#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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#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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#185: Power Made Perfect in Weakness: Lois Malcolm on Upside-Down Leadership
Dr. Lois Malcolm joins Dwight Zscheile and Alicia Granholm to talk about power in weakness, one of the central themes of Paul’s most personal and unguarded letter.
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#184: Christian Leadership Begins with Listening: Scott Cormode on Ancient Practices for a Changing Church
What is vocation, really? Dr. Scott Cormode joins Dwight Zscheile and Alicia Granholm to challenge how we typically define calling.
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#183: What a Shared Rule of Life Looks Like: Practices That Form a Community
JR and Amy talk about what it actually means to live under a rule of life in a culture built on self-sovereignty and endless choice.
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#182: Spiritual Formation Today: Reclaiming Ancient Christian Practices
Dwight Zscheile and Alicia Granholm open a new season by asking how the ancient treasures of Christian tradition can become accessible again.
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#181: How to Create Community in Church When Culture Works Against It
Hosts Dwight Zscheile and Alicia Granholm reflect on a full season of conversations
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#180: Rethinking the Christian Prayer Life
Wesley Ellis makes a case that will reframe the way you think about prayer
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#179: Finding Our Way Back to One Another
Why is Christian community so hard? Jeff Galley & Phil Smith have answers.
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#178: The Meaning of Pentecost: Fire, Tongues, and the Spirit That Sends Us Out
Lois Malcolm argues that the miracle of Pentecost is not primarily about what the disciples felt. It’s about where they went.
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#177: Missional Church, Whole Gospel: Beyond the Evangelism vs. Justice Debate
Al Tizon makes the case that reconciliation is the most powerful framework for mission available to the church today.
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#176: What the First-Century Church Teaches Us About Belonging Today
Dr. Kristofer Phan Coffman discusses what the early church can teach us about forming Christian community today.