Faithfully Creative

Nov 27 2024 144 ep. 39 mins 129
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Conversations with writers, musicians, and other artists on the connections between faith and creativity.

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From Reluctantly to Faithfully Creative

Nov 27 2024 31 mins  
Note: The personal essay below is most of this podcast episode. You may either listen or read. Your choice!As I’ve attempted to move toward a more regular pattern of writing, I’ve decided to change the name of this Substack newsletter and also change the name and essentially re-launch my podcast. Both will now be called “Faithfully Creative.”My aim is to stay on the same tr

The Deep Well of Art, Music, and Community

Jan 25 2024 58 mins  
This amazing conversation with Juno-award winning musician, Steve Bell, was the 9th episode of the Spirituality for Ordinary People Podcast. I felt like it was worth re-sharing, and have also included the original “show notes” below. You can also get a transcript by reading this post in the substack app or on the substack website.This interview was such an amazing experience, r

Church, Listen to Women

Dec 14 2023 9 mins  
There are certain Christian traditions that seem talk about how we need more “Bible-based teaching.” These same traditions that tend to indicate that they are elevating the Bible and take pride in “understanding the Bible literally” or, if they actually deign to admit that it is impossible to take the entire Bible literally because, well, least of all, there are poems in th

Busy-ness and Contemplation

Nov 29 2023 8 mins  
A podcast episode based on a written reflection first posted to the Noticing Delight Substack. Get full access to Faithfully Creative at mattbrough.substack.com/subscribe

The Narrative Arc of Scripture

Nov 15 2023 8 mins  
Reading is interpreting. We know this more keenly than ever because we interpret all the time.You receive an email announcing that you have won a cruise. You read just a bit of it and already you have done your interpretation. It is spam or a scam. You delete it or send it to your Junk Mail folder.You read a news story and wonder if they have really got all their facts straight. Wh

Imagination and Biblical Interpretation

Nov 07 2023 9 mins  
You can listen to the version audio or read the full reflection (transcript) below:The fact that we hold this collection of books as sacred (or if you personally don’t, you may at least agree that there is deep ancient wisdom there), is enough to say that we may want to do our best to understand what the Bible is all about. Interpreting the Bible can be challenging but, believe i

Religious About the Incarnation - Christmas

Dec 27 2022 8 mins  
The fifth in a 5-part series for Advent/Christmas 2022.He is born among us and is one of us. The incarnation.God with us and with intent, with imagination and creativity. Bearer of hope, and peace, and joy, and love.And so, we can be religious about the incarnation. As God came into the world and loved the place and people to which He came, we can do the same.You can see the places

Religious About Love - Advent 4

Dec 20 2022 7 mins  
The fourth in a 5-part series for Advent/Christmas 2022.The final advent theme is Love. Love is so central. It is at the core of who we are as human beings. We naturally love. Think of parents, children, grandchildren, wives, husbands, true friends.And our faith takes us further with love. Over and over we are asked to give ourselves to love. To be religious about it. To let our lo

Religious About Joy - Advent 3

Dec 13 2022 9 mins  
The third in a 5-part series for Advent/Christmas 2022.What if joy was something you could simply choose?We tend to think joy is something that happens to us. It isn’t in our control. We would love to feel joyful, but that is really hard to do day in and day out. Is it the same as just being happy all the time? No, not really.So, what would it mean to be religious about joy?To sa

Religious About Peace - Advent 2

Dec 06 2022 6 mins  
The second in a 5-part series for Advent 2022.Being religious about something is about devotion, it’s about commitment. It is about staying the course even when you don’t feel like it. We are compelled to stay with it. We’ve made it our religion, and ours is a religion of peace.War is rampant, but we claim peace.Jesus claimed “Blessed are the Peacemakers” and declared tha