Shifting Culture

In this episode Mandy Smith shares about what it takes to have a more childlike faith, rest, western cultural baggage that we need to get rid of, and a proper use of power.

Mandy Smith is pastor of St Lucia Uniting Church, Brisbane, Australia and the author of The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry and Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western Culture. Mandy and her husband, a New Testament professor, live with their family in a little house where the teapot is always warm. Learn more about Mandy’s work at www.TheWayisTheWay.org

Mandy's Recommendations:
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
The Confessions by St. Augustine

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In this episode Mark Baker discusses his latest book, Centered-Set Church and helps us discover how we can be a community oriented to and oriented around Jesus at the center.

Mark Baker is Professor of Mission and Theology at Fresno Pacific Biblical. He previously was a missionary in Honduras for ten years and a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Syracuse University for three years. He continues ministry involvement in Latin America through regular visits. Since 2008 he has led a weekly Bible study at the Fresno County Jail. He has written a number of books in English and Spanish, including, Recovering the Scandal of the Cross: Atonement in New Testament and Contemporary Contexts, Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures: Biblical Foundations and Practical Essentials, and Centered-Set Church: Discipleship and Community Without Judgmentalism.

Mark's Book:
Centered-Set Church: Discipleship and Community without Judgmentalism

Mark's Website:
centeredsetchurch.com

Mark's Recommendation:
Restless Devices by Felicia Wu Song

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In this episode Andrew Root talks about waiting for God to act, sharing stories of community encounter, the importance of prayer, and reclaiming resonance in the accelerated age we live in.

Andrew Root, PhD (Princeton Theological Seminary) is the Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary. He is most recently the author of four volume Ministry in a Secular Age series (Churches and the Crisis of Decline, The Congregation in a Secular Age, The Pastor in a Secular Age, and Faith Formation in a Secular Age), and The End of Youth Ministry?.  He has also authored Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross (Fortress, 2014) and Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker (Baker, 2014).  Root puts together theology and storytelling to explore how ministry leads us into encounter with divine action.  His book  The Relational Pastor (IVP, 2013) as well as a four book series with Zondervan called A Theological Journey Through Youth Ministry (titles include Taking Theology to Youth Ministry, Taking the Cross to Youth Ministry, Unpacking Scripture in Youth Ministry, and Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry) break new ground in this direction.  In 2012  his book The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry (with Kenda Creasy Dean, IVP, 2011) was Christianity Today Book of Merit.  He has written a number of other books on ministry and theology such as The Children of Divorce: The Loss of Family as the Loss of Being (Baker Academic, 2010), The Promise of Despair (Abingdon, 2010), Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation (IVP, 2007) and Relationships Unfiltered (Zondervan/YS, 2009).  Andy has worked in congregations, parachurch ministries, and social service programs. He lives in St. Paul with his wife Kara, two children, Owen and Maisy, and their dog. When not reading, writing, or teaching, Andy spends far too much time watching TV and movies.

Andrew's Latest Book:
The Church After Innovation: Questioning our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship

Andrew's Recommendation:
For All Mankind

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In this episode Tori Hope Petersen shares her story. Spending years in the foster care system, Tori finds a community and a God that pursued her well, gave her opportunities, and instilled hope for a different outcome. Tori shares about finding a God that loved her like a good Father and how she started identifying as a beloved child of God.

Tori is a former foster youth letting her Abba be known. After an adverse childhood, Tori has overcome the odds. Now she is a leading advocate for vulnerable youth and families, a sought out speaker, and influential social entrepreneur. In 2020, she founded the Beloved Initiative to grant people who are often unseen and unheard, opportunities to see that the worst parts of their lives can be used for Good — to glorify God. 

Tori has been featured by Child Welfare Gateway, Proverbs 31 Woman, Global Leadership Network,the National Council for Adoption and many other platforms educating the child welfare community and beyond. Tori has presented policy recommendations to White House Policy Staffers and congressmen and women on how to improve the foster care system. In August of 2022, Tori’s book “Fostered” will be published through B&H. You can pre-order it now! 

A  leading voice in child welfare, Tori is a reminder to have empathy and understanding for those who are different than us as she leads a life of genuine compassion! Her story is one of hope and points to the work of God in her life, while showing others what God can do in their lives!

Tori's book:
Fostered: One Woman's Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care

Tori's recommendation:
Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist

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In this episode Jamie Winship shares from his years of experience working with people around the world. He shares how we can exchange the lies brought on by fear, guilt, and shame for your true identity - bringing you to a place where you can hear from God directly about who you truly are.

Jamie Winship has decades of experience bringing peaceful solutions to some of the world’s highest conflict areas. After a distinguished career in law enforcement in the metro Washington DC area, Jamie earned an MA in English and developed a unique process of identity transformation that is the key to resolving inner conflict and acquiring new levels of learning and creativity. His unconventional efforts to bring about societal and racial reconciliation led him to Indonesia, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, and back to the US. Jamie has worked with leaders in professional sports, business, education, law enforcement, government, non-profit and other sectors. Jamie and his wife, Donna, are co-founders of Identity Exchange and its corporate arm, Identity Method, providing training and consulting on the power of living fearlessly in your true identity. Jamie's new book, Living Fearless, will is available wherever books and ebooks are sold. For more information and resources visit us at identityexchange.com and follow @identityexchange.

Jamie's Book:
Living Fearless

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In this episode Bree Mills talks about microchurches, psychological safety, faithfulness in the small things, meeting the needs of the community, and asking great questions.

Bree is an ordained Anglican minister, a director of Micro Churches Australia, and a doctoral student in the area of Missional Leadership, focusing on innovative leadership in the Australian context. Until the end of 2020, she was Senior Associate Minister at Glen Waverley Anglican Church in Melbourne where she pioneered a network of missional communities alongside a contemporary Anglican Church. Now, along with her husband and kids, they are part of a new micro church network church plant in Melbourne and help lead a community called The Village. Bree has completed a Masters of Missional Leadership, focusing on missional culture change in existing churches. Bree is passionate about spiritual formation, catalyzing change, raising leaders, and contextualized mission. She loves to read, wakeboard, and go for long walks in new places, preferably near the ocean!

Bree's Recommendations:
How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You're Going: Leading in a Liminal Season by Susan Beaumont
Transcending Mission by Michael W. Stroope

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In this episode Keri Ladouceur talks about the church pacing culture, truly embodying Jesus, giving voice to the marginalized, and the hope that comes in facing reality in the current moment we are in.

Keri Ladouceur serves a pastor in Naperville, Illinois and is founder and lead coach at New Ground Network. As a coach, Keri partners with pastors and denominational leaders, co-conspiring with them to seize their unique vision, develop their team's capacity, and mobilize people for mission. Her coaching was shaped as a former marketplace executive and senior leader at Willow Creek. She has more than sixteen years experience coaching pastors, non-profit, and marketplace leaders. The thrill of launching more than 90 missional communities and having a front row seat to the missional engagement of 100s of churches is exhilarating to her. She is an associate with the exponential team- teaching at conferences and creating leadership resources- most recently her book "Together as a Team". Her newest project is a podcast called A Third Way exploring the tension of following Jesus and the church's invitation to pace culture. She recently served as chair of the board for a global peacemaking organization, and is wrapping up thesis writing for a Master of Arts in New Testament from Northern Seminary. Keri longs to activate the people of God to join Christ in the redemption and restoration of all things.

Keri's Recommendations:
First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament
Inverse Podcast
Unlocking Us

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In this episode, Mark Scandrette talks about what it look like to practically live out the teachings of Jesus in our own personal context, within community, and with an outward orientation toward our neighborhood and culture.

Mark Scandrette is an internationally recognized specialist in practical Christian spirituality. He is the founding director of ReIMAGINE: A Center for Integral Christian Practice, where he leads an annual series of retreats, workshops and projects designed to help participants apply spiritual wisdom to everyday life. His multidisciplinary studies in applied psychology, family health and theology have shaped his approach to learning and transformation. A sought after voice for creative, radical and embodied faith practices, he frequently speaks at universities, churches and conferences nationally and internationally and also serves as adjunct faculty in the doctoral program at Fuller Theological Seminary. His most recent books include The Ninefold Path of Jesus, FREE, Practicing the Way of Jesus and Belonging and Becoming: Creating A Thriving Family Culture. Mark lives with his wife Lisa and their three young adult children in an old Victorian in San Francisco’s Mission District. He loves walking city streets and discovering beauty in unexpected places. He is passionately engaged in sustainability practices and efforts to create safe neighborhoods for all people. www.markscandrette.com

Mark's Books:
The Ninefold Path of Jesus: Hidden Wisdom of the Beatitudes
Practicing the Way of Jesus: Life Together in the Kingdom of Love

Mark's Recommendations:
Daniel Siegel
Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson

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In this episode, Brian Heasley shares about prayer and mission and gives practical ideas and stories on how to engage in both a daily time with God and working out your faith in community.

Brian Heasley serves as 24-7 Prayer’s International Prayer Director, traveling extensively around the globe inspiring and teaching on prayer and mission. He is a global ambassador for Thy Kingdom Come, an initiative of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Brian is the author of 'Be Still. A simple guide to quiet times' and has previously written 'Gatecrashing' The story of 24-7 Prayer in Ibiza. He is also a trustee of Christian Solidarity Worldwide a charity working in the area of Freedom of Religious Belief.

Brian, and his wife Tracy, are long term trailblazers within the 24-7 prayer movement with years of experience in local church and pioneer missions. They pioneered the work of 24-7 Prayer in the party area of Ibiza, Spain, where they lived for 8 years, developing rhythms of prayer and mission and with a heart to bring about change in a place the British press once described as Sodom and Gomorrah. They are passionate about prayer, mission and justice with a real heart for leading in a way that is both sustainable and life giving rooted in a rhythm of devotional and prayerful responsiveness. They have been married over 27 years and have two adult sons.

Brian's Book:
Be Still: A Simple Guide to Quiet Times

Brian's Recommendations:
Submerge: Living Deep in a Shallow World: Service, Justice and Contemplation Among the World's Poor by John B. Hays
Spaces for the Sacred: Place, Memory, and Identity by Philip Sheldrake
The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most Spoken Language by Joseph Piercy

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In this episode, Gannon Sims talks about the church at and around home, marriage as a church plant, and he helps us take account of what we are doing and gives practical ways to invite Jesus into it.

Gannon Sims is a founding director on the US Fresh Expressions Team. His book Bringing Church Home shares the story of his journey of planting a network of fresh expressions of church rooted in homes and households.

Gannon's Book:
Bringing Church Home

Gannon's Recommendation:
Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love by Edward Sri

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