Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper

Listen to the unedited conversation between Scott Erickson and Jenn Giles Kemper, available now! On Thursdays following a newly-released interview episode, we’re releasing the long-form conversation. We hope it feels like you are sitting in a chair at the table with us.

As we were producing our episode of Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper with Scott, we realized something: There’s SO much that falls on the cutting room floor. As you’ll hear in this conversation with Scott, he and Jenn both dove much deeper into the exact places where vulnerability touches vocation, creativity, family life, and spiritual leadership.

You’ll hear more of his fun, funny, provocative nature come out -- including when Jenn accidentally prompted him to tell a vasectomy story. They talk about their families by name, prayer lives, evolving work as spiritual directors, the enneagram, making art, embarrassing moments, and how leaders (especially those in the Church) need to be living out what they’re teaching in private, personal ways...or as Scott succinctly says “smoking what you’re selling.”

For the shorter, produced version with narration from Jenn: Listen to On Vulnerability: Prayer, Art, and Parenthood with Scott Erickson. In that episode, we pull the treads of what it is to embrace vulnerability, and Jenn offers a prayer and a reflection question, too.

About the guest: Scott Erickson is a featured author in the Sacred Ordinary Days spiritual formation book shop, and his quirky, thoughtful words and art on prayer have been a favorite for our team and customers this year. (We’re thrilled to have added Scott’s newly released book, Honest Advent, to the shop, too.)

Links:

• Scott Erickson Art
• @scottthepainter
• Honest Advent: Awakening to the Wonder of God-With-Us Then, Here, and Now by Scott Erickson
• May It Be So: Forty Days with the Lord's Prayer by Justin McRoberts & Scott Erickson
• Prayer: Forty Days of Practice by Justin McRoberts & Scott Erickson

About Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper: Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper explores faith where it hits the pavement of work, relationships, creativity, and real life. Inspired by Jenn’s curiosity and faith (and her work as a minister and spiritual director) we’re crafting a show to help you meaningfully explore your own life with Christ — and ultimately lead you to become more wholly human and more fully faithful. On Tuesdays, join us for a conversation with folks whose words, work, and witness have shaped our team’s understanding of God and practice of faith. (Plus, we’re featuring lots of good music, prompts for your reflection and practice, and plenty of invitations into a community of kindred spirits!)

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RESOURCES REFERENCED:

• Finding Purpose in Life: The Long Guide to Finding Your Life’s Work via The Meaning Movement
• The Calling Process: a step-by-step guide to finding purpose and pursuing your dream job by Dan Cumberland
• Let Your Life Speak: Listening to the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer
• To Be Told: God Invites You to CoAuthor Your Future by Dan Allender
• Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer by Richard Rohr
• Sacred Ordinary Days Planner

BRING IT HOME...

What are your thoughts on the season after Pentecost, Ordinary Time? How do you plan to mark it? Will you be exploring your own vocation or perhaps spending some time nurturing someone else’s sense of vocation and calling? Let us know on social media using the hashtag #sacredordinarydays.

About Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper: Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper explores faith where it hits the pavement of work, relationships, creativity, and real life. Inspired by Jenn’s curiosity and faith (and her work as a minister and spiritual director) we’re crafting a show to help you meaningfully explore your own life with Christ — and ultimately lead you to become more wholly human and more fully faithful. On Tuesdays, join us for a conversation with folks whose words, work, and witness have shaped our team’s understanding of God and practice of faith. (Plus, we’re featuring lots of good music, prompts for your reflection and practice, and plenty of invitations into a community of kindred spirits!)

Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. We appreciate your ratings and reviews, too.

RESOURCES REFERENCED:

• Our recent webinar on daily practice, the Examen, and retreats, plus details on our own retreat this May!
• 25 Ways to Celebrate Life This Easter Season
• Feast! Real Food, Reflections, and Simple Living for the Christian Year by Haley Stewart
• A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together by Jerusalem Jackson Greer
• Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and Enuma Okoro
• Let Us Keep The Feast: Living the Church Year at Home edited by Jessica Snell
• Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons by Jan Richardson
• Keeping the Feast: Metaphors for the Meal by Milton Brasher-Cunningham
• This Must Be the Place: Reflections on Home by Milton Brasher-Cunningham

GO FURTHER

How are you planning to celebrate Easter not just as a day, but as an entire season? Let us know on social media using the hashtag #sacredordinarydays.

About Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper: Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper explores faith where it hits the pavement of work, relationships, creativity, and real life. Inspired by Jenn’s curiosity and faith (and her work as a minister and spiritual director) we’re crafting a show to help you meaningfully explore your own life with Christ — and ultimately lead you to become more wholly human and more fully faithful. On Tuesdays, join us for a conversation with folks whose words, work, and witness have shaped our team’s understanding of God and practice of faith. (Plus, we’re featuring lots of good music, prompts for your reflection and practice, and plenty of invitations into a community of kindred spirits!)

Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. We appreciate your ratings and reviews, too.

RESOURCES REFERENCED:

• Insight Timer app
• Centering Prayer via Contemplative Outreach
• Blessing for Longing from To Bless The Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue

BRING IT HOME

What journey are you currently on, and who are your traveling companions today? Let us know on social media using the hashtag #sacredordinarydays.

About Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper: Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper explores faith where it hits the pavement of work, relationships, creativity, and real life. Inspired by Jenn’s curiosity and faith (and her work as a minister and spiritual director) we’re crafting a show to help you meaningfully explore your own life with Christ — and ultimately lead you to become more wholly human and more fully faithful. On Tuesdays, join us for a conversation with folks whose words, work, and witness have shaped our team’s understanding of God and practice of faith. (Plus, we’re featuring lots of good music, prompts for your reflection and practice, and plenty of invitations into a community of kindred spirits!)

Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. We appreciate your ratings and reviews, too.

RESOURCES REFERENCED:

• Where Jesus Prayed by Danielle Shroyer (and Lacy's current Journey Book Club selection!)
• Prayers of the People
• Pop Resources
• The Brilliance, “Prayer of the People,” from the new album, Brother
• Better Life Bags
• Noonday Collection
• Kiva Micro-Loans
• Sama Group
• Revised Common Lectionary Google Calendar
• L’Arche International

GO FURTHER

How do you give? Has our conversation inspired new and creative ways to give?

About Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper: Sacred Ordinary Days with Jenn Giles Kemper explores faith where it hits the pavement of work, relationships, creativity, and real life. Inspired by Jenn’s curiosity and faith (and her work as a minister and spiritual director) we’re crafting a show to help you meaningfully explore your own life with Christ — and ultimately lead you to become more wholly human and more fully faithful. On Tuesdays, join us for a conversation with folks whose words, work, and witness have shaped our team’s understanding of God and practice of faith. (Plus, we’re featuring lots of good music, prompts for your reflection and practice, and plenty of invitations into a community of kindred spirits!)

Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. We appreciate your ratings and reviews, too.