WELCOME TO POTTER’S INN SOUL CARE CONVERSATIONS

 
 

About our spiritual Podcast

Potter’s Inn Soul Care Conversations is a spiritual podcast where our souls meet the world. We invite you into a relevant, vulnerable, and courageous conversation with us. We’ll explore key Soul Care issues facing us in work, health, relationships, and faith.

Living in a frenzied, chaotic world, our souls are under constant siege. Worse still, most people don’t know what their soul is or how to keep it healthy. Soul Care Conversations is a podcast that addresses this reality head-on.

In our busy lives we all need a space to reflect, be inspired, and get some needed resources to help us navigate the white water of life. Somewhere along the way, you may have lost a part of your soul. The Soul Care Conversations podcast exists to help you rediscover it.

This spiritual podcast is provided by Potter’s Inn, a ministry dedicated to Soul Care for leaders in the ministry and the marketplace.

Soul Care Conversations: Podcast Episodes

season 10

Episode 147: Discernment: Finding Our Way, Part 2 - with special guest Martie McMane

Episode 146: Discernment: Finding Our Way, Part 1 - with special guest Martie McMane

Episode 145: Walter Brueggemann's Prophetic Imagination with special guest Conrad L. Kanagy

Episode 144: ‘Kindavangelical’ with special guest Pete Briscoe

Episode 143: Scripture and the Spiritual Journey

Summer 2023 - A list of Steve’s favorite Podcasts from the past

Episode 12: Cultivating Daily Shalom: Using the Daily Examen (Originally aired May 21, 2019)

Episode 113: Finding Jesus’ Ways To Have Jesus’ Life (Originally aired April 6, 2022)

Episode 2: What is Soul Care? - Originally aired March 12, 2019

Episode 5: Three Core Questions for Every Soul - Originally aired April 3, 2019

Episode 80: The Welcoming Prayer - Originally aired February 9, 2021

Episode 96: Nature and the Care of the Soul, Part 2 with Belden Lane - Originally aired October 17, 2021

Episode 95: Nature and the Care of the Soul, Part 1 with Belden Lane - Originally aired October 10, 2021

Episodes 122 & 123: Seeking God with Trevor Hudson, Parts 1 & 2 - Originally aired Nov 8 & 15, 2022

Episode 118: Wearing the Yoke - Originally aired Oct 2022

Season 9

episode 142: Letting Go

Episode 141: The Language of the Soul with Jeff Crosby

Episode 140: Soul Care in a Warming World with Kyle Meyaard-Schaap

Episode 139: A Sense of Home

Episode 138: Poetry - The Language of the Soul, Part 2

Episode 137: Poetry - The Language of the Soul, Part 1

Episode 136: 12 Foundations to Care for your Soul, Part 2

Episode 135: 12 Foundations to Care for your Soul, Part 1

Episode 134: A Year of Slowing Down

Episode 133: Beauty as Oxygen, Part 2

Episode 132: Beauty as Oxygen, Part 1

Episode 131: 40 Days, 40 Walks, 40 Questions

Episode 130: Healthy Community: The Benefits of Friendship

Episode 129: The Way of Companionship

Episode 128: Soul Companions

Episode 127: Friendships - Experiencing Others on the Journey

Season 8

Episode 126: Courage for the Caregiver with Marjorie Thompson

Episode 125: Beauty and the Soul with Tom Morris, Part 2 - Plus a reading and discussion on the poem “A New Beginning” by John O’Donohue

Episode 124: Beauty and the Soul with Tom Morris, Part 1

Episode 123: Seeking God with Trevor Hudson, Part 2

Episode 122: Seeking God with Trevor Hudson, Part 1

Episode 121: Sabbath and Sabbatical with Ruth Haley Barton

Episode 120: Beyond the Enneagram with Marilyn Vancil

Episode 119: Simple Faith: Simple Life

Episode 118: Wearing the Yoke

SUMMER 2022

**A replay of episodes Steve chooses and sees as “stellar and vital in the care of our souls.”

Episode 34: Does God Really Care? - Originally aired January 7, 2020

Episode 48: The Hidden Life - Originally aired April 3, 2020

Episode 5: Three Core Questions of Every Soul - Originally aired April 3, 2019

Episode 2: What is Soul Care? - Originally aired March 12, 2019

Episode 59: Dignity Matters! - Originally aired June 9, 2020

Episode 12: Cultivating Shalom: The Daily Examen - Originally aired May 21, 2019

Episodes 17 & 18: The Critical Journey - Originally aired August 27 & September 3, 2019

Episode 80: The Welcoming Prayer - Originally aired February 9, 2021

Episode 25: Spiritual Identity: Exploring The Three Core Lies - Originally aired October 22, 2019

Season seven

Episode 117: Original Blessing with Danielle Shroyer

Episode 116: Aging: A Lifelong Transition with Alice Fryling

Episode 115: Managing Transitions, Part 2

Episode 114: The Leader’s Transitions

Episode 113: Finding Jesus’ Ways to Have Jesus’ Life

Episode 112: Change for Health!

Episode 111: Sabbatical: Antidote for Exhaustion, Part 2

Episode 110: Sabbatical: Antidote for Exhaustion, Part 1

Episode 109: Eastern Orthodoxy: The Great & Needed Gift to the West, Part 2

Episode 108: Eastern Orthodoxy: The Great & Needed Gift to the West, Part 1

Episode 107: Digital Kindness, Grace, & Advocacy

Episode 106: The Future of the Church with Aaron Niequist

Episode 105: Change the Way You View the Bible with Pete Enns

Episode 104: The Closing of the American Mind, Part 2

Episode 103: The Closing of the American Mind, Part 1

Season six - Complex Conversations

Episode 102: Christmas with Potter’s Inn

Episode 101: 30 Days with the Potter

Episode 100: Perplexity/Complexity To Harmony With Brian McLaren - Part 2

Episode 99: Faith After Doubt with Brian McLaren, Part 1 (11.2.21)

Episode 98: Eugene Peterson: Humble Servant - Part 2 With Winn Collier (10.26.21)

Episode 97: A Burning in my Bones with Winn Collier, Part 1 (10.19.21)

Episode 96: Nature and the Care of the Soul, Part 2 (10.12.21)

Episode 95: Nature and the Care of the Soul, Part 1 (10.5.21)

Episode 94: The Evangelical Diaspora: Getting out of our Boxes! Part 2 (9.28.21)

Episode 93: The Evangelical Diaspora: Getting out of our Boxes! Part 1 (9.21.21)

Episode 92: Where Soul Meets World (9.14.21)

THE BEST OF THE BEST - Our Top 10 Podcasts Countdown

#1: How The Enneagram Informs Us In Crisis - (8.10.21)

#2: Cultivating Daily Shalom: Using The Daily Examen - (8.3.21)

#3: What is a Soul Friendship? - (7.27.21)

#4: What is Soul Care? - (7.20.21)

#5: Soul Care in Exhaustion - (7.13.21)

#6: Belovedness: The Core Truth that Changes Everything - (7.6.21)

#7: How Jesus Lived in Rhythm - (6.29.21)

#8: Three Core Questions of Every Soul - (6.22.21)

#9: Lamenting Through the Pandemic - (6.15.21)

#10: Discernment: The Journey to Discover God’s Will - (6.8.21)

Season Five

Episode 91: Ascending the Mountain Within (4.27.2021)

Episode 90: A Soul Care Experience (4.20.2021)

Episode 89: Exposing the Soul of the Pastor! (4.13.2021)

Episode 88: The Post-Pandemic Church (4.6.2021)

Episode 87: The Trap of Money, Sex, and Power - Part 2 (3.30.2021)

Episode 86: The Trap of Money, Sex, and Power - Part 1 (3.23.2021)

Episode 85: The Soul of Sex (3.16.2021)

Episode 84: The Bible as Stories of Rescue, not as a Weapon (3.9.2021)

Episode 83: Deconstructing Faith With Sarah Bessey, Part 2 (3.2.2021)

Episode 82: Deconstructing Faith With Sarah Bessey, Part 1 (2.23.2021)

Episode 81: Solo: Creating Space with God (2.16.2021)

Episode 80: The Welcoming Prayer (2.9.2021)

Episode 79: Aging with WIsdom and Grace (2.2.2021)

Episode 78: Finding Comfort (1.26.2021)

Season four - Soul Care in Anxious Times

Episode 77: Great Annual Examen (12.22.2020)

Episode 76: A Covid Christmas Blessing (12.15.2020)

Episode 75: The TRUE State of Your Soul (12.8.2020)

Episode 74: Recharging Your Inner Battery: Soul Care in Depleting Times (12.1.2020)

November 24 - Happy Thanksgiving! No podcast this week.

Episode 73: The Three Rhythms of Life: Solitude, Community, Mission (11.17.2020)

Episode 72: Love is the Antecdote for Anxiety (11.10.2020)

Episode 71: Ten Movements in the Care of the Soul: The Transfiguration Story (11.3.2020)

Episode 70: Solo: Planning a Day Alone With God (10.27.2020)

Episode 69: Embark on a Journey of Soul Care (10.20.2020)

Episode 68: Belovedness: The Core Truth That Changes Everything (10.13.2020)

Episode 67: The Benefits of Being Jarred (10.6.2020)

Episode 66: Finding Peace in Anxious Times (9.29.2020)

Episode 65: Crisis as Invitation to Change (9.22.2020)

Episode 64: Embracing Changing Times (9.15.2020)

Episode 63: Comfort in Trouble (9.8.2020)

Episode 62: Soulcare in Exhaustion (9.1.2020)


Previous Episodes

+ “BEST OF” SUMMER CONVERSATIONS - Summer 2020

Episode 21: What is Soul Friendship

Episode 20: How Jesus Lived in Rhythm

Episode 19: A life of Rhythm

Episode 34: Does God Really Care?

Episode 13: Becoming the Beloved

Episode 12: Cultivating Daily Shalom: Using the Daily Examen

Episode 6: God’s Design for our Dilemna

Episode 5: Three Core Questions of Every Soul

Episode 2: What is Soul Care


+ Season Three

Episode 61: The Resilient Life, Part 3: Rebuilding a life of Resilience

Episode 60: Care of the Soul from an African American Perspective

Episode 59: Dignity Matters!

Episode 58: The Resilient Life, Part 2: Living and Leading the Resilient Life

Episode 57: The Resilient Life, Part 1: In The Wilderness

Episode 56: I see you. I am here.

Episode 55: The Imposter: Discovering your True and False Self

Episode 54: How To Stay Sane In Troubled Times

Episode 53: The Four S’s Every Soul Needs

Episode 52: Understanding Loss, Grief, and Lament

Episode 51: Surviving COVID-19

Episode 50: Finding Easter Hope in Difficult Days

Episode 49: Developing a Rule of Life in Difficult Times

Episode 48: The Hidden Life

Episode 47: Lamenting through the Pandemic

Episode 46: How the Enneagram Informs us in Crisis

Episode 45: Loneliness and Soul Care

Episode 44: Stress and Soul Care

Episode 43: Panic, Fear, and Suffering

Episode 42: Redefining Success Through Doing Your Inside Job

Episode 41: Becoming an Ordinary Mystic, Part 2

Episode 40: Becoming an Ordinary Mystic, Part 1

Episode 39: A Deeper Look at the Enneagram

Episode 38: Trauma and the Soul

Episode 37: A Life of Listening

Episode 36: Distinctives of Soul Care: From a Counselors Perspective

Episode 35: Soulful Decision Making

Episode 34: Does God Really Care?


+ SEASON TWO

Episode 33: Looking Back & Moving Forward

Episode 32: You are the Beloved

Episode 31: Advent: The Season of Anticipation

Episode 30: The Great Annual Examen

Episode 29: Praying the Scriptures: Lectio Divina

Episode 28: Beauty: The Hospitality of God

Episode 27: Simple Prayer

Episode 26: Soul Integration

Episode 25: Identity, the Three Core Lies of the Soul

Episode 24: Ancient Ways for Modern Times, Part 2 - What Benedictine Spirituality offers us Today

Episode 23: Ancient Ways for Modern Times, Part 1 - What Benedictine Spirituality offers us Today

Episode 22: Soul Tending

Episode 21: What is Soul Friendship?

Episode 20: How Jesus Lived in Rhythm

Episode 19: The Rhythm of Life

Episode 18: The Critical Journey, Part 2

Episode 17: The Critical Journey, Part 1

Episode 16: Anatomy of the Soul

Episode 15: Five Reasons Soul Care Matters


+ SEASON ONE

Episode 14: Confessions About Being a Dad

Episode 13: Becoming the Beloved

Episode 12: Cultivating Daily Shalom: Using the Daily Examen

Episode 11: Discernment: The Journey to Discover God’s Will

Episode 10: Exploring Dignity of the Soul

Episode 9: The Story of Potter’s Inn

Episode 8: Not Just for Sunday, Part 2

Episode 7: Not Just for Sunday, Part 1

Episode 6: God’s Design For Our Dilemma

Episode 5: Three Core Questions of Every Soul

Episode 4: The Body-Soul Connection, Part 2

Episode 3: The Body-Soul Connection, Part 1

Episode 2: What is Soul Care

Episode 1: Introducing Potter’s Inn Soul Care Conversations

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Additional soulcare resources

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Meet Our team

 

Steve & Gwen Smith

Co-Founders, President and Spiritual Directors of of Potter’s Inn…

 
Joe ChambersPastor of Mountain Heights Baptist Church in Buena Vista, CO, Joe is an avid reader and writer…

Joe Chambers

Pastor of Mountain Heights Baptist Church in Buena Vista, CO, Joe is an avid reader and writer…

 

Pam Burton

Pam has worked in communications and marketing for over 25+ years, primarily in the non-profit field…