Caleb Stanton (Episode 7)

Caleb Stanton is a caffeine-dependent husband and father of two young children. Even though he loves his job, he'd rather spend his days at the beach, strumming a guitar and pondering the human experience. When he's not looking for his keys, you might find Caleb writing a story he'll never post or composing a song …

Bekah Bowman (Episode 6)

Bekah Bowman is a coach's wife, a special needs mom, speaker, and author of Can't Steal My Joy. She is passionate about bridging the gap between churches and families with disabilities.  On this episode, she shares her story raising two sons with terminal illnesses, how joy and grief can coexist, and her vision for how …

Jamie Corbin (Episode 5)

Jamie Corbin is an educator and storyteller who has been navigating whiteness and non-whiteness her entire life thanks to her own interracial adoption at birth and her interracial marriage to her best friend, Kelvin, in 2011.  She is raising her three Afro-Latina daughters to change the world with love, by first loving themselves deeply and …

April Kolman (Episode 4)

April Kolman is the host of the No Ordinary People podcast and while she prefers the conversations she has with other people on the show, in this episode, she gets to share about her own story. She shares how she went from staunch Republican with highly conservative values to writing in the name of social …

Caitie Fredrickson (Episode 2)

CONTENT WARNING: In this episode we discuss mental illness and suicide, so please be aware of that before listening. Caitie Fredrickson lives with her husband and weenie dog Baron in SW Washington, and she has bipolar disorder. On this episode, we discuss how she knew something was wrong, how her mental illness affects her everyday …

We’re all Judas

I’ve always been fascinated by complicated villains; they’re often my favorite characters. Loki. Rumplestiltskin. Javert. Snape. The Joker. Gollum. Moriarty. Thanos. (Yes that’s two for Marvel ) Not only does a complex villain make for a more compelling story, it shows us that any one of us is capable of becoming a villain. I think that’s …

go and do likewise

Imagine if Jesus said to the adulterous woman, “If you didn’t want to get stoned, you shouldn’t have had an affair.” If he had said to the poor, “God anointed me to bring you good news, but you wouldn’t be in this position in the first place if you just worked harder and pulled yourself …