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Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! Today, Luke and Brenna sit down to chat a bit about Rest to try and help re-orient our mindsets heading into break. Luke talks through some ideas from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's wonderful little book, "The Sabbath," like how the Sabbath is a palace in time and not only that, but a person who is with and within us (Matthew 11:28-30); how it's holistic to all that a person is and doesn't just heal or minister to the spiritual or the physical, but both; and how rest can look differently for everyone! Brenna and Luke give some examples of how they rest and what rest does for them.

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Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast. Life doesn't always feel easy, and lately, it seems like it's felt pretty hard for a lot of people. As we were brainstorming this week's episode, we noticed that the tone of our team and our campus has felt really heavy the past two weeks. Because of that, Brenna and Luke decided to sit down and read some Scripture over anyone who needs it. They read Psalm 16 and Psalm 27, and future-Luke reads The Comfortable Words, a few sentences from throughout Scripture that remind us of the comfort found in the Gospel.

Editor's note: Hey, Luke here. I cried a little while reading Psalm 16. I wanted to leave it in because 1) let's normalize guys crying and 2) right now my heart is not glad, and Scripture, the psalms especially, is not supposed to be neat and tidy, it isn't always supposed to be happily read and regarded, and it definitely doesn't shy away from our emotions. So we shouldn't either.

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Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! This week, Brenna and Luke sit down with two fellow CATs, Abigail Elledge and Clara Mozingo, to talk about being an introvert on the team. We talk about some of the events we tailor for our introverts and discuss the necessity of individuals who are wired differently in order to form a robust representation of our student body!

Thanks for listening! We'll see you next week.

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Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! This week, Brenna is out, so Luke sits down with fellow CATs, Lucy Peacock and Drew Correll to talk about The Working Genius strength, "Galvanize." Galvanizers often bring energy to a team dynamic, and they posses the natural gift of rallying, inspiring, and organizing others to take action. They talk about being galvanizers, about the other types of working genius, and about why it is important to know the ways you work with others well.

Thanks for listening! We'll see you next week.

If you enjoyed this episode or anything we talked about peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Now that we think of it, to keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411.

Welcome to the first episode of the last season of The AUSA Podcast! We are so glad to be back. We hope your break was restful and your semester is off to an incredible start! This week, Luke and Brenna chat about some of the exciting things Student Activities has coming up this semester, with some sneak peeks into our final podcast season and the low-down on some brand new events!

Thanks for listening! We'll see you next week.

If you enjoyed this episode or anything we talked about peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Now that we think of it, to keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411.

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! We hope your Thanksgiving break was as good as ours! This week, Luke and Brenna have a conversation about calendar flips. They chat about how they think about new months, what they do to reflect over the previous month, how they can move into the next month better, and what it looks like to slow down, rest, and adapt to a new normal.

Thanks for listening, good luck on your finals! We'll see you next week.

If you enjoyed this episode or anything we talked about peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Now that we think of it, to keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411.

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! We're back with a bit of a shorter episode after a one-week break since we finished our Hospitality series. This week, Luke and Brenna sit down with our resident dreamer and the CAT's very own social media manager, Katelyn Bass! They talk about what the inside of a dreaming mind looks like, how to deal with disappointment and re-arranged dreams, the significance of dreaming little, how to support dreamers in their endeavors, and how to be there for them when their dreams fail.

Thanks for listening, and Happy Thanksgiving break! We'll see you next week.

If you enjoyed this episode or anything we talked about peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Now that we think of it, to keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411. 

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today, we're bringing our series on "hospitality" to a close in a bit of a different way than usual. In our last episode of this series, Luke recaps the series and talks about the source of our hospitality, our home, God. He looks at the Story of the Prodigal Son from Luke 15, and ends out the episode by reading "A Liturgy for an Inconsolable Homesickness" for those of you who are missing home or feel without one.

Thanks for listening to this series, it's been a ton of fun! We'll see you next week.

If you enjoyed this episode or anything we talked about peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Now that we think of it, to keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411.

The books that were mentioned in this episode are "The Return of The Prodigal Son" by Henri Nouwen, and "Every Moment Holy, Volume 1."

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today, we're beginning to wrap up the series on "hospitality"  we've been in for the past couple weeks. In our second to last episode of the series, Brenna and Luke sit down with an Anderson University and Campus Activities Team alum, Sam Walker, to talk about the ways that hospitality is linked to the Gospel and Way of Jesus. We discuss what it looks like to lovingly host (in homes and hearts) those you "would rather be able to dislike;" how we can live out the miracles of Jesus in an every day, non-miraculous way; and what it means to be changed by radically ordinary hospitality.

Thanks for listening! We'll see you next week.

If you enjoyed this episode or anything we talked about peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Now that we think of it, to keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411.

Some books we mentioned in this episode are "The Liturgy of the Ordinary" by Tish Harrison Warren and "The Gospel Comes With A House Key" by Rosaria Butterfield.

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! This week, we're continuing the series on "hospitality" that we've been in for the past two weeks. Brenna and Luke sit down with some friends from the Campus Activities Team, Isabella and Corey, to talk about the ways Student Activities intentionally engineers hospitality into our events. We look at specific events and talk about the mind, heart, and soul behind them.

Thanks for listening! We'll see you next week.

If you enjoyed this episode or anything we talked about peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Now that we think of it, to keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411.

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! This week, we're continuing our new series on "hospitality!" Brenna and Luke sit down with some friends from Residence Life, Austin Barrett and Cassie Webber, to talk about what hospitality looks like on Anderson University's campus, the ways that Anderson University encourages institutional hospitality, and how we can live into hospitality as students on a college campus. 

Thanks for listening!

If you enjoyed this episode or anything we talked about peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Now that we think of it, to keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411

Happy International Podcast Day, and welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! This week, we're kicking off a five-part series on "hospitality!" Brenna and Luke sit down with Bethany Turner to talk about what hospitality is, the difference between entertainment and hospitality, and how to adopt a posture of hospitality in the day to day. Thanks for listening!

If you enjoyed this episode or anything we talked about peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Now that we think of it, to keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411!

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in this episode (or used while planning this episode) if you’re curious about doing some exploring in this topic on your own!

Books: "The Gospel Comes With a House Key" by Rosaria Butterfield; "Eating Heaven: Spirituality at the Table" by Simon Carey Holt

Scripture: Luke 14, 1 Peter 4:9-10

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! This week, Brenna, Isabel, and Luke talk about gentleness, kindness, and compassion. We discuss what these three things actually are, the importance of them, our natural inclination to or away from them, our experiences with putting these forward or seeing them come from others, and how they work together to form a beautiful picture of tangible, powerful love — a love that can be felt. Thanks for listening!

If you enjoyed this episode or anything we talked about peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Now that we think of it, to keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411!

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in this episode (or used while planning this episode) if you’re curious about doing some exploring in this topic on your own!

Books: "The Way of the Heart" by Henri Nouwen; "Abba's Child" by Brennan Manning; "The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi" by St. Francis, complied and edited by Italian historian and chronicler, Ugolino Brunforte

Scripture: Colossians 3:12, Mark 10:17-27, Mark 6:34, Matthew 9:36

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! This is a conversation we've been wanting to have on the pod here for a while, and this season we finally felt poised well enough to do it. It's a pretty real and raw one, so strap in. 

This week, Dr. Wyma, a professor at AU, and Luke talk about suffering, disappointment, grief, and asking for help. Ultimately, this episode is about how to handle a bad day — to clarify, we’re using “bad day” as a sort of shorthand for a difficult time of disappointment, grief, struggle, heartache, and so on. We walk through some appropriate (and inappropriate) responses to and about God in the face of suffering, how to manage bad days maturely and wisely, what Jesus' human experience means for our grief and sadness, and how to show compassion to ourselves and others in the midst of suffering. Thanks for listening!

If you enjoyed this episode or anything we talked about peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Now that we think of it, to keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411!

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in this episode (or used while planning this episode) if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring on your own!

Books: "Abraham's Silence" by J. Richard Middleton; "Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work Or Watch Or Weep" by Tish Harrison Warren; "A Curious Faith: The Questions God Asks, We Ask, and We Wish Someone Would Ask Us" by Lore Ferguson Wilbert; "God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer" by Pete Greig; "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin.

Scripture: 1 Kings 18-19, Genesis 22, Job

Other: Every Moment Holy Volumes 1 and 2

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today, Brenna and Luke sit down with Braelyn and Drew to talk about change. Change can be scary, but it's important to view it in proper perspective. All four of us changed majors in college (whether just once or a few times), so we wanted to try and dispel some of the stress and stigma around making that decision. From there, we talk about change in a broader sense — how to prepare for it, how to meet it, and how to manage it. Thanks for listening! See you next week.

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Thanks to the band TENTS for our amazing new intro music, “Insert Some Quarters” and break music “Champ Call.”

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today on the podcast Brenna and Luke talk about the mission statement of Student Activities. We break it down line by line, giving you guys a peek into why we do the things we do the way we do them. If you want, try to write a personal mission statement to inform the reasons you do the things you do. We made a worksheet to help - here's the link: https://tinyurl.com/478nh3cn. Thanks for listening!

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For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Thanks to the band TENTS for our amazing new intro music, “Insert Some Quarters” and break music “Champ Call.”

Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! New students, this one's for you. On Monday night, we all gathered on the lawn for Trojan Tradition, and two seniors — Parker Marren and Cooper Reynolds — spoke to current and new students about the culture, mission, and legacy of this campus. Today on the podcast, we hear their speeches again and unpack them a bit. Thanks for listening, we're looking forward to this season!

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For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Thanks to the band TENTS for our amazing new intro music, “Insert Some Quarters” and break music “Champ Call.”

Welcome back, everyone! Thanks for tuning in to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! Season 3 of the pod is here and Welcome Week is just beginning, so we couldn't be any more excited. We have a few new faces on the CAT — that's Campus Activities Team for anyone new to the family — so we wanted to give you a chance to meet them! We give you the run-down on all things Welcome Week, and let out some podcast exclusive 'deets' about our Grocery Bingo prizes. Thanks for listening, we're looking forward to this season!

To keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram @au411!

To get text reminders and updates about events, text AU411 to 54855! We promise—no spam, only fun.

For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Thanks to the band TENTS for our amazing new intro music, “Insert Some Quarters” and break music “Champ Call.”

Hey friends! Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! This week we continue our conversation about culture making with our friend and fellow CAT, Corey Adams! In this episode, we talk about how to identify where you hold influence, what that means, and we go through some of the qualities of a good leader. Once you realize the places and groups you influence it can be daunting to navigate that responsibility, so this episode is for you — people who need a little push to realize that they are a leader, and people figuring out how to lead well.

Whether we feel like it or not, know it or not, or want to be or not, we are all influencing somebody else. It's important to be aware of this so we can do it well and set the tone of the spaces we are a part of rather than just going with the flow. That's ultimately what culture making (our responsibility of creating new things and cultivating already existing things to be better and more beautiful) is all about — being a thermostat, not a thermometer; being active rather than reactive.

We think culture making is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in or used while planning this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring on your own!

Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch, Psalm 1

Welcome to this week’s episode of The AUSA Podcast! This week we continue our conversation about culture making with Katelyn Bass, the social media manager for @au411, and Braelyn Moore, one of our event coordinators! Today, we sit down to take a look at social media to talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly. We discuss the things that social media makes possible — from good things like education, advocacy, connection, and creative inspiration to bad things like insecurity, comparison, skewed expectations for yourself and others, and hustle culture. We get personal this episode, sharing stories from our own life of the ways we use to view social media, how that effected how we viewed ourselves and others, and how we broke out of that wrong thinking. We also look at the beautiful things about social media! We talk about what it looks like to create new things and cultivate already existent things to be better and more beautiful within a digital context, and how we can find freedom in that.

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

To keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram, @au411!

To get text reminders and updates about events, text AU411 to 54855! We promise—no spam, only fun.

For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in or used while planning this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring on your own!

Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch; "To Hell With the Hustle" by Jefferson Bethke; "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" by John Mark Comer; "Abba's Child" by Brennan Manning

Welcome to The AUSA Podcast! For the first half of this season, we took a look at the ins and outs of culture making—we've talked about creating and ruling, attitudes and actions, collaboration, and more. For these past few episodes, we wanted to take a look at the more practical side. This week we sit with James Hanson to talk a bit about the ways that Campus Ministries seeks to create and cultivate culture here on campus. We talk (again) about setting boundaries so that creativity and community can flourish; what partnership and collaboration looks like in ministry; what a call to discipleship means for you and I; and what it means to actually do the things we were called ago and equipped for.

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

To keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram, @au411!

To get text reminders and updates about events, text AU411 to 54855! We promise—no spam, only fun.

For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in or used while planning this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring on your own!

Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch

Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! For the past few episodes, we've been looking at the ins and outs of culture making—we've talked about creating and ruling, take a look at the more practical side. This week we sat down with Jon Gropp and Lauren Brett to talk a bit about the ways that Student Development creates and cultivates culture here on campus. We talk about setting boundaries—both individually and collectively—so that creativity and community can flourish; what partnership and collaboration looks like between students and faculty/staff; what it looks like to handle conflict and discipline in a way that honors God's design for human relationships, and more!

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

To keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram, @au411!

To get text reminders and updates about events, text AU411 to 54855! We promise—no spam, only fun.

For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in or used while planning this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring on your own!

Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch

"Adorning the Dark" by Andrew Peterson

"Every Good Endeavor" by Timothy Keller

Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! For the past few episodes, we've been looking at the ins and outs of culture making—we've talked about creating and ruling, take a look at the more practical side. This week we sit down with Luke Springer and Jose Brown to talk a bit about the ways that Residence Life creates and cultivates culture here on campus. We talk about setting boundaries so that creativity, community, and relationships can flourish; what partnership and collaboration looks like on a college campus; and more! 

We will miss you next week over Spring break—we hope it's so restful and fun for you!—but we'll have some fun events for when we all get back!

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

To keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram, @au411!

To get text reminders and updates about events, text AU411 to 54855! We promise—no spam, only fun.

For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in or used while planning this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring on your own!

Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch

Welcome to this week’s episode of The AUSA Podcast! This week we continue our conversation about culture making with Matthew McCall, talking about Gestures and Postures—or, in more accessible language, Actions and Attitudes. Think of a posture as your heart and mind's attitude toward something, the way you're positioned; think of a gesture as an overflowing of that attitude into your everyday actions. In other words, your attitude and your actions. We begin by breaking down the reasons behind why the cultural postures of condemning, critiquing, copying, or consuming culture aren't enough for creating change, and we look at the different gestures that flow from them. We chat a bit about the book of James and look at the relationship between the heart and the hands. Gestures can be good indicators of an unhealthy (or healthy) posture, and a lack of action might be symptomatic of some deeper problems—especially for the Christian who isn't doing his Faith.

We end by talking about how a new posture changes your gestures, but the way to change posture is to alter your gestures. In other words, the best way to change your attitude so that you can actually engage with culture in a healthy way and create new things is to actually do things. If you want to incite any lasting change, you need to use creativity—you need to actually create new culture.

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in or used while planning this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring on your own!

Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch; "Liturgy of the Ordinary" by Tish Harrison Warren; James 1

Welcome to this week’s episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today, we continue our conversation about culture making with our friend and fellow member of the CAT, Booker! Join us as we sit down to talk about two things: divine partnership and human collaboration. We take a look at Genesis 2 (again, it's just that good!) to see how God invites Man into partnership with Him from the very beginning: He wants Man to participate in this project that He has started. God realizes that it is not good for Man to be alone, so He makes a helper—the Hebrew word here, "ezer," is actually more of a military term that means "deliverer"—for him, Woman, so that he can have someone to work alongside as he works with God. 

We talk about how the means by which the Bible was created reinforces this idea that God wants to partner with humanity, and we track this theme all the way through the Bible until we arrive at Jesus, where divine partnership and human collaboration culminate in his ministry. After Jesus leaves his disciples, they continue the blending of partnership and collaboration by furthering the Church with the "help" (a similar idea to "ezer" from Genesis) of the Holy Spirit. We end out the episode by outlining some benefits of collaboration, and thinking through some practical ways that we can fight pride and cultivate attitudes of partnership and collaboration in our own lives. Thanks for listening!

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in or used while planning this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring on your own! Matthew 17v24-27 (the coins in the fish's mouth), The Acts of The Apostles (collaboration as the Church), and, as always, Genesis 1–3 (Man and Woman working together to partner with God)

Welcome to this week’s episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today, we continue our conversation about culture making with Lindsey Gatlin! Join us as we sit down to talk about creativity, cultivation, leadership, prayer, and wisdom. If God is a Creator and a Ruler, then so are we. And if we are Creators and Rulers, then we are Artists and Gardeners. Because we are created in God's image and likeness, we have a responsibility to create and cultivate—to both make culture and keep culture. In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to be practiced in and receptive to the skills of creating and cultivating, and we translate the idea of being Artists and Gardeners into a culturally creative context. 

We break down the ways that Artists and Gardeners see and go about the world, and we explore the ways in which we can do that ourselves—the ways in which we can actually do something to influence culture. Creativity is the only way to incite lasting change, and we cannot create without cultivation. We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! 

Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening! 

To keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram, @au411! 

To get text reminders and updates about events, text AU411 to 54855! We promise—no spam, only fun. 

For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited! 

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in or used while planning this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring on your own! Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch, "Into the Silent Land" by Martin Laird, "Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton, "Adorning the Dark" by Andrew Peterson, and, as always, Genesis 1–3

Welcome to this week’s episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today, we continue our conversation about culture making with Drew Correll, breaking down Genesis 1-2 to take a look at our responsibility as individuals created in the image and likeness of God. The opening pages of the Bible make a bold claim that invites us to rethink what being human means: God wants to partner with us in creation, and he created us like him in order that we can do so. We are made in the image of God—we communicate a representative relationship from God toward creation as rulers over the earth. And we are made in the likeness of God—we are expressions of God’s creative power and are privileged in sharing in everything God is and does as we create and rule alongside him.

We answer the question, “What image of God is conveyed in the first pages of the Bible?” and talk a little bit about what the image of God even is, discussing some the context of the time Genesis was written. We discover that God is both Creator and Ruler—breather of possibilities and setter of limits. We explore how Christ is a fulfillment of both of these things—image and likeness—and begin to look at next week’s question, “How do we take part in the renewed projects of creation and ambassadorship through Jesus?”

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

To keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram, @au411!

To get text reminders and updates about events, text AU411 to 54855! We promise—no spam, only fun.

For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Here are some of the resources that were talked about in or used while planning this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring on your own!

Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch, Genesis 1v26-29 and 2v5-8, 15-20

Other: BibleProject Blog Post – “What Does It Mean To Be Human?”

Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! Join Brenna, Luke, Annalee, and Michael as we begin this season's discussion on culture and culture making by looking at some of the different definitions of "culture" that were presented by you guys! You submitted some great thoughts to our Instagram Story, but for the purposes of this season, we focus in on one specific definition—"culture is what human beings make of the world." We talk about how we as Christians should engage with culture, what cultural change can look like, what the possibilities of limitations allow. We close out by taking one of our events—Food Truck Pop-Up—and running it through a few questions for diagnosing culture.

Like she mentioned in the episode, if you want a copy of "Culture Making," go ahead and email Brenna at bmorris@andersonuniversity.edu! We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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Here are some of the resources we talked about in this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring of some of what we talked about on your own!

Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch

Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast, we're very excited to kick off our second season! We kinda sorta miss winter break—we hope everyone's was sweet and restful—but we're so glad to be back. Hopefully you all had a BLAST during Winter Welcome Week and a not-too-crazy first week of classes! Join Brenna and Luke as they introduce the newest member of the CAT, Isabel (not to be confused with Isabella)! Isabel talks a bit about herself and the time she spent in Kenya over break, and then we move into a discussion on what this season of the podcast will look like! 

We believe that no matter your vocation, major, or role on campus, we are all called to creating and cultivating culture, and that mostly, whether we know it or not, we are always doing something to affect the spaces and people around us. This season, we want to take a look at some of the ways different organizations and individuals on campus think of and go about culture making—Student Activities, Residence Life, Student Development, Campus Ministries, Student Government, etc. Of course, we'll flesh out that term a little more before we get started, but we're excited for this season and we hope you are too!

To keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram, @au411!

To get text reminders and updates about events, text AU411 to 54855! We promise—no spam, only fun.

For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

Here are some of the resources we talked about in this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring of some of what we talked about on your own!

Books: Culture Making by Andy Crouch

After a week off, welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! We hope you enjoyed our series on Rest, Work, and Play. Happy Thanksgiving Week! We’re sad that we’ve only got one episode left in the season after this, but we’re very excited for turkey and parades and football and family and friends and…. This week, Brenna is joined by Braelyn, Michael, Kat, and Annalee to talk all things Thanksgiving. Of course, we touch on the favorite foods and beloved traditions, but we also chat about the ways in which the holiday season can be hard, the necessity for thankfulness and gratitude year round, and what those practices of gratitude might look like!

Unfortunately, since we’re moving into break, we don’t have any events to keep you up to date on. We are grateful for all of you though, and we hope that you have an amazing Turkey Day with the people you love. If Thanksgiving is particularly hard for you, know you’re not alone. The holidays can be tricky and messy for a lot of people—some of your Student Activities friends included—so we get it. You’ve got this! Finish strong on your finals and rest it up over winter break. We’ll see you back next week for one more episode!

To keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram, @au411!

To get text reminders and updates about events, text AU411 to 54855! We promise—no spam, only fun.

For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!