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Faithwalking English
by Faithwalking
Making Wholeness Possible - An Ongoing Spiritual Formation Journey
Episodes
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Keep Calm — Am I a Loving Neighbor?
In this episode, Ken wraps up his series on polarization and the question of how we manage our anxiety so as not to be polarizers. He points out that Jesus was regularly invited to polarize and consistently resisted. "When we make enemies of fellow human beings," Ken states, "we are out of...
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Keep Calm — Pushing Forward with Practice
In this episode Ken reminds his listeners of the importance of learning to be patient with ourselves as we go through the process of growing in emotional maturity. It's in the practice — slowly but surely — that we grow in emotional maturity day by day. We have to keep pushing forward with that...
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Keep Calm — Practicing Curiosity
In this episode, Ken continues unpacking the six characteristics of a "safe person" and how we can become a safer presence for others. This week he focuses on the competency of curiosity. To be a safe person, we must stay curious. Developing curiosity about other people means approaching every...
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Keep Calm — How to Avoid the Pull and Polarity of Relational Triangles
In this episode, Ken continues the conversation about becoming a safe person by discussing how to avoid relational triangles — or manage our anxiety when we find ourselves in one. Once again the tremendously insightful work of Ronald Richardson (this time in Couples in Conflict) helps frame the...
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Keep Calm — How To Become a Less Anxious Person
Last week Ken told the group that to be a safe person we have to become less anxious. So in this episode Ken asks the group to share practices that help them become less anxious. Then he builds on these by providing practical guidance of his own — practices he has learned really help someone grow...
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Keep Calm — Becoming a Safe Person
In this episode, Ken shares more wisdom from Ronald Richardson in "Polarization and the Healthier Church," this time on how to become a safe person in the midst of so much polarization. "To become a safe person," Ken states as he paraphrases Richardson, "you have to increasingly become less...
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Faithwalking Stories – Renee' Jelsma
In this episode, Ken speaks with Renee' Jelsma, a pastor andlongtime Faithwalking leader, about her Faithwalking journey. Renee' lives in Holland, MI and is a Faithwalking adjunct facilitator, coach, and former Circle leader. In fact, she will be launching a FWF Module 1 next month! Renee' shares...
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Keep Calm - Give Up Expecting Others to Be Different Than They Are
In this episode, Ken continues his series on polarization. The best way not to polarize, he says, is to grow in our self-differentiation. And self-differentation is a direction we are moving in, not a destination we attain. In Ronald Richardson's book "Polarization and the Healthier Church,"...
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Keep Calm – Realism and Hope
In this episode, Lou returns to last week's theme of living both in reality and hope as followers of Christ. Jesus gives us the ability to live in the world as it is, not the world as we wish it would be. Lou takes the group to the story of Jesus' temptation in the wilderness in John 14:25-31 and...
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Keep Calm - The Harvest is Coming
In this episode, Lou shares a Substack post with the group by Pastor Benjamin Cremer called "Life in the Weeds," which is about learning to live in both reality and hope. It reflects on the parable of the weeds in Matthew 13 and helps us widen our lens and see the world with the perspective that...
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Keep Calm – Ten Characteristics of Less Mature and Troublesome People
In this episode, Ken continues to unpack the wisdom of Edwin Friedman in his book "A Failure of Nerve." This week he shared Friedman's list of ten characteristics of less-mature and troublesome people – who, Ken notes, always expect others to adapt to them rather than the other way around. Just…
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Keep Calm – A Failure of Self-Regulation
In this episode Ken shares wisdom about the consequences of a lack of self-regulation from Edwin Friedman and his book "A Failure of Nerve." Friedman writes about the impact not only on individual relationships but also on organizations, stating that organizations lacking self-regulation will be...
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Keep Calm - The "Self" in "Self-Differentiation"
In this episode Ken provides a framework of the components of emotional maturity, starting by elucidating what we mean by "self" to help the group and listeners better understand the concept of self-differentiation. As we grow in our emotional maturity, the self we "own" will become more and more...
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Keep Calm - The "Given," the "Gotten," and the "Regiven" Life
In this episode, Lou Huesmann challenges us to consider who we are becoming and identify where we are in the unfolding narrative of our lives. He reflects on how we know where we are and asks what framework we are using to answer this question -- one we have thoughtfully considered and chosen, or...
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Keep Calm - How Not to Become a Polarizing Agent
In this episode Ken Shuman continues his series on polarization. He shares a quote from Ronald Richardson (Polarization and the Healthier Church) that "a differentiated person is one who can maintain his or her emotional objectivity while others are polarizing." Feelings don't run these people's...
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Keep Calm - Polarization and Self-Differentiation in the Emotional System
In this episode Ken continues the conversation on polarization. Intense polarization is the result of low levels of emotional maturity, he says, and according to Ronald Richardson, progress in society depends on people achieving a higher level of self-differentiation [another way of saying...
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Keep Calm - Wise, Foolish, or Evil?
In this episode Ken talks about Henry Cloud's book "Necessary Endings" and specifically Dr. Cloud's assertion that there are three kinds of people - wise, foolish, and evil. Ken shares the characteristics of each type of person according to Dr. Cloud, then transitions to discussing where Dr....
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Faithwalking Stories - Marcos Leon
In this episode of Faithwalking Stories, Ken speaks with Marcos Leon, Faithwalking's Spanish Program Team Leader, about his Faithwalking journey both personally and as a member of our staff. A native of Ecuador, Marcos has been living in the US for more than 20 years and has been a part of...
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Keep Calm - Do I Matter? Do You?
In this episode, Lou Huesmann unpacks a Substack post by Richard Beck about the impact of mattering in mental well-being. He talks about two types of mattering - relational and existential, or cosmic. Lou shares from the post that existential mattering is "the more robust predictor of mental...
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Keep Calm - Triangles Destroy Relational Health
In the latest episode in our series on polarization, Ken returns to the topic of triangling. "So when people get anxious," he says, "they move towards someone else...in hopes that the other person will be their advocate and will join their team and will think what they think, believe what they...
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Keep Calm – Polarization and Relational Triangles
In this episode, Ken talked about the role of triangling in the polarization process. He explained the concept of triangles in the context of relationships and how we can get sucked into them, becoming part of the polarization problem. Ken shared examples of triangling in scripture and showed how...
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Keep Calm - Practicing Our Way to Emotional Maturity
In this episode, Ken begins by recapping some of what heshared last week and the assignment he gave the group. He said that success is not determined by how others respond to us, but by whether we show up as the person we want to be, based on our best thinking. Emotional maturity is the growing...
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Keep Calm - Calming the System
In this episode, Ken continues the conversation aboutpolarization, beginning by stating that we don't have a knowledge problem; we have a reactivity problem. He explains that anxiety is contagious within groups, and that even one person who can regulate their anxiety can positivelyinfluence the...
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Keep Calm - An "Outpost of Transformation"
In this episode, Ken returns to the topic of polarization. He suggests that differences between people are not the core issue; rather, it is the level of anxiety surrounding those differences that fuels polarization. He emphasizes theimportance of recognizing our own reactivity and growing in...
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Faithwalking Stories – Danae Labocki
In this episode, Ken speaks with Danae Labocki about her journey with Faithwalking. Danae is the president of Immix, the marketing firm Faithwalking partners with, and is a Faithwalker herself. She lives in Akron, Ohio, where Immix is based, with her family. Danae shares how profoundly…
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Keep Calm - Fear
In this episode, in light of everything happening in our country and the world right now, Lou Huesmann speaks with the group about the central human emotion of fear. He states that the most repeated command in the Bible is "Do not be afraid." Fear blocks love, and love is a relational term. When…
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Keep Calm - Defining What We Are For
In this episode, Ken Shuman continues the conversation onpolarization by exploring how it functions within systems, and also ties it to a relevant occurrence at the end of Jesus's ministry. He unpacks the dynamics of polarization at length, highlighting our tendency to react to what we are…
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Keep Calm - What Is the Role of Faith in Faithwalking?
In this episode, Lou Huesmann explores the role of faith inFaithwalking first by clarifying what faith is—and what it isn’t. Faith is a response to a deeper reality beyond what we can see, and living in faith allows us to begin experiencing what we hope for even now. When we act on this deeper...
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Keep Calm - Emotional Maturity and Polarization
In this episode, Ken returns to Ephesians 4, this time focusing on verses 2b-3, where Paul offers three more indicators of emotional and spiritual maturity. Ken then describes what often gets in the way - polarization - sharing passages from Ronald Richardson's Polarization and the Healthier...
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Keep Calm - Living a Life Worthy of Our Calling
In this episode, Ken Shuman continues exploring theconnection between emotional and spiritual maturity, focusing on Ephesians 4:1–2. He suggests that Paul’s call to “live a life worthy of the calling you have received” offers another way of describing spiritual maturity. Paul then names three...
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Keep Calm - Mending Our Nets
In this episode, Ken Shuman continues exploring the connection between emotional and spiritual maturity. He explains that we cannot become fully spiritually mature if we are not also growing in emotional maturity, because we will behave in ways that are inconsistent with the way of Jesus. Ken...
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Keep Calm - Resting in Jesus, Rooted in Relationship
In this episode, Lou Huesmann returns to Ken’s recent reflections on the relationship between emotional and spiritual maturity. At Faithwalking, we believe the two cannot be separated—spiritual maturity is grounded in emotional maturity. Lou explores how we grow in emotional and spiritual…
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Keep Calm - Sometimes God Blows Up Our Beliefs and Assumptions
In this episode, Ken returns to the topic of the distinction between order - or law - and justice, and how for God order is important but justice for everyone is what is paramount. Ken shared the story of Jesus healing the man born blind in John chapter 9 , which he thinks depicts well this...
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Faithwalking Stories - Chad Crawford
In this episode, Ken talks with Chad Crawford, VP of Immixand part of our marketing and development team, about his Faithwalking journey. Chad is a husband, father, and leader based in Akron, Ohio. Chad shares that Faithwalking helped him recognize that many of his actions and reactions were…
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Keep Calm - Emotional Maturity and Spiritual Maturity
In this episode Ken addresses the difference between emotional and spiritual maturity and whether one of them is more important than the other. Some would say that if spiritual maturity is in place, emotional maturity will naturally follow, but Ken contends this is not the case - that in fact if…
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Keep Calm - God Is Always on the Side of Justice
In this episode, Ken returns to the work of Walter Brueggemann, this week exploring the tension between order and justice in the New Testament through the life and ministry of Jesus. Brueggemann contends that God is always on the side of justice, even when it disrupts the order of theday. Jesus...
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Faithwalking Stories - Becky Gressett
In this episode, Ken interviews Becky Gressett, a Faithwalking coach and children’s pastor from Houston, Texas, about the profound ways Faithwalking has impacted her life and ministry. Becky shares that the journey has brought deep healing and self-discovery, saying, “I have definitely become…
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Keep Calm - Order and Justice
In this episode, Ken Shuman reflects on a passage from a book by an Old Testament scholar, Walter Brueggemann as well as on Mt. 15:1-9. In the passage Brueggemann discusses the difficult relationship between faith and politics - and further, chaos versus order and justice versus injustice. The...
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Keep Calm - Will We Stand with Jesus?
Check out the latest episode of our Keep Calm podcast! In this episode, Ken Shuman unpacks the story of Jesus turning over the tables in the gospels, beginning by asking the question, "Was Jesus reacting out of anxiety or was Jesus acting based on his best thinking?" Ken postulates that the…
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Keep Calm: Shalom - in Real Life
In this episode, Ken Shuman circles back to three characteristics of shalom he had shared with the group previously - that where shalom is, everyone has enough, no one is afraid, and there is inclusive, loving community - and responds to a group member's question about how to actually live out...
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Keep Calm: Facing - and Embracing - Our Limitations
In this episode Lou Huesmann talks about one of the sources of our anxiety as human beings - the feeling that we should do more and be more. We face limitations - we are creatures created to be dependent on God, other people, and the earth. In our culture dependence is viewed negatively, yet God...
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Faithwalking Stories - Scott Hescht
In this episode, Ken Shuman interviews Scott Hescht, a Faithwalking coach and facilitator and a bivocational pastor, about the impact Faithwalking has had on his life and his ministry. Scott shares that one way Faithwalking has had a major impact on his life is by helping him learn how to manage...
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Keep Calm: Shalom - Holding on to the Vision
In this episode, Ken Shuman continues his series on shalom, inviting us to shift our focus away from our present reality—all the problems and everything that looks bleak and hopeless—and toward the vision of shalom. He encourages us to trust that God is still at work faithfully fulfilling his...
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Keep Calm - When the Kingdom Comes
In this episode, Ken Shuman expands on his belief that the Old Testament idea of shalom is the same as the New Testament concept of the Kingdom of God. He notes, “Jesus came preaching the gospel of the Kingdom; he didn’t come preaching the plan of salvation.” He quotes John Franke, who says, “The...
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Keep Calm - Shalom and Sin
In this episode Ken continues his series on the Old Testament concept of shalom and what he argues is God's intended design for the world, further unpacking this beautiful vision. He talks about the idea of sin as shalom breaking (ref. Cornelius Plantinga) and explores a different way of thinking...
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Keep Calm: Shalom - Seeking the Peace of the City
In this episode Ken Shuman launches a series on the biblical vision of shalom, which reflects God’s intended design for the whole world. Shalom means wholeness, justice, and well-being for everyone, and this dream of shalom is filled with hope for a better future. When we get discouraged or...
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Faithwalking Stories - Willemina Zwart
In this episode Ken speaks with Willemina Zwart about her Faithwalking journey. Willemina is a pastor, ministry leader, and long-time Faithwalking Circle leader, facilitator, and coach who lives in Ontario, Canada. Willemina highlights two Faithwalking tools that have particularly impacted her -...
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Keep Calm - Are You An Anxious Scanner?
In this episode, Lou Huesmann unpacks a Substack post by Kathleen Smith called "Turning Off Your Anxious Scanner." In it Smith talks about the anxious habit of "scanning" - the emotionally driven monitoring of others - where, she states, the boundaries between our responsibility and others' blur....
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Keep Calm - Defining Ourselves as Followers of Jesus in Anxious Times
In this episode, Ken spends some time with the group in Luke. He points out that in spite of the threats posed to him by the religious leaders and by living under Roman occupation, Jesus was a consistently non-anxious presence. Moreover, he did not let himself get sucked into theological or...
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Faithwalking Stories - Chris Jacobsen
In this episode Ken Shuman speaks with Chris Jacobsen, a pastor of a congregation in Columbus, OH and a Faithwalking graduate who is also walking alongside members of his congregation and team as they engage in the Faithwalking process. Chris shares that Faithwalking has impacted him in many ways…
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