This week's episode features audio from a lecture by Ben Keyes entitled, The True Object of Human Longing: Re-embracing Dominion and Trust. Ben Keyes grew up in Massachusetts at the Southborough L’Abri with the impression that having crowds of strangers in his home was a normal thing. From an early age he loved to play music. When he was in high school his family joined an African American church and Ben became involved in the music ministry—learning how to play gospel piano and bass guitar. He ...
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 38 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop with Sarah Chestnut entitled , Reflecting on the Incarnation with the Help of Poets: Jesus’ Humanity and Ours. The incarnation is central both to the revealing of God to the world and the redemption and restoration of true humanness. How might poems by Christian Wiman, Andrew Hudgens, Mary Karr, and Tracy K. Smith give us imagination and hope for the restoration of our broken humanity? Sarah Chestnut grew up in a small, rural community in the fo...
May 18, 2020•1 hr 29 min
This week's episode features audio from a lecture with Dick Keyes called, "Early Peacemaking: Can Conflict be Outmaneuvered Before it Starts?" Much has been well-said and well-written about conflict resolution. But it is, by definition, reactive to conflicts already burning. Christian peacemaking is more proactive, with strategies which can help to avoid conflict altogether. Dick Keyes is the former director of Southborough L’Abri Fellowship , where he has worked with his wife and family since 1...
May 11, 2020•1 hr 14 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop with Jock McGregor called, "T.S. Eliot’s Idea of a Christian Society". In our Post-Christian society, as Evangelicals struggle to find their place, a growing number of ‘options’ are being considered – from “Benedict’ to ‘Wilberforce” and everything in between. One voice from the past may, somewhat surprisingly, offer perspective – the famous twentieth-20th Century British poet, T.S. Eliot. Jock McGregor and his wife Alison have worked at the Roc...
May 05, 2020•1 hr 23 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Phillip Johnston entitled, The Perfect Lie of Liberty - Pursuing Freedom in a Culture of Choice. An inescapable aspect of life today is a constant sense of FOMO (fear of missing out). We are awash in options, a condition that has led to increased anxiety rather than enduring peace. At the root of this anxiety is a commonplace misunderstanding of freedom. What if true freedom is more than simply the ability to choose what we want? Phillip John...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 20 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Joshua Chestnut entitled, Cultivating a Hopeful Imagination in a Pornified Culture. In this workshop we will consider some of the fragmenting and dehumanizing consequences of pornography with the help of recent neurological and sociological research on the unseen costs of habitually viewing porn. We will then explore the importance of developing the virtues of patience, imagination and hope for ourselves and friends who are struggling to stay...
Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 29 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Dave Friedrich entitled, The Ark of Speech. “How far does our hospitality go? How far can it go? What can we welcome and gather in, and how? Hospitality is, first and foremost, the hospitality that we give each other, exchanging words and silences, glances and voices. And yet…” These are the opening words of The Ark of Speech , by poet and theologian Jean-Louis Chretien, who is also one of France’s leading philosophers. In this workshop we wi...
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr 31 min
This week's episode features audio from a lecture with Dick Keyes called, "America’s Polarized Politics: Can Christians have a Redemptive Role?" We live in a society which has created a level of political polarization almost to paralysis. The word “Evangelical” has come to signify a voting block more than a theological or spiritual designation for many people. What can thoughtful Christian people say and do to help in healing this disunity? Dick Keyes is the former director of Southborough L’Abr...
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 33 min
This week's episode features audio from a lecture with Anna Friedrich entitled , Grief and Anger: Appropriate Responses at the Tomb of Lazarus, in Dylan Thomas’ poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”, and in Our Own Lives. It is easier for some of us to make room for sadness than for anger, especially in the wake of tragedy, or even in the plain old story of getting older. Dylan Thomas’s famous poem of imperatives for his dying father set alongside the reaction of Jesus at his friend’s tom...
Dec 16, 2019•1 hr 10 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop with Mary Frances Giles called, "What Does the Bible Have to Tell us About Sexual Harassment and #MeToo?" Over the course of the past two years, the #MeToo movement has catapulted sexual harassment and assault, primarily against women, to the forefront of our cultural awareness. There appears to be a shift occurring in our collective American consciousness. Acts of sexual harassment and assault that have been historically overlooked are now bein...
Dec 02, 2019•1 hr 3 min
This week's episode features audio from a lecture by Robb Ludwick entitled, The Return of the Heart: Restoring Wholeness vs Reinforcing Fragmentation. Robb Ludwick lives and works at L’Abri Fellowship in the Netherlands with his wife and four children. Alongside rendering hospitality and mentoring L’Abri guests, Robb teaches and writes regularly on cultural apologetics and personal spirituality. He holds degrees in literature, pastoral theology and philosophical anthropology. To receive e-mail u...
Nov 25, 2019•1 hr 26 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Phillip Johnston entitled, Bodies with Meaning: Christianity’s Liberating Sex Ethic. The historic Christian understanding of sex – that the one proper place for sexual expression is in the covenanted marriage of one man and one woman – is often viewed in our day as an absurd vestige of outdated religion that places unrealistic limitations on human freedom. We describe such a view as traditional, but in the first-century world where Christiani...
Nov 18, 2019•1 hr 29 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Ben Keyes entitled, Living with Contradictory Expectations: A Meditation on “Let it Go” and Other Inspirational Break- up Songs. Daniel Boorstin wrote of Americans in 1961: “Never before has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.” This workshop will examine the song Let it Go from the Disney movie “Frozen” (2013) as a more recent example of extravagant and contradictory expectations. What did this movie encourage young peo...
Nov 12, 2019•1 hr 23 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Dave Friedrich entitled, There’s a Crack in Everything: The Broken Hallelujah of Leonard Cohen. Listen to Leonard Cohen sing about, “what everybody knows”, but what we find hard to accept and express in life and faith. Dave Friedrich was born and raised in Canada. After attending Tyndale University for Biblical Studies he went on to study philosophy at York University in Toronto for his Bachelor’s, and then completed a Master’s with a concent...
Nov 04, 2019•1 hr 18 min
This week's episode features audio from a lecture by Robb Ludwick entitled, The Lure of Mindfulness . Courses in mindfulness as an answer to our stressful and fragmented existence have become popular and common. Exercises in focus and appreciation of the moment are valuable practices. A proper view of reality, however, is necessary for it to be truly fruitful. Robb Ludwick lives and works at L’Abri Fellowship in the Netherlands with his wife and four children. Alongside rendering hospitality and...
Oct 28, 2019•1 hr 14 min
This week's episode features audio from a lecture with Nickaela Fiore-Keyes entitled, Living with Loss . Nickaela Fiore-Keyes is the co-director of L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough. She first came to L’Abri in 2003 from California, after graduating from Azusa Pacific University. From 2005-2007, Nickaela and her husband Ben attended Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, where she studied Theology and Culture. In 2007, while pregnant with twin girls, she and Ben returned to work at L’Abri in South...
Oct 21, 2019•1 hr 19 min
This week's episode features audio from a lecture with Anna Friedrich entitled , Friendship and Redemption in the Story of Ruth: How Self-giving Loyalty Changes Everything . Anna Friedrich grew up in southern Virginia, playing guitar, frequenting thrift stores, and dreaming of being a missionary in Africa or in the Amazon someday. After a semester abroad in Nairobi, Kenya, and a brief stint studying music, she read one shining paragraph in a book by Steve Garber that mentioned a place in Switzer...
Oct 07, 2019•1 hr 19 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop with Sarah Chestnut entitled , Becoming Less Fragile: Self-control as Inner Dominion. If a biblical understanding of human dominion involves exercising care and responsibility for God’s creation, how might we learn to exercise dominion over our often chaotic inner worlds – the thoughts and feelings that fuel depression and anxiety? How might growing in self-control make us more emotionally resilient? Sarah Chestnut grew up in a small, rural comm...
Sep 30, 2019•1 hr 23 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop with Jock McGregor called, "Christ and Culture Revisited". Evangelicals have never been more divided or confused about our place in the world. Should we engage the culture on its’ terms or pull out and hunker down? Should we embrace ‘minority status’ or ‘take back’ the culture? H.R. Niebuhr’s classic formulations of Christ and Culture still have much to offer, but it is Scripture that best orients us for this moment. Jock McGregor and his wife A...
Sep 23, 2019•1 hr 4 min
This week's episode features audio from a lecture with Dick Keyes called, "Letting God be God in a Fragmenting World". Dick Keyes is the former director of Southborough L’Abri Fellowship , where he has worked with his wife and family since 1979. He holds a B.A. in History from Harvard University and an M.Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Dick has also worked for L’Abri Fellowship in Switzerland and in England. He served as a pastor in the International Presbyterian Chur...
Sep 16, 2019•1 hr 24 min
Thank you for your interest in the Nashville L'Abri Conference Podcast. Each episode features the audio from one of the lectures or workshops. A new episode will be released each Monday morning. You can subscribe and listen using any podcasting app or listen online. This week's episode features audio from a workshop with Mary Frances Giles called, "Moving Out and Moving On – Why It’s Important to Run Away from Home" In generations past, most young people could not wait to move away from home and...
Sep 09, 2019•54 min
Thank you for your interest in the Nashville L'Abri Conference Podcast. Each episode features the audio from one of the lectures or workshops. A new episode will be released each Monday morning. You can subscribe and listen using any podcasting app or listen online. This week's episode features audio from a workshop with Nickaela Fiore-Keyes, Sarah Chestnut and Robb Ludwick entitled, " What if you Want to Come to L’Abri?" A number of the participants in the Nashville conference shared an interes...
Sep 02, 2019•1 hr 19 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Joshua Chestnut entitled, Scrolling Alone: Staying Human in a Smart-phone Culture To receive e-mail updates about the podcast including lecture handouts, articles, books referenced in the lectures and updates about future gatherings, please submit your e-mail address via this link or at nashvillelabriconference.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 26, 2019•1 hr 13 min
This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Phillip Johnston entitled, How to be a Better Lover: Attention in a Distracted World. To receive e-mail updates about the podcast including lecture handouts, articles, books referenced in the lectures and updates about future gatherings, please submit your e-mail address via this link or at nashvillelabriconference.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 19, 2019•1 hr 17 min
