Woven

Psalm Sunday to Easter Sunday is the most significant week in the Christian Year. But, in our modern culture the weight of this week often gets lost in everyday business and holiday obligation. On Woven this week, we discuss the significance of Holy Week and ways we can lean into the heaviness and the gravity of the events that took place the last week of Jesus' life.

We live in a culture that values authenticity and vulnerability, which is wonderful, but what do we do when we start to feel stuck in our mess. How can we move from a victim mentality to breakthrough? How can we live authentic yet free lives? This week we have the pleasure of talking to Jennifer Watson about these very topics and her new book, Freedom: The Gutsy Pursuit of Breakthrough and the Life Beyond It.

Dr. Angela Schaffner is back with us this week to check-in as we wrap-up our Play Revealed Challenge. We talk about what we've learned over the past month about play- all the ways we did well and all we still have to learn. 

On today's episode, we talk with Kendra Fletcher, author of Lost and Found: Losing Religion, Finding Grace and Leaving Legalism: Learning to Love God, Others, and Yourself Again, about her family's story of leaving a legalistic religious community, grace and finding freedom.

This week marks the beginning of the 2019 Lenten Season. Listen in for a little history lesson about Lent and what the Rebeccas are planning to do to prepare their hearts for Easter this year.

This week, author and pastor Courtney Ellis joins us to wrap up our Fun Stuff series with an episode about Uncluttering. We can't even really talk about "Fun" without talking about what gets in the way of it, and for many of us it's a lot of small things that add up to busy days and tired souls. 

Continuing in our "Fun Stuff" series, this week we talk "Play" with Dr. Angela Schaffner. We discuss the importance of play, barriers to play and practical ideas on how to play even as adults. Angela also just released her first book, "Revealed: What The Bible Can Teach You About Yourself".

This week we start a 3-part series on "Fun Stuff". For our first episode in the series, we invited Ryan Rumpel to talk with us about women and their hair. Our discussion goes from the existential to the very practical. We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we liked having it. For those in the Atlanta area, Ryan is a stylist at Expressions Hair Studio on the Upper West Side.

We get the joy of wrapping up our Hard Stuff series by talking with Laura Hamilton and Jen Young about Singleness. It was such a great conversation about the unique grief that accompanies being single longer than expected. We also dive deep into how the church gets ministering to singles wrong and how we can do better. What a great conversation!

This week, author, Marissa Henley joins us to discuss her story of surviving a cancer diagnosis as a young mom and what it looks like to love a friend through cancer or any other longterm illness. Marissa is the author of Loving Your Friend Through Cancer: Moving Beyond "I'm Sorry" to Meaningful Support.

Our next guest in our Hard Stuff series is Anna LeBaron, author of The Polygamist's Daughter. Anna shares with us her story of leaving the polygamist cult she grew up in, processing childhood trauma and the healing power of God and community. 

Our next guest in our Hard Stuff series is Adriel Booker. Adriel came on Woven to discuss grief in the areas of Infertility, Miscarriage and Infant Loss. She is the author of Grace Like Scarlett: Grieving with Hope After Miscarriage and Loss. 

Our first guest in this series is Becky McCoy. Becky's story includes the untimely death of her husband as they were just becoming young parents, but her story is also one of bravery and renewed purpose. 

This week concludes our Advent series. We're discussing what it means to experience Joy and Peace at Christmas and all year long. This is our last episode of 2018. Thank you so much for listening this year. Joy and Peace to you and yours this Christmas and Happy New Year!

Continuing in our Advent series, we are discussing the themes of Hope and Faith in light of the Christmas story. What is the difference between Hope and Faith? How did we live with a deep sense of Hope?