Maisie Dobbs, Part 1 – A Conversation about Maisie Dobbs

01/02/23 • 32 min

Fiction That Forms Us: Stories that Inspire Us and Practices that Help Us Change

What can we learn from the layers of hardships—our own and those of others—we encounter? Find out on this episode, where Dr. Mimi Dixon, Renovaré Institute teacher and retired Presbyterian Pastor, and host Kristy Lahoda discuss how Maisie Dobbs, in the book Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, learned to pay attention to everything and everyone around her while she worked on a case, which enabled her to not only better understand situations but also sense people’s needs and move toward them as she awaited the revelation of truth.

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Ready Player One, Part 2 – The Spiritual Practice of Study

What do virtual reality, obsessive devotion, and a billionaire have to do with spiritual formation? Join Meshach Kanyion, Senior Pastor at Church of the Savior United Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, and host Kristy Lahoda as they continue their discussion on the book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and how we can become more Christlike through the spiritual discipline of study.

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Maisie Dobbs, Part 2 – The Spiritual Practices of Silence, Solitude, and Study

What can sitting in silence, solitude, and stillness teach us, and what does our body have to do with spiritual formation? Learn more on this episode, where Dr. Mimi Dixon, Renovaré Institute teacher and retired Presbyterian Pastor, and host Kristy Lahoda discuss how to remain calm and pay attention like Maisie Dobbs, in the book Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, in the midst of life’s storms so that we can follow Jesus as he runs toward people in pain in order to be present to them with him.