Gravity Commons Podcast

Absolutely every leader experiences anxiety. It's not a question of how to get rid of leadership anxiety, but recognizing and managing leadership anxiety. The post Managing Leadership Anxiety with Steve Cuss appeared first on Gravity Leadership. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We don't often think about spiritual formation in terms of curiosity and memory, but we should, according to Casey Tygrett. This was a fun podcast episode! The post Curiosity and Memory in Spiritual Formation with Casey Tygrett appeared first on Gravity Leadership. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In today's highly charged social and political environment, we often don't know how to talk well with other people-especially with people whose backgrounds differ from our own. In this episode we talk with writer, editor, and community developer Chris Smith about: why conversation has become such a challenge in the 21st century, why conversation is […] The post How to Have Hard Conversatio...

We talk with pastor and author Chris Nye about our addiction to accumulation, how it harms our souls, and how to pursue true spiritual abundance instead. The post Questioning our Addiction to Accumulation with Chris Nye appeared first on Gravity Leadership. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, we talk with Dan and Amanda Sadlier about the unique challenges and opportunities of planting a church and doing ministry in New York City (with 6 kids!). Dan and Amanda share some their story, what they’ve learned and experienced, and what it’s like to live in a church planting culture. The Sadliers […] The post Church Planting in New York City with Dan and Amanda Sadlier appeare...

We talk about our new Membership Community on Patreon in this episode! (We also tell a few dad jokes.) Lots of our podcast listeners and coaching clients have been asking us about ways to stay connected to the Gravity Leadership Community and participate more deeply in the ongoing learning we’re all engaged in as we […] The post A New Way to Connect and Partner with Gravity Leadership appeared fir...

Have you ever wondered how “mindfulness” intersects with historic Christian faith and living? Many people shun the practices of mindfulness for fear of being led astray from their faith. Turns out, though, that this fear is completely unfounded. Mindfulness merges quite well with the history of Christian faith and spiritual formation. This week we chat […] The post Mindfulness and Christian Faith...

So far in our power series, we’ve focused on power abuse in institutional or church settings, but some of the most damaging power abuse show up in our most intimate relationships, and more often than you might imagine. In this episode we interview Jaclyn Houston-Kolnik, who is a community psychologist with over eight years of experience […] The post Power Abuse in Intimate Relationships w Jaclyn H...

Going on a short-term mission trip used to be an unquestioned “good thing to do” with your summer vacation, but we are now realizing that some kinds of short-term mission trips do more harm than good. So do short-term mission trips make sense any more? Is there a different theological framework we can use to […] The post Rethinking Short-term Mission Trips with Rob Haynes appeared first on Gravity...

Matthew Bates joins Matt and Ben in this episode to talk about what it means that we’re saved by allegiance alone. What we often think of as “the gospel” isn’t really the gospel, it’s just a reconfiguration of salvation-related facts (“justification by faith,” for example). What is the actual gospel? Bates suggests it’s 1) Jesus’ […] The post Salvation By Allegiance Alone with Matthew Bates appear...

Is it true that you are either confident or humble, that the two are opposite of each other? Or is it possible to be both confident AND humble? In this episode Matt talks with Dan Kent, author, editor, speaker whose new book Confident Humility: Becoming Your Full Self Without Becoming Full of Yourself was just released. Dan was […] The post Can Confidence and Humility Go Together? (With Dan Kent)...

Why is changing a culture so &!%*# hard? It’s one of the most important elements of transformational leadership, but it so rarely happens! In this episode, we use our own experiences as pastors and coaches to discuss 3 reasons why changing a culture is so difficult, and what we can do to give ourselves the best […] The post Why Culture Change is So Dang Difficult appeared first on Gravity Lead...

We continue our series on Power in the Church by interviewing pastor and author Dan White Jr about what it looks like practically to really love our enemies. Imagine that, in today’s relational and political climate! Dan co-planted Axiom Church in Syracuse, New York with a commitment to tight-knit community, locally-rooted presence, and life-forming discipleship. He recently wrote […] The post How...

We continue our Power in the Church series with an interview with a white police officer who is intentionally working for racial justice. Keirsh Cochran actually became a police officer to work for racial justice after he saw the unrest in Ferguson after the death of Michael Brown and realized that not everyone sees cops as […] The post How a White Police Officer is Working For Racial Justice appe...

How important is it to talk about power dynamics when talking about the gospel and discipleship? Are power dynamics vital to this conversation or are they more peripheral? We continue our series on Power in the Church hosting a discussion with with Glenn Packiam and Seth Richardson, who both recently wrote articles on power dynamics, from different […] The post Power Dynamics and the Gospel with G...

What does it look like for leaders to embody power in the same way Jesus does? We continue our series on Power in the Church by talking with Rich Villodas, pastor of New Life Fellowship in Queens. We talk with Rich about what it looks like to embody cruciform power in the way of Jesus, and […] The post Rich Villodas on Cruciform Power and the Contemplative Life appeared first on Gravity Leadership...

Why do we seem to be attracted to narcissistic leaders? Even with all the writing lately about how harmful narcissistic leaders are to organizations, we don’t seem to be able to shake their allure. More disturbingly, would we know how to detect narcissism within ourselves? We continue our series on Power in the Church by […] The post Chuck DeGroat on Why We Love Narcissistic Leaders appeared first...

We continue our ongoing series on Power in the Church, interviewing Timothy Isaiah Cho about what he’s learning about healing from spiritual abuse. We talk about how to know if you’re experiencing spiritual abuse, five signs of spiritual abuse, and some of the harmful ways spiritual abuse affects our ability to trust God in the long […] The post Healing From Spiritual Abuse with Timothy Isaiah Cho...

What does it actually look like to empower others like Jesus did? How can we practice cruciform leadership? We continue our series on Power in the Church, interviewing Greg Boyd, a theologian, pastor, and author of several books which you can check out here. You can also follow him on Twitter. In this episode, we […] The post Greg Boyd on Practicing Cruciform Leadership appeared first on Gravity L...

We continue our series on Power in the Church, interviewing Brian Zahnd on how easy it is to succumb to the power of empire, and how to subvert it instead. The post Brian Zahnd on Subverting the Power of Empire appeared first on Gravity Leadership. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What’s the goal of justice? To punish the offender as payment for wrongdoing or to restore the offender to community? We continue our series on power by talking with Dominique DuBois Gilliard about how our anemic vision of justice has created a very broken incarceration system in the United States. Dominique helps us see that even […] The post Rethinking Incarceration with Dominique DuBois Gilliar...

We continue our series on power and in this episode we have a fascinating conversation Keith Giles about his experience in breaking cultural power norms by using a house church model that allows people to “bring what they have” and challenges the normal “person in charge” mentality. Keith Giles is a former pastor who left […] The post How Power Distorts the Body of Christ With Keith Giles appeared...

What is mutual submission? How does it actually work? And how can it be practiced to subvert the worldly power games we keep getting sucked into in the church? We continue our discussion of POWER in the church, and our guest is David Fitch, a pastor at Peace of Christ Church in Westmont, Illinois, and a […] The post David Fitch on How Mutual Submission Subverts Coercive Power appeared first on Gra...

We continue our series on how we get POWER wrong in the church by interviewing Mako Nagasawa about how racism is completely rooted in power (not just prejudice). Mako founded New Humanity Institute, and his experience as a teacher and trainer in Christian restorative justice and healing atonement theology brings a fresh perspective and a deep knowledge […] The post It’s All About Power: Mako Nagas...

How does our conception of power affect the way we perceive and practice justice? We continue our series on power by talking with author and activist Adam Gustine about power, identity, bias, perspective, wokeness, justice, and all kinds of other stuff! Adam leads CovEnterprises, a social enterprise intitative of Love Mercy, Do Justice, for the […] The post How Power Subverts Our Justice Efforts w...