Best Larry Ward Podcasts (2024)

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Aaron Glasson 55:09

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Episode 447 / Aaron Glasson (b Auckland, 1983) is a New Zealand born multi-disciplinary artist based in Mexico, City. Since completing a Bachelor's degree in Art and Design at the Auckland University of Technology in 2005 he has been exhibiting and creating public art works internationally. His diverse portfolio consists of participatory installati…

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1 Peter: Elect Exiles - Phil Ward 55:11

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1 Peter 1:1-2 We, as Exiles, are in fact elect exiles by the glorious work of the triune God.

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Remembering Dr. Barbara Holmes (Replay of 2016 Conversation) 58:24

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"Dr. B was passionate about expanding our understanding of the Christian contemplative tradition, reminding us that contemplation isn’t the sole domain of those who can retreat to quiet places. She understood, from her own life and from the traditions she carried forward, that contemplative practices must also arise in the midst of struggle, in the…

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Episode 307 - Gone Solo

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Some classic Jesus music, including: Til The Walls Fall Down – Matthew Ward Grinding Floor – Annie Herring You Got To Be Doers – Alwyn Wall When You Call – Malcolm Wild Morning Star – Allies Come To Find Out – Bryan Duncan Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning – Glenn Kaiser And Darrell Mansfield Practice What We Preach – Ulf Christiansson The Tongue…

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Christopher Daharsh 1:01:46

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Episode 446 / Christopher Daharsh is an artist who was born in 1990 in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012. Christopher has attended a number of residencies since then, including two yearlong residencies from the Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, Missouri), Art Farm (Marq…

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1 Peter: Elect Exiles: Becoming and Being Exiles - Phil Ward 1:00:52

8d ago1:00:52

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1 Peter 1:1-2

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Amy Leach on Becoming Salt of the Universe 54:01

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"I was recently giving a sermon and found myself spontaneously quoting from Amy Leach's singular and surprising new book. I expect many readers will find their own lives troubled (in the Biblical sense) and enlightened by her fresh perceptions. She has lived into a hard-earned and entirely credible wisdom, the best evidence for which is her irrepre…

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Henry Ward 1:12:42

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Episode 445 / Henry Ward is an artist, writer, and educator living in London. He works primarily as a painter, but also makes drawings and small sculptures. He is interested in exploring the language of paint by investigating the threshold between abstraction and representation. He was shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2018, 2…

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Sanctification: The Call to Sexual Purity in our Sanctification - Cyrus Waters 36:41

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1 Thessalonians 4:1–8

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Larry Madrigal 1:23:25

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Episode 444 / Larry Madrigal is a Mexican-American painter based in Phoenix, Arizona. Originally from Los Angeles, where his parents stayed after migrating from Mexico, Madrigal spent many of his early summers in Colima where his extended family lives. In 1998, during his elementary years, his family left California and moved to Phoenix where they …

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Sanctification: God’s Grace in Sanctification - Calvin Santos 50:18

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Titus 2:11-14

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Ben Katt on Getting Quiet, Midlife, and the Power of Ritual (also, we chat about David Hasselhoff) 1:09:41

24d ago1:09:41

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Ben Katt has worked with On Being, as an ordained minister, an advanced meditation teacher, and author. His first book, The Way Home: Discovering the Hero’s Journey to Wholeness at Midlife is a guidebook and memoir about the inner journey that calls us further in the midst of life’s busyness. Ben is the founder of the WITHIN Prison Meditation Proje…

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Andrew Sim 1:09:32

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Episode 443 / ANDREW SIM (b. 1987, Glasgow) lives and works in New York. They work across drawing and painting, often utilising their favoured medium of pastel in large-scale figurative pieces. Sim’s practice borrows from their everyday experience to inflect various motifs – werewolves, sunflowers, horses, and trees, amongst other items – with elem…

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Sanctification: Sanctification in Community - David Morgan 44:53

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Colossians 3:12-17

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Episode 306 - more than words with Chuck Butler, part 2 57:50

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Some classic Jesus music, including: The Plain Truth – Parable Psalm 5 – Bill Sprouse Jr All Alone - Parable Peter, James And John – Parable Let The Old Man Die - Parable Song For The Church – Parable There’s A Reason – Parable Come Untangled - Parable A Prayer – Parable The City – Parable Good Bye - Parable…

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Elizabeth Englander 1:01:06

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Episode 442 / Elizabeth Englander (b.1988, Boston, MA) lives and works in New York, NY. She received her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and her MFA from Hunter College in 2019. Recent solo exhibitions include: House of Gaga, Guadalajara (2023), Liste Art Fair Basel, solo presentation with Theta (2023); Theta, New York (2022); Sm…

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Sanctification: Looking to Jesus - Matt Pierce 52:29

1M ago52:29

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Hebrews 12:1-3

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Sanctification: The Father’s Loving Discipline in Our Sanctification - Larry Adams 58:12

1M ago58:12

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Hebrews 12:4-14

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Jeffrey Martin on Thank God We Left the Garden, Letters, and Literature 1:22:53

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"[Jeffrey Martin writes] Songs that are stark in their simplicity, yet emotionally rich in a way that can catch your breath in your throat or leave your eyes suddenly damp." — Paste Jeffrey Martin is a musician with a number of albums under his belt. His latest, Thank God We Left the Garden, has been playing on repeat in my house since November of …

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Colleen Barry 1:37:17

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Episode 441 / Colleen Barry is an artist and painter who grew up in NYC whose studio is based out of Brooklyn, NY. She studied art at the National Academy of Design in NYC and has had shows at venues such as Fredericks and Freiser (2023), The Sotheby’s Institute (2023), Nathalie Karg Gallery (2023), The Library Street Collective (2024), James Fuent…

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Jess Valice 1:07:28

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Episode 440 / Jess Valice is a Los Angeles-based artist born in 1996 in Los Angeles, California, who studied art in grade school but went on to pursue an education in neuroscience at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC). After three years into her education, she decided to end her path in science to pursue painting. Self-taught, Jess Valice now showca…

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Sanctification: Slow But Sure - Matt LaValliere 51:34

2M ago51:34

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2 Corinthians 4:16

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Susan Murphy on Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis, the vast meaning of Country, and Cooling Fires 55:23

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“A powerful and important plunge into the reality of the mind and climate.” — Joan Halifax, author of Being with Dying and Standing at the Edge Susan Murphy is an Australian Zen teacher whose passionate feeling of kinship with the natural world began during her early childhood years living near the Great Barrier Reef and the Gondwanaland rainforest…

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Hisham Akira Bharoocha 1:34:54

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Episode 439 / This week we are reissuing a conversation with artist and musician Hisham Akira Bharoocha. Hisham will be performing live music this Saturday at 2pm at the opening of my survey show “You Could Feel the Sky” at the Williamsburg Biannual at 333 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Come join us for live music, Grimm Ales and work that I…

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Sanctification: What is Sanctification? - Phil Ward 55:05

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Hebrews 10:10-18

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Sarah Boyts Yoder 1:19:21

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Episode 438 / Sarah Boyts Yoder is a painter based in Charlottesville, VA. She received an MFA in painting from James Madison University in 2006. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, exhibitions, and corporate and private collections throughout the United States and abroad, including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. Sarah ha…

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Episode 305 - more than words with Chuck Butler 57:50

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Some classic Jesus music, including: There’s A Reason – Parable Little Country Church – Love Song His Love Is Reaching Out For You – Karen Lafferty Two Hands – The Living Room Tapes (Chuck Butler/Love Song) Pearly Mansion – Country Faith Home – Fred Fields Someone’s Calling – Parable I Know What It’s Like – Chuck Butler Come Quickly Jesus – Tom Sti…

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We Are Emissaries: On To Maturity - Phil Ward 1:03:04

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We make and mature disciples according to God's appointed means. Hebrews 5:11-6:3

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Drew Jackson on Touch the Earth, Poetry as a Lifesaver, and the Importance of Lucille Clifton 1:12:12

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"In Touch the Earth, Drew Jackson's poetry offers a word-weary world a new language of engagement, disruption, and insight. As with all great poetry, the words are spare, but the literary images loom large, creating indelible impressions on the reader. Like echoes that reverberate long after the first sound, the poems stay with you, they dance with…

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We Are Emissaries: We Mature Disciples - Phil Ward 1:00:36

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We are sent to mature disciples, which means to point believers to Christ that they may behold him and become like him. Colossians 1:28

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Yoora Lee 58:44

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Episode 437 / Yoora Lee (b.1990) was born in South Korea and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated with her M.F.A in Painting and Drawing from school of the Art institute of Chicago in 2020. Her paintings are filled with analogous color relationships and wavering horizontal marks that imagine an impressionism derived from video ta…

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Yowshien Kuo 1:09:58

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Episode 436 / Yowshien Kuo is an artist who was born and works out of St. Louis, MO. He earned an MFA ND BFA from Fontbonne University. He has had solo shows at Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy, CAM Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Praise Shadows in Boston, The Bermuda Project in Ferguson, MO and others. He’s been included in group shows at the Ba…

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We Are Emissaries: We Make Disciples - Phil Ward 59:17

3M ago59:17

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We are sent to make disciples, evidenced by baptism, and taught to walk in obedience to Christ. Matthew 28:16-20

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Tracy Cochran on the Art of Presence, Mistakes as Practice, & the Grief of Awakening 1:03:42

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Tracy Cochran is a writer, meditation teacher, and editorial director of Parabola, an acclaimed quarterly magazine that draws on the world’s cultural and wisdom traditions to explore the questions that all humans share. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Psychology Today, O Magazine, and New York Magazine to name a few. Her latest publ…

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Jacqueline Surdell 1:20:09

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Episode 435 / Jacqueline Surdell was born and raised in Chicago, IL. She reimagines the woven canvas as a space of undulation and growth. As the expanded histories of painting materialize in her work as content, simultaneously, swollen tendrils and textures of bound rope deny illusions of the classically painted picture plane. The works actively wo…

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We Are Emissaries: We Are Emissaries - Phil Ward 17:43:00

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We are sent into the world on a mission to deliver the message handed down to us, which means we are emissaries 1 Peter 2:9

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Dabin Ahn 1:19:42

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Episode 434 / Dabin Ahn (b. 1988, Seoul, Korea) received a BFA (2017) and an MFA (2020) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ahn’s recent solo exhibitions include Silent Whisper, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Staged, Ochi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); 1st Dibs, Artruss, Chicago, IL (2023); ONE-OFF, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, C…

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He Rules and Reigns: Believe in Him - Phil Ward 1:02:53

3M ago1:02:53

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John 6:1-14, 22-30

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Brian McLaren on Life After Doom, Patient Urgency, & Complexifying Hope 1:06:31

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Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. He is a core faculty member and Dean of Faculty for the Center for Action and Contemplation an…

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Episode 304 - names of God 57:50

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Some classic Jesus music, including: Cornerstone – Leon Patillo Why Should The Father Bother – Petra (Abba) Rock Of Love – Michele Pillar Praise The Lord – Russ Taff/Imperials (Lord Master – Adonai) Immanuel – Michael Card El-Shaddai – Amy Grant (God Almighty) The Prince Song – 2nd Chapter Of Acts Yaweh – 2nd Chapter of Acts/Phil Keaggy (Lord Jehov…

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Daniel Savage 1:06:01

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Ep. 433 / Daniel Savage is an artist and animator based in Los Angeles. His background in percussion and design has helped to develop a look that can best be described as visual rhythm. His work has been commissioned by clients such as Hermès, The New Yorker, and Adult Swim, and recognized by the ADC Young Guns, Webby Awards, and Society of Illustr…

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He Rules and Reigns: The Restoring Power of Jesus - Phil Ward 58:17

3M ago58:17

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Mark 5:21-43

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Emily Pettigrew 1:08:06

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Episode 432 Emily Pettigrew was born in Maine in 1991. She received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York who lives and works in Delhi, New York. Pettigrew’s recent solo and group exhibitions include "The Inside Out" at the Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg in Derneburg, Germany (2024); "Pablo’s Cabinet" at Pablo’s Birthday in Verbier, Switz…

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He Rules and Reigns: Responding to Jesus' Rule and Reign - Phil Ward 1:14:11

4M ago1:14:11

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Mark 5:1-20

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Cassidy Hall on Queering Contemplation, Letting Go of Thomas Merton, and Expanding Foundations 1:17:14

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Cassidy Hall is an author, award-winning filmmaker, podcaster, ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and leading voice in contemplative spirituality. She is the cohost of the Encountering Silence podcast and the host of Contemplating Now and Queering Contemplation podcasts. Her latest book is Queering Contemplation, Finding Queerness in…

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Ghada Amer 1:10:56

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Ghada Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 and moved to Nice, France when she was eleven years old. She remained in France to further her education and completed both of her undergraduate requirements and MFA at Villa Arson École Nationale Supérieure in Nice (1989), during which she also studied abroad at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in B…

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He Rules and Reigns: Jesus Has Authority To Forgive Sins - Matt Pierce 52:55

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Luke 5:17-26

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Jamie Luoto 1:02:29

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Jamie Luoto (b. 1987) lives and works in the San Francisco North Bay. Her work has been featured in publications such as Booooooom, Art Maze Mag, and New American Paintings; appeared on platforms such as Juxtapoz and Hyperallergic; and is in international private and public collections including the Green Family Art Foundation (Dallas, USA). Select…

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Martine Johanna 1:33:16

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Martine Johanna is an artist who lives and works in Zetten in the Netherlands. She has had exhibitions at Massey Klein Gallery in NYC, Massey Lyuben Gallery in NYC, Spoke Art in San Francisco, Bright Side in Amsterdam, Hashimoto Gallery in San Francisco and many more. Her work has been covered in Metal Magazine, Booooooom, Interlocutor, Justapoz, C…