Life with God: A Renovaré Podcast Emily Murphy – Faithful Storytelling
Mar 13, 2026
Emily Bain Murphy, bestselling novelist and author of Lightseekers, blends historical mystery craft with middle-grade fantasy. She talks about stories as invitations to choice and transformation. She describes layered truths, giving voice to the unseen, beauty’s formative power, and how her Renovaré experience shaped a trilogy about life after pivotal choices.
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History Reveals Universal Human Longings
- Historical settings let a writer examine another culture and reveal timeless human fingerprints across eras.
- Emily uses period detail to separate transient customs from universal longings like belonging and love.
Beauty Trains Spiritual Perception
- Beauty is formative and cues spiritual awareness; noticing it changed Emily's perception of God.
- A college moment with a simple green tree shifted her vision from black-and-white to seeking beauty everywhere as God's wooing.
Institute Changed Her Picture Of God
- The Renovaré Institute transformed Emily's picture of God and made her see life as an interactive kingdom adventure.
- She describes the Institute effect as moving from black-and-white to technicolor and learning to look for God's daily interactions.
