Matters Of Faith Podcast

Jay Wilburn discusses the complexities of the abortion issue and the problems with current legislative push in the states. A lot of people will not like his conclusions.

Jay Wilburn interviews Brent Brock, the coauthor of How to Make No Friends Everywhere. They discuss overcoming your past and trying to make the most of the future.

Celebration and hurt go on side by side all the time. Is it possible to live life well when you have to deal with both at the same time? 

What is the bare minimum required for you to be on the same side with someone else? What are deal breakers you could never get past? Can we find common ground with people we disagree with about so much?

We are all going to fail, but how do we react to that? And how do we move forward from failures into victory and success.

One reason we feel unhappy with life is because we get caught up in using our influence for things that don't matter. Sometimes that is because we don't yet know our purpose in life or we are not yet following it.

If we are made in God's image, then anger, joy, love, distress, peace, grief, amazement, and being troubled are all divine emotions because God and Jesus felt these things as well. Jay uses some Bible stories to make the case that these feelings are important because they are part of being like Jesus.

Jay Wilburn shares some struggles with cognitive disabilities related to his medical issues and an incident that demonstrated his limitations and weaknesses. From here, he discusses more broadly to concept of keeping your mind anchored during moments of distress.

Jay Wilburn turned 45 this past week. He discusses the eventful and uneventful ways a year makes us feel on big milestones like a birthday. He tries to give some perspective on why these days can be tough for us the evaluate how far we have really come.

Jay talks about writing stories for kids. He then goes into how he communicates ideas and beliefs to his own kids that prepares them for the world but also opens them to values he wants them to hold in life.

Exploring the seven deadly sins and the counter virtues. Where can virtue become a problem and is there a positive way to apply greed or anger? Listen in to see what we figure out.

There are lots of things to criticize and argue about. Legitimate things. If you are going to engage in argument, don't be lazy about it. Arguing the wrong way or for the wrong reasons is lazy, too. Jay Wilburn tackles this and more in this episode.

How do we know what God wants us to do, so that our lives are pleasing to him, but we aren't living like we are trying to earn points? How does that impact our decisions in life. Also, Jay talks about why none of the other education majors liked him in college and Jenny talks about the curse of winning trivia night. It's a whole thing.

If God is as he is described in the Bible, then we were created as eternal beings to go on in some form after death. What does that look like for the life we are living now? How do we make sense of that? How should we live, if that is true? Jay Wilburn explores all that in this episode.

Russell Holbrook joins us to discuss his book Heroine is the Answer: A Memoir of What I Can Remember. We discuss addiction, recovery, faith, relationships, his time as a Christian recording artist, and more.

There are great lines in books that stick with us or define or even change our way of thinking. Lots of books have great first lines. Bible verses appeal to us for a similar reason. Jay shares favorite lines from a number of books and favorite Bible verses.  

Trying to stand in two different worlds. Is it being a "lukewarm" believer? Jay and Jenny discuss Jay's writing and how those things line up or not with faith.

Jay Wilburn was nominated for a Splatterpunk Award for a story with a title he can't say on the air. This brings up a discussion of possible inconsistencies in his life between his writing and his faith. He also discusses important milestones in his life this month.

Jay starts out talking about the value of free exchange of ideas for faith communities and then digresses into a rant about freedom of expression within genre writing. It holds together. He will probably get yelled at.

teZa Lord is a writer, artist, and more. In this episode, we discuss conscious, mindfulness training, fear, love, meditation, how we might find peace in a divisive environment, and more Listen in for a different perspective. tezalord.com