33 episodes

Welcome to the WellSpring SoulCARE podcast! I’m your host, Richard Gotthardt, and I’m part of the WellSpring Team. I’ve been a pastor for almost 30 years in a variety of churches, from small, medium, to large in roles from Students, Spiritual Formation, and Lead Pastor. Now as part of WellSpring, I’m part of a team and organization that seeks to come alongside pastors, ministry and non-profit leaders to help bridge that disconnect between the outer and the inner life. We want to help you pay attention to your soul, that most important but so easily overlooked and even neglected core of who you are. So in this podcast, we want to invite you into an ongoing dialogue and conversation- between you and your own self, between you and God. We’ll do this as we have conversations with others- leaders, authors, pastors, and others who can offer us perspective, wisdom, and simply honest and authentic vulnerability about what is true and real. I’m so excited and honored to host these conversations and invite you into them as we journey together.

Discover more: wellspringca.com

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    • Religion & Spirituality
    • 4.8 • 22 Ratings

Welcome to the WellSpring SoulCARE podcast! I’m your host, Richard Gotthardt, and I’m part of the WellSpring Team. I’ve been a pastor for almost 30 years in a variety of churches, from small, medium, to large in roles from Students, Spiritual Formation, and Lead Pastor. Now as part of WellSpring, I’m part of a team and organization that seeks to come alongside pastors, ministry and non-profit leaders to help bridge that disconnect between the outer and the inner life. We want to help you pay attention to your soul, that most important but so easily overlooked and even neglected core of who you are. So in this podcast, we want to invite you into an ongoing dialogue and conversation- between you and your own self, between you and God. We’ll do this as we have conversations with others- leaders, authors, pastors, and others who can offer us perspective, wisdom, and simply honest and authentic vulnerability about what is true and real. I’m so excited and honored to host these conversations and invite you into them as we journey together.

Discover more: wellspringca.com

    How Do I Know What God is Saying? | Emily P. Freeman

    How Do I Know What God is Saying? | Emily P. Freeman

    Pre-order How to Walk into a Room
    Order The Next Right Thing
    Emily P. Freeman is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of five books, including The Next Right Thing: A Simple Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions. With a masters degree in Spiritual Formation and Leadership from Friends University where she serves as a Residency Lecturer, her most important work is to help create soul space and offer spiritual companionship and discernment for anyone struggling with decision fatigue.
    Emily has been a featured speaker for Renovaré, Anglican Mission in the Americas, Faith and Culture Writers Conference, and The Apprentice Gathering. Her writing has been featured in Today Parents, Christianity Today, and Patheos.
    Her nationally ranked podcast, The Next Right Thing, has more than 24 million downloads and she regularly offers perspective and clarity for her more than 120K followers on Instagram. Emily lives in North Carolina with her husband and three teenagers.

    • 55 min
    Anxiety: Enemy, Friend, or Other? | Curtis Chang

    Anxiety: Enemy, Friend, or Other? | Curtis Chang

    Curtis Chang bridges the worlds of secular institutions and theology. In the former world, he is the founder and CEO of Consulting Within Reach (CWR), a firm serving nonprofits and government agencies. His consulting work has won an award in social innovation from the Obama White House, and he teaches strategic planning as a faculty member of American University’s School of International Service.
    In the Christian world, he is a consulting professor at Duke Divinity School and a Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary. Curtis is also a former senior pastor of an Evangelical Covenant Church in San Jose, California.
    The Anxiety Opportunity Book
    Redeeming Babel

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Navigating Burnout and Discouragement | Andy Lewis

    Navigating Burnout and Discouragement | Andy Lewis

    Andy has lived in Santa Cruz, California, for over 25 years. He has an MA in Theology from Western Seminary and served as a youth pastor, college speaker, and college pastor before he became Lead Pastor at Faith Community. He's also a woodworker and plays in a Johnny Cash cover band called “Man In Black.” He's been married to his wife Aleta for 30 years, and they have three amazing children: Cassidy, Michael, and Josh.

    • 39 min
    Navigating Deconstruction & De-Churching | Todd Hunter Returns

    Navigating Deconstruction & De-Churching | Todd Hunter Returns

    What Jesus Intended: Finding True Faith in the Rubble of Bad Religion
    Todd Hunter is the founding bishop of The Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others and the founding pastor of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Costa Mesa, CA. He is past President of Alpha USA and former National Director for the Association of Vineyard Churches. He is author of Christianity Beyond Belief, Giving Church Another Chance, The Outsider Interviews, The Accidental Anglican and Our Favorite Sins. Todd has been an adjunct professor of evangelism, leadership in contemporary culture and spiritual formation at George Fox University, Fuller Seminary, Western Seminary, Vanguard University, Azusa Pacific University, Biblical Seminary and Wheaton College. In addition, he has been a Distinguished Lecturer at several institutions of higher learning. Todd and his family live in Costa Mesa, California.

    • 50 min
    Following Jesus with Chris Hall (former president of Renovaré)

    Following Jesus with Chris Hall (former president of Renovaré)

    Get A Different Way: Recentering the Christian Life Around Following Jesus.
    Christopher A. Hall is a member of the Renovaré Ministry Team. He served as president of Renovaré from 2015-2022.
    Hall is author of a four volume set on the Church Fathers: Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers, Learning Theology with the Church Fathers, Worshiping with the Church Fathers, and Living Wisely with the Church Fathers, all published by IVP Academic. He also was associate editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (29 volumes: published by IVP Academic).
    Chris previously served at Eastern University for twenty-four years in several roles, including chancellor, provost, dean of Palmer Theological Seminary, dean of the Templeton Honors College, distinguished professor of theology, and director of academic spiritual formation.
    Dr. Hall possesses a B.A. from UCLA in history, an M.A. in biblical studies from Fuller Theological Seminary, a Th.M. from Regent College, and a Ph.D. from Drew University. He has served in the pastorate overseas (France, 5 years) and in Canada (British Columbia, 2 years). He has also served as Director of Pastoral Care at New Jersey’s only state gero-psychiatric hospital.
    Dr. Hall has ministered in Asia, Africa, South America, Europe, the Middle-East, Canada, and the United States. He served on the editorial board of Christianity Today. He has published articles and book reviews in Christianity Today, Catalyst, Christian History, inMinistry, Books and Culture, Christian Scholars Review, Modern Theology, and Crux.
    He and his wife Debbie reside in Philadelphia and have three children and two grandchildren.

    • 52 min
    Stories from SoulCARE

    Stories from SoulCARE

    Four recent SoulCARE alum share their experiences and gratitude for the program.

    • 1 hr 9 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
22 Ratings

22 Ratings

Good2ToGo ,

I Am a Kinesthetic Contemplative!

Wow! I never knew that term even existed. The moment Adam Peacocke said the term I knew I was one. Thank you Adam and Richard for sharing words and methods to help me a restless ADD contemplative. Love the biblical perspective and examples plus the practical ideas for personal applications. Great job!

davelonging ,

Good Stuff!

Enjoy listening to Richard no matter the medium. He has a real depth and sincerity that stands out.

David Misson ,

Great!

Always enjoy the conversations & topics that wellspring brings! Keep them coming :)

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