The Innovative Church Leaders Podcast

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Rick Olmstead the author of Off Road Leadership: A Guide To Authentic Ministry For The Now Generation . Rick and his wife Becky are the co-directors of Generation Now which was created "to ignite this now generation to change the world." Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Nils Smith , Chief Strategist for Social Media and Innovation for Dunham+Company , founder of Amplify Social Media , and church social media consultant. Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss reaching new people and raising up leaders while removing...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Laurie Short , speaker, podcaster , and author of her newest book Faith, Doubt and God’s Mysterious Timing She has also written Finding Faith in the Dark , (2014),  When Changing Nothing Changes Everything  ( 2017) ,   40 Verses to Ignite your faith    (2019)  and  Grace-filled Stepparenting  (2021). Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, si...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews  Gary Irby , the Church Planting Director for the Northwest Baptist Convention which has grown from 330 to 530 churches in the last 30 years. Previously, Gary has been the catalyst for Seattle Church Planting. Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss r...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Jason Jaggard , the author of Beyond High Performance: What Great Coaches Know About How the Best Get Better . From the Novus Global website : "Jason is the founder and CEO of Novus Global, a community of elite executive coaches pursuing coaching mastery together, serving the world’s best leaders and teams to go beyond high performance. Jason is also th...

In this episode, Dr. Eric Michael Bryant interview  Mike Foster , a best-selling author, speaker, and executive coach. His new book, The Seven Primal Questions , is a revolutionary new framework for accelerating personal and professional growth. Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss reach...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Greg Atkinson , the author of 10 books including The Secret Power of Kindness . The Founder and CEO of  Worship Impressions,  the  First Impressions Conference,  The Entrepreneurial Church Conference (coming in 2023), as well as the Co-Founder of the Social Media Church Conference, Greg is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, leadership and life coa...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews JR Woodward, PhD (University of Manchester, UK) as we talk about his new book The Scandal of Leadership: Unmasking the Powers of Domination in the Church . J.R. also wrote The Church as Movement: Starting and Sustaining Missional-Incarnational Communities and Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World . From his website: &qu...

I interviewed Dr. Chris Thurman , author of The Lies We Believe: Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life and his newest book Emotionally Healthy Christianity: Following in the Psychological Footsteps of Jesus . A psychologist, Chris helps people experience deeper levels of emotional health from a Christian perspective. From Chris' website: "My lifelong passion as a psychologist has been t...

In this episode, Dr. Eric Bryant interviews Dr. Salim Munayer , author of Journey Through the Storm and founder of Musalaha , “a faith-based organization that teaches, trains and facilitates reconciliation mainly between Israelis and Palestinians from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, and also international groups, based on biblical principles of reconciliation.” Our goal with The Post-Chr...

In this episode, Dr. Eric Michael Bryant interviews Dr. Terence Lester , an activist and scholar who seeks to bring God's justice to those suffering from poverty and racism. Terence had to learn to walk again after a horrific car wreck all while getting his Ph. D. in Public Policy on helping those who are homeless. The founder of LoveBeyondWalls.org and The Dignity Museum is also the author of...

In this episode, Dr. Eric Michael Bryant interviews Rick Shurtz of Nail It Communication who shares insights on effective teaching principles. Rick and Eric served together at Gateway Church in Austin from 2011-2015. Rick served at Willow Creek Community Church in the mid 1990s and then again starting in 2016. Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our missi...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Dr. Holly Beers , Professor of Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Westmont College and author of A Week in the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman . Holly shares her approach to improving biblical literacy and the spiritual hunger seen in Gen Z. Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a...

In this episode, I interview Mike D’Virgilio , author of  Uninvented: Why the Bible Could Not be Made Up, and the Evidence that Proves It . Mike shares his story of finding faith in college and the evidence for the authenticity of the Bible. For example, the Recollective Memory of the disciples explains how they remember so much of the details recorded in the Gospels. Recollective memory is why we...

In this episode, Dr. Eric Bryant interviews Dr. Rebecca Makayi about her research into reaching Post-Colonial Africa. She contends that missionaries could have been far more effective over the long term had they sought to notice what God was already doing among the people of Zimbabwe. Rather than adding Western cultural values to their version of Christianity, cross-cultural missionaries would hav...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Adam Nevins , the international executive director of ServLife , which provides education for children who are among the most marginalized and trains church planters planting where people have never heard of Jesus. Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We disc...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Dr. Scot McKnight , New Testament Professor at Northern Seminary and author of Jesus Creed , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible , and Revelation for the Rest of Us . From his website: "He is a recognized authority on the historical Jesus, early Christianity, and the New Testament. His blog, Jesus Creed, is a leading Christian blog.&quo...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Jaya Sankar , the founder of Impact India 360 which takes a holistic approach to life transformation investing in the health, education, welfare and faith of India's most marginalized. In this interview, Jaya shares one of the greatest stories of finding faith you will ever hear! If you have ever wondered: "what about the people in India who have never heard...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Michelle Sanchez , the Executive Minister of Make and Deepen Disciples for the Evangelical Covenant Church and author of Color-Courageous Discipleship: Follow Jesus, Dismantle Racism, and Build Beloved Community . Praise for Michelle's book: — Dave Ferguson , Founder of the Exponential Movement & Lead Pastor, Community Christian Church“A clear biblical t...

A chapel service that started on the morning of February 8, 2023 has continued. Completely organic and student-led, thousands of believers have flocked there from all over. In addition, similar "outpourings" have happened in other college campuses.  A theme verse for what is happening at Asbury University has been "Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holine...

In the final episode in our mini-series on Dinner Churches, I interview Dale Swanson and Fernando Morales of New Life Church in Santa Barbara, CA. New Life introduced church services around the table. This combination of Sunday gathering and small group discussion has helped to connect people who are spiritually searching and helped promote connection and growth for Christ-followers. From their we...

In this second episode of our Dinner Church trilogy, Eric Bryant interviews Luke Edwards , Mission Strategist for Fresh Expressions and author of Becoming Church:A Trail Guide for Starting Fresh Expressions . Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss reaching new people and raising up leaders...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews J.D. Larson is Coordinator of Community Development for Dinner Church Collective with Fresh Expressions. He and his wife, ChristianAnn, co-pastor a Dinner Church called North City Church in Minneapolis . Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss reachin...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Dr. Yancey Arrington who serves as the Teaching Pastor at Clear Creek Community Church , a multi-campus congregation of 5,000 in the Bay Area of Houston and author Preaching That Moves People . Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss reaching new peop...

In this episode, Eric Bryant interviews Justin Brierley , the host of the Unbelievable? radio show and podcast on Premier Christian Radio, as well as the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast . He is Theology and Apologetics Editor for Premier Christian Radio and author of Unbelievable? Why, after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian . Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to r...