January 2021 – UMC.org Podcasts

Holy Spirit: Transforming the ordinary with Jack Levison

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Many of us have questions about the Holy Spirit. We’ve heard things and assume others, but we’re unsure if any of them are true.

Jack Levison, Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at Perkins School of Theology and the author of several books, addresses many of these issues and helps us to understand how the Holy Spirit infuses our ordinary days with the extraordinary presence of God.

Jack talks specifically about Pentecost, Jesus’s baptism, and the way the Spirit works in our lives today.

Creating change when stuck in the same

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Tony Caldwell joined Pierce and Ryan to talk about resilience. What are ways we can move forward in hope when so many of our circumstances feel stuck in sameness?

Tony Caldwell is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He also hosts the Voices of Wisdom podcast and is a featured speaker and writer for Red Letter Christians.org. He has written for many publications and newspapers and his work has been featured on CNN.

Holistic health around the world with Kathleen Griffith

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As many focus on their health in a new year, Kathleen Griffith reminds us to have a holistic approach—body, mind and spirit.

“When one is unwell, one’s whole being is affected,” explains the interim Global Health Team Lead and the Program Manager of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health with the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church. “We are such integrated beings.”

Griffith also shares how the Abundant Health Initiative of the UMC’s audacious goal of reaching one million children with lifesaving intervention was reached in the fall of 2020.

Ep. 57: We are Finally Talking TikToK

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2020 is over, and 2021 is here. We are kicking this new year of the MyCom Church Marketing Podcast by finally talking TikTok.

For some of you, TikTok may be new on your radar, for others of you, this feels like the cool thing the kids are into, but eventually, one of the bigger social networks will steal its features and it will go away. Join our host Dan as he helps to make sense of this new sensation, TikTok.

Living with doubt

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Does being faithful mean being doubtless? Brian McLaren is back on the Compass Podcast to talk about living with faith and doubt.

Brian’s new book, Faith After Doubt, is out now. He provides a glimpse into both the stories behind the book and how he lives with doubt–even while being a faith leader.

See more about Faith After Doubt: https://bookshop.org/books/faith-after-doubt-why-your-beliefs-stopped-working-and-what-to-do-about-it/9781250262776

And Brian McLaren: https://brianmclaren.net/