Interviews



Mastery & the Practice of Joy: An Interview with Russ Ramsey

By Drew Miller

Recently, I had the pleasure of asking Russ Ramsey a few questions about his new book Rembrandt Is In the Wind, the story of how he came to love visual art, and the interaction of that love with his faith and ministry as a pastor. Read on for some beautiful responses from Russ.

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The Habit Podcast: Jessica Hooten Wilson wants you to be a saint

By The Rabbit Room

This week on The Habit Podcast, Jonathan Rogers talks with professor and author Jessica Hooten Wilson.

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New from the Podcast Network: Call It Good

By The Rabbit Room

It’s a big year for the Rabbit Room Podcast Network! We’re launching another brand new show hosted by Matt Conner: Call It Good, a limited series of conversations with authors, artists, and pastors about creative confidence and the invitation before us to join with the Spirit in the act of re-creating the world. In this introductory episode, Matt Conner tells us about where his idea for Call It Good came from and what he hopes to offer through this collection of conversations. Read on for a word from Matt about the show.

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The Habit Podcast: Russ Ramsey Wants You to Love Art

By The Rabbit Room

This week on The Habit Podcast, Jonathan Rogers talks with author and pastor Russ Ramsey.

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Hutchmoot Podcast & Video: A Mystery in the Making

By The Rabbit Room

The Hutchmoot Podcast features some of our favorite sessions recorded at our annual conference which celebrates art, music, story, and faith in all their many intersections. Today, it is our pleasure to share a conversation about music between Ben Shive and Sara Groves called “A Mystery in the Making” from 2021’s Hutchmoot: Homebound, in both video and audio form.

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The Habit Podcast: Caroline Cobb Stopped Striving

By The Rabbit Room

This week on The Habit Podcast, Jonathan Rogers talks with Texas singer-songwriter Caroline Cobb.

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Artists & Identity with Jess Velarde

By The Rabbit Room

Who gets to call themselves an artist? Are there qualifications? Does someone else bestow that title, or can we give it to ourselves? Kyra and Jamin talk to painter Jess Velarde about the internal and external factors that shape how we think about our identity as artists.

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The Habit Podcast: Dana Gioia on Poetry & Beauty in Solitude

By The Rabbit Room

This week on The Habit Podcast, we invite you to listen in on a conversation between the poet Dana Gioia and Cherie Harder, President of The Trinity Forum. They discuss the ways that poetry works as a kind of enchantment, creating a state of heightened consciousness and heightened receptivity, and Dana Gioia makes the case that beauty is a way of knowing the world as it really is. He also reads a couple of poems.

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The Habit Podcast: Curt Thompson Puts Himself in the Path of Oncoming Beauty

By The Rabbit Room

This week on The Habit Podcast, Jonathan Rogers talks with psychiatrist and author Curt Thompson.

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Introducing The Artists & Podcast

By The Rabbit Room

We’re so excited to introduce you to the newest show on the Rabbit Room Podcast Network. The Artists & Podcast, hosted by Kyra Hinton and Jamin Still, is a series of conversations about the visual arts in the context of everyday, ordinary life.

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The Habit Podcast: Christie Purifoy Plants Flowers

By The Rabbit Room

This week on The Habit Podcast, Jonathan Rogers talks with Christie Purifoy, author of Garden Maker: Growing a Life of Beauty and Wonder with Flowers.

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The Habit Podcast: Dorena Williamson Builds Bridges

By The Rabbit Room

This week on The Habit Podcast, Jonathan Rogers talks with author Dorena Williamson. Dorena is a bridge-builder, a speaker, and a co-planter of a multi-racial church that has been doing beautiful work in Nashville for 25 years. Her most recent picture book, Crowned with Glory, is an ode to Black hair and Black girl joy.

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