Bryan and Rachel sit down with their dear friends Erik and Bekah Buchterkirchen to walk through a reflective, prayerful spiritual conversation in real time. Erik and Bekah journeyed through the 9-month version of the Ignatian Exercises with Bryan and Rachel back in 2022-2023 when they had a toddler and were expecting their second child, and they reflect on some of the pieces of that experience that have lingered with them. You'll hear what it sounds like when two people slow down, pay attention, and pray through their lives together.

Erik is a pastor and recently finished his ThM in theology. Bekah is a talented writer and speaker, with her own devotional, Seen in the Unseen: A Four-Week Devotional for Mamas of Littles, published in 2024. You can find more about Bekah's work at bekahbuck.com, and we highly recommend subscribing to her Substack, The Middle Moments.

More on the Ignatian Exercises for couples: https://www.curateministries.org/for-married-couples

Bryan, Rachel, and Claire (our cohost and CURATE teammate!) address a few common assumptions about spiritual connection in a Christian marriage.

Meet Bryan and Rachel as they share why formation in marriage has become central to their work and their lives, and as they unpack what they mean by “formation in marriage.”

CURATE Ministries website: www.curateministries.org