The AUSA Podcast

Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! Today, Luke and Brenna sit down to chat a bit about Rest to try and help re-orient our mindsets heading into break. Luke talks through some ideas from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's wonderful little book, "The Sabbath," like how the Sabbath is a palace in time and not only that, but a person who is with and within us (Matthew 11:28-30); how it's holistic to all that a person is and doesn't just heal or minister to the spiritual or the physical, but both; and how rest can look differently for everyone! Brenna and Luke give some examples of how they rest and what rest does for them.

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Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast. Life doesn't always feel easy, and lately, it seems like it's felt pretty hard for a lot of people. As we were brainstorming this week's episode, we noticed that the tone of our team and our campus has felt really heavy the past two weeks. Because of that, Brenna and Luke decided to sit down and read some Scripture over anyone who needs it. They read Psalm 16 and Psalm 27, and future-Luke reads The Comfortable Words, a few sentences from throughout Scripture that remind us of the comfort found in the Gospel.

Editor's note: Hey, Luke here. I cried a little while reading Psalm 16. I wanted to leave it in because 1) let's normalize guys crying and 2) right now my heart is not glad, and Scripture, the psalms especially, is not supposed to be neat and tidy, it isn't always supposed to be happily read and regarded, and it definitely doesn't shy away from our emotions. So we shouldn't either.

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Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! This week, Brenna and Luke sit down with two fellow CATs, Abigail Elledge and Clara Mozingo, to talk about being an introvert on the team. We talk about some of the events we tailor for our introverts and discuss the necessity of individuals who are wired differently in order to form a robust representation of our student body!

Thanks for listening! We'll see you next week.

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Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! This week, Brenna is out, so Luke sits down with fellow CATs, Lucy Peacock and Drew Correll to talk about The Working Genius strength, "Galvanize." Galvanizers often bring energy to a team dynamic, and they posses the natural gift of rallying, inspiring, and organizing others to take action. They talk about being galvanizers, about the other types of working genius, and about why it is important to know the ways you work with others well.

Thanks for listening! We'll see you next week.

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Welcome to the first episode of the last season of The AUSA Podcast! We are so glad to be back. We hope your break was restful and your semester is off to an incredible start! This week, Luke and Brenna chat about some of the exciting things Student Activities has coming up this semester, with some sneak peeks into our final podcast season and the low-down on some brand new events!

Thanks for listening! We'll see you next week.

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Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! We hope your Thanksgiving break was as good as ours! This week, Luke and Brenna have a conversation about calendar flips. They chat about how they think about new months, what they do to reflect over the previous month, how they can move into the next month better, and what it looks like to slow down, rest, and adapt to a new normal.

Thanks for listening, good luck on your finals! We'll see you next week.

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Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! We're back with a bit of a shorter episode after a one-week break since we finished our Hospitality series. This week, Luke and Brenna sit down with our resident dreamer and the CAT's very own social media manager, Katelyn Bass! They talk about what the inside of a dreaming mind looks like, how to deal with disappointment and re-arranged dreams, the significance of dreaming little, how to support dreamers in their endeavors, and how to be there for them when their dreams fail.

Thanks for listening, and Happy Thanksgiving break! We'll see you next week.

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Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today, we're bringing our series on "hospitality" to a close in a bit of a different way than usual. In our last episode of this series, Luke recaps the series and talks about the source of our hospitality, our home, God. He looks at the Story of the Prodigal Son from Luke 15, and ends out the episode by reading "A Liturgy for an Inconsolable Homesickness" for those of you who are missing home or feel without one.

Thanks for listening to this series, it's been a ton of fun! We'll see you next week.

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The books that were mentioned in this episode are "The Return of The Prodigal Son" by Henri Nouwen, and "Every Moment Holy, Volume 1."

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today, we're beginning to wrap up the series on "hospitality"  we've been in for the past couple weeks. In our second to last episode of the series, Brenna and Luke sit down with an Anderson University and Campus Activities Team alum, Sam Walker, to talk about the ways that hospitality is linked to the Gospel and Way of Jesus. We discuss what it looks like to lovingly host (in homes and hearts) those you "would rather be able to dislike;" how we can live out the miracles of Jesus in an every day, non-miraculous way; and what it means to be changed by radically ordinary hospitality.

Thanks for listening! We'll see you next week.

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Some books we mentioned in this episode are "The Liturgy of the Ordinary" by Tish Harrison Warren and "The Gospel Comes With A House Key" by Rosaria Butterfield.

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! This week, we're continuing the series on "hospitality" that we've been in for the past two weeks. Brenna and Luke sit down with some friends from the Campus Activities Team, Isabella and Corey, to talk about the ways Student Activities intentionally engineers hospitality into our events. We look at specific events and talk about the mind, heart, and soul behind them.

Thanks for listening! We'll see you next week.

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