Conversation with Elaine Heath

My guest this week is theological scholar and author Elaine Heath.

Dr. Heath's research interests focus on community as a means of healing trauma, emergent forms of Christianity, and alternative forms of theological education. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Mystic Way of Evangelism and the most recent of which is Healing the Wounds of Sexual Abuse: Reading the Bible with Survivors. Heath’s vocational journey includes having served as Dean of the Divinity School at Duke University, and the McCreless Professor of Evangelism at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. We talked about a wide array of topics including the state of the church, mysticism and evangelism and, of course, how what spiritual practices can help us persevere in the midst of failure.