Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton

By Ruth Haley Barton

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A lively dialogue with Ruth Haley Barton about forging and maintaining a life-giving connection with God in the midst of leading. Learn more at www.transformingcenter.org.

Episode Date
Easter Monday | Transforming Post-Resurrection Encounters with Jesus (A Replay)
Apr 01, 2024
S22 Ep7: Walking With Jesus in His Suffering During Holy Week
Mar 28, 2024
S22 Ep 6: A Hope That Does Not Disappoint
Mar 27, 2024
S22 Ep 5: This is Hard! The Role of Endurance in Forming a Durable Hope
Mar 20, 2024
S22 Ep4 | Hope in the Midst of Collective Suffering
Mar 13, 2024
S22 Ep 3 | What Does God’s Glory Have to Do With Our Suffering?
Mar 06, 2024
S22 Ep 2 | Compassion and Curiosity: Attuning to Different Parts of our Suffering
Feb 28, 2024
S22 Ep 1 | What’s Suffering Got to Do With It (Our Transformation)?
Feb 21, 2024
BONUS: Preparing for Lent | Fashioning Your Own Desert
Feb 14, 2024
Visio Divina Guided Practice | Assumptions
Dec 23, 2023
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 4: Where is God in the Unfolding?
Dec 22, 2023
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 3: Where is God in My Humanity?
Dec 15, 2023
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 2: Where is God in my Vulnerability?
Dec 08, 2023
Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 1: Where is God in My Uncertainty?
Dec 01, 2023
Season 21: Preparing for Advent: Honest Longings, Honest Questions
Nov 24, 2023
Season 20: Episode 7 | This is Fun, Y’all: The Joy and Hope of Transforming Worship
Nov 15, 2023
Season 20: Episode 6 | What about my puppets? Beyond Programming to Worship that Changes Us
Nov 08, 2023
Season 20: Episode 5 | Worship on Earth as it is In Heaven: The Transforming Power of Diversity
Nov 01, 2023
Season 20: Episode 4 | The Pain and the Promise of Communion
Oct 25, 2023
Season 20: Episode 3 | Re-thinking Sunday Mornings: Creating Space for God
Oct 18, 2023
Season 20: Episode 2 | Beyond Auto Pilot: Worship that is Spiritually Substantive
Oct 11, 2023
FROM PATREON: Principles of Transforming Worship
Oct 06, 2023
Season 20: Episode 1 | Beyond the Frenzy: Worship that Transforms
Oct 04, 2023
FROM PATREON: A Special Conversation about Justice with Sandra Van Opstal
Aug 22, 2023
FROM PATREON: Ask Ruth #8: Questions about A Just Lent
Aug 08, 2023
REPLAY Season 17: Episode 5 | The Power of Unplugging
Jul 25, 2023
REPLAY Season 16: Episode 6 | Second Order Change: Recognizing and Dissolving Stuck Patterns
Jul 11, 2023
REPLAY Season 10: Episode 7 | The Classic Spiritual Disciplines
Jun 27, 2023
REPLAY: Season 6: Episode 4 | Finding Your Rhythm on Retreat
Jun 13, 2023
Special Mini-Episode: A State of the Podcast Announcement
May 16, 2023
Season 19: Easter Monday | Transforming Post-Resurrection Encounters with Jesus
Apr 10, 2023
Season 19: Lent Week 6 | Lament: Saying No to Triumphalism
Apr 03, 2023
Season 19: Lent Week 5 | Communal Suffering: Can These Bones Live?
Mar 27, 2023
Season 19: Lent Week 4 | Opposing Violent Injustice: Bringing Light to the Darkest Places
Mar 20, 2023
Season 19: Lent Week 3 | The Work of Justice: Healing our Broken Ways
Mar 13, 2023
Season 19: Lent Week 2 | Colonialism and Christianity: Bible Translation as a Work of Justice
Mar 06, 2023
Season 19: Lent Week 1| Confession: What We Have Done and What We Have Left Undone
Feb 27, 2023
Season 19: Lent Ash Wednesday | Invitation to a Just Lent: Learning to Love What God Loves
Feb 20, 2023
Season 18: Episode 5 | What about the Congregation? How Everyone Benefits from a Pastor’s Sabbatical
Feb 07, 2023
Season 18: Episode 4 | Are You Willing to Quit Your Job: Sabbatical for the Rest of Us
Jan 31, 2023
Season 18: Episode 3 | Boundaries: Protecting What is Precious
Jan 24, 2023
Season 18: Episode 2 | More Than a Vacation: Planning for a Meaningful Sabbatical
Jan 17, 2023
Season 18: Episode 1 | When Sabbath Isn’t Enough: Embracing the Gift of Sabbatical
Jan 10, 2023
Bonus: Advent 2022 Year A
Nov 22, 2022
Season 17: Episode 11 | Sabbath Journey: Do Something Before You Do Everything
Nov 08, 2022
Season 17: Episode 10 | Fruit and Frustration: Creating a Culture Where Everyone Can Rest
Nov 01, 2022
Season 17: Episode 9 | Getting Honest About the Challenges of Sabbath Community
Oct 25, 2022
Season 17: Episode 8 | Sabbath Leaders Cultivating Sabbath Communities
Oct 18, 2022
Season 17: Episode 7 | Sabbath Rhythms During Seasons of Singleness and Care-giving
Oct 11, 2022
Season 17: Episode 6 | Sharing Sabbath Presence Within Our Families
Oct 04, 2022
Season 17: Episode 5 | The Power of Unplugging
Sep 27, 2022
Season 17: Episode 4 | Shabbat: Conversation with a Jewish Rabbi
Sep 20, 2022
Season 17: Episode 3 | Sabbath as Resistance
Sep 15, 2022
Season 17: Episode 2 | The Poetry of Sabbath
Sep 13, 2022
Season 17: Episode 1 | Awakening to God’s Gift of Sabbath
Sep 06, 2022
BONUS: A Conversation with Glenn Packiam on Being a Resilient Pastor, Challenges Facing the Church, and Cultivating A Spiritual Life
Jul 22, 2022
BONUS: Ask Ruth #5 Excerpt
Jul 08, 2022
Season 16: Episode 9 | Transforming Leadership: Spiritual Resources for the Journey
Jun 27, 2022
Season 16: Episode 8 | Systems Theory and Leadership: Picking Up the Tools that Diffuse Anxiety
Jun 20, 2022
Season 16: Episode 7 | It’s a Human Thing: Systems Theory in Non-Majority Spaces
Jun 13, 2022
Season 16: Episode 6 | Second Order Change: Recognizing and Dissolving Stuck Patterns
Jun 06, 2022
Season 16: Episode 5 | The Freedom of Taking Responsibility
May 30, 2022
Season 16: Episode 4 | Calm Presence: Leadership, Anxiety, and the False Self
May 23, 2022
Season 16: Episode 3 | The Sins of the Fathers (and Mothers): How Family of Origin Impacts Our Leadership
May 16, 2022
Season 16: Episode 2 | The Most Powerful Leadership Tool: Diagnosing and Diffusing Anxiety
May 11, 2022
Season 16: Episode 1| What’s Really Going On? Systems Theory and the Soul of Leadership
May 09, 2022
Season 15: Easter Monday | Practicing Resurrection
Apr 18, 2022
Season 15: Holy Week | Following Jesus All the Way
Apr 13, 2022
Season 15: Lent Week 6 | Living Between Two Passions
Apr 06, 2022
Season 15: Lent Week 5 | Out With the Old, In With the New
Mar 30, 2022
Season 15: Lent Week 4 | The Power of Confession
Mar 23, 2022
Season 15: Lent Week 3 | Seeking God While He May Be Found
Mar 16, 2022
Season 15: Lent Week 2 | Consenting to God’s Will Deep Within
Mar 09, 2022
Season 15: Lent Week 1 | Fashioning Our Own Wilderness
Mar 02, 2022
Lent 2022 Teaser | Lent for Leaders: With God in the Wilderness
Feb 23, 2022
BONUS: A Conversation with Rory Noland about Transforming Worship
Feb 02, 2022
BONUS: A Conversation with Aaron Niequist about Fixed Hour Prayer and Transforming Community 18
Jan 20, 2022
Bonus: Christmastide | Epiphany
Jan 06, 2022
Season 14: Advent Week 5 | Christmastide
Dec 20, 2021
Season 14: Advent Week 4 | Saying Yes to God
Dec 13, 2021
Season 14: Advent Week 3 | A Call to Repentance
Dec 06, 2021
Season 14: Advent Week 2 | Necessary Preparations
Nov 29, 2021
Season 14: Advent Week 1 | The Darkness of Waiting
Nov 22, 2021
Advent 2021 Teaser
Nov 17, 2021
BONUS: Ask Ruth #3 Excerpt
Oct 07, 2021
BONUS: A Conversation about Becoming a Transforming Church
Sep 23, 2021
Season 13: Episode 12 | Invitations from God: Invitation to the Most Excellent Way
Sep 08, 2021
Season 13: Episode 11 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Remember
Sep 01, 2021
Season 13: Episode 10 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Pray
Aug 25, 2021
Season 13: Episode 9 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Wait
Aug 18, 2021
Season 13: Episode 8 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Forgive
Aug 11, 2021
Season 13: Episode 7 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Admit I Might Be Wrong
Aug 04, 2021
Season 13: Episode 6 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Weep
Jul 28, 2021
Season 13: Episode 5 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Rest
Jul 21, 2021
Season 13: Episode 4 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Practice the Presence of People
Jul 14, 2021
BONUS Episode Ask Ruth Teaser
Jul 09, 2021
Season 13: Episode 3 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Follow
Jul 07, 2021
Season 13: Episode 2 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Participate in Your Own Healing
Jun 30, 2021
Season 13: Episode 1 | Invitations from God: What are God’s Invitations?
Jun 23, 2021
Season 13 Teaser + New Patron Program
Jun 15, 2021
Season 12: Episode 7 | Principles of the Deeper Life
Mar 31, 2021
Season 12: Episode 6 | Putting on the New Nature
Mar 24, 2021
Season 12: Episode 5 | Abandoning the False Self
Mar 17, 2021
Season 12: Episode 4 | Hidden With Christ in God: The False Self and the Christ Self
Mar 10, 2021
Season 12: Episode 3 | The Idol in the Box: The Religious False Self
Mar 03, 2021
Season 12: Episode 2 | Into the Jungle: The False Self
Feb 24, 2021
Season 12: Episode 1 | Deeper Journey: The Spirituality of Discovering Your True Self
Feb 17, 2021
Season 12 Trailer: The Deeper Journey
Feb 11, 2021
Christmastide, Year B: How Silently, How Silently, the Wondrous Gift is Given
Dec 21, 2020
Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year B: Mary and the Prayer of Indifference
Dec 14, 2020
Third Sunday of Advent, Year B: Keepin' it Real
Dec 07, 2020
Second Sunday of Advent, Year B: What Sort of Persons Ought We To Be?
Dec 01, 2020
First Sunday of Advent, Year B: Living Between Two Worlds
Nov 23, 2020
Advent 2020 Teaser
Nov 16, 2020
Season 10: Episode 10 | Social Spirituality
Aug 26, 2020
Season 10: Episode 9 | Corporate Spirituality
Aug 19, 2020
Season 10: Episode 8 | The Nature and Dynamics of Spiritual Disciplines
Aug 12, 2020
Season 10: Episode 7 | The Classic Spiritual Disciplines
Aug 05, 2020
Season 10: Episode 6 | The Classic Christian Pilgrimage
Jul 29, 2020
Season 10: Episode 5 | Holistic Spirituality, Part 2
Jul 22, 2020
Season 10: Episode 4 | Holistic Spirituality, Part 1
Jul 15, 2020
Season 10: Episode 3 | Creation Gifts on the Spiritual Journey
Jul 08, 2020
Season 10: Episode 2 | The Road Map of Spiritual Formation, Part 2
Jul 01, 2020
Season 10: Episode 1 | The Road Map of Spiritual Formation, Part 1
Jun 24, 2020
Season 10: Trailer | Invitation to a Journey
Jun 17, 2020
Season 9: Episode 10 | Spiritual Transformation For the Sake of Others
May 27, 2020
Season 9: Episode 9 | Spiritual Transformation and Psychology
May 15, 2020
Season 9: Episode 8 | Spiritual Transformation and Practice-based Faith
May 06, 2020
Season 9: Episode 7 | Spiritual Transformation and Family Systems (Part 2)
Apr 29, 2020
Season 9: Episode 6 | Spiritual Transformation and Family Systems (Part 1)
Apr 22, 2020
Season 9: BONUS EPISODE FOR GOOD FRIDAY | Experiencing the Stations of the Cross
Apr 08, 2020
Season 9: BONUS EPISODE | Listening and Responding to God Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis
Mar 31, 2020
Season 9: Episode 5 | Transformation and Sexuality with Steve Wiens
Mar 25, 2020
Season 9: Episode 4 | Spiritual Transformation and Money with David Wills and Todd Harper
Mar 18, 2020
Season 9: Episode 3 | The Struggle to Give Our Death Away with Ron Rolheiser
Mar 11, 2020
Season 9: Episode 2 | The Struggle to Give Our Lives Away with Ron Rolheiser
Mar 04, 2020
Season 9: Episode 1 | The Struggle to Get our Lives Together with Ron Rolheiser
Feb 25, 2020
Season 8: Episode 1 | First Sunday of Advent: The Importance of Waking Up
Nov 27, 2019
Season 8: Episode 2 | Second Sunday of Advent: Joyful Preparations
Nov 27, 2019
Season 8: Episode 3 | Third Sunday of Advent: Gifts in the Wilderness
Nov 27, 2019
Season 8: Episode 4 | Fourth Sunday of Advent: Joseph and the Walk of Faith
Nov 27, 2019
Season 8: Episode 5 | Christmastide: From Waiting to Wonder
Nov 27, 2019
Season 7: Week 8 | Eastertide: Living in the Mystery
Apr 22, 2019
Season 7: Week 7 | Holy Week: Liturgy of the Passion
Apr 15, 2019
Season 7: Week 6 | Holy Week: Liturgy of the Palms
Apr 08, 2019
Season 7: Week 5 | Suffering: Dying that we Might Live
Apr 01, 2019
Season 7: Week 4 | Confession: Coming Home to God
Mar 25, 2019
Season 7: Week 3 | Repentance: Cleaning our Messy House
Mar 18, 2019
Season 7: Week 2 | Self-Denial: Setting our Minds on Things Above
Mar 12, 2019
Season 7: Week 1 | Solitude: Fashioning our Own Wilderness
Mar 07, 2019
Season 7: Ash Wednesday | Crossing the Threshold Into Lent
Mar 06, 2019
Season 6: Episode 12 | In Returning and Rest You Shall Be Saved
Feb 06, 2019
Season 6: Episode 11 | Remember the Signs
Jan 30, 2019
Season 6: Episode 10 | Spiritual Freedom
Jan 23, 2019
Season 6: Episode 9 | Invitation to Recalibrate
Jan 16, 2019
Season 6: Episode 8 | Space for Discernment
Jan 09, 2019
Season 6: Episode 7 | Relinquishing False Self Patterns
Jan 02, 2019
Season 6: Episode 6 | Letting Go of Your Grip
Dec 26, 2018
Season 6: Episode 5 | Sweet Hours of Prayer
Dec 19, 2018
Season 6: Episode 4 | Finding Your Rhythm on Retreat
Dec 12, 2018
Season 6: Episode 3 | The Sources of our Exhaustion
Dec 05, 2018
Season 6: Episode 2 | Just Flop Down
Nov 28, 2018
Special Episode: Discovering Advent
Nov 23, 2018
Season 6: Episode 1 | Strategic Withdrawal
Nov 21, 2018
Season 5: Episode 12 | For the Sake of Others
Nov 14, 2018
Season 5: Episode 11 | Receiving Guidance
Nov 07, 2018
Season 5: Episode 10 | Pure Presence
Oct 31, 2018
Season 5: Episode 9 | Facing Ourselves
Oct 24, 2018
Season 5: Episode 8 | Emptiness
Oct 17, 2018
Season 5: Episode 7 | Rest for the Soul
Oct 10, 2018
Season 5: Episode 6 | Rest for the Mind
Oct 03, 2018
Season 5: Episode 5 | Rest for the Body
Sep 26, 2018
Season 5: Episode 4 | Dangerously Tired
Sep 19, 2018
Season 5: Episode 3 | Resistance
Sep 12, 2018
Season 5: Episode 2 | Beginnings
Sep 05, 2018
Season 5: Episode 1 | Beyond Words
Aug 29, 2018
BONUS EPISODE: A Conversation with Ruth Haley Barton and Aaron Niequist
Aug 23, 2018
Season 4: Episode 9 | Finding God in the Crucible of Ministry
May 30, 2018
Season 4: Episode 8 | From Isolation to Discernment in Community
May 23, 2018
Season 4: Episode 7 | Leadership as Intercession
May 16, 2018
Season 4: Episode 6 | Spiritual Rhythms in the Life of a Leader
May 09, 2018
Season 4: Episode 5 | Guiding Others on a Spiritual Journey
May 02, 2018
Season 4: Episode 4 | The Conundrum of Calling
Apr 25, 2018
Season 4: Episode 3 | The Practice of Paying Attention
Apr 18, 2018
Season 4: Episode 2 | The Place of Our Own Conversion
Apr 11, 2018
Season 4: Episode 1 | When Leaders Lose Their Souls
Apr 04, 2018
Season 3: Episode 9 | Discerning and Doing God’s Will Together
Mar 28, 2018
Season 3: Episode 8 | Get Set: From Decision-Making to Discernment
Mar 21, 2018
Season 3: Episode 7 | Get Ready: Preparing for Discernment
Mar 14, 2018
Season 3: Episode 6 | Values and Practices for Being Safe Together
Mar 07, 2018
Season 3: Episode 5 | Values and Practices For Opening to God Together
Feb 28, 2018
Season 3: Episode 4 | Community at the Leadership Level
Feb 21, 2018
Season 3: Episode 3 | Leaders Who Are Transforming
Feb 14, 2018
Season 3: Episode 2 | Beginning With Spiritual Transformation
Feb 07, 2018
Season 3: Episode 1 | The Heart of Spiritual Leadership
Jan 31, 2018
Season 3: Teaser
Jan 29, 2018
Season 2: Episode 9 | You are Witnesses of these Things
Sep 13, 2017
Season 2: Episode 8 | Discerning the Presence of Christ
Sep 06, 2017
Season 2: Episode 7 | Finding Our Story in HIS Story
Aug 30, 2017
Season 2: Episode 6 | The Nature of the Spiritual Journey
Aug 23, 2017
Season 2: Episode 5 | Men and Women in Community
Aug 16, 2017
Season 2: Episode 4 | Gathering on the Basis of Shared Desire
Aug 09, 2017
Season 2: Episode 3 | Choosing to Listen Rather than Fix
Aug 02, 2017
Season 2: Episode 2 | Welcoming the Stranger
Jul 26, 2017
Season 2: Episode 1 | Choosing to Walk Together
Jul 19, 2017
Season 1: Episode 9 | A Rule of Life: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
May 17, 2017
Season 1: Episode 8 | For the Sake of Others
May 10, 2017
Season 1: Episode 7 | The Art and Practice of Spiritual Discernment
May 03, 2017
Season 1: Episode 6 | Transformation Through Self-Knowledge and Self-Examination
Apr 26, 2017
Season 1: Episode 5 | Honoring the Body as a Spiritual Discipline
Apr 19, 2017
Season 1: Episode 4 | Engaging the Scriptures for Transformation
Apr 12, 2017
Season 1: Episode 3 | Prayer - Deepening Our Intimacy With God
Apr 05, 2017
Bonus Episode | Lent : Returning to God with All Your Heart
Mar 10, 2017
Season 1: Episode 2 | A Leader's Journey into Silence and Solitude
Mar 10, 2017
Season 1: Episode 1 | Invitation to Retreat/Dangerously Tired
Mar 10, 2017