Ep. 116 - Sarah Bessey ”A Rhythm of Prayer”

The Deconstructionists

John Williamson

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Guest Info/Bio: This week I welcome back one of our favorite guests - Sarah Bessey! Sarah Bessey is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed books Jesus Feminist (2013); Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith (2015); and Miracles and Other Reasonable Things (2019). Her new collaborative book, A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal is now available everywhere books are sold.d.Along with her friends, the late Rachel Held Evans and Jim Chaffee, Sarah co-founded Evolving Faith. She now co-leads the community and conference alongside Jeff Chu. Sarah is also the co-host of The Evolving Faith Podcast which debuted at the top of the charts for Religion and Spirituality Podcasts and has been downloaded by hundreds of thousands of listeners worldwide.Sarah is a sought-after speaker at churches, conferences, and universities around the world. Sarah writes the weekly newsletter Field Notes with exclusive essays, devotional series, conversations, and more. You can sign up for Field Notes here. She also serves as chair of the board for Heartline Ministries in Haiti. Based in Port au Prince, Heartline is committed to empowering Haitian families through complete maternal and infant health care, education, vocational training, and economic development.Sarah contributed to the NIV Bible for Women: Fresh Insights for Thriving in Today’s World; Mother Letters: Sharing the Laughter, Joy, Struggles, and Hope; Soul Bare: Stories of Redemption; and What a Woman is Worth.Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The High Calling, Conversations Journal, ChurchLeaders.com, CT Women: Christianity Today’s Blog for Women, Today’s Christian Woman, and she has commented on religion, feminism, and faith deconstruction for The Atlantic, The Christian Post, Christianity Today, The National Post, and The Washington Post among others. She was an award-winning blogger back in the glory days of blogging. Some of the favourites are still available as essays on this website. Sarah is also the author of two ebooks - My Practices of Mothering and Waiting, Accepting, Journeying, Birthing: An Advent Devotional - both available for digital download here.Guest (Select) Published Works: Waiting, Accepting, Journeying, Birthing; My Practices of Mothering; Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit The Bible’s View of Women; Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith; Miracles And Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God; A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal. Guest Website/Social Media:www.sarahbessey.com Twitter: @sarahbessey Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/sarah.styles.bessey Instagram: @sarahbessey Special guest music on this episode provided by: The Wind & The Wavewww.thewindandthewave.com Twitter: @thewindthewaveFacebook: https://m.facebook.com/thewindandthewave/ Instagram: @thewindthewave Enjoy the songs? Songs featured on this episode were: “Happiness Is Not A Place” from the album, Happiness Is Not A Place & “Rescue Me, Does God Love the Unlucky?” & “Father” from the E.P. Rescue Me. The Wind & The Wave’s music is available on iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube, Spotify, and anywhere good music is found. Stay on top of all the latest at www.thedeconstructionists.com Go there to read our blog, grab a tee shirt, snag a pint glass or mug, follow us on social media, or join our Patreon family.The Deconstructionists Podcast is edited by John Williamson. This episode was mixed and produced by Nicholas Rowe at National Audio Preservation Society: A full service recording studio and creative habitat. located in Heath, Ohio. Find them on facebook and Twitter or go to their website for more information. www.nationalaudiopreservationsociety.weebly.com www.facebook.com/nationalaudiopreservationsocietyTwitter: @napsrecording Website by Ryan BattlesAll Photos by Jared HevronLogos designed by Joseph Ernst & Stephen PfluigT- Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	There's not a right way to pray other than an honest way. And so I think that if you are bringing
0:06.7	your whole self to prayer, to conversation with God, there's room then for your whole experience of
0:14.6	being human. And I think that that's where you can end up with, you know, prayers for when you don't know what you want,
0:22.2	and when you are tired and angry, or when you feel like you're a little bit lost,
0:25.8	or when you are trying to embody prayer.
0:29.2	You know, I think that there's a lot more permission that God has given us that we don't fully walk in yet
0:36.2	when it comes to prayer. And a lot of times
0:38.2	that's simply because very well-meaning, very sincere people found a path of prayer that worked for
0:43.1	them. And, you know, oftentimes we try to universalize that. And that can certainly be helpful in
0:48.0	terms of beginning training wheels, you know, around prayer or around conversation. But there's a whole lot more wide open space
0:57.2	than I think we were oftentimes invited into.
1:00.4	I'm the sea.
1:02.8	It's not who I am.
1:04.6	I guess it's all you can see.
1:07.6	I'm a disaster.
1:12.0	I'm a disaster. I'm a disaster.
1:16.0	Come and rescue me.
1:20.2	Welcome to the Deconstructionist podcast.
1:23.0	I'm your host, John Williamson.
1:24.4	Welcome back.
1:25.1	We have another returning all-star guest this week. Very excited to have
1:31.3	her back on the show. Adam and I still to this day talk about how she was, she is, I should say,
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