Good Things Run Wild

A place to consider and absorb the established truths, compelling beauty, and wild goodness of our faith, so we may walk onward, refreshed, hopeful, and connected, towards the prize.

Christians: Say "I Don't Know" More Often 03/30/2021

Christians: Say "I Don't Know" More Often “They keep coming up all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up.” (LM Montgomery) /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/18541793

"Self Care" and Self Care 03/16/2021

"Self Care" and Self Care “Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?” J.M. Barrie /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/18347849

Why I Wanted To Be A Mother 02/26/2021

Why I Wanted To Be A Mother Not a persuasion piece on why anyone else "should want," but a personal testimony on why I *wanted* to be a mother before I was one. “And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home.” (Dorothy L. Sayers) /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/18104702

The Importance of Romance's Start 02/18/2021

The Importance of Romance's Start In-between "me" and "him and then the "us" was a time where our lives merged. The first memories of us as us. This is a sacred, living, continued stage that should take you "there" as often as possible. /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/17994086

How To Care For Others Going Through Hardship 02/08/2021

How To Care For Others Going Through Hardship "We must bless without wanting to manipulate. Without insisting that everything be straightened out right now. Without insisting that our truth be known. This means simply turning whoever it is we need to bless over to God, knowing that God’s powerful love will do what our own feeble love or lack of it won’t." (Madeleine L’Engle) /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/17868818

Dream Well vs. Dream Big 08/24/2020

Dream Well vs. Dream Big I cringe a little when "people" insist we need to be dreaming BIG. In relation to size, only. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) Some GOOD dreams may have large ramifications and ideas, and that is beautiful. But other good dreams are deliciously simple. Dream well! /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/15730805

Full of Thanks 07/07/2020

Full of Thanks On paying attention and being grateful! "It all matters. That someone turns off the lamp, says hello to the invalid, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, acknowledges help, gives credit, says goodnight, resists temptation, wipes the counter... What is most beautiful, is least acknowledged. What is worth dying for is barely noticed." L. McBride /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/15110567

Asking Questions 06/23/2020

Asking Questions Thinking through the importance of "ask, and it will be given to you." Starting with these words from Fred Rogers:"In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers." /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/14926751

Compassion 06/08/2020

Compassion Primarily dwelling in the last two chapters of scripture, Revelation 21 + 22, to frame a view of compassionate hearts, action, and hope as we live, learn, and endure all this life means. How to "suffer with," like the word compassion means. /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/14744234

Story In Our Lives 05/25/2020

Story In Our Lives A special joint-episode podcast with Don Shorey from No Mere Mortals. Talking about story in Part 1 right here! Go to "No Mere Mortals" episode #8 for Part 2! /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/14553542

Good-Bye Mama Bear 05/19/2020

Good-Bye Mama Bear Reading an excerpt from chapter 9 of my book "Meet Mama Bear." "Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast, /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/14475809

Grief Needs Beauty 05/11/2020

Grief Needs Beauty Pressing into Pope Benedict the 16th's words at a gathering of artists: /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/14368463

The Risky And Free Safe-Place 05/04/2020

The Risky And Free Safe-Place Encouragement and hope starting with these words from William Faulkner, especially for those that home has been a place of pain: “I give you this not that you may remember time, but that you may forget about it for a little while. I can only tell you that time is me turning and turning while the world is turning around a star that turns around a center that turns around the all of space. Among all the other things, all the turning animals and all the turning worlds, there is me... turning to you." /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/14272931

Made For Home 04/27/2020

Made For Home Considering Dorothy Sayers words in "Mind of the Maker": "Looking at man, something is essentially divine, but when we turn back to see what is written about the original upon which the 'image' of God was modeled, we find only the single assertion, 'God created.' The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things." /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/14168270

Made To Make 04/20/2020

Made To Make Considering the "doing" we are called to via Marilynne Robinson's words: "Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.” /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/14068658

Little Redemptions 04/13/2020

Little Redemptions Focusing today on Annie Dillard's lines from “For the Time Being": /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/13961852

Corona-Courage 04/05/2020

Corona-Courage On lines from chapter 29 of "The Screwtape Letters" by CS Lewis": “He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful until it became risky.” /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/13859336

The Fun Of Holiness 03/28/2020

The Fun Of Holiness Considering a paragraph from an article called "Lighten Up, Christians! God Loves A Good Time" by ND Wilson, /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/13739300

Welcome to "Good Things Run Wild" 03/23/2020

Welcome to "Good Things Run Wild" A brief introduction to the heart, thesis, and vision of this podcast. I am borrowing and running with a line from "Orthodoxy" by GK Chesterton, let's expound on the theme of this podcast: “And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.” /episode/index/show/imkristen/id/13667624

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