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Mike Cosper joins us on the Finding Holy Podcast to talk about: church hurt, his recent CT podcast, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, and power and hope for the church. Listen in.

Listen to The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill on Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rise-and-fall-of-mars-hill/id1569401963

Follow Mike on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeCosper

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Consider: Are your communities repentant communities? Are they safe places to process pain?

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In this best of series, Alan Noble joins Ashley Hales to talk about our digital lives.

You can preorder his next book, You Are Not Your Own, here. His first book is Disruptive Witness and you can follow him on Twitter.

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This is such an important conversation about the nature of courage, how we might maintain civic identities, and love our neighbors -- and learn more about the witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

You can pick up a copy of Keys to Bonhoeffer's Haus here.

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Enjoy this "best of" episode with Karla Reed as we talk generosity, creativity, and spending. Though this came out at the beginning of the pandemic, it's a helpful way to think about how we spend and what we do affects what we love. Listen in!

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How do we reckon with our own doubt? Can we do so in the context of the church? Listen in to this wide-ranging conversation with A.J. Swoboda to find a pathway and roadmap through — to see doubt not as an absence of faith but a sister to it.

LINKS

A.J’s newest book, After Doubt

A.J.’s website

Follow A.J. on Twitter

Another great book of his, Subversive Sabbath

ONE SMALL STEP

Spend 10 minutes is silence and solitude before God. Write down your doubts. See what happens.

Bring some of those doubts to your real, embodied community. Find safe, wise, and trusted people to share them with and ask them to walk with you in and through them. Consider reading After Doubt together.

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As we go through this short series on the pandemic and relationships, leave a review of the Finding Holy Podcast on iTunes! Make sure to tag me on social media so I can enter you to win a copy of one of the great books we’re hearing about!

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The global Covid-19 pandemic has taught us that resilience is an important muscle we need to flex (and to learn how to do so better). Listen in to this conversation with Rhonda Spencer-Hwang about what you can do for yourself and your family to practice new habits.

LINKS

Pre-order Rhonda’s book: Raising Resilient Kids

Rhonda’s website: https://drrhondaspencer.com/

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Pre-order Rhonda’s book here.

Take a 20-minute walk each day this week. Get your body moving and get out in nature. This is a great way to practice holistic health and build resilience for you and your children.

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As we go through this short series on the pandemic and relationships, leave a review of the Finding Holy Podcast on iTunes! Make sure to tag me on social media so I can enter you to win a copy of Rhonda's book or one of the great books we talk about in the coming weeks!

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This is a great conversation on how the pandemic has changed marriages and what it might look like to begin to imagine more for our marriages. Listen in to author, speaker, and photographer Dorothy Greco as she shares practical and soulful ways to connect.

LINKS

Marriage in the Middle: https://amzn.to/33Bn3bQ

Dorothy’s first book: Making Marriage Beautiful

Dorothy’s website: https://www.dorothygreco.com/

My review of Dorothy’s book, Marriage in the Middle, for Christianity Today

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If you’re married, one great question might be to ask your spouse where he or she sees that you’ve lost imagination. Dorothy also recommends a practice of Examen, or even just confession, as the glue that holds her marriage together. Spend some time in prayer asking for your own heart and behavior to be illuminated. Then confess your sin to each other knowing we have a good God who loves you and wants the best for your marriage.

Tag me at @aahales on Twitter or Instagram to let me know what works for you.

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As we go through this short series on the pandemic and relationships, leave a review of the Finding Holy Podcast on iTunes! Make sure to tag me on social media so I can enter you to win a copy of Todd’s book or one of the great books we hear about in the coming weeks!

Here’s how to leave a review:

How to leave an rating or review in Apple Podcasts (on an iOS device or computer)

    1    Open the Podcasts app or go to podcasts.apple.com.

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This is a great conversation on how social media and the pandemic has changed relationships in the church. Listen in to Todd Wilson help listeners learn about the Enneagram, the wisdom of dark emotions, and being self-aware for the sake of others.

LINKS

Todd’s book: https://amzn.to/3xLWbnd

Todd’s website: https://www.toddawilson.com/

Follow Todd on Twitter

Check out The Road Back to You as an Enneagram primer

IVP's Enneagram devotionals are a great gift for you or a friend

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Todd reminds us that the best way we have to love others sacrificially is often by leaning into the part of ourselves that we tend to repress: thinking, feeling or doing. Consider which is hardest for you to access or which question seems the fuzziest: What do I think about this? What do I feel in this situation? or What it mine to do?

Then, as you reenter community and relationships post-pandemic, begin to ask yourself that question. If your doing center is repressed instead of thinking too much or feeling, what can you do? If the thinking center is repressed, consider how you might begin to think through a particular challenge. If your feeling center is repressed, ask what you feel in a given situation and how might you consider others’ feelings?

Tag me at @aahales on Twitter or Instagram to let me know what works for you.

GIVEAWAY!

As we go through this short series on the pandemic and relationships, leave a review of the Finding Holy Podcast on iTunes! Make sure to tag me on social media so I can enter you to win a copy of Todd’s book or one of the great books we hear about in the coming weeks!

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This is a great conversation on how faith might grow, not because we have it mentally sorted or we’re traveling from emotional high to emotional high, but because we practice particular habits. Jen Pollock Michel joins me to talk about habit, corporate practices of faith, and how we might explore the bible with others (for those who believe and those who don’t — including ourselves at times).

LINKS

Jen’s latest book, A Habit Called Faith

Jen’s website to check out her other work: https://www.jenpollockmichel.com/

Follow Jen on Twitter or Instagram

Book mentioned, One to One Bible Reading

You can listen to Jen’s episodes on Finding Holy about finding home in a big city (Episode 3), and an Advent series we did together beginning on Episode 28.

ONE SMALL STEP

Think of one of the small habits you already have — like doing a load of laundry or going on a daily walk — and consider what sort of habit of faith you might add to it. Maybe you talk to a friend on your walk about spiritual matters, or listen to scripture being read as you fold laundry. Find ways to attach a faith habit to the habits you already have.

Tag me at @aahales on Twitter or Instagram to let me know what works for you.

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This is a great conversation on how the pandemic has changed life for women, why institutions matter, the nature of power, and the culture of social influence in Christian spaces.

LINKS

Katelyn’s first book, A Woman’s Place

Katelyn’s podcast, Saved by the City

Katelyn’s website: http://www.katelynbeaty.com/

Follow Katelyn on Twitter

ONE SMALL STEP

Consider taking a social media fast — try a week, or turn off your phone off on Sunday. We are formed by what we ingest and social media without some limits can malform us easily. When you take a social media fast, we can come to terms with missing something and realize this is not the end. It might bring up some hard emotions, but will help us remember that we don’t have to be formed by the hashtags.

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