Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations

SHOW NOTES Today is a don't miss of Part 2 of Steve's conversation with Winn Collier. They discuss The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Podcast, The Message, how Peterson navigated criticism, and more. You will want to pass this one along to your friends and family! SPECIAL GUEST WINN COLLIER In addition to A Burning in My Bones, Winn Collier has authored four books ( Restless Faith, Let God: The Transf...

If you want to cut to the core of who I am, I'd say this: I'm husband to the beautiful and graceful Miska Tolleson Collier. Miska is a spiritual director and yoga teacher, a poet-mystic and the person I most respect in this world. I'm dad to Wyatt and Seth, the two who've pulled strands of love out of me that I didn't know existed. I'm friend to a few misty-eyed men and a few courageous women. I p...

SHOW NOTES We are FINALLY continuing the conversation with Steve and Belden Lane today! Belden and Steve discuss why lament is absolutely necessary for each of us, and how lament is the way out of our national meltdown, our constant state of living on the edge in a frazzled world. It is stunning, sobering, and powerfully hope filled - don't miss this conversation!   SPECIAL GUEST BELDEN C. LANE Be...

This season is all about Complex Conversations and how these conversations can help us buffet the fierce winds that are blowing in our lives.   SHOW NOTES Warning: this podcast is not for the faint of heart! It is not for those who attend church and equate that with the pilgrimage of the 4th century, when those who did not want to be swallowed by culture fled to the desert to not survive, but thri...

This season is all about Complex Conversations and how these conversations can help us buffet the fierce winds that are blowing in our lives. SHOW NOTES We have Part 2 of The Evangelical Diaspora: Getting Out of our Boxes for you today. And honestly, it's even better than Part 1! NOTE: We highly recommend you listen to Part 1 first and then come back to hear the rest of the story in Part 2. Part 2...

This season is all about Complex Conversations and how these conversations can help us buffet the fierce winds that are blowing in our lives.   SHOW NOTES The Evangelical Diaspora: Getting Out of our Boxes is a raw, honest, and lively discussion between Steve and Greg Ferrand. It is a conversation where Greg shares his story of change and breaking out of boxes that don't fit and beliefs that simpl...

SHOW NOTES Welcome to our sixth season of the Soul Care Conversations Podcast ! Steve is anchoring the season with a thoughtful discussion on our theme of Complex Conversations – and how these conversations can help us buffet the fierce winds that are blowing in our lives. It's all in learning to live with our soul and mind, while trying to find, with each other, foundational places where we can a...

SHOW NOTES Important Information Regarding This Particular Podcast:  We do not consider this podcast to be an introduction to the Enneagram. We assume in the podcast that the listener will have some orientation and understanding of the Enneagram. We have listed some books and a previous podcast below for you as resources to discover more about the Enneagram. ————————— In these days of global crisi...

This is WEEK 9 of our summer series The Roaring Summer of '21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened to and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks. Today is our 2nd most popular podcast (one more week until #1!) - Cultivating Daily Shalom: Using the Daily Examen with Steve as host. Enjoy!...

This is WEEK 8 of our summer series The Roaring Summer of '21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened to and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks. Today is our 3rd most popular podcast, What is a Soul Friendship? Kaylene was joined by Special Guest Tara Owens in the episode.   SHOW NOTES...

This is WEEK 7 of our summer series The Roaring Summer of '21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened to and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks. Today is our 4th most popular podcast, and is one of our very first episodes (#2!) - What is Soul Care?   SHOW NOTES Join co-hosts Steve Smit...

This is WEEK 6 of our summer series The Roaring Summer of '21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened to and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks. Today is our 5th most popular podcast, and originally aired just last year in September 2020 - Soul Care in Exhaustion. SHOW NOTES This week'...

This is WEEK 5 of our summer series The Roaring Summer of '21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened too and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks. Today is our 6th most popular podcast, and originally aired just last year in October, 2021 - Belovedness: The Core Truth that Changes Every...

This is WEEK 4 of our summer series The Roaring Summer of '21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened too and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks. Today is our 7th most popular podcast, and originally aired during Season Two in September 2019 - How Jesus Lived in Rhythm.   SHOW NOTES We...

This is WEEK 3 of our summer series The Roaring Summer of '21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened too and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks. Today is our 8th most popular podcast, and was our 5th episode back in May 2019 - Three Core Questions of Every Soul.   SHOW NOTES In this e...

This is WEEK 2 of our summer series The Roaring Summer of '21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened too and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks. Today is our 9th most popular podcast, which was recorded at the beginning of the pandemic and originally aired in March 2020 and called Lam...

This is the beginning of our summer series The Roaring Summer of '21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened too and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks. Today we start the countdown with #10 - Discernment: The Journey to Discover God's Will . It was originally aired in May 2019 (our 11...

SHOW NOTES Prayer - it eludes people. The original disciples didn't get prayer. Most of us don't get it either. And Contemplative Prayer? That really confuses people! The modern world has lost sight of this vital practice. So Steve and Gwen set out to study, learn and even unlearn what they thought they knew about contemplative prayer. The journey was life changing. The book "Ascending the Mountai...

SHOW NOTES How do you "do" the invisible work of caring for your soul? The Soul Care Institute was created to do just that -to help you discover what your soul has been longing for. Kaylene Derksen, the President of the Soul Care Institute (and previous co-host for the podcast!) joins today's podcast and chats with 3 students who are in the middle of their own journeys. Listen as they describe how...

SHOW NOTES The Soul Care Conversation in this episode is "Exposing the Soul of the Pastor!"   We live in a day of tension, frustration, and alienation - and no people group faces the brunt of the discord we navigate more than pastors of the local church. We've gathered four pastors to have a candid conversation, which will be a portal for us to listen and understand the soul of the pastor in today...

SHOW NOTES What will church look like and be like in the post pandemic era? We discuss pastors inner worlds and implications for the new wine that is coming! A stirring, provocative conversation which will rattle and stretch us from these two seasoned veterans who work in the subterranean world of helping church leaders!   MEET SPECIAL GUEST DR. CHUCK DEGROAT Chuck is Professor of Counseling and C...

"No issues touch us more profoundly or more universally. No themes are more inseparably intertwined. No topics caused more controversy. No human realities have greater power to bless or to curse. No three things have been sought after or more in need of a Christian response: money, sex, and power. — Richard Foster, from Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Money, Sex, and Power We are continuing the...

SHOW NOTES "No issues touch us more profoundly or more universally. No themes are more inseparably intertwined. No topics caused more controversy. No human realities have greater power to bless or to curse. No three things have been sought after or more in need of a Christian response: money, sex, and power." — Richard Foster, from Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Money, Sex, and Power This quot...

SHOW NOTES Dear Friends, This podcast is about "The Soul of Sex."  This is an honest, vulnerable, and transparent conversation. I talk with Jim Cress, a licensed professional and trained counselor who specializes in the soul of sex. PLEASE NOTE: This is a conversation you need to exercise wisdom with in terms of who listens to this. It's a mature conversation not intended for children. But is is a...