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Featured42 min·Jun 2026
The Quiet Beginning
On hearing the still small voice in a noisy world — a conversation with Pastor Elena Marsh about the discipline of listening before speaking.
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A Podcast on Sacred Interruption · Hosted by Jessica Laine MacDonald
Initiated by God.
Honest conversations with pastors, artists, mothers, and seekers — exploring how the divine interrupts ordinary lives and calls them into purpose.
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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.”
About
Stories of those initiated into something greater.
Initiated by God is a weekly gathering of honest conversations — recorded slowly, edited gently. Each episode sits with one guest and one question: how did God interrupt your ordinary life?
We avoid the spectacle. No swelling music beds, no rehearsed answers. Just two microphones, a long table, and time enough for the truth to arrive.
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In This Issue
What you’ll hear this season.
A handful of themes we return to — slowly, and from different angles.
- 01
The Listening Life
Practices of attention in a distracted age.
- 02
Vocation & Calling
When your work becomes a holy assignment.
- 03
Surrender as Strength
The strange power of giving up the plan.
- 04
Ordinary Saints
Stories from people you’ve never heard of — yet.
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