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Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton

by Ruth Haley Barton

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  • S30 Ep 3 | Trusting God in the Great and Terrible Wilderness

    October 21, 2026 · 36 min

    Ruth continues this season on stages of faith, urging churches to become communities “big enough” to hold people across the spiritual journey. This week she focuses on the deeper wilderness that leads toward union with God, likening it to…

  • S30 Ep 2 | Lessons from the Roundabout Way

    October 14, 2026 · 37 min

    Ruth continues this season’s exploration of stages of faith in the family of God, overlaying Fowler’s developmental insights and the Exodus as a communal journey rather than an individual one. In this episode, she traces movement from…

  • S30 Ep 1 | Awakening to God’s Invitation to Surrender

    October 7, 2026 · 44 min

    Welcome to season 30! In this season, titled Journeying Through Stages of Faith in the Family of God, we will be exploring the stages of faith as a model for our own growth and our ability to support our communities in their growth…

  • S29 Ep 11 | Good is the Flesh: Embodying Wholeness in Our Human Experience

    July 22, 2026 · 44 min

    In this episode, Ruth closes our podcast season on “becoming human,” reflecting on an incarnational spirituality that is lived in the God-ordained reality of our bodies rather than bifurcated from them. She invites listeners to notice what…

  • S29 Ep 10 | Aging and Diminishment: When to Let Go and When to Press In

    July 15, 2026 · 52 min

    This week, Ruth is joined by retired pastor and spiritual director Bill Shereos for a conversation about aging and diminishment as God-ordained realities. Prompted by the deaths of close friends and family, Bill reflects on accepting…

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  • S29 Ep 9 | It’s Complicated: Sexuality, Love and Life in Our Families

    July 8, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    This week Ruth welcomes writer Jonathan Merritt for a conversation on the intersection of our sexuality and spirituality.  Jonathan describes growing up at the center of conservative evangelical culture as a Southern Baptist leader’s son…

  • S29 Ep 8 | Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Longing for Wholeness

    July 1, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    Today’s episode explores sexuality and spirituality as God-ordained realities. Ruth is joined by Rev. Dr. David Hughes and producer Colleen Powell, to discuss church and cultural distortions—repression, purity culture, objectification, and…

  • S29 Ep 7 | Walking with God and Each Other on the Path of Neurodivergence

    June 24, 2026 · 53 min

    Ruth welcomes Tiffany Childress Price and her husband, Bobby Price, into a conversation focusing on their experiences with neurodivergence as a physiological reality and place of encounter with God. Tiffany explains neurodivergence and…

  • S29 Ep 6 | Shades of Gray: Navigating Mental Health Challenges with God

    June 17, 2026 · 51 min

    This week Ruth is joined by TC Alum Jake Partridge for a conversation on mental health. Jake shares his story of three major depressive episodes and ongoing anxiety, describing depression as prolonged, reality-coloring despair, isolation…

  • S29 Ep 5 | On Being Mortal

    June 10, 2026 · 1 hr 27 min

    This week we have a special episode with two people very close to the hearts of our Transforming Community. In our first conversation Ruth welcomes TC alum Christine Boye in a  conversation that was recorded in January of 2025 about…

  • S29 Ep 4 | The Persistence of Hope: Navigating Race and Ethnicity in America

    June 3, 2026 · 50 min

    Ruth welcomes Rev. Dr. Prince Rivers to discuss becoming human with God in our bodies through the complicated embodied realities of race and ethnicity in the United States. They reflect on current events in May 2026, including a Supreme…

  • S29 Ep 3 | When Our Bodies Betray Us: What is Lost and What is Gained

    May 27, 2026 · 40 min

    This week Ruth welcomes Donna McIntosh, a spiritual director and hospital-trained chaplain and TC alum, to speak to the experience of when our body betrays us. Donna describes experiencing a stroke while in seminary and the primary and…

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About the show

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.