Shalom Season | Episode 111: What is Biblical Peace?
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.9 • 872 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We’re back! The Jess Connolly Podcast is kicking off a brand new season, and this time, you can watch along too. That’s right, the podcast is now available on video as well as audio, and we couldn’t be more excited for what’s ahead.
Welcome to Shalom Season.
In this first episode, Jess introduces the heart of the season and explores the deeper meaning of biblical peace… shalom. While the world often defines peace as comfort or the absence of conflict, the Bible describes something far richer: wholeness, restoration, and right relationship with God.
If you’ve been longing for more peace in your mind, body, relationships, or everyday life, this episode lays the foundation for the conversations ahead.
Throughout Shalom Season, we’ll explore what it looks like to experience God’s peace in our homes, marriages, motherhood, community, and more.
Follow along and subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode this season.
Let’s go.
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| 0:00.0 | We say we want peace. We pray for it. We look for it. We try to build lives that might finally give it to us. |
| 0:09.0 | But if we're honest, many of us don't actually feel peaceful. Our minds race with thoughts we can't seem to quiet. |
| 0:16.0 | Our bodies carry more tension than we know what to do with. Our homes and relationships hold stress, |
| 0:22.4 | conflict, and questions we wish we could resolve. And underneath it all sits a deeper fear |
| 0:28.2 | that maybe peace is something other people get to have, but not us. This season on the Just |
| 0:34.5 | Connolly podcast, we are in Shalom Season. |
| 0:38.3 | We're asking honest questions about what it means to live with that kind of peace. |
| 0:42.9 | We'll explore peace in our minds, in our bodies, in our homes, in our marriages, |
| 0:47.0 | and even in the complicated spaces of motherhood and community. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm so glad you're here. This is Shalom season. Let's go. |
| 0:58.7 | Hello, friends. We are back. Listen, I'm sorry, we took a hiatus. We went missing for a little bit, |
| 1:05.6 | but I promise that whenever we come back, we'll always try to come back better. So here's the |
| 1:09.7 | deal. Not only is the Just |
| 1:11.2 | Connolly podcast back. It's not my podcast. It's ours. But this time we have video. Okay. I'm |
| 1:17.6 | excited. We've got a season. We've got a theme to our season. We have got some incredible guests |
| 1:22.8 | who have flown in here to come to my house in Charleston to record episodes. I'm so |
| 1:27.1 | incredibly thankful. I'm so incredibly thankful. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm really pumped about this podcast season that we're ready to present to you. And drum roll, |
| 1:34.6 | please. It is called Shalom season. So I want to tell you the backstory behind this season and why |
| 1:41.6 | I got so excited about it. If you've listened to the podcast before, |
| 1:45.1 | you know that sometimes I get an idea in my head and I'm like a dog with a bone, I can't stop |
| 1:48.8 | thinking about it and I get obsessed with it. And that is kind of what happened with Shalom. |
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