WellSpring SoulCARE

Luci Shaw is the co-founder and later president of Harold Shaw Publishers, and since 1988 has been a Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. Shaw is poetry editor and a contributing editor of Radix, as quarterly journal published in Berkeley, CA, that celebrates art, literature, music, psychology, science and the media, featuring original poetry, reviews and interviews.

A charter member of the Chrysostom Society of Writers, Shaw is author of eleven volumes of poetry. Her most recent books are What the Light Was Like (Word Farm), Accompanied by Angels (Eerdmans), The Genesis of It All (Paraclete), and Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination & Spirit (Nelson).

She and her husband John Hoyte live in Bellingham, Washington and are members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. She loves sailing, tent camping, knitting, gardening, and wilderness photography.

In this episode we talk with 4 participants in our 9 month formational cohort called SoulCARE. We talk about their “before” - what was happening as they entered this time, their “during” - what impacted them over these months, and “after” - what lasting difference this experience has made in their life and leadership. Note: this was originally recorded for and shared with our donors- who fund this ministry so that we can offer it free of charge.

Howard Baker is Asst. Professor of Christian Formation at Denver Seminary, launched the seminary’s certificate program (along with Bruce Demarest) in Spiritual Guidance, and is Director of the Soul Care Institute. Howard serves on multiple non-profit boards including the Spiritual Formation Alliance, offers spiritual direction and leads retreats, is currently the board chair for The Abbey, (Colorado) and serves with Praxis, a companion ministry to WellSpring’s SoulCARE. He has authored Soul Keeping and The One True Thing, and contributed to numerous other works and articles, including The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible.

PATTY MARTIN received a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and received her training in spiritual direction from Azusa Pacific University. She received a certificate in Spiritual Formation through the Renovare Institute. Patty is on the WellSpring board, leads small groups and is a spiritual director.

EFF MARTIN is a private investor and a founding partner of Anthos Capital. He is deeply engaged in Christian spiritual formation ministries including discipling, teaching and leading retreats for men’s groups. Eff leads a men’s spiritual formation group for WellSpring.

In this conversation, we talk with Winn Collier, the author of Eugene Peterson’s biography A Burning in My Bones. We also get to know Winn and a bit of his journey. Winn was a Pastor for 25 years, the founding pastor of All Souls Charlottesville. He now serves at Western Theological Seminary as Director of The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination & Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Christian Imagination. He is also the director of the Genesis Project, a circle of friends who provide soul care for pastors and invite them to experience genuine friendship, bold love, and restful transformation.

David Kim is not only an alumnus of SoulCARE but a partner in ministry with us. He's discipleship pastor at Westgate Church, an enneagram coach, and the author of a children's book, A Kids Book About Change, one of Oprah's Favorite Things last year.

Growing up, Smith lived not far from Cup Foods, the shop near where George Floyd died, and he has fond memories of visiting the drug store that used to occupy the same space that Cup Foods now stands.

He later became a church planter and served as founding pastor of Sanctuary Covenant Church, a multiethnic congregation in North Minneapolis.

Author of The Post-Black and Post-White Church: Becoming the Beloved Community in a Multi-Ethnic World, he is now co-pastor of Bayside Church Midtown, an intentionally diverse congregation of 3,500 in Sacramento.

The life of Dallas Willard deserves attention because he became a person who himself experienced authentic transformation of life and character. Dallas Willard not only taught about spiritual disciplines, he became a different person because of them. He became a grounded person, a spiritually alive person as he put them into practice, finding God, as he often said, "at the end of his rope." Here is a life that gives us all hope.

Gary W. Moon, M.Div., PhD, is the Executive Director of the Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture and the Dallas Willard Center for Christian Spiritual Formation at Westmont College. He also served as the founding director of the Renovaré International Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation and as a founding editor of Conversations Journal. His research interests include the theoretical and practical integration of psychology and theology. He has published and presented over 300 professional and popular papers, and has written, edited or contributed chapters to more than 20 books.

Kimberly Miller, MTh, LMFT, is the co-author of Boundaries for Your Soul and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, speaker, and retreat leader. Kim studied religion at Davidson College in North Carolina and earned a Master’s degree in Theology at Regent College in Vancouver where she was given the Award to an Outstanding Woman. She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific University where she won the Dedicated to Learning Award.

Richard sits down with Trevor Hudson to discuss the importance of lament in our current crises and the role of leaders in creating spaces that allow us to grieve what we've lost.

Trevor is a pastor involved with the Methodist movement in Southern Africa for more than 35 years. Besides his local commitments, Trevor travels widely, preaching, teaching, and lecturing in the areas of spiritual formation, spiritual direction, and pastoral therapy. He lectures at Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, in their Doctor of Ministry (Spiritual Direction) program, and he also works closely with Upper Room Ministries, the Renovaré International Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation, the Dallas Willard Center for Christian Spiritual Formation, and the Jesuit Institute in South Africa. He is the author of 15 books including Discovering Your Spiritual Identity (IVP) and Beyond Loneliness (Upper Room).