Bleeding Daylight
Rodney Olsen hosts inspirational guests who are kicking against the darkness until it bleeds daylight. Hear from people who are making this world a better place.
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Michael Dittman - Abiding Instead of Striving (opens the original)
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Michael Dittman builds telescopes for NASA by day and has spent the last nine years processing a decade of chronic pain, a shattered family and his daughter’s four overdoses into a story of hard-won redemption. In this conversation he talks candidly about the gap between knowing the right theological answers and actually experiencing the delight of an intimate relationship with Jesus, tracing how thirty years of striving, shame and unexplained physical suffering eventually gave way to a single,
Jason Tatlock - From Scholar to Shepherd (opens the original)
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Jason Tatlock grew up as a pastor’s kid before spending thirteen years in academia, eventually earning a PhD studying ancient Israel. Alongside his wife Krista, he now co-leads King on a Hill Ministries, shepherding pastors across India, Uganda, Pakistan and Kenya, and has recently released a new devotional called With. In this conversation, Jason talks about how his scholarly love of the ancient world and biblical languages deepened his understanding of faith, and how a season of debilitating a
David Pendergrass - Finding Truth Beyond Doubt (opens the original)
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Dr David Pendergrass is a pastor, biblical scholar and pastoral counsellor with a PhD in historical theology, and in this episode he talks with Rodney Olsen with striking honesty about the doubt that has shaped nearly 30 years of ministry. David shares the story of his dramatic call to ministry as a teenager, then walks through the two seasons in his life when he walked away from faith intellectually, driven by a deep fear of being ”duped” by something that simply wasn’t true. He explains how he
Brett Knight - Recovery. Redemption. Second Chances. (opens the original)
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Brett Knight has spent his career standing in the space between justice and grace. A former criminal defence attorney who later became an ordained pastor and author, Brett has watched the drug epidemic up close from both sides of the courtroom. In this conversation with Rodney Olsen, he traces his own faith journey from head knowledge to a genuine relationship with Christ, and shares the pivotal moment as a prosecutor when he asked God to let him see addiction the way God sees it. Brett’s book,
Michelle Konson - Untangling Your Story (opens the original)
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Michelle Konson built what looked like a picture-perfect life: a career as a corporate attorney in South Africa, a loving marriage, and four children. But underneath the surface, she was quietly unravelling, using survival strategies she’d developed as a child to try to control a world that no longer responded to control. In this honest conversation, Michelle traces her path from unrecognised childhood patterns to a genuine reckoning with her story, and shares how that journey eventually led her
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