The Habit
Episodes
S2 E12: Lee Camp's Controversial Orthodoxies
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A man of many interests, Lee Camp is a theology professor, the host of the Tokens variety show, and the author of Scandalous Witness: A Little Politic...
S2 E11: A 2008 Wingfeather Release Day Review (Bonus)
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Going all the way back to 2008, here's an episode of the old Rabbit Room Podcast in which Jonathan reads aloud his release day review of On the Edge o...
S2 E10: Francis Su Re-Enchants Mathematics
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Francis Su is the author of Mathematics for Human Flourishing. In this episode, Jonathan and Francis talk about revealing the unseen, the ability of m...
S2 E9: Remembering Charles Portis, with David Kern
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jonathan and the Circe Institute's David Kern reminisce about the work of the recently deceased Charles Portis. They discuss the conn...
S2 E8: Jen Pollock Michel Waxes Paradoxical
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jen Pollock Michel is the author of three books, most recently Surprised By Paradox: The Promise of And in an Either-Or World. In this episode, Jonath...
S2 E7: Seth Haines Wakes Up
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and photographer Seth Haines is the author of Coming Clean and The Book of Waking Up. In this episode, Jonathan and Seth discuss the slow proce...
S2 E6: Elyse Fitzpatrick & Eric Schumacher
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elyse Fitzpatrick and Eric Schumacher are co-authors of Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women. In this espisode, Jonathan, Elyse, and Eric discuss wr...
S2 E5: Lore Ferguson Wilbert
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lore Ferguson Wilbert is the author of Handle With Care: How Jesus Redeems the Power of Touch in Life and Ministry. She has been blogging since 2000 a...
S2 E4: Heidi Johnston
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Heidi Johnston is the author of Choosing Love, a book that tries to tell teenage girls the truth about relationships. Jonathan and Heidi discuss the v...
S2 E3: Meredith McDaniel
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meredith McDaniel is the author of In Want + Plenty: Waking Up to God's Provision in a Land of Longing. She's also a licensed professional counselor. ...
S2 E2: Harrison Scott Key
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Memoirist and humorist Harrison Scott Key is the author of Congratulations, Who Are You Again? and The World's Largest Man, which won the Thurber Priz...
S2 E1: Andrew Peterson
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan and Andrew discuss the relationships between creativity and loneliness, the problem of ambition, and the paradox of the age-old search for or...
Episode 30: Don Pape
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A veteran of the publishing business, Don Pape is publisher at NavPress. In this episode, Jonathan and Don discuss all the behind-the-scenes work that...
Episode 29: S. D. Smith
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
S. D. (Sam) Smith is the author of the much-loved Green Ember series. In this episode, Jonathan and Sam explore storytelling as an act of love and ser...
Episode 28: Chris Wall
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Wall is a film producer in Nashville. He was at Big Idea Productions for eleven years, working on VeggieTales and 3-2-1 Penguins! and other proj...
Episode 27: Christie Purifoy
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Christie Purifoy is the author of Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace. She says, "I believe that life, in all its pain and be...
Episode 26: Tish Harrison Warren with Doug McKelvey
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tish Harrison Warren is an Anglican priest and the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, winner of Christianity Today'...
Episode 25: Ron Block
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Block is a banjo player and a long-time member of Alison Kraus's band, Union Station. He is also an amateur theologian, a George MacDonald aficion...
Episode 24: JJ Heller
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
JJ Heller's songs remind people that they are loved. She and her husband Dave have been writing together since before they were married. Lately they h...
Episode 23: John Hendrix
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John Hendrix is a much-decorated author and illustrator and an art professor at Washington University in St. Louis. His work has appeared in Newsweek,...
Episode 22: Maryrose Wood
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Maryrose Wood is the author of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, an exceedingly funny six-book series about a governess whose three young cha...
Episode 21: Drew Miller
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Drew Miller is a Nashville singer-songwriter, content developer for the Rabbit Room, and the producer of this podcast. This fall and winter he is rele...
Episode 20: Jonny Jimison
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny Jimison is a graphic novelist and the author of The Dragon Lord Saga. In October of 2019, Rabbit Room Press is re-releasing Martin and Marco, Bo...
Episode 19: James K. A. Smith
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
James K.A. (Jamie) Smith is a philosophy professor at Calvin College and the author of many important books, including Desiring the Kingdom, You Are W...
Episode 18: Sarah MacKenzie
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah MacKenzie is the host of Read-Aloud Revival and the author of The Read-Aloud Family. In this episode, Jonathan and Sarah discuss the curious con...
Episode 17: Randall Goodgame
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Randall Goodgame is the creator of Slugs & Bugs, a family music and entertainment brand that includes eight albums, two books, and now a televisio...
Episode 16: Rebecca Reynolds
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Reynolds is the author of Courage, Dear Heart: Letters to a Weary World. She is currently "transposing" Spenser's Faerie Queene for a 21st-cen...
Episode 15: Mark Meynell
02 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Meynell has done a lot of thinking about civility and cynicism and the writer's responsibility not just to win arguments, but to tell the truth. ...
Episode 14: Jessica Hooten Wilson
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of English at John Brown University, is currently preparing the unfinished manuscript of Flannery O'Con...
Episode 13: Mary Laura Philpott
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Laura Philpott is the author of I Miss You When I Blink, a nationally bestselling memoir-in-essays. Her writing also appears in publications...
Episode 12: Joseph Patton
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Patton is a staff songwriter at Sony/ATV Music Publishing on Nashville's Music Row. In this episode, Jonathan and Joseph talk about what happen...
Episode 11: Karen Swallow Prior
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Swallow Prior is the author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books. In this episode she talks with Jonathan about the ins...
Episode 10: Shawn Smucker
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn Smucker is the author of Light from Distant Stars (among other books). In this episode, Jonathan and Shawn discuss the nitty gritty of Shawn's w...
Episode 9: Kristy Dempsey
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan and Kristy talk about her new book Papa Put a Man on the Moon (written in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing), the p...
Episode 8: Helena Sorensen
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan and Helena (author of the Shiloh series) talk about balancing affirmation with criticism, the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed...
Episode 7: Doug McKelvey
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan and Doug discuss the search for "a word that rhymes with everything" and how this search characterizes Doug's writing process aesthetically, ...
Episode 6: Russ Ramsey
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan and Russ go back and forth about the fine line between fact and fiction, the fallibility of human memory, and where truth comes from, specifi...
Episode 5: Claire Gibson
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Rogers interviews Claire Gibson about her new book Beyond the Point, befriending our inner critics, writing as service, and the landscape of ...
Episode 4: Christopher Williams
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Rogers interviews Christopher Williams about his new concept album, We Will Remember, based on the book of Joel. As Jonathan says, "You'...
Episode 3: Jennifer Trafton
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Rogers and Jennifer Trafton discuss the vital role of play in creativity, the tricky business of self-forgetfulness, and how to recover and r...
Episode 2: Pete Peterson
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Rogers and Pete Peterson discuss playwriting, the secrets to a compelling story, and Pete's upcoming stage adaptation of Corrie ten Boom's Th...
Episode 1: Katy Bowser Hutson
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Rogers interviews Katy Bowser Hutson about her chapbook Now I Lay Me Down to Fight, the surprisingly motivating force of mortality, and how t...