Academy Podcast

After a brief hiatus, The Academy’s podcast, From the Well, is back with a new host, Kristen Vincent. Our original host, Rachel Kinney, is focusing on a new career in non-profit leadership. We are grateful to her for launching this podcast and wish her well. Thanks Rachel! With episode 9, we welcome our new host, Kristen Vincent. Kristen is a graduate of Two-Year Academy 34 and an award-winning Upper Room author. You can learn more about Kristen and her work with prayer beads on her Upper Room Books author’s page: http://books.upperroom.org/book-author/kristen-vincent/. In this Advent episode of From the Well, we consider how the season reveals the depth of pain and sin in the world. Mass shootings and global issues of violence point to our continuing need for Christ’s presence here on earth. Drawing on a blog post from Johnny Sears (http://academy.upperroom.org/blog/2015/11/paris), and a talk by Robert Benson, we explore how we reached this point – by denying our worth as human beings. As we prepare for