Drew Hyun – Hope Church NYC
West LA
9/11
Leaving the Best Job You’ll Ever Have
Today on The Pursuit: Drew Hyun
Drew is the founder and pastor of Hope Midtown, a part of the Hope Church Network in NYC.
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Karen Swallow Prior On Reading Well (& Why Virtue is Tricky for Women)
Today on the Betwixt Podcast, Dr. Karen Swallow Prior talks about her newest book On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Literature. Her book walks readers through twelves literary works that show us how to live virtuously.
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Aaron Graham – The District Church, Washington DC
Saddam Hussein
Jesse Jackson
Boston crack house.
Today on The Pursuit: Aaron Graham.
Aaron is the founding and lead pastor of The District Church in Washington, DC. His journey as a missionary kid led him to move to Kuwait.
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Phileena Heuertz on Mindful Silence (Action & Contemplation Part 2)
“Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.”
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Kathy Khang: Raise Your Voice (Action & Contemplation Part 1)
In the next two episodes, we will talk with two women about how action and contemplation work together for holistic Christian formation.
In today’s episode, activist Kathy Khang talks about action and her latest book Raise your Voice: Why we Stay Silent and How to Speak Up!
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Abe Cho – Redeemer Church
Cultural Assimilation
Severe Ministry Burnout
Being one of Tim Keller’s Successors
Today on The Pursuit: Abe Cho
Hear the story of how Abe almost said “no” to taking the leadership of Redeemer Church – East Side from Tim Keller.
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Why Intersex Christian Slip Through the Pew Cracks: Lianne Simon Shares Her story of Fraught Faith Amidst the Culture Wars.
“Intersex is a broad label for people with differences of sex development (DSDs)—people whose bodies show physical characteristics of both male and female.” – Intersex and Faith
In this latest Betwixt Podcast episode, Deb Gregory talks with Lianne Simon about her experience as a Christian intersex woman.
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Maundy Thursday: An Opposite of Revival Liturgy Worth Reviving
On Maundy Thursday you leave in silence, totally bereft. There are no clergy left because they’ve abandoned the people. It is disorienting and it’s meant to be.
Jay Greener and Tara Owens join Deb Gregory at the Betwixt Podcast to tell a stunning Maundy Thursday story.
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What Does Art Contribute to the Life of the Church? Bruce Herman on the Art of Paradox (Part 2)
In the last Betwixt Episode, artist Bruce Herman told the story about the house-fire in which he lost 25 years of artwork. Bruce described it as a “eu-catastrophe” – the good catastrophe that brought freedom amidst great loss.
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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson on Truth-telling in a Divided World
When was the last time you told to a difficult truth to someone? How did it go?
In this Betwixt Podcast episode, we talk with Natasha Sistrunk Robinson about her journey to becoming a truth-teller in a divided world.
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Tish Harrison Warren on Miscarriage and Liturgies of Lament
In this episode,Tish Harrison Warren shares her painful story of miscarriage. Because miscarriage was a wordless experience, she recognized her need for words from her community. She grasped on to liturgies of lament, wrapping time-tested words around her grief in the presence of community.
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Ep. 17: Aaron Niequist on Practice-Based Faith
Aaron Niequist helps launch Season 2 of the Betwixt Podcast!
Profound loosing and finding have marked Aaron Niequist’s faith journey. In this episode, he shares how practice-based faith saved him from drowning.
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Enneagram Part 2 with Suzanne Stabile: The Church is in Liminal Space
In part two of the Betwixt Podcast conversation with Suzanne Stabile, we continue a discussion on the enneagram as a spiritual formation tool that can help shape the path between humans in relationship to one another and the path in our relationship with God.
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Suzanne Stabile on How the Enneagram Helps the Church Understand Difference (Part 1)
The enneagram is a model of nine interconnected personality types that has become wildly popular among leadership trainers in both business and church circles. It’s used as a tool for strengthening interpersonal relationships and personal growth.
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Men Who Buy Sex: How a Former Porn Addict is Pastoring Johns
How Do You Treat Men Who Buy Sex? John School with Chris Stollar
(Part 2 in the Sex Trafficking Series)
Confession: This episode was difficult to produce. It has exposed how my desire for justice far outweighing my willingness to extend compassion toward men who solicit prostitutes and contribute to the horrific world of human trafficking.
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Women Who Sell Sex: What Restorative Justice Reveals about the Heart of God & the Mission of the Church
How do you treat women who sell sex?
In this first episode of a two part series looking at the Christians working to eradicate sex trafficking, we hear from a trauma counselor who works with prostitutes within the criminal justice system.
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Jared Boyd on How Imaginative Prayer Helps Children Connect with God (& Parents)
Jared Boyd discovered that children’s spiritual formation is rooted in the imagination.
“When we lead our children through guided times of imaginative prayer, they can experience a connection with God that transcends mere Bible knowledge or doctrinal content.”
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Betwixt Podcast on the Passage to Manhood with Craig Glass
Has the erosion of rites of passage adversly impacted men in Western culture? Craig Glass thinks so.
“The boys in the village must be initiated or they will burn down the village just to feel the heat.”
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Walter Brueggemann on Failed White Domination & the Door of Hope
“The old world of white domination has failed . . . we are seeing the anger and the fear and the hate about how uneasy we are of having to live in that moment.”
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Essential Reads 2017: Seven New Books by Our Missio Alliance Authors
Why is Your Church Here? The 3 Streams of Cultural Accommodation
Why is your church here? What are you doing? How are you moving forward?
The answer to these questions is often based on your assumptions about the church’s place in culture.
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Returning to Joy in a Troubled World
How is joy a source of strength?
Why was it joy for Jesus to endure the cross?
Is joy just happy-clappy sentimentality?
Mandy Smith and Scott Jones join Geoff Holsclaw to talk about the need to return to joy.
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Aliens and Exiles (with Dennis Edwards)
Do you need a 1st Century Church Planting Manual?
Or, What does 1 Peter teach us about being faithful to Jesus?
David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw talk with Dennis Edwards, a pastor and scholar, about exiles, the vocation of the church, and submitting to all human institutions (and what that might mean).
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Seminary Dropout 153: David Fitch Author of ‘Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines that Shape the Church for Mission’
David E. Fitch (PhD, Northwestern University) is the B. R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary. He is also the founding pastor of Life on the Vine Christian Community, a missional church in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.
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Horror, Relief, Hope: Post-Election Debrief
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Breaking from their script, David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw process their reactions to the election of Donald Trump. As two white males, nothing has changed about our lives, because we are privileged enough to be untouched by the recent events.
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Converts Or Proselytes? The Change Jesus Makes
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Does Jesus seek Proselytes or Converts? And what is the difference?
David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw discuss why the Apostle Paul was so angry with the Galatians, and whether we are called to renounce one cultural identity in favor of a new one (Proselyte Model) and or called to take up the same identity in a new way (Conversion Model).
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