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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!Follow Karla on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.LINKSA.J’s newest book, After DoubtA.J.’s websiteFollow A.J. on TwitterAnother great book of his, Subversive SabbathONE SMALL STEPSpend 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.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 one of the great books we’re hearing about!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.    2    Choose “Search” and search for “Finding Holy Podcast.”    3    Select the show under Shows (not under Episodes)    4    Scroll down past the first few episodes until you see Ratings & Reviews    5    Click “Write a Review” underneath the displayed reviews from other listeners.Your listenership helps good conversations happen! If you’ve found this episode helpful and encouraging, please share it with a friend! Leaving a review on iTunes helps keep the conversations going.*links to Amazon are affiliate links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.LINKSPre-order Rhonda’s book: Raising Resilient Kids Rhonda’s website: https://drrhondaspencer.com/ONE SMALL STEPPre-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.WIN A BOOK!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!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.    2    Choose “Search” and search for “Finding Holy Podcast.”    3    Select the show under Shows (not under Episodes)    4    Scroll down past the first few episodes until you see Ratings & Reviews    5    Click “Write a Review” underneath the displayed reviews from other listeners.Your listenership helps good conversations happen! If you’ve found this episode helpful and encouraging, please share it with a friend! Leaving a review on iTunes helps keep the conversations going.*links to Amazon are affiliate links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.LINKSMarriage in the Middle: https://amzn.to/33Bn3bQDorothy’s first book: Making Marriage BeautifulDorothy’s website: https://www.dorothygreco.com/My review of Dorothy’s book, Marriage in the Middle, for Christianity TodayONE SMALL STEPIf 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.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!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.    2    Choose “Search” and search for “Finding Holy Podcast.”    3    Select the show under Shows (not under Episodes)    4    Scroll down past the first few episodes until you see Ratings & Reviews    5    Click “Write a Review” underneath the displayed reviews from other listeners.Your listenership helps good conversations happen! If you’ve found this episode helpful and encouraging, please share it with a friend! Leaving a review on iTunes helps keep the conversations going.*links to Amazon are affiliate links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.LINKSTodd’s book: https://amzn.to/3xLWbndTodd’s website: https://www.toddawilson.com/Follow Todd on TwitterCheck out The Road Back to You as an Enneagram primerIVP's Enneagram devotionals are a great gift for you or a friendONE SMALL STEPTodd 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!Your listenership helps good conversations happen! If you’ve found this episode helpful and encouraging, please share it with a friend! Leaving a review on iTunes helps keep the conversations going.*links to Amazon are affiliate links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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).LINKSJen’s latest book, A Habit Called FaithJen’s website to check out her other work: https://www.jenpollockmichel.com/Follow Jen on Twitter or InstagramBook 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 STEPThink 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.SUBSCRIBE AND REVIEW!Your listenership helps good conversations happen! If you’ve found this episode helpful and encouraging, please share it with a friend! Leaving a review on iTunes helps keep the conversations going.*links to Amazon are affiliate links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.LINKSKatelyn’s first book, A Woman’s PlaceKatelyn’s podcast, Saved by the City Katelyn’s website: http://www.katelynbeaty.com/Follow Katelyn on TwitterONE SMALL STEPConsider 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.SUBSCRIBE AND REVIEW!If you’ve found this episode helpful and encouraging, please share it with a friend! Leaving a review on iTunes helps keep the conversations going.*links to Amazon are affiliate links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this conversation, Ashley sits down with pastor and author John Starke to talk about praying in a pandemic. John Starke is lead pastor at Apostles Church Uptown in New York City. He is the coeditor (with Bruce Ware) of One God in Three Persons. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and four children.LINKSJohn Starke's book, The Possibility of PrayerJohn's substack newsletter: https://johnstarke.substack.com/Follow John on TwitterONE SMALL STEPMake a list of what is making you mad, sad and glad today. Maybe you're mad at God, or sad about a life circumstance or glad about a relational breakthrough. Practice this small way to pray to bring your whole self to God. Consider praying as a family or in community so that you're also bringing your real self to others. Don't forget to pick up a copy of John's book, The Possibility of Prayer.SUBSCRIBE AND REVIEW! If you’ve found this episode helpful and encouraging, please share it with a friend! Leaving a review on iTunes helps keep the conversations going.*links to Amazon are affiliate links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this conversation, Ashley sits down with Hannah Anderson to talk about a liturgy within nature and how this effects our faith. We talk spiritual formation, a new way of seeing, and what nature has to teach us.MORE ABOUT OUR GUESTHannah Anderson is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Turning of Days: Lessons from Nature, Season and Spirit. She is an author, speaker, and works alongside her husband in rural ministry with their three children in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia.LINKSHannah Anderson’s latest book, Turning of DaysHannah’s website: https://www.sometimesalight.comFollow Hannah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sometimesalightSHARE“I’m asking readers to develop a new way of engaging the world.” @sometimesalight @aahales #findingholypodcast“I'm drawing connections between nature and trying to translate that. I wanted to help readers understand that for themselves.” @sometimesalight @aahales #findingholypodcast“There are deep truths that weave through the warp and woof of creation. The God who wrote the scripture is the God who created the world.” @sometimesalight @aahales #findingholypodcast“Nature is a common tongue. We have so little that is shared or agreed upon now.” @sometimesalight @aahales #findingholypodcast“The conversation around creation shouldn’t just engage around natural revelation or creation care.” @sometimesalight @aahales #findingholypodcastONE SMALL STEPGet outside! Go out in nature 5 days a week. Bring someone with you. Take a walk. Pay attention to lessons nature has to teach you!Consider praying and asking: What does nature have to teach me about myself, God, others, and my place? Tag me at @aahales on Instagram or Twitter to discuss what you’re learning.SUBSCRIBE AND REVIEW! If you’ve found this episode helpful and encouraging, please share it with a friend! Leaving a review on iTunes helps keep the conversations going.*links to Amazon are affiliate links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this conversation, Ashley sits down with Julia Lambert Fogg to talk about how we understand scripture, how our neighbors influence our faith, cross-cultural realities, and what Christian faith has to say about immigration.MORE ABOUT OUR GUESTJulia Lambert Fogg is a professor at Cal Lutheran University as well as an author and speaker. Fogg argues that Christians must step out of their comfort zones and learn to cross social, ethnic, and religious borders—just as Jesus did—to become the body of Christ in the world in her book Finding Jesus at the Border.LINKSJulia’s websiteJulia’s book, Finding Jesus at the Border: https://amzn.to/3fvKV7DFreedom for Immigrants groupSHARE“That church community changed how I read scripture.” Julia Lambert Fogg #findingholypodcast“How are we expanding our limits and borders to connect with our neighbors in need?” Julia Lambert Fogg #findingholypodcast“We’re not called to be unsafe. But we are called to be uncomfortable. If we’re not uncomfortable, we’re not growing.” Julia Lambert Fogg #findingholypodcastONE SMALL STEPWave at someone who is different than you. Practice learning about someone else’s experience through books. These are small steps to begin to cross borders of belonging.SUBSCRIBE AND REVIEW! *links to Amazon are affiliate links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices