Hey Friends, I’m Marc Alan Schelske, and this is The Apprenticeship Way. A Podcast about Spiritual Growth Following the Way of Jesus.
Monthly-ish. Spoken-word monologues and conversations about a more generous way of being Christian. Conversations are focused and edited, so you don’t have to sit through banter to get to the good stuff. Episodes are only published when I have something worthwhile to share that I think will stand the test of time.
Available as an audio podcast in all the Podcast apps and services, video on Youtube, and transcription on the episode page.
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2018
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
| 001 | 2018-04-17 | Introductions | Monologue |
| 002 | 2018-05-04 | The Deeper Conversation | Monologue |
| 003 | 2018-05-14 | When Jesus Changed Religion Forever | Monologue |
| 004 | 2018-05-24 | The Freedom to Not Get Your Way | Monologue |
| 005 | 2018-07-19 | Making Friends With Your Limits | Monologue |
| 006 | 2018-08-14 | Your To-Do List is Numinous | Monologue |
| 007 | 2018-09-24 | Tell Your Monkeys to Be Quiet | Monologue |
| 008 | 2018-10-30 | How to Grab Yourself Some Peace | Monologue |
| 009 | 2018-11-12 | How to Spot Poisonous Friends | Mary DeMuth |
| 010 | 2018-12-17 | Don’t Mistake the Trellis for the Grape | Monologue |
2019
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
| 011 | 2019-01-10 | Gratitude Can Save Your Life | Monologue |
| 012 | 2019-01-24 | Don’t Run Aimlessly | Monologue |
| 013 | 2019-02-11 | Minding Your Own Damned Business | Monologue |
| 014 | 2019-02-27 | God Wants You Emotional | Monologue |
| 015 | 2019-03-11 | The Hidden Inner Work | Monologue |
| 016 | 2019-03-18 | The Inner Work Imperative | Monologue |
| 017 | 2019-03-26 | Emotional Growth is Not a Niche | Monologue |
| 018 | 2019-04-09 | 4 Clues You Need Emotional Growth | Monologue |
| 019 | 2019-04-26 | How Abiding is Possible (Anchor Prayer 1) | Monologue |
| 020 | 2019-04-26 | Memorized Prayer? (Anchor Prayer 2) | Monologue |
| 021 | 2019-06-17 | What is the Anchor Prayer? (Anchor Prayer 3) | Monologue |
| 022 | 2019-10-01 | We’ve got God’s Glory Upside Down | Monologue |
| 023 | 2019-10-04 | Listen to the Survivors | Mary DeMuth |
| 024 | 2019-11-19 | I Rest in Faith (Anchor Prayer 4) | Monologue |
| 025 | 2019-12-09 | I Walk by Faith (Anchor Prayer 5) | Monologue |
2020
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
| 026 | 2020-01-30 | I Hear in Faith (Anchor Prayer 6) | Monologue |
| 027 | 2020-02-12 | In You I Remain (Anchor Prayer 7) | Monologue |
| 028 | 2020-03-04 | Low-Stress Know God’s Will | Monologue |
| 029 | 2020-04-13 | The Trip is the Point | Monologue |
| 030 | 2020-05-11 | Faith Is Not Certainty | Monologue |
| 031 | 2020-05-28 | COVID, Suffering & Jesus | Monologue |
| 032 | 2020-06-04 | Pentecost, Breathing & George Floyd. | Monologue |
| 033 | 2020-06-23 | Why Are We All Feeling So Cravy (COVID 1) | Byron Kehler M.S. |
| 034 | 2020-07-19 | The 5 Stages of Pandemic Grief (COVID 2) | Byron Kehler M.S. |
| 035 | 2020-08-25 | Your Values are Showing (COVID 3) | Byron Kehler M.S. |
| 036 | 2020-09-07 | Don’t Avoid Starting Over | Monologue |
| 037 | 2020-10-12 | Looking for God | Paul J. Pastor |
| 038 | 2020-10-29 | Would Jesus Call You Satan? | Monologue |
| 039 | 2020-11-30 | You Need an Architecture of Grief | James Prescott |
2021
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
| 040 | 2021-01-14 | This is Us. We Need to Own It (January 6th) | Monologue |
| 041 | 2021-02-09 | Trust Your Instinct About the Church | Fr. Kenneth Tanner |
| 042 | 2021-03-17 | Can You Imagine Jesus Demanding Sex? | Sheila Wray Gregoire |
| 043 | 2021-04-16 | Purity & Piety Will Get You Nowhere | Monologue |
| 044 | 2021-05-14 | Your Suffering is Sacred | K.J. Ramsey |
| 045 | 2021-09-17 | Let’s Normalize Being Wrong | Rev. Matt Tebbe |
| 046 | 2021-10-15 | A More Beautiful Deconstruction | Dr. Bradley Jersak |
2022
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
| 047 | 2022-02-02 | Don’t Choose Shallow Formation | Rich Vellodas |
| 048 | 2022-05-20 | Empathy is Not a Sin | Becky Castle Miller |
| 049 | 2022-07-25 | Church, Stop Acting Like a Hot Topic | Kevin Makins |
| 050 | 2022-10-04 | Letting God Change Your Mind | Jonathan Puddle |
2023
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
| 051 | 2023-05-09 | Faith When You Don’t Feel Faithful | Ben Sternke & Matt Tebbe |
| 052 | 2023-06-23 | Childlike Faith vs. Childish Faith | Mandy Smith |
| 053 | 2023-09-08 | What if the Bible isn’t Perfect? | Zach Hunt |
| 054 | 2023-10-11 | Knowing the Past to Make a Better Future | Sarah L. Sanderson |
2024
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
| 055 | 2024-09-18 | A Better Place Than Here | Jennifer Knapp |
| 056 | 2024-11-25 | When the Marginalized are Our Prophets | Jenai Auman |
2025
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode | Date | Title | Guest |
| 057 | 2025-02-06 | Empathy isn’t a Sin; It’s Holy Dynamite | Felicia Murrell |
| 058 | 2025-03-17 | Following Jesus in the Face of Political Panic, Christian Supremacy & Creeping Fascism. | Susan Carson, Brian Zahnd, Bradley Jersak |
| 059 | 2025-05-29 | How the Beatitudes Could Save the World and Us. | Dr. Bradley Jersak |
| 060 | 2025-06-19 | Navigating Toward LGBTQ Affirmation (or How I became an Affirming Pastor) | Marc Alan Schelske |
| 061 | 2025-08-06 | Six Weeks to Grow? Yes, Please! | Marc Alan Schelske |
| 062 | TBA | TBA | TBA |