We Make the Road By Walking Podcast
Latest Episodes
Chapter 11: From Ugliness, A Beauty Emerges
"God loves everyone, everywhere, no exceptions." Special guest Andrew McMaster and Pastor Keith talk about how "through the biblical library, we find a beautiful new vision of God being revealed."
Chapter 10: Getting Slavery Out of the People
Steve Jobs once said, "You can't connect the dots of your life looking forward. You can only do it looking back." In a conversation that takes us from the Appalachian Trail to Thailand, UDLC field education student, Courtney Smith, and Pastor Keith ref...
Chapter 9: Freedom!
Moses' identity crisis, living in two worlds, finding God at the DMV and the check-out line, spoiler alerts, and communion as a meal of liberation! Pastor Keith and guest Jen Matsuura take up these topics and more on this week's episode about the Exodus.
Episode 8: Rivalry or Reconciliation?
Pastor Keith sits down with Chris Leauby to talk about sibling rivalries, finding God's strength in our weakness, the hope they derive from stories in the Bible where people screw up, and why God's grace can be hard to recognize and even harder to rece...
Interview with Brian McLaren, author of We Make the Road by Walking
In this very special episode, Pastor Keith interviews Brian McLaren, author of We Make the Road by Walking and many other books. They talk about why and how he wrote the book, its life since publication, what it means to "seek aliveness," the changing ...
Chapter 7: It's Not Too Late
Have you ever felt like it was too late? Too late in your life to make a change? Too late in the day to turn it around? Too late in your relationship with God? The story of Abraham shows us that it's never too late. That's what we call grace. In this e...
Chapter 6: Plotting Goodness
Faith is an adventure, not a fixed point. The story of Sarah and Abraham reminds us that faith is active and moving; it is more about the journey than about the destination. "Faith is stepping off the map of what's known and making a new road by walkin...
Chapter 5: In Over Our Heads
Church nerds unite! Self-proclaimed church book nerds, Stephanie Jacob and Pastor Keith, talk about how the Bible has gotten a bad rap about being boring when it is actually anything but. The Bible, while it can seem primitive today, was very progressi...
Chapter 4: The Drama of Desire
In our polarized world, it is incredibly easy to fall into judging others. It's a challenge that goes all the way back to the beginning of the Bible with Adam and Eve. How can we be less judging and more accepting? How can we better imitate the example...
Chapter 3: A World of Meaning
God is in the details! Chris Couch and Pastor Keith talk about paying attention to the details of our everyday lives and finding God there--and how even in a world that feels so chaotic, the "logic" or logos of God reminds us there is a pattern of good...