The Deep Dive Spirituality Conversations Podcast

Episode 3: Spiritual Formation and Your "Unum Necessarium" with Dr. Mike Voigts

This week’s episode focuses on a deep dive into the process of spiritual formation. “Unum necessarium” is latin for “one necessary thing.” This phrase finds its biblical roots in Jesus’ words to Martha in Luke 10:42.

Listen in as Brian and Mike dig into the concepts of simplicity and the “one necessary thing” as means for deepening our growth in grace.

What is your “unum necessarium”?

What would it look like to fully embrace it today?

Dr. Mike Voigts is an Associate Professor of Spiritual Formation at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church and has served congregations in Texas and Kentucky. He is the author of Letters of Ascent: Spiritual Direction in the Letters of Bernard of Clairvaux (https://amzn.to/2RENBDn)

You can find him online:

Twitter: @mikevoigts

Webpage: claravallis.me

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Episode 2: Spirit Driven Mission with Dr. Michael Beck

In today's episode, Dr. Russell interviews the missional thinker and practitioner Dr. Michael Beck.

Through his work as a missional catalyst, Beck is on the leading edge of helping the church to relearn what it takes to embrace the mission of God in their local contexts. He discusses contextual intelligences as a strategy for leading new or aging churches to embrace mission. We also dig deeply into the formational practices for embodying a missional holiness.

3 Books that Beck views as Essential:

(1) Gerald Arbuckle Refounding the church: Dissent for Leadership https://amzn.to/2VdFD5e

(2) Manuel Castells The Rise of Network Society https://amzn.to/2JOZCSr

(3) Graham Cray The Mission-shaped Church https://amzn.to/2UWAIXg

Dr. Michael Beck is South Atlantic Coordinator Fresh Expressions US and North Central District Cultivator of Fresh Expressions for the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. Michael serves as senior pastor of Wildwood UMC where he directs addiction recovery programs, a jail ministry, a food pantry, and a network of fresh expressions that meet in places like tattoo parlors and burrito joints. He currently lives in Wildwood with his wife, Jill, and their blended family of 8 children.

Episode 1: Spiritual Direction and the Contemplative Life with Gene Yotka

In the inaugural episode Brian interviews Rev. Gene Yotka founder and director of the Awakening Institute. This episode covers contemplative spirituality and practices by discussing their profound relevance to our reality today.

Gene summarizes his understanding of the 5 S's of Contemplative Living: Simplicity, Silence, Stillness, Solitude and Spaciousness.