Have you ever felt like you were sleepwalking through your faith? Or maybe it had become numb, or possibly rote? My guest today, author and podcast host Yvette Walker is here to discuss a season in her life when she was doing just that. She shares her experience of that season as well as what awakened her faith. She’s now the host of the Positively Joy podcast and founder of Positively Joy Ministries at positivelyjoy.com. She published the life lesson-filled devotional “Whispering in His Ear” and its companion study and discussion guide in 2021. She manages a Facebook Community group along with other social media related to her platform.

Yvette is a former journalist and also is an educator and Dean of Students at Gaylord College at the University of Oklahoma. She is chair of the Journalism Education Committee for the National Society of Professional Journalists. She has been inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. 

Typically I provide my guests with a framework for our discussion ahead of time, but this one took a surprising turn that I really enjoyed. We spoke for a bit about faith and objectivity in journalism, if that’s even possible, and the responsibility of journalists regardless of their raith. Yvette also gave us a super quick lesson in media literacy and how she now balances her faith while educating journalists. 

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We discuss:

• What Positively Joy means to her, even while acknowledging it’s grammatically incorrect!
• Defining God’s joy
• Her experience of sleepwalking through life and feeling numbing in her faith
• How we can “Whisper in His Ear” 
• Her experience as a journalist and demonstrating her faith publicly while still being objective
• The five steps of media literacy
• The encouragement she would give to women who may be sleepwalking in their own faith

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