The Living Church Podcast

How are we caring right now for our youngest siblings in Christ? Dr. Robin Floch Turner joins us to talk about loving children well and adapting children's ministry to current challenging contexts. Click here to find further children's ministry resources for both parents and pastors. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiri...

Healing can be a tricky topic to navigate — especially in times of great suffering. Fr. Sean Charles Martin of the Aquinas Institute joins us to talk about research around healing in the Old and New Testaments and how it relates to our current situation. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Josh Larsen, co-host of the Filmspotting podcast, joins us to talk about how to be a better movie-watcher, the vocation of a film critic, and a "Top 4" list of films to engage the spiritual life. We encourage you to check out his new book, Movies Are Prayers (Intervarsity Press). SPOILER ALERT : for those who listen on the go, here's that the "Top 4" list: 12 Years a Slave (201...

How do we learn to suffer? How is God with a world that suffers? How do the sufferings of Jesus redeem us? A gentle yet bracing word of comfort and hope from Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Today we address some of the most pressing financial questions for churches, getting into the nitty-gritty of planning, budgets, PPP, and more with Bill Campbell of the ECF and business analyst/church treasurer Seth Cutter. Click here to view a sample cash forecast document prepared by Seth Cutter. Other resources mentioned can be found at episcopalfoundation.org and presbyterianfoundation.org . -...

From wilderness to farms, cities, and households, Scripture has a powerful word to speak to our current ecological crisis. Fr. Will Brown interviews Dr. Ellen Davis on land, climate change, biblical wisdom, and hope. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

How do you keep your Christian life from getting “stuck”? Mockingbird Ministries founder Paul Zahl has written a new book for Boomers, but his surprising and inspiring stories and insights apply to any stage of life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

What happens when your cultural or racial identity feels at odds with your religious identity? Is Anglicanism truly "multicultural" because it's global? Esau McCaulley, Mark Clavier, and Christopher Wells discuss the future possibilities of multicultural Anglicanism. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://r...

What does the gospel have to do with animals? Prof. David Clough, author of the systematic theology, On Animals , calls for more Christian reflection — especially in our time — on the way humans use, eat, raise, and relate to non-human neighbors. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In 1373, a little book was written which would deeply impact 20th- and 21st-century Christian spiritual literature and devotion. An anonymous reader gives a beautiful rendition of excerpts from St. Julian's "homely" visions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

The Rev. Jeff MacDonald, journalist and UCC pastor, shares what he's learned in his in-depth research of mainline parishes with part-time clergy and shares why vitality doesn't depend on a full-time payroll. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Prison chaplain Hannah Bowman shares about her work, digs into theological and practical frameworks behind prison conditions in the U.S., and presents Christian presence in prisons as a way to meet Jesus. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Pamela Lewis, an Episcopal lay leader in NYC, reflects on the new poignancy of Jesus' words in the garden in light of social distancing, and then on her own experience of the pandemic and what finding a "new normal" might mean. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams joins us to talk about his new book, The Way of St. Benedict , and what the implications of the saint's Rule might be for our current questions and crises. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

How does a priest slice an onion? No, it’s not the start of a joke. It's the beginning of a surprising contemplation. Fr. Zac Koons gives a superb and leisurely reading from Robert Farrar Capon’s Supper of the Lamb . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Dr. Elisabeth Kincaid and Fr. Stewart Clem discuss the moral questions that have been brought into sharp focus by the COVID-19 crisis — including the hidden ethical groundwork guiding current debates and decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

How have Christians conducted themselves in times of crisis? How does that work today in a parish context? Fr. Jonathan Bailes talks history and discipleship with TLC. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

"Son of David" — those needing desperate help in the gospels tend to give this name to Jesus. Fr. Mark Michael reflects on a timely prayer in the BCP   that uses this name in a cry for mercy that can often lead to a revival of faith. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

The Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde joins us to discuss how she's looking toward a post-COVID future. We talk about how she's negotiating the safety of all in her diocese in conversation with health experts and local officials. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

"You can't always get what you want. But sometimes…" Fr. Ron Rolheiser (author of The Loneliness Factor , among many others) knows about digging deep when you can't change your circumstances. He talks with Abigail Woolley Cutter about maintaining and growing in spiritual health in the middle of loneliness. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-chu...

Chris Domig, founder and director of Sea Dog Theater in New York City, talks about the state of the arts in the time of COVID-19 — specifically, how theatre folks are suffering, coping, and finding their way — and how the Church can be supporting the arts and artists right now. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://re...

Only recently in human history have we expected so much from marriage. The pressure (or temptation?) to rely totally on one's spouse for companionship, emotional support, etc., etc. is not so easily resisted when you're at home 24/7. Dr. Gordon Bals shares practical words of wisdom. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquirie...

Think the von Trapps meet 21st century Anglicanism. This is how one family (the Flanigans) pray Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer (1979). This prayer guide/mini-concert features songs from their music project Liturgical Folk, including Psalm 100, Song of the Three Young Men (Canticle 13), the Apostles' Creed, and The Lord's Prayer. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.s...

These are anxious times. Dr. Monique Reynolds breaks down for us the phenomenon of anxiety — how it feels, what causes it — and practical approaches to dealing with it while continuing to care well for others and yourself. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

What are some of the benefits and dangers of being alone? How can solitude build up love? Fr. Mac Stewart presents and reflects on an excerpt from a chapter in Thomas Merton’s New Seeds of Contemplation : “Solitude Is Not Separation." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/living-church/support Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands