Makers & Mystics

Dec 02 2024 300 ep. 28 mins 350

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Makers & Mystics is the podcast for the art-driven, spiritually adventurous seekers of truth and lovers of life.

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S14 E19: A Long Curiosity with Rob Bell

Dec 02 2024 34 mins

Rob Bell is the New York Times Bestselling author of fourteen books and plays which have been translated into 25 languages. His visual art can be seen on Instagram @realrobbell, his band is HUMANS ON THE FLOOR, and his podcast is called The RobCast. Today on Makers and Mystics, Rob and I are talking about his Interplanetary tale of love, loss, and bread, his sci-fi fantasy novel

S14 E18: Awakening Wonder In An Anxious Age with author Katherine May

Nov 26 2024 38 mins

Katherine May is an internationally renowned writer, podcaster and speaker whose work touches on nature, spirituality, slow living and neurodivergence. Her hybrid memoir Wintering was a global bestseller, adapted as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and shortlisted for the Porchlight and Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. Her most recent title, Enchantment became an instant New York

S14 E17: Heavy Hope with Film Director Thomas Torrey

Nov 19 2024 33 mins

The question of when it is time to let go of a dream haunts most creatives at one time or another. Living out our sense of fidelity to a creative vision shifts and changes over time, just as the demands of life shift and change over time. But finding a way forward can be challenging, and there is no one-size-fits-all answer. Film producer Thomas Torrey has tackled this question in

S14 E16: The Gift of The Elders with Petra Bagust

Nov 12 2024 31 mins

Makers and Mystics has teamed up with New Zealand's Sunday Sanctuary Podcast for a special collaborative episode. For the November 10th episode of Sunday Sanctuary, Stephen Roach joins host Petra Bagust to talk about poetry, creativity, and the different ways that noticing the small wonders of the world can reopen, restore, and change our lives. In this segment of the conversat

S14 E15: Contours of Enchantment with Cheryl Bridges Johns

Nov 05 2024 34 mins

For many people, and perhaps even for some of our listeners, the Bible elicits a very different response from one person to another. For some, it is a source of comfort and spiritual nourishment, even a great source of creative inspiration, while for others, it brings up difficult questions or even negative emotions and uncomfortable associations. But as we’ve talked this seaso

S14 E14: Catharsis with Lacey Sturm

Oct 30 2024 41 mins

Lacey Sturm is a Grammy-nominated queen of hard rock who secured a place in rock history as the first solo woman to top the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart with her debut album Life Screams. With a career spanning songs like “All Around Me,” “I’m So Sick,” “Again,” “Impossible,” “State of Me'' and most recently “Awaken Love,” Lacey Sturm has proven herself

S14 E13: Van Gogh Has A Broken Heart with Russ Ramsey

Oct 23 2024 35 mins

Russ Ramsey is an author and pastor with a passion for uniting art and faith. He has been in vocational ministry for more than twenty years and currently serves as the lead pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church’s Cool Springs location. He holds an MDiv and ThM from Covenant Theological Seminary, and is the author of six books, including Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love A

S14 E12: Sitting With The Muse featuring Nick Leng

Oct 15 2024 34 mins

Nick Leng is a Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and producer known for his abstract blend of electronica, classical piano and ambient soundscapes. Nick’s music is hard to categorize but evokes a sense of musical synesthesia, which he describes as a kaleidoscope of emotions turned into sounds. Nick's musical journey began in his early years growing up i

S14 E11 LIVE: Embodied Faith and The Art of Edward Knippers

Oct 09 2024 33 mins

Edward Knippers is a visual artist whose large-scale body of work spans 50 years of practice and explores various genres, including figurative, expressionism, abstraction, and cubism. His work has been displayed in museums, galleries, and private collections worldwide and centers on the human body. His paintings often depict scenes from biblical narratives and invite us to cons

S14 E10: Dreamscapes with visual artist Chalom

Oct 03 2024 23 mins

Melbourne-based visual artist and electronic musician Mike Lane creates under the name Chalom, a name spoken to him in a dream. His practice consists of visually expressing dreams and meditations, with mostly found materials, embedded bible pages, penciled notes, and spray paint. Beyond the haphazard backgrounds of his paintings, brushes or tools are rarely used in the making, ju