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Reimagining the Good Life with Amy Julia Becker — 188 episodes

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Reimagining the Good Life - What's Next?

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[Take the Next Step] Ep 12 • When Special Education Works with Adrian Wood

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Culture Care, not Culture War with Makoto Fujimura

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How the Civil Rights Generation Can Lead Us Out of the Culture War with Justin Giboney

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Why Ignoring the Body Never Works with Justin Whitmel Earley

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Christmas and the Hospitality of Need with Kevan Chandler

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The World Is the Wrong Shape for Women with Leah Libresco Sargeant

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How to Break the Self-Improvement Cycle with Sharon Hodde Miller

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You Were Never Meant to Do It All with Kelly Kapic

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When the Church Tries to Fix What God Calls Good with John Swinton

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How Do You Know Your Calling? with Karen Swallow Prior

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Reimagining the Good Life: What's Coming This Season

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[Take the Next Step] Ep 1 • Don’t Wait to Celebrate: Disability and Delight with Katherine Wolf

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Something New: Take the Next Step Podcast

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The Lucky Few: Finding Delight and Belonging in Disability with Heather Avis

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The Cost of Ambition with Miroslav Volf, PhD

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The Myth of the Perfect Family—and the Truth of Love with Emily Hunter McGowin, PhD

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RFK Jr., Autism, and the Story We Need Instead with Matthew Mooney

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Why I Haven’t Sent My Kids to Church Camp with Cara Meredith

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Reimagining Family Life with Autism with Adrian Wood, PhD

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Want to Change Culture? Show Up With Care with Andy Crouch

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What Solitude Gives Us After Catastrophe with Pico Iyer

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Americans & Foreign Aid: A Crisis of Compassion? with Dr. Matthew Loftus

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Why Religion Still Matters with Ross Douthat

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The Myth of a Colorblind, Meritocratic Society with David M. Bailey

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How to Talk About Disability with Carrie Hahn

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The Discipline of Inspiration with Carey Wallace

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The New Testament in Color with Esau McCaulley, Ph.D.

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A Life Worth Living? Reimagining Life, Choice, and Disability with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Ph.D.

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How to Be Christian During Election Season with Corey Widmer, Ph.D.

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The Measure of Intelligence with Pepper Stetler, Ph.D.

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How Stories of Hope Empower Justice with Jemar Tisby, Ph.D.

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What’s Normal? The Anthropology of Disability with Tom Pearson, Ph.D.

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Narrow Path, Spacious Life with Rich Villodas

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Introducing Season 8 of Reimagining the Good Life

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Exploring the Good Life with Meghan Sullivan, Ph.D.

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Chasing the Intact Mind with Amy Lutz, Ph.D.

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Hope That Heals in a World That Hurts with Katherine Wolf

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Bringing Politics Under the Power of Love with Michael Wear

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How to Honor Limits in a World That Doesn’t with Micha Boyett

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When Your Church and Political Group Turn on You with Nancy French

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Reimagining Church Leadership and Disability with Andrew Draper, Ph.D.

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Flannery O'Connor and the Prophetic Imagination with Jessica Hooten Wilson, Ph.D.

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Disability and the Language We Use with Andrew Leland

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Reimagining the Good Life

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The Gifts of an Evolving Faith with Sarah Bessey

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How Advent Resists the Culture Wars with Tish Harrison Warren

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How to Become a Worry-Free Parent with Sissy Goff, LPC-MHSP

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Finding Hope in the Dark with Curt Thompson, MD

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Breaking Down Bias: Prenatal Diagnoses and Comprehensive Care with Stephanie Meredith

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Netflix's Down for Love with Robyn Paterson

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Anxiety: A Doorway to Your Best Self? with Curtis Chang

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The Hope and Hurt of Being Black in America with Esau McCaulley, Ph.D.

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Introducing Season 7 of Love Is Stronger Than Fear

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Why Stories of Hope Subvert Racism with John Blake

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A Good Life, A Good Death with Dr. Lydia Dugdale

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Strong Like Water with Aundi Kolber

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Deconstruction and Rebuilding with Yolanda Pierce

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Join the Work of Justice with Michelle Ferrigno Warren

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Questions for a Life Worth Living with Matt Croasmun

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Enchantment in an Anxious Age with Katherine May

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World Down Syndrome Day and Unexpected Gifts with Jillian Benfield

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Lessons for Healing in a World That’s Sick with Lyndsey Medford

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How a Mystery Series Tells Black History with Patricia Raybon

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How to Cultivate Racial Healing with David M. Bailey

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Chronic Pain’s Untold Story with Dr. Haider Warraich

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How to Receive the Time We’re Given with Jen Pollock Michel

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Spiritual Timekeeping in a New Year with James K. A. Smith

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Christmas, When Church Lets You Down with Bekah McNeel

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The Cost of Control with Sharon Hodde Miller

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True Self, True Healing with Alison Cook

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The Healing Work of Rest with Ruth Haley Barton

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The Beauty of Life Together with Willie James Jennings

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Down Syndrome and Belonging with Heather Avis

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A Curious Faith with Lore Ferguson Wilbert

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Good and Beautiful and Kind with Rich Villodas

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Introducing Season 6 of Love Is Stronger Than Fear

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Disability and the Speed of Love with Dr. John Swinton

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Becoming a Race-Wise Family with Helen Lee

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Disability Belongs in Church with Dr. Amy Kenny

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Resting in a Restless World with Kate Rademacher

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Living as a Person in a Technological World with Andy Crouch

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The Role and the Limits of Medicine with Dr. Matthew Loftus

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How to Cultivate Contentment with Niro Feliciano

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To Be Made Well Conversation with Katherine Wolf, David Bailey, and Amy Julia

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To Be Made Well: An Excerpt

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The Beauty and Wounding of This Here Flesh with Cole Arthur Riley

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Practically Divine and the Presence of Love with Becca Stevens

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Racism: Can Learning History Bring Healing? with Lisa Sharon Harper

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Breaking Ground: Renewal in a Pandemic Year with Anne Snyder

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How Kids Can Fight Racism with Dr. Jemar Tisby

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Returning to Dear White Peacemakers with Osheta Moore

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What Disability Teaches Us About Health and Wholeness with Dr. Brian Brock

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How the Indigenous New Testament Helps Us All with Terry Wildman

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Black Jesus, White Spaces, and Sacred Beauty with Danté Stewart

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The Enneagram: A Tool for Healing with Suzanne Stabile

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What’s So Controversial About Critical Race Theory? with David Bailey

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The Spaciousness of Limits with Ashley Hales

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God Has Something to Say About Privilege with Dominique Gilliard

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How Disability Taught Me the Goodness of Vulnerability with Heather Lanier

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Introducing Season 5 of Love Is Stronger Than Fear

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S4 E16 | Dear White Peacemakers with Osheta Moore

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S4 E15 | Reparations: Imagining Ways to Repair and Restore with Duke Kwon and Greg Thompson

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S4 E14 | Searching for Racial and Religious Identity as a Potawatomi Woman with Kaitlin Curtice

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S4 E13 | Disability, Friendship House, and Interdependent Community with Matt Floding

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S4 E12 | The White Church, Segregation, and Discipleship with David Swanson

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S4 E11 | Making Art in a Broken World with Makoto Fujimura

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S4 E10 | Why Christians Should Welcome Immigrants with Briana Stensrud

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S4 E9 | Choosing Courage in a World Divided with Natasha Sistrunk Robinson and Raymond Chang

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S4 E8 | How Love Rescued Me From the Streets with Dorris Walker-Taylor

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S4 E7 | Are Christians Afraid to Talk About Racism? with Corey Widmer

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S4 E6 | The Reunited States: Love Big Enough to Heal with Erin Leaverton

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S4 E5 | Healing the Harm of White Evangelicalism with Kristin Du Mez

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S4 E4 | Spiritual Practices That Heal with Rich Villodas

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S4 E3 | How Brokenness Brings Healing with Katherine Wolf

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S4 E2 | Where Is God When the Pain Won’t Stop? with Liuan Huska

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S4 E1 | How Do We Fight Racism? with Jemar Tisby

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Season 4 | Head, Heart, Hands

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S3 E20 | When Love Is Our Home, Healing Begins

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S3 E19 | Loving Our Enemies in a Nation Divided with David Bailey

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S3 E18 | American Politics, Power, and Human Flourishing with Andy Crouch

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S3 E17 | How the Church Can Support School Reform with Nicole Baker Fulgham

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S3 E16 | Normie: What is Normal Through the Lens of Down Syndrome with Annemarie Carrigan and Kurt Neale

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S3 E15 | Who Belongs? Disability and the Built World with Sara Hendren

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S3 E14 | The Astonishing Hope of a Mortal Life with Todd Billings

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Bonus | What Is Privilege?

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S3 E13 | Privilege, Wealth, and the Christ-Shaped Life with Paul Miller

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S3 E12 | What Is Unjust About the Criminal Justice System with Dominique Gilliard

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S3 E11 | The Black Church’s Gift to Christianity with Esau McCaulley

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S3 E10 | Anxiety, Affluence, and Identity with Niro Feliciano

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S3 E9 | How Jesus Overcomes the Barrier of Wealth with Marlena Graves

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S3 E8 | Equality, Equity, and Education with Subira Gordon

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S3 E7 | Conversations about Whiteness with Cara Meredith

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On Vacation

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S3 E6 | Now Is the Time for Justice with Jemar Tisby

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S3 E5 | Why I Wrote White Picket Fences

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S3 E4 | Challenging Comfort, Acknowledging Power, and Using Privilege with Natasha Robinson

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S3 Bonus | Talking with Our Kids about Race, Justice, Love, and Privilege

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S3 E3 | Our Different Stories Divide Us with Patricia Raybon

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S3 E2 | Living into the Really Real with Micha Boyett

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S3 E1 | Waking Up to Privilege with David Bailey

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Season 3 Trailer: White Picket Fences

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S2 Ep 112: Hope, Strength, and Contentment in the Midst of Civil Unrest

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S2 Ep 111 Cultivating Peace in a Week of Protest

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Bonus Episode: Hope and the Spiritual Imagination

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S2 Ep 110 What to Do if You’re Feeling Hopeless

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S2 Ep 109 How Love Brings Power in the Midst of Powerlessness

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S2 Ep 108 Carrying Love Letters from God

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Bonus Episode: Head Heart Hands Audiobook

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S2 Ep 107 How My Daughter Convinced Me We Can Help Others in This Time of Need

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S2 Ep 106 Where is God When People Suffer?

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S2 Ep 105: COVID-19, Privilege, and What Keeps Us from Living in Love

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S2 Ep 104: COVID-19, Holy Week, and Preparing for Suffering with Love

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S2 Ep. 103 The Foundation is Shaking: Coronavirus and Living in Love

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Bonus Episode: A Three-Minute Invitation to Peace

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S2 Ep. 102 Social Connection in a Time of Social Distance

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S02 Ep. 101: A Global Pandemic, a Market Meltdown, No School, and the Bible

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Race, Sex, Faith, and the Halftime Show

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Head Heart Hands ebook

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Jesus Came from A Dysfunctional Family

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Merry Christmas

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Birthday Party for Jesus

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Light That Guides Us

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Seeing The Darkness

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Darkness and Light

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Joy All Year Round

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Light in The Darkness

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Not Prepared

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Ordinary Hard Stuff

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George Bailey and the Secret to Being Content Part Two

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George Bailey and the Secret to Being Content Part One

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Love Hates

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Being Elizabeth

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When Mary Says “Oh Crap” to God

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Shame and Glory

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Anxiety and the Prince of Peace

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Holy Questions

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Hoping to Find Faith

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Waiting

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Somber Exile

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The Importance of Gifts

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Other Religions at Christmastime

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Prepare Him Room

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Hopes and Fears

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Why Bodies Matter

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An Introduction

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Tis the Season for Stress

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Season One Trailer: Prepare Him Room