Exploring faith, questions, and wholeness one
pause at a time
Hosted by Prudence Dancy — a spiritual director, writer, former pastor and folk singer, — each episode offers a gentle answer to hard and holy questions. Together, we’ll pause, take a breath, and discover beauty in the unraveling and courage in the questions.
Whether you are rethinking faith, untangling old beliefs, or simply longing for a quiet, reflective place to belong, this is a space for you.
Do you long to live more intentionally, more awake, and more fully alive?
Pause Pages are guided reflections that accompany the Pause with Prudence podcast. Each page helps you move from simply listening to actually integrating what you hear—bringing the themes of each episode into your daily rhythm.
Follow along with Pause Pages
These pages invite you to:
Slow down and breathe
Listen beneath the surface of your day
Recognize God’s invitations
Reflect with honesty
Take one small step toward wholeness
Latest Episodes
Coming soon! Episode 1 will drop on January 12th.
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Ask a Question!
In each episode Prudence responds to a question that matters to listeners like you. Use the form or write her at prudence@pausewithprudence.com to share the issues you are wrestling with.
This is your chance to ask a question you would like Prudence to address!
About Prudence
Prudence Dancy is a spiritual director, writer, and guide for those who find themselves rethinking, rebuilding, or returning to faith with new questions. As the host of Pause with Prudence, she creates a quiet and compassionate space for anyone longing to slow down, breathe deeply, and rediscover a grounded, embodied spirituality.
For more than four decades, Prudence has served as a pastor, counselor, retreat leader, and formation guide—walking with individuals and communities through seasons of growth, transition, and spiritual hunger. Her work integrates Scripture, contemplative practice, brain science, and whole-person formation, inviting people to live more intentionally in body, soul, and spirit.
Her life’s calling is simple and steady:
to remove obstacles, create avenues for transformation, and help people live fully alive.
Through her podcast, Pause with Prudence and Pause Pages, she wants to offer gentle answers to hard and holy questions, always with a posture of gratitude, curiosity, humility and grace. She believes God meets us most clearly in the quiet places—when we pause long enough to listen.
Prudence is the founder of Renewed Living Ministries and has spent her career helping others cultivate self-awareness, spiritual depth, emotional health, and purposeful presence. Whether teaching, counseling, writing, or guiding a room through reflective silence, she brings a calm, steady wisdom shaped by years of pastoral experience and her own journey of faith and healing.
Pause with Prudence is where she gathers all of this—her story, her training, her voice, and her heart—to companion others who are longing for rest, clarity, and a deeper sense of God’s presence in the modern world.