Podcasts about Brevity

In this episode of the Operators Podcast, the hosts discuss the current economic challenges facing e-commerce brands, the importance of personal discipline, and the complexities of the Indian market. They are joined by Ronnie Teja to explore the growth potential in India, the unique challenges of manufacturing there, and the cultural nuances that influence consumer behavior. The conversation highlights the opportunities in supplements and generic drugs, as well as the future of manufacturing in India, positioning it as a potential economic powerhouse. They explore the challenges of entering new markets, the integration of AI in data management, and the significance of brevity in communication to enhance productivity.00:00 Introduction01:59 Personal Transformation and Discipline04:45 The Indian Market Landscape10:06 Understanding India's Economic Growth15:04 Opportunities and Challenges in Indian Manufacturing19:46 Cultural Nuances and Consumer Behavior in India25:13 The Future of Manufacturing in India39:06 International Expansion and Distribution Models43:14 Data Management and AI Integration47:04 Challenges of International Markets51:39 The Importance of Brevity in Communication01:01:08 Navigating Business Challenges and Market DynamicsOperators Exclusive Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/9operators/shared_invite/zt-2tdfu426r-TepSHJP~evAyDfR29U2qUwConnect with Ronnie:https://x.com/roaringronny?lang=enhttps://trulyoffice.com/Powered By:Fulfil.io.https://bit.ly/3pAp2vuThe Only Cloud ERP Designed to Efficiently Scale 8 and 9-Figure Brands. Northbeam.https://www.northbeam.io/Postscript.https://postscript.io/Richpanel.https://www.richpanel.com/?utm_source=9O&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=ytdescSaras.https://saras-analytics.typeform.com/to/T8jpuAEb?utm_source=9operator_lp&utm_medium=find_out_moreSubscribe to The Marketing Operators Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/@MarketingOperatorsSubscribe to The Finance Operators here: https://www.youtube.com/@FinanceOperatorsFOPS Sign up to the 9 Operators newsletter here: https://9operators.com/

This Week's Panel - ElroyOMJ, Exe the Hero   Show Discussion - Exe and Elroy were a little crunched for time this week, so this episode is all killer, no filler! Exe talks about the newest Gamepass darling, Doom: The Dark Ages, while Elroy keeps a similar heavy metal theme with Rock Lobs… Zombie. Add in some baby games, and you've got an odd level episode! Cheers!   Games Mentioned: Exe - Doom: The Dark Ages, Cassette Beasts ElroyOMJ - Rock Zombie, Possum Is Hungry   ----- AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

Psalms with Their Backstories series by Dr. David Rieke The post Psalm 90 – Moses’ Psalm About the Brevity of Life appeared first on Avalon Hills Bible Church.

Send us a textIn this episode of Art Wank, we delve into the world of Australian landscape painter David Collins, whose latest solo exhibition, Brevity, is currently on view at Defiance Gallery in Sydney from May 3 to 24, 2025 .Collins has been a significant figure in the Australian art scene since the early 1990s . Residing on Dangar Island in the Hawkesbury River since 1987, his daily interactions with the river—often by rowboat—deeply inform his artistic practice . His works are known for their meditative quality, blending abstraction with a profound sense of place.Brevity continues this exploration, offering a series of paintings that reflect Collins' intimate connection with the Australian landscape. The exhibition showcases his ability to distill vast natural scenes into compositions that are both evocative and restrained.Throughout his career, Collins has participated in numerous residencies, including the Australian Wildlife Conservancy Residency in Queensland and the Nock Art Foundation Residency in New Zealand . His work has been recognised in prestigious awards such as the Wynne Prize and the Salon des Refusés.In our conversation, Collins discusses his artistic journey, the influence of his surroundings, and the themes present in Brevity. He shares insights into his process and the philosophies that underpin his work.Join us as we explore the nuanced landscapes of David Collins and gain a deeper understanding of his contribution to contemporary Australian art.Brevity is on display at Defiance Gallery, 12 Mary Place, Paddington, NSW, until May 24, 2025. For more information, visit defiancegallery.com.

This podcast presents pianist Giorgio Koukl in conversation with Raymond Bisha at the end of a five-year project to rehabilitate the complete works for piano solo and duo by Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994). Virtually self-taught, Rieti went on to establish his composing credentials, becoming the only Italian composer, for example, to be invited to write ballet music for Diaghalev. His neo-classical style remained a constant in his output, as did his sense of musical humour.

Let’s settle in friends for some quiet time…. Just kidding. Episode 6 in this serial series interrogating the malformed pillars in evangelicalism is here. We examine one of the most important elements in evangelical belief systems–perhaps THE most important religious icon–the Bible. Evangelicals claim the Bible has supreme authority in designing beliefs. It’s the “Bible alone”, used with complete disregard for malformed interpretations. You may be wondering why chat about the Bible mid-way through this series and not at the very start. After all, isn’t the Bible central to evangelicalism? It is, but not in the manner you might think. The Bible has been distorted to become a tool for religious propaganda that advances the interests of white evangelicalism. In other words, the Bible is used to define conservative and white supremacist worldviews, and believers stuck in the pew of these churches must adopt specific interpretations or risk being excommunicated (if evangelicals had such a thing.) Malformed beliefs like biblical inerrancy and literalism are not, ironically, biblical, yet are core attributes used to keep the faithful in line. Let’s talk about it, Episode 6 is here. Chapters (00:00-01:00) Introduction (02:30) Rohadi on why we’re interrogating the validity of biblical tradition in evangelicalism. (02:33-14:00) Quiet time. Just kidding. Unpacking the ways evangelicals twist the Bible to fit their own devices. (14:00-20:05) Unpacking one of the malformed pillars is used to justify: Patriarchy w/ Liz Jenkins. (20:05-22:00) Intro to Ryan Canty – Author of Deweaponize. (22:00-24:20) Naming malformed pillars including inerrancy and the Chicago Statement (24:20-33:00) Unpacking the Chicago Statement with Liz Grant (33:40) Ways evangelicals distort scripture using literalism wrong. (40:11) Rohadi and authoritarianism and the Bible. (43:40) Ryan on, What are the possibilities of change? (50:15) Possibilities of how we can reclaim biblical interpretation with Liz Grant. (59:50) Liz Jenkins with the final word on interpretation. (1:02:02) Outro Featuring your host, Rohadi (from Rohadi.com). Rohadi’s books can be found here, including his latest publication, When We Belong. Reclaiming Christianity on the Margins. Special Guests in Episode 6: Ryan Canty – Author of Deweaponize. Re-examining how we read the Bible in pursuit of a more Christlike interpretation  Former Calvinist theology nerd on a journey to de-weaponize the Bible and love others like Jesus. Find him on Substack | Instagram Liz Charlotte Grant – Author of KNOCK AT THE SKY: Seeking God in Genesis After Losing Faith in the Bible. Liz is an award-winning nonfiction writer based in Colorado, USA. She is also an online columnist for The Christian Century. Her essays and op-eds have also been published in outlets such as the Huffington Post, Religion News Service, the Revealer, Hippocampus Magazine, Brevity, Sojourners, Christianity Today, US Catholic, National Catholic Reporter, and elsewhere. Find Liz on Instagram and Threads Liz Jenkins – Author of Nice Churchy Patriarchy. If you’d like to read more, check out her now-occasional blog, her Substack, and/or her book Nice Churchy Patriarchy. Find Liz via Instagram: @lizcoolj and @postevangelicalprayers. Bumper music by Daniel Wheat.

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:30:00 GMT http://relay.fm/clockwise/603 http://relay.fm/clockwise/603 I Want Brevity 603 Dan Moren and Mikah Sargent How sycophantic we want our chatbots to be, Google ending Nest support, what we've learned from Reddit recently, and whether developer conferences are still about developers. How sycophantic we want our chatbots to be, Google ending Nest support, what we've learned from Reddit recently, and whether developer conferences are still about developers. clean 1799 How sycophantic we want our chatbots to be, Google ending Nest support, what we've learned from Reddit recently, and whether developer conferences are still about developers. Guest Starring: Paul Kafasis and Florence Ion Links and Show Notes: Support Clockwise with a Relay FM Membership

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:30:00 GMT http://relay.fm/clockwise/603 http://relay.fm/clockwise/603 Dan Moren and Mikah Sargent How sycophantic we want our chatbots to be, Google ending Nest support, what we've learned from Reddit recently, and whether developer conferences are still about developers. How sycophantic we want our chatbots to be, Google ending Nest support, what we've learned from Reddit recently, and whether developer conferences are still about developers. clean 1799 How sycophantic we want our chatbots to be, Google ending Nest support, what we've learned from Reddit recently, and whether developer conferences are still about developers. Guest Starring: Paul Kafasis and Florence Ion Links and Show Notes: Support Clockwise with a Relay FM Membership

Margaret Anne Mary Moore joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about her realization at an early age that she wanted to be a nonfiction writer and memoirist, facing severe discrimination as a child with disabilities, how she wrote about her disability experience on a granular level, using a communication device, taking breaks to work on other aspects of a project when the writing process grows tiresome, devoting chapters to a single theme, striving to make characterizations rich in detail, looking at rejection juxtaposed against life circumstances, how traumatic memories get seared into our memory, compassion and acceptance, and her memoir Bold, Brave, and Breathless: Reveling in Childhood's Splendiferous Glories While Facing Disability and Loss.   Margaret's Brevity blog article link: https://brevity.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/who-gets-a-spot-on-the-river/   Also in this episode: -hermit crab forms -writing sharp scenes -embodied writing   Books mentioned in this episode: The Mindful Writer by Dinty W. Moore The Shell Game by Kim Adrian Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key   Margaret Anne Mary Moore is the author of the bestselling disability memoir Bold, Brave, and Breathless: Reveling in Childhood's Splendiferous Glories While Facing Disability and Loss (Woodhall Press, 2023) and is currently writing the sequel. She is a summer 2022 graduate of Fairfield University's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program, where she earned a degree in creative nonfiction and poetry. Margaret is an editor and the marketing coordinator at Woodhall Press and an ambassador for PRC-Saltillo. A featured book on the AWP Bookshelf, Bold, Brave, and Breathless is her debut book. She is a contributor to Gina Barreca's book Fast Famous Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction (Woodhall Press, 2025). Her writing has appeared in America Magazine, Brevity's Nonfiction Blog, and Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Independent Catholic News among other publications.    Connect with Margaret: Website: margaretannemarymoore.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaretannemarymooreauthor/ X: https://x.com/mooreofawriter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margaretannemarymoore_author LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaret-moore-m-f-a-86835312a/ Good Reads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29567595.Margaret_Anne_Mary_Moore Book: https://a.co/d/b0VZ8Mk   – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social   Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with AJ Romriell on his debut memoir Wolf Act (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025).Wolf Act is a “memoir in essays,” and these essays take on a variety of forms. The work is divided into three different Acts, and each act is made up of chapters that are both interlinked but can also stand on their own as well. While the majority of the prose is narrative nonfiction, there are a number of chapters that include lengthy lists, definition entries like you would find in a dictionary, as well as passages that mirror a kind of Mormon liturgy and educational upbringing.As the title suggests, wolves are a central metaphor throughout the work, and Romriell seamlessly weaves in references to wolves from mythology, fables, fairy tales, and religious beliefs as a way of processing his exit from the Mormon faith and his intentional turn towards self-love and joy.AJ Romriell is a storyteller, photographer, and educator. His memoir Wolf Act is about his experience growing up queer and neurodivergent in the Mormon religion; it earned first prize in the Utah Original Writing Competition and was a finalist for the Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest. He is a 2025 Pushcart nominee, and his essays, stories, and poems have been featured in Electric Literature, The Missouri Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, Brevity, New Delta Review, and elsewhere. He has been the recipient of the Vandewater Prize in Poetry, the Kenneth W. Brewer Creative Writing Award, and the Ralph Jennings Smith Creative Writing Endowment, and his work has been shortlisted for Ploughshares' Emerging Writer's Contest, CRAFT's Hybrid Writing Contest, and the Black Warrior Review and New Ohio Review contests for creative nonfiction.

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Today we have Laura. She is 40 years old from Reno, NV and she had her last drink on August 1st, 2017.   Sponsors for this episode include: Better Help – 10% off of your first month   Tomorrow April 1st, registration opens for our annual alcohol-free retreat in Bozeman. From August 6th through 10th, we will be spending lots of time in nature, doing breathwork, a lakeside hangout, laser tag and more.   [02:58] Thoughts from Paul:   On this life journey, what we think is fun or important to us is constantly changing. You have identified that serenity, happiness and peace have become much more important to you than the excitement of drinking. After all, drinking lifts us up for a short while but always lets us down in the end.   Peace is knowing we are living our healthiest life and knowing that whatever happens, we're going to be just fine because we're not making life harder than it needs to be by drinking.   We are aiming to place our bodies and minds in a state where they are properly nourished so then we can be present to fully enjoy and be thankful when the emotion of happiness arrives. We are choosing peace over the brevity of a buzz. We are choosing life.   [05:51] Paul introduces Laura:   Laura is married, and lives in Reno, Nevada. She is currently transitioning out of working in nonprofit communications to going full time with her own business. She enjoys all things outdoors, lifting weights, and making funny Tik-Toks.   The minute Laura started drinking she felt like it was the elixir to confidence and connection. Throughout college and into her 20s, she didn't think much about her drinking because she was drinking like everyone else around her. Leaving college, Laura didn't really know what she wanted to do with her life. Looking back now, she recognizes how much drinking disconnects you from yourself.   Laura moved to Lake Tahoe and became a snowboard bum. This is where her drinking progressed. Little red flags started to pop up, but she would disregard them and treat her drinking like it was an intentional choice.   In her late twenties, Laura got a DUI. This drove her to recognize that she needed to quit drinking and was able to for a few months. She thought after that, she had it under control only to end up right back where she was soon after.   Laura began to try and moderate and take breaks. When she realized it was hard to quit for two weeks, she knew she had a problem. After a blackout, Laura decided it was time to give sobriety a try. Quitting drinking felt scary, but it felt scarier to continue down the path she was on. She didn't know anyone that was sober but once she listened to people's stories on the RE podcast, she had hope.   After 7 months of working on her recovery by herself, she relapsed at a memorial for a friend. Recognizing that she was on the right path in sobriety, she went right back to it. She started going to AA and found a sponsor. Laura admits it was a lot of work, but she was ready for it. She shares that she had a lot of epiphanies during the first six to nine months.   Laura picked up a lot of healthy practices in recovery which helped her rediscover herself and build confidence. She says no tequila shot could ever compare to the feeling of being able to trust yourself, respect yourself and have authentic connections with other people.   In her new business, Laura is a backpacking guide. She organizes adventure retreats for sober women. Your Sober Pal   Laura's favorite resources: Recovery Elevator podcast, 12 Step Program and online recovery communities.   Laura's parting piece of guidance: it might e a lot of work up front, but it's going to take you places you couldn't even imaging and you're going to amaze yourself along the way.     Recovery Elevator You took the elevator down. You have got to take the stairs back up. We can do this.   Café RE RE on Instagram RE merch Recovery Elevator YouTube Sobriety Tracker iTunes       

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Send us a textThis Episode has EVERYTHING!It's got:Dave's brain doesn't work!Mr. Short Term Memory!In the way, Dave!Negativity AWAY!Levity! Brevity!A dollar in the douche jar!HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KEVIN!Airline tickets are too expensive for shenanigans!Levity! Brevity!"Severance" is amazing, though horrifying!Useless degrees!Will philosophize for food!Rants!Lady Gaga Levity!Up and down like a toilet seat in a men's room!Updated Irwin Allen!CGI sucks compared to practical effects!"The Goonies" sequel is on the horizon...!Long awaited sequels ALWAYS suck!Part 2, Electric Boogaloo!Dave loves Sean Astin to this day!Twink yogurt!Other peoples' kids are the best birth control!No naked nonsense in Dave's family!Episode Links (In Order):Louie Prima "The Bigger the Figure"!Tom Hanks "Mr. Short Term Memory"!Samuel Jackson's death in "Deep Blue Sea"!"The Goonies 2" is in the works!Teen girls try to kill mother over Wi-Fi!Music Credit!Opening Music Graciously Supplied By: https://audionautix.com/ Visit Our Patreon! Email Us Here: Disturbinglypragmatic@gmail.comWhere To Find Us!: Disturbingly Pragmatic Link Tree!

Sheriff Deputies Terrifying Trend, JD Vance Real Deal, Trump's Brevity, Hillary Soft PassMATT - LEEROY Sheriff Deputies Terrifying TrendJD Vance May Be The Real DealBanning Men In Women Sports Is Segregation? Congressman Tim Burchett With A Real MomentEasy Does It On Hillary... I GuessOVERTIME: Man's Best Friend, Noem Goes Bad@ss ModeWatch the Live Show on the following channels: linktapgo.com/thedumshowTHE DUM SHOW, DON'T UNFRIEND ME, POLITICS, KAMALA, BIDEN, TRUMPBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dum-show--6012883/support.

Signal Transcript, Alex Wong, Will Cain Faces Himes, Trump's Brevity, DoD, Reporter TroubleMATT - OLIVIASignal TranscriptAlex WongWill Cain Faces HimesJust Follow Trump's Brevity??!?DOD PolicyReporter Is In Trouble If He IS Being HonestOVERTIME: Keffiyeh, Sex Offender Registry, Jasmine Is FakeWatch the Live Show on the following channels: linktapgo.com/thedumshowTHE DUM SHOW, DON'T UNFRIEND ME, POLITICS, KAMALA, BIDEN, TRUMPBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dum-show--6012883/support.

Send us a textKindness as a leadership principle can transform organizations, but only when leaders authentically embody it through actions, systems, and consistent behaviors. This episode reveals the powerful connection between kindness and organizational success.  When kindness becomes systemic rather than optional, it manifests in surprising ways. "Boundaries are kind. Clarity is kind. Brevity can be kind,"  Ready to transform your leadership approach? Listen now to discover how authentic kindness can become your greatest organizational strength.Episode Guest: Christy Pretzinger Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christypretzinger/ All episodes and guest requests can be found at:www.leadershipmomentspodcast.comFollow Stacey Caster on Instagram @staceycaster_Follow Tracy-Ann Palmer on Instagram @tracy_ann_palmer

What does it mean to live in a body? Medicine teaches us how a body functions, but it doesn't help us navigate the reality of living in one. Surgeon Gabriel Weston grappled with the gap between scientific knowledge and unfathomable complexity of human experience. Her new book is ALIVE: Our Bodies and the Richness and Brevity of Existence, where she explores the space between medical science and being.

Brad's sermon preached at First Presbyterian Church in Eden, NC, on Psalm 90:1-6.

In this episode of Man Up, Nikita Koloff opens up about the profound loss of his wife, Mandy, to cancer. In an emotional and raw conversation, he reflects on the fragility of life the pain of losing a loved one, and the lessons he learned through grief. 

YOU TOO TALL. Flirting with the Kabob Guy. Zipper Major. Swagtastic. Fartgas In The Bar Car. In the Poo Pipe. A Brevity of Dunaways. Taiwan the Cheese Doodle. Can-a-Sherpa. Nipple high Asian lady. Yeastie Boys. YOU CAN EAT CHEWED RICE. Poncho certified. Nakatomi air vents. Making Comics Takes Blood, Sweat and Tears, But Mostly Blood, with Stephen and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 24, 2025 is: quip • KWIP • noun Quip can refer to a clever, usually taunting remark, or to a witty or funny observation or response usually made on the spur of the moment. // They traded quips over a beer and laughed themselves silly. See the entry > Examples: "He's always got a story, is always ready with a quip and isn't afraid to let the four-letter words roll off the tongue in the most creative ways." — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Apr. 2023 Did you know? To tweak a well-known line from Hamlet, brevity is the soul of quip. While jokes are often brief stories with setups followed by surprising and funny endings (chickens crossing roads, elephant footprints in the butter, etc.) quips are even briefer, and not so planned or scripted. They are more likely to arise naturally in conversation when someone is especially quick-witted, firing off zingers, retorts, or—if you want to get extra fancy about it—bon mots. Brevity also plays a role in quip's etymology: quip is a shortening of quippy, a now-obsolete noun of the same meaning. Quippy's origins are uncertain, but they may lie in the Latin word quippe, meaning "indeed" or "to be sure," which was often used ironically. Quip entered English as a noun in the 1500s, but was verbified within decades; the verb quip means "to make quips" or "to jest or jibe at."

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How does one learn to love the Bible again? For Liz Charlotte Grant, it is almost like a story from a movie: girl meets Bible, falls in love, discovers Bible's secret past, falls out of love with Bible, but eventually realizes she was really in love the whole time, once she learned how to look at the Bible in a new way. This is an eye-opening conversation about how the tools that scholars have used throughout the history of scripture, with names like Hermeneutic and Midrash and Eisegesis, helped bring the Bible back to life after deconstruction, and reconnect Grant with the essence of what she loved most about scripture.Liz Charlotte Grant is an award-winning nonfiction writer based in Colorado, USA. Her debut nonfiction book, Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis After Losing Faith in the Bible, was released by Eerdmans Publishing Co. on January 7, 2025. In 2024, she wrote a viral article chronicling the disturbing third marriage of an icon of white American evangelical purity culture, "Elisabeth Elliot, Flawed Queen of Purity Culture, and Her Disturbing Third Marriage," the Revealer Magazine, a publication of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University. Grant's Substack newsletter, the Empathy List, has received recognition from the Webby Awards and the Best of the Church Press Awards. Her work has also appeared in outlets such as the Huffington Post, Religion News Service, Hippocampus Magazine, Brevity, Sojourners, the Christian Century, Christianity Today, US Catholic, National Catholic Reporter. Find more of Liz Charlotte's work at:https://lizcharlotte.com/ https://www.threads.net/@lizcharlottegrant https://www.instagram.com/lizcharlottegrant https://www.facebook.com/lizcharlottegrant Find your guides at Quoir Academy! If you've ever deconstructed your faith you know it's not easy. But just imagine if you could have people to guide you through your process? People like, Jim Palmer, Kristin Du Mez, Jennifer Knapp, Brad Jersak, Brian Zahnd, Paul Young, and more? Well, if you head over to Quoir Academy and register for SQUARE 2 using the Promo Code [RAD] you'll get 10% off the regular registration cost of this awesome course and community just for being a fan of our show. Follow this registration link: https://www.bk2sq1.com/square-2-next-steps-into-reconstruction?coupon=RAD

What does Bible study look like after inerrancy? Do you have to give up studying Scripture when you no longer believe in its literal interpretation? Can you still believe this book is sacred even while renegotiating your relationship to the church? In Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis after Losing Faith in the Bible, Liz Charlotte Grant offers compelling answers to these questions and more in this deeply personal commentary on the book of Genesis. Braiding together encounters with the natural world, Jewish midrash, and art criticism, Grant makes familiar Sunday school stories strange and offers a fresh vision for reading Scripture after deconstruction. For those who have known the book of Genesis as a weapon in the culture wars, Grant interprets the Bible's inspired book of beginnings as a work of art. Lyrical, insightful, and highly original, Knock at the Sky offers readers a capacious model for seeking God through Scripture even as one's faith continues to evolve. “In this book, you too have permission to question the sacred without fearing . . . unbelief. Knock loudly. . . . Reject answers that do not admit complication. Seek the resonance at the base of the story. The seeking is the point. Because there, in your wandering, God is.” About the Author Liz Charlotte Grant is an award-winning essayist whose work has been published in The Revealer, Sojourners, Brevity, Christian Century, Christianity Today, Hippocampus, and elsewhere. She also writes The Empathy List, a popular newsletter that has been nominated for a Webby two years running. She lives in Colorado.

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Purchase a copy of Knock at the Sky: https://amzn.to/3PQlIG3*As an Amazon affiliate, I receive a small commission from purchases made through Amazon links on this site at no additional cost to you.✖️✖️✖️About the guest:Liz Charlotte Grant is an award-winning nonfiction writer based in Colorado, USA.In 2024, she wrote a viral review of two biographies, chronicling the disturbing third marriage of white American evangelical "purity culture" icon, Elisabeth Elliot, for the Revealer Magazine. (See "Elisabeth Elliot, Flawed Queen of Purity Culture, and Her Disturbing Third Marriage," the Revealer Magazine, a publication of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University).Her Substack newsletter, the Empathy List, has received recognition from the Webby Awards and the Best of the Church Press Awards. Her essays have won 3rd place in Dappled Things magazine's Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction (in 2019 and 2022), and she's also been awarded two Collegeville Institute residencies.Her op-eds and stories have also been published in outlets such as the Huffington Post, Religion News Service, Hippocampus Magazine, Brevity, Sojourners, the Christian Century, Christianity Today, US Catholic, National Catholic Reporter, and more.✖️✖️✖️Book description:In the beginning was a work of art. What does Bible study look like after inerrancy? Do you have to give up studying Scripture when you no longer believe in its literal interpretation? Can you still believe this book is sacred even while renegotiating your relationship to the church? In Knock at the Sky, Liz Charlotte Grant offers compelling answers to these questions and more in this deeply personal commentary on the book of Genesis. Braiding together encounters with the natural world, Jewish midrash, and art criticism, Grant makes familiar Sunday school stories strange and offers a fresh vision for reading Scripture after deconstruction. For those who have known the book of Genesis as a weapon in the culture wars, Grant interprets the Bible's inspired book of beginnings as a work of art. Lyrical, insightful, and highly original, Knock at the Sky offers readers a capacious model for seeking God through Scripture even as one's faith continues to evolve. “In this book, you too have permission to question the sacred without fearing . . . unbelief. Knock loudly. . . . Reject answers that do not admit complication. Seek the resonance at the base of the story. The seeking is the point. Because there, in your wandering, God is.”✖️✖️✖️Support the Show: Patreon.com/PreacherBoys✖️✖️✖️If you or someone you know has experienced abuse, visit courage365.org/need-help✖️✖️✖️CONNECT WITH THE SHOW:preacherboyspodcast.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@PreacherBoyshttps://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/https://twitter.com/preacherboysdochttps://www.instagram.com/preacherboyspodhttps://www.tiktok.com/@preacherboyspodTo connect with a community that shares the Preacher Boys Podcast's mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/✖️✖️✖️The content presented in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. All individuals and entities discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty through due legal process. The views and opinions expressed are those of the speakers.This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/PreacherBoys and get on your way to being your best self.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/preacher-boys-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Author Jessica Handler believes "that when we write well, we're writing about what matters to us." What matters to you? On this episode, Jessica shares a prompt that will help you understand what you're trying to do with your writing. It's one that she often used while working on her memoir, Invisible Sisters.Jessica also shares a prompt that will help you regain focus and use your senses in a work in progress. Her third prompt will help you generate ideas for future projects. About Jessica HandlerJessica Handler is the author of the novel The Magnetic Girl, winner of the 2020 Southern Book Prize and a nominee for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, a 2019 “Books All Georgians Should Read,” an Indie Next pick, Wall Street Journal Spring 2019 pick, Bitter Southerner Summer 2019 pick, and a Southern Independent Bookseller's Association “Okra Pick.” Her memoir Invisible Sisters was also named one of the “Books All Georgians Should Read,” and her craft guide Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss was praised by Vanity Fair magazine. Her writing has appeared on NPR, in Tin House, Drunken Boat, Full Grown People, Oldster, The Bitter Southerner, Electric Literature, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Newsweek, The Washington Post and elsewhere.

The Author Events Series presents The Intertextual Self: New Approaches to the Memoir REGISTER Memoirists most often focus on the authenticity of their own voice and experience, and how best to render on the page the intersection of memory and current insight. This traditional approach creates engaging and compelling personal narratives – singular texts of the self. But a new approach seems to be emerging, one in which writers grapple with other texts that have informed their experiences, shaped their thinking, and served as lenses through which to interpret their own lives. This event features three highly accomplished and daring authors who have taken this approach to their memoirs, highlighting how they absorbed other texts and made them integral to telling their own stories. Authors Chris Campanioni (A and B and Also Nothing, 2nd Ed.), Tyler Mills (The Bomb Cloud), and Leah Souffrant (Entanglements) represent a new generation of writers who have turned to an even wider range of texts to help them identify, craft, and share their own stories. Each of their strikingly original memoirs also include visual art created by the authors.  Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan in 1985 and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. His research connecting media studies with studies of migration has been awarded a Mellon Foundation fellowship and the Calder Prize and his writing has received the International Latino Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Academy of American Poets College Prize. He lives in Brooklyn. Leah Souffrant is a writer and artist committed to interdisciplinary practice. She is the author of Entanglements: Threads woven from history, memory, and the body (Unbound Edition Press 2023) and Plain Burned Things: A Poetics of the Unsayable (Collection Clinamen, PULG Liège 2017). The range of Souffrant's work involves poetics, visual studies and art, translation, and critical work in literature, feminist theory, and performance. With Abby Paige, she is a founding member of the LeAB Iteration Lab for theater art and performance. Her awards include the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and her scholarship was recognized by the Center for the Study of Women & Society. Souffrant's poetry has been a finalist for the National Poetry Award. She keeps an art studio in Brooklyn and teaches writing at New York University. Born in Chicago, Tyler Mills (she/her) is the author of City Scattered (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo Press 2022), Hawk Parable (Akron Poetry Prize, University of Akron Press 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press 2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions Chapbook Prize, Diode Editions 2021). Her memoir, The Bomb Cloud, received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. A poet and essayist, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Believer, and Poetry, and her essays in AGNI, Brevity, Copper Nickel, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She lived and taught in New Mexico four years, most recently serving as the Burke Scholar for the Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos, NM, and now teaches for Sarah Lawrence College's Writing Institute and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation when you register for this event to ensure that this series continues to inspire Philadelphians. Books will be available for purchase at the library on event night. (recorded 12/5/2024)

In this episode of the poetry edition of the Reformed Journal Podcast, Rose Postma talks with Sarah M. Wells about her poem “Jesus Son of GOP.” is the author of The Family Bible Devotional Volumes 1 and 2, a memoir, American Honey: A Field Guide to Resisting Temptation (forthcoming), and two collections of poems, Between the Heron and the Moss and Pruning Burning Bushes. Poems and essays by Wells have appeared in Ascent, Brevity, Full Grown People, Hippocampus Review, The Pinch, River Teeth, Rock & Sling, Under the Gum Tree, Terrain.org and elsewhere. Sarah's work has been honored with four Pushcart Prize nominations. Six of her essays have been listed as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays. She is a 2018 recipient of an Ohio Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Sarah earned her BA in Creative Writing and MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Ashland University. She is a regular contributor to Root & Vine News and God Hears Her, a blog for women, from Our Daily Bread. She resides in Ashland, Ohio with her husband, Brandon, and their four children, Lydia, Elvis, Henry, and Izzy (their Westie).

Summary of What to Look Forward ToReflecting on the past inspires hope for the future. The focus is on restoring American values, emphasizing smaller government, free speech, and justice. Challenges include a divided nation of "givers and takers" and media corruption.Key themes include exposing Leftist hypocrisy, freeing J6 prisoners, and ensuring accountability for corrupt elites. The cultural shift continues with Hollywood's decline, wokeism's demise, and media irrelevance.Humor and brevity are powerful tools to challenge Leftist narratives, spark thought, and drive meaningful change. With a four-year plan underway, optimism abounds for a transformative year in politics, culture, and societal values.[SEGMENT 2-1] What to look forward to… To look forward one must remember the past. I want to go back to the America I grew up in. When we do this, we find out that we didn't have it so bad, did we? But even into the 80s, things got better. We could always feel like America was getting better.   Just one lifetime ago in the United States, our grandfathers were able to buy a home, buy a car, have 3-4 children, keep their wife at home, take annual vacations, and then retire… all on one middle-class salary. Now that's practically impossible. If you are playing by the rules, doing it by the playbook, then you're getting screwed. This country is divided into givers and takers. Those looking for angles all the time for easy money. Who's getting screwed? Us. I see people in the media making millions for doing very little, and it's no big deal. I'm trying to figure out where all this money comes from.   Smaller, DOGE-managed government. The world's richest man fighting for justice and free speech. Accountable government, common-sense government per the Constitution Free speech. Will Americans trust that they have this? Or will they continue to bite their tongues? Recompense for those hurt by the Left's crushing of “truth-speak”. Social media giants must pay for what they did or they will have learned nothing.  [SEGMENT 2-2] What to look forward to 2 I haven't done a show on New Year's in years. But I decided to do something different this year. I wanted a fresh start to my 4-year plan. I want us all to feel like we are into something fresh. New. Exciting. Thanks for the feedback on the Supporter's Club show. I thought it was fantastic as I did it. One of my members commented: How motivational. And what insights into your background. For me, delving into me I think will help others. Not my background per se. But jogging little micro memories in you. We have one heck of a year coming up and I'm giving it my all. For those who support me, I promise you will learn a lot more about me, but what you learn about yourselves will be like getting a GREAT college education on you. Years ago, I was asked by a very wealthy man to come by his office. He wanted to meet me. He'd heard a lot about me, and wanted to meet me in person. He had sold his company for $200M dollars. He was thinking of running for office. J6 prisoners freed. Perp walks for many corrupt Biden-government officials, particularly those from the coup and the J6 coverup. Diddy's list, Epstein's list, and the other Hollyweirdos beside Weinstein who also committed crimes. The demise of Hollywood The continued decimation of the media The death of “wokeism”      [SEGMENT 2-3] Deaf Doll   [X] SB – Conservatives are happiest American Girl released a doll with “hearing loss”. Yes, I know. We aren't talking about some futuristic cyborg being made in a Wuhan lab. It's just a regular doll. You know, those with the not fully developed ears. Made of some type of rubber. I love what CNN wrote: The doll has brown hair and brown eyes and comes with a removable hearing aid. “American Girl has a rich legacy of creating timeless characters who encourage girls to reach for new heights and discover who they're meant to be,” said Jamie Cygielman, general manager of American Girl. “Working with Olympic hopeful surfer Caroline Marks adds real-world inspiration about what can happen when you go ‘all in' on your dreams.” In addition to the doll release, American Girl is partnering with the Hearing Loss Association of America to raise awareness and collect donations. The company also plans to donate $25,000 to the organization and support its annual walk. Starting January 1, it will also take donations for the HLAA in American Girl retail stores. Why not tattoo "Gimmick" across the doll's forehead?  First, selling a “hearing loss” doll is like selling a gluten-free car or a “free-range” sofa. Is your TV hypoallergenic? So does this doll sign? And if so, does it sign in all languages or the language where it is purchased? What if you get a doll that only knows Italian sign language? Do you buy Rosetta Stone for the ASL? Do Dolls Know They're Deaf? Next, if a deaf girl receives a doll, wouldn't she think it was deaf anyway? I'm certainly not picking on deaf people in asking that question. Truth be told I know little about the deaf community, though I grew up with deaf cousin-in-laws. Have I missed something and am only now finding out that the lack of “deaf dolls” is an issue?  I put this up there with the list of Leftist issues nobody cares about:Second-hand smoke (where's that one gone?)The color of park ranger uniformsCalling America the "land of opportunity"Using the word "wife" or "man"; take your pickI think you get the picture. And how do they test the dolls? Or are they just rejects from the production of “hearing dolls”? Or are they the aborted fetus of the pretentious "hearing" crowd who happily abort their deaf dolls? You can already see the can of worms we've opened here. And if you ask if the worms are hearing or deaf, I say to you, "Stop being so tone deaf!" I'm not pointing fingers, but I sense desperation at American Doll. As I highlighted earlier, "the company also plans to donate $25,000 to the organization". Plans to donate? That's not, "has donated" or "will definitely donate". My brother plans to pay me back for the money I loaned him 17 years ago. But I have made no plans to spend that money. I think somebody at American Girl is about to be outsourced with an H1-B Indian. He or she or "heshe" is so desperate to sell dolls, "they" came up with the asinine marketing gimmick. What must the War Room banter have been like as this idea was brought to life by this marketing whiz? “I've got it! We can sell deaf dolls to girls!” "They" continued, "Deaf girls will buy them, as the dolls are relatable. Hearing girls will buy them because they want to virtue-signal that they care about deaf girls." Did the person who thought up this marketing use to work at Hamilton. Because I haven't seen this much virtue-signaling on anything since white people got tricked into that anti-American play guised as support of one of our country's Founding Fathers and prohibited the use of white people in its cast. Hopefully we won't get the torture of Hamilton for the Deaf? What's Next? As for American Girl, what's next? A doll with anxiety disorders? Purchase her and get two free consultations with the doll shrink of your choosing. Or what about a doll with gender dysphoria. I'm still confused about Barbie's "Ken", and I'm not convinced he was the dude in that relationship.  Or how about a doll with a life-threatening peanut allergy, complete with Epipen? Hey, the doll get people's attention, so I'm not mad at American Doll. Maybe I will report on sales in a few months.       https://x.com/ScottPresler/status/1873434699533820232 Did you know that every voter in CA, NV, OR, & WA receives a mail-in ballot (whether or not the voter has requested one)? So, if you move away from one of these states — & don't cancel your voter registration — your old address will still receive a ballot.  [SEGMENT 2-4] Memes as training Brevity is the soul of wit, and the inspiration for lingerie. I love when people can synthesize a message to its essence. Doing that causes you to think. And that's our goal for Leftist in the coming year. Learn how to think. Then practice it ALL YEAR LONG. We have 4 years to drive out points home to Leftists. You game? It's not that difficult to twist Leftists in knots. Just make them live their lies. Twist things back on them.     What if teachers secretly started baptizing kids at school and hid it from their parents? How would the Left react? God made two genders: Leftists made the rest. Santa Claus: works one day. Spends the rest of the year judging you. How much would you pay to see the FBI raid the homes of Pelosi, Obama…the Clintons? Local man addicted to brake fluid says he can stop any time he wants. Santa: Before you make fun of people who believe in me, remember there are adults who still believe in socialism. And just like that, Liz Cheney doesn't like investigations anymore.    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kevin-jackson-show--2896352/support.

Think of all the texts, emails, and social media posts you're inundated with each day. Sometimes you read them, and sometimes you swipe them away, telling yourself, perhaps not so honestly, that you'll revisit them later.If you're the sender of such missives and memos or the creator of content, you hope the recipient has the first response, that, instead of deep-sixing your message, they take the time to engage and take action on it.How do you increase the odds of that happening? Rather than just guessing at the answer, Todd Rogers has done empirical experiments to discover it. Todd is a behavioral scientist, a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the author of Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World. Today on the show, Todd explains the four-stage process people use in deciding whether to engage with your writing, whether in a personal or business context, and how influencing these factors not only comes down to the style of your writing, but its overall design. Todd offers tips to improve both areas, so that you can effectively capture people's attention.Resources Related to the PodcastAoM Podcast #971: The 5 Factors for Crafting Simple (Read: Effective!) MessagesAoM Podcast #666: The Power of Brevity in a Noisy WorldAoM Podcast #580: Why People Do (Or Don't) Listen to YouConnect With Todd RogersTodd on XTodd's faculty pageWriting for Busy Readers website

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Jennifer Lang joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about asking the right questions, understanding what home means and where it is, being sure to put your story in the narrative you're sharing, her sense of self on and off the yoga mat, answers to mid-life questions, learning to write flash prose, putting manuscripts away for a while, being a Jewish writer living in Israel, leaning into experimental and playful prose, coping with imminent empty nests, and her new book Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Poses.   Also mentioned in this episode  -self-doubt and self censoring -reading our work aloud -honing skills as an editor   Books mentioned in this episode: -Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg -Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by  Amy Krass Rosenthal    Jennifer Lang is a San Francisco Bay Area transplant in Tel Aviv. Last September, she gave birth to her first book, Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature; in October2024, she welcomes Landed: A yogi's memoir in pieces & poses into the world. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, Jennifer was an Assistant Editor at Brevity. Her prize-winning essays appear in Baltimore Review, Under the Sun, Midway Journal, and elsewhere. A longtime yoga instructor, she teaches YogaProse. Findable at www.israelwriterstudio.com  Connect with Jennifer: Website: https://israelwriterstudio.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenlangwrites Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenlangwrites/ Ger her book: https://vineleavespress.myshopify.com/products/landed-a-yogi-s-memoir-in-pieces-poses-by-jennifer-lang BookShop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/landed-a-yogi-s-memoir-in-pieces-poses-jennifer-lang/21684650?ean=9783988320872 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Landed-yogis-memoir-pieces-poses/dp/3988320870/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bd8lRm7rAOuV3k1usbF7vA.M-X19uPxbllhxbajEHxpKmH_KgcTpjocnI07C8iCSdA&qid=1723456516&sr=1-1   – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and lives in Seattle with her family where she teaches and edits memoir and is working on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank   Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

Nope, this episode is not about Boston.  It's a different Wicked.  This is the Wicked that is a Broadway musical hit, and somehow Robbie ended up in the theater watching it.  A musical.  Are we in an alternate universe?  And will Art and Jay sing a few tunes along the way?  You'll have to follow the yellow brick headphones to find out.   Meanwhile, in other worlds, another prequel is coming for the Game of Thrones universe, Joe Burrow is rumored to have purchased the Tumbler that was supposed to go to Jay for Christmas, and Jay does a deep dive into a voice actor every fan of classic Christmas shows will recognize.   Hold onto your ear pods: this episode … wait for it… defies gravity.  

Send us a textAuthor and yogi Jennifer Lang talks about experimental prose, how to use it in memoir, and why it gives you more freedom in telling your story. ▬Jennifer Lang is a San Francisco Bay Area transplant in Tel Aviv. Last September, she celebrated her first book, Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature; in October 2024, she welcomed Landed: A yogi's memoir in pieces & poses into the world. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, Jennifer was an Assistant Editor at Brevity. Her prize-winning essays appear in Baltimore Review, Under the Sun, Midway Journal, and elsewhere. A longtime yoga instructor, she teaches YogaProse.Connect with Jennifer:https://israelwriterstudio.cominstagram.com/jenlangwrites facebook.com/jenlangwrites facebook.com/israelwriterstudio

Episode Summary:If I had a guess, I'm betting one of the main reasons why you deconstructed evangelicalism is because of the Bible. Growing up evangelical, the Bible was the center of faith. It was the key to unlocking the Divine. This big black book held all the secrets to a good life. Just open it up, ask it a question, and out popped God's answer. Easy-peasy.But as you matured from naivety into adulthood, things got messy. A thoughtful reading of the biblical texts suddenly revealed all kinds of problems. The God of the Old Testament is often depicted as tyrannical, petty, vindictive, jealous, genocidal, and malevolently capricious. Women are by and large treated as property and playthings. Violence is often encouraged and slavery is seen as a necessary evil. As theologian Marcus Borg famously quipped, “People are leaving faith these days not because of what they don't know about the Bible. It's because of what they do know.” I agree.But, is all this the Bible's fault? Have we made the Bible into something it was never intended to be? The pressure we modern Christians have placed on the Bible to be perfect, offer total representation of God, and be universally applicable on all matters for all time is just unfair. The Bible isn't an encyclopedia or a rulebook, nor is it inerrant and written by God. Best understood, the Bible isn't even meant to be read literally or historically, but rather spiritually and metaphorically. Instead of passively accepting all the Bible has to say, you are invited into a conversation with the text. Wrestle with it, challenge it, question it, and yes, even disagree with it. According to today's guest on Holy Heretics, “You have permission to question the sacred without fearing unbelief.”I'm joined today by Liz Charlotte Grant to have a conversation about reframing our relationship to this ancient, complex set of documents we call the Holy Bible. “What does Bible study look like after inerrancy? Do you have to give up studying Scripture when you no longer believe in its literal interpretation?” Liz addresses these questions and more in this funny, candid, and informative episode. Oh, and we also talk about her chickens! :)Bio:Liz Charlotte Grant is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in The Revealer, Sojourners, Brevity, Christian Century, Christianity Today, Hippocampus, Religion News Service, US Catholic, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. Her essays have twice won a Jacques Maritain Nonfiction Prize. She also writes The Empathy List, a popular newsletter that has been nominated for a Webby two years running and garnered an honorable mention from the Associated Church Press Awards in 2023. Knock at the Sky:Seeking God in Genesis after Losing Faith in the Bible is her first book.Please follow us on social media (use the buttons below) and help us get the word out! (Also, please don't hesitate to use any of these channels or email to contact us with any questions, concerns, or feedback.)If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and a review, or share on your socials

Weekly shoutout: Be sure to check out books by Vine Leaves Press! -- Hi there, Today I am delighted to be arts calling author, yogi, and writing teacher Jennifer Lang! (israelwriterstudio.com/about) About our guest: Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jennifer Lang lives in Tel Aviv, where she runs Israel Writers Studio. Her prize-winning essays appear in Baltimore Review, Under the Sun, Midway Journal, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and served as an Assistant Editor at Brevity. Her first book, Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature, is followed by Landed: A yogi's memoir in pieces & poses, both with Vine Leaves Press. Places was a Finalist in the Foreword Reviews Book Awards, among others. Both books are available at Vine Leaves Press, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, and other online retailers.  Instagram @jenlangwrites | Facebook: @israelwriterstudio LANDED: A YOGI'S MEMOIR IN PIECES AND POSES, now available from Vine Leaves Press! https://vineleavespress.myshopify.com/products/landed-a-yogi-s-memoir-in-pieces-poses-by-jennifer-lang ABOUT LANDED: In experimental chapterettes, American-born Jennifer traces her nonlinear journey—both on and off the yoga mat—reckoning with her adopted country (Israel), midlife hormones (merciless), cross-cultural marriage (to a Frenchman) and their imminent empty nest (a mixed blessing), eventually realizing the words her yoga teachers had been offering for the past twenty-three years: root down into the ground and stay true to yourself. Finally, she understands that home is about who you are, not where you live. Landed: A yogi's memoir in pieces & poses spans seven years (and then some), each punctuated with chakra wisdom from nationally-acclaimed Rodney Yee, her first teacher. Thanks for this catching up, Jennifer! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro. HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j artscalling.com/links

Rachel Zimmerman joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about rebuilding her family's life after her husband's death by suicide, the physical toll of grief, feeling like a doomed family, finding joy and pleasure after terrible loss, how her career in journalism informed her writing process, not tying things up in a bow, our children getting veto power about what we include in our books, when family remembers differently, getting the wise narrator present on the page to transform our experience into a story, and her memoir, Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide.    Also in this episode:  -how her memoir's title changed -taking writing classes -feeling like a loss freak   Books mentioned in this episode:  The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander  The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Blue Nights by Joan Didion The Long Goodbye by Megan O'Rourke Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward   Rachel Zimmerman is the author of Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide. An award-winning journalist, Zimmerman has written about health and medicine for more than two decades. She currently contributes stories on mental health to The Washington Post and previously worked as a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and a health reporter for WBUR, Boston's public radio station. Her essays and reporting have been published in The New York Times; Vogue; The Cut; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Atlantic; Slate; The Huffington Post; and Brevity, among others.    Zimmerman is co-author of The Healing Power of Storytelling; and The Doula Guide to Birth. She's been awarded residencies at Millay Arts and the Turkeyland Cove Foundation and currently lives with her family in Cambridge, Mass. Connect with Rachel: Website: https://www.rachelzimmerman.net/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachel.zimmerman13 FB: https://www.facebook.com/rachel.zimmerman.77 X: https://x.com/@zimmerman082 Get her book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1951631358/ref=sr_1_1?crid=X9DA82X3A2SP&keywords=us+after%3A+a+memoir+of+love+and+suicide&qid=1697209495&s=books&sprefix=us+after+a+memoir+of+love+and+suicide%2Cstripbooks%2C166&sr=1-1   – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and lives in Seattle with her family where she teaches and edits memoir and is working on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank   Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

HT2067 - Brevity Is the Soul I know that Shakespeare was talking about the soul of wit, but I've come to conclude it is the soul of photography, too. At least it can be. How often do you look at a book or a project and wish there was more? As compare to, how many times to you find yourself looking at a project or a book and feeling like it is getting too long or repetitive?

From Amy: I met Sonya at a Minneapolis bookstore, where she was reading from her latest collection of essays. Her writing voice is engaging. But it's the multiplicity of roles she occupies as a writer that fascinates me: from established professor of creative writing and published author, to her embrace of various voices still waiting to be released. For the people in my audience who long to write but feel constricted by "what's permitted," this conversation just may feel freeing.We end with three promising writing prompts to try for yourself.Sonya Huber is the author of eight books, including the new essay collection, Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook as well as the writing guide, Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto, and an award-winning essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her other books include the Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day, Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and other outlets. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program.www.sonyahuber.comhttps://www.instagram.com/sonyahuber/The What Happened ProjectThe Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As A Writer: Show, Don't Tell  Amy Hallberg is the author of Tiny Altars: A Midlife Revival and German Awakening: Tales from an American Life. She is the host of Courageous Wordsmith Podcast and founder of Courageous Wordsmith Circle for Real-Life Writers. As an editor and creative mentor, Amy guides writers through their narrative journeys—from inklings to beautiful works, specifically podcasts and books. A lifelong Minnesotan and mother of grown twins, Amy lives in the Twin Cities with her husband and two cats. Learn about Courageous Wordsmith Circle for Real-Life WritersWork with Amy 1:1

In this episode, authority-building expert Mike Saunders shares his approach to achieving success through realistic goal-setting and adding focused value. Learn how to establish yourself as an industry leader, set attainable goals, and build credibility in competitive markets. Mike also dives into the power of social proof, the importance of clarity in messaging, and the art of 'chunking' your goals for consistent progress. Whether you're an entrepreneur or a business leader aiming to stand out, this episode offers practical strategies to elevate your game and achieve lasting success.Watch the Full Episode here: https://youtu.be/n1UYGRdduO4About Mike Saunders:Mike Saunders is an adjunct professor, Forbes Coaches Council member, and renowned authority-building expert. As 'The Authority Guy,' he helps entrepreneurs and business leaders position themselves as industry experts, driving growth and influence. With a focus on realistic goal-setting, value-driven leadership, and clear messaging, Mike's strategies empower clients to achieve measurable success and stand out in competitive markets.Please Click here to learn more about https://www.AuthorityPositioningCoach.comAbout Brad SugarsInternationally known as one of the most influential entrepreneurs, Brad Sugars is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and the #1 business coach in the world. Over the course of his 30-year career as an entrepreneur, Brad has become the CEO of 9+ companies and is the owner of the multimillion-dollar franchise ActionCOACH®. As a husband and father of five, Brad is equally as passionate about his family as he is about business. That's why, Brad is a strong advocate for building a business that works without you – so you can spend more time doing what really matters to you. Over the years of starting, scaling and selling many businesses, Brad has earned his fair share of scars. Being an entrepreneur is not an easy road. But if you can learn from those who have gone before you, it becomes a lot easier than going at it alone.Please click here to learn more about Brad Sugars: https://bradsugars.com/Learn the Fundamentals of Success for free:The Big Success Starter: https://results.bradsugars.com/thebigsuccess-starter

On July 9th, in a statement on LinkedIn, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), announced its decision to drop the "E" from DEI. SHRM is the world's largest HR association dedicated to creating better workplaces that "work for all," and positions itself as being "the voice of all things work." SHRM's statement on LinkedIn said: "While we shift to I&D, our commitment to advancing equity remains steadfast. Equity will be integrated under the broader inclusion framework, continuing to be a priority in our strategy and leadership decisions." If you have read my most recent book, Imagine Belonging, you know the true ingredients required to make a commitment – one of those ingredients is being able to say out loud what you are committed to. Using this logic...a commitment to equity can't be real if we're afraid to say it. When the announcement was first made, I immediately knew who I wanted to talk to...the person who wrote the bestselling book on the topic of equity, Minal Bopaiah. Minal had a lot to share, and as she was offering her take, I thought to myself, "why not turn this exchange into a podcast episode?" When I invited Minal to the show, she was all in! I'm excited to welcome you to this exclusive interview with Minal Bopaiah, Brevity & Wit Founder and bestselling author of Equity. Minal combines her experiences and interests in human-design, DEI, psychology, and strategic communications to help her clients achieve the change they desire.   During our conversation, you'll:   --Discover why prioritizing inclusive behaviors alone will set your colleagues up for failure if they lack the systems and structures to support these practices. --Explore the unintended consequences of SHRM's decision on entire programs, positions, and departments that have the word "equity" in their titles. --Gain insights on how to respond to objections and push back that employers and colleagues may have, feeling emboldened because of SHRM's recent decision.   Today's conversation is designed to support people like you – visionary people leaders, and those on their way to joining us. Savor this insightful talk, and if you're looking for more ways to connect with inspiring leaders like Minal, be sure to join the Belonging Membership Community. The Belonging Membership Community is a practice space where we can try putting our shared values of belonging, community, collaboration, and joy into action. Members have the unique opportunity to connect with guests like Minal for 1:1 laser coaching sessions.   Join the community here: www.belongingmembershipcommunity.com     Stay connected with Rhodes: www.rhodesperry.com/subscribe   Learn more about Minal's book Equity: https://theequitybook.com/. Thanks for growing our #BelongingMovement!

Episode 636: Brett & Gabriela have been successfully wed! Andrew played hockey, we are going to see some hockey. Who is George Floyd? Arguing politics at the wedding. Searching for coney dogs. Brevity is the soul of a good text. NO FOOD IN THE STUDIO! Eating popcorn on a plane. Harris political signs confuse and enrage Andrew. Was today vaccine day? Andrew rants for many hours about how stupid Subarus are. Gabriela thinks Toyotas are the least reliable cars based on her conversations with really uninformed co-workers.

In this episode of Pray the Word on Psalm 39:4–5, David Platt encourages us to live today like we're not guaranteed tomorrow.Explore more content from Radical.

Legendary leadership expert Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley talk about the backstory of the One Minute Manager. They also discuss seagull management, the power of simplicity and brevity, and how to stay fit, engaged, and contributing at age 85. Show Notes The Art of Leadership Live On The Rise Newsletter Preaching Cheat Sheet Watch on YouTube Follow @careynieuwhof Follow @theartofleadershipnetwork   This episode is sponsored by: COMPASSION As a pastor, I knew child sponsorship was an opportunity for my church to make an impact worldwide and I trusted Compassion International to make that happen. Learn more about hosting your own Compassion Sunday at http://compassion.com/carey   GLOO Take the pain out of communicating with your people, get free texting with our friends at Gloo. Check out http://gloo.us/freetexting   TIMESTAMPS: Co-authorship and Writing Process (00:07:40) The One Minute Manager (00:18:28) Spiritual Foundation of Leadership (00:24:23) Simplicity in Leadership (00:26:30) Development of Situational Leadership (00:29:10) Focus on Middle Management (00:35:32) Influencing Top Managers (00:37:19) Seagull Management (00:37:54) Creating Memorable Metaphors (00:39:21) Ego's Anonymous (00:41:27) Servant Leadership (00:48:44) Refiring at 85 (00:50:52) Longevity in an Organization (00:55:07) The One Minute Reprimand to Redirect (00:59:45) Fear and Trust (01:00:55) Unequal Treatment and Fairness (01:03:38) Leadership in Absence (01:05:53) Collaboration and Leadership (01:10:01)   Brought to you by The Art of Leadership Network