Jen Pollock Michel on Vocation, Writing, and Habit

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Religion & Spirituality, Arts

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jen Pollock Michel is a writer based in Toronto, CA. She’s the author of several books, including Surprised by Paradox and A Habit Called Faith, which is releasing this week. On the podcast, she describes the road that led her to writing, the relationship between her vocations as a writer and a mother, and the place women writers occupy in Christian publishing. She also talks about A Habit Called Faith, a book that invites seekers, skeptics, and Christians alike to explore a deeper experience of Christianity through a 40-day experience in the book of John and the book of Deuteronomy. If you have feedback for us, you can email us at [email protected] Subscribe to our show, and if you can – leave us a rating and review in iTunes. Cultivated is produced and hosted by Mike Cosper It’s edited by Mark Owens Our music is by Dan Phelps Our theme song is “Eden Was A Garden” by Roman Candle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.1	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.
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0:22.3	Jen Pollock-Michel is a writer based in Toronto, Canada.
0:25.8	She's the author of several books, including Surprised by Paradox and A Habit Called Faith,
0:30.3	which is releasing this week.
0:32.1	One of the reasons I think your writing resonates with me, certainly in this book, because
0:36.5	it's so much a part of the frame of this book,
0:38.3	but in your book on Paradox as well, there's a sense that you're writing about faith with a
0:44.6	very clear sense of the background of kind of nagging doubt or a culture of doubt.
0:52.0	That does feel right to me, even though I wouldn't say that doubt is kind of a fundamental
0:59.1	aspect of my faith posture.
1:01.2	I mean, I know not that I think that would be a wrong thing.
1:05.1	Perhaps I would even put it this way.
1:06.6	I think it's the human experience of faith that I'm really interested in giving voice to.
1:11.3	I feel like we have these kind of expressions of faith that actually feel very inhuman.
1:16.5	They feel sort of robotic.
1:18.2	They feel very mechanical.
1:21.4	I was even just actually reading today this morning from the Garden of Gassimini.
1:26.1	It just happened to be, you know, the next
1:27.9	sort of reading in my gospel reading. And I was thinking about Jesus, I was just so struck by him
1:33.1	being described as being in anguish and distressed and in grief. And that those words could be
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