Tracks for the Journey
Tracks for the Journey will improve your well-being with practical insight and inspiration from progressive Christian spirituality, positive psychology, and justice ethics. Your host is Dr. Larry Payne, a minister, chaplain, and counselor with more than 45 years experience helping people with discoveries on their journey of life. He believes well-being is founded on balanced self-awareness, quality relationships, and active spirituality. Access all the resources of the Network at www.tracksforthejourney.com.
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Tracks for the Journey
Latest Episodes
Becoming a Nurturant Parent with Dr. Chris Hanson
Every parent wants to do a great job. Dr. Chris Hanson offers practical guidance on how this is done in this episode with the vital skill of Nurturant Parenting. Chris is a pediatrician and theologian who is showing parents how to b...
A Journey of Reconstructing Faith with Pastor Beau Stringer
Each faith journey is unique, a work of God and the individual. In this episode Beau Stringer, Associate Pastor at Resurrection Church Downtown in Kansas City, shares his movement from evangelical, to pastor, to seeker, and to a deeper faith re...
Sacred Smells: How Your Nose Connects You to God, Memory, and Life
One sniff of lilac blossoms, and suddenly Larry is standing beside his Grannie in her kitchen — decades erased in an instant. That's not nostalgia. That's neuroscience. And faith traditions have understood this power for thousands of years....
"What Are You Afraid to Leave Behind?"
We all know what it feels like to leave behind what's familiar — a home, a role, a comfort zone — and step into something unknown. This episode of Tracks for the Journey, draws on the words of Jesus on the night before the cross — ...
What a Billion-Year-Old Rock Taught Me About Worry
Enjoy this warm, imaginative episode of Tracks for the Journey in which I sit in my spring prayer garden and talk with Red — my billion-year-old granite stone. Through this playful yet profound dialogue, I probe Red's geological journe...
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