This community has been in the background of my life for many years now. They’ve encouraged me, help my own creative practices, and given me a community of artists to glean from. I’m so grateful for this podcast and community.

There’s such a wide variety of artists interviewed on this podcast - for those of us who like to look under the hood of how people create, these interviews are a dream! Stephen as an interviewer comes up with exceptional questions that seem to allow artists to think of their own work in news ways. Highly recommend!

I discovered this podcast about a year ago and have almost made it through every episode in every season! Such a great podcast with wisdom, inspiration, encouragement and beauty in every episode! Great stories and guests and Stephen’s words are so profound- this podcast is for artists, makers, (even if your art is simply creating a joyful, beautiful, and meaningful life) and all who are interested in the ultimate issues of life, eternity and faith and how they are related to art and beauty.

Makers and Mystics is a treasure! It’s got such rich and varied content, including inspiring interviews with musicians and writers and artists and thinkers of all kinds. It never fails to inspire me with thoughts on art, literature, beauty, and the value of art in our lives. Quite simply, it returns me to a place where I can see the world with wonder again. And that is priceless. No matter how busy my life gets, I always make time for this podcast. Thank you, Stephen Roach!

I have truly enjoyed every episode of this podcast. It grounds me, challenges me and draws me closer to my purpose. Thanks to Stephen and team for each well thought out interview and theme. I’ve been loving the theme of transcendence! It’s perfect for the season I’m in. God bless you all and keep making!

I continually come back to this podcast for creative motivation and encouragement. Some of my favorite episodes are the artist profile series. The care in the writing and telling of the stories of others is quite engaging. Please keep creating new episodes. Thank you for championing creators and walking along us as we create!

I’m so grateful I discovered this podcast! It’s given language and new perspectives in my journey as an artist and allowed me to more effectively support the artists around me. Especially within our current overwhelming flood of information of all kinds, it’s so important to take time to focus on goodness, truth, and beauty.

Thank you so much, Stephen, for your wisdom and for all your work curating and collecting such thoughtful and encouraging interviews. This podcast has been a God-send in getting me through the messy middle of a big creative project. When I most feel like giving up, each weekly episode is exactly what I need to hear to keep going!

I’ve really enjoyed these conversations, especially in this season on Transcendence. So many wise words shared by a diversity of artists. Stephen has a gift for drawing out his guests’ humanity in relatable and profound ways. Definitely worth a listen!

this podcast is absolutely amazing. deep truths that make you ponder, that make you become unsettled (in a good way). the truths spoken are like seeds that you can’t wait to see flourish, bringing forth beauty and gentleness. thank you for talking about things that not anyone can dare go to those depth that you do. thank you for creating a space for thought, discussion, revelation and first love❤️

This conversation and journey of exploration has been so encouraging to participate in as an artist who longs to make meaning through my life and work. I encourage you to make the space and time to listen, make some notes, let it inspire you to explore it on your own work, then join the conversation. It is fuel for the soul and the creative mind.

This is a podcast on art and faith that is a mainstay of my weekly listens. It provides a healthy and helpful source for thinking about art and faith.

What I put into my mind has to be as life-giving as what I put into my mouth to sustain my body. This podcast is just that—giving food for thought while nourishing the spiritual life. Well done!

We need more discussions about art, artists and makers. To have conversations around: The mystery of creating something out of nothing, transcendence, faith, vulnerability and honesty is refreshing and good for the soul. Wynn Everett’s episode was so interesting and compelling. Thank you for engaging with creative individuals who share, inspire and encourage.

I’ve only made it through two seasons, but I leave every episode with my mind expanded, my heart enlarged, and my heart more convinced that my artistic pursuits matter.

S8 E14 was just what I needed! You spoke one confirmation after another of what the Spirit has been saying to me. Thank you for helping to continue this process of stripping away my old nature while speaking truth and life to my hungry soul! It’s time to run with joy toward this life of creativity and cast off all fear of disappointment and failure. I can’t lose!!

S8 E12 with JF Martel is a great introduction. The Aesthetic Universe conversation holds both depth and complexity. A guidebook to wonder. Give it a go and leave your own review.

Wow! Love this so much! I listened to this multiple times hoping to embed the words in my mind. Beautiful truth!

Love the community that is growing around Makers & Mystics. I carry away something from every episode that inspires me ongoing for days, weeks, or just becomes part of who I am. The combination of artists from our own time with vignettes of mystics past is perfect. Also appreciate hearing from Stephen Roach with themes that have been laid on his heart.

Today, the story from Sarah Hempel Irani pulled my swirling thoughts back to grounding. Thank you for sharing her story and your artistry as a creative. So insightful. 💎🙌🏻

As a visual artist I have truly enjoyed hearing artists of multiple genres talk about their process and their work. Stephen Roach’s questions are insightful and engaging. I always look forward to hearing the next one.

Awesome podcast and Patreon patrons have access to a super unique and valuable collection of artists who pour into one another

This podcast has awakened my soul more than any other podcast I’ve listened to. It literally changed my life and fueled me with the inspiration I’ve needed to keep unfolding myself as a new creation as I also unfold the work within me. I’ve been so grateful for this incredibly rich, nourishing food for my soul! Thank you Stephen Roach for your work on this! As a prophetic artist and mystic, when I started listening to this episode I thought, “I found my people!” Listening to this podcast especially during the pandemic has reminded me that I’m not alone and given me the encouragement I need to keep going in my creative work. I love the ways the themes in this podcast intersect the creative and spiritual journeys in ways that doesn’t give easy answers, but invites us into continual questions, depth, and exploration. I have loved all the interviews of working artists and have drawn so much wisdom from their creative process, as well as artist profile series that give me a picture of artists who have made an eternal impact. Drawing from their strength, example, and faithfulness, I feel like I can create with their wind at my back.

Being an artist is amazing but really hard at times too and I’ve needed reminders of how understood I am and how I’m not alone and this podcast really reminds me of that. I love that it touches every kind of art form and from a plethora of artist from all over the place. It challenges, inspires and makes me (in a good way) uncomfortable at times. It’s amazing.

So glad I stumbled upon this podcast. I take away so much from the interviews that I can apply to my own creative journey.

This is the podcast I’ve been needing all my life. Inspiring conversations with kindred spirits. Thank you, Makers & Mystics!

I’m in art school and I have a friend in the art program who is also a believer. We are always seeking to see how other spiritual artist navigate the world. This podcast has been a beautiful blessing!

This show is grabbing the attention of a diverse and inquisitive crowd. I love the episodes where Stephen goes solo and also look forward to all the guests yet to come... this podcast is a great guide for artists reaching for more!

These conversations has sparked the kindling prepared in my heart by the Lord and has turned into a fire that I can’t contain. It has consumed my thoughts with the flames of creativity and I can’t get enough of all things creative.

I absolutely love this podcast. So many stimulating conversations on being an artist of faith. It resonates so much every time I listen.

I discovered the Breath and the clay on Instagram and then it led me to the Makers and Mystics podcast. The podcast has been such a learning tool, all the talks have been so encouraging me. They have helped me reset, relearn and see with different eyes art and faith. It has always been a struggle to understand why God placed this love for the arts and creativity and I found my self stumbling with such giants as fear and self doubt that I gave up on pursing this calling. But listening to these talks they have opened up my eyes to what God is actually doing in the arts for so long and I am so happy I get to feed my mind, soul and creativity from such a great moderator and artists. Thank you.

The podcast is amazing, the community behind the cast is even better! Lord knows how I stumbled upon this podcast, but so glad I did. Every episode inspires me as an artist and teaches me something new about a great artist of the past or present. Give this a listen if you want real, deep, soul lifting content.

Always encouraged and inspired by these conversations! Stephen does a great job guiding conversation and offering deep insight into the creative process in general and in the lives of specific makers & mystics.

i am a new listener & this podcast is such a gem of a resource for me- i’m so glad i found it! growing up in a denomination is that was mostly uninterested in creative expression, it is such a joy to have a sort of guidebook for marrying my faith & art.

Fantastic podcast that encapsulates the importance of creativity in all its facets. It reminds people of how art shapes culture and transforms the world around us. Great host, great guests, great all around project!

My favorite podcast and the only one I listen to consistently. Always thought provoking and always an encouragement. As a Christian artist, these engaging discussions about art and life are exactly what I’ve needed. I feel like every episode I listen to is exactly what I’ve been thinking about expressed insightfully and profoundly. It gives words to my deepest thoughts and questions about being an artist of faith and integrity.

This podcast is like a dose of life, shot straight into the beast. It’s challenging, uplifting and non-traditional ( yet still theologically sound) all at the same time. I am a huge fan.

As an Artist of faith it’s easy to feel alone. The art world may tell you're too religious and the church may tell you you’re too out there. What about the intersection of the two? Can my art and gifts that God gave me work together with the divine? I started listening to this podcast a few years ago and it’s been incredible to both my growth as a maker and a mystic. It helped show me that there are other people out there that have the same thoughts/questions as me and they were having conversations about it right here on the podcast! This podcast helps me to realize the worth and validity of artists in the faith and encourages me to create.

Two things happen every time I listen to Makers and Mystics: I feel inspired to go crete something, and I feel comradery with a faith community of artists. I'm embarassed how easily I lose the motivation to create. Whether its the busyness of life, or a creative dry spell, or a couple down weeks in a row - I'm in such need of perseverance. This podcast lifts me up every time. I am very grateful for it.

For giving space and language to the interior life of artists and the spiritual landscape that we traverse.

This podcast is insightful and inspiring, but what’s more is that it’s a real community of every day mystics and makers. Art and Faith comes together in this community in a truly inspired way. Thank you!

This podcast has enlarged my understanding of what it means to be a believer who lives in the greater creative culture, and it always inspires me!

This podcast has been instrumental in my journey of dismantling the boxes of my evangelical upbringing and bringing me into a contemplative and experiential understanding of faith. Book recommendations from this podcast have gone on to often be my favorite books and books I gift frequently to others. Roach’s gentle and learning posture sets the tone for listeners to be ready to gain wisdom.

Art and Faith doesn’t get any richer, deeper, more layered and more concrete than this. Love this podcast.

I was struggling with walking away from making art, considering I should perhaps be serving His kingdom in a more “practical” way. I am in need of an art community and this podcast has helped supplement that need. Please be encouraged and keep doing what you’re doing!

I have been listening to this podcast for about two years now and I have been deeply changed by what has been shared through this podcast. I feel my heart as an artist has become more and more revived and renewed because of what has been shared on this platform. Thank you Stephen Roach for what you do I’m so grateful!

As someone who strives to learn to live and view the world more and more from the pint of view of an artist, Makers & Mystics has been a great resource. To be able to hear the stories and heart of some artists that I truly look up to is an invaluable resource that I absolutely love.

I just discovered this podcast a few weeks ago; as an artist/ writer/ maker I've often if not always felt like the work moves through me not because of me and I'm go grateful I get to do this work. My favorite episodes so far are S6/E6 Adorning the Dark with Andrew Peterson; S6/E5 Moving through the World with Propaganda; S6/E2 with Lauren Midgley (Wonder&Light), the group one live onstage talking about their process and the one with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley.

I’ve been struggling for sometime to find my way in and through the liminal space between where I’ve been and where I’m going. Makers and Mystics is a road map for my journey. The artists and makers that Stephen converses with are a source of inspiration and instruction for me.

Thrilled to find Makers and Mystics podcasts! It’s like being at your local coffee shop and sharing great conversation around the table with creative friends.