The Habit

Andi Ashworth and Charlie Peacock Think Everything Matters

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andi Ashworth and Charlie Peacock live at the intersection of hospitality and creativity. This husband and wife duo founded Art House America, a uniqu...

Amy F. Davis Abdallah loves ritual.

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amy F. Davis Abdallah is a professor, writer, speaker, and creator of rituals. Her latest book is Meaning in the Moment: How Rituals Help Us Move Thro...

Mike Cosper on the Stories We Tell Ourselves

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Cosper is the director of podcasting for Christianity Today, where he hosts The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill and Cultivated: A Podcast About Faith ...

Allen Levi Wants You to be Brave.

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Allen Levi is a singer-songwriter and an exceedingly talented storyteller.  His memoir from a few years ago, The Last Sweet Mile, is a very moving ac...

Greg Wilbur

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Wilbur is Founder and Dean of Students at New College Franklin. A composer and  church musician, he recently released a new album of hymns and p...

Grace Hamman Looks with Medieval Eyes

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Grace Hamman is a writer and independent scholar of Middle English contemplative writing and poetry. She is also the host of the podcast, Old Books wi...

Joy Clarkson Thinks You Are a Tree

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Joy Clarkson is the author of Aggressively Happy and host of the podcast, Speaking with Joy. She is the books editor for Plough Quarterly and a ...

Brian Brown on Creation

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Brown is the founder and executive director of The Anselm Society, an organization dedicated to a renaissance of the Christian imagination. Alon...

Emily Jensen on Weakness and Strength

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Jensen is the co-founder and content director of Risen Motherhood. She is the host of the Risen Motherhood Podcast and an author. Her most recen...

Wendell Kimbrough Thinks You Belong.

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Songwriter Wendell Kimbrough has been writing, recording, and performing songs based on the Psalms for the last few years. His most recent record is c...

Replay: Justin Whitmel Earley on Better Habits

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this replay of an episode from 2022, Jonathan Rogers talks with Justin Whitmel Earley about the formation of better habits. Justin is the author of...

Garrett Taylor and the Art of Wingfeather

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Garrett Taylor is the art director for the Wingfeather Saga television series. The new Art of Wingfeather book features beautiful work from Garrett an...

Kevan Chandler is redefining accessibility.

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2016, Kevan Chandler and a few of his friends took a trip across Europe. Kevan’s friends carried him—literally. Kevan has spinal muscular atrop...

Tish Harrison Warren is making Christmas weird again.

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tish Harrison Warren is an Anglican priest and the writer of several books. Until recently she had a column in the New York Times. She has also had a ...

Mitali Perkins likes being on the margins.

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mitali Perkins has always thought of herself as an outsider writing for outsiders. And yet she has a remarkable gift for inviting people in. She has t...

Joe Sutphin Draws Watership Down

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Illustrator Joe Sutphin has been a fixture around the Rabbit Room for many years. Highlights of his long career include illustrating The Wingfeather S...

Amber and Seth Haines on The Deep Down Things

05 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Amber and Seth Haines have each written and published books of their own, but now this married couple have written a book together—The Deep Down Thi...

Andrew Wilson on the Spirit of 1776

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Wilson is Teaching Pastor at King’s Church London, and has degrees in history and theology from Cambridge (MA) and King’s College London (P...

Amy Baik Lee Has a Homeward Ache

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Baik Lee has written that in every place her life has taken her, "there have been hints of beauty and great knocks of mercy that have called to me...

Gregg Hecimovich solved a literary mystery.

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2001, Henry Louis Gates announced the discovery of an unpublished novel called The Bondswoman’s Narrative, written in the 1850s by an enslaved wo...

Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Farmer/Writer

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. She is also a farmer. Her new collection of essays is In T...

Emma Fox Loves Siberian Folklore.

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Emma Fox is the author of The Carver and the Queen, an historical fantasy novel based on the folklore of Siberia. In this episode, Emma talks with Jon...

Philip Yancey Loves John Donne

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Yancey has written and published more than 25 books. He is known for his honesty, his willingness to wade into difficult questions–and, more ...

Diana Glyer on Warnie Lewis's Letters

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Diana Glyer teaches in the honors college at Azusa Pacific University. Her writing and research focus on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the other Ink...

Carolyn Leiloglou Stands Beneath the Swirling Sky

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Carolyn Leiloglou’s new middle-grade novel is Beneath the Swirling Sky: Book 1 of the Restorationists Trilogy. It’s a book about art, creativity, ...

Jennifer Holberg on Nourishing Narratives

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jennifer L. Holberg is professor and chair of the English department at Calvin University and codirector of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writin...

Curt Thompson Goes to the Deepest Place

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Curt Thompson is a psychiatrist, a speaker, and the author of several books–most recently, The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope. I...

Harrison Scott Key's Insane Love Story

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Harrison Scott Key's new memoir is How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told. It’s the story of how infidelity tore his marriage apa...

Hometown Stories: New Hometowns

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this, the final episode of the Hometown Stories summer series, writers from The Habit Membership tell stories about NEW hometowns. Hometowns change...

Karen Swallow Prior on the Evangelical Imagination

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Karen Swallow Prior is one of the leading evangelical writers and commentators our time. Her new book is The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Ima...

Hometown Stories: North, South, East, and West (Virginia)

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this, the sixth episode of the Hometown Stories summer series, writers from The Habit Membership take us to all four points of the compass. Sara Dr...

Russell Moore gives an altar call.

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Russell Moore is Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today. His new book is Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America. He invites unmoore...

Summer Short Wonders.

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Summer Short’s new book is The Legend of Greyhallow. Kirkus Reviews called it “A delightful, engaging otherworldly adventure sure to charm. This f...

Hometown Stories: Texas Forever!

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s episode, the fifth in the Hometown Stories series, takes us to Texas. We’ll blow up a gas station in the Panhandle. We’ll check out ...

Hometown Stories: America!

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In honor of the Fourth of July, this episode of The Habit Podcast continues the Hometown Stories summer series with five reminiscences of small-town A...

Andrew Peterson has a lot going on.

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Peterson is a singer-songwriter, he’s the author of The Wingfeather Saga as well as two nonfiction books, Adorning the Dark and The God of th...

Hometown Stories: Fathers and Mothers

19 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hometowns are full of fathers and mothers. In this episode, Andrew Peterson and four writers from The Habit Membership share stories involving their f...

Hometown Stories: California!

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode the Hometown Stories series continues with a trip to California. To paraphrase Walt Whitman, California is large. It contains multitud...

Hometown Stories: Georgia, British Columbia, New York, Kentucky

05 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode kicks off the "Hometown Stories" summer series. As the name suggests, this  series features stories from writers' hometowns. In this epi...

Ben Shive is doing something new (and old).

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For nearly twenty years, Ben Shive has been producing and collaborating with musicians including (but not limited to) JJ Heller, Colony House, Ellie H...

K.B. Hoyle Contains Multitudes.

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

K. B. Hoyle is a writer of many genres and talents. She’s the author of the teen fantasy series, The Gateway Chronicles, and the adult dystopian ser...

Arthur Boers on Shattered.

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Arthur Boers’s new memoir is Shattered: A Son Picks up the Pieces of His Father’s Rage. In it he reflects on coming of age in an immigrant family ...

Claude Atcho on Reading Black Books

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Claude Atcho is a pastor in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the author of Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More ...

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt on Redeeming Vision

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt is associate professor of art and art history at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Her new book is Redeeming...

Alan Noble On Getting Out of Bed

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Noble is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University. He’s co-founder and editor in chief of Christ and Pop Culture, and an a...

Ashlee Gadd Creates Anyway

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ashlee Gadd is the founder of Coffee + Crumbs, a website, podcast, and newsletter devoted to encouraging mothers through storytelling. Her new book is...

David Taylor on A Body of Praise

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

W. David O. Taylor is Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of several books. His most recent book...

Jessica Hooten Wilson wants you to read as a spiritual practice.

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Seaver College Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine University. She is the author of many books, the most recent of whic...

Drew Jackson on Poetry, the Gospels, and Community

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Drew.Jackson is a poet and pastor. His latest collection is Touch the Earth: Poems on The Way. His work has appeared in Oneing, Made for Pax, The Jou...

Daniel Nayeri Loves The Silk Road (and Oklahoma).

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Besides being an author, Daniel Nayeri is a publisher, a pastry chef, and a raconteur. His book Everything Sad Is Untrue (a True Story), won many awar...

Katy Bowser Hutson Plays

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded before a live audience at The Habit Writer's Retreat, this episode features songwriter and poet Katy Bowser Hutson. Katy and Jonathan Rogers ...

Faitth Brooks Wants to be Remembered Now

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Faitth Brooks is a writer, speaker, social worker, activist, and co-host of the Melanated Faith podcast. She has served as the director of programs an...

Jason Baxter on CS Lewis's Medieval Mind

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Baxter teaches Great Books at Notre Dame University. His most recent book is The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Min...

Leslie Bustard in the Land of the Living

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Leslie Bustard and her husband Ned are the driving force behind Square Halo Books and the Square Halo Conference. Leslie’s new poetry collection, he...

Michael Lamb on Hope and Persuasion

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Lamb is an associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Wake Forest University, where he is also the FM Kirby Foundation Chair of Le...

Andrea Yenne Writes with Teens.

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andrea Yenne is the "Momerator" and driving force behind the Student Edition of The Habit Membership—an incredibly happy and productive fellowship o...

Carlos Whittaker Wants You to Human

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Carlos Whittaker is committed to creating spaces–online and in person–where people are safe to engage in conversation about the topics that matter...

Rebecca Reynolds, Faerie Queene

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Edmund Spenser's 1590 epic poem, The Faerie Queene, is one of the monumental works of English literature. But it doesn't get read much any more. Rebec...

Chris Nye Doesn't Want You to be Consumed by the Content You Consume.

08 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Nye is a pastor and an academic. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, and other publicatio...

Jen Pollock Michel Reimagines Productivity

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jen Pollock Michel's latest book is In Good Time: 8 Habits for Reimagining Productivity, Resisting Hurry, and Practicing Peace. As we look ahead to a ...

Loren Warnemuende Persevered.

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Loren Warnemuende is the author of Exile, Book 1 of the Daughter of Arden trilogy. She started writing Exile in 1995. But life intervened, and the sto...

Dawn E. Morrow Has the Habit of Hope.

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dawn E. Morrow writes poems for people who think they don't write poetry. Her debut collection is The Habit of Hope.Support the show: https://therabbi...

Drew Bratcher on Storytelling and Country Music

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Drew Bratcher is a journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in Oxford American, Los Angeles Review of Books, Paris Review, Nowhere Magazine, Ga...

Rachel Marie Kang Creates Where She Is

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Marie Kang is the author of Let There Be Art: The Pleasure and Purpose of Unleashing the Creativity Within You. In this episode, Rachel and Jon...

Sean (of the South) Dietrich Talks to Strangers

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Dietrich is a blogger, a storyteller, a musician, a novelist, a memoirist, and a columnist. On his blog, Sean of the South, he posts a new story ...

Andrew Roycroft's 33 Poems

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Roycroft is a poet and pastor in Northern Ireland. His new collection, 33, consists of 33 poems, each 33 words long, meditating on the life and...

Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore on Liturgy and Poetry

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore started writing liturgies and prayers for their local church in New York City as a way of helping their friends and...

Maryann McKibben Dana Has Hope

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

MaryAnn McKibben Dana is a writer, a free-range pastor, a speaker, and a leadership coach. Her most recent book is Hope: A User's Manual. MaryAnn emba...

James K.A. Smith Inhabits Time

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James K.A. Smith is a philosopher and a professor at Calvin University. He is also the editor in chief of Image, a quarterly journal at the intersecti...

Bonnie Kristian on Our Knowledge Crisis

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist Bonnie Kristian writes opinion pieces on foreign policy, religion, electoral politics, and more. Her column, "The Lesser Kingdom," appears ...

Ron Block Abides

02 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ron Block is the banjo player for Alison Krauss & Union Station and the author of Abiding Dependence: Moment by Moment in the Love of God. In this...

Katelyn Beaty Doesn't Want to Be a Celebrity

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Katelyn Beaty is the author of Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits are Hurting the Church. In a starred review, Publishers Wee...

David Zahl Doesn't Think Too Highly of Himself (or You)

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

David Zahl is the founder and director of Mockingbird Ministries, editor-in-chief of the Mockingbird website, and co-host of The Mockingcast. His new ...

Melanie Penn Feels More Alive

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Melanie Penn is a singer-songwriter with a background in musical theater. Through the pandemic, she produced and released twenty pop singles. Those si...

Joshua Stamper on Dissonance and Discord

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joshua Stamper is a composer and collaborator on projects that cross genres and disciplines, from jazz, classical, and avant-garde music to film, danc...

Doug Powell Has Done a Lot

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Doug Powell is a musician, songwriter, designer, coder, Christian apologist, amateur magician, and now a fiction writer. He recently published Among t...

Sarah Mackenzie Makes Things A Little More Beautiful

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Mackenzie is the host of Read-Aloud Revival, a podcast, website, and membership that helps parents nurture warm family relationships and book-lo...

Lore Ferguson Wilbert Is Curious

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last few years, Lore Ferguson Wilbert has been moving toward a more contemplative and expansive faith. She has learned to be more curious, li...

Julian R. Vaca on The Memory Index

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Julian R. Vaca is the author of The Memory Index, a novel set in a world where a disease has ravaged human memories, and people depend on artificial r...

Richard Gibson and Jim Beitler Write Charitably

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Gibson and Jim Beitler are English professors at Wheaton College. In 2020 they published a book together called Charitable Writing: Cultivatin...

Glen Scrivener on the Origins of Contemporary Values

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Glen Scrivener is the Director of Speak Life, a UK-based organization that shares the love of Jesus through creative communication. He is a speaker, a...

Dave Connis on Kids, Creativity, and the Image of God

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Connis has written young adult novels in the past—Suggested Reading and The Temptation of Adam. But his most recent books are icture books that...

Mary McCampbell on Art and Empathy

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mary McCampbell is Associate Professor of Humanities at Lee University in Tennessee. She is also the author of Imagining our Neighbors as Ourselves: H...

Nancy Guthrie is a Sub-Apocalypter

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nancy Guthrie is a Bible teacher and speaker and the author of twenty-something books. Her most recent book is Blessed: Experiencing the Promises of t...

Allen Levi Bears Witness to a Good Life

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Singer-songwriter Allen Levi lost his brother and best friend Gary ten years ago this summer. He memorializes his brother's life—and especially the ...

Helena Sorensen has something to say to women (and those who love them)

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Helena Sorensen is an author, speaker, and writing coach. This episode was recorded live at the first Habit Writers' Retreat at Nashville's North Wind...

Scott Sauls Wants You To Be Beautiful

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pastor Scott Sauls is the author of six books, most recently Beautiful People Don't Just Happen: How God Redeems Regret, Hurt, and Fear in the Making ...

Jeremy Begbie on The Art of New Creation

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Begbie is the Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School. He teaches systematic theology and speci...

Robyn Wall, Recovering Perfectionist

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Robyn Wall is the author of the picture books My First Book of Beards and My First Book of Tattoos (Random House Kids), as well as a story in The Lost...

Katy Bowser Hutson & Flo Paris Oakes

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Flo Paris Oakes and Katy Bowser Hutson have been longtime songwriting collaborators through the Rain for Roots collective, which makes singable script...

Matthew Clark on Only The Lover Sings

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Clark is a singer-songwriter, podcaster, and essayist. He’s exceedingly thoughtful and well-read, and all that thinking and well-reading...

Esau McCaulley Feels Defiant Joy

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Esau McCaulley is a Bible scholar and Assistant Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College. He’s a contributing writer at Christianity Today,...

Sandra McCracken Sends Out Light

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken released her first book in 2021. Send Out Your Light: The Illuminating Power of Scripture and Song is a memoir of a...

Galahad Lives! Editors Pete Peterson and Jennifer Trafton

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Lost Tales of Sir Galahad is a collection of "newly discovered" tales of the Arthurian knight's adventures in the Wild Forest. In this episode of ...

Leslie Bustard Loves Children's Books

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Leslie Bustard is a writer, a teacher, a conference organizer, a publisher, and a museum-goer, among other things. She recruited forty writers to cont...

Mitali Perkins Speaks for Outsiders

11 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mitali Perkins has been a nominee for the National Book Award. She was born in India, but has lived all over the world. So it comes as no surprise tha...

Tom Douglas Harnesses Hurt

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Douglas is a country songwriting legend and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He recently released a movie—a one-man show ...

Jessica Hooten Wilson wants you to be a saint

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas. She has written books about Flannery O’Connor, Fyodo...

Russ Ramsey Wants You to Love Art

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Habit Podcast, Jonathan Rogers talks with author and pastor Russ Ramsey. Russ is a pastor in the Nashville area, a masterful storytel...

Caroline Cobb Stopped Striving

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Caroline Cobb is a singer-songwriter from Texas. In 2011, she decided to write a song for every book of the Bible in one year. That ambitious goal set...