Gravity Commons Podcast

How do you know if it’s time to quit? Pastors and ministry leaders get a lot of advice on how to keep going and persevere through difficult times, but not much advice on how to end a ministry well. When to close a church instead of find a way to keep it running. In this […]

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"God is love" sounds nice, but is it really, 100%, all the time true?? Or does God "balance" his love with wrath? In this episode, we interview Brad Jersak about the unique experiential way he learned to trust that God really is love, and that his love has the power to forgive and redeem the worst of […]

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Aaron Keyes is a songwriter, worship pastor, and founder of Ten Thousand Fathers Worship School. In this episode, we interview Aaron about the difference between a song leader and a worship pastor, what’s broken about worship in the church, and how investing your whole life in others is really the only way to make disciples in the […]

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The 9th and final part of our series on what we’re learning about women and men leading together in the church. We ask Becky Dunn and Deb Sternke to comprise a roundtable with us to recap and reflect on the series together, sharing what we’re learning as we’ve participated in the podcast series. Becky and […]

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Part 8 of our series on what we’re learning about women and men leading together in the church. We interview Amber Haines and Seth Richardson again (we interviewed them for Part 3, too), who work together at Christ the King Anglican Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Amber and Seth share with us a new theological model they’ve [...]

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Part 7 of our series on what we’re learning about women and men leading together in the church. We interview Geoff and Cyd Holsclaw, who recently moved to Grand Rapids to serve as Pastors of Family and Youth at Vineyard North after spending 15 years serving at Life on the Vine Christian Community in Chicagoland. […]

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Part 6 of our series on what we’re learning about women and men leading together in the church. We interview Derek Radney, a friend of ours and a Presbyterian pastor in North Carolina who sees things a little differently from us on this issue, but we had a generous and generative conversation about what we’re […]

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Part 5 of our series on what we’re learning about women and men leading together in the church. We take a break from our interviews to zoom out just a bit and talk about why we’re talking about this “issue” in the first place. For us, it’s not an minor theological quibble, it’s a front-and-center issue […]

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Part 4 of our series on women and men leading together in the church. We interview married Anglican priests Emily and Ron McGowin on how they lead together.

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Part 3 of our series on what we're learning about women and men leading together in the church. We interview Amber and Seth, who work together in a church.

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