

Gravity Commons Podcast
Gravity Commons
Conversations to help us develop a Christian spirituality rooted in love that fosters resilient faith in everyday life
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Jun 30, 2020 • 43min
Leading Kids in Imaginative Prayer with Jared Boyd
Pastor, author, and spiritual director Jared Boyd joins us for this final episode of our mini-series on parenting. Jared wrote a remarkable book called Imaginative Prayer: A Yearlong Guide for Your Child’s Spiritual Formation that’s part catechism, part imaginative prayer exercises, part spiritual direction! Links from this episode Our Parenting in Grace and Truth Workshop […]
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Jun 25, 2020 • 32min
How to Pray During a Pandemic With Beth Felker Jones
Dr. Beth Felker Jones joins us in the final podcast in our mini-series on the coronavirus pandemic (remember that’s still happening?). We discuss why so many of us are finding it difficult to pray right now, and Beth talks about her own experience of praying in this time, which led to her collecting prayers in […]
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Jun 23, 2020 • 45min
Creating a Thriving Family Culture with Mark and Lisa Scandrette
Mark and Lisa Scandrette join us in our podcast series on parenting to discuss what they’ve learned about creating a thriving family culture of “belonging and becoming” (which sounds a lot like “grace and truth” which is probably why we resonate so much with them!). The Scandrettes are great because they share more than just […]
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Jun 18, 2020 • 1h 6min
N.T. Wright on the Christian Response to the Pandemic (and Racism)
N.T. Wright (!!) joins us for our mini-series on the coronavirus pandemic to talk about his new book God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and Its Aftermath. We had a lively and illuminating conversation about the Christian response to the pandemic, as well as the recent protests against police brutality and […]
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Jun 16, 2020 • 44min
How to Have Spiritual Conversations With Children with Lacy Finn Borgo
Lacy Finn Borgo joins us in our series on parenting to talk about how to have spiritual conversations with children. Often we as parents are scared to try and have spiritual conversations with our kids, but Lacy shows us how. Lacy teaches and provides spiritual direction for the Renovaré Institute as well as the Doctor […]
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Jun 13, 2020 • 1h 8min
A Cop’s Perspective on Police Brutality and the Protests
Keirsh Cochran is a cop, and a Christian, and is the youngest active police chief in the country. Keirsh has been seeking to reform the way policing is done since he became a police officer, and he joins us to give us his perspective as a Christian (and a cop) on police brutality, the protests, […]
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Jun 11, 2020 • 43min
Mike Frost on What the Pandemic is Revealing About Us
We are starting an extra mini-series this month focused on the church’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. In this first episode we interview Mike Frost on what the pandemic is revealing about us. Mike teaches at Morling College in Sydney, Australia. He is an internationally recognized missiologist and one of the leading voices in the […]
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Jun 9, 2020 • 58min
The End of Youth Ministry with Andrew Root
This is the second episode in our series on parenting, and it’s all about the pitfalls and potential of youth ministry. We talk with Andrew Root, Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, and author of The End of Youth Ministry: Why Parents Don’t Really Care About Youth Groups and What Youth Workers […]
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Jun 2, 2020 • 48min
How to Make Faith Matter For Our Kids with Natalie Frisk
We are starting a new series today on parenting. You don’t have to be a parent to benefit from this series, either. There are a lot of connections and parallels between leadership in general and parenting in particular that we are confident there will be good insights for everyone in this series. To kick things off, […]
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May 26, 2020 • 33min
Cultivating an Imagination for Nonviolent Action with Ron Sider
So often the reason that nonviolence doesn’t feel like a viable option for Christians is that we simply have never seen what nonviolent action looks like, and because of this lack of imagination, nonviolence seems unrealistic or naïve. That’s why we were excited to talk with Ron Sider about his book Nonviolent Action: What Christian Ethics […]
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