After a long hiatus from the podcast, Sarah and Sirak continue their conversation on Black Lives Matter and police brutality. Be sure to check out their first conversation from Pizza Theology here, starting at 35:45!

Sirak and Sarah sit down with Dr. Mary Poplin, author of, “Finding Calcutta”, and “Is Reality Secular? Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews”. Dr. Poplin recently spoke at our November Pizza Theology on secularism and the way that it is present in our culture and on our college campuses. Dr. Poplin dives deep into her story and elaborates further on questions presented during pizza theology.

Sirak and Sarah sit down with Dr. Rikk Watts to talk about diversity, inclusion, and what a biblical definition of community could look like. Rikk served as Regent College’s Professor of New Testament from 1996-2016 and is currently the Dean of Theology at Alphacrucis College in Australia. He has been a constant resource for our FOCUS ministry over the years and we’re excited to have him on the podcast!

Eddie Traughber is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor who has been counseling in private practice since 1997.  He specializes in marriage counseling, depression and anxiety, family issues, and strategies for dealing with low self-esteem. Sirak and Sarah sat down with Eddie to talk about how these issues (and many more) manifest in our lives and how to deal with them. Anxiety is plaguing a record number of college students, so whether you or someone you know is struggling with...

For our 4th episode this season, Sarah and Sirak sit down with Dr. John Stackhouse to discuss gender, sexuality, and the role of women in church. Dr. Stackhouse is an award-winning scholar and highly sought after public speaker who currently serves as Professor of Religious Studies & Dean of Faculty Development at Crandall University. Dr. Stackhouse loved his time with us at Winter Camp 2019 and we hope that you are blessed through this discussion!

This is our first podcast of 2019! We are ringing in the new year with Dr. Sarah Williams! Dr. Williams is on research faculty with Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. She has studied and taught at Oxford and is passionate about Christian history. We loved learning from her and hearing her heart for people. This interview is one of our favorites because of Sarah’s warm conversational style. She impressed upon us the importance of being a historian as a Christian. Take a listen!

In this episode we sit down with Brady and Shirley Bobbink. Brady is the director of Campus Christian Fellowship at Western Washington University. His wisdom and ministry has had a tremendous impact on our ministry! We loved chatting with these two about marriage, dating, raising kids, and much more.

Sarah & Sirak sit down with special guests Kristen Stroud, Austin Gage, Austin Nelson, and Sloan Asfaw to discuss one of the most exciting times of the year for campus ministry: welcome week! This fall, thousands of students will be stepping on to our campuses for the first time. In this episode, we discuss tips and tricks to making to most of this time!

This is our fifth installment of the FOCUS Podcast! For this episode, we interviewed Dr. Jeremy Bergstrom. He has been instrumental in helping with the FOCUS campus ministry plant at SMU. He is an ordained Episcopal priest and is the Priest-in-Charge of St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Dallas. We are grateful that he took some time to sit down with us to discuss the meaning of liturgy and the importance it plays in today’s Christian context. We had a blast getting to talk with him about...

Bill Watson blew us away at Pizza Theology when he talked about The Sermon On The Mount, so we had to have him back for the podcast. In this episode, we asked him some of the questions you had after reflecting on his powerful lecture on the most important sermon ever preached. Bill has some amazing thoughts on our theme for the year (Send me) that you won’t want to miss!

Check out our third installment of The FOCUS Podcast! This week we bring you a very special interview with our good friend from Regent College, Dr. Iain Provan. Iain has just released a book about the Protestant Reformation, and we’re bringing you this interview right around the 500 year anniversary of the beginning of the reformation! We had so much fun talking to Iain and picking his brain about what it means to be a reformer. Be sure to check out his book The Reformation And The Right...

Sirak and Sarah interview Geoff Mumley, our friend and a campus pastor with Campus Christian Fellowship at Western Washington University. Geoff discusses the opportunities before us as disciples during the first couple weeks of school. You don’t want to miss out on hearing the heart this guy has for college students–we know it will impact you!

For our debut episode, Sirak and Sarah talk to financial guru Shannon Ganster. As a former stockbroker and someone who has taught Financial Peace University many times, Shannon has a lot of wisdom on how we should think about our money as disciples. We talk about giving, saving, spending, debt, and Elmer’s glue. For more info on Financial Peace University:https://www.daveramsey.com/fpu For more info on Love, Possessions, and Eternity by Randy...