Being Known Podcast

Jesus says something we might prefer not to hear:

“In this world you will have trouble.”

What if some of our struggle comes from expecting life to be something Jesus never said it would be?

Join Curt and Pepper as they explore what it means to name what is true, and why doing so is part of becoming wise. They’ll talk about suffering, grief, longing, resilience, and the people who help us remain present when life is hard—and consider how belonging to others helps us become people who can tell the truth about trouble without allowing it to become the whole story.

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We all want peace. But what if we have misunderstood what peace actually is?

Peace isn't simply the absence of conflict or the feeling that everything is going our way. It is in its essence our capacity to remain present—to ourselves, to one another, and to God—even when life is difficult.

Join Curt and Pepper as they explore the embodied nature of peace, including the window of tolerance, attachment, rupture and repair, and the ways our brains and bodies learn to regulate in relationship. They’ll consider how peace becomes something we increasingly participate in—and something we can become for others.

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What if peace isn't something you find by controlling your circumstances?

Jesus says, “In me you may have peace.”

In me.

Not in your job. Not in your relationships. Not in your accomplishments. Not in having everything figured out.

Join Curt and Pepper as they explore what it means to belong to Jesus as a real Person—and how that belonging is experienced through our bodies, our relationships, and our communities. They’ll consider the people whose presence helps us experience peace and what it might look like for our own presence to become that kind of place for someone else.

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In this episode, Curt and Pepper welcome David Stevens, professor and director of Tabor College’s Master of Education in Neuroscience and Trauma program, to talk about the unexpected ways Season 1 of the Being Known Podcast has continued to shape students' lives years after its original release.

Together, they explore the intersection of neuroscience, trauma, faith, and what it means to truly see another person. David explains why he believes we each experience the world through a unique lens, and how understanding the brain can change the way we encounter people who have experienced trauma. 

This conversation is a reminder that the ideas we share can travel farther than we ever imagined. Sometimes, a conversation that begins in a podcast can end up in a classroom, a relationship, a community, or even a life-changing encounter with a stranger.

And perhaps the invitation is simple: listen deeply, look again, and see what you might notice this time around.

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Before you could tell your story, someone was telling it to you.

We become storytellers long before we have the words to understand what is happening. We learn who we are through the stories spoken around us—and through the way those stories are attended to. Eventually, we begin to live inside those stories.

Join Curt and Pepper as they explore what it means to become receptive to being addressed—to hear Jesus' words not simply as words for humanity in general, but as words spoken to you. They’ll consider attention, attunement, imagination, and the stories we are living in as we become increasingly aware of the One who is speaking to us.

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We are all speaking.

Not just with our words, but with our bodies, our stories, our assumptions, and our presence. We make sense of what we experience and then put words around it. But none of us speaks entirely on our own.

Join Curt and Pepper as they explore how the words we speak are shaped by the people who have spoken to us, about us, and over us—and how those words become part of what we embody and eventually speak to others. What are we saying to ourselves? What are we saying to the people around us? And what might it mean to become people whose presence and words communicate hospitality rather than alienation?

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Thank you for our season 12 exclusive sponsor, Tabor College Master of Education in Neuroscience and Trauma.

Join us in October for the Center for Being Known annual Connections Conference. As a BKP listener, you can receive $50 off any ticket when you enter promo code CBK.BKPL.26

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Before you ever say a word, you're already communicating.

Your body occupies space. Your face, posture, voice, movement, and presence are communicating something to the people around you. And long before we have words for ourselves, someone else is speaking to us.

Join Curt and Pepper as they explore the first half of Jesus' words in John 16:33—“These things I have spoken…”—and what it means that words come from a Person. They’ll consider embodied presence, attachment, shame, rupture, and repair, and the ways our presence can communicate either hospitality or alienation.

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Thank you for our season 12 exclusive sponsor, Tabor College Master of Education in Neuroscience and Trauma.

Join us in October for the Center for Being Known annual Connections Conference. As a BKP listener, you can receive $50 off any ticket when you enter promo code CBK.BKPL.26

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Who are you becoming—and with whom are you becoming?

We only become by belonging. And this isn't merely a psychological principle. It is woven into the very nature of God, creation, and what it means to be human.

Join Curt and Pepper as they explore what Genesis tells us about belonging and becoming, why we are created unfinished and in need of one another, and what it means to belong to Jesus—not simply as an idea or belief, but as a real Person. What happens when belonging is disrupted? And how might belonging to Jesus reshape the way we belong to one another?

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Thank you for our season 12 exclusive sponsor, Tabor College Master of Education in Neuroscience and Trauma.

Join us in October for the Center for Being Known annual Connections Conference. As a BKP listener, you can receive $50 off any ticket when you enter promo code CBK.BKPL.26

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What if becoming who we were made to be is inseparable from belonging?

In season 11 (if you can remember that far back), we explored rupture and repair—the ways our relationships shape us, and how repair allows us to experience secure attachment. This season, we’re taking the next step: belonging to become.

Join Curt and Pepper as they explore what it means to belong, why belonging is essential to becoming, and what happens to us when we experience the absence of belonging or when belonging itself includes ruptures that are inadequately repaired. As we begin this season, we’ll consider the possibility that I can only become to the degree to which I belong—and what that means for the relationships and communities that are shaping who we are becoming.

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Thank you for our season 12 exclusive sponsor, Tabor College Master of Education in Neuroscience and Trauma.

Join us in October for the Center for Being Known annual Connections Conference. As a BKP listener, you can receive $50 off any ticket when you enter promo code CBK.BKPL.26

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We live in an age overflowing with information. Answers are always within reach, and with a few taps, we can know almost anything. But does having more information actually make us wiser?

In this special bonus episode, Curt, Pepper, and Amy explore the difference between acquiring knowledge and becoming people of wisdom. They consider how wisdom is formed slowly: in our bodies, in relationships, and even through the mistakes and ruptures we experience along the way.

Wisdom isn't something we acquire. It's something we become, and we become it together. Join us at this year's Connections Conference as we dive even deeper into the theme of The Way of Wisdom.

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Join us in October for the Center for Being Known annual Connections Conference. As a BKP listener, you can receive $50 off any ticket when you enter promo code CBK.BKPL.26

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