This Good Word With Steve Wiens
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This Good Word With Steve Wiens
Reclaiming what's holy about our humanity - a weekly podcast with Steve Wiens. Connect with Steve at www.stevewiens.com
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Episode 255 | Deconstruction, Reconstruction and Human Flourishing
In this episode, I explain why I believe deconstruction and reconstruction are a healthy part of human development, how we see many examples of decons...
Episode 254 | Original Sin or Original Blessing?
Are humans born with "original sin" or "original blessing?" How you understand where you come from (your origin story) drastically affects how you see...
Episode 253 | The Shape of Reality
How do you perceive reality? Is life basically a system of scarcity, where it's all up to you to crank it up, make it happen, and dig deep? Or is life...
Episode 252 | Brave Church with Elizabeth Hagan
Reverend Elizabeth Hagan is a graduate of Duke Divinity School, a multi-published author, and has been a pastor for 15 years. She saw the isolation, l...
Episode 251 | Staying Awake with Tyler Sit
Tyler Sit is a pastor, author, and church planter of New City Church in South Minneapolis, a multi-racial church focused on environmental justice and...
Episode 250 | A Burning in my Bones with Winn Collier
Winn Collier just released A Burning in My Bones, the authorized biography of Pastor and author Eugene Peterson. It's a brilliantly written book about...
Episode 249 | Rescued from Shame-Based Religion with Kevin Butcher
Kevin Butcher is a dear friend of mine, and I loved this conversation. He just can't stop talking about God's expansive love, and I can't get enough o...
Episode 248 | Echoing Hope with Kurt Willems
Kurt Willems is the founder and pastor of Pangea Church in Seattle, Washington. Also a writer, blogger, podcaster and speaker, he maintains the resour...
Episode 247 | Sarah Bessey Returns
Sarah Bessey is the author of the popular and critically acclaimed books Jesus Feminist, Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith, and Miracl...
Episode 246 | 3,000 Miles to Jesus with Lisa Deam
3000 Miles to Jesus follows the adventurous journey of three pilgrims who set off for Jerusalem in the 1400s. We’re invited to grab our staff and scri...
Episode 245 | Queer Prophets with Greg Paul
Greg Paul is a pastor and member, as well as the founder, of the Sanctuary community in Toronto. Sanctuary, a community in which people who are wealth...
Episode 244 | Your Life is Your Curriculum, Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part series that I created to help people engage in life as it really is, rather than life as we'd prefer it to be. M...
Episode 243 | Your Life is Your Curriculum, Part 1
Most of us are well aware of the things we'd like to change in our lives: maybe it's a number on a scale, or something about our job, or how we functi...
Episode 242 | Honest Advent with Scott Erickson
Scott Erickson is a painter, artist, and author of several books, including Honest Advent. We had a wide-ranging conversation about Advent, his creati...
Episode 241| Four Practices For Staying Alive Until November 3rd (and long after)
Is it possible to hold strong opinions and beliefs AND learn to express them without alienating and dehumanizing those who disagree with you? Can you...
Episode 240 | New Records and New Theology with Latifah Alattas
I met Latifah Alattas last year when we started collaborating on a new project (The Fun Parts Podcast). I was immediately drawn to her creativity, her...
Episode 239 | LGBTQIA+ Church Trauma and Recovery with Rebecca Bowers
I loved this conversation! Rebecca Bowers is an LGBTQIA affirming and inclusive therapist and advocate, living in southern Louisiana. She primarily wo...
Episode 238 | An Ode to Women Who are "Too Much"
I recorded this episode based on a blog post I wrote a few years ago when the Me Too movement was just getting started. The blog was titled "An Ode to...
Episode 237 | Born Again and Again with Megan Westra
Megan Westra is the host of a great podcast called The Podluck, and she's the author of a fantastic new book called Born Again and Again, which chroni...
Episode 236 | Listening to Your Inner Wisdom
Why is it that most of us listen to everybody else but neglect our own inner wisdom? Why don't we trust that voice? Is the heart (as the bible claims)...
Episode 235 | You are Not Your Feelings
Why do we get so triggered by Facebook posts with which we disagree? Why can't we just smile and move on? This episode deals with the idea of dualism,...
Episode 234 | Separated by the Border with Gena Thomas
Gena Thomas advocates for families who have been separated at the border. In this conversation, we talked about Gena's experience adopting Julia, a ch...
Episode 233 | A Conversation with Austin Channing Brown
I recorded this interview with Austin Channing Brown in July of 2018, but it's incredibly poignant given the events of the last few weeks, with the ki...
Episode 232 | You are Not Alone and This Will Not Last Forever with Jessica Kantrowitz
Jessica Kantrowitz is a writer and theologian living in Boston, Massachusetts. She writes about theology, culture, social justice, and chronic illness...
Episode 231 | Finding Grace for Yourself and Hope for the World
Click here to buy my new book, Shining Like the Sun: Seven Mindful Practices for Rekindling Your Faith.
Episode 230 | What the Faith? With Allison Del Fium & Ashten Wickham
We live in a multi-faith society which often results in misinformation, ignorance, disagreements, hate speech, violence, and even wars. What the Faith...
Episode 229 | Beyond Awkward Side Hugs with Bronwyn Lea
Bronwyn Lea is the author of Beyond Awkward Side Hugs: Living as Brothers and Sisters in Christ in a Sex-Crazed World. Find out more about Bronwyn and...
Episode 228 | Resurrection with Amanda Held Opelt, Rachel Held Evans' sister
It's been almost a year since we lost our friend Rachel Held Evans. In fact, she was supposed to come out of her medically induced coma on Easter Sund...
Episode 227 | Good Friday Bonus Episode: Experiencing the Stations of the Cross
A custom of our Christian tradition is to keep vigil with Christ at different times and in different ways during Holy Week. One of the places from whi...
Episode 226 | Exploring Monastic Rhythms of Healthy Leadership with Jerome Daley
You know when you meet someone for the first time and find yourself agreeing with almost everything they say? That was how my entire conversation with...
Episode 225 | Moving from Conservative to Progressive Christianity with Colby Martin
Colby Martin (author of Unclobber: Rethinking our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality) is about to release another book, titled The Shift: Surviving...
Episode 224 | Learning to Pray When Anxiety & Fear Takes Over
If feelings of fear and anxiety are threatening to sweep you away right now, there is a way to pray that allows you to name your feelings - as big as...
Episode 223 | Welcoming Reality in Times of Uncertainty
As the world struggles to come to terms with a new reality in the midst of a global pandemic, we are coming to terms with the reality that we're not a...
Episode 222 | Theology of the Womb with Dr. Christy Angelle-Vidrine Bauman
The following excerpt describes the journey that Dr. Christy Vidrine Bauman took that resulted in writing her fabulous book, Theology of the Womb:
Episode 221 | Ali Hormann is All the Things
Maybe you haven't heard of Ali Hormann yet, but that's all about to change. She's a wedding photographer, pastor, comedian, mother of three, and write...
Episode 220 | In Which I Read Excerpts from My New Book!
In this episode, I did two readings from my new book, Shining Like the Sun: Seven Mindful Practices for Rekdindling Your Faith, which releases on Apri...
Episode 219 | But You Live in a Snow Globe! (Surviving Your Own Copernican Shift, part 3)
This is part 3 of a four-part series called "Surviving Your Own Copernican Shift." If you're going through a faith deconstruction - or reconstruction...
Episode 218 | Unpacking the Superbowl Halftime Show with Joanna Luehmann (Surviving Your Own Copernican Shift, Part 2)
Joanna Luehmann is a Latinx pastor and theologian who took to Twitter on Sunday night and Monday following the Superbowl to give a different perspecti...
Episode 217 | How to Survive Your own Copernican Shift, Part 1: Disruption
Until the early 1500's, everybody assumed planet earth was the fixed, immovable center of the universe, the reference point for the entire universe (a...
Episode 216 | Self-Contempt, Shame, and a Better Way Forward with Andrew Bauman
Andrew Bauman is the Co-Founder and Director of Christian Counseling Center: For Sexual Health and Trauma. He's a licensed mental health counselor wit...