space for faith with mike goldsworthy

In Episode 7, Jared Wilkins, the Lead Pastor at Parkcrest Christian Church in Long Beach, sits down with me to discuss race, formation and how our current moment affects the way we think about the intersection of those.

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We interview my daughter Kate about her quarantine experience and she teaches us some slang before we wrap up our final episode in Job

In Job 24, Job take a turn in the way he talks about suffering where his pain has transformed him in a way where he now sees and advocates for others in their suffering. We're confronted with what we will do and who we are becoming in our own pain and suffering

I take a brief break from wrapping up our time in Job to talk to my friend Luke Norsworthy about his newest book, Befriending Your Monsters.

After a bit of lazy banter about Quarantine Stashes, we get into what it means to recognize the monsters beneath the surface in our lives, the value in not running from them, the role that spiritual disciplines play and how we become healthy people who are more of who we're meant to be.

In Episode 4, we explore how Job responds when his new experiences don't match what he has previously understood. We talk about living in honest tension, stages of faith, and Walter Bruegemann's Orientation-Disorientation-Reorientation framework.

In Episode 3 we start with an interview with my son Isaac about his Quarantine Stash & move into trying to understand the way that the 3 friends of Job in this ancient book show the typology of the way people of faith try & exert control during suffering by explaining & making sense of things that you can't make sense of

We continue exploring what this ancient book is inviting us into today by looking at a small section of Job that forces us to think about what it means to sit in suffering

Job 2:11-13

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Welcome to the first episode of Mike's Podcast. I apologize for some sound issues, as we were having mic issues that I think we have resolved for future episodes.

In this first episode, Mike begins unpacking a theme from the ancient book of Job to understand the question that's being asked of Job is being asked of us today as we engage in the reality of the COVID-19 Pandemic