Episode Archives

Change in the Church will Come from the Margins: Kaya Oakes

Writer and teacher Kaya Oakes insights by women who teach us that even in midlife we can defy confinement and find ways to remain creative.

Minisode: Gratitude for Salvation

David shows a sophisticated understanding that his salvation was a direct result of obedience and faithfulness.

God Seeks Us in Struggle and Solitude

Heidi Haverkamp, Episcopal priest, reads and prays with texts about struggle with ourselves and God.

Minisode: Rocks & Thorns Don’t Deter the Good Sower

Even when we are faithful, challenges in our lives can be the “rocks and thorns” that make it difficult to bear fruit for God.

Minisode: Love that conquers all

Human love can mimic Christ’s love: a fidelity that unites all, is unbreakable, and gives us the confidence to overcome any difficulty.

Jessica Mesman: Beyond Beauty in Brokenness

Guest Jessica Mesman reads Graham Greene and discusses how she experiences God through her writing

Minisode: Grief Turns to Joy

If we ask of God, even in grief we will receive and experience profound joy

Audio Divina with the Saints

Guest Eddie Cotter, Jr. discusses how music as a form of prayer can “reach places in the soul” that spoken words cannot

Minisode: Judith’s prayer to the God of the lowly.

The Book of Judith tells how the Jewish people were delivered “by the hand of a female.” Before she confront her enemy, Judith turns to God, the source of her strength, in prayer and lament.

Finding Joy with Derya Little

Guest Derya Little shares how witnessing the joy of Christians was the primary impetus for her conversion from Islam to Catholicism