The Holy Shift Show

If you have a prodigal in your life or are struggling with knowing how to love a difficult person well, this episode is for you. Judy Douglass shares her story of clinging to hope while raising a rebellious child and offers tips on partnering grace with boundaries in any relationship. She and Christine explore the challenge of “speaking the truth in love” and emulating Jesus by living lives that a...

Christine chats with Crickett Berlin, who shares helpful tips on dealing with our own grief and ways to offer compassion to others who are hurting. They explore the true meaning of Jesus’ paradoxical statement, “Blessed are those who mourn,” and why community is crucial to healing. They also discuss the struggle to believe in the goodness of God in the presence of suffering and how God answers our...

Lauren Alexander shares her crazy and inspiring journey in becoming a foster and adoptive mom and helps us see how Scripture commands everyone to care for the widow and the orphan in some capacity. This episode will help us all explore Jesus’ paradoxical teaching that in the upside-down kingdom of God, the leaders must become the servants, and “the least” among us are really the greatest of all. S...

Christine chats with author Mary DeMuth who shares her story as a survivor of sexual abuse and the heart behind her advocation for women’s stories to be understood accurately and treated redemptively. Mary also helps us explore some women from the Bible that we may have been misjudging and misunderstanding.  This episode will help us all ponder the upside-down kingdom teaching that even in our low...

Ever struggle with burnout, bitterness, or hopelessness? Christine chats with Lisa Bonnema about the paradoxical truth that surrender leads to victory in the upside-down kingdom of God. Plus, Lisa offers helpful tips for avoiding bitterness and burnout and shares her story of learning to cling to hope, even in difficult circumstances. Support the show CONNECTIONS: View the Shownotes Visit the Webs...

Christine chats with Amy Sutherland, Director of Embrace —a ministry serving individuals with special needs and supporting families of kids, teens, and adults affected by disability. Respecting human dignity is a core value of The Holy Shift, as we believe that we are all made in the image of God by the hand of God. This episode will help us all better love, serve, and dignify those with disabilit...

We are all viewing the world through lenses colored by our own experiences and limited by our own familiarities. We can’t help but paint the world with our own broken brushes. Detangling myth from veracity and tradition from truth can feel a little bit like the ground is shifting beneath our feet. But once we separate God from our own misconceptions and stop trying to confine him to our own catego...

Christine is back with author, speaker, and professor, Dr. Sandra Glahn—this time to explore a collection of Jesus’ teaching that revealed humanity’s “Spiritual Vertigo.” Dr. G walks us through that teaching and explores why folks (then and now) find it so darn challenging. Then things get personal! Christine gets a little feisty as she unveils her motivation behind launching this ministry and pod...

Christine chats with author, speaker, and Dallas Theological Professor, Dr. Sandra Glahn to explore “The Upside Kingdom of God.” (If you don’t know what that is, don’t worry! They explain it without too much speaking Christianese.) They also talk about what it means to pursue God and his kingdom in our current cultural context and the daily practice of prioritizing God in our lives.  Support the s...

What if our understanding of who God is—and what he wants for and from us—is inverted? What if the answers to the most important questions in life are not found in ourselves, our politics, or our ideals, but in the upside-down kingdom of God? And what if upside-down is the right way forward?  Join Christine Crawford as she explores the cure for the current chaos in the world and invites us all to...