Christians say that the Trinity is so mysterious, but what if it has the most practical implication for our lives? What if God is not an individual, but a community?

The Middle Way welcomes Rev. Paul Witmer into a playful and intimate conversation on addiction and substance use. Paul is a pastor in the United Church of Christ, a spiritual director, and is currently in ministry with incarcerated women at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women. We talk about recovery, attachments, numbing, and the practice of noticing.

Hannah and Eric talk with Father Zebulun Treloar about God, gender identity, and the Holy Spirit's boundary-breaking call to reframe who belongs. 

The first week of Easter collides with Earth Day⁠—a joyous celebration, but an urgent one. Eric penned an op-ed encouraging us to practice resurrection and we are dropping his words as a special Easter message. 

We talk with Rev. Leanna Coyle-Carr on Jesus’ radical generosity, the art and skill of hospitality, and the relationship Jesus initiated by giving us the gift of bread and wine.

The Middle Way welcomes esteemed guest Kim Jackson, Episcopal priest and State Senator, to the podcast to dialogue about Jesus' parable of the prodigal son and the radical hospitality he modeled by eating with sinners.

In a three-part series on Fasting + Feasting The Middle Way explores Lent through the lens of food and faith. With Ash Wednesday upon us, many Christians decide to abstain or give something up for 40 days. Where does this practice come from and how can we reclaim fasting as a communal refocusing that honors our bodies and our relationships? 

The Middle Way welcomes esteemed guest Nick Pickrell—activist, pastor, actor, and musician in Kansas City—to explore Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain, experiencing cognitive dissonance in our faith lives, and the Catholic Worker Movement. Together we wrestle with Jesus’ teachings on faith, poverty, and Christian community. Living into our faith often means moving from dissonance to deconstruction. We must have the courage to stand back and ask why?

1 Corinthians 13 is one of the most recognizable passages in the New Testament. Used frequently as a wedding text, this seemingly romantic ode is far more far-reaching and complex than your average wedding sermon. While lyrically and aesthetically beautiful, Paul's words weren't affirming a way of life the Corinthians were already living out. It was a call to action. It was an instruction on how the community might disarm discord and move into the future. In this episode, Hannah and Eric reconsider and reclaim Paul's letter and put it in conversation with the recent birth of their son. 

Happy Christmas, Middle Way listeners. God is with us! Host, Eric Rucker, shares his Christmas Eve sermon reminding us that the light of God breaks through the darkness.