Holy Shenanigans

What do you think it means to stay salty? To help us start to unpack this idea, Tara hits the streets as a roving podcaster to ask this question: "When you hear the phrase ' stay salty', what does it mean to you?" Sound Effects from Pixabay . Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news! Tara is recording a new episode of the Holy Shenanigans Podcast live at the Wild Goose Festiva...

Have you ever received an upside-down blessing? Upside-down blessings are a close cousin to a Holy Shenanigan - they are gifts of grace that take us off guard and give opportunities to learn a needed lesson.  Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news! Tara is recording a new episode of the Holy Shenanigans Podcast live at the Wild Goose Festival this September 3–6 at Vanhoy Farms in Harmony, North...

It’s a new year to begin again and consider what this next trip around the sun might offer us. What do we need more of - less of … what are we fishing for? Join Tara on a fishing trip to fill the heart and soul of community! Thanks to  Janita Byers for sharing her poetry with us today. Sound Effect from Pixabay . Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news! Tara is recording a new episode of the Hol...

It's moving week, but Tara takes a few minutes to ponder 3 1/2 Questions About Love with Ian the Sound Guy. Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news! Tara is recording a new episode of the Holy Shenanigans Podcast live at the Wild Goose Festival this September 3–6 at Vanhoy Farms in Harmony, North Carolina! Wild Goose is a faith-inspired festival celebrating social justice, creativity, spiri...

The season of Christmas is finally here, but our journey to seek Christ is just beginning. For Christ, Christmastide brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh given by star-following Magi. We, like the Magi, follow a star that carries us into a New Year yet unseen. What gifts will Christmastide bring? Join me and Rev. Lindsey in a conversation where we can bring all our questions about the Mag...

The season of Christmas is finally here! Tara is celebrating the holiday season with a collection of phone messages filled with holiday wishes from Holy Shenanigans podcast listeners. 'Tis the season for hope, peace, joy and love as we proclaim together: JOY TO THE WORLD!  Special music in this episode provided by Music by Daddy_s_Music from Pixabay . Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news...

We all can use a moment of peace in this last dash towards the holidays. Tara dips into Christmas past with a story from her high school choir days, offers a song and some space to help you experience peace in the present, and shares a blessing to travel with you into the future.  Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news! Tara is recording a new episode of the Holy Shenanigans Podcast live at the...

The season of Advent, of waiting for Christmas, is here and all month long Tara is sharing stories and resources to help point you to hope, peace, joy and love. This week she shares how, even in the midst of struggles and questions, Love IS with US! Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news! Tara is recording a new episode of the Holy Shenanigans Podcast live at the Wild Goose Festival this Septem...

Tara has an uplifting conversation about joy with Dandi Daley Mackall , author of the new devotional Three Wise Women (Paraclete Press). Dandi is an award-winning author of over 500 books for children and adults. Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news! Tara is recording a new episode of the Holy Shenanigans Podcast live at the Wild Goose Festival this September 3–6 at Vanhoy Farms in Harmony, N...

Tara continues sharing sharing stories and resources to help point you towards the hope, peace, joy and love of Christmas. Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news! Tara is recording a new episode of the Holy Shenanigans Podcast live at the Wild Goose Festival this September 3–6 at Vanhoy Farms in Harmony, North Carolina! Wild Goose is a faith-inspired festival celebrating social justice, creativ...

Every week until Christmas Tara will be sharing stories and resources to help you cultivate hope, peace, joy and love. Plan on taking this journey together with Holy Shenanigans in what we are calling  #expectantadvent. Today's guest is Matt Kenzeria author of Bring It Home and host of the Chasing Goodness podcast. He shares an inspiring story of hope that you will not want to miss! Special t...

Tara talks about two important women in her life: her mother and her mother-in- love and the hymn that connects them both. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Janet Eastman, 1936 - 2022. Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news! Tara is recording a new episode of the Holy Shenanigans Podcast live at the Wild Goose Festival this September 3–6 at Vanhoy Farms in Harmony, North Carolina! Wild...

Imagine quitting your job, selling your car, and hitting the road on a cross-country journey. with a trio of dogs  Today's guest, Tracy Wright , did just that. She caught up with Tara to share the exciting life lessons she is learning on the road. Join us in gratitude practices all month long #yestotheblesschallenge Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news! Tara is recording a new episode of...

Let's make November a time for blessing, thanks and gratitude. Tara invites you to Say YES to the BLESS by taking part in everyday practices of thanksgiving all month long. Send Tara a Text Message 🎙️ Exciting news! Tara is recording a new episode of the Holy Shenanigans Podcast live at the Wild Goose Festival this September 3–6 at Vanhoy Farms in Harmony, North Carolina! Wild Goose is a fait...

Bill Withers sang "we all need somebody to lean on." Tara muses about the practices and people we need to help us see the sacred in the everyday experiences of life. Ready? Hop on the Holy Shenanigans bus! Thanks to Rev RH Hart for asking this question all those years ago at Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary. Sound Effects from Pixabay . Send Tara a Text Mess...

Over the past few weeks, the gift of gratitude practices has bubbled, bubbled up to the surface - even amidst some toil and trouble! This experience of listening for the sacred in everyday life is something I call Holy Shenanigans. So in light of the good bubbling up of gratitude and the gifts of Halloween trick-or-treating: Let’s put on our Halloween best and go out to seek some good treats! Toda...

Tara puts three-and-a-half questions about love to Bob Lebel, a clinical geneticist in Syracuse, New York.  Bob Lebel is a congenital Roman Catholic, came to ELCA as an adult.  Married, three sons, four grandchildren.  Earned advance degrees in Zoology, Theology, Ethics and Genetics; physician teaching and practicing medical genetics and genetic counseling at SUNY Upstate Medical University.  He e...

A message of hope in a season of grief and loss... Tara chats with researcher and author Dr. Eileen Campbell-Reed about how resilience, grace, and gratitude lead to lasting change and wholeness. Rev. Dr. Eileen Campbell-Reed (she/hers) is Visiting Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Care at Union Theological Seminary , New York City. She is founder and host of Three Minute Ministry Mentor...

Today we wish Holy Shenanigans a happy 2nd birthday... and talk about the intersection between faith, traumatic experiences, and trauma recovery with Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez. About today's guest: Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez is in the first call process toward ordination in Word and Sacrament ministry in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Her first book, A Time to Mourn and a Time to Da...

Tara and author, pianist & activist EDJ consider the power of mercy in a conversation about deconstruction from fundamentalist conservative evangelical religion, embracing feminism, breaking free from purity culture  and learning how  forgiveness can flip tables of harm and bring unexpected healing in a Evangelical Deconstruction Journey. EDJ's Facebook account EDJ's Instagram accoun...

During a recent trip to Pittsburgh, Tara geeked out over sets and props from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on display at the Heinz History Center . The legacy of Fred Rogers came to mind this week while she was musing on the weird parable about the shrewd manager. In a world obsessed with wealth and status, she concludes that faithfulness may be the most precious treasure of all.  Send Tara a Text M...

What gifts do you have to extend love into the world? You might be surprised to find, it's something you carry with you every day. There is power in YOUR pockets. Poem: Odd Sock by: T.L. Eastman There once was a basket of socks that had no mates anymore.  Mom had given my sister and I free reign to do what we wanted with them. “They can become, whatever you want.” We saw this basket of odd so...

In this episode of Beta Male Revolution , Billy & Brandy Eldridge speak with Pastor Tara Eastman about the intersection of feminism and religion.  Like what you hear? Check out Beta Male Revolution for more discussions about emotional intelligence, peacemaking, and self-actualized living. Thanks Billy & Brandy for making this Beta Male Revolution available to Holy Shenanigan listeners! Sen...

Chasing Goodness is a podcast where speaker, storyteller and author Matt Kendziera finds incredible people using their faith and life as a catalyst for goodness in this world. In this episode, pastor, poet, and podcaster Tara Lamont Eastman joins the show to discuss the future of faith and how the arts play an important role in our connection with the divine. Like what you hear? Head on over to Ch...

The Order of Saint Hildegard is an expansive, dispersed intentional community centered on the healthy and whole development of its members and chaplains. During the Wild Goose Festival , Tara sat down with its director and founder, Frances Cutshaw , who shares how the life of Saint Hildegard empowers her own calling and has led her to lift up others who are seeking the Sacred. Poem of the Week: Wo...