Brett & Emily visit with faith and culture writer, Jonathan Merritt, and discuss his new book, Learning to Speak God from Scratch.

More about Jonathan can be found here.

Brett & Emily visit with faith and culture writer, Jonathan Merritt, and discuss his new book, Learning to Speak God from Scratch.

More about Jonathan can be found here. Jonathan's website

https://www.meghantschanz.com

Christy is an author, teacher and psychotherapist. A mother of 4, fierce dreamer and passionate about advocating for women.

Christy received her Bachelors degree in Communication at Texas A&M in 2002 and then her Masters in Counseling at Reformed Theological Seminary in 2007. She published the book Unearth in 2008, and A Brave Lament in 2018. She is certified in Medical Family Therapy and Trauma and Abuse. She earned her doctorate at Seattle Pacific University and is researching Shame and Sexuality in Women.

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I’m an East Indian born, PNW dwelling, author, speaker, podcaster, and adoptive parent who is passionate about truth, justice, and the restoration of marginalized people groups.

After college, I served three years in the U.K. with at-risk youth. Upon returning home, I served as an Outreach Pastor at an urban mega church where I engaged parishioners with marginalized individuals such as those experiencing homelessness, those who were incarcerated, the AIDS community, and women. In that time, I created Esteem, an outreach program to women in the sex industry and assisted in the development of, and spoke at, John School alongside the FBI Innocence Lost Task Force, local police, and Crime Stoppers which addressed men who bought women. After seven years of church ministry, I left to pursue writing full-time and started Sip and Savor, a women’s ministry in the Seattle area centered around fine food and wine. Sip serves over 500 women a year. My husband Derek and I, along with our two sons, Jericho and Kingston, live in Tacoma, WA.

I teach women’s Bible study, Sip, co-host Why Tho podcast, and travel to speakat churches, businesses, and organizations who host conferences and events. I blog here at TiffanyBluhm.com, and have been featured on The Bible App, Charisma Magazine, ScaryMommy.com, Deeply Rooted Magazine, MyCrazyAdoption.org, WomenInMinistry.ag.org, TODAY Parents, Home Business Magazine, Thrive Global, and South Sound Magazine. My unconventional ministry outreaches have been featured in World Vision Magazine, Pentecostal Evangel, and StoryTeam.org.

My first book and Bible study Never Alone released February of 2018. My book and Bible study are available for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Target and other retailers. Click here for all the details and links to preferred retailers. 

My second book and Bible study She Dreams released Feb of 2019. She Dreams is available for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Christianbook.com, and Cokesbury. Click here for more information and to order your copy of the book and study.

TV Interviews: Home and Family on the Hallmark Channel and the 4 PM Showon King 5 News

Podcast Interviews: The Things She Does, Radiant Podcast, Devoted Dreamers, Dream On, Journeywomen, Rising Stories, Nestled, Entremoms, Reading With Your Kids, Be Audacious, MOMentum, Work From Your Happy Place, The Open Door Sisterhood, Iridescent Podcast, Coffee with Andi, The 5 Minute Mom, Your Life Rocks Podcast, The Shameless Mom Academy, and The Almost Indian Family.

Radio Interviews:The Jenny McCarthy Show, Bott Radio Network KSIV 1320, KOPN 89.5, Blog Talk Radio, Moody Radio, WTKF Coastal Daybreak, KSBJ Sunday Night Live Radio, The Hub, CRU’s Making Your Life Count, Igniting A Nation, WMPC Off the Bookshelf, Bible News Radio, KOPN Penguin Tracks, WKTO The Noon Show, and WDJC Rox and Friends

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Dr. Kerry Burkley became the 8th pastor of the Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church of Waco in 2005. He has served as associate pastor at South Union Missionary Baptist of Marlin, Seventh and James (Waco), and as Youth Pastor of Antioch Missionary Baptist (Waco). Pastor Burkley is the director of the Ministers In Training and Academy for Lay Ministry Certificate Programs of Greater Ebenezer. These programs teach curriculum to equip, train and educate men and women who are called to the preaching ministry and lay ministry. The purpose is to provide holistic ministry training, personal development in the African-American church through dialogue and vigorous study that couples academic excellence with a high degree of social consciousness that reaches outside the walls of the church and into the often neglected community.

Dr. Burkley is the Program Director of the Children's Advocacy Center of the Advocacy Center for Crime Victims and Children. For the past 14 years, he has been involved with a collaboration of Law Enforcement, District Attorneys, Children's Protection Services, and the Medical community concerning the investigation of serious child sexual and physical abuse in four counties. He is a trained Forensic Interviewer and member of the Children's Advocacy Center's of Texas Professional Society of Forensic Interviewers where he is on the front end of child abuse investigations. Dr. Burkley holds the Doctor of Ministry and the Master of Divinity degrees from Truett Seminary.

Dr. Burkley enjoys cooking, specifically grilling, and spending time with his wife Doyce who is a student at Truett Seminary and his three children.