The Apprenticeship Way with Marc Alan Schelske

The Apprenticeship Way with Marc Alan Schelske


Latest Episodes

Your Suffering is Sacred (TAW044)
May 14, 2021

Episode 044 - Your Suffering is Sacred (With K.J. Ramsey) Are you allergic to happy clappy Christianity? Theres a good reason for thats. Churches that ignore suffering are ignoring Jesus. Many chu

Your Purity & Piety Will Get You Nowhere (TAW043)
April 19, 2021

Episode 043 - Your Purity & Piety Will Get You Nowhere You want to grow as a person. You want a sense of intimate connection with the Divine. You believe or suspect that the way of Jesus has something to say about this. That’s why you’re here.

Can You Imagine Jesus Demanding Sex? – Interview with Sheila Wray Gregoire (TAW042)
March 17, 2021

Episode 042 - Can You Imagine Jesus Demanding Sex? - Interview with Sheila Wray Gregoire. Christian teachers notoriously have lots of opinions about sex. Sometimes they even claim those opinions are God’s will.

Trust Your Instinct About the Church – Interview with Fr. Kenneth Tanner (TAW041)
February 09, 2021

Episode 041 - Trust Your Instinct About the Church - Interview with Fr. Kenneth Tanner. After everything thats happened in the past year, are you wondering about whether theres a place for you in

This IS Us. We Need To Own It. (TAW040)
January 14, 2021

Episode 040 - This IS Us. We Need To Own It. “This isn’t us. This isn’t America. We are better than this.” Have you heard—or said—those words recently? Well, you may not want to hear this, but the only way forward is to let those words go.

You Need an Architecture of Grief (TAW039)
November 30, 2020

Episode 039 - You Need an Architecture of Grief (Interview with James Prescott) Twenty Twenty seems to be the car wreck that just keeps going, and the result is that many of us are experiencing more and more pain and grief.

Would Jesus call you (or your church) Satan? (TAW038)
October 29, 2020

Episode 038 - Would Jesus call you (or your church) Satan? “Get behind me, Satan!” Those are the words Jesus said to Peter. Yikes! But as I survey the current landscape of Christianity, I wonder if Jesus is saying this to us, or to our churches.

Looking for God in all the wrong places – Interview with Paul J. Pastor (TAW037)
October 12, 2020

Episode 037 - Looking for God in All the Wrong Places - Interview with Paul J. Pastor Do you sometimes feel like your spiritual life is supposed to be in color, but you can only see it in black & white? Do you worry that we might be numb to God’s pr...

Don’t Avoid Starting Over (TAW036)
September 07, 2020

Episode 036 - Don't Avoid Starting Over I like knowing stuff. I like being seen as a good person. I love being an expert. Weird that I became a pastor, right? But here’s the thing. As much as I like this stuff,

Your Values are Showing! (TAW035)
August 25, 2020

Episode 035 - Your Values are Showing! Pain is a terrible thing to waste. At least, that’s what my Trauma Therapist friend says. So, how are we using the pain of this difficult time of pandemic and protests so that we can be better people?