Being Known Podcast

Welcome to season 6 episode 4 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom.    We often assume that wisdom is to be equated with knowing things. And indeed, knowing things is important. But only to the degree that it enables us to create beauty and goodness in the world, not least that of flourishing relationships.   Our challenge is that so often we are interested in acquiring knowledge because we are more concerned with being right than we are about being loving.   The horizontal domain of integration—that of the relationship between the right and left hemispheres of the brain—is the setting in which we learn that wisdom is so much more than knowing: it’s about being known. In this episode, Curt and Pepper will connect with their right and left brains—and with you—as we continue on this marvelous journey of becoming people of wisdom.   . . . . . Episode Links and References Ecclesiastes 3 The Time Jumpers   . . . . . Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Hope Heals: Hope Heals Camp is a truly unique offering in the world. No other space in existence today invites families experiencing disabilities – of any age, with any diagnosis, from any place – to enjoy multi-day respite, a rich network of relationships, and access to world class Christ-centered resources, all free of charge.   The week-long camp experience empowers suffering people to embrace their “good/hard” stories by choosing to see the God-given purpose in their pain. And this season we are working to help five campers get to camp FREE.  Learn more about partnering with Hope Heals Camp and donate HERE.   Learn more about our passion for Hope Heals with this short video.    . . . . . Stay connected: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversations.) Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.  Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way. 

Welcome to season 6 episode 3 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom.    God creates mankind in a particular sequence, as Genesis tells us. He begins with mud, into which he breathes his breath. And so we too, in order to become people of wisdom, people who are deeply known, must be present first to our bodies.   What are they telling us? And how do we then make sense of what we are sensing? How do we act with our bodies in such a way that wisdom is acquired?   We discover even more when we read how Paul considers the body of Jesus to be a collection of all of his followers together. This is the work of the vertical domain of integration. Pepper and Curt begin at the beginning of being present to what wisdom has to teach us.   . . . . . Episode Links and References Genesis 1:26-28 Genesis 2:7, 2:15, 2:18-25 Proverbs 9:10 Wisdom of Jesus' Body: John 1, John 2, John 6, Mark 10, John 20, 1 Corinthians 12-13, Exodus 3:14 Body Scan   . . . . . Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Hope Heals: Hope Heals Camp is a truly unique offering in the world. No other space in existence today invites families experiencing disabilities – of any age, with any diagnosis, from any place – to enjoy multi-day respite, a rich network of relationships, and access to world class Christ-centered resources, all free of charge.   The week-long camp experience empowers suffering people to embrace their “good/hard” stories by choosing to see the God-given purpose in their pain. And this season we are working to help five campers get to camp FREE.  Learn more about partnering with Hope Heals Camp and donate HERE.   Learn more about our passion for Hope Heals with this short video.    . . . . . Stay connected: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversations.) Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.  Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way. 

Welcome to season 6 episode 2 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom.    In the beginning, it was God’s presence that hovered over the deep waters of chaos. But before that wisdom was with God, and then was at his side as God brought order and purpose in his creating the world. Presence. For to know what wisdom is, let alone acquire it, we must first be present to it—in the same way that we must be present to God, to ourselves, and to each other as the starting point to being known; to becoming people of beauty and goodness.   We will encounter the conscious domain of integration—and so learn how wisdom begins by being present.   . . . . . Episode Links and References Genesis 1:1-2 Proverbs 8:22-31 Genesis 1:26 Makoto Fujimura - Art + Faith: The Theology of Making Makoto Fujimura art piece - Tears of Christ   . . . . . Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Hope Heals: Hope Heals Camp is a truly unique offering in the world. No other space in existence today invites families experiencing disabilities – of any age, with any diagnosis, from any place – to enjoy multi-day respite, a rich network of relationships, and access to world class Christ-centered resources, all free of charge.   The week-long camp experience empowers suffering people to embrace their “good/hard” stories by choosing to see the God-given purpose in their pain. And this season we are working to help five campers get to camp FREE.  Learn more about partnering with Hope Heals Camp and donate HERE.   Learn more about our passion for Hope Heals with this short video.    . . . . . Stay connected: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversations.) Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.  Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way. 

Welcome to season 6 episode 1 of Being Known Podcast. This season we are looking at The Beauty of Wisdom as we address the following: What does it mean to be wise, and how does life at the intersection of interpersonal neurobiology and Christian spirituality—a life of being known—reveal how we can become people of wisdom in a world that so desperately needs it?   We would expect there to be no debate: wisdom is something everyone thinks is a good thing. Who would ever want to be more foolish by the end of the day? But we often seem to be more interested in being right than being wise; more often interested in acquiring information than wisdom.    . . . . . Episode Links and References The Bible Project   . . . . . Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Hope Heals: Hope Heals Camp is a truly unique offering in the world. No other space in existence today invites families experiencing disabilities – of any age, with any diagnosis, from any place – to enjoy multi-day respite, a rich network of relationships, and access to world class Christ-centered resources, all free of charge.   The week-long camp experience empowers suffering people to embrace their “good/hard” stories by choosing to see the God-given purpose in their pain. And this season we are working to help five campers get to camp FREE.  Learn more about partnering with Hope Heals Camp and donate HERE.   Learn more about our passion for Hope Heals with this short video.    . . . . . Stay connected: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversations.) Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.  Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way. 

As part of the Connections Conference 2022 hosted by The Center for Being Known, Curt, Pepper and Amy sat down for a live podcast recording to talk all things friendship, favorites and being known.   Learn more about The Center for Being Known at www.thedbk.org  

We've come to the end of our season where we talked in-depth with personal stories as it related to Curt's book, The Soul of Shame.   In this end of season episode we review our conversations, answer your questions, and pull it all together. We won’t be ashamed if we don’t answer all your questions, though we know we wish we could.   . . . . .   Thank you to our sponsors Hon’s Honey - Hon's Honey is a social enterprise dedicated to giving dignity and purpose to women survivors of trauma.  They believe in healing, second chances and new chapters, and so do we.  Use code BEINGKNOWN to receive 20% off your order. Hope Heals - Hope Heals Camp is a truly unique offering in the world. No other space in existence today invites families experiencing disabilities – of any age, with any diagnosis, from any place – to enjoy multi-day respite, a rich network of relationships, and access to world class Christ-centered resources, all free of charge.   . . . . .   Episode Links and References Connections Conference hosted by The Center for Being Known   . . . . .   Stay connected: Instagram Facebook Twitter YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversations.) Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.     

Welcome to season 5 episode 10 where this season we are bringing you personal stories and deep teaching into Curt’s book, The Soul of Shame.  This week we are looking at chapter 9, “Renewing Vocational Creativity”.   Human beings were made in God’s image in order that we might create and curate beauty and goodness in the world, not least through all of our acts of work, whether we are paid for it or not. But evil finds any and all of that creativity to be anathema.   No wonder then, that evil has no intention of using shame merely to make us feel bad. Mostly, it wields it to devour the beauty and goodness that God has had in mind for us to co-create with him from before the foundation of the world.   This week we discover how the healing of shame was, in God’s mind, never just about making us feel better about ourselves, but rather about our joining him in the new creation that is here and is surely coming.   . . . . .   Thank you to our sponsors Hon’s Honey - Hon's Honey is a social enterprise dedicated to giving dignity and purpose to women survivors of trauma.  They believe in healing, second chances and new chapters, and so do we.  Use code BEINGKNOWN to receive 20% off your order. Hope Heals - Hope Heals Camp is a truly unique offering in the world. No other space in existence today invites families experiencing disabilities – of any age, with any diagnosis, from any place – to enjoy multi-day respite, a rich network of relationships, and access to world class Christ-centered resources, all free of charge.   The week-long camp experience empowers suffering people to embrace their “good/hard” stories by choosing to see the God-given purpose in their pain.   . . . . .   Episode Links and References Connections Conference hosted by The Center for Being Known . . . . .   Stay connected: Instagram Facebook Twitter YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversations.) Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts. 

Welcome to season 5 episode 9 where this season we are bringing you personal stories and deep teaching into Curt’s book, The Soul of Shame.  This week we are looking at chapter 8, “Redeeming Shame in Our Nurturing Communities”.   Shame doesn’t just appear out of nowhere.  Shame begins in the earliest communities in which we dwell.  It is to those communities we now turn to see how shame emerges there – but also what we can to retell the stories of those communities: our families, our churches, and schools.   Listen in as we get to the bottom of the places where our stories begin, and begin to reimagine how God can transform them on the way to doing the same for the larger communities in which we live.   . . . . . Thank you to our sponsors Hon’s Honey - Hon's Honey is a social enterprise dedicated to giving dignity and purpose to women survivors of trauma.  They believe in healing, second chances and new chapters, and so do we.  Use code BEINGKNOWN to receive 20% off your order. Hope Heals - Hope Heals Camp is a truly unique offering in the world. No other space in existence today invites families experiencing disabilities – of any age, with any diagnosis, from any place – to enjoy multi-day respite, a rich network of relationships, and access to world class Christ-centered resources, all free of charge.   . . . . . Episode Links and References Connections Conference hosted by The Center for Being Known The Bible Project, a non-profit animation studio that produces short-form, fully animated videos to make the biblical story accessible to everyone, everywhere. They create videos, podcasts, and study guides that explore the Bible’s unified story. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck   . . . . . Stay connected: Instagram Facebook Twitter YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversations.) Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.   

Welcome to season 5 episode 8 where this season we are bringing you personal stories and deep teaching into Curt’s book, The Soul of Shame.  This week we are looking at chapter 7, “Our Healing Cloud of Witnesses”.   For shame to be healed and our lives recommissioned, we need more than good information so we can simply appropriate it on our own as individuals. In the same way that we were made as contingent, co-regulating people who, made in God’s image, require the presence of others for our healthy growth and development, we also need a community for the healing of our shame.   A community that can bear witness to our lives and provide guidance in the re-telling of our stories.  Fortunately, we have a model for how to do that.    Join us as we examine what it means to live truly before a body of people who help us see Jesus seeing us more truly, so that we can see ourselves in the way.   Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.   . . . . .   Thank you to our sponsor… Hope Heals! Hope Heals Camp is a truly unique offering in the world. No other space in existence today invites families experiencing disabilities – of any age, with any diagnosis, from any place – to enjoy multi-day respite, a rich network of relationships, and access to world class Christ-centered resources, all free of charge.   The week-long camp experience empowers suffering people to embrace their “good/hard” stories by choosing to see the God-given purpose in their pain.   . . . . .   Episode Links and References Connections Conference hosted by The Center for Being Known   . . . . .   Stay connected: Instagram Facebook Twitter YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversations.) Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts. 

Welcome to season 5 episode 7 where this season we are bringing you personal stories and deep teaching into Curt’s book, The Soul of Shame.  This week we are looking at chapter 6, “Shame’s Remedy: Vulnerability”.   Hiding and isolation are hallmarks of shame. Moreover, the very notion of exposing our shame is…shaming.   Who knew that the very thing that we are most fearful of—our shame being exposed—is the place we need to begin to discover shame’s healing, and to have our stories begin to be told more truly.   This week we talk about how, like so much of the rest of the story of the gospel, it is in our vulnerability—that very place in which our shame first took place and took shape—that lies the key to its regeneration..   . . . .   Thank you to our sponsor… Hope Heals! Hope Heals offers the Hope Heals Camp is a truly unique offering in the world. No other space in existence today invites families experiencing disabilities – of any age, with any diagnosis, from any place – to enjoy multi-day respite, a rich network of relationships, and access to world class Christ-centered resources, all free of charge.   The week-long camp experience empowers suffering people to embrace their “good/hard” stories by choosing to see the God-given purpose in their pain.   . . . . . Episode Links and References Connections Conference hosted by The Center for Being Known     . . . . . Stay connected: Instagram Facebook Twitter YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversations.) Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.