Being Known Podcast

Being Known Podcast episodes:

• 05.01.2024

  S9E6: Suffering: The Story of the Present Age

  Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.   Finally, we’re here. We’ve reached the topic that...

  
• 04.24.2024

  S9E5: Glory

  Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.   Who would ever imagine that glory and suffering...

  
• 04.17.2024

  S9E4: A Wide Place to Stand

  Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.   For Jesus followers, as we approach the topic...

  
• 04.10.2024

  S9E3: Declaration of War - and Peace

  Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.   Although the bible doesn’t begin with violence, it...

  
• 04.03.2024

  S9E2: Just Faith

  Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.   If you pick up a book on suffering,...

  
• 03.27.2024

  S9E1: Into the Deepest Place

  Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.   To be human is to suffer. To be...

  
• 12.20.2023

  S8E11: It’s Time for Beauty

  There’s nothing quite like an encounter with beauty to remind us that we are temporal—and, temporary—creatures. Who hasn’t wanted the gorgeous sunset to just go on and on and on? Who has listened to Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, and not desired...

  
• 12.13.2023

  S8E10: The Interpersonal Nature of Beauty

  Beauty is not just something that sits there and waits for our reaction. It is something that, should we allow ourselves to be open to it, actively draws our attention not only to it, but draws us to draw others’...

  
• 12.06.2023

  S8E9: The State of Beauty

  So much of what shapes our perceived distress or joy in life is related to how we transition from one state of mind to another. Our willingness to place ourselves in the path of oncoming beauty does many things, not...

  
• 11.29.2023

  S8E8: Surprised by Beauty

  During Curt and Pepper’s recent trip to El Salvador, they each found themselves surprised by beauty in various ways. Surprise can lead to any number of emotional reactions, depending on what, exactly, it is that surprises us. When it is...

  
• 11.22.2023

  S8E7: What is the Beautiful Story You Are Telling?

  Like no other creatures, humans are storytellers. Moreover, our stories all have a beginning, a middle and an end. And the way we tell stories has to do with the end in mind.   So, think of it: the stories we tell...

  
• 11.15.2023

  S8E6: In the Service of Beauty

  Pepper and Curt had the privilege of spending five days in El Salvador as part of a Compassion International team of visitors. Join us as we share about the extraordinarily durable beauty that is emerging in some of the hardest...

  
• 11.08.2023

  S8E5: Remembering Our Future Beauty

  It is easy to be amazed, even astonished in the presence of beauty. But it is just as easy to forget it, given how easily distracted we are by so many things. If it is true that what we pay...

  
• 11.01.2023

  S8E4: As Beauty Makes Sense of Us

  Once we sense beauty, we begin to tell a story about it. We make sense of it. We pay attention to it. We sometimes analyze it. But beauty often reveals things about us. In sensing things, we become aware of...

  
• 10.25.2023

  S8E3: The Sense of Beauty

  First, we sense. And then we make sense of what we sense. Beauty is not first something we think about. It is first something we behold with our senses. And our senses necessarily involve our bodies. For indeed, even when...

  
• 10.18.2023

  S8E2: The Beauty of Awareness

  In the path of oncoming beauty. Given that we are wired to pay attention to danger for the sake of protection, purposefully attuning to beauty can at times feel risky. But when we make it our intended purpose to create space...

  
• 10.11.2023

  S8E1: In the Path of Oncoming Beauty

  In the path of oncoming beauty. Sure, we have talked about this notion over many seasons of The Being Known Podcast. But of what practical value is it? How does it speak to our longings, our grief or the renewal of...

  
• 07.26.2023

  S7E7: End of Season Q&A

  Thank you for joining us this season to learn about confessional communities. In this final season episode, Curt, Pepper and Amy answer listener questions to draw you closer to finding and creating your own community.   . . . . Episode Links and...

  
• 07.12.2023

  S7E5.2: Confessional Communities: Learning to Love Doing the Work

  Welcome to season 7 of Being Known Podcast were we are continually looking at what it means to be truly known. This season we are exploring confessional communities.   This week we are continuing the conversation we started last week to "love...

  
• 07.05.2023

  S7E5.1: Confessional Communities: Learning to Love Doing the Work

  Welcome to season 7 of Being Known Podcast were we are continually looking at what it means to be truly known. This season we are exploring confessional communities.   Over the course of time that a confessional community gathers, many things will...

  
• 06.28.2023

  S7E4: Confessional Communities: Getting Started

  Welcome to season 7 of Being Known Podcast were we are continually looking at what it means to be truly known. This season we are exploring confessional communities.   This week, Pepper and Curt walk you through the early stages of starting...

  
• 06.21.2023

  S7E3: The Symphony of Confessional Community

  Welcome to season 7 of Being Known Podcast were we are continually looking at what it means to be truly known. This season we are exploring confessional communities.   There are multiple forces in play that are part of what forms us....

  
• 06.14.2023

  S7E2: Confessional Communities: A Community of Formation

  Welcome to season 7 of Being Known Podcast were we are continually looking at what it means to be truly known. This season we are exploring confessional communities.   We are continually being formed by something. The question is always, BY WHAT?...

  
• 06.07.2023

  S7E1: Confessional Communities: Forming Outposts of Beauty and Goodness

  Welcome to season 7 of Being Known Podcast were we are continually looking at what it means to be truly known. This season we are exploring confessional communities.   We have shared a great deal about confessional communities over the last several...

  
• 06.06.2023

  S7E6: Confessional Communities: The Later Seasons

  Welcome to season 7 of Being Known Podcast were we are continually looking at what it means to be truly known. This season we are exploring confessional communities.   How do we end anything well—and especially those experiences that have become so...

  
• 04.12.2023

  BONUS: Bottom Left Drawer: The Beauty and Wisdom of ”Getting Your Ducks in a Row”

  BONUS!!  This week Curt and Pepper are joined by our very own Amy Cella, producer of BKP and creator of Bottom Left Drawer (BLD). Together, we discuss the beauty and wisdom of being prepared for various seasons of our life.   Bottom...

  
• 04.05.2023

  S6E10: End of Season Q&A

  We've come to the end of our season on the Beauty of Wisdom. In this end of season episode we review our conversations, answer your questions, and pull it all together.    . . . . . Thank you to our season sponsor...

  
• 03.29.2023

  S6E9: Eternity in Their Hearts

  Welcome to season 6 episode 9 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom.   Shame doesn’t just appear out of nowhere. Shame begins in the earliest communities in which we dwell. It is to those...

  
• 03.22.2023

  S6E8: The Wisdom of Many Advisers

  Welcome to season 6 episode 8 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom.   We live in a world that has trained us to believe that we each live in our own personal silo. But...

  
• 03.16.2023

  S6E7: Where Are You... And Where Are You Going?

  Welcome to season 6 episode 7 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom.   It’s hard to know where we are going if we first do not know where we are. The integration of the...

  
• 03.08.2023

  S6E6: The Story of Wisdom

  Welcome to season 6 episode 6 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom.   The book of Proverbs portrays Wisdom as calling out in the streets. She, in effect, is telling her story, and asking...

  
• 03.01.2023

  S6E5: Wisdom of the Ages: Remembering our Future

  Welcome to season 6 episode 5 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom.    The memory domain of integration is not only about the past, it’s about the future. The future we are remembering. And...

  
• 02.22.2023

  S6E4: Right and Wrong: Being and Knowing…and Being

  Welcome to season 6 episode 4 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom.    We often assume that wisdom is to be equated with knowing things. And indeed, knowing things is important. But only to...

  
• 02.15.2023

  S6E3: The Wisdom of the Body: Beginning at the Beginning

  Welcome to season 6 episode 3 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom.    God creates mankind in a particular sequence, as Genesis tells us. He begins with mud, into which he breathes his breath....

  
• 02.08.2023

  S6E2: 2. The Word of God: The Presence of Wisdom—and the Wisdom of Presence

  Welcome to season 6 episode 2 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom.    In the beginning, it was God’s presence that hovered over the deep waters of chaos. But before that wisdom was with...

  
• 02.01.2023

  S6E1: The Beauty of Wisdom

  Welcome to season 6 episode 1 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom as we address the following: What does it mean to be wise, and how does life at the intersection of...

  
• 01.25.2023

  BKP LIVE - Oct. 27, 2022

  As part of the Connections Conference 2022 hosted by The Center for Being Known, Curt, Pepper and Amy sat down for a live podcast recording to talk all things friendship, favorites and being known.   Learn more about The Center for Being...

  
• 10.05.2022

  S5E11: End of Season Q&A

  We’ll review our season, take your questions, and pull it all together in this end of season episode. We won’t be ashamed if we don’t answer all your questions, though we know we wish we could.

  
• 09.28.2022

  S5E10: Renewing Vocational Creativity

  Human beings were made in God’s image in order that we might create and curate beauty and goodness in the world, not least through all of our acts of work, whether we are paid for it or not. But evil...

  
• 09.21.2022

  S5E9: Redeeming Shame in Our Nurturing Communities

  Shame doesn’t just appear out of nowhere. Shame begins in the earliest communities in which we dwell. It is to those communities we now turn to see how shame emerges there—but also what we can do to retell the stories...

  
• 09.14.2022

  S5E8: Our Healing Cloud of Witnesses

  For shame to be healed and our lives recommissioned, we need more than good information so we can simply appropriate it on our own as individuals. In the same way that we were made as contingent, co-regulating people who, made...

  
• 09.07.2022

  S5E7: Shame’s Remedy: Vulnerability

  Hiding and isolation are hallmarks of shame. Moreover, the very notion of exposing our shame is…shaming. Who knew that the very thing that we are most fearful of—our shame being exposed—is the place we need to begin to discover shame’s...

  
• 08.31.2022

  S5E6: Shame and the Biblical Narrative

  At the heart of all that the Bible is lies a story. Yes, a story about humans and all that we are. But even more so, a story about a God and who he is. In many ways, the bible...

  
• 08.24.2022

  S5E5: The Story of Shame You Are Living

  We’re all storytellers. Unlike any other living creature—unless you might find yourself in a C.S. Lewis novel—humans are the only animals that tell stories in the way we do. It is in those stories that our shame takes up residence,...

  
• 08.17.2022

  S5E4: Joy, Shame and the Brain

  We were made for joy. The bible and our greatest literature attest to this. But not only this: research in attachment reflects that joyful human relationships are the key to our well-being. No wonder, then, that shame targets our experience...

  
• 08.10.2022

  S5E3: How Shame Targets the Mind

  It has been said, “Keep your friends close. And keep your enemies closer.” If we want to know what evil is up to as it uses shame in its quest to devour us, the first thing to know is how...

  
• 08.03.2022

  S5E2: Our Problem with Shame

  It’s not enough to know what shame IS. We also have to know how and where it works. Our problem with shame is not just a sensation in which we feel bad. It’s about all the ways that it hijacks...

  
• 07.27.2022

  S5E1: The Story That Shame is Trying to Tell

  What is it about shame? Why is it that it just doesn’t seem to go away? Moreover, what makes it so destructive? Is it its mechanics? Or is it because it gets so intimately tangled up in our stories? Not...

  
• 05.18.2022

  S4E12 Wrap Q&A

  Being Known Podcast normally ends our season with a wrap up episode highlighting each episode with one more nugget of wisdom.  This season we mixed things up a bit and asked our listeners and followers what they wanted to know...

  
• 05.11.2022

  S4E11 Healing Trauma: The Wholeness of Integration

  We were made to create beauty and goodness in the world. But evil has other plans, and wields trauma as a way to devour us before that goodness and beauty can be realized. But—God had other plans beyond those of...