We chat to our good friend Olivia Wolfe about her experiences of prayer as relationship and her creative practices. Olivia shares about the blurred lines between praying, journaling and writing poetry and gives some great insights into how you

Practice #4: Walking the Neighbourhood in Prayer

Sep 29th, 2020 16m 24s

Benj has walked past and prayed for every house in Long Jetty. Barefoot. What a boss.You don't have to start with a challenge at that level, but in this episode we explore how powerful it can be walking the neighbourhood in prayer.

Practice #3: Getting Liturgical with Common Prayer

Sep 22nd, 2020 20m 24s

In this episode we explore liturgical prayer through the book 'Common Prayer: a Liturgy for Radicals'. We talk about the power that can be found in written prayers developed for specific occasions, and the helpful place liturgy can have in de

Practice #2: Our Father

Sep 15th, 2020 14m 54s

"Jesus, teach us how to pray." This week, we explore the OG prayer, straight from the mouth of Jesus himself, AKA the Lord's Prayer AKA the Our Father AKA the hexagon. Ok, so you may not have heard it referred to as a hexagon. Listen to the epi

Practice #1: Circle Prayer

Sep 8th, 2020 9m 10s

We've been speaking about prayer - but our desire is to help you pray. So, for the rest of this season, we're going to be releasing mini episodes like this one as resources to help you experiment with new ways to pray. In this one, Benj shares

Obstacles in prayer (practical)

Sep 1st, 2020 21m 36s

Full disclosure, at the beginning of this episode we got distracted and followed some banter-iffic rabbit trails. BUT, that kind of illustrates one of the points at the heart of this episode. We are highly distractable beings. And we're busy. A

Obstacles in prayer (philosophical)

Aug 25th, 2020 54m 52s

What stops you from praying? We take a deeep dive in this episode as we consider all the philosophical challenges we face when it comes to prayer.

What actually is prayer? Why do people do it?

Aug 17th, 2020 29m 46s

Prayer: basically everyone agrees it's important. Basically everyone finds it difficult. How do different people think about it, including different streams of Christianity? Why do people do it? What does research show about the benefits of i

Fireplaces, monks & sweeping out your heart

Jul 1st, 2020 34m 38s

This is our LAST episode in this strange season loosely united by COVID-19 and our experiences over the last couple months.We talk about how hard it is to keep good habits going in Winter, how to clean your heart like a monk and the season of

Conspiracies, Calling and More (Q&R Episode)

Jun 24th, 2020 29m 3s

We asked members of our Inhabit Fam Facebook group to hit us with some questions for a Q&R episode. Here it is. Questions we discussed included: •Conspiracies, corruption from a biblical perspective... eg New World Order, coronavirus etc!

Habit check-up

Jun 17th, 2020 19m 44s

We talk a big game about habits....so how are we actually going with our own ones? In this episode, we interview each other about some of the habits we've been working on and finding helpful in the current season of our lives. There are some gr

Black Lives Matter

Jun 10th, 2020 26m 12s

So, we're obviously two white guys. White, christian, male, middle class....we tick all the boxes of privilege. But, both of us are grappling with the question, what does it look like for us to follow Jesus, in our unique contexts? If Jesus was

Cookie the dog joins us to chat enneagram wings/movements

May 17th, 2020 20m 55s

Knowing your Enneagram number makes for fun party talk, but until you start using it as a map for growth you're missing out on the real value this model has to offer. So we continue our mini Enneagram series with a discussion on wings and movem

Intelligence centres of the enneagram & the stories we live out of

Apr 28th, 2020 27m 17s

So you've been hanging around on this podcast feed (or the internet) long enough to know the 9 Enneagram types and which one you are. But are you familiar with the three intelligence centres? This episode is a deeper dive into how the different

Pandemic life with a pair of enneagram 2s (Mel Gould & Aliesha Carreno)

Apr 22nd, 2020 45m 5s

We're going to do a series of episodes digging deeper into the Enneagram and how it can help us understand our best and worst responses in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this episode, we asked a couple of Enneagram 2s to join us for a c

Listener Q&R Episode: forming good habits while in iso

Apr 14th, 2020 40m 44s

We recently started a Facebook group for all our Inhabit Fam. We asked what you wanted us to chat about. This is a special question and response episode where we go through some of the questions and reflections posted in the Facebook group a

Easter Meditation: Stations of the Cross

Apr 9th, 2020 15m 20s

This episode is a special walking meditation experience for you this Easter. So grab your earbuds, head out for a walk, and re-trace the final steps of Jesus with us.

The invitation of social isolation and our current situation (did a poet write this title??)

Mar 25th, 2020 29m 5s

Our COVID-19 episode last week had the most listens we've ever had in the first few days. So we've decided to do a series of episodes exploring habits for this unique moment of time we find ourselves in. Healthy rhythms while navigating a globa

Habits & COVID-19

Mar 19th, 2020 43m 37s

Amidst the pandemic, your faithful pod-pastors got together to have a conversation about how this disruption might bring new opportunities to follow the way of Jesus here and now.

New Year Habits (Live)

Jan 24th, 2020 41m 56s

New year, new you baby. Great in theory, but not always so simple in practice. We have a conversation about how to start the year well and set your eyes on who you want to become, not just what you want to do. Thanks to the Hercus' for sett

The Woven Self with Joel McKerrow (Live)

Nov 30th, 2019 37m 37s

We had the delightful opportunity to chat to our friend Joel McKerrow who has just released a book called 'Woven: a Faith for the Dissatisfied'. In this season of episodes on self-awareness, there are few guests we can think of who could speak

The Enneagram & Self-Awareness

Oct 19th, 2019 44m 21s

You might have heard people talk about the Enneagram. Maybe you're sick of hearing about it. Maybe you wonder what all the hype is about? Maybe this is your first time ever seeing this strange looking word. Whatever your experience has been,

From Disconnection to Integration with Dr. Rod Pattenden

Oct 12th, 2019 36m 9s

Dr. Rod Pattenden has spent his life at the intersection between theology and the arts. He's an artist, art historian, and educational facilitator interested in the connection between spirituality and the arts. He has written and lectured wid

Navigating Transitions with Carolyn Corkill & Ian Berry (Live at The Gathering)

Oct 5th, 2019 48m 14s

Carolyn Corkill & Ian Berry are two great humans who both know firsthand what it feels like when faith changes. When it moves through pain, doubt, joy, confidence, confusion and everything in between. So Benj and I asked them to join us for a c

Leading Self to Lead Others with Jo Saxton

Sep 28th, 2019 37m 37s

We were lucky enough to speak with the amazing Jo Saxton, leadership coach, host of Lead Stories podcast and author of multiple books, most recently 'The Dream of You'.Jo shared so openly and generously with us around the lessons she has lear