Shalom Project

Honest stories, real healing, and tools for living whole—inside and outside the church. mitchelllavender.substack.com

Shalom Project is a religion podcast hosted by Mitchell Lavender, with 50 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Mitchell Lavender hosts Shalom Project, a religion show with 50 episodes published.

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  Episode #50

  SII 022 | When Ministry Gets the Best of You—and Relationships Get the Rest

  Jan 22, 202632 minS2

  <p>In this milestone 50th episode, Mitch Lavender and Christian Konhaeuser-Lopez conclude their Entering Ministry for the First Time series by addressing a question many helping-profession workers quietly wrestle with:</p><p>How do we keep our most important relationships from receiving only our leftovers?</p><p>This conversation explores the tension between meaningful work and meaningful relationships—especially in ministry, where work can feel sacred, urgent, and all-consuming. Mitch and Christian reflect on fatigue, over-responsibility, blurred boundaries, and the subtle ways work can become an escape or even a substitute for trust in God.</p><p>Rather than offering qu...

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  SII 021 | Serving God Without Losing Yourself

  Jan 15, 202646 minS0

  <p>What happens after you take the job?</p><p>Many conversations about ministry discernment focus on interviews, resumes, and hiring decisions. But the real work often begins after the offer letter is signed—when the honeymoon phase fades and the deeper values of a ministry begin to surface.</p><p>In Episode 49, Mitch Lavender and co-host Christian Konhaeuser-Lopez continue the Entering Into Ministry for the First Time series by shifting the lens to life inside the role.</p><p>This is a conversation for anyone quietly asking:</p><p>“Is this still healthy for me?”</p><p>What We Talk A...

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  Episode #49

  SII 020 | Do My Values Align with Their Definition of Success?

  Jan 8, 202648 minS2

  <p>In this episode of The Shalom Project, Mitch Lavender is joined by co-host Christian Konhaeuser-Lopez as they continue their series on entering into ministry for the first time.</p><p>This conversation centers on a crucial (and often overlooked) reality: you are interviewing a ministry just as much as they are interviewing you.</p><p>Together, Mitch and Christian explore how interviews can act as a microcosm of ministry culture—revealing values, power dynamics, expectations, and definitions of success long before you ever say “yes.”</p><p>In this episode, we explore:</p><p>* Why interviews are about mutual discer...

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  SII 019 | Becoming Before Doing: Practices for Sustainable Ministry

  Jan 1, 20261 hourS0

  <p>In this episode of the Shalom Project Podcast, Mitch Lavender and Christian Konhauser-Lopez continue their conversation on formation, integrity, and sustainability—especially for those entering ministry or other helping fields for the first time.</p><p>After identifying our values in the previous episode, this conversation asks a crucial follow-up question:</p><p>How do we actually sustain those values over time?</p><p>Together, Mitch and Christian explore how deliberate practices tether us to our values and help us stay grounded, present, and regulated—particularly in environments that place pressure on our identity, performance, and spirituality.</p><p>Rath...

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  Episode #18

  SII 018 Sermon | Real Joy

  Dec 24, 202534 minS2

  <p>What is real joy when life doesn’t look the way we hoped it would?</p><p>In this Christmas Advent sermon, Mitch reflects on joy not as a feeling we manufacture, but as something we glimpse in the space between grief and hope. Drawing from Isaiah 35 and the season of Advent, this message names the reality many of us carry—loss, exhaustion, unanswered questions—while refusing to abandon hope.</p><p>Through personal stories of life, death, birth, and waiting, this sermon invites listeners to consider how joy changes across seasons, how it slips through our fingers, and how it...

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