Trailer | Season 7: Episode 3 | Karen Stiller | Is It Possible To Live a Holy Life Today?

Scripture Untangled

The people that you meet, and again, you know, being an Anglican priest's wife for years, you get welcomed into people's lives, and you get to know people, and you see what people have overcome, and you see how people are, you know, trying to live a holy life. And it's inspiring, and it's beautiful, and it's very ordinary, you know. We are bowled over by the stories of, you know, great adventures for God, and we should be that, you know, it's amazing when people climb the mountains and jump out of the airplanes. And...but what impacts me the most, because I live a very ordinary life, and that's where that really is where the, you know, most of us are, and there's so much beautiful, you know, beautiful relationships, and that's where we're growing. And those are the stories I like to hear, and those are the stories I like to tell.
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Listen to Karen Stiller being interviewed by seasoned journalist Lorna Dueck. Karen Stiller is a well-known writer and the senior editor of Faith Today magazine. In this moving episode, Karen discusses her new book Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life and how holiness is not just a condition but also a way of life. She shares about her husband’s recent passing and finding the goodness and holiness of God in the middle of an unexpected and painful season.
Karen Stiller is a senior editor of Faith Today magazine, a host of the Faith Today podcast and writes frequently for magazines like Reader's Digest, Ekstasis, In Trust, and other North American publications. Stiller is a three-time recipient of the prestigious A.C. Forrest Memorial Award from the Canadian Church Press for excellence in socially conscious religious journalism.

She is the author of Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Everyday Events of Ordinary Life, The Minister's Wife; co-author of Craft, Cost & Call, Shifting Stats Shaking the Church, and Going Missional; editor of The Lord's Prayer, and coeditor of Evangelicals Around the World. She lives in Ottawa and has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Non-Fiction from University of King's College, Dalhousie.
Learn more about Karen Stiller: karenstiller.com