Faith in Process

About Faith in Process

Faith in Process: A Podcast Hosted by Pastor Harry Jarrett What if faith is not a finished product, but something alive, changing, and still unfolding in real time? Faith in Process invites you into honest conversations with thought leaders, authors, pastors, peace builders, and everyday people who are actively exploring how faith is lived in the world today. Each week, Pastor Harry Jarrett sits down with guests from across the Anabaptist and peace church families, along with voices from theology, creation care, spiritual formation, social ethics, and theopoetics. These conversations are open, curious, unfinished, and grounded in real life. They offer a place for young adults and lifelong seekers to explore big questions without fear and to imagine what faithful living can look like in our world. Topics you will hear: Faith deconstruction Christian reconstruction Creation care and environmental discipleship Theopoetics and creativity in faith Spiritual formation and vocation Peacemaking and justice Scripture and tradition in real life How to grow a living faith in a noisy world Whether you are holding on to hope, rebuilding your spiritual life, or beginning something new, these conversations will help you discover that your faith is not failing. It is forming. It is stretching. It is processing you into something deeper and more alive. Listen each week and join a community that believes faith grows best through shared stories, open questions, and God’s gentle work in our lives. Tap Follow and step into the journey. pastorharryjarrett.substack.com (https://pastorharryjarrett.substack.com/s/faith-in-process?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Harry Jarrett

Category

religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Aug 2025

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Peace, One Friend at a Time

   Thirty years ago, a hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, spent a night in Brad and Sue Cox’s home in Lynchburg, Virginia. She spoke to a class of junior high students, and the Coxes never forgot her. Decades later, retirement age arrived, and instead of settling in, they opened the Brethren Volunteer Service Opportunities Book and found a listing for the World Friendship Center in Hiroshima. Only after they were far along in the process did they learn that their guest from thirty years earlier had helped found the very center they were about to serve. In this episode, Brad and Sue, the 43rd co-directors of the World Friendship Center (https://www.wfchiroshima.org/english/), join Harry from their guest house in Hiroshima to talk about what it means to say yes to a calling in your sixties: teaching English to hibakusha in their eighties, hosting hibakusha testimonies for visiting students, and watching those testimonies ripple outward, from a ginkgo peace tree planted on a California campus to a college student who still calls it the most memorable day of her life. Along the way, Harry and the Coxes wrestle with harder questions too: whether the bombing was avoidable, what it means to be Christ-like versus simply calling yourself a Christian, and what nineteen months of daily dependence on strangers in a foreign country has taught two American retirees about grace. Brad and Sue’s two-year term ends this November, and the World Friendship Center still hasn’t found their replacements. If you’ve ever wondered what a second season of life could look like, this conversation might be the nudge you didn’t know you needed. Run of Show 0:00 Cold open and welcome 0:26 Meeting Brad and Sue from opposite sides of the globe 1:34 How Harry found their story, and what “hibakusha” means 2:31 Grandparent figures of BVS Unit 336 3:01 Retiring, or rewiring? What led them to say yes 4:34 Brad’s post-retirement classroom at Bridgewater College 5:22 Sue’s teaching career, and a year in Germany 6:11 Opening the BVS Opportunities Book 6:43 Why Hiroshima: a hibakusha’s visit to Lynchburg thirty years ago 8:14 The full-circle discovery: their guest helped found the World Friendship Center 9:02 Barbara Reynolds and the founding of WFC in 1962 9:26 The motto: “peace, one friend at a time” 10:21 WFC’s three founding purposes 13:01 Building bridges of understanding, and how WFC’s mission differs from ICAN’s 14:20 A normal day at the World Friendship Center 16:06 Who’s in the English classes today, ages 6 to 86 17:29 Why English class is really about friendship, and fighting dementia 19:06 How a hibakusha testimony happens: coffee hour and the 9:30 talk 20:06 The Sonoma State story: a 93-year-old survivor’s testimony 24:04 “One of the most memorable days of their lives,” and a peace tree planted back home 27:43 Was the war, and the bombing, avoidable? A peace church wrestles with history 30:02 John Hersey’s Hiroshima, and the Harper’s Magazine rationale 36:44 Preserving testimony as hibakusha age: the Pass It On Project 38:45 A hibakusha walking tour, inspired by the Anne Frank House 41:30 Motomachi High School: pairing art students with hibakusha survivors 43:48 Faith in process: wrestling with where God was 46:12 Christ-like versus Christian: what Japan has taught them 48:38 Lessons in courtesy: bicycles, trains, and a society that thinks of others 51:37 Their term is ending: the pitch for the next BVS couple 54:06 The practical case for serving: housing, food, and healthcare 56:37 Closing thoughts, and what comes next 57:32 Final words: go look at the BVS Opportunities Book 59:00 A personal tie to the Shenandoah Valley 59:42 An open invitation to stay at the World Friendship Center guest house Resource Guide Authors, books, and organizations mentioned in the conversation, with links for anyone who wants to go deeper. World Friendship Center, Hiroshima https://www.wfchiroshima.org/english/ Brad and Sue’s host organization; guest house booking and background on all three founding purposes. World Friendship Center – Directors and Staff https://www.wfchiroshima.org/english/about-wfc/directors-and-staff/ Confirms Brad and Sue as the 43rd Directors, term November 2024 to November 2026. Brethren Volunteer Service – World Friendship Center project listing https://www.brethren.org/bvs/projects/1129/ The BVS project page for this specific placement; start here if you’re the couple Brad is recruiting. Barbara Reynolds and the founding of WFC (1962) https://h-s-o.jp/abe/post_en/08/ Background on Reynolds’ peace pilgrimages and the hibakusha, including Miyoko Matsubara, who traveled and spoke with her. Miyoko Matsubara – correspondence with Barbara Reynolds https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=135669 More on the hibakusha who stayed with the Cox family in Lynchburg decades before they knew her connection to WFC. John Hersey, Hiroshima (1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(book) The book Brad references as the turning point in American public understanding of the bombing’s human cost. Henry L. Stimson, “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb,” Harper’s Magazine, February 1947 https://www.asianstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/the-harpers-magazine-article-from-1947-the-decision-to-use-the-atomic-bomb-by-henry-stimson-to-accompany-peter-frosts-article-teaching-mr-stimson.pdf The rationale piece Brad describes; published February 1947, not 1948 as stated in conversation (see producer notes). ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2017/ican/facts/ The disarmament organization Brad references; correct name and 2017 Nobel Peace Prize background (see producer notes). Motomachi High School hibakusha art program https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/23/japan/hiroshima-atomic-bombing-students-paintings/ The nearly 20-year-old program pairing art students with hibakusha to paint their memories. Green Legacy Hiroshima https://glh.unitar.org/ The project behind the ginkgo “peace trees” grown from seeds of bomb-surviving trees, including the one planted after the Sonoma State visit. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pastorharryjarrett.substack.com/subscribe (https://pastorharryjarrett.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

2. 

   13 Sept 2026

   Honest Conversations and Healthy Organizations — Episode 1

   Episode 1, Part 1: Meet Mark and Harry Welcome to the first episode of Honest Conversations and Healthy Organizations, a new podcast produced alongside Faith in Process, releasing every other month. This series brings together two longtime friends who have each spent decades moving between the worlds of business and the church: Mark L. Vincent and Harry Jarrett. This first episode comes in four parts, and this is part one. Who Are Mark and Harry? Mark L. Vincent, Ph.D., EPC is the founder of Design Group International and Maestro-level Leaders, and founder of the Society for Process Consulting. A Process Consulting pioneer and Executive Advisor, Mark is certified as an Executive Process Consultant (EPC) and serves on multiple boards with an eye to their efficiency, relevance, and mission-centeredness. Mark’s distinguished career spans more than thirty-five years pioneering approaches to Process Consulting, executive leadership and organizational capacity-building, entrepreneurship, and professional development. His focus on a process approach to helping organizations and leaders live into their mission has led to successful adaptive change initiatives with more than 900 clients across varied domestic and international marketplaces. Beginning in the year 2000, Mark translated Dr. Edgar Schein’s formative academic work into the professional field of Process Consulting—co-creating what help looks like with clients, so that clients own what they say they want. He authored the foundational text “Listening Helping Learning: Core Competencies of Process Consulting,” which lays out the roadmap to partnership with clients and serves as the curriculum for Process Consulting certification. Mark specializes in working with accomplished leaders in the “Third Turn” of their careers—executives who are focusing on future value, succession, and legacy. He brings attentive listening, incisive questioning, and strategic resources to the integration of being and doing at the level of executive leadership. Through Maestro-level Leaders, he hosts advising cohorts specifically designed for leaders in transition, offering monthly cohort calls, individual advising, and regular in-person retreats—providing succession support not found anywhere else. Mark has worked extensively with churches and faith-based organizations, including substantial consulting work in the Mennonite Church and broader Anabaptist communities in Italy, Sicily, and across the United States. His unique background bridges both business and faith sectors, bringing deep understanding of both corporate dynamics and church leadership. Mark is also a member of the Sage Group Collective, which brings peers and experts to pressing opportunities and challenges through ninety-minute intensive panel sessions. He serves on the boards of Century Companies, 10x Connect, and the Center for Steward Leader Studies. A Boise, Idaho-based nomad, Mark is married to Patricia Teall Vincent, a life coach. Together they divide their time between family, work, and their blended family of six children and seven grandchildren spread from Boise, Idaho to Syracuse, New York. Mark is committed to “the hope of our grandchildren’s grandchildren.” His book about Maestro-level Leaders, titled The Maestro Effect: Future Value, Succession, and Legacy in Business was recently released. Harry Walthall Jarrett, Jr., M.Div. is a unique bridge-builder who has spent his career moving seamlessly between pastoral ministry, international missions, entrepreneurship, and hospitality management. His rare combination of deep theological training, hands-on business leadership, and pastoral experience positions him to speak with authority about the intersection of faith and work, spiritual formation and organizational health, and the practical challenges facing churches today. Harry’s ministry career spans three decades, beginning with Youth Evangelism Service in Bari, Italy (1988-1989) and continuing as a missionary and church planter in Sicily with Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions (1991-2000). During his time in Sicily, Harry aided in the growth of church plants in Capaci and Brancaccio, formed a Mennonite church in Termini Imerese, and served as Founding Dean of the Italian Mennonite Discipleship School in Palermo, training national leaders serving six Sicilian Mennonite churches. Returning to the United States, Harry served as Associate Pastor of Praise Fellowship at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church (2001-2006), where he led the ministry from 40 to 240 members and attendees, and as Lead Pastor of Neffsville Mennonite Church in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (2006-2013), where he supervised staff, provided pastoral care to 600+ members, and led the congregation through significant organizational transitions and renewed missional focus. Since 2013, Harry has been a member of the Church of the Brethren and has served the Shenandoah District as interim pastor at Leakes Chapel and Elks Run. He was ordained by Virginia Mennonite Conference in 1994. Following his pastoral role at Neffsville, Harry demonstrated entrepreneurial leadership through founding KyrieTech (2010), a consulting firm specializing in social media strategy and digital community management, and On Sunny Slope Farm (2013), a special events and wedding venue in Harrisonburg, Virginia, which he continues to operate with his wife Beth. From 2017 to 2022, Harry served as SMERF, Wedding, and Tour & Travel Sales Manager at Hotel Madison and Shenandoah Valley Conference Center. In 2022, he transitioned to Director of Sales with OCI Hospitality and the Harrisonburg Courtyard Marriott, where he was promoted to General Manager within months. He served in that role until returning to full-time pastoral ministry at Pleasant Valley Church of the Brethren in Weyers Cave, Virginia, where he currently serves as pastor. Harry is an active writer and podcaster, maintaining a Substack publication where he explores weaving faith, hospitality, and business into everyday life. He produces two weekly podcasts: Faith at Work and Faith in Process. He has taught in Eastern Mennonite University’s STEP program, co-created the Timothy Project for ministry formation, and served as moderator of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Harry earned his B.S. in Christian Ministries and Congregational Leadership (with a minor in missions) from Eastern Mennonite University (1991) and his Master of Divinity from Eastern Mennonite Seminary (2006). He is certified in Prepare and Enrich marital and premarital counseling. Born in 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia, Harry grew up in Lynchburg but always considered Harrisonburg home, where his grandparents lived on the family farm. Harry and his wife Beth reside in Harrisonburg, Virginia. They have three adult children—Harrison (married to Hannah), Christopher (married to Savannah), and Sarah (married to Jeremy Whitmore)—and three grandchildren with one on the way. Harry’s hobbies include farming and gardening, cooking, fishing, and biking. Where This Series Is Headed Over six bi-monthly episodes, Mark and Harry will have honest conversations about the challenges facing churches and pastoral leaders today, using a simple but clarifying framework: the difference between a condition, a persistent reality to be managed, and a problem, an issue that can actually be solved. Episode one sets the table. The episodes that follow will explore the locus of authority in a post-sola-scriptura world, declining participation, the leadership pipeline crisis, navigating controversy, and what faithfulness looks like in a season of institutional decline. Continue the conversation in Episode 1, Part 2. Get full access to Harry Jarrett at pastorharryjarrett.substack.com/subscribe (https://pastorharryjarrett.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

3. 

   18 May 2026

   Everywhere and Always

   What does it really mean to worship God — and can it happen anywhere besides a Sunday morning church service? In this third installment of their 12-part journey through Let Our Joys Be Known: A Brethren Heritage Curriculum, Pastor Harry Jarrett and producer Grayson Preece dig into one of the most fundamental questions of the Christian life: Why do we worship, and what is worship, anyway? Grayson opens by reflecting on worship as a deeply personal commitment — a simple, meaningful hour that anchors his week and connects him to community. Harry pushes that definition outward, drawing on his background as a missionary and pastor to reframe worship not as a one-hour weekly event, but as the ongoing practice of assigning worth — recognizing the sacred presence of God woven through all of creation, all of our relationships, and every ordinary moment of the day. The conversation wanders beautifully from a highway drive through the Virginia countryside to the starry sky on a late-night walk, from a formative season at Camp Bethel to a surprising dinner conversation with a man in Italy who was convinced he’d mastered the Ten Commandments by avoiding relationships entirely. Along the way, Harry and Grayson explore the Pietist and Anabaptist roots of the Church of the Brethren, the Christian mystical tradition’s understanding of God’s ever-present nearness, and why the experience of feeling absent from God is itself a form of awareness that God exists. The episode builds to a passionate argument Harry makes for something most of the Christian church has quietly let slip away: foot washing. It is, Harry contends, the one practice Jesus most explicitly commanded — and the one that is hardest to do precisely because it demands genuine vulnerability, humility, and trust. He believes it could radically reshape how Christians relate to one another and to God. Wherever you are in your own faith journey — whether you show up every Sunday or haven’t set foot in a church in years — this conversation will invite you to ask: When did I last notice God? And what was it that helped me see? RUN OF SHOW 00:00 — Welcome & Series Introduction Producer Grayson Preece introduces the episode and places it as Part 3 of the 12-part Let Our Joys Be Known series. 00:45 — Why Do You Come to Worship? Grayson shares his personal reason for showing up every Sunday — the power of a simple, repeated commitment to a community and a time. 03:40 — The Hour on Sunday Harry references Nancy Beach’s book and reflects on how, for most people, Sunday morning is the only intentional hour spent thinking about God, faith, or theology all week. 05:50 — Worship Beyond the Sanctuary Harry expands the definition of worship: its root meaning is “assigning worth,” and his pastoral vocation has pushed him to help people see God not just on Sundays but in the entire arc of life. 07:00 — Acts 17 and “In God We Live and Move” Harry discusses the Apostle Paul’s speech to the Athenians as a foundation for understanding God as permeating all of creation — a thread running through the Pietist and Anabaptist traditions that shaped the Church of the Brethren. 08:00 — Seeing God on the Interstate Grayson shares a personal moment of divine awareness during a highway drive — turning off the music and suddenly noticing beauty, presence, and the sacred all around him. 09:15 — Being in the Same Room Is a Miracle A reflection on the wonder of human presence and how those moments when the “veil” parts reveal something of the divine. 10:00 — Does God Need Our Worship? Harry asks a provocative question: does God actually need us to worship? He reframes worship as building our own awareness and deepening our relationship with the divine, not informing God of God’s own greatness. 12:00 — Worship as Preparation and as Remembrance Grayson and Harry discuss how the Sunday hour might function as both a launching pad for the week ahead and a space to recognize God in what has already happened — “That was God on Thursday.” 13:50 — Camp Bethel and Worship in Creation A warm detour into the transformative experience of working at Church of the Brethren summer camps — and how an entire week immersed in relationship, community, and creation functions as extended, full-body worship. 14:30 — The Three Relationships at the Heart of Faith Grayson names what he sees as a “holy trinity” for the camp experience: relationships with God, with creation, and with each other — and how none of the three can thrive in isolation. 16:00 — Books Harry Is Reading Harry shares three books shaping his current theological reconstruction: Tony Jones’ The God of the Wild Places, and Richard Rohr’s Everything Belongs and The Universal Christ — all pointing toward a God who was already present, everywhere, before we arrived. 17:30 — Noticing God as an Act of Worship The simple act of naming “I see God here” — in a person, a place, a moment — is itself worship. 18:00 — The Absence of God and the Christian Mystics Harry draws on the Christian mystical tradition to suggest that even the feeling of God’s absence is a spiritual signal — you can’t miss what was never there. God is never absent; we are simply not always aware. 19:20 — Personal vs. Communal Faith Grayson notices the language of “I” in worship discussions. Harry reflects on the tension between personal and communal faith, the risk of becoming a spiritual hermit, and the story of the man in Italy who followed all Ten Commandments — because he had no relationships to challenge him. 22:40 — Foot Washing: The Ordinance We’re Missing Harry makes his most passionate case of the episode: that foot washing — the one practice Jesus most directly commanded — has been all but abandoned by the wider church, while the passive act of taking communion has become central. Why? Because foot washing requires you to do something. It demands vulnerability on both sides. 25:00 — Grayson’s Camp Bethel Foot Washing Memory Grayson recalls the foot washing ritual at summer staff closing — who he would and wouldn’t ask, how intimate and unsettling it felt, and what that discomfort reveals about us. 26:50 — What Foot Washing Could Do for the Church Harry’s bold claim: a regular, literal practice of washing one another’s feet could radically change the paradigm of the North American Christian church — binding people together in ways nothing else can. 27:07 — Closing & Listener Invitation The hosts wrap up and invite listeners to order Let Our Joys Be Known through Brethren Press and to continue the conversation with a friend, with or without the book. RESOURCE GUIDE 📖 The Series Text Let Our Joys Be Known: A Brethren Heritage Curriculum for Adults by Richard B. Gardner and Kenneth M. Shaffer Jr. — Brethren Press The 12-session adult curriculum Harry and Grayson are working through together. Designed for Sunday school settings, it explores the heritage, theology, and practices of the Church of the Brethren. 🔗 Order from Brethren Press: www.brethrenpress.com (https://www.brethrenpress.com) 📚 Books Referenced in This Episode An Hour on Sunday: Creating Moments of Transformation and Wonder by Nancy Beach A book exploring the deep, shaping forces that can make the Sunday worship hour a time of transformation and wonder — for both believers and seekers alike. Beach served as Programming Director at Willow Creek Community Church and later as a leadership coach. She is also the author of Gifted to Lead: The Art of Leading as a Woman in the Church. 🔗 Find on Amazon (https://amzn.to/4ft3pok) | Author’s website (http://www.nancylbeach.com) The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors by Tony Jones (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) The story of a pastor’s journey out of the church and into the woods, in pursuit of the God he’d lost — paddling a canoe, hunting with his dog, butchering deer. Jones is also the author of Did God Kill Jesus? and The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life, and he hosts the Reverend Hunter Podcast. He teaches at Fuller Theological Seminary. 🔗 Find on Amazon (https://amzn.to/3PaUvBr) | Author’s website (https://www.reverendhunter.com/tgowp) Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer by Richard Rohr One of Richard Rohr’s most popular books, offering the conviction that we have no real access to who we really are except in God — and that only when we rest in God can we find the safety and freedom to be fully ourselves. A defense of contemplative prayer in which God is presented as a lover who receives and forgives everything, and in which the central insight is: “We cannot attain the presence of God. We’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness.” 🔗 Find on Amazon (https://amzn.to/42DiNHg) | CAC Bookstore (https://store.cac.org/products/everything-belongs-the-gift-of-contemplative-prayer) The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr (Convergent Books, 2019) — New York Times Bestseller Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world — arguing that faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet. 🔗 Find on Amazon (https://amzn.to/4uQgsEL) | Penguin Random House (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558310/the-universal-christ-by-richard-rohr/) 🏕️ Camps & Places Mentioned Camp Bethel — Fincastle, Virginia A Christian summer camp and year-round event center on 470 sacred acres of forests, fields, ponds, streams, and hills in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, operated by the Virlina District Church of the Brethren since 1927. Their mission: TOGETHER — with God, with each other, and with creation. 🔗 campbethelvirginia.org (https://www.campbethelvirginia.org) Brethren Woods Camp and Retreat Center — Keezletown, Virginia A year-round camp and retreat center owned and operated by the Shenandoah District of the Church of the Brethren, located in the Shenandoah Valley just 12 miles northeast of Harrisonburg, seeking “to provide Christian educational opportunities, facilities, and programs for all ages in an inviting woodland setting.” They always need summer counselors! 🔗 brethrenwoods.org (https://brethrenwoods.org) 📖 Scripture References * Acts 17:28 — “In him we live and move and have our being” (Paul speaking to the Athenians in Athens) * John 13:14-15 — Jesus washing the disciples’ feet and commanding them to do the same * Revelation 4:11 — “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things” Faith in Process is hosted by Pastor Harry Jarrett, live from Pleasant Valley Church of the Brethren in Weyers Cave, Virginia. New episodes air weekly. Subscribe on Substack, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. 🔗 pastorharryjarrett.substack.com/s/faith-in-process (https://pastorharryjarrett.substack.com/s/faith-in-process) Get full access to Harry Jarrett at pastorharryjarrett.substack.com/subscribe (https://pastorharryjarrett.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Contact Faith in Process

Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.