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Becoming More Wholehearted
What do you understand wholeheartedness to be? It often feels like an unattainable state, especially in this fallen world. In this conversation, Dan Allender and...
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Living into the Tension of Advent: Rev. Michael S. Chen
In the final episode about what it means to enter the Advent season at such a time as this, Rachael Clinton Chen invites her husband,...
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Living into the Tension of Advent: Cole Arthur Riley
Continuing a series of conversations about how we are to live into the tension of Advent in this season, Rachael talks with Cole Arthur Riley—writer,...
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Living into the Tension of Advent: Dr. J. Derek McNeil and Kate Davis
“How shall we live into this Advent season at such a time as this?” Each year, the season of Advent invites us to lean into...
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Routine and Rituals in Covid-19, Part Two
In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen talk with Heather Stringer about her creative process of stepping into a...
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Routine and Rituals in Covid-19, Part One
Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen invite Heather Stringer, a facilitator at The Allender Center, therapist, and ritual-maker, to begin a conversation about the...
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Cradles
“I love thee Lord Jesus, look down from the sky, and stay by my cradle til morning is nigh.” Martin Luther I remember singing this...
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Blood Woman
Our bodies are storytellers, yet we have a choice whether or not to let ourselves tell its story or to let what the world perceives...
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