Being Known Podcast Being Known Podcast
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Curt Thompson, MD and Pepper Sweeney host a series of conversations on the mind and how we interact with our faith, communities, and ourselves.
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S8E11: It’s Time for Beauty
There’s nothing quite like an encounter with beauty to remind us that we are temporal—and, temporary—creatures. Who hasn’t wanted the gorgeous sunset to just go on and on and on? Who has listened to Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, and not desired it to go on indefinitely?
Beauty is like that. It transports us into states of timelessness that remind us that we were made, not for this world—but for the world that is coming.
Join us for the last episode of this season that will remind us of what it means that God has placed eternity in our hearts, and that putting ourselves in the path of oncoming beauty is the beginning of the time for which there will be no end.
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Episode Links and References
Artistic Offering discussed today: Nature in your own community... Get outside.
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Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Compassion International
The world is currently facing a devastating global food crisis caused from numerous variables: the war in Ukraine, fertilizer shortages, effects of COVID-19, and extreme weather, just to name a few. Couple any of these with the fact that food prices are climbing, and hunger and malnutrition in vulnerable children intensify.
During this Being Known Podcast season, we invite you to join us in sponsoring a child with Compassion International. Just $43 a month provides a sponsored child with all their basic needs and the hope for a brighter future.
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S8E10: The Interpersonal Nature of Beauty
Beauty is not just something that sits there and waits for our reaction. It is something that, should we allow ourselves to be open to it, actively draws our attention not only to it, but draws us to draw others’ attention to it as well. In this way, beauty’s purpose serves to engage us with each other—so that we can create and curate even more beauty.
Join us as we discover how beauty reveals the inescapable reality that we were made for connection, and that beauty is one of God’s most powerful means of showing us that this is true.
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Episode Links and References
Artistic Offering discussed today: Van Gogh Irises
Artistic Offering for next week: Nature in your community... get outside!
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Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Compassion International
The world is currently facing a devastating global food crisis caused from numerous variables: the war in Ukraine, fertilizer shortages, effects of COVID-19, and extreme weather, just to name a few. Couple any of these with the fact that food prices are climbing, and hunger and malnutrition in vulnerable children intensify.
During this Being Known Podcast season, we invite you to join us in sponsoring a child with Compassion International. Just $43 a month provides a sponsored child with all their basic needs and the hope for a brighter future.
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YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
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S8E9: The State of Beauty
So much of what shapes our perceived distress or joy in life is related to how we transition from one state of mind to another. Our willingness to place ourselves in the path of oncoming beauty does many things, not least slowing our pace in life, such that we become much more aware of when and how we are making a transition from one to another state of mind.
This slowing of our pace makes it possible for us to be aware of so much more that is going on in that very transition—and respond to it in the ways we want to, even if those states are distressing.
Listen in as Pepper and Curt explore how our willingness to practice encountering beauty can help us regulate our affect, and so strengthen our transitions from one state of mind to another—and thereby see the potential for the creation of beauty in situations that would otherwise leave us unable to do so.
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Episode Links and References
Artistic Offering discussed today: Meditation Breathing Exercise
Artistic Offering for next week: Van Gogh Irises
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Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Compassion International
The world is currently facing a devastating global food crisis caused from numerous variables: the war in Ukraine, fertilizer shortages, effects of COVID-19, and extreme weather, just to name a few. Couple any of these with the fact that food prices are climbing, and hunger and malnutrition in vulnerable children intensify.
During this Being Known Podcast season, we invite you to join us in sponsoring a child with Compassion International. Just $43 a month provides a sponsored child with all their basic needs and the hope for a brighter future.
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Stay connected:
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YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
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S8E8: Surprised by Beauty
During Curt and Pepper’s recent trip to El Salvador, they each found themselves surprised by beauty in various ways. Surprise can lead to any number of emotional reactions, depending on what, exactly, it is that surprises us. When it is beauty that is doing the surprising, we are opened to joy, goodness and even greater beauty than we would expect out of life.
Join Pepper and Curt as they explore surprising stories of beauty, and along the way introduce you to Shaun Groves, a pastor and Compassion International ambassador, whose compelling story of his own surprise with beauty has had him involved with the ministry since 2005.
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Episode Links and References
Artistic Offering discussed today: Pepper Sweeney's Driftwood Beach photos
Artistic Offering for next week: Meditation Breath Exercise
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Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Compassion International
The world is currently facing a devastating global food crisis caused from numerous variables: the war in Ukraine, fertilizer shortages, effects of COVID-19, and extreme weather, just to name a few. Couple any of these with the fact that food prices are climbing, and hunger and malnutrition in vulnerable children intensify.
During this Being Known Podcast season, we invite you to join us in sponsoring a child with Compassion International. Just $43 a month provides a sponsored child with all their basic needs and the hope for a brighter future.
. . . . .
Stay connected:
Instagram, Facebook
YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.
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S8E7: What is the Beautiful Story You Are Telling?
Like no other creatures, humans are storytellers. Moreover, our stories all have a beginning, a middle and an end. And the way we tell stories has to do with the end in mind.
So, think of it: the stories we tell about our lives—not least the parts that we hate the most—will be governed by where the story is ultimately going. Despite the carnage that we see all around us, the God of the bible is intent upon telling a story of beauty. He does not intend to have us waiting until the very end for that beauty to find us. He intends for us to experience it now, if only in the hints of what are the harbingers of the deep weight of beauty that is coming.
Join Curt and Pepper as we discover how beauty is shaping who we are becoming as storytellers, as well as the stories we tell.
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Episode Links and References
Artistic Offering discussed today: Dave Wilcox: "How Did You Find Me Here?"
Artistic Offering for next week: Pepper Sweeney's Driftwood Beach photos
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Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Compassion International
The world is currently facing a devastating global food crisis caused from numerous variables: the war in Ukraine, fertilizer shortages, effects of COVID-19, and extreme weather, just to name a few. Couple any of these with the fact that food prices are climbing, and hunger and malnutrition in vulnerable children intensify.
During this Being Known Podcast season, we invite you to join us in sponsoring a child with Compassion International. Just $43 a month provides a sponsored child with all their basic needs and the hope for a brighter future.
. . . . .
Stay connected:
Instagram, Facebook
YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.
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S8E6: In the Service of Beauty
Pepper and Curt had the privilege of spending five days in El Salvador as part of a Compassion International team of visitors. Join us as we share about the extraordinarily durable beauty that is emerging in some of the hardest stories we could imagine—and how all of this is pointing to the emerging kingdom of God.
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Episode Links and References
Artistic Offering discussed today: Gustav Holst; "Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity"
Artistic Offering for next week: Dave Wilcox: "How Did You Find Me Here?"
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Special Thanks for our Season Sponsor - Compassion International
The world is currently facing a devastating global food crisis caused from numerous variables: the war in Ukraine, fertilizer shortages, effects of COVID-19, and extreme weather, just to name a few. Couple any of these with the fact that food prices are climbing, and hunger and malnutrition in vulnerable children intensify.
During this Being Known Podcast season, we invite you to join us in sponsoring a child with Compassion International. Just $43 a month provides a sponsored child with all their basic needs and the hope for a brighter future.
. . . . .
Stay connected:
Instagram, Facebook
YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.
Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.
Customer Reviews
Deep Thinking
Listen to gain perspective and deep insights to your own personal thoughts and learn to live life more fully and intentionally. Of course, I only listen to hear from Pepper! Lol
The humor, friendship and deep intimacy that is shared makes me come back for more.
Time for Beauty SA811
This podcast kept popping up
on suggestions. It looked good but I have a small capacity for listening to anything. Then on a troubled evening a couple weeks ago I just did it. It was like walking along the ocean at sunset with a friend, hopeful and seen! I started listening a second time today. I really want to get this in my heart. Thanking the LORD for bringing this my way.
S7E6 Goodbyes
Wow! As a 65 yr old female military brat, there was never a “Goodbye.” When Dad got orders, we moved. At 27 years old, I had moved 18 times. When I hear you three talk about saying Goodbye and I wonder what my experience has done to my heart over the years. (Not just me, but all military brats.) I would love to hear a bit about how military kids have navigated frequent moves and loss. Thanks for all you do!