The Living Church Podcast

Today we've got live music in the studio, reminding us of God's faithfulness in conflict and pain, and why beauty, the arts, and artists are so vital to and for the Church.  Singer-songwriters Leila Way and Ryan Flanigan join us from Resurrection South Austin to play some new tunes for us and talk about the intersections of music with church life, family life, and life with God. Between se...

Listen to our first Conversation Across Difference, Episode 102 .  Join us at the  God at 'I' Level  photography exhibit.   Progressive and conservative: do ever the twain meet? What are safe spaces across current divides on topics that matter? And, when we do talk across divides, how do we get below the surface? Today's Conversation Across Difference is about a hot topic in the Episco...

What's the proper scope of Christian politics? Should Christians be politically active, and if so, how? Is the political sphere and its options a place of anxiety and ceaseless activity that should be avoided? Is it a place of possibility to "bring heaven to earth"? Does it have value as a place of failure and limitation? And what do politics have to do with loving neighbors, worshippi...

Episcopalians have a love-hate relationship with evangelism. Everyone is welcome into an Episcopal church, but how do they get there? Is it true that "everyone who should be an Episcopalian, is"? Isn't evangelism what other Christians do who have lots of enthusiasm but less natural restraint and good taste? Is there an Episcopal, or even an Anglican, way to be an evangelist?  According...

Learn more about the Human Pilgrimage conference. Learn more about Steve Prince's work. Learn more about Jessica Hooten Wilson's work. A disgruntled white southern intellectual named Walter lives on his family's farm. They all think his fancy learning makes him good for nothing. On top of that, Walter thinks he's dying. Walter decides to pretend, through a penpal relationship with...

Donate to the Ahli Arab Hospital .  Today's is a short and very special conversation captured on the fly at the Episcopal Parish Network Conference in Houston, Texas, with Dr. Suhaila Tarazi. If you haven't heard of Suhaila, then you have certainly heard of her workplace. She is the director of the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, which was recently in the news for a bomb that fell in their par...

Follow Philip Yancey's blog . Read Philip's new book,  Undone . No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, se...

Check out John Behr's new translation of Gregory of Nyssa's  On the Human Image of God . What does it mean to be human? We pay attention to our broken humanity more during Lent. And there's that phrase, when we make a mistake, "I'm only human!"  True. But what about the glory and promise of being human? What kind of humanity we see in the pattern of Christ? How do we live n...

Get in touch with Fr. Nate for further conversation. Check out Fr. Nate's book,  Festive School . Read Fr. Nate's article on neurodivergence in the classical classroom .  Learn more about Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) . When trying to consider budget as well as mission and ministry, churches of many sizes offer educational service, from a small daycare to a prestigious Episcop...

Buy the  Roads of Hurt and Hope  Holy Land Lenten study. (All proceeds go to the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem.) All eyes are on the Holy Land right now, as the conflict between Hamas and Israel continues, over a hundred kidnapped Israelis still missing, over a thousand Israeli civilians dead, and tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed in the crossfire. As many of you will know, the Liv...

Learn more about the Living Church and check out some of our favorite podcast episodes. Happy Epiphany! I love seasons, the changes of seasons. The distinct character of each one. Different seasons and times bring out different flavors, different inner lives of the land and landscapes. I think humans are similar. Even whole cultures. Different eras show up or play down certain shapes that human li...

Learn more about the Living Church and check out some of our favorite podcast episodes. Welcome back, podcast listeners. A happy Epiphany to you.  Let's start off the year with a bang. This episode is from a conversation between Dr. Stanley Hauerwas and the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner at the Radical Vocation (RADVO) conference at Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, in September 2023. Amber asked St...

Give to The Living Church Gift the Magazine for $9.95 Welcome podcast listeners. Today we've got an episode that will lightly leap from Advent to Christmastide. We'll revisit four conversations we've had over the years:  James K. A. Smith on time and Immanuel Novelist H.C. Cross on boarding schools and world-building Lauren Winner on books and reading Amy Peeler and Wes Hill on Mother...

Make an Advent donation to the Living Church. Get 84% off a gift subscription to  The Living Church In the beginning, creation. Millennia pass. Creatures alternately live peacefully then get it horribly wrong. Long genealogies. The rise of evil kings, good kings, battles and prophecies. A savior riding in on a white horse. And in between the exciting parts, lots and lots of waiting. Is this the Bi...

Give to support the Living Church Podcast studio! Check out  No Small Endeavor , hosted by Lee C. Camp. Who knew that a Southern mother would help today's guest hone the gift of gab for the sake of others? Today you'll hear my conversation with Dr. Lee C. Camp, about the art of conversation. I'm excited to share this, especially with those who talk, listen, teach, preach, or give couns...

Give to support the Living Church Podcast studio! Last chance to join us in NYC for Preaching in a Post-Christian Age . The visions of Julian of Norwich came to her 650 years ago this May. Claire Gilbert's new novel,  I, Julian ,  is a fictional autobiography about the life and visions of Julian. We'll be discussing the book today with its author and discovering why and how she would write...

Last call to join us for Preaching in a Post-Christian Age ! Give to Support the Living Church Podcast. If you like a good underdog story, you’ll like today’s episode. And if you pastor a small church or you’re new to a parish that’s on the struggle bus, you might like it even more. Today we’re in search of growth. In Search of Growth is a series we’ve been doing in the magazine, highlighting stor...

Make a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the Living Church Help us make the show better! Support the Living Church Podcast for $10/month . Welcome to a special coffee hour edition of the podcast. As many of you will know we have a new executive director and publisher over here at the Living Church, the Rev. Dr. Matthew Olver. We took some time to talk about how he got to TLC.  Matthew is an Episcop...

Make a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the Living Church Support the Living Church Podcast. Why do we go on pilgrimage? And why do Christians go on pilgrimage to England? Today is Part 2 of an exploratory episode. Warm up your tea, study your map, and head out with us! Make a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the Living Church Support the Living Church Podcast. Advertising Inquiries: https://redci...

Support the Living Church Podcast. While working on Part 2 of the English Pilgrimage episode, TLC had a conversation we couldn't wait to share with you. Bonus episode! How do people in leadership, in high-performance vocations, get the spiritual and emotional care they need? Who do pastors go to for counsel, friendship, to confess, to get their most uncensored, hot off the press thoughts and f...

Join our pilgrimage to the Holy Land . Why do we go on pilgrimage? For an educational vacation? To get in touch with the past? To walk barefoot to a shrine or encounter a saint? To ask for a miracle? And why, if Christians are going to go on pilgrimage anywhere, do they go on pilgrimage to England? Yes, it’s a magical land of meat pies, forests, fairies, and saints with a distinctly British flavor...

Learn more about Preaching in a Post-Christian Age . Youth group. Sunday school. Church camp. What's your reaction to these words? Do you get a nostaglic smile on your face? Do you have a mild cardiac infarction? Whether you've led a youth ministry or not, we've all been teens, and many, many of us have memories associated with teen formation in different Christian contexts. From pies...

Can you name the five senses? Now for all five of those senses, when's the last time an experience of worship full-throttle delighted you? Was it a special service, like Christmas, a special day, like your wedding day? Was it the first time you experienced the worship tradition you now call home? Has it been awhile? God loves our bodies, and God wants to engage us and delight us, every bit of...

Support the show Join us in the Holy Land in 2024 Today we are headed to the Republic of Texas to talk to the new rector of Church of the Incarnation in Dallas. He shared time with us from his new office to chat about inter-Anglican relationships and what he sees as signs of hope, how bread and butter daily ministry is both the past and future of the Church, and what gifts Anglican spirituality of...

Support the show Register for conference: Preaching in a Post-Christian Age. Join us in the Holy Land in 2024 Emails. To-do lists. Doughnuts and coffee. In ministry, there are so many details, ordinary details, to attend to. We know they matter. But when ordinary details pile up, it may be time to step back and say, Something's gotta give. In Acts we have this wonderful story of the apostles r...