After a bit of a break, this week offers a powerful conversation with author Lore Ferguson Wilbert. We talk about intimacy, vulnerability, and community and the way each connects to the simple act of touch. Her book Handle With Care: How Jesus Redeems the Power of Touch In Life and Ministry includes Lore’s personal experiences with appropriate and inappropriate touch, and how that act intersects with God’s creative touch and Jesus’ healing touch.

Lore Ferguson Wilbert is a writer, thinker, learner, and author of the book, Handle With Care. She writes for She Reads Truth, Christianity Today, and more, as well as her own site, Sayable.net. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @lorewilbert. She lives in New York and has a husband named Nate, a puppy named Harper Nelle, and too many books to read in one lifetime.

We also talked about Andy Crouch’s book, Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk, and True Flourishing. You can find his “Four Quadrants” that we talked about in a review by Hearts and Minds Books here.

Music by Robert Ebbens
Artwork by Eric Wright/Metamora Design