Get Your Spirit in Shape - United Methodist Podcast

Get Your Spirit in Shape - United Methodist Podcast


Latest Episodes

Nurturing mental wellness: Embracing inclusivity for all
May 17, 2024

Mental wellness is a spectrum where each of us resides. Discover tips intended to create spaces to nurture our mental wellbeing inside the church.

‘Life after Doom’: A Guide to a Better Church, a Better World
May 03, 2024

Brian McLaren discusses his book, "Life after Doom," and offers encouragement for how the church and the world can turn crisis into an opportunity for change.

The path to General Conference: One delegate’s story
April 19, 2024

As Jessica Vittorio prepared to attend the 2020 General Conference as a lay delegate, the lifelong United Methodist learned that the legislative gathering is where we can remember our connectionalism

God’s gift, our responsibility
April 05, 2024

The Rev. Emily Carroll shares about attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the hopeful takeaways and what we all can do to be better stewards of Gods creation, because, as she puts i

Retirement + power tools + RV = NOMADS
March 15, 2024

Rodney and Tammy Ripley describe their lives as NOMADS, a volunteer group of retirees who travel in RVs to United Methodist-related sites to offer repairs and hope.

Discovering thin places: How to encounter God in everyday life
March 01, 2024

The Rev. Jane Ellen Nickell discusses how to discover thin places in our lives where we can encounter God in a real and near way on "Get Your Spirit in Shape."

Love yourself: A fresh perspective on 1 Corinthians 13
February 16, 2024

Laurin Allred, a cradle United Methodist, challenges us to read the love chapter through a different lens and to focus on the last part of of the commandment Jesus calls the second most important on

Meet Bishop Tom Berlin
February 02, 2024

Bishop Tom Berlin credits his local church with creating a strong sense of community in his life. Following a call when he was a summer camp counselor, the 2022 elected bishop to the Florida Conferenc

Wellness in 2024: Divine inspiration meets Wesleyan wisdom
January 19, 2024

Lorry Mpindu, a Global Health leader with the General Board of Global Ministries, discusses the vital reasons the church needs to talk about all areas of health - the physical, mental and spiritual.

GC worship leader blends diversity and ministry
January 05, 2024

Raymond Trapp, General Conference's worship leader, discusses his plans to offer music that showcases the church's diversity and also meets people at their point of need during the 11-day event.