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Space for Life

by Tommy Thompson
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Today: #93 in Education on our combined chart.

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Episode releases
#34#52#69#87#104Chart rankOct 15Oct 18Oct 21Oct 24Oct 27#93Episode released Oct 15: The Meaning and Beauty of Worship with Charis Napier
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DateCombined RankApple PodcastsPocket CastsCastbox
Oct 27#93#66—#61
Oct 26#92#61—#60
Oct 25#94#66—#66
Oct 24#94#66—#60
Oct 23#78#50#42#43
Oct 22#74#47#37#46
Oct 21#68#41#41#41
Oct 20#67#38#35#37
Oct 19#66#37#37#38
Oct 18#56#32#33#33
Oct 17#64#38#31#31
Oct 16#44#25#30#30
Oct 15#56#31#31#31
Oct 14#61#35#39#39

Latest episodes

  • The Meaning and Beauty of Worship with Charis Napier

    October 15, 2026 · 56 min

    Charis Napier, Worship Lead Pastor at Hope Church, joins Tommy to talk about what worship is and why it's so much more than the singing before the sermon. They cover how to worship when you can't carry a tune or don't feel like it, what it…

  • The Theology and Physiology of Why Sleep Matters with Brett McCracken

    October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

    Brett McCracken has written about faith and culture for 20 years. His new book, The Wisdom of Sleep, starts with a simple question: why would God design people to be unconscious for a third of their lives, especially now, when a phone…

  • Braxton Byerson on Who You Are Without the Applause

    September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    Braxton Byerson grew up in a military family, played with both brothers at Virginia Union, then took the game to Uruguay and China before the ball stopped bouncing for him. Now he coaches, speaks, and writes about confidence, choices, and…

  • Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons on Identity After a Big Change

    September 3, 2026 · 59 min

    You're in a known place, and then you're not. Parenthood, an empty nest, grief, a career, retirement. Tommy spent the summer wondering if this was the year he let Space for Life go, then he found Encore. Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons left big…

  • Greatest Hits: Lisa Ould on the Art of Emotional Stability

    August 21, 2026 · 44 min

    Tommy revisits a conversation with Lisa Ould, executive director of Barnabas Center and decades-long counselor, on one of the most personal and underaddressed topics he has taken on across all of Space for Life. Whether you tend to…

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  • Greatest Hits: Ana Megrelishvili on the Transformative Power Of A Silent Retreat

    August 6, 2026 · 56 min

    Ana Megrelishvili went through a troubled childhood: her family was poor and in disarray, and her own father sexually abused her. Nevertheless, she did not let trauma shape her identity, and she eventually found healing and peace after…

  • Greatest Hits: Justin Earley on the Art of Real Friendship

    July 23, 2026 · 47 min

    Tommy Thompson sits down with author and attorney Justin Earley to talk about one of the most underdiagnosed crises of our time, an epidemic of loneliness that most people are living with but can't even name. Justin is the author of The…

  • Greatest Hits: What You Can Learn from Your Stress

    July 13, 2026 · 35 min

    Tommy Thompson and co-host Patricia Clark revisit a conversation that cuts to the heart of one of the most common struggles in modern life. Rather than treating stress as something to push through or accept as inevitable, Tommy makes the…

  • Greatest Hits: What I Learned from Taking a Year of Jubilee

    June 25, 2026 · 41 min

    Today we're revisiting one of the more meaningful early episodes from Space for Life, a conversation with friend and co-host Patricia Clark recorded shortly after a full year sabbatical he called a Year of Jubilee. Tommy reflects on why he…

  • Greatest Hits: Litt Thompson on Creating Space to Think About What Matters Most

    June 11, 2026 · 35 min

    Tommy Thompson brings back one of the earliest and most beloved episodes from Space for Life, a conversation with his brother and 40-year business partner, Litt Thompson. After a business crisis in the early 1990s pushed Litt to his…

  • What It Takes to Be a Sturdy Adult with Keith McCurdy

    May 28, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    Keith McCurdy is back on Space for Life for a follow-up to his episode on raising sturdy kids. This time the focus shifts to the adults, because it takes a sturdy adult to raise a sturdy child. After 40 years in mental health and tens of…

  • Shola Richards on Practicing Kindness in an Unkind World

    May 19, 2026 · 59 min

    In this episode, Tommy sits down with Shola Richards, known as The Kindness Extremist and Brother Teresa, to talk about what kindness actually looks like when life gets hard. Shola shares his story of moving from bullying, burnout, and a…

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About the show

Space for Life is a podcast with honest conversations designed to help cultivate the space we need for a more fulfilling and abundant life. Despite our culture’s wiring for excess and overload, our souls desperately need the very opposite. Space for Life seeks to help you take small steps into a spacious life .