In a complicated world, simplicity can be a welcome strategy. Today, Ed and Leslie chat about the ways we can foster simplicity (and how the new podcast setup is not particularly simple!)

When the momentum of life can start to feel inevitable, pausing to reset can be an invaluable strategy for realigning with your goals and values. Today’s conversation looks at the ways in which we can use this concept to cultivate grit and resilience, facing whatever life throw our way.

Resilience is typically defined as the capacity to recover from difficult life events. Cultivating resiliency takes practice and care. Today, we chat about different stories of resilience and how we can incorporate these ideas into our own lives.

Aram Mitchell - S6E2 by Round Hill Community Church

We start season 6 (yes, 6! I got it wrong in the intro…) with a special chat. The Rev. Dan Haugh has been called to accept a senior minister position in Vermont and we, his colleagues, send him off with our encouragement and support. We talk through some of the experiences he’s had here at Round Hill and what he’ll carry forward into his new ministry.

The Story of My Life, part 2 - S5E23 by Round Hill Community Church

The Story of My Life, part 1 - S5E22 by Round Hill Community Church

Ed and Leslie discuss the book “When the Heart Waits” by Sue Monk Kidd. Blending her own experience with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of “active waiting.” Full of wisdom, poise, and grace, Kidd’s words will encourage us along our spiritual journey, toward becoming who we truly are.

A very special episode of Round Hill Radio! You're listening to the second seminar in our series of Hymnposiums, recorded live on May 20, 2021. This featured an interview (and singing with) Brian Hehn, Director of the Center for Congregational Song, whose stated mission is to "encourage, promote, and enliven congregational song, because we believe the holy act of singing together shapes faith, heals brokenness, transforms lives, and renews peace."

The "Spirit" can mean so many things to many people. Whether a rushing wind or soft embrace, this element of the Trinity can deepen our experience of faith and support our sense of unity with one another.