This Good Word With Steve Wiens

This Good Word With Steve Wiens episodes:

• 12.16.2021

  Episode 255 | Deconstruction, Reconstruction and Human Flourishing

  In this episode, I explain why I believe deconstruction and reconstruction are a healthy part of human development, how we see many examples of deconstruction and reconstruction in the bible, and why it's essential for human flourishing. Enjoy!

  
• 12.09.2021

  Episode 254 | Original Sin or Original Blessing?

  Are humans born with "original sin" or "original blessing?" How you understand where you come from (your origin story) drastically affects how you see yourself and the world around you. In this episode, I talk about where the doctrine of...

  
• 12.03.2021

  Episode 253 | The Shape of Reality

  How do you perceive reality? Is life basically a system of scarcity, where it's all up to you to crank it up, make it happen, and dig deep? Or is life energized by a ground of being that keeps sending...

  
• 06.03.2021

  Episode 252 | Brave Church with Elizabeth Hagan

  Reverend Elizabeth Hagan is a graduate of Duke Divinity School, a multi-published author, and has been a pastor for 15 years. She saw the isolation, loneliness, and shame that remains unspoken when Christians shy away from difficult conversations on taboo...

  
• 05.06.2021

  Episode 251 | Staying Awake with Tyler Sit

  Tyler Sit is a pastor, author, and church planter of New City Church in South Minneapolis, a multi-racial church focused on environmental justice and centering marginalized voices. Tyler's new book, Staying Awake: The Gospel for Change Makers, is a practical exploration of...

  
• 04.22.2021

  Episode 250 | A Burning in my Bones with Winn Collier

  Winn Collier just released A Burning in My Bones, the authorized biography of Pastor and author Eugene Peterson. It's a brilliantly written book about a centered pastor during a time when many pastors succumbed to a consumer-driven philosophy about church...

  
• 04.08.2021

  Episode 249 | Rescued from Shame-Based Religion with Kevin Butcher

  Kevin Butcher is a dear friend of mine, and I loved this conversation. He just can't stop talking about God's expansive love, and I can't get enough of it.  He was a Pastor for thirty-five years, but now he's the Founder...

  
• 03.18.2021

  Episode 248 | Echoing Hope with Kurt Willems

  Kurt Willems is the founder and pastor of Pangea Church in Seattle, Washington. Also a writer, blogger, podcaster and speaker, he maintains the resource website Theology Curator and hosts the Theology Curator podcast. Kurt is passionate about taking dense ideas...

  
• 02.11.2021

  Episode 247 | Sarah Bessey Returns

  Sarah Bessey is the author of the popular and critically acclaimed books Jesus Feminist, Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith, and Miracles and Other Reasonable Things. Her brand new book is a collection of meditations entitled A...

  
• 02.04.2021

  Episode 246 | 3,000 Miles to Jesus with Lisa Deam

  3000 Miles to Jesus follows the adventurous journey of three pilgrims who set off for Jerusalem in the 1400s. We’re invited to grab our staff and scrip and come along. Walking with these travelers of old, we hear their stories, gain...

  
• 01.21.2021

  Episode 245 | Queer Prophets with Greg Paul

  Greg Paul is a pastor and member, as well as the founder, of the Sanctuary community in Toronto. Sanctuary, a community in which people who are wealthy and people who are poor live, work, and share their experiences and resources...

  
• 01.14.2021

  Episode 244 | Your Life is Your Curriculum, Part 2

  This is the second part of a two-part series that I created to help people engage in life as it really is, rather than life as we'd prefer it to be. Most of us are well aware of the things...

  
• 12.17.2020

  Episode 243 | Your Life is Your Curriculum, Part 1

  Most of us are well aware of the things we'd like to change in our lives: maybe it's a number on a scale, or something about our job, or how we function in a relationship... come to think of it,...

  
• 12.10.2020

  Episode 242 | Honest Advent with Scott Erickson

  Scott Erickson is a painter, artist, and author of several books, including Honest Advent. We had a wide-ranging conversation about Advent, his creative process, and how his faith has evolved over time. Enjoy!

  
• 09.17.2020

  Episode 241| Four Practices For Staying Alive Until November 3rd (and long after)

  Is it possible to hold strong opinions and beliefs AND learn to express them without alienating and dehumanizing those who disagree with you? Can you really engage and have a robust conversation where you disagree without getting triggered and traumatized?  In...

  
• 09.04.2020

  Episode 240 | New Records and New Theology with Latifah Alattas

  I met Latifah Alattas last year when we started collaborating on a new project (The Fun Parts Podcast). I was immediately drawn to her creativity, her infectious laughter, and her commitment to honesty. She's a singer/songwriter who has written under...

  
• 08.27.2020

  Episode 239 | LGBTQIA+ Church Trauma and Recovery with Rebecca Bowers

  I loved this conversation! Rebecca Bowers is an LGBTQIA affirming and inclusive therapist and advocate, living in southern Louisiana. She primarily works with clients who have gone through spiritual and religious trauma. She sees many clients who have experienced these...

  
• 08.20.2020

  Episode 238 | An Ode to Women Who are "Too Much"

  I recorded this episode based on a blog post I wrote a few years ago when the Me Too movement was just getting started. The blog was titled "An Ode to the Women Who are Too Much." We need to...

  
• 08.06.2020

  Episode 237 | Born Again and Again with Megan Westra

  Megan Westra is the host of a great podcast called The Podluck, and she's the author of a fantastic new book called Born Again and Again, which chronicles her evolving faith. Our conversation went everywhere from her super-conservative upbringing in...

  
• 07.30.2020

  Episode 236 | Listening to Your Inner Wisdom

  Why is it that most of us listen to everybody else but neglect our own inner wisdom? Why don't we trust that voice? Is the heart (as the bible claims), really "deceitful above all things?" In this episode, I talk...

  
• 07.10.2020

  Episode 235 | You are Not Your Feelings

  Why do we get so triggered by Facebook posts with which we disagree? Why can't we just smile and move on? This episode deals with the idea of dualism, and how our brains are still hardwired to keep us safe...

  
• 06.14.2020

  Episode 234 | Separated by the Border with Gena Thomas

  Gena Thomas advocates for families who have been separated at the border. In this conversation, we talked about Gena's experience adopting Julia, a child who had been separated from her family at the border between the US & Mexico, and...

  
• 06.11.2020

  Episode 233 | A Conversation with Austin Channing Brown

  I recorded this interview with Austin Channing Brown in July of 2018, but it's incredibly poignant given the events of the last few weeks, with the killing of George Floyd, the global protest, and the overwhelming call for systemic change....

  
• 06.04.2020

  Episode 232 | You are Not Alone and This Will Not Last Forever with Jessica Kantrowitz

  Jessica Kantrowitz is a writer and theologian living in Boston, Massachusetts. She writes about theology, culture, social justice, and chronic illness, including her own struggles with depression and migraines. Her writing has been featured in places like Sojourners, Think Christian, The Good Men Project, and Our...

  
• 05.28.2020

  Episode 231 | Finding Grace for Yourself and Hope for the World

  Click here to buy my new book, Shining Like the Sun: Seven Mindful Practices for Rekindling Your Faith.

  
• 04.30.2020

  Episode 230 | What the Faith? With Allison Del Fium & Ashten Wickham

  We live in a multi-faith society which often results in misinformation, ignorance, disagreements, hate speech, violence, and even wars. What the Faith is a new community born out of a desire for empathy rather than division. To find commonality in...

  
• 04.23.2020

  Episode 229 | Beyond Awkward Side Hugs with Bronwyn Lea

  Bronwyn Lea is the author of Beyond Awkward Side Hugs: Living as Brothers and Sisters in Christ in a Sex-Crazed World. Find out more about Bronwyn and her book by visiting this episode's show notes!

  
• 04.12.2020

  Episode 228 | Resurrection with Amanda Held Opelt, Rachel Held Evans' sister

  It's been almost a year since we lost our friend Rachel Held Evans. In fact, she was supposed to come out of her medically induced coma on Easter Sunday, 2019. Just two weeks after that, we lost her. I had...

  
• 04.10.2020

  Episode 227 | Good Friday Bonus Episode: Experiencing the Stations of the Cross

  A custom of our Christian tradition is to keep vigil with Christ at different times and in different ways during Holy Week. One of the places from which we draw this custom is Jesus’ request to his disciples to keep watch while...

  
• 04.02.2020

  Episode 226 | Exploring Monastic Rhythms of Healthy Leadership with Jerome Daley

  You know when you meet someone for the first time and find yourself agreeing with almost everything they say? That was how my entire conversation with Jerome Daley went. His emphasis on soul-care, on finding sane rhythms for your life,...

  
• 03.26.2020

  Episode 225 | Moving from Conservative to Progressive Christianity with Colby Martin

  Colby Martin (author of Unclobber: Rethinking our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality) is about to release another book, titled The Shift: Surviving and Thriving after Moving from Conservative to Progressive Christianity. Colby is passionate about carving out a space within...

  
• 03.23.2020

  Episode 224 | Learning to Pray When Anxiety & Fear Takes Over

  If feelings of fear and anxiety are threatening to sweep you away right now, there is a way to pray that allows you to name your feelings - as big as they are, to welcome reality as it is rather...

  
• 03.19.2020

  Episode 223 | Welcoming Reality in Times of Uncertainty

  As the world struggles to come to terms with a new reality in the midst of a global pandemic, we are coming to terms with the reality that we're not as in control of life as we thought we were....

  
• 03.05.2020

  Episode 222 | Theology of the Womb with Dr. Christy Angelle-Vidrine Bauman

  The following excerpt describes the journey that Dr. Christy Vidrine Bauman took that resulted in writing her fabulous book, Theology of the Womb: "If it is true that God is a male, then His Divinity or Deity is expressed in His...

  
• 02.27.2020

  Episode 221 | Ali Hormann is All the Things

  Maybe you haven't heard of Ali Hormann yet, but that's all about to change. She's a wedding photographer, pastor, comedian, mother of three, and writer who believes nobody has to be pigeon-holed into identifying as just one thing. We talked...

  
• 02.25.2020

  Episode 220 | In Which I Read Excerpts from My New Book!

  In this episode, I did two readings from my new book, Shining Like the Sun: Seven Mindful Practices for Rekdindling Your Faith, which releases on April 7th. I can't wait for you to listen to these excerpts and also to...

  
• 02.13.2020

  Episode 219 | But You Live in a Snow Globe! (Surviving Your Own Copernican Shift, part 3)

  This is part 3 of a four-part series called "Surviving Your Own Copernican Shift." If you're going through a faith deconstruction - or reconstruction - or both, you need help understanding a framework for spiritual development that allows questioning, expanding,...

  
• 02.05.2020

  Episode 218 | Unpacking the Superbowl Halftime Show with Joanna Luehmann (Surviving Your Own Copernican Shift, Part 2)

  Joanna Luehmann is a Latinx pastor and theologian who took to Twitter on Sunday night and Monday following the Superbowl to give a different perspective to the halftime show to anyone who thought it was oversexualized. She graciously agreed to...

  
• 01.30.2020

  Episode 217 | How to Survive Your own Copernican Shift, Part 1: Disruption

  Until the early 1500's, everybody assumed planet earth was the fixed, immovable center of the universe, the reference point for the entire universe (apparently it didn't occur to anybody how utterly convenient that was for those of us who lived...

  
• 01.23.2020

  Episode 216 | Self-Contempt, Shame, and a Better Way Forward with Andrew Bauman

  Andrew Bauman is the Co-Founder and Director of Christian Counseling Center: For Sexual Health and Trauma. He's a licensed mental health counselor with an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. He's also the author...

  
• 01.16.2020

  Episode 215 | The Book of Waking Up with Seth Haines

  Seth Haines is one of those friends that makes me want to pursue things that really matter. His new book is vintage Seth Haines: poignant, at times snarky, and pure gold throughout, The Book of Waking Up: Experiencing the Divine Love...

  
• 01.09.2020

  Episode 214 | Try Softer with Aundi Kolber

  I met Aundi Kolber at the Festival for Faith and Writing in 2018, and she’s been a friend ever since. This is Aundi’s second time on the podcast, and this is how she describes herself: I am a deep thinker and...

  
• 01.02.2020

  Episode 213 | The View From Rock Bottom with Stephanie Tait

  For Stephanie Tait, pain has never existed on a spectrum opposite of joy. Pain, with the way it weaves into our lives, families, and work habits, has been the connecting point of grace and struggle that defines her career. As...

  
• 12.26.2019

  Episode 212 | Finding God After Losing Faith

  So many of us begin thinking about resolutions or "words for the year" as we wrap up one year and head into the next. One of the things that I'm going to be especially intentional about in 2020 is being...

  
• 12.19.2019

  Episode 211 | Advent, Part 4

  The season of Advent marks the beginning of the church calendar, and it's a season of naming our deepest longings, those places in our lives where everything feels shrouded in darkness and hopelessness. It's a season to ask for light...

  
• 12.12.2019

  Episode 210 | Advent, Part 3

  The season of Advent marks the beginning of the church calendar, and it's a season of naming our deepest longings, those places in our lives where everything feels shrouded in darkness and hopelessness. It's a season to ask for light...

  
• 12.05.2019

  Episode 209 | Advent, Part 2

  The season of Advent marks the beginning of the church calendar, and it's a season of naming our deepest longings, those places in our lives where everything feels shrouded in darkness and hopelessness. It's a season to ask for light...

  
• 11.28.2019

  Episode 208 | Advent, Part One

  The season of Advent marks the beginning of the church calendar, and it's a season of naming our deepest longings, those places in our lives where everything feels shrouded in darkness and hopelessness. It's a season to ask for light...

  
• 11.21.2019

  Episode 207 | The One Where Jenn Interviews Me

  Last week (episode 206), I had such a great conversation with Jennifer Dawn Watts that we immediately scheduled a time for her to interview me. I found myself reflecting on some of the things she asked me - and some...

  
• 11.14.2019

  Episode 206 | Real with Jennifer Dawn Watts

  Jennifer Dawn Watts is the Founder and CEO of Living Well Counselling Services, with two locations in Calgary Alberta offering services in person and worldwide via telephone and online AND she's one of my favorite new friends. We could have talked for...