L'Abri Fellowship - Southborough

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Ben Keyes Part of the Summer 2025 Theme Weekend, A Hall of Portraits: Imitating Christ by Imitating the Saints.  The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you respect this by not publishing the material in full or in part...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Marta Crilly Part of the Summer 2025 Theme Weekend, A Hall of Portraits: Imitating Christ by Imitating the Saints.  The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you respect this by not publishing the material in full or in pa...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Dick Keyes Part of the Summer 2025 Theme Weekend A Hall of Portraits: Imitating Christ by Imitating the Saints. For many today, heroism or the very idea of imitating another person is suspect because it can constrict us as well as blind us to our own story. But if our...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Emily Fellows The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you respect this by not publishing the material in full or in part in any format or post it on a website without seeking prior permission from L'Abri Fellowship. ©Sou...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Ben Keyes How is it that your brain can produce your experience of being you? How is it that we have consciousness at all? This fundamental question has occupied philosophers for many hundreds of years. More recent discoveries in neuroscience have not necessarily brou...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Joshua Chestnut In a cultural moment where we are constantly bombarded with reports of immanent societal, political, and technological collapse the Apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians may hold some surprisingly helpful resources to help people of faith live as pati...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Dr. Brandon Unruh A psychiatrist and expert in treating personality dysfunction explores how the narcissistic spectrum touches us all and our need for the reordering and regulation of self-esteem not through self-made identity, but through relationship with Christ. Th...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Dr. Brandon Unruh A psychiatrist and psychotherapist considers specific elements of our current "crisis of meaning" through the lens of personality dysfunction, and what current treatment paradigms reveal about the limits of psychiatry and psychology and the fullness...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Joshua and Sarah Chestnut Join Joshua and Sarah as they offer reflections on mental health and the life of faith, sharing practical "everyday interventions" to help us steward our minds, hearts, and emotions. The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Joshua Chestnut In her 2013 book Flora and Ulysses, beloved children's author Kate DiCamillo uses a remarkable phrase to describe a certain George Buckman, calling him a man who was "very capacious of heart." This means that George's heart has become large and so is "...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Jeff Banks How do you break free from compulsive pornography use? Many approaches to freedom focus on behavior modification, but that is not enough. In this lecture, guest speaker Jeff Banks argues that pornography use is an attempt to deal with emotional pain from ch...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Sarah Chestnut Can an hour with an onion make us more human? Taking inspiration from the most mundane of vegetables, we will deepen our understanding of what it means to "follow God's example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Ch...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Mardi Keyes In the early 2000s, I participated in the Stress Reduction Program founded by the Zen Buddhist physician and author Jon Kabat-Zinn. Mindfulness meditation was central to the program. Since then, mindfulness has gone mainstream, supported by a growing body...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ hosted by Sarah Chestnut This the concluding discussion of our first Winter Theme Weekend "Our Fractured Relationship with Time". The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you respect this by not publishing the material in fu...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Ben Keyes This the second lecture of our first Winter Theme Weekend "Our Fractured Relationship with Time." The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you respect this by not publishing the material in full or in part in an...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Joshua Chestnut This the first lecture of our first Winter Theme Weekend "Our Fractured Relationship with Time." The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you respect this by not publishing the material in full or in part...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Dick Keyes The question asked in the lecture's title has two senses: First, why was the story of Abraham being asked to sacrifice Isaac not censored as inappropriate for respectable Bible readers? And second, what does the story actually do in the whole Biblical narra...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Esther Dalton The Thirty Years War was a period of ongoing hardship and devastation in Europe that proved to be a major turning point towards modernity in world history. What can we learn from the prolific German hymn writers of this time who turned their experiences...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Joshua Chestnut Being a man or woman, relating to oneself, and relating to the opposite sex are not uncomplicated matters in 2024. In this lecture, I will look at the writings of a few contemporary feminists who loosely affiliate under the banner of "Sex-Realist Femin...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Esther Dalton "Glory" is a common theme in the Bible, but what is it and why does it matter? What does it imply when the angels say the earth is full of God's glory? In this lecture, I want to be curious about glory and about what it means to see it, respond to it, an...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Dick Keyes We will be looking at Christian Nationalism, issues from the current election, and what they might mean for the future of church and country. The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you respect this by not pub...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Scott Walker, of Life/Work Direction The third lecture from our Fall 2024 Theme Weekend Vocation: Participating with God's Work in the World. The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you respect this by not publishing the...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Sarah Chestnut The second lecture and discussion from our Fall 2024 Theme Weekend Vocation: Participating with God's Work in the World. The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you respect this by not publishing the mater...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Karen Kupelian, Physical Therapist, Nashville, TN The opening lecture and discussion from our fall 2024 theme weekend Vocation: Participating with God's Work in the World. The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you resp...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit  https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Ben Keyes Other than its ability to fly, one of the most noticeable things about a bird is all the noise it makes! Birds make a huge variety of vocalizations, many of which serve specific practical purposes. This third lecture ins the series will be an introduction to...