Posts by Shelly Brown

What does it look like to follow Jesus when obedience could cost you your freedom, your family, or even your life?
In this episode of At This Table, Shelly Brown and co-host Heather Rider are joined by Cynthia Finley, Ellen Gray Maybank, and Jeanette Tiwari for a remarkable conversation about PREM: An Apostle’s Triumphant Witness for Christ in Nepal.
Prem Pradhan was a Hindu soldier who came to Christ and eventually returned to Nepal to share the gospel with his own people. His obedience led to years of imprisonment, persecution, and suffering—but also to extraordinary joy, powerful witness, and lives changed for eternity. As Cynthia shares, Prem spent a total of ten years in fourteen different prisons, where even his confinement became an unexpected place of ministry.

What happens when the things we’ve built to protect ourselves begin keeping us from healing, connection, and the life God has for us?
In this episode of At This Table, host Shelly Brown sits down with Redemption Press award-winning author Terri McAdoo, to talk about her novel, Tattooed Woman at the Well.
At the center of the story is Bleu Yarbro, a tough, tattooed truck driver carrying grief, anger, loneliness, and a fierce determination to get revenge on the man who wounded her. But as Bleu’s story unfolds, it becomes about much more than revenge. It explores the armor we hide behind, the freedom found in forgiveness, the courage it takes to let people truly know us, and the difference a steady, lived-out faith can make in someone’s life.

What might we be missing when our lives are so full of noise that we never make room to truly listen?
In this episode of At This Table, host Shelly Brown and co-host Heather Rider welcome Marjean Brooks, author of the beautifully illustrated children’s picture book Listen to the Silence, for a conversation about what adults can do to help children make room for quiet, wonder, creativity, and a deeper awareness of God.
In a world filled with screens, activity, distraction, and constant stimulation, Marjean invites families to rediscover something easily lost: the ability to slow down, notice, wonder, and listen.