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New Community ChurchHope & Joy | Jon HuckinsGuest speaker Jon Huckins invites us into his wrestling with hope and joy amid a season of despair, fear, and anger. Drawing inspiration from his immigrant neighbors who embody resilience despite living in fear, and grounded in the theology of the everyday—a "theology from below" rooted in lived experience rather than academia—Jon explores how we can practice hope not as a mere feeling but as an active choice to do "the next right thing.”CHAPTERS[00:00] - Welcome and Introduction[02:12] - The Current Moment[03:17] - Learning from Neighbors[05:11] - Day...
2025-11-1732 min
Spiritual Life and Leadership262. From Fired to Flourishing, with Chuck DeGroat, author of Healing What's WithinIn his newest book, Chuck DeGroat offers a deeply personal account of his journey of being fired from a ministry position and the stress surrounding that experience that ultimately led to a life-changing health crisis. But it was that crisis that showed him the much deeper inner healing he needed.In this episode, Chuck DeGroat discusses not only his experience of deep inner healing, but also the need for inner healing for all of us who are ministry leaders.THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:Chuck DeGroat highlights his experience with the autonomic...
2025-04-0142 min
Spiritual Life and Leadership258. Walking the Path of Other-Centered Leadership, with Marc Schelske, author of Walking OtherwardTrue ministry leadership isn’t about power; it’s about love in action. It’s about stepping into the self-giving, co-suffering way of Jesus, even when it feels counterintuitive. This kind of leadership doesn’t seek control but embraces humility, sacrifice, and deep connection with those we serve.In this episode, Marc Schelske, pastor of Bridge City Community Church and author of Walking Otherward, unpacks how embracing this kind of love reshapes our leadership, strengthens our churches, and helps us navigate the challenges of ministry with grace and wisdom.THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE...
2025-03-0448 min
Spiritual Life and Leadership248. Ministry's Heavy Burdens and the Christmas Promise of RestIn this special Christmas Eve episode of Spiritual Life and Leadership, Markus Watson takes a moment to share some heartfelt encouragement for those feeling the weight of ministry's demands. Reflecting on both personal and professional burdens, Markus reminds us of the importance of leaning on Jesus to find true rest and relief. By exploring the story of the shepherds, magi, and even King Herod, Markus illustrates how Jesus invites each of us to let go of our exhaustion and allow Him to help carry our burdens.THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:Pastors face a lot of...
2024-12-2408 min
The Nomad ChroniclesSeason 2: Nomad Episode #4 - Mentors.Engagement - 11:15:24, 11.40 AMIn this Episode, Terry, Dan and Rob Yackley welcome Jon Huckins to the discussion for a robust and insightful interaction around Nomads finding guides who can help mentor the engagement of the future in the days ahead. Don't miss this important dialogue!
2024-11-1842 min
Spiritual Life and Leadership238. Lead with Less Anxiety, with Alan Fadling, author of A Non-Anxious LifeIs it possible to lead a congregation without being consumed by anxiety and stress? How can we as ministry leaders manage the pressures and expectations we carry while maintaining a sense of peace and lightness?In this episode, Alan Fadling, author of A Non-Anxious Life, unpacks how ministry leaders can navigate anxiety by creating a supportive network of friends and mentors, understanding God’s joyful nature, and how these realities can transform our personal life and pastoral leadership.THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:Alan Fadling advises not bringing personal anxiety into a congregation bu...
2024-10-1538 min
space for faith with mike goldsworthy077 - Jon Huckins and Journey Home PilgrimagesJon Huckins is the co founder of Global Immersion, a peacemaking training organization, and was the co-director until 2023. He is now the founder of Journey Home and Adjunct Professor of New Testament at Point Loma Nazarene University.
Jon and I talk about vocational shifts, the performative nature of the way we found ourselves doing our work, his journey into post-evangelicalism, the Camino de Santiago, and the immersive experience of a pilgrimage that opens the pilgrim up to find some kind of healing, awakening, and transformation. He shares about the importance of spaces for dominant culture men to do their own wo...
2024-08-2936 min
Spiritual Life and Leadership206. The Healing Power of Pilgrimage, with Jon Huckins, Director of Journey HomeWhen I walked the Camino de Santiago in 2022, it was something I had been longing to do for years. After a fairly traumatic experience at a church I'd been serving, the thought of just walking with Jesus for an extended time felt like exactly what I needed.I walked the Camino together with Jon Huckins, the founder and Director of Journey Home. In this episode, Jon unpacks why pilgrimmage is so meaningful and how it can help those of us in leadership to be our best selves for the sake of those we're leading, for the world, an...
2024-03-0540 min
Engaging GrayControl, Conflict, and Change with Jon HuckinsThis month's conversation centers around control, conflict, and how they are catalysts and barriers to change. We shy away from conflict and move towards comfort where we feel in control often robbing us of the opportunity to change. Sometimes the unexpected or even unwanted are the best catalysts for the change we need. Join our conversation with Jon Huckins, author, guide, and founder of Journey Home.
Connect with Jon:
Personal Insta @jonhuckins
Journey Home Insta @journey_home_pilgrimages
Journey Home Website
2024-02-0549 min
2024-02-0532 min
Craft & CharacterDiscerning the Times with Jon HuckinsAs headlines convulse with the latest news about the Israel-Hamas war, how should followers of Jesus respond?Jon Huckins, professor, author, and founder of Journey Home, shares with Steve Carter about what peacemaking looks like一first in our own hearts, then in the world God calls us to love. This convicting conversation point us toward the way of Jesus, helping us see the image of God in people on all sides of the conflict.Jon and Steve, who recently hiked the Camino de Santiago together, reflect on the lost art of pilgrimage and how it he...
2023-10-3156 min
Spiritual Life and Leadership163. You Can't Be Found if You're Never Lost, with Steve Carter, author of The Thing Beneath the ThingWhat do you do when you’re set up to be the successor of the lead pastor of one of the biggest and most well-known churches in the world and suddenly everything comes crashing down? What do you do when it becomes clear that the beloved pastor you were meant to follow has been found to be abusive toward women—and the church’s leadership fails to take responsibility for the systems that allowed that?What do you do?This is exactly the situation that Steve Carter faced. Steve was set to succeed Bill Hyb...
2023-05-0955 min
PraxisOur Values - ReconciliationSend us a textToday we’re talking about our sixth and final core values as a church which is reconciliation. We believe that reconciliation is at the center of the gospel. And so, as a church, we seek to both model and join God’s reconciling work in the world. We want to be part of God’s work of righting all that’s wrong in the world. In this episode we provide a theology of reconciliation and then practically discuss what it means to live as a peace-making community in an increasingly polarized and divided world.
2023-03-201h 06
Mending DividesA Father and Son Talk Politics, Family, & Faith — Doug & Jon HuckinsIn today's episode, we have the privilege of meeting Jon's dad, Doug Huckins. Jon and his dad share how they have navigated their own conversations (and convictions) around politics, faith, and their commitment to each other. The episode is both personal and accessible. They discuss the impact of their families of origin on their politics, the historical relationship between faith and politics in the United States, and what they learned from working through hard conversations as father and son. They haven't always seen eye to eye on these topics, but their shared willingness to continue to lean in and...
2022-11-081h 09
Mending DividesWhy Following Jesus Is Political — Osheta Moore & Jon HuckinsIn this episode, Osheta and Jon share personal stories that led them to care so deeply about peace in the public square. Offering a brief overview of the history of Christian engagement in politics, and critiquing our tendency toward nationalism or apolitical withdrawal, Jon outlines a framework for engaging politics as kingdom citizens. Inviting us into her experience as a Black woman who is directly impacted by broken policies, Osheta shares why it’s important to understand the role of power, generational trauma and “rest as resistance” for those on the margins in pursuit of peace. She tells her story...
2022-09-1359 min
Mending DividesSeason 4 Trailer - Peace and PoliticsPolitics and Peace.
In the midst of today’s violent political rhetoric, the weight of oppressive systems crushing those on the margins, and family holidays becoming more complex to navigate, it’s hard to imagine how politics and peace have any connection.
We think they do, so much so that we are committing an entire podcast season to it.
As we enter the midterm elections, we're thrilled to announce that the next season of the Everyday Peacemaking podcast will focus entirely on Peace and Politics, exploring how we become Ev...
2022-08-2302 min
Antioch Church | Video PodcastAn Alternative Economy for Uncertain TimesJON HUCKINS, Global Immersion Project / Ninth Sunday after Pentecost / Luke 12.32-40
2022-08-0827 min
Antioch Church | Audio PodcastAn Alternative Economy for Uncertain TimesJON HUCKINS, Global Immersion Project / Ninth Sunday after Pentecost / Luke 12.32-40
2022-08-0827 min
Peace Catalyst PodcastJon Huckins - Building Peace Across BordersJon Huckins is a pastor and Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project, a peacemaking training organization helping individuals and communities move toward conflict equipped to heal rather than to win. He has a Masters from Fuller Theological Seminary in Theology and Ethics; and he writes for publications such as USA Today, Red Letter Christians, Sojourners, and Relevant. He is also the author of Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World, Thin Places: Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional Community, and Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling.
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The Global Imme...
2022-03-0857 min
Pilgrim LostThe Peacemaking Pilgrim with guest Jon Huckins of the Global Immersion ProjectGlobal Immersion Project ; Jon Huckins website ; Jon Huckins Books ; Jon's favorite Pilgrimage Book : The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
2021-02-0349 min
Snarky FaithPostcards from Babylon InterviewJoin me as I sit down with author Brian Zhand and filmmakers David and Kathi Peters about their upcoming documentary, Postcards from Babylon. Postcards From Babylon is a documentary featuring author and pastor Brian Zahnd as he investigates possibly the most important question for the church in North America today, a church often characterized by Christian Nationalism: How does the church stay faithful to the beautiful way of Jesus while situated in one of the most divisive political climates in our nation’s history? The film, based on his popular book of the same name, beg...
2021-01-1356 min
Mending DividesHailey Mitsui, Jon Huckins & Jer Swigart - a 2020 CommissionAs we wrap up season one of the new Everyday Peacemaking podcast, we took time to reflect on 2020, division in the USA, the pandemic, and the impact we can have as everyday peacemakers moving into the new year
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2020-12-2136 min
2020-10-2821 min
The Changing Faith Podcast with Michael HidalgoEpisode 066 :: Jon Huckins Has Conflicted AllegianceThis episode is an Election Day Special. Jon Huckins joins us on the podcast to talk about what it means for us to live as responsible citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven in the midst of the Empire of the United States. He explores how this can lead us to observe the way our society is ordered, our place in it and how this might impact the way we vote. To learn more about his work, visit https://globalimmerse.org
2020-10-2748 minMending DividesJon Huckins - “ A Personal Journey Toward Conflicted Allegiance"What does it mean for a Christian to be a patriot? How should the Church relate to the nation state, especially one as powerful as the United States?
In this episode, Jon Huckins shares two ways Christians often approach politics and then offers a third way he calls ‘a conflicted allegiance.’
At this critical moment in our nation’s history, we as the people of Jesus must pledge our allegiance first and foremost to the Kingdom of God. The only proper allegiance as US Americans is a conflicted one, allowing the values of the Kingdom to gui...
2020-10-2624 min
Pat & Jon on Their Best BehaviorEp. 21: "Cast Away" Hits Different in Quarantine [w/ Sarah Huckins]Put on your life preserver (for your body and mind) as the boys are joined by Sarah Huckins to discuss Cast Away, the ultimate quarantine movie. The group envisions how each of them would fare on a deserted island, Jon tries (and fails) to blow Pat's and Sarah's minds with a fun fact about FedEx, and Pat delivers a treatise on his favorite member of the Hanks family: Chet.
Follow Sarah on Instagram (@the_donut_diaries), and purchase your very own Wilson to keep you company in these difficult times: https://www.wilson.com/en-us/volleyball/balls/o...
2020-10-011h 09
The Jackie and Stacey ShowS2/E40: INTERVIEW with Jon Huckins on PEACEMAKINGMonthly Topic: PEACEMAKING. Meet Jon Huckins. He is a beloved and brilliant friend who also happens to be a leader in encouraging and teaching on Peacemaking. From his website, JonHuckins.net: “Jon is a pastor and Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project, a peacemaking training organization helping individuals and communities move toward conflict equip to heal rather than to win. He is also works with Thresholds as a missional church leadership coach and co-leads a neighborhood faith community.” We are sure you’ll love him as much as we do! In case you stick around ‘till the end - our emai...
2020-08-3141 min
The Theology Of...S1E1: StorytellingThis week, the guys explore the art of storytelling and the narrative arc of the Ultimate Story: The Bible.
Show Notes (The Theology of Storytelling) S1:E1
Welcome to our first episode! These show notes will be added every week to provide you with timestamps and a table of contents for the audio, our key takeaways, and resources for you to dig deeper into these topics for yourself.
Table of Contents & Timestamps:
(0:00-3:13) Introduction
(3:13-9:23) Why are Stories so Compelling?
(9:23...
2020-08-2647 min
The Future Is HereEP. 5: The Peacemaking Church w/ Jon HuckinsPeacemaking is not just a good idea, it’s the mission of God and the vocation of God’s people. So what would the world look like if the Church took seriously, our call to be peacemakers? In pursuit of the answer, our guest Jon Huckins from The Global Immersion Project talks to our host Tommy Nixon about how he immerses himself into conflicts around the globe. In this episode of The Future Is Here podcast, learn how peacemaking is central to our faith, for it is an actual way of life and the very adve...
2020-06-2432 min
Makers ChurchWon't You Be My Neighbor - Everyday PeacemakingMessage by guest Jon Huckins, given on June 9th, 2019. Visit www.MakersChurch.org for more information or to check out our previous gatherings.
2019-06-1141 min
For The Love With Jen Hatmaker PodcastAngels & Peacemakers: Mending the DividesSusan Ramirez and Jon Huckins are giving their all in some of *the* hardest work: lending voices and love to two communities who are suffering deeply. In our last episode of For the Love of Giving, we’re going to talk with Susan and Jon about the problems their communities face, and how we can give our time and privilege to help solve these complex problems. First up, Susan Ramirez is the CEO of National Angels, an org that walks alongside children and their caretakers in the foster care system. Today, we learn how one National Angels program is ch...
2018-12-181h 07
The Brilliance PodcastOh Dreamer SuiteThis is the story of our new album, Suite No. 1 Oh Dreamer, available everywhere Friday Nov. 9th.
As we engage with complex issues, may we see the humanity in the other, in the stranger, or perhaps in the person that happens to be on the opposite side of the aisle.
So may this song be a conversation starter. And let it invite you to dream again.
Produced by John Arndt and David Gungor. Sound design and mix by John Arndt.
Special thanks to World Relief, Mark Reddy, Jon Huckins, Global Immersion, Di...
2018-11-0726 minThe Changing Faith Podcast with Michael HidalgoEpisode 005 :: Jon Huckins and Mending the DividesWe’ve been told that the enemy is to be destroyed. Jesus tells us to love our enemies. We’ve been told that the other is a threat. Jesus tells us that it’s in the eyes of the other that we see God.
2017-11-2145 min
Post Christian PastorsEpisode 19 "Peace in a Mad, Mad World"Episode 19 is Here! Four pastors discussing and debating faith, relationships, pop culture, politics, ministry, food, entertainment, theology and much more!
Welcome to Post Christian Pastors! This episode was recorded just a day after the tragic shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead and over 500 people injured, some of those barely clinging to life. The guys spend the first part of the podcast talking about the shooting and looking for answers to the senseless violence in Vegas. They then turn their attention to our divided culture which is filled with OUTRAGE and DIVISION. From political divisions, racial d...
2017-10-0400 min
Tripp FullerLent Week 4: By Your Light We Become Light #LectioCastThe scripture passages this week bring us into a world of light: of light that shines so that we can see. Or, perhaps, shows us how we have been seeing people without perceiving them rightly in more ways than we are comfortable admitting. Seeing the light and becoming the light means allowing Jesus to reinterpret the world for us. In that world turned upside down we might even find that we’re sitting down to a feast, prepared by the Lord Shepherd, and looking into the eye of our enemy, who eats and drinks with us in the Kingdom of...
2017-03-2040 min
The Brilliance PodcastEpisode 04- Turning Over TablesThis week on The Brilliance Podcast we debut the song Turning Over Tables featuring Charles Jones. We speak with Jon Huckins about peacemaking, immigrants, Islamophobia, Jihad, Pope Francis and engaging with people that we adamantly disagree with.
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