![]() ![]() ![]() In this conversation, we discuss: The mysterious way beauty can be found the closer we inch to death (our own or someone else's). How should you show up for people in grief? What do you say? What should you do? Why is it that beauty can exist alongside deep suffering? What can be said at funerals when the person who died was complicated? These are just a few of the questions I wanted to ask Steve Leder-a bestselling author and a rabbi who has presided over a thousand funerals with wisdom and kindness.Visit ĪpRabbi Steve Leder: Don't Come Out Empty Handed Leave us a voicemail and who knows? We might even be able to use your voice on the air: 91 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: Learn more about your ad choices. We have free Lent guides for you to use by yourself, with a group, or with your church. THE LIVES WE ACTUALLY HAVE: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days is out now. Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Kate and Mary Louise discuss: Debunking the women can "have it all" paradigm and what happens when the things we love come into conflict The limitations of gratitude How our callings pull us into a wider sense of who we belong to How to savor (and mourn) all the lasts as your children grow older This may be a conversation about parenting, but I think there might be something in here for anyone who wonders: Who am I as my relationships change? Can I still find myself there? *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. What happens when the people we built our lives around stop needing us? Or when we have to pick between our meaningful careers or our family? And what do we do with the ambiguous grief that comes with every expected and unexpected change? Today, Kate takes an honest look at juggling the demands on our time and on our heart with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.How do we raise our kids in the wake of such change? And how do we reconcile who we are and who we are becoming? In this conversation, Maggie and Kate discuss: How to support someone going through divorce The metaphor of nesting dolls as how we contain who we were before (and how our befores and afters might not be as dramatic as we thought) Speaking honestly with our children about the beauty and tragedy of the world Why tragedies are not worth the "lessons" that we might learn from them CW: divorce *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. ![]() ![]() Maggie Smith (poet and author of books like Keep Moving and You Could Make This Place Beautiful) chronicles the aftermath of a painful divorce she didn't see coming.Visit ĪpMaggie Smith: This Place Could Be Beautiful, Right? and how we might begin to make these institutions better A theology of hope we might all be able to sign up for (Spoiler: Hope is a long story.) How love moves at a certain speed, so we all might need to slow down a bit *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. In this conversation, Kate and John discuss: The importance of learning to be present for people with intellectual disabilities, dementia, or in mental health crises How two places that should be known as places of belonging-the church and the hospital-have become difficult for fragile people. How do we become them? How do we create belonging when the people we love experience such uncertainty? Practical theologian and mental health nurse John Swinton knows a thing or two about this kind of love. They lean into your unsolvable problems, show up on your impossible days, and walk with you all the way to the end. ![]()
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