Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations

Potter’s Inn Soul Care Conversations is a place where our souls meet the world. We invite you into a relevant, vulnerable, and courageous conversation with us. We’ll explore key Soul Care issues facing us in work, health, relationships, and God. In our busy lives we all need a space to reflect, be inspired, and get some needed resources to help us navigate the white water of life. This podcast is provided by Potter’s Inn, a ministry dedicated to the care of the soul for leaders in the ministry and the marketplace. Stephen W. Smith is the host and the author of 12 books and guides. The Soul Care Conversation podcast is listened to in over 80 countries and has over 275,000 downloads. Approximately 6,000+ people listen to the podcast monthly. The podcast has interviewed such guests as Ruth Haley Barton, Roger Housden, Brian McLaren, Sarah Bessy and others.

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TOP 10 Episodes: #9- Lamenting through the Pandemic

This is WEEK 2 of our summer series The Roaring Summer of ‘21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened too and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks. Today is our 9th most popular podcast, which was recorded at the beginning of the pandemic and originally aired in March 2020 and called Lamenting through the Pandemic. SHOW NOTES How can we ever find words for all our groaning’s stirring i...

Jun 15, 2021•51 min

Top 10 Episodes: #10 - Discernment, the Journey to Discover God's Will

This is the beginning of our summer series The Roaring Summer of ‘21 Series: The Best of the Best! We have gone back thru all 5 of our seasons and come up with 10 episodes that have been our most listened too and will be airing those episodes over the next 10 weeks. Today we start the countdown with #10 - Discernment: The Journey to Discover God’s Will . It was originally aired in May 2019 (our 11th episode!) and Steve chats with Father Tim Corbley about discernment and the Ignatian Exercises. E...

Jun 08, 2021•1 hr 9 min

Ascending the Mountain Within

SHOW NOTES Prayer - it eludes people. The original disciples didn’t get prayer. Most of us don’t get it either. And Contemplative Prayer? That really confuses people! The modern world has lost sight of this vital practice. So Steve and Gwen set out to study, learn and even unlearn what they thought they knew about contemplative prayer. The journey was life changing. The book “Ascending the Mountain Within” is the fruit of that long journey, and today we have the privilege of hearing Joe Chambers...

May 18, 2021•34 min•Season 5Ep. 91

A Soul Care Experience

SHOW NOTES How do you “do” the invisible work of caring for your soul? The Soul Care Institute was created to do just that -to help you discover what your soul has been longing for. Kaylene Derksen, the President of the Soul Care Institute (and previous co-host for the podcast!) joins today’s podcast and chats with 3 students who are in the middle of their own journeys. Listen as they describe how they made the decision to join the Soul Care Institute and what they are learning through their jou...

May 04, 2021•56 min•Season 5Ep. 90

Exposing the Soul of the Pastor!

SHOW NOTES The Soul Care Conversation in this episode is "Exposing the Soul of the Pastor!" We live in a day of tension, frustration, and alienation - and no people group faces the brunt of the discord we navigate more than pastors of the local church. We've gathered four pastors to have a candid conversation, which will be a portal for us to listen and understand the soul of the pastor in today's environment. A pastor told me recently that "Pastoring today is like pastoring the United States wh...

Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 89

The Post-Pandemic Church

SHOW NOTES What will church look like and be like in the post pandemic era? We discuss pastors inner worlds and implications for the new wine that is coming! A stirring, provocative conversation which will rattle and stretch us from these two seasoned veterans who work in the subterranean world of helping church leaders! MEET SPECIAL GUEST DR. CHUCK DEGROAT Chuck is Professor of Counseling and Christian Spirituality at Western Theological Seminary Holland MI, and Co-Founder and a Senior Fellow a...

Apr 13, 2021•54 min•Season 5Ep. 88

The Trap of Money, Sex, Power - Part 2

“No issues touch us more profoundly or more universally. No themes are more inseparably intertwined. No topics caused more controversy. No human realities have greater power to bless or to curse. No three things have been sought after or more in need of a Christian response: money, sex, and power. — Richard Foster, from Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Money, Sex, and Power We are continuing the conversation today with Steve and Special guest Hayne Steen - “The Trap of Money, Sex, and Power, P...

Mar 30, 2021•35 min•Season 5Ep. 87

The Trap of Money, Sex, and Power - Part 1

SHOW NOTES “No issues touch us more profoundly or more universally. No themes are more inseparably intertwined. No topics caused more controversy. No human realities have greater power to bless or to curse. No three things have been sought after or more in need of a Christian response: money, sex, and power." — Richard Foster, from Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Money, Sex, and Power This quote from Richard Foster is the perfect introduction to today’s podcast. Join Steve and Special guest H...

Mar 23, 2021•41 min•Season 5Ep. 86

The Soul of Sex

SHOW NOTES Dear Friends, This podcast is about “The Soul of Sex.” This is an honest, vulnerable, and transparent conversation. I talk with Jim Cress, a licensed professional and trained counselor who specializes in the soul of sex. PLEASE NOTE: This is a conversation you need to exercise wisdom with in terms of who listens to this. It’s a mature conversation not intended for children. But is is a conversation to enter with your friends and spouse. When we say “where soul meets the world” in this...

Mar 16, 2021•52 min•Season 5Ep. 85

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