Jason Miller joins us on the podcast again, this time to talk about Chapter 5 of the Divine Conspiracy, where Willard (and Jason) unpack the Beatitudes for us. Jason is a pastor who never quite felt at home in church, an artist who figured out the sermon is his song, and a teacher who still has some questions. he studied theology in the graduate sc…

Jason Miller joins us on the podcast again, this time to talk about Chapter 5 of the Divine Conspiracy, where Willard (and Jason) unpack the Beatitudes for us. Jason is a pastor who never quite felt at home in church, an artist who figured out the sermon is his song, and a teacher who still has some questions. he studied theology in the graduate sc…

Aaron Niequist is a liturgist, writer, and pastor currently living in New York City. He is the creator of A New Liturgy, founder of Pastors, Priests and Guides and the author of The Eternal Current. Aaron and I shared together in his first earthquake, which hit New York while recording this podcast. But we also talk about understanding God’s presen…

Brian Zahnd joins us again on the podcast to engage in the third chapter of the Divine Conspiracy. Brian is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri. He’s also a pastor-theologian who has authored eleven books, including most recently The Wood Between the Worlds. BZ and I briefly talk about his new book, the unique…

Sean Palmer joins us today to delve into the first chapter of The Divine Conspiracy. Sean is an enneagram theorist, a preacher and a pastor, a speaking coach and author. He’s currently the Teaching Pastor at Ecclesia Houston, and most recently is the author of Speaking by the Numbers. Sean and I talk about how the Divine Conspiracy helped to give J…

Jan Johnson is an author, speaker, college professor, and spiritual director. Amongst the many books she's written, she co-authored the Study Guide for the Divine Conspiracy. Jan also serves in leadership for the Dallas Willard School of Kingdom Living. She is someone who knew Dallas well, has been interacting with the ideas from the Divine Conspir…

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where the space for faith podcast has been the past several months...what will it look like this year...and a few reflections from some of my learnings this past yearโดย mike goldsworthy

Meredith Miller is a pastor and parent who helps grownups, and the kids they love, engage with the Bible and faith in ways that are life-giving, fun, and a fit for their real lives. We talk about why it's a more helpful goal for kids to develop trust with God than obedience, what God-centered storytelling looks like, Moral Therapeutic Deism, and a …

Jason Miller joins us on the podcast today where we talk about the way we read the Beatitudes as a transformative way forward when we suffer rather than an expectation that creates heavier burdens. He paints us a picture of the beauty of what it begins to look like when we let these blessings of Jesus do their work. Check our Jason's new book, When…

Scot McKnight is the Julius R. Mantey Chair of New Testament at Northern Seminary. He's the author of numerous books including Jesus Creed, Blue Parakeet, King Jesus Gospel and A Church Called Tov, which he co-authored with his daughter Laura Barringer. Today we're talking about a new New Testament translation that Scot has completed that will be r…

Andrew Lang joins us on the podcast today. Many of the people who join us here to talk about faith are coming out of experiences from a more conservative tradition. Andrew is a bit different in that he's coming from a more progressive tradition and along the way finds the significance and beauty of the contemplative tradition. We talk about depth a…

Mike Foster is known as the Mr. Rogers of self-development. He’s a best-selling author, speaker, and executive coach empowering people to build strong lives by turning their setbacks into superpowers. We spend some time today understanding our primal question, how it helps us to understand ourselves in ways that unlocks places where we’re stuck, gi…

Casey Tygrett is a pastor, a spiritual director and author. He has degrees and certifications and all of the stuff. But, what you need to know is that he's incredibly thoughtful, intuitive and generous. His newest book (releasing today) called The Gift of Restlessness was such a gift to me. I think you're going to appreciate the book and the conver…

It's been a bit, but we've got several new episodes recorded that you'll be getting over the next several weeks. Today, Justin McRoberts joins us again on the podcast to talk to us about finding our belovedness in our work and our rest. We talk about my Sabbath and Retirement rants, finding contentment in the actual life I'm living, and moving beyo…

Dave Davis joins us on the podcast today. We talk about the experience of your faith shifting while you’re on church staff, about changing metrics in the church, and some thoughts for those of you in ministry who are considering vocational shifts. Dave Davis has been coaching leaders, leading organizations and bringing clarity to the confused for m…

Jonathan Foster and I talk about René Girard’s mimetic theory and scapegoating, how God operates with consent and love as non-scapegoating, non-violent, non-binary. Check out Jonathan’s new book, Theology of Consent And find him on the internets here ————— To help support me and my work, particularly with post-evangelical churches, you can make tax…

Blain Hogan joins us today to talk about Happy Friday Dance Parties, the work of uncovering your story, the tension of knowing what you want to create while also creating space for feedback, how paying attention to the particulars of our story helps us to connect more universally, and how we can change our past. Blaine Hogan is a writer, film and c…

Peter Choi's talk from the Post Evangelical Collective 2022 in Denver, CO. Jonathan Merritt closes out our time together with Eucharistโดย mike goldsworthy

Eric Wilson's spoken word and David Gushee's talk at the 2022 Post Evangelical Collective in Denver, COโดย mike goldsworthy

Gail Song Bantum's opening talk at the 2022 Post Evangelical Collective in Denver, COโดย mike goldsworthy

Peter Choi is Director of the Center for Faith and Justice, Associate Professor of American Christianity, and a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He spends some time talking to us about the way evangelicalism is understood and defined, the dynamism of our faith, and the way we engage the Scriptures a…

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Kan’Dace Brock & Zach Lambert who talk with us about the ethos of the churches that they’ve each been a part of planting, the ways that people use money to try and control outcomes with Christian institutions, a vision for a seminary that is multi and inter-denominational as well as scholarly and practical, and h…

Mallory Wyckoff joins us on the podcast today. Mallory is a teacher, preacher, writer, and spiritual director. She serves as key relationships officer with Preemptive Love, a global community of peacemakers working to end war and stop the spread of violence. Having completed her dissertation on the impact of sexual trauma on survivors’ theological …

We are joined today by the President of Pillar Seminary, Dan Lowery. We spend some time talking about your life and calling taking you into unexpected vocations places, the future of seminary, ecumenical spaces, and creating space in seminary and the church for help people learn to think rather than be told what to think. Check our Pillar Seminary …

We're doing something a bit different on the space for faith podcast today and broadcasting a sermon Mike recently preached at South Bend City Church. We walk through the double healing of the blind man in Mark 8, recognizing that sometimes in our faith journey we need to see, but not clearly before our eyes can be opened to see clearly and in focu…

Jeff Lockyer is the Lead Pastor of Southridge, one of the largest churches in Canada, eh. I love the way he thinks about gaps in the church and how to close them; the way his church does many similar things to other churches their size, but the heart and motivation behind them is very different; the way he thinks about operationalizing ministry con…

Jared Byas is the cohost of the popular The Bible for Normal People podcast. He previously served as a pastor, but he continues the work of helping people find and save their faith by introducing them to honest engagement with the Scriptures. I loved his previous book, Love Matters More. Today we talk about his newest book, Jonah for Normal People,…

Angie Hong is a worship leader, writer and speaker based in Durham, NC. She is also a co-founder of Kinship Commons, creating resources to equip worship cultivators of color, which is one thing we'll discuss in this episode. Angie and I talk about the pressure that is often put on worship leaders of color when significant events that gain national …

Nancy Beach and Samantha Beach Kiley share with us about their new book, Next Sunday: An Honest Dialogue About the Future of the Church. They show us what it looks like to have humility about the way we think about God and the church, being open to seeing things through others' perspectives. I think this will be an important book at opening up a cr…

Kevin Sweeney is the co-founder and pastor of Imagine Hawaii and the author of The Making of a Mystic. We talk about what authenticity and integrity will cost you, what it is to be a mystic and the integration of those experiences into the normalcy of life, and the process he's going through of learning to let go as Imagine moves towards its final …

Rob Schenck is a public theologian and founder of The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute in Washington DC. Formerly, Rob had been significantly involved in a high public platform in the Religious Right until he went through his own journey of his faith evolving. Rob talks to us about the intersection of power and having a public faith platform, how Abig…

If you are a pastor, artist, or other church leader who feels connected to the post-evangelical space – which is to say that you have felt ecclesiologcally homeless in the larger church landscape. Not quite sure where you fit, but you’re not ready to give up on the church and you’re a part of reimagining what it looks like for our current moment. I…

Today’s space for faith episode has a little bit of everything with Sean Palmer. It starts early with Sean comparing Taylor Swift with Shakespeare and quickly moves to talking about the Enneagram, cancel culture, Power over persuasion as the normal experience culturally and in the church, the church recapturing the ability to have difficult convers…

Aaron Niequist is a liturgist, writer and pastor currently living in NYC. Having led worship at Mars Hill, and Willow Creek, Aaron has created A New Liturgy, written The Eternal Current, and leads the Pastors, Priests and Guides Retreat. Aaron and I talk about his movement from being an evangelical megachurch worship leader to becoming more oriente…

Sarah is a Co-Pastor and founder of Cascade PDX. In her pastoring work, she began to discover parents who had gone through their own deconstruction process who were trying to figure out how to engage in their kid's faith development. In addition to pastoring, she began to lead cohorts for parents who are trying to figure that out. We have a great c…

Mathew Vines, author of God and the Gay Christian and founder of The Reformation Project joins us today. We talk about the church and why it still matters, not losing discipleship in the midst of reevaluating your beliefs, how you can hold onto a high view of Scripture while becoming affirming of Same-Sex Marriages and he tells us a little of the s…

Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum join us on the podcast today. Gail is the Lead Pastor of Quest Church in Seattle and Brian is a Professor of Theology at Garrett Seminary. We spend some time talking about what it's like for Gail to be a woman leading a church, about Brian's work on the Mulatto Jesus, and then we get into creating space for mutual …

Todd Deatherage spent sixteen years in senior positions in the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government before co-founding the Telos Group. From 2005 to 2009, he was Chief of Staff in the Secretary of State’s Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. He also spent two years as Senior Advisor in the Department’s Office…

Miley Waterman is the CEO of Brave Global, an organization working to empower vulnerable girls in partnership with churches and local communities and organizations. Miley is also an event producer and helped to run the Post Evangelical Pastor and Church Leader Gathering that we held last October. We talk about that gathering, about doing preventati…

Recently when Brian Zahnd was on the podcast he ended his time by leading us through a prayer that he uses as he moves into a contemplative prayer that he calls sitting with Jesus. ⁣ ⁣ We've taken that prayer and posted it here so that you can use it on your own - to be led in a formative prayer that can help set up your own times of contemplative …

Brenna Rubio and Bill White Co-Pastor City Church Long Beach and also founded Small Church Big Table to help deconstructing faith leaders dismantle toxic leadership patterns and learn power-sharing practices to build potent, inclusive communities. They share with us about what it's like to co-pastor a church, how to share power without just swingin…

Brian Zahnd is the Lead Pastor of Word of Life Church in St Joseph, Missouri. He's a prolific author, with his most recent book When Everything's on Fire now available. For many of us, particularly pastors, who were looking for other pastors who were wrestling deeply with what he calls a theological remodeling, Brian has been someone that many of u…

April Diaz from Ezer and Co joins me on today's podcast. April talks with us about how men and women can work well together in partnership. She shares some safeguards that she has in her own marriage without needing to operate in the Billy Graham Rule. She helps us to see how churches that have been empowering women might actually not be as empower…

Scott Erickson joins us to talk about journeys of shifting faith, vulnerability and its relationship to our weaknesses, spiritual practices to pay attention to the path of desire in each of us, visual liturgies as excavation tools to help excavate the true story in each of us and his newest book, Say Yes that releases on Jan 25 Pre-order Scott's ne…

Justin McRoberts provides language for the process of life and faith. He is a teacher, storyteller, pastor, and songwriter. We talk about writing prayers that create a trajectory for people rather than control, listening versus effort, Derrida and the difference between deconstruction and the normal process of growing and changing in your faith, th…

Steve Carter joins me on today's podcast where we talk about all kinds of things. From what he's learned about character development from his podcast Craft and Character, how he's become curious about what's going on inside of him and others, how reactions are often people reenacting some wound from their past, what churches can do to create health…

AJ Sherrill is the Lead Pastor at St Peter's Church in Charleston, South Carolina. He's the author of The Enneagram for Spiritual Formation and the upcoming Being With God. AJ and I talk about the Enneagram and spiritual disciplines, seeing the whole of life as available to be a part of our process of formation, contemplative practices, neurology, …

Steve Wiens is a spiritual teacher, writer, and pastor who loves helping people reconstruct their faith after their theological foundations have crumbled. His ecumenical and imaginative approach to spiritual development encourages people to let their deep questions lead the way into new and expansive understandings of God, themselves, and the world…

Dr. Richard Beck joins us to talk about his latest book, Hunting Magic Eels, which I have been regularly recommending to folks. If you're not familiar with Beck, he is an Experimental Psychologist who often writes in a way that intersects psychology (and particularly existential psychology) and theology. His books have been profoundly meaningful fo…