Restlessness is a Gift

Restlessness is a Gift

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Restlessness is a Gift episodes

  • Episode 012 // Casey and Suanne Camfield Talk About "The Stirring"
    This week we talk with author and speaker Suanne Camfield about life as a woman in ministry and her family's journey that led to the book The Sound of a Million Dreams. 
    Suanne is currently the Women's Director at Christ Church of Oak Brook. She has worked in the past with Caris, a nonprofit counseling organization that supports women and children, as an assistant editor and publicist at InterVarsity Press and the blog manager for FullFill, a nonprofit focused on mobilizing women to invest their influence in the world for God's purposes. She is also a founding member of the Redbud Writers Guild.
    She and her husband Eric have been married for 19 years. You can find more info on Suanne on her website: www.suannecamfield.com
    42 min
  • Episode 011 // Casey and Jarrett Stephens Talk About The Wisdom of Highs and Lows
    Today on otherWISE our guest is Jarrett Stephens, author of The Mountains Are Calling: Making the Climb for a Clearer View of God and Ourselves available August 7th. 
    Jarrett Stephens is the teaching pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas.  is his first book. Stephens graduated from Ouachita Baptist University with a bachelor of arts in biblical studies and psychology. He received a master of divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a doctorate of ministry from Liberty Theological Seminary.  He and his wife Debbie, live in Lewisville, Texas with their daughters. 
    You can connect with Jarrett on Twitter or Instagram (@jarrettstephens) or via the Prestonwood website. 
    You can find the "I Am Second" video from our conversation here.
    46 min
  • Episode 010 // Casey And Jen Pollock Michel Talk About the Wisdom of Heading Home
    We're back! After a brief delay due to some other projects, the podcast is back with a conversation with author and speaker Jen Pollock Michel. 
    Jen is a well-known speaker and author of Teach Us to Want, the 2015 Christianity Today Book of the Year as well as Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home.  She is also part of a writer's collective called the Redbud Writer's Guild, which seeks to fearlessly expand feminine voice in our communities, faith, and culture. 
    Jen and her family live near Toronto, Canada. 
    In this interview we talk about the wisdom of understanding our desires and what place the concept of "home" plays in our spiritual lives. You can keep up with Jen on her website.
    41 min
  • Episode 009 // Casey And Mandy Smith Talk About Vulnerability And the Changing Church
    Today we talk with Mandy Smith, Senior Pastor of University Christian Church (Cincinnati, OH) and the author of The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry.  She also blogs for Missio Alliance, a collective of writers on the future of the church's mission and engagement with culture. 
    Our conversation moves through key ideas like lament and joy then on to the important question gender roles and leadership and how God opened the door for Mandy to be one of the first (and only) female senior pastors in a church tradition that historically prohibited women from being in that role. 
    The author Mandy and I talk about is Walter Brueggemann, an Old Testament scholar whose book ​​​​​​​The Prophetic Imagination has had a huge influence throughout my life as well as the lives of others. 
    Mandy and her family live in Cincinnati, OH.
    39 min
  • Episode 008 // Casey and Jerusalem Greer Talk About Finding Home In An Ordinary Year
    Today on the otherWISE podcast we talk with Jerusalem Greer, an Episcopal licensed lay minister  writer, a blogger, and speaker.
    She has written two books - "A Homemade Year" and "At Home in This Life: Finding Peace at the Crossroads of Unraveled Dreams and Unexpected Surprises." She and her husband Nathaniel and their two boys live in a fixer upper in Conway, Arkansas. 
    You can connect with Jerusalem in several ways through her website: www.jerusalemgreer.com 
    Music by Austin Martin 
    Cover art by Eric Wright/Metamora Design
    39 min
  • Episode 007 // Casey and Erin Straza Talk About The Tension of Comfort
    Erin is a freelance marketing communications consultant, managing editor of Christ and Pop Culture, co-host of the Persuasion podcast, and author of Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You (InterVarsity Press, 2017). She writes from the Illinois flatlands where she lives with her husband, Mike. Follow her on Twitter @ErinStraza or find her online at ErinStraza.com.
    Music by Austin Martin
    Cover art by Eric Wright/Metamora Design
    49 min
  • Episode 006 // Casey And C. Christopher Smith Talk About How Reading and Conversation Can Rescue Our Communities
    Today our guest is C. Christopher Smith, a member of Englewood Christian Church in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the editor of the Englewood Review of Books and is the author of Slow Church (co-authored with John Pattison), Reading For the Common Good, and the upcoming book on conversations called How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church. (*I grabbed the title post-episode, FYI) 
    Christopher and his family live in Indianapolis, IN. You can engage with him on Facebook and Twitter as well.
    49 min
  • Episode 005 // Casey and James Bryan Smith Talk The Amazing True Story of God
    This week we talk to James Bryan Smith, author of The Apprentice Series (The Good and Beautiful God, The Good and Beautiful Life, and The Good and Beautiful Community). His newest book is called The Magnificent Story. 
    Jim is the professor of theology and spiritual formation at Friends University and is the founder of the Apprentice Institute, an organization working through both the university and the local church to help people live deeply in the Kingdom of God as apprentices of Jesus. 
    He lives in Wichita, KS with his wife Meghan and two children, Hope and Jacob.
    The essay we talk about in the show is "Welcome to Holland" by Emily Perl Kingsley and you can read it in full here.
    41 min
  • Episode 003 // Casey and Sarah Bessey Talk About Where We Belong
    This week we hear from Sarah Bessey on themes ranging from wisdom in the local church to how Christian feminism and healthy deconstruction are leading us into a new and beautiful future.
    Sarah Bessey is a critically-acclaimed blogger, author of Jesus Feminist: An Invitation To Revisit the Bible's View of Women and ​​​​​​​Out of Sorts: Making Sense of An Evolving Faith.
    Sarah is a mother of four "tinies" and has been married to her husband Brian for 16 years. They live on the beautiful Western coast of Canada. You can find out more on her website or follow her on Twitter/Instagram @sarahbessey
    Music for the otherWISE podcast courtesy of Austin Martin and the cover art comes from Eric Wright/Metamora Design.
    39 min

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Restlessness is one of the most common human experiences - so how do we find the Divine in the middle of these irritated, unsettled seasons. Join author and spiritual director Casey Tygrett for…