guests this week! First, Ruth sits down with Christine Lee, Priest-in-Charge of St. Peter’s Chelsea in New York City. She and Ruth discuss how Christine discerned what was most important for her sabbatical and how...
01.10.2023
Season 18: Episode 1 | When Sabbath Isn’t Enough: Embracing the Gift of Sabbatical
Happy New Year! We are ringing in the new year by talking about sabbatical! Friend of the Transforming Center Rick McCall is back with us, and he and Ruth are sharing their experiences with sabbaticals, what ways Ruth sees it...
11.22.2022
Bonus: Advent 2022 Year A
We find ourselves again beginning a new Christian year with Advent. This year the lectionary finds us in Cycle A. In this episode Ruth helps us prepare for advent with an invitation to use this season as actual space to...
11.08.2022
Season 17: Episode 11 | Sabbath Journey: Do Something Before You Do Everything
We’re wrapping up our sabbath season with a solo episode. Ruth is on the mic to help us discern the something we can do to start our sabbath journey. What are your invitations and resistances? What are the obstacles you...
11.01.2022
Season 17: Episode 10 | Fruit and Frustration: Creating a Culture Where Everyone Can Rest
As we’ve camped out around this idea of a “sabbath community” the last few weeks, we’ve explored the possibility and very real struggles of what that kind of commitment to sabbath looks like for pastors. This week we’re speaking with...
10.25.2022
Season 17: Episode 9 | Getting Honest About the Challenges of Sabbath Community
Today’s conversation is an honest and vulnerable one about the challenges of leading communities in the ways of the sabbath. Ruth sits down with Christine Lee who leads a busy church in New York City. Christine shares her own journey...
10.18.2022
Season 17: Episode 8 | Sabbath Leaders Cultivating Sabbath Communities
Over the next few episodes we are turning our attention from a leader’s personal sabbath practice towards how they can form and shape their communities around sabbath. We’ll be talking to a number of pastors and leaders about their efforts...
10.11.2022
Season 17: Episode 7 | Sabbath Rhythms During Seasons of Singleness and Care-giving
In this episode we continue discussing how each season or stage of life presents its own challenges and opportunities with regard to sabbath keeping. Today we’re joined by two guests, Phaedra Blocker and Vicki Degner. In the first half Phaedra and...

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Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton episodes:

Easter Monday | Transforming Post-Resurrection Encounters with Jesus (A Replay)

S22 Ep7: Walking With Jesus in His Suffering During Holy Week

S22 Ep 6: A Hope That Does Not Disappoint

S22 Ep 5: This is Hard! The Role of Endurance in Forming a Durable Hope

S22 Ep4 | Hope in the Midst of Collective Suffering

S22 Ep 3 | What Does God’s Glory Have to Do With Our Suffering?

S22 Ep 2 | Compassion and Curiosity: Attuning to Different Parts of our Suffering

S22 Ep 1 | What’s Suffering Got to Do With It (Our Transformation)?

BONUS: Preparing for Lent | Fashioning Your Own Desert

Visio Divina Guided Practice | Assumptions

Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 4: Where is God in the Unfolding?

Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 3: Where is God in My Humanity?

Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 2: Where is God in my Vulnerability?

Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 1: Where is God in My Uncertainty?

Season 21: Preparing for Advent: Honest Longings, Honest Questions

Season 20: Episode 7 | This is Fun, Y’all: The Joy and Hope of Transforming Worship

Season 20: Episode 6 | What about my puppets? Beyond Programming to Worship that Changes Us

Season 20: Episode 5 | Worship on Earth as it is In Heaven: The Transforming Power of Diversity

Season 20: Episode 4 | The Pain and the Promise of Communion

Season 20: Episode 3 | Re-thinking Sunday Mornings: Creating Space for God

Season 20: Episode 2 | Beyond Auto Pilot: Worship that is Spiritually Substantive

FROM PATREON: Principles of Transforming Worship

Season 20: Episode 1 | Beyond the Frenzy: Worship that Transforms

FROM PATREON: A Special Conversation about Justice with Sandra Van Opstal

FROM PATREON: Ask Ruth #8: Questions about A Just Lent

REPLAY Season 17: Episode 5 | The Power of Unplugging

REPLAY Season 16: Episode 6 | Second Order Change: Recognizing and Dissolving Stuck Patterns

REPLAY Season 10: Episode 7 | The Classic Spiritual Disciplines

REPLAY: Season 6: Episode 4 | Finding Your Rhythm on Retreat

Special Mini-Episode: A State of the Podcast Announcement

Season 19: Easter Monday | Transforming Post-Resurrection Encounters with Jesus

Season 19: Lent Week 6 | Lament: Saying No to Triumphalism

Season 19: Lent Week 5 | Communal Suffering: Can These Bones Live?

Season 19: Lent Week 4 | Opposing Violent Injustice: Bringing Light to the Darkest Places

Season 19: Lent Week 3 | The Work of Justice: Healing our Broken Ways

Season 19: Lent Week 2 | Colonialism and Christianity: Bible Translation as a Work of Justice

Season 19: Lent Week 2 | Colonialism and Christianity: Bible Translation as a Work of Justice

Season 19: Lent Week 1| Confession: What We Have Done and What We Have Left Undone

Season 19: Lent Ash Wednesday | Invitation to a Just Lent: Learning to Love What God Loves

Season 18: Episode 5 | What about the Congregation? How Everyone Benefits from a Pastor’s Sabbatical

Season 18: Episode 4 | Are You Willing to Quit Your Job: Sabbatical for the Rest of Us

Season 18: Episode 3 | Boundaries: Protecting What is Precious

Season 18: Episode 2 | More Than a Vacation: Planning for a Meaningful Sabbatical

Season 18: Episode 1 | When Sabbath Isn’t Enough: Embracing the Gift of Sabbatical

Bonus: Advent 2022 Year A

Season 17: Episode 11 | Sabbath Journey: Do Something Before You Do Everything

Season 17: Episode 10 | Fruit and Frustration: Creating a Culture Where Everyone Can Rest

Season 17: Episode 9 | Getting Honest About the Challenges of Sabbath Community

Season 17: Episode 8 | Sabbath Leaders Cultivating Sabbath Communities

Season 17: Episode 7 | Sabbath Rhythms During Seasons of Singleness and Care-giving