The Apprenticeship Way with Marc Alan Schelske
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Episode 054 - A Better Place Than Here (With Jennifer Knapp)What would you learn if you had the opportunity to go back and revisit your spiritual journey of twenty-five years ago? What if that experience happened in community, with folks wh
Episode 054 - Knowing the Past to Make a Better Future (With Sarah Sanderson)Do you know the hidden history of the place where you live? If we want to be part of God’s work of bringing restoration and liberation, we can’t ignore what’s happ
Episode 053 - What if the Bible isn't perfect? (With Zach Hunt)There are many debates and disagreements within Christianity. Behind most of these, you’ll find one very significant issue. How we read the Bible. The way we read the Bible and
Episode 052 - Childlike Faith vs. Childish Faith (With Pastor Mandy Smith)Often the church seems in a panic to avoid the influence of culture, but what if the church is already fully bought into the assumptions of culture? Western culture a
Episode 051 - Faith when you don't Feel Faithful (With Ben Stenke & Matt Tebbe)The life of a follower of Jesus is not about assent to an idea, or rigorous attention to a life of religious activity. Matt Tebbe says, "There aren't two things:
Episode 050 - Letting God Change Our Minds —or, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Devotional (With Jonathan Puddle)What do you do with an opportunity that comes your way that isn't right for you? That happened for Jonathan Puddle, an
Episode 049 - Church, Stop Acting Like a Hot Topic—or, Building a Church People Actually Want To Go To (With Kevin Makins)Why would anyone bother to go to church? I don't mean why would Christians bother. I mean, if someone outside of the c
Episode 048 - Empathy Is Not a Sin (With Becky Castle Miller)Recently a number of Christian leaders and teachers have been making waves saying that empathy is a sin--or at least something that good Christians need to be very careful with. W
Episode 047 - Don't Choose Shallow Formation (With Rich Vellodas)Does our faith enable us to be “a good gift” to our neighbors, even the neighbors we disagree with? Many Christians, it seems, are living in ways that contradict the core ethi
Episode 046 - A More Beautiful Deconstruction (With Dr. Bradley Jersak)Deconstruction is everywhere. People are doing it. Some leaders are fighting it. Some people are excited by it. Some people are terrified of it. Is it just a trendy new
Episode 045 - Let's Normalize Being Wrong (With Matt Tebbe)I grew up in a faith tradition where being right was essential. It's what kept us in community. It's what we thought honored God. For many other reasons--temperament, trauma, and ev
Episode 044 - Your Suffering is Sacred (With K.J. Ramsey)Are you allergic to happy clappy Christianity? There’s a good reason for thats. Churches that ignore suffering are ignoring Jesus. Many churches are not good at holding suffering. Peo
Episode 043 - Your Purity & Piety Will Get You NowhereYou want to grow as a person. You want a sense of intimate connection with the Divine. You believe or suspect that the way of Jesus has something to say about this. That’s why you’re her
Episode 042 - Can You Imagine Jesus Demanding Sex? - Interview with Sheila Wray Gregoire.Christian teachers notoriously have lots of opinions about sex. Sometimes they even claim those opinions are God’s will. But what if some of those teac
Episode 041 - Trust Your Instinct About the Church - Interview with Fr. Kenneth Tanner.After everything that’s happened in the past year, are you wondering about whether there’s a place for you in the church? Are you asking questions like "
Episode 040 - This IS Us. We Need To Own It.“This isn’t us. This isn’t America. We are better than this.” Have you heard—or said—those words recently? Well, you may not want to hear this, but the only way forward is to let those words go.
Episode 039 - You Need an Architecture of Grief (Interview with James Prescott)Twenty Twenty seems to be the car wreck that just keeps going, and the result is that many of us are experiencing more and more pain and grief. How are we to dea
Episode 038 - Would Jesus call you (or your church) Satan?“Get behind me, Satan!” Those are the words Jesus said to Peter. Yikes! But as I survey the current landscape of Christianity, I wonder if Jesus is saying this to us, or to our churc
Episode 037 - Looking for God in All the Wrong Places - Interview with Paul J. PastorDo you sometimes feel like your spiritual life is supposed to be in color, but you can only see it in black & white? Do you worry that we might be numb to
Episode 036 - Don't Avoid Starting OverI like knowing stuff. I like being seen as a good person. I love being an expert. Weird that I became a pastor, right? But here’s the thing. As much as I like this stuff, I’ve discovered it’s not very
Episode 035 - Your Values are Showing!Pain is a terrible thing to waste. At least, that’s what my Trauma Therapist friend says. So, how are we using the pain of this difficult time of pandemic and protests so that we can be better people?
Episode 034 - The 5 Stages of Pandemic GriefWe are going through deep weeds right now -- pandemic, protests, unemployment, so many losses -- and it doesn't look like it's going to get better any time soon. But there's one important factor t
Episode 033 - Why are we feeling so crazy, and what can we do about it - Trauma response in the time of pandemic & protestsCovid-19, Masks, Quarantine, and now protests against racial injustice and police brutality? If you’re feeling overwh
Episode 032 - Pentecost, Breathing & George FloydThis is the air I breathe!My heart broke open this week as I watched the events unfold around the murder of George Floyd, and the protests and riots that followed. At the same time, I was
Episode 031 - COVID, Suffering & JesusHow are you doing with this COVID-19 thing? Are you afraid? Are you angry? Are you confused by all the different information about what to do? Are you just ready for it to be over? I get it. I’ve been a
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