Happy New Year, Faith Conversations family! Michelle Van Loon joins me as we kick off a new season of podcasts. We take a look back and a look forward as well as talk about our favorite books of 2020 that might become favorites of yours in 2021. We tease next...

Mike Murphy joins me for my year-ending podcast where we focus on his most recent “Friday Rumblings.” Part social commentary, part spiritual introspection, a worthy weekly read that Mike posts each Friday on his Facebook page. Follow or Friend him here. I will be taking a break next week. See...

Melinda Schmidt joins me on the podcast to talk about perseverance. As we release this podcast during Advent, I realize that the theme of perseverance is pervasive in the Christmas story. Certainly it’s a theme of 2020. But where in your life, prior to this calendar year, can you...

When How (Not) to Read the Bible came across my desk, I took a second look because of the parentheses. Then I saw the subtitle: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture. I decided I needed to talk with author Dan Kimball. My small...

Melinda Schmidt joins me this week on the podcast to talk about waiting. We’ve been in a difficult year that has been all about waiting. We haven’t done it particularly well as a country or in our churches. As we enter the season of Advent, the very theme of waiting...

Melinda Schmidt joins me again as we look at wrapping up 2020 with our year end observations. We are hoping to spark your thinking about your year and give you time before the actual end of the year. As you can imagine, lots of Covid-19 references as well as things...

Kathy Escobar is a favorite guest of mine. She is copastor of The Refuge, a Christian community and mission in North Denver, and a trained spiritual director. I’ve talked to her on the podcast about her books Faith Shift and Practicing. This time we focus on a new advent devotional Kathy...

Mike Murphy joins me on the podcast this week as we talk about our historic presidential election. We are not used to waiting beyond election night or early the next morning for election results but nothing about 2020 is business as usual. Listen in as we debrief this roller...

Melinda Schmidt joins me again on the podcast to discuss a topic that everyone is thinking about and dealing with. In fact, it’s the title of a book by Buster Benson, Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement. Certainly a timely topic for the week of the election...

Melinda Schmidt is back on the podcast. We talk about what has helped us through transitions. It seems the past 5 years or so have been laden with transitions for both of us and, honestly, aren’t we all either entering or exiting some kind of life transition? I think you’ll...