It has been said, and I’ve come to believe this as a truth, that writing for an author is as much as anything else, a process of self-discovery, that one of the things that happen necessarily, in the process of writing, actually writing is that I see myself, I look into my own soul, I … Read More
If you pay attention to my life in any way, shape, or form, you know that I have a 12-year-old, almost 13, and a six-year-old; she just turned six. My six-year-old, I call her the bird. She has a really unique and interesting relationship with time. And over the last, I don’t know, three, four … Read More
I talk a lot about seasons, seasons of life, seasons of ministry seasons of work. I love the concept. I love the idea. I love the notion that for long stretches of time, somewhat indeterminate stretches of time, certain things are true certain things work. I like that there isn’t a stringent timeline; when we … Read More
Sarah Billups is a Seattle-based writer who has been speaking at and about the communal practice of religion for a number of years now. Most recently, she’s collected a number of those thoughts in a book called orphaned believers. It’s a wonderful book actually deeply insightful. And I was thrilled to have her on the … Read More
Welcome to the At Sea Podcast I’m your host, Justin McRoberts. I don’t speak to a lot of other coaches, I talk to a few, but it’s not a regular part of my conversation I actually fell into in some ways, the coaching job, just discovered myself doing it after a number of years. And … Read More
Welcome to the At Sea Podcast. I’m your host, Justin McRoberts. When I first read Kevin Sweeney’s initial book The Making of a Mystic, I found a bit of a kindred spirit that’s somewhat unlikely person in the pastorate as well as a relatively unlikely person when one thing because of terms like mystical or … Read More
Welcome to the At Sea podcast. I’m your host, Justin McRoberts. I met Jess Ray a number of years ago at a conference where she was helping to lead songs and realize there was some of her music that I had heard before. Maybe you had that experience where you’re paying attention to someone or … Read More
Welcome to the At Sea Podcast. I’m your host, Justin McRoberts. What does it mean to lead well? Heck, what does it even mean to lead period? And specifically, what does it mean to lead and lead well, in a religious context, when we talk about ministry, we talk about Church we talk about religious … Read More
If you are around or in conversations about mental health for much time at all, you probably hear the word trauma used relatively often. And if you are in or around conversations at the intersection of mental health and religious life, you’ll probably hear the phrase church trauma, or religious trauma used, at least as … Read More
Welcome to the At Sea podcast. I’m your host, Justin McRoberts. Molly Lacroix is my guest on this episode. And as a marriage and family therapist, she engages in the kind of art I find inspiring, incredibly rare, and necessary. She takes what would otherwise be, perhaps even frustratingly, wildly difficult concepts, things out of … Read More
