Personal Growth — Starter Guides

Episode 39: The Gift of Presence with Poet Naomi Shihab Nye Conversation Starter

For each Growing Edge Podcast episode, we offer a conversation starter that you can download from our website for use with a small group or for your own meditation or journaling. Here are some questions and probes for this podcast with Naomi Shihab Nye.

Episode 35: Learning In Public - A Conversation With Courtney Martin

For each episode we offer a conversation starter you can download at our website. You can use this with a small group or for your own meditation or journaling.

In this episode with Courtney Martin we explore powerful questions about what it means to live a moral and ethical life in racially divided times.

Some Approaches to this Month’s Questions

You may want to explore the podcast and Questions of the Month privately, via journaling and silent reflection. But please consider gathering online for an exploration with one or more family members or friends. If that idea appeals to you, look into using Zoom, Facetime, Skype or some other video platform or talk with each other in person when vaccinated or safely social distanced.

Episode 29: The Handing Over Time Conversation Guide

In the January podcast, we reflect on 2020 and what we see ahead in 2021. Here are a few questions for your own exploration, journaling, and dialogue with others. For conversations with friends, we urge you to use the online Zoom format.

Episode 28: A Reason for Delight - A Conversation With Poet, Ross Gay

In this episode, Carrie and Parker have a conversation with Poet, Ross Gay, author of The Book of Delights & Be Holding. We talk about Ross's books, his thoughts about finding delight in his daily life and as a daily practice, joy as an act of resistance and the importance of connection to one another and to the natural world.

We hope you will download our Episode 28 Conversation Starter, gather with friends (safely in person or virtually) to discuss some of the thoughtful questions that this episode poses.

Episode 27: Where Do We Go From Here - A Post-Election Conversation Starter

In our delayed November podcast—planned before the 2020 General Election, and recorded several days after it—Carrie and Parker discuss the outcome of that day and the four years that led up to it.

They talk about our current political divides, the many uncertainties of our challenging era (some real, some manufactured), and the role of hope and faithfulness in finding our way forward as “We the People.”