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The Habit — 365 episodes
Scott Sauls on The Mercy King
Leaving Home Stories: Chelsea Barnwell and Isla Rickerton
Leaving Home Stories: Jennifer Degani, Tonia Gutting, Pam Kiper
Leaving Home Stories: Mariam Matossian, George Price, Frank McCormack
Leaving Home Stories: Sara Bannerman, Jan Cooper, Mandy Link
Leaving Home Stories: Jaclyn Hoselton, Kate Pocklington, Cara Peregrino
Leaving Home Stories: S.D.G. Morgan, Heather Cadenhead, and Karen Wells
Leaving Home Stories: Reagan Dregge, Rachael Watson, Michelle Watson
Leaving Home Stories: Beth Matheson, Jamie Vanbiber, Greg Finley
Leaving Home: Summer, 1976, by Judith McQuoid
Andrew Wilson on the Spirit of 1776 (from the archives)
Warren Kinghorn Doesn't Think You're a Machine. (from the Archives)
Russ Ramsey on Van Gogh and Friends (from the Archives)
Sarah Clarkson Gets Quiet. (from the Archives)
Mick Donahue and Andy Patton on Serial Publishing
Jeffrey Overstreet Loves Movies.
Malcolm Guite on Galahad and the Grail
Tish Harrison Warren Grows in Weary Lands
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's View from Childhood
Lee Camp On The Good Life (from the Archives)
Alan Noble Tries to Live Well
Jennifer Trafton on Lilias Trotter
Théa Rosenburg and Leslie Bustard Were Strong Allies
Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil
Joy Clarkson Thinks You Are a Tree (from the archives)
Timothy Jones is Fully Beloved
Bethaney Wilkinson's More Beautiful Way to Live
Wesley Vander Lugt Breathes Beauty (from the Archives)
Becca Jordan Adds Glory to the World
Curt Thompson Goes to the Deepest Place (from the Archives)
Andrew Roycroft's Calling Hasn't Changed.
Marsh Moyle Spreads Rumours of a Better Country
Leif Enger on I Cheerfully Refuse (from the archives)
Joyce McPherson Writes Books 45 Minutes at a Time
Winfield Bevins Thinks Beauty Will Save the World
Daniel Nayeri on The Teacher of Nomad Land
Sally Lloyd-Jones on Delight
Malcolm Guite and Junius Johnson Take Up the Tale
Joel Miller's Idea Machine
Mischa Willett Is Equipping a New Generation of Writers.
Rachel Donahue and Emily J. Person Have a Bad Case of Poetry.
Rabbit Room Press Presents: Ben Palpant and Scott Cairns
Katherine Ladny Mitchell Writes Mystery.
Grace Hamman on Virtues and Vices
Karen Walrond Is a Total Amateur.
Kate Gaston Is Generous. And Hospitable.
Louis Markos Contemplates
Carey Wallace on The Discipline of Inspiration
Vicki Courtney Knows That Motherhood Isn't Your Highest Calling
David Taylor and Steve Guthrie on Naming the Spirit
Jason M. Baxter Knows Why Literature Still Matters.
Father Damian Ference on The Hillbilly Thomist.
Heidi White Has a Divided Soul. (So Do You.)
Karen Swallow Prior Has Her Doubts About Your Passion.
Mitali Perkins on Just Making
Carolyn Weber on Memoir
Wendell Kimbrough Thinks You Belong. [From the Archives]
Daniel McInerny on Beauty and Imitation
Kevan Chandler and Tommy Shelton on The Hospitality of Need
Meredith Davis Is a Friend to Other Writers
Miroslav Volf on The Cost of Ambition
Judith McQuoid on CS Lewis's Irish Childhood
Warren Kinghorn Doesn't Think You're a Machine.
Andrew Peterson and Dave Bruno Tell The Rabbit Room's Story
Will Parker Anderson Talks Publishing
Amy Baik Lee Has a Homeward Ache (from the Archives)
Daniel Schwabauer on The God of Story
Mark Meynell on Art in the Immanent Frame
Matthew Clark on the Love that Outlives Death
Allen Levi is a Good Talker.
Tish Harrison Warren and Doug McKelvey on The Liturgy of the Ordinary (from the Archives)
Flannery O'Connor Turns 100
Ben Palpant Talks to Poets
Love, Happiness, and Creativity: An Essay
Kelly Kapic Doesn't Think Too Highly of Himself (from the Archives)
Charlie Peacock's Roots and Rhythm
Andrew Osenga Live at The Habit Winter Writers' Weekend
Nikki Grimes on Glory, Too
Kori Morgan Dyed Her Hair Purple.
Maria Bowler Collaborates with Reality.
Quina Aragon Feels Unqualified but Compelled.
Sarah Clarkson Gets Quiet.
S.D. and J.C. Smith make a great father-son writing team.
Pete Peterson and Matt Logan: God Bless Us, Every One!
Leslie Thompson talks turkey.
Bonus Episode: Willie Pearl is your new favorite band.
Caroline Cobb Is in Exile.
Lanier Ivester Wants You to Rest this Holiday Season
Kathleen Norris watches movies.
Randall Goodgame and Kyle Schonewill on The Scripture Hymnal
Russ Ramsey on Van Gogh and Friends
Stephanie Duncan Smith Takes Risks.
Steven James Loves Appalachia. (So Does Rebecca Reynolds.)
Carolyn Leiloglou on Between Flowers and Bones
John Hendrix on the Fellowship of Tolkien and Lewis
Daniel Silliman on Nixon's Spiritual Life
Rachel Griffis and Rachel De Smith Roberts Read Deeply.
Jared Wilson's Storied Life
Joe Hox and Jonathan Rogers Talk Swampy.
Lee Camp On The Good Life
Lanta Davis Beholds
Joel Miller Gets a Lot Done.
Shirley Mullen Claims the Courageous Middle.
Junius Johnson asks who invented the dragon.
Karen Stiller on Holiness Here
Doug McKelvey Didn't Say No.
Elizabeth Oldfield Wants to be Fully Alive
Bonus Episode: Audio Excerpt from The Bark of the Bog Owl
Sarah MacKenzie Gets Swampy
Wesley Vander Lugt Breathes Beauty
Julie Lane-Gay Loves the Book of Common Prayer
Eric Schumacher is weak (and he thinks it's a gift).
Rebecca Gomez and Rachel Donahue Talk Novels in Verse
Lore Wilbert on the Life that Grows Out of Death
Sarah MacKenzie Tells the Story of Hope
Malcolm Guite apprehends more than reason comprehends. (Rebroadcast)
Courtney Ellis Is Looking Up
Leif Enger on I Cheerfully Refuse
Emily P. Freeman On How to Walk Into a Room
Faith Chang Is a Perfectionist.
Kenneth Padgett and Shay Gregorie on Visual Storytelling
Brian Zahnd on Poetic Theology
Sarah Arthur is a spy for hope.
Andi Ashworth and Charlie Peacock Think Everything Matters
Amy F. Davis Abdallah loves ritual.
Mike Cosper on the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Allen Levi Wants You to be Brave.
Greg Wilbur
Grace Hamman Looks with Medieval Eyes
Joy Clarkson Thinks You Are a Tree
Brian Brown on Creation
Emily Jensen on Weakness and Strength
Wendell Kimbrough Thinks You Belong.
Replay: Justin Whitmel Earley on Better Habits
Garrett Taylor and the Art of Wingfeather
Kevan Chandler is redefining accessibility.
Tish Harrison Warren is making Christmas weird again.
Mitali Perkins likes being on the margins.
Joe Sutphin Draws Watership Down
Amber and Seth Haines on The Deep Down Things
Andrew Wilson on the Spirit of 1776
Amy Baik Lee Has a Homeward Ache
Gregg Hecimovich solved a literary mystery.
Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Farmer/Writer
Emma Fox Loves Siberian Folklore.
Philip Yancey Loves John Donne
Diana Glyer on Warnie Lewis's Letters
Carolyn Leiloglou Stands Beneath the Swirling Sky
Jennifer Holberg on Nourishing Narratives
Curt Thompson Goes to the Deepest Place
Harrison Scott Key's Insane Love Story
Hometown Stories: New Hometowns
Karen Swallow Prior on the Evangelical Imagination
Hometown Stories: North, South, East, and West (Virginia)
Russell Moore gives an altar call.
Summer Short Wonders.
Hometown Stories: Texas Forever!
Hometown Stories: America!
Andrew Peterson has a lot going on.
Hometown Stories: Fathers and Mothers
Hometown Stories: California!
Hometown Stories: Georgia, British Columbia, New York, Kentucky
Ben Shive is doing something new (and old).
K.B. Hoyle Contains Multitudes.
Arthur Boers on Shattered.
Claude Atcho on Reading Black Books
Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt on Redeeming Vision
Alan Noble On Getting Out of Bed
Ashlee Gadd Creates Anyway
David Taylor on A Body of Praise
Jessica Hooten Wilson wants you to read as a spiritual practice.
Drew Jackson on Poetry, the Gospels, and Community
Daniel Nayeri Loves The Silk Road (and Oklahoma).
Katy Bowser Hutson Plays
Faitth Brooks Wants to be Remembered Now
Jason Baxter on CS Lewis's Medieval Mind
Leslie Bustard in the Land of the Living
Michael Lamb on Hope and Persuasion
Andrea Yenne Writes with Teens.
Carlos Whittaker Wants You to Human
Rebecca Reynolds, Faerie Queene
Chris Nye Doesn't Want You to be Consumed by the Content You Consume.
Jen Pollock Michel Reimagines Productivity
Loren Warnemuende Persevered.
Dawn E. Morrow Has the Habit of Hope.
Drew Bratcher on Storytelling and Country Music
Rachel Marie Kang Creates Where She Is
Sean (of the South) Dietrich Talks to Strangers
Andrew Roycroft's 33 Poems
Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore on Liturgy and Poetry
Maryann McKibben Dana Has Hope
James K.A. Smith Inhabits Time
Bonnie Kristian on Our Knowledge Crisis
Ron Block Abides
Katelyn Beaty Doesn't Want to Be a Celebrity
David Zahl Doesn't Think Too Highly of Himself (or You)
Melanie Penn Feels More Alive
Joshua Stamper on Dissonance and Discord
Doug Powell Has Done a Lot
Sarah Mackenzie Makes Things A Little More Beautiful
Lore Ferguson Wilbert Is Curious
Julian R. Vaca on The Memory Index
Richard Gibson and Jim Beitler Write Charitably
Glen Scrivener on the Origins of Contemporary Values
Dave Connis on Kids, Creativity, and the Image of God
Mary McCampbell on Art and Empathy
Nancy Guthrie is a Sub-Apocalypter
Allen Levi Bears Witness to a Good Life
Helena Sorensen has something to say to women (and those who love them)
Scott Sauls Wants You To Be Beautiful
Jeremy Begbie on The Art of New Creation
Robyn Wall, Recovering Perfectionist
Katy Bowser Hutson & Flo Paris Oakes
Matthew Clark on Only The Lover Sings
Esau McCaulley Feels Defiant Joy
Sandra McCracken Sends Out Light
Galahad Lives! Editors Pete Peterson and Jennifer Trafton
Leslie Bustard Loves Children's Books
Mitali Perkins Speaks for Outsiders
Tom Douglas Harnesses Hurt
Jessica Hooten Wilson wants you to be a saint
Russ Ramsey Wants You to Love Art
Caroline Cobb Stopped Striving
Dana Gioia on Poetry & Beauty in Solitude
Curt Thompson Puts Himself in the Path of Oncoming Beauty
Christie Purifoy Plants Flowers
Dorena Williamson Builds Bridges
Lisa Sharon Harper Closes the Narrative Gap
Philip Yancey Is Still Amazed by Grace
David French Tries to Move the Elephant
Kelly Kapic Is Lacking
Amy Baik Lee Notices Small Splendors
Justin Whitmel Earley and Better Habits
John Cal, Writer-Chef
Shawn Smucker Has Been Working Hard.
Daniel Grothe Thinks Small.
Jill Phillips Goes Deeper Into Love.
Carolyn Leiloglou Follows the Rules (Sometimes)
Carolyn Weber was surprised by Oxford.
Elizabeth Harwell on The Good King's Feast
Luci Shaw and Ned Bustard Put the O in Hope
Hannah Hubin on Collaboration
Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Dave Barnes
Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Don Chaffer
Alan Noble Says You Are Not Your Own.
Rachel Donahue on Place and Poetry
Ben Palpant Writes Letters from the Mountain
Ashley Hales on a Spacious Life.
The Gray Havens feel Sehnsucht
Taylor Leonhardt Holds Still
Carolyn C. Givens on Rosefire & Bandersnatch Books
Governor Bill Haslam on Faithful Presence
Diana P. Glyer on C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy
JJ & Dave Heller
Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Buddy Greene & Jeff Taylor
Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Doug McKelvey
Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Jessica Hooten Wilson
Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Thomas McKenzie
Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Ellie Holcomb
Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Andrew Osenga
Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Maryrose Wood
Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Harrison Scott Key
S3 E22: Matthew Dickerson
S3 E21: Sho Baraka
The Habit Turns 100: A Retrospective (Part 2)
The Habit Turns 100: A Retrospective (Part 1)
S3 E18: Lancia E. Smith
S3 E17: Janna Barber
S3 E16: Stephen Roach
S3 E15: Rachel Pieh Jones
S3 E14: Doug McKelvey
S3 E13: The Hobbit Podcast (feat. Malcolm Guite)
S3 E12: Andrew Peterson and Friends on the Wingfeather Tales
S3 E11: Winn Collier on Eugene Peterson
S3 E10: Hannah Anderson
S3 E9: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
S3 E8: Benjamin Myers
S3 E7: W. David O. Taylor
S3 E6: Jen Pollock Michel
S3 E5: Tish Harrison Warren
S3 E4: Lisa Deam
S3 E3: Matthew Clark
S3 E2: Ruth Naomi Floyd
S3 E1: Joel Clarkson
S2 E51: Renee Mathis
S2 E50: Reagan Dregge
S2 E49: Randall Goodgame
S2 E48: Christiana Peterson
S2 E47: Tsh Oxenreider
S2 E46: Crystal Downing
S2 E45: Charlotte Donlon
S2 E44: Dane Ortlund
S2 E43: Andrew T. Le Peau
S2 E42: Anne Snyder
S2 E41: Brown Bannister
S2 E40: Russell Moore
S2 E39: Barnabas Piper
S2 E38: Marilyn McEntyre
S2 E37: Irwyn Ince
S2 E36: Ross King
S2 E35: Vesper Stamper
S2 E34: Gina Dalfonzo
S2 E33: Daniel Darling Has A Way with Words
S2 E32: Christine Flanagan on The Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon
S2 E31: Sandra McCracken
S2 E30: Cindy Bunch
S2 E29: Andrew Osenga
S2 E28: Claire Holley
S2 E27: Emily P. Freeman
S2 E26: Jericho Brown (feat. Matt Conner)
S2 E25: Amy Alznauer
S2 E24: Michael Ward
S2 E23: Scott Sauls
S2 E22: Karen Swallow Prior
S2 E21: Leif Enger Is Delighted
S2 E20: Diana Glyer
S2 E19: Malcolm Guite
S2 E18: Scott James
S2 E17: Laura Fabrycky
S2 E16: Nancy Guthrie
S2 E15: Ned Bustard
S2 E14: Jeremy Casella Knows What to Do with Hurt
S2 E13: Trillia Newbell Endures
S2 E12: Lee Camp's Controversial Orthodoxies
S2 E11: A 2008 Wingfeather Release Day Review (Bonus)
S2 E10: Francis Su Re-Enchants Mathematics
S2 E9: Remembering Charles Portis, with David Kern
S2 E8: Jen Pollock Michel Waxes Paradoxical
S2 E7: Seth Haines Wakes Up
S2 E6: Elyse Fitzpatrick & Eric Schumacher
S2 E5: Lore Ferguson Wilbert
S2 E4: Heidi Johnston
S2 E3: Meredith McDaniel
S2 E2: Harrison Scott Key
S2 E1: Andrew Peterson
Episode 30: Don Pape
Episode 29: S. D. Smith
Episode 28: Chris Wall
Episode 27: Christie Purifoy
Episode 26: Tish Harrison Warren with Doug McKelvey
Episode 25: Ron Block
Episode 24: JJ Heller
Episode 23: John Hendrix
Episode 22: Maryrose Wood
Episode 21: Drew Miller
Episode 20: Jonny Jimison
Episode 19: James K. A. Smith
Episode 18: Sarah MacKenzie
Episode 17: Randall Goodgame
Episode 16: Rebecca Reynolds
Episode 15: Mark Meynell
Episode 14: Jessica Hooten Wilson
Episode 13: Mary Laura Philpott
Episode 12: Joseph Patton
Episode 11: Karen Swallow Prior
Episode 10: Shawn Smucker
Episode 9: Kristy Dempsey
Episode 8: Helena Sorensen
Episode 7: Doug McKelvey
Episode 6: Russ Ramsey
Episode 5: Claire Gibson
Episode 4: Christopher Williams
Episode 3: Jennifer Trafton
Episode 2: Pete Peterson
Episode 1: Katy Bowser Hutson