Podcasts
Season Four

Author and Pastor, Daniel’s latest book, The Power of Place, explores the modern application of the monastic vow of stability. ‘Saints are made somewhere’. In this episode, we chat about how we can discover the place where God wants to plant us, and how we can dig down deep, root and flourish there.

Richard is a trustee of Ffald y Brenin Retreat Centre in Wales and author of the book, Cultivating the Presence of God. In this episode, we chat about the nature of New Monasticism, thin places, and developing a Rule of Life. https://ffald-y-brenin.org/product/cultivating-gods-presence/

In this season of Advent, this month’s podcast is a biblical meditation on Luke 1:26-38. How might God want to birth holy things in and through us? Music by Richard Lyall.

Steve and Vicki are members of the OMS and live in Adelaide, Australia. In this podcast we chat about their history with the 24-7 Prayer movement, Steve’s work in international relief and development, and the local community they are cultivating through random acts of coffee.

Scotty Burns is a member of the OMS and a pastor in Portland, USA. In this episode we talk about his passion for mission, and how he integrates his life in the Order with his life in church leadership.

John Bowen worked in university ministry for 25 years and taught Evangelism at Wycliffe College in Toronto, Canada. He is a speaker and author, and has just released a book The Unfolding Gospel. In this episode we talk about the nature of the Gospel, its relationship to culture, and how we can in our current context take the Gospel to the nations.

Christian and Stefanie Wittwer are members of the OMS living in Switzerland. In this episode we will discuss their experiments in community living, hospitality, and the upcoming New Monastic Round Table. and A300 , their training program for New Monastics.

Roger Nix is a member of the OMS and pastor of Believers Community Church in Tulsa Oklahoma. In this extended podcast, we talk together about how leadership teams can become communities of discernment, who notice and respond to the presence and activity of Christ as He leads and builds His church.

Vicky and Brian Allen are OMS members living in Dunbar, Scotland. In this episode we chat together about hospitality, art, surfing, being faithful in the places we are planted, and how the OMS helps us to be the same ‘all the way through’, integrating our faith with all of life.

Jared is a pastor, spiritual director, and founder of the Order of the Common Life. In this conversation we talk about the Order he founded in the context of the Vineyard movement, the intersection of charismatic and contemplative streams, and spiritual formation for children. Jared is author of Imaginative Prayer: A Yearlong Guide to Your Child’s Spiritual Formation jaredpatrickboyd.com imaginativeprayer.com Twitter: @boydjared Instagram: @jaredpatrickboyd

Pete is the Associate Convenor of the Order of the Mustard Seed. In this episode, we delve into the history of the 6 practices that shape our lives together, a history that is rooted in the early days of 24-7 Prayer and the Reading Boiler Room.

OMS Member Katharine Hill is the National Director of Care for the Family in the UK. In this episode she talks about her mission to families and their flourishing, and also gives her top three tips for building resilience in children! Next month Katharine is releasing her next book A Mind of Their Own – Building Your Child’s Emotional Wellbeing in a Post Pandemic World.