Here humans craft and share their personal, compelling, beautiful, sometimes difficult 17 minute story of when God got real in their life and how that experience changed them. Following their story, they consider with host Sarah Hollar how their experience continues to affect them in their relationships, their sense of self and their way in the world.
When God Got Real
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Here humans craft and share their personal, compelling, beautiful, sometimes difficult 17 minute story of when God got real in their life and how that experience changed them. Following their story, they consider with host Sarah Hollar how their experience continues to affect them in their relationships, their sense of self and their way in the world.
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July 13, 2026
Finding Belovedness: Jen Holt Enriquez
<p>In this episode, Jen — an attorney- turned-director of children's ministry and co-founder of Sowing Seed in the Sand — shares how years of teaching children about racism through the lens of faith led to an unexpected discovery: the truth she was preaching to others was true for her too. She is, and always was, an equally beloved child of God.</p><p>Jen and Sarah talk about human hierarchies, the stories we tell children versus the ones the world tells them, and how a familiar Bible story — not the Good Samaritan, but Zacchaeus — became the one that finally showed her who God really is.A story about the lies we inherit, the love we're offered anyway, and what happens when it finally feels real.</p><p>Jen Holt Enriquez is an attorney by formal education and was surprised to find herself called to the work of making disciples as a 2nd career, about 10 years ago. Jen currently serves as director of children’s ministry at a church in Western Springs, IL and is co-founder of a movement called Sowing Seeds in the Sand. In this story she tells you how her journey in antiracism through the lens of faith transformed her and her<br>relationship with God. To learn more about Jen’s antiracism work, please email her at mailto:jen@sowingseedsinthesand.org, or visit the website<br>at <a href="https://www.sowingseedsinthesand.org/">www.sowingseedsinthesand.org</a></p><p><a href="https://www.whengodgotreal.com/">www.whengodgotreal.com</a></p>
June 15, 2026
Kindness During A Season Of Loss: Mona West
<p>Poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes that before you can know kindness, you must first lose things. Mona knows this firsthand. A sudden job loss, a year of searching, and the death of her father hollowed her out — and opened her to a kindness that redirected the final chapter of her ministry career. In this episode, she and host Sarah reflect on suffering, surrender, Scripture as a living voice, and why small acts of kindness might be the most concrete way human beings bear the image of God.</p><p>Mona West is a published biblical scholar with a passion for spiritual formation. She has spent her 30-year career working in educational and religious settings creating spaces for marginalized people who have experienced scriptural abuse to develop reading strategies that allow them to trust scripture with their spiritual formation. She is currently a Senior Instructor at The Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, TX.</p>
February 23, 2026
Captured by the River: Andrew Ancona
<p>Andrew Ancona is a Connecticut native raised in the Episcopal Church. He attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he discerned his call to the priesthood through campus ministry, and received a B.A. in Architecture in 2016. Father Andrew completed his studies for ministry at Berkeley Divinity School, Yale University and Cambridge University, UK. His areas of interest include Liturgical Studies, Gregorian Chant and Sacred Music, the work of Christian formation and hospitality, as well as Architecture, Sacred Space, and the Divine in the built<br>environment. In his free time, Fr Andrew enjoys walking and eating his way around New York City with his Siberian husky Nord, drawing and painting, winemaking, cooking, and vacationing with family.</p><p>Sarah Hollar, an Episcopal Priest and Spiritual Director, lives in Charlotte, NC, where she serves a parish, tends relationships with her husband, two children, two stepchildren, their spouses, seven grandchildren, and her wise aging mother. She also has a good number of friends. Deeply curious about the complexity of the human experience and how God is present in that complexity, she invites you to join her as all sorts of folk share their memorable encounters with God.</p><p><a href="https://www.whengodgotreal.com/">www.whengodgotreal.com</a></p>
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