Grace Matters Podcasts

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Grace Matters is the weekly radio ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, hosted by the Rev. Peter W. Marty. Primary Format : Christian Also Listed as: Christian City : Chicago State/Province : IL Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: church Chicago | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Grace Matters Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Grace Matters Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Grace Matters Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Kid Dropouts: An Adult Problem "It's not a kid problem," he tells us, "It's an adult problem." Bill Milliken is founder of the organization Communities in Schools, an agency that connects community resources with students who need attention and care. This program highlights the poverty of relationship that many live with, and what it means to believe in another person the Jesus way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breath, Bone and Body Everybody seems to have their own definition for spirituality. Rodney Clapp out to reclaim an important place for a more physical spirituality that refuses to ignore the body. In all of its messiness and confusion, the body can be a home through which the Lord of creation, incarnation, and resurrection goes to work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Facing the Big Question of Life Dr. Timothy Johnson is not afraid to ask the big questions of religion and science. As both minister and physician, he is intrigued by the interplay of two worlds that many people find hopelessly at odds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good Soil Christian faith that does not grow in an individual is not a living faith. Such lifeless or immature faith is certainly not a resource to rely on in the crises of life. Host Peter Marty explores the strange phenomenon of growing many dimensions in our lives as we age, but leaving our faith presuppositions and knowledge at the third grade level. Jeremy Langford, a communicator for the Jesuit community in Chicago, is guest on the program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Out. Upside Down. The most extensive preaching we have from the lips of Jesus is recorded in Matthew's Gospel account, "The Sermon on the Mount." Jesus opens this sermon not with command but with blessing. Martha Stortz, professor of historical theology and ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, helps us navigate these blessings of Jesus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Religious Illiteracy Stephen Prothero, chair of the religion department at Boston University and author of the book Religious Literacy, has conducted an interesting study of religious literacy in America. What he has found is that while many people have a deep faith and a gut sense of spirituality, their Biblical and religious knowledge is very scant. Join us for this discussion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rhythm of the Christian Life According to Holy Scripture, God built rhythm into the universe. Work and rest were meant to be fair players with one another. Something happened to this rhythm along the way, however. Rest got bumped to the periphery and work assumed center stage. Author and minister Wayne Muller reflects on how effectively we keep – and do not keep – the Sabbath commandment. Host Peter Marty looks at the distinctive rhythm of the Christian life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terror and Faith Jules and Gedeon are a pair of French-born brothers who enjoy working together. They also happen to be award-winning filmmakers producing the acclaimed documentary "9/11," they followed that up with a documentary on faith, entitled: "In God’s Name." This edition of Grace Matters explores the place of terror in American life, and the role of the Christian faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Letter Writing from the Heart Otolaryngology happens to be shorthand for that branch of medicine that deals with ear, nose, and throat. Dr. Bruce Campbell, head and neck surgeon at the Medical College of Wisconsin, practices a particular kind of medicine that includes a thoughtful inclusion of his own personal faith. His patients are the direct beneficiaries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Joy of Play" Hospital chaplaincy is calm and even in character, though occasionally high adrenaline in crisis moments. Host Peter W. Marty speaks with Rev. Stacey Jutila, a hospital chaplain in the Chicago. Jutila brings valuable perspective about play in children’s lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Revival In the Works We live in a day when individuals from all walks of life are trying to make sense of the intersection between religion and politics. How can people of faith think deeply about the moral and justice issues of the day? New York Times best-selling author, and faith-based activist Jim Wallis is encouraged by a new movement emerging among America’s religious faithful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Depth. Heft. Gravity. All of us want to live lives of meaning. No person seeks to drift through life with a purposelessness. Yet some individuals have the gift of thinking with clarity on matters of the heart. Bob Abernethy is the executive editor and host of the PBS program "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly." He joins the program to discuss why lives of meaning matter so much to him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Treating Our Planet Courteously Few subjects are more urgent than the crisis of our planet. Bill McKibben, author and writer-in-residence at Middlebury College in Vermont, is one of nation’s most articulate spokespersons on the environment, climate change and the need for all people to live more lightly. His personal faith powers much of his message. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When You Did Not Expect Joy Joy Newcom is the mother of two boys, one of whom was born with multiple birth defects. That birth and that child has ended up transforming her life. It’s a hard but beautiful story of God working steadfastly with us through the circumstances of our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Easter Sunday – The Nonsense of Standstill Christianity In this special Easter Sunday meditation, program host Peter W. Marty ponders the Easter story from St. Mark's Gospel. He takes a candid look at the Christian life lived in light of the resurrection. If Jesus has been raised from the dead, there is no such thing as a standstill Christian. Believing people must be on the move, open to new possibilities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Palm Sunday Special – A Life of Reconciliation Program host Peter W. Marty takes you from a street fair in Palm Springs, California to the dusty road in Jerusalem where Jesus made his final and triumphant entry prior to his death. Reconciliation becomes the focus of Jesus' ministry in those final days, as he demonstrates that being in a relationship is much more important than being right. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Crime of Living Cautiously God built risk into the universe. It is all over creation. It is part of the Christian life as well. Poet Luci Shaw understands life to be full of adventure and risk, with her own personal life as evidence. She joins the program to help distinguish faith from fear, and both from fanaticism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Insulating Your Attic Racism can be a tough thing to get our hands around, especially when the majority white culture struggles to even recognize the many unspoken privileges it enjoys. Join our host with anti-racism activist and author, Tim Wise, about our tendency to draw distinctions between people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stretched to the Limit Have you ever felt over-committed, over-scheduled, over-ambitious, over-eager or over-programmed? We "try to do it all" and find that strategy to come up short. In this program, host Peter W. Marty speaks to the limits that God puts upon our lives. His conversation partner is Carmen Richards, national president of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Be Transformed Peter Gomes, Harvard University professor and Memorial Church pastor, uses his clever cultural insights, and deep belief that Christians need transformation in Christ, not conformity to the world. If you have not thought about the transformation of your own spiritual life, this program will get your creative juices flowing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part II – The Perils of Ownership Eugene Peterson returns for the second part of a two-part series. Here he discusses the Bible and our use of it. Peterson unwraps the drawbacks to our owning of Bibles, our over-study of Scripture, and our reading (instead of speaking) the Word. He speaks with a passionate love for Scripture and the difference it makes in our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part I – Alphabet of Faith Eugene Peterson, who translated the entire Bible into the contemporary translation, The Message, speaks to different words in the Christian vocabulary. He talks candidly about the power and gift of some words, and the detriment and misuse of others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forgiving the Unforgivable Immaculée Ilibagiza returns for the second of a two-part series on the tragedy of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. She is the author of the book, Left to Tell. This woman of faith will reawaken the power of forgiveness for all who are seeking a new way of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Burning Hate Immaculée Ilibagiza narrowly escaped death in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 by hiding in the bathroom of her pastor’s house for 91 consecutive days. In this compelling interview, Immaculée gives an inside look at the faith that carried her through a horrific ordeal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking Miracle Stories If you are wondering whether or not to believe in miracles, and whether they might be pointing to something larger, this program is for you. Jim Autry, loving father of an autistic son, has read the healing miracles of Jesus in a way that might surprise many conventional or orthodox Christians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website If Grace Is True... Philip Gulley, a popular author and Quaker minister, has some very important things to say about who gets saved. If grace is true, as a concept, a word, and as the defining characteristic of God, reasons Gulley, then it must be true for ALL people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Beginnings For this end-of-the-year program, we focuses on new beginnings. Jerry Evenrud, travels with an extensive art collection of images from the Prodigal Son story in Luke’s Gospel. Evenrud explores the inexhaustible riches of this story which none of us can escape appreciating. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website