Do you ever struggle with how to post and what to post on social media? Or, do you stay away from anything controversial because you want to keep the peace at all costs? On this week’s episode of Faith Conversations I talk with Doug Bursch, author of Posting Peace: Why Social...

Pete Scazzero says that the global church is facing a discipleship crisis. He posits that our churches are stuck in a culture of shallow discipleship that severely undermines our ministry impact. On this episode of Faith Conversations, Pete joins me to talk about what Emotionally Healthy Discipleship looks like...

When Rachel Pieh Jones moved from Minnesota to rural Somalia with her family in tow, she’d been taught that Islam was evil and the world would be better off without it. Rachel joins me on the podcast this week to talk about her recent book Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer...

What does it look like to really love your neighbor? To care for your neighborhood in such a way that strangers become friends? Lynda MacGibbon joins me on the podcast this week to talk about how strangers in her life became a community. She wrote My Vertical Neighborhood which is really a...

Diana Butler Bass is back with me on the podcast. Her new book, Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence, really captured my imagination. I’m planning to do a Jesus timeline in my own life. Diana got me looking back at who Jesus was at pivotal moments...

Melinda and I focus in on the beauty of creation on this episode of Faith Conversations. As those from the Celtic tradition say, “The Bible is God’s little book and creation is God’s big book.” And so we do some creation exploration on this episode. We mention Beth and...

Barbara Mahany joins me this week on the podcast. A pediatric oncology nurse turned columnist for The Chicago Tribune turned author, Mahany is a delightful guest full of stories to entertain, challenge, and sometimes stop you in your tracks. I think you’ll enjoy our conversation as we touch on her books Motherprayer and The Stillness...

Kristin Kobes Du Mez joins me on this weeks Faith Conversations Podcast. Her book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, has been much talked about and I was very excited to have a conversation with her. I felt this would be an important...

Melinda Schmidt joins me on the podcast to talk about being curious and not fearful. Can you relate to leaning into the fearful part? Let’s get curious instead. Lots of good resources mentioned and Haiku along the way as well. Resource list: The Critical Journey, The Sin of Certainty, Faith Shift,...

Bestselling author and literature professor Karen Swallow Prior joins me on the podcast to talk about a favorite topic of hers and mine—how to read the classics well. She has written a new introduction to a number of classics along with adding wonderful questions for reflection. These are perfect editions...