Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton

Ruth Haley Barton

Welcome to Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership podcast with Ruth Haley Barton. In each 30-minute episode you will discover how forging and maintaining a life-giving connection with God in the midst of leading is the best thing you bring to leadership! Visit www.transformingcenter.org for additional resources for pastors, Christian leaders, and the congregations and organizations they serve.

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Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton

Episodes (256)

Yesterday S29 Ep 2 | With God in Seasons of Grief and Loss
Wed May 13th S29 Ep 1 | Becoming Human: With God in Our Bodies
Feb 18th Ash Wednesday | Invitation to Lent: Participating in the Paschal Mystery

Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton

May 20, 2026
58¼ minutes
107 MB

With longtime friends and ministry colleagues Glenn and Margo Balsis, Ruth introduces a spiritual conversation on grief and loss. Margo and Glenn recount their daughter Kristen’s cystic fibrosis diagnosis, 28-year life, and death, and their journey with God through grief. Glenn describes the pressure to “defend God,” and the loneliness of others trying to fix their pain. Together all three reflect on marriage, debunk divorce statistics after child loss, and share the formative role of contemplative practices and Transforming Community in their grief journey. They also delve into other unexpected experiences with grief throughout their lives and how they’v...

Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton

S29 Ep 2 | With God in Seasons of Grief and Loss

Ruth Haley Barton

00:00 -58:15