The Hi friends, Sarah Bessie here. It's been a minute. I'm sure you were surprised when we popped back up in your podcast feed but hopefully

it was a good surprise.

So officially hello and welcome back to Evolving Faith podcast.

We are on Twitter and Instagram as at Evolve Faith and over on

Facebook as Evolving Faith and we are also a thriving online community over at

community dot evolving faith.com where more than 9,000 of your fellow

wanderers are currently journeying together. So thank you for joining us today.

I'm so glad that you're here. I've got some evolving faith news to share and then we'll have a beautiful conversation

with our friend Kate Boler. We're exploring the language that we reach for when we don't know how to pray

anymore. We're going to discuss the search for spiritual

language around blessing, praying without certainty. And Kate is going to field

some questions from you all in the evolving faith community about hope and

her own faith journey. We also chat about her latest book which she co-authored with

Jessica Ritchie. It's called The Lives We Actually Have 100 Bless blessings for imperfect days, and the process of writing blessings

for our honest, human, everyday existence.

So first let's just go ahead and name the elephant in the room. It is just me here at the podcast today.

In case you hadn't heard the news on social media or through our newsletter, a few months ago my co-conspirator and beloved brother Jeff Chu

made the decision to step away from co-leading evolving faith. It was good and right

and healthy but still sad you know we had a really good three years

more than three years of doing good work together. It has never been easy work, mind you, but it has been mostly good.

And I'm incredibly grateful. I'm proud of Jeff. I think we're all still learning how important it is to model

wisdom and boundaries and care and leadership. He is doing that exact thing right now. I mean you can always still find him over at his website

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