Shows
The Local Church PodcastSermon: Will You Hold It With Me? // Dr. Mallory WyckoffDateJune 1, 2025SynopsisThis week, we welcome special guest preacher Mallory Wyckoff, who first leads us in an imaginative exercise with scripture, inviting us to step into the story and feel its weight. We then explore how Jesus meets us in our deepest weariness and transforms the emptiest of places into spaces of abundance. Join us as we discover the power of trust in the deep places of our lives, where Jesus weaves nets of liberation and hope.ReferencesScripture: Luke 5:1-11About The Local Church
2025-06-0133 min
Discipleship ConversationsListening for God: A Conversation on Spiritual Direction – A Conversation with Mallory WyckoffThere comes a time in every seeker’s life when the well runs dry, when prayer feels hollow, scripture feels distant, and the certainty that once steadied our steps begins to shift like sand beneath our feet. In those moments, we do not need more noise, more answers, or more tasks to complete. Weneed a companion; a wise and patient listener who can help us hear the voice of God again.In this episode of Discipleship Conversations, hosts Cheryl Russell and Tiffany Dahlman welcome Dr. Mallory Wyckoff, a writer, speaker, spiritual director, and peacemaker who has spent her...
2025-03-1944 min
The Open Table Collective PodcastMallory Wyckoff: Finding Stillness in the Waiting (Season 1, Episode 17)The Open Table Collective is grateful to welcome Mallory Wyckoff to the table. Mallory is an author of the book "God is..." she is also a spiritual director, peace builder and peace maker, speaker, and incredible leader. Mallory takes us on a journey of how to navigate the liminal times of our life. The times where we are in the waiting between what was and what will be. Mallory is also involved in peace making and building work in a time of so much conflict so the conversation naturally went to some thoughts about the conflict in the Middle...
2023-12-081h 01
Tracks for the JourneyYour Endless ChristmasPost your thoughts here. If you want a reply email me at connectTFJ@yahoo.com. I look forward to hearing from you.By December 26, the Christmas wrapping paper is thrown away and the last tidbit of fruitcake eaten. But what if our Christmas celebration could go on-and-on to build our well-being? When we explore beyond the tinsel and tidbits, we can discover God at work far beyond our imagination or the simple fact of a Jewish baby born in 4 BCE. Our lives and our world can be transformed by an endless Christmas!Segments include:The...
2023-12-0112 min
The Winter Faith Newsletter by Andrew FrazierMallory Wyckoff says "God is Mother and Midwife" - Episode #166Mallory Wycoff joins the show to talk with Andy about her book "God is..". She has a story to tell and I am so grateful Mallory joined me on the show today.In her book she says God is Mother. God is Midwife. God is home. Listen to this interview to find out what she means and buy her book.Mallory Wyckoff is a writer, speaker, spiritual director, and peacemaker. She serves as key relationships officer with Preemptive Love, a global community of peacemakers working to end war and stop the spread of violence. Having completed her...
2023-09-2127 min
The Winter Faith PodcastMallory Wyckoff says "God is Mother and Midwife" - Episode #166Mallory Wycoff joins the show to talk with Andy about her book "God is..". She has a story to tell and I am so grateful Mallory joined me on the show today.
In her book she says God is Mother. God is Midwife. God is home. Listen to this interview to find out what she means and buy her book.
Mallory Wyckoff is a writer, speaker, spiritual director, and peacemaker. She serves as key relationships officer with Preemptive Love, a global community of peacemakers working to end war and stop the spread of violence.
Having completed her dissertation on the...
2023-09-2127 min
The Enneagram JourneyMallory Wyckoff (3) - Curiosity, Imaginative Prayer, God IsChanneling our inner Jeff Foxworthy... If you've ever thought to yourself, "How can I make sure people already know that I know the Enneagram and that I'm not new to it like they are?", you might be an Enneagram 3!
Welcome Mallory Wyckoff to The Enneagram Journey!
Mallory Wyckoff (DMin, MTS) is a writer, speaker, spiritual director, and peacemaker. She also serves as key relationships officer with Search for Common Ground, the world’s largest organization dedicated to peacebuilding. Having completed her dissertation on the impact of sexual trauma on survivors’ theological perception and spiritual formation, Mall...
2023-09-191h 17
South Bend City Church8.13 [TEACHING + REFLECTION] Jesus Stories (wk 4) – Invitations to HealingMallory Wyckoff - In Luke 13:10-17, we read a story about a synagogue leader’s criticism of a woman being healed on the Sabbath. As we imaginatively engage the text, we find ourselves in the story and sense an invitation to healing being extended to us—including our own critical parts—so that every system—internal and external—can be set free.
If you would like to join us in the Eucharist, make sure to have some form of bread or cracker and some form of juice or wine with you.
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2023-08-1455 min
Faith and FeminismWho is God?Traditional language for God has been dominated by a single image—Father—and masculine norms. For some, this language is meaningful. For others, it is deeply problematic. In both cases, it's limited. One thing is certain: God is More Mallory Wyckoff explains why in today's episode.
2023-06-271h 04
In the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is..." with Jason Adam MillerIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with Jason Adam Miller about what it looks like to remain rooted in a tradition while being open to The More, the difference between being centered and bounded, and the beautiful invitation to an ever-expanding sense of Self and God.
Jason Miller is the founding and teaching pastor of South Bend City Church, an eclectic Christian community known for its thoughtful teaching, inclusive vision, and commitment to its city context. He is an artist for whom the sermon is his song, and a teacher who is asking a...
2023-06-1453 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is Mystery" with Dr. Cindy LeeIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with Dr. Cindy Lee about the impact of colonization on faith formation, cultivating a spirituality of uncertainty, and engaging practices that allow us to rest into God as Mystery.
Cindy Lee is a spiritual director, aspiring mystic, and proudly Taiwanese-American. She is an adjunct professor and teaches in the areas of spirituality, mysticism, and spiritual direction. She also trains new spiritual directors with Liberated Together. She completed a PhD in the area of Christian spirituality from Claremont School of Theology and leads retreats on BIPOC centered spirituality. She i...
2023-05-3147 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is Home" with PropagandaIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with Jason Petty, otherwise known as Propaganda. We explore the metaphor of God as Home and the ways our social location helps us access particular truths—about God, and about the world. We discuss joy as an act of resistance and an honoring of our ancestors, and what it looks like to move in ways that both celebrate the world and help repair it.
Propaganda’s music and prose are about divergence and connection. Bred and raised in Los Angeles, Prop witnessed the intersection of all things and celeb...
2023-05-2451 min
2023-05-1824 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is Wisdom Within" with Keri LadouceurIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with Keri Ladouceur about practices that help us get into our bodies and access Wisdom Within, what it looks like to live from an interior orientation, and how indigenous teachings can help us reconnect with our own selves and everyone/everything else.
Keri Ladouceur is the founder of New Ground Network and co-creator of the Post-Evangelical Collective. She serves as a teaching pastor and the pastor of innovation at Community, as well as a coach and consultant to churches and denominations all over. As a Florida native frozen i...
2023-05-171h 05
Harbor, Pepperdine Bible LecturesGod Is: Expanding Our Images of God and SelfTeacher: Mallory Wyckoff
What we believe to be true about God informs
what we believe to be true about everything and
everyone else. When God is conceived solely
through masculine language, metaphors, and
imagery—whether in sermons, religious art, or in
private prayer—we are robbed of countless ways
to experience the Divine, to consider ourselves
as humans, to order our communities in ways
where everyone has the ability to flourish. In this
workshop, we’ll inventory our functioning image(s)
of God, explore feminine imagery and metaph...
2023-05-161h 402023-05-1123 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is Sexual Trauma Survivor" with Becca StevensIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with Rev. Becca Stevens about the healing power of community and what a trauma-informed theology looks like. We explore the image of God as sexual trauma survivor, and how God bears witness to our trauma, believes our stories, and says “Me too.”
TW: In our conversation, we cover topics including sexual assault and rape, so please care for yourself well.
Becca Stevens is a speaker, justice entrepreneur, author, priest, and founder and President of Thistle Farms, a home for survivors of prostitution and exploitation to experience healin...
2023-05-1039 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is Hostess" with Sara BartonIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with Dr. Sara Barton about experiencing a gracious invitation from God as Hostess in the midst of a world full of stingy table practices. Sara shares about collaborative leadership and teaching models that reflect hospitality, and what she learned about this virtue from living in Uganda. We explore our respective calls to preaching and ministry and how as women we’ve navigated the challenges therein.
Sara Barton is the University Chaplain at Pepperdine University where she teaches preaching and ministry courses. She is part of the preaching team at...
2023-05-0352 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is Midwife" with Jonathan MerrittIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with Jonathan Merritt about his deeply painful experience of being outed by a colleague and friend. We discuss the generative capacity of pain to birth new life within and through us, and we explore how the simple phrase “and also” helps us integrate trauma and re-narrate our stories.
TW: In our conversation, we touch on the topics of physical and sexual abuse, so please care for yourself well.
Jonathan Merritt is one of America’s most trusted and popular writers on religion, culture, and politics. He is an a...
2023-04-2648 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is Mother" with Manda CarpenterIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with my friend, Manda Carpenter, about the ways we both reflect and experience the image of God as Mother. We explore some of the different forms that mothering takes, discuss an expanded view of foster care, and dream about museums that would tell the stories of motherhood across time and culture.
TW: In our conversation, we touch on the topic of domestic violence, so please care for yourself well.
Manda is a writer, a speaker, and an advocate helping people grow in their faith and improve th...
2023-04-1950 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is Seamstress" with Jonathan Wilson-HartgroveIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove about reclaiming a biblical sense of justice as the healing of all things, how cycles of trauma show up in the prison industrial complex, and how a narrowed conception of God diminishes all of us.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a spiritual writer, preacher, and community-cultivator. He serves as Assistant Director for Partnerships and Fellowships at Yale University’s Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. In 2003, Jonathan and his wife Leah founded the Rutba House, a house of hospitality where the formerly homeless share community with th...
2023-04-1252 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is Creator" with Rev. Naomi Washington-LeaphartIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart about a Creator who is not threatened by an expanding creation, what it’s like for Naomi to see her queerness/blackness reflected in God-language and imagery, and why Queer Eye episodes are my favorite sermons.
Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart, a daughter of Detroit, is a Black-queer preacher, teacher, and activist. Naomi currently serves as the Director for Faith-Based and Interfaith Affairs for the city of Philadelphia. In this role, she serves as a public-facing leader, liaison, and subject matter expert for the Mayor’s Offic...
2023-04-0559 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is and Is Not" with Meredith MillerIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with Meredith Miller about how parents can nurture a healthy sense of faith within their kids—even and especially as their own sense of faith continues to evolve. We discuss the importance of expanding the language and metaphors we use to talk about God with children, and why our frameworks and assumptions about parenting need to be interrogated. Meredith offers a beautiful word of blessing to all parents and caregivers seeking to foster a life-giving spirituality—for themselves and for their families.
Meredith is a pastor, parent, and writ...
2023-03-2955 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is Communicator" with David GateIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with poet David Gate about the risks of communication, how God takes on these risks, and how we reflect the Divine when we do the same. We explore the nature(s) of “truth” and what it looks like to engage sacred text without colonizing impulses, and David shares several of his stunning poems.
David Gate is a poet, writer, and visual artist that hails from London, UK and now resides in the midst of the ancient Blue Ridge Mountains in Asheville, North Carolina. His work centers around care for...
2023-03-2251 minIn the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is More than We've Been Led to Believe" with Dr. Amy PeelerIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with Dr. Amy Peeler about the gender of God and common objections to God being anything but male. We discuss the use of masculine language in sacred texts, the importance of Mary in understanding the nature of Jesus’s maleness, and the implications of a theology that elevates men over women.
TW: In our conversation, we share an excerpt from Dr. Peeler's book that brings up the topic of rape, so please care for yourself well.
Amy Peeler is Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton Co...
2023-03-151h 07In the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is Hiding under the Table" with Michael McRayIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with my friend Michael McRay about the ways shame has been a constant companion in our lives. He shares the impact of sexual assault and purity culture on his experience of sexuality and what it has looked like for him to live into a healthier, freer story. We also explore the powerful connection between peacemaking and our own inner healing work, how learning to live a better story for ourselves is part of healing the world.
Trigger warning: In this episode we discussion sensitive topics including sexual assault...
2023-03-081h 05In the Waves with Mallory Wyckoff"God Is in the Waves" with Derek WebbIn this episode of In The Waves, I talk with musician Derek Webb about the various Dereks that have been, the painful/blissful loss of certainty, and what it looks like to hypothesize truths in real time. I also tell Derek a somewhat embarrassing story that demonstrates just how complicated my brain is—but also what a true fan I am.
A 20+ year music industry veteran, Derek Webb has sold millions of albums as a founding member of Texas-based folk/rock band Caedmon’s Call and ruffled political & spiritual feathers alike during his nearly 20-year solo career. He i...
2023-03-011h 03In the Waves with Mallory WyckoffIn the WavesIn this limited run podcast, Dr. Mallory Wyckoff brings in conversation partners to explore how their life and faith interface with a particular chapter from her book, God Is. Together they explore their expanding sense of Self and the Divine, and why it all matters.
As you listen to this and other episodes, be sure to send questions and comments to inthewavespodcast@gmail.com, so we can explore them together in the final episode.
2023-02-1607 minSouth Bend City Church12.11 [TEACHING + REFLECTION] Old Creed, New World (Advent wk 3)Mallory Wyckoff - As we enter the season of Advent, we’ll spend four weeks exploring the implications of a God who locates Godself in the womb of a young woman. This week we heard from Mallory Wyckoff, who brought a teaching that considers Mary’s experience in the Christmas story.
Mallory Wyckoff is a writer, speaker, spiritual director, and peacemaker. She serves as key relationships officer with Preemptive Love, a global community of peacemakers working to end war and stop the spread of violence. Having completed her dissertation on the impact of sexual trauma on survivors’ theolo...
2022-12-1243 min
The Church Needs TherapyDr. Mallory WyckoffIn this In this conversation we talk about her newest book “God Is,” fresh images and feminine metaphors for God, and what it means that God is in the waves.
2022-12-0559 min
TxtandContxtSermon: Naming Our Lord (Genesis 16)The Sunday morning sermon at the Bastrop Church of Christ on December 4, 2022. From Genesis 16: Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave whose name was Hagar, and Sarai said to Abram, “You see that the Lord has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my slave; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wif...
2022-12-0434 min
Norsworthy521. Mallory Wyckoff: God isFor episode 521 we've got a live podcast from Nashville with Dr. Mallory Wyckoff.
2022-10-0353 min
The Bible is Funny#71 - The Image of God with Mallory WyckoffToday we talk with the brilliant Dr. Mallory Wyckoff (@mallory.wyckoff) about her new book "God Is", her favorite on-screen portrayal of God, and her keys to success for Fantasy Football players this season. Pre-order Mallory's book "God Is"Follow The Bible is Funny on Instagram - @thebibleisfunny
2022-09-0851 min
space for faith with mike goldsworthy047 - Mallory Wyckoff - God IsMallory Wyckoff joins us on the podcast today. Mallory is a teacher, preacher, writer, and spiritual director. She serves as key relationships officer with Preemptive Love, a global community of peacemakers working to end war and stop the spread of violence. Having completed her dissertation on the impact of sexual trauma on survivors’ theological perception and spiritual formation, Mallory has a DMin from Lipscomb University in missional and spiritual formation. In all her work, Mallory is a trusted voice for people seeking to navigate their spirituality with curiosity, honesty, and courage. A native Floridian, she lives with her husband and...
2022-09-0657 minThe Bible is Funny#21 - Stand-up On The MountIn this episode, we discuss what my family is doing, improv troupes, and funny imagery in the Sermon on the Mount with Dr. Mallory Wyckoff.Bible References - Matthew 5-7Follow along on Instagram - @thebibleisfunny
2020-08-1951 min
PreacHerS4E8: “Faith Without Works is Dead(ly)” with Dr. Mallory WyckoffS4E8: “Faith Without Works is Dead(ly)” with Dr. Mallory WyckoffWednesday, June 3, 2020PreacHer PodcastPreacHer: Dr. Mallory WyckoffSummary: If you’ve ever read the book of James, you know that the author makes a strong case for practicing what you preach, putting your money where your mouth is, letting your actions speak louder than your words. And the thing is, all those deeply-held convictions that never materialize in tangible action are dangerous. Faith without works isn’t just dead--it’s deadly. It’s poisonous and tricky a...
2020-06-0445 min
PatrickEp 35 - Interview with Mallory WyckoffIn this week’s episode Patrick interviews Mallory Wyckoff, executive director of faith and culture center, professor, and because it’s 2020, a native Floridian. Listen up as she describes the work it takes to make neighbors out of next-door strangers, and lessons learned from being both an actual parent, and a spiritual director.
2020-04-101h 02
Amarillo CentralSpiritual Practices: Awareness01.12.20 - Dr. Mallory Wyckoff presented the first lesson in our new curriculum series. This was an introduction for "Spiritual Practices for Christian Living" on the topic of awareness.
Speaker: Dr. Mallory Wyckoff
2020-01-1245 minNorsworthyHarbor Round Table 2: Hagood, Graves, and Wycoff.Fate Hagood, Dr. Josh Graves, and Dr. Mallory Wyckoff join the podcast to discuss handling criticism, critics as teachers, and spiritual practices.
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2019-05-2051 min
Harbor, Pepperdine Bible LecturesJoy as a Work of Resistance Against DeathMark Love, Mallory Wyckoff
2019-05-031h 06
Core StoriesCore Stories 006: Mallory (Audio)Mallory Wyckoff talks about existing in relationship with one another despite different worldviews and how God has come along side her in times of great stress.
2017-08-1500 min
2017-04-1500 min