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#192: Early Christian Theology: What Augustine, Irenaeus, and Justin Martyr Still Teach the Church Today
Warren Smith, professor of historical theology at Duke Divinity School, joins Dwight and Terri to talk about his new book, Early Christian Theology: A History, and what the first several centuries of Christian thought have to say to church leaders today.
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#191: Inside the Discipleship Program Reaching Unchurched Young Adults
Associate Vicar Rachael Wooldridge talks with host Dwight Zscheile about the discipleship program her church built to meet them.
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It Had To Be
Visiting churches in the UK, and meeting the people who met Jesus in them
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But What About the Rural Church?
Early Findings from the 2026 Funding Forward Research Project with Rural and Small Town Congregations
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#190: When Prayer Practices Lose Their Purpose
Pivot producer Joey Goodall traces an unexpected path from a moment in the 1994 Australian film Muriel’s Wedding to a nearly 500-year-old prayer practice, the Examen.
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#189: A Cross-Cultural Church, Practice by Practice
Aaron and Ayana Teter join Pivot to talk about the history of Eastminster Church in Pittsburgh, which spent decades becoming what its own members call a cross-cultural church.
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#188: Faith and Work: How Worship Can Close the Sunday-to-Monday Gap
Most churches, without ever meaning to, teach people that faith and work belong to two separate worlds. Katie Roelofs joins Pivot to make the case that it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Pitfalls and Pivots for Church Leaders
Gain an understanding of the shifts going on in the culture, the pivots you and your faith community can make today, and pitfalls to avoid in the process.
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The Joy of Generosity
A four-week stewardship program built on scripture and the joy of giving
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#187: Inside a Neighborhood Urban Ministry Built Around Trust, Not Programs
For twenty years, Johnny Sertin has practiced a kind of place-based ministry built on staying put. He and four other families started the Earlsfield Friary in southwest London, committing to live within one square mile of each other while each working ordinary jobs. Along the way, a Franciscan friar became a close friend and encouraged…
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#186: The Pastoral Heart of Augustine
Dwight Zscheile and Alicia Granholm talk with Joey Sherrard about what changed when he started reading Augustine as a pastor for pastors.
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