Anita Lustrea

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday which is only two and a half weeks away from the release of this podcast on 2/14/2022. I wanted to highlight a couple of quality Lenten devotionals written by two brilliant women in hopes that you might pick one to be your spiritual companion through...

Lisa Sharon Harper, in her book, Fortune, starts an important conversation about family, history, and brokenness. She doesn’t leave the conversation until she offers solutions. This week’s podcast conversation is no different. Her focus in Fortune is how race broke her family and the world and how to repair it all. Sounds like...

The topic of conversation on this episode of Faith Conversations is The Wild Land Within. What do you think of when you hear that phrase? A far country that hasn’t been developed? Or are you thinking closer to home. I guess it’s a combination since our own wild land within...

Mark Scandrette makes a return visit to Faith Conversations where we focus on Jesus’ words in the Beatitudes. Scandrette calls it The Ninefold Path of Jesus: Hidden Wisdom of the Beatitudes. We all know many are currently living in fear. Scandrette posits that the Beatitudes invite us into nine new...

Relationships! It seems we all have some that are difficult to navigate. Licensed marriage and family therapist, Molly LaCroix, joins me on the podcast this week to talk about Restoring Relationship. Not only is it the title of her book, it is the content of the podcast as we delve into...

No one denies that we are living in a time of great divides in our world. Whether racial, political, religious, or other, we are struggling to know what can be done about them. On this week’s episode of Faith Conversations, Brian Allain joins me to talk about How to Heal...

Hi, friends, and welcome to a new year of Faith Conversations! My husband, Mike Murphy, joins me on this first podcast of 2022 as we talk about some traditions that help usher us into a new season and pose some reflection questions for anyone wanting to reflect at the beginning...

I’ve been wanting to talk with Joyce Rupp for years and I’m delighted to finally bring her to Faith Conversations. She has been writing for many years and I’m happy to recommend anything she has penned. On the podcast we talk about her life as well as her recent offering...

Is it possible to hold onto faith in an age of unbelief? That’s a question Brian Zahnd asks in his new book When Everything’s on Fire: Faith Formed from the Ashes. It’s the first time I’ve had the privilege to talk with him and I think you’ll be glad I invited him...

Jon Sweeney is back on the podcast. This time we discuss the life of Saint Francis. Jon’s newest book, Feed the Wolf: Befriending Our Fears in the Way of Saint Francis, is fascinating. My knowledge of Saint Francis was based on cast concrete bird feeders and bird baths of him. I knew...