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The Habit — 348 episodes

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1

Tish Harrison Warren Grows in Weary Lands

2

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's View from Childhood

3

Lee Camp On The Good Life (from the Archives)

4

Alan Noble Tries to Live Well

5

Jennifer Trafton on Lilias Trotter

6

Théa Rosenburg and Leslie Bustard Were Strong Allies

7

Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil

8

Joy Clarkson Thinks You Are a Tree (from the archives)

9

Timothy Jones is Fully Beloved

10

Bethaney Wilkinson's More Beautiful Way to Live

11

Wesley Vander Lugt Breathes Beauty (from the Archives)

12

Becca Jordan Adds Glory to the World

13

Curt Thompson Goes to the Deepest Place (from the Archives)

14

Andrew Roycroft's Calling Hasn't Changed.

15

Marsh Moyle Spreads Rumours of a Better Country

16

Leif Enger on I Cheerfully Refuse (from the archives)

17

Joyce McPherson Writes Books 45 Minutes at a Time

18

Winfield Bevins Thinks Beauty Will Save the World

19

Daniel Nayeri on The Teacher of Nomad Land

20

Sally Lloyd-Jones on Delight

21

Malcolm Guite and Junius Johnson Take Up the Tale

22

Joel Miller's Idea Machine

23

Mischa Willett Is Equipping a New Generation of Writers.

24

Rachel Donahue and Emily J. Person Have a Bad Case of Poetry.

25

Rabbit Room Press Presents: Ben Palpant and Scott Cairns

26

Katherine Ladny Mitchell Writes Mystery.

27

Grace Hamman on Virtues and Vices

28

Karen Walrond Is a Total Amateur.

29

Kate Gaston Is Generous. And Hospitable.

30

Louis Markos Contemplates

31

Carey Wallace on The Discipline of Inspiration

32

Vicki Courtney Knows That Motherhood Isn't Your Highest Calling

33

David Taylor and Steve Guthrie on Naming the Spirit

34

Jason M. Baxter Knows Why Literature Still Matters.

35

Father Damian Ference on The Hillbilly Thomist.

36

Heidi White Has a Divided Soul. (So Do You.)

37

Karen Swallow Prior Has Her Doubts About Your Passion.

38

Mitali Perkins on Just Making

39

Carolyn Weber on Memoir

40

Wendell Kimbrough Thinks You Belong. [From the Archives]

41

Daniel McInerny on Beauty and Imitation

42

Kevan Chandler and Tommy Shelton on The Hospitality of Need

43

Meredith Davis Is a Friend to Other Writers

44

Miroslav Volf on The Cost of Ambition

45

Judith McQuoid on CS Lewis's Irish Childhood

46

Warren Kinghorn Doesn't Think You're a Machine.

47

Andrew Peterson and Dave Bruno Tell The Rabbit Room's Story

48

Will Parker Anderson Talks Publishing

49

Amy Baik Lee Has a Homeward Ache (from the Archives)

50

Daniel Schwabauer on The God of Story

51

Mark Meynell on Art in the Immanent Frame

52

Matthew Clark on the Love that Outlives Death

53

Allen Levi is a Good Talker.

54

Tish Harrison Warren and Doug McKelvey on The Liturgy of the Ordinary (from the Archives)

55

Flannery O'Connor Turns 100

56

Ben Palpant Talks to Poets

57

Love, Happiness, and Creativity: An Essay

58

Kelly Kapic Doesn't Think Too Highly of Himself (from the Archives)

59

Charlie Peacock's Roots and Rhythm

60

Andrew Osenga Live at The Habit Winter Writers' Weekend

61

Nikki Grimes on Glory, Too

62

Kori Morgan Dyed Her Hair Purple.

63

Maria Bowler Collaborates with Reality.

64

Quina Aragon Feels Unqualified but Compelled.

65

Sarah Clarkson Gets Quiet.

66

S.D. and J.C. Smith make a great father-son writing team.

67

Pete Peterson and Matt Logan: God Bless Us, Every One!

68

Leslie Thompson talks turkey.

69

Bonus Episode: Willie Pearl is your new favorite band.

70

Caroline Cobb Is in Exile.

71

Lanier Ivester Wants You to Rest this Holiday Season

72

Kathleen Norris watches movies.

73

Randall Goodgame and Kyle Schonewill on The Scripture Hymnal

74

Russ Ramsey on Van Gogh and Friends

75

Stephanie Duncan Smith Takes Risks.

76

Steven James Loves Appalachia. (So Does Rebecca Reynolds.)

77

Carolyn Leiloglou on Between Flowers and Bones

78

John Hendrix on the Fellowship of Tolkien and Lewis

79

Daniel Silliman on Nixon's Spiritual Life

80

Rachel Griffis and Rachel De Smith Roberts Read Deeply.

81

Jared Wilson's Storied Life

82

Joe Hox and Jonathan Rogers Talk Swampy.

83

Lee Camp On The Good Life

84

Lanta Davis Beholds

85

Joel Miller Gets a Lot Done.

86

Shirley Mullen Claims the Courageous Middle.

87

Junius Johnson asks who invented the dragon.

88

Karen Stiller on Holiness Here

89

Doug McKelvey Didn't Say No.

90

Elizabeth Oldfield Wants to be Fully Alive

91

Bonus Episode: Audio Excerpt from The Bark of the Bog Owl

92

Sarah MacKenzie Gets Swampy

93

Wesley Vander Lugt Breathes Beauty

94

Julie Lane-Gay Loves the Book of Common Prayer

95

Eric Schumacher is weak (and he thinks it's a gift).

96

Rebecca Gomez and Rachel Donahue Talk Novels in Verse

97

Lore Wilbert on the Life that Grows Out of Death

98

Sarah MacKenzie Tells the Story of Hope

99

Malcolm Guite apprehends more than reason comprehends. (Rebroadcast)

100

Courtney Ellis Is Looking Up

101

Leif Enger on I Cheerfully Refuse

102

Emily P. Freeman On How to Walk Into a Room

103

Faith Chang Is a Perfectionist.

104

Kenneth Padgett and Shay Gregorie on Visual Storytelling

105

Brian Zahnd on Poetic Theology

106

Sarah Arthur is a spy for hope.

107

Andi Ashworth and Charlie Peacock Think Everything Matters

108

Amy F. Davis Abdallah loves ritual.

109

Mike Cosper on the Stories We Tell Ourselves

110

Allen Levi Wants You to be Brave.

111

Greg Wilbur

112

Grace Hamman Looks with Medieval Eyes

113

Joy Clarkson Thinks You Are a Tree

114

Brian Brown on Creation

115

Emily Jensen on Weakness and Strength

116

Wendell Kimbrough Thinks You Belong.

117

Replay: Justin Whitmel Earley on Better Habits

118

Garrett Taylor and the Art of Wingfeather

119

Kevan Chandler is redefining accessibility.

120

Tish Harrison Warren is making Christmas weird again.

121

Mitali Perkins likes being on the margins.

122

Joe Sutphin Draws Watership Down

123

Amber and Seth Haines on The Deep Down Things

124

Andrew Wilson on the Spirit of 1776

125

Amy Baik Lee Has a Homeward Ache

126

Gregg Hecimovich solved a literary mystery.

127

Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Farmer/Writer

128

Emma Fox Loves Siberian Folklore.

129

Philip Yancey Loves John Donne

130

Diana Glyer on Warnie Lewis's Letters

131

Carolyn Leiloglou Stands Beneath the Swirling Sky

132

Jennifer Holberg on Nourishing Narratives

133

Curt Thompson Goes to the Deepest Place

134

Harrison Scott Key's Insane Love Story

135

Hometown Stories: New Hometowns

136

Karen Swallow Prior on the Evangelical Imagination

137

Hometown Stories: North, South, East, and West (Virginia)

138

Russell Moore gives an altar call.

139

Summer Short Wonders.

140

Hometown Stories: Texas Forever!

141

Hometown Stories: America!

142

Andrew Peterson has a lot going on.

143

Hometown Stories: Fathers and Mothers

144

Hometown Stories: California!

145

Hometown Stories: Georgia, British Columbia, New York, Kentucky

146

Ben Shive is doing something new (and old).

147

K.B. Hoyle Contains Multitudes.

148

Arthur Boers on Shattered.

149

Claude Atcho on Reading Black Books

150

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt on Redeeming Vision

151

Alan Noble On Getting Out of Bed

152

Ashlee Gadd Creates Anyway

153

David Taylor on A Body of Praise

154

Jessica Hooten Wilson wants you to read as a spiritual practice.

155

Drew Jackson on Poetry, the Gospels, and Community

156

Daniel Nayeri Loves The Silk Road (and Oklahoma).

157

Katy Bowser Hutson Plays

158

Faitth Brooks Wants to be Remembered Now

159

Jason Baxter on CS Lewis's Medieval Mind

160

Leslie Bustard in the Land of the Living

161

Michael Lamb on Hope and Persuasion

162

Andrea Yenne Writes with Teens.

163

Carlos Whittaker Wants You to Human

164

Rebecca Reynolds, Faerie Queene

165

Chris Nye Doesn't Want You to be Consumed by the Content You Consume.

166

Jen Pollock Michel Reimagines Productivity

167

Loren Warnemuende Persevered.

168

Dawn E. Morrow Has the Habit of Hope.

169

Drew Bratcher on Storytelling and Country Music

170

Rachel Marie Kang Creates Where She Is

171

Sean (of the South) Dietrich Talks to Strangers

172

Andrew Roycroft's 33 Poems

173

Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore on Liturgy and Poetry

174

Maryann McKibben Dana Has Hope

175

James K.A. Smith Inhabits Time

176

Bonnie Kristian on Our Knowledge Crisis

177

Ron Block Abides

178

Katelyn Beaty Doesn't Want to Be a Celebrity

179

David Zahl Doesn't Think Too Highly of Himself (or You)

180

Melanie Penn Feels More Alive

181

Joshua Stamper on Dissonance and Discord

182

Doug Powell Has Done a Lot

183

Sarah Mackenzie Makes Things A Little More Beautiful

184

Lore Ferguson Wilbert Is Curious

185

Julian R. Vaca on The Memory Index

186

Richard Gibson and Jim Beitler Write Charitably

187

Glen Scrivener on the Origins of Contemporary Values

188

Dave Connis on Kids, Creativity, and the Image of God

189

Mary McCampbell on Art and Empathy

190

Nancy Guthrie is a Sub-Apocalypter

191

Allen Levi Bears Witness to a Good Life

192

Helena Sorensen has something to say to women (and those who love them)

193

Scott Sauls Wants You To Be Beautiful

194

Jeremy Begbie on The Art of New Creation

195

Robyn Wall, Recovering Perfectionist

196

Katy Bowser Hutson & Flo Paris Oakes

197

Matthew Clark on Only The Lover Sings

198

Esau McCaulley Feels Defiant Joy

199

Sandra McCracken Sends Out Light

200

Galahad Lives! Editors Pete Peterson and Jennifer Trafton

201

Leslie Bustard Loves Children's Books

202

Mitali Perkins Speaks for Outsiders

203

Tom Douglas Harnesses Hurt

204

Jessica Hooten Wilson wants you to be a saint

205

Russ Ramsey Wants You to Love Art

206

Caroline Cobb Stopped Striving

207

Dana Gioia on Poetry & Beauty in Solitude

208

Curt Thompson Puts Himself in the Path of Oncoming Beauty

209

Christie Purifoy Plants Flowers

210

Dorena Williamson Builds Bridges

211

Lisa Sharon Harper Closes the Narrative Gap

212

Philip Yancey Is Still Amazed by Grace

213

David French Tries to Move the Elephant

214

Kelly Kapic Is Lacking

215

Amy Baik Lee Notices Small Splendors

216

Justin Whitmel Earley and Better Habits

217

John Cal, Writer-Chef

218

Shawn Smucker Has Been Working Hard.

219

Daniel Grothe Thinks Small.

220

Jill Phillips Goes Deeper Into Love.

221

Carolyn Leiloglou Follows the Rules (Sometimes)

222

Carolyn Weber was surprised by Oxford.

223

Elizabeth Harwell on The Good King's Feast

224

Luci Shaw and Ned Bustard Put the O in Hope

225

Hannah Hubin on Collaboration

226

Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Dave Barnes

227

Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Don Chaffer

228

Alan Noble Says You Are Not Your Own.

229

Rachel Donahue on Place and Poetry

230

Ben Palpant Writes Letters from the Mountain

231

Ashley Hales on a Spacious Life.

232

The Gray Havens feel Sehnsucht

233

Taylor Leonhardt Holds Still

234

Carolyn C. Givens on Rosefire & Bandersnatch Books

235

Governor Bill Haslam on Faithful Presence

236

Diana P. Glyer on C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy

237

JJ & Dave Heller

238

Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Buddy Greene & Jeff Taylor

239

Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Doug McKelvey

240

Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Jessica Hooten Wilson

241

Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Thomas McKenzie

242

Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Ellie Holcomb

243

Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Andrew Osenga

244

Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Maryrose Wood

245

Sad Stories Told for Laughs: Harrison Scott Key

246

S3 E22: Matthew Dickerson

247

S3 E21: Sho Baraka

248

The Habit Turns 100: A Retrospective (Part 2)

249

The Habit Turns 100: A Retrospective (Part 1)

250

S3 E18: Lancia E. Smith

251

S3 E17: Janna Barber

252

S3 E16: Stephen Roach

253

S3 E15: Rachel Pieh Jones

254

S3 E14: Doug McKelvey

255

S3 E13: The Hobbit Podcast (feat. Malcolm Guite)

256

S3 E12: Andrew Peterson and Friends on the Wingfeather Tales

257

S3 E11: Winn Collier on Eugene Peterson

258

S3 E10: Hannah Anderson

259

S3 E9: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

260

S3 E8: Benjamin Myers

261

S3 E7: W. David O. Taylor

262

S3 E6: Jen Pollock Michel

263

S3 E5: Tish Harrison Warren

264

S3 E4: Lisa Deam

265

S3 E3: Matthew Clark

266

S3 E2: Ruth Naomi Floyd

267

S3 E1: Joel Clarkson

268

S2 E51: Renee Mathis

269

S2 E50: Reagan Dregge

270

S2 E49: Randall Goodgame

271

S2 E48: Christiana Peterson

272

S2 E47: Tsh Oxenreider

273

S2 E46: Crystal Downing

274

S2 E45: Charlotte Donlon

275

S2 E44: Dane Ortlund

276

S2 E43: Andrew T. Le Peau

277

S2 E42: Anne Snyder

278

S2 E41: Brown Bannister

279

S2 E40: Russell Moore

280

S2 E39: Barnabas Piper

281

S2 E38: Marilyn McEntyre

282

S2 E37: Irwyn Ince

283

S2 E36: Ross King

284

S2 E35: Vesper Stamper

285

S2 E34: Gina Dalfonzo

286

S2 E33: Daniel Darling Has A Way with Words

287

S2 E32: Christine Flanagan on The Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon

288

S2 E31: Sandra McCracken

289

S2 E30: Cindy Bunch

290

S2 E29: Andrew Osenga

291

S2 E28: Claire Holley

292

S2 E27: Emily P. Freeman

293

S2 E26: Jericho Brown (feat. Matt Conner)

294

S2 E25: Amy Alznauer

295

S2 E24: Michael Ward

296

S2 E23: Scott Sauls

297

S2 E22: Karen Swallow Prior

298

S2 E21: Leif Enger Is Delighted

299

S2 E20: Diana Glyer

300

S2 E19: Malcolm Guite

301

S2 E18: Scott James

302

S2 E17: Laura Fabrycky

303

S2 E16: Nancy Guthrie

304

S2 E15: Ned Bustard

305

S2 E14: Jeremy Casella Knows What to Do with Hurt

306

S2 E13: Trillia Newbell Endures

307

S2 E12: Lee Camp's Controversial Orthodoxies

308

S2 E11: A 2008 Wingfeather Release Day Review (Bonus)

309

S2 E10: Francis Su Re-Enchants Mathematics

310

S2 E9: Remembering Charles Portis, with David Kern

311

S2 E8: Jen Pollock Michel Waxes Paradoxical

312

S2 E7: Seth Haines Wakes Up

313

S2 E6: Elyse Fitzpatrick & Eric Schumacher

314

S2 E5: Lore Ferguson Wilbert

315

S2 E4: Heidi Johnston

316

S2 E3: Meredith McDaniel

317

S2 E2: Harrison Scott Key

318

S2 E1: Andrew Peterson

319

Episode 30: Don Pape

320

Episode 29: S. D. Smith

321

Episode 28: Chris Wall

322

Episode 27: Christie Purifoy

323

Episode 26: Tish Harrison Warren with Doug McKelvey

324

Episode 25: Ron Block

325

Episode 24: JJ Heller

326

Episode 23: John Hendrix

327

Episode 22: Maryrose Wood

328

Episode 21: Drew Miller

329

Episode 20: Jonny Jimison

330

Episode 19: James K. A. Smith

331

Episode 18: Sarah MacKenzie

332

Episode 17: Randall Goodgame

333

Episode 16: Rebecca Reynolds

334

Episode 15: Mark Meynell

335

Episode 14: Jessica Hooten Wilson

336

Episode 13: Mary Laura Philpott

337

Episode 12: Joseph Patton

338

Episode 11: Karen Swallow Prior

339

Episode 10: Shawn Smucker

340

Episode 9: Kristy Dempsey

341

Episode 8: Helena Sorensen

342

Episode 7: Doug McKelvey

343

Episode 6: Russ Ramsey

344

Episode 5: Claire Gibson

345

Episode 4: Christopher Williams

346

Episode 3: Jennifer Trafton

347

Episode 2: Pete Peterson

348

Episode 1: Katy Bowser Hutson