Being Known Podcast

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.

* * * * *

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

* * * * *

Stay connected:

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?

* * * * *

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

* * * * *

Stay connected:

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.

* * * * *

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

* * * * *

Stay connected:

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?

* * * * *

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

* * * * *

Stay connected:

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.

* * * * *

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

* * * * *

Stay connected:

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.

* * * *

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

. . . . .

Stay connected:

What does it mean to become more fully human—and why can’t we do it alone?

In this Season 1 encore, we return to some of the foundational ideas of Being Known: Christian spiritual formation, the stories we tell about ourselves, the embodied and relational nature of the mind, and the hard—and beautiful—work of becoming people who create beauty and goodness in the world.

Join Curt and Pepper as they look back on the season and explore why being known requires our active participation, how our stories are transformed in relationship with others, and why even suffering can become a place where beauty emerges when we refuse to go through it alone.

Join us as we begin, again, the journey of becoming more fully known, loved, and alive.

This season 1 encore episode is sponsored by Tabor College Master of Education in Neuroscience and Trauma.

Joins 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

. . . . .

Stay connected:

We long for transformation and renewal, but how do we get it? The good news is that our brains are not fixed, but continue to be shaped by experience.

Learn how new patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating can form when we encounter grace and truth in connection with others. 

Join us as we begin, again, the journey of becoming more fully known, loved, and alive.

This season 1 encore episode is sponsored by Tabor College Master of Education in Neuroscience and Trauma.

Joins 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

. . . . .

Stay connected:

Emotions are not distractions to overcome, but meaningful signals that help us understand what we need, value, and long for in relationships. Our emotional awareness is formed—and often disrupted—through our early relationships and experiences of shame. How, then, do we begin to understand and regulate our emotions, all while becoming more integrated, connected, and fully alive in Christ?

Join us as we begin, again, the journey of becoming more fully known, loved, and alive.

This season 1 encore episode is sponsored by Tabor College Master of Education in Neuroscience and Trauma.

Joins 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

. . . . .

Stay connected:

What is the mind, and how do we begin to understand something that is constantly shaping how we see ourselves, God, and the world around us?

In this episode, we explore what it means to think about the mind not just as a place of thoughts, but as a living, relational space formed by memory, attention, imagination, and desire. From there, we ask what a flourishing mind looks like—not one that is merely efficient or informed, but one that is integrated, open, and capable of love. If that is the goal, then what does it mean to love God with all of our mind?

This conversation invites us to consider discipleship not just as behavior or belief, but as the ongoing transformation of how we perceive, interpret, and attend to reality itself.

Join us as we begin, again, the journey of becoming more fully known, loved, and alive.

This season 1 encore episode is sponsored by Tabor College Master of Education in Neuroscience and Trauma.

Joins 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

. . . . .

Stay connected: