If you’ve spent your life being overlooked, it will change you in one of two ways. You can either stay stuck in bitterness, playing the singular role of underdog or you can quit playing small and move forward. Mary Marantz says the choice is yours and there is a right answer.

If you have a hard story, if it feels like life is easier for everyone else or you feel like you just blend into the background, you might be a generational changer. There’s a before and an after in the calendar of your life and you are holding the marker that draws the line. You matter and your story matters, not only for yourself but for someone else who needs a soft place to land.

A lifetime of being overlooked has turned you into someone who sees. This conversation will shift your fear, self-sabotage and imposter syndrome so you can see how strong, resilient and valuable you are.

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Forget Preachers in Sneakers, we’ve got Reverends in Rhinestones and Priests in Hot Pink. This conversation between Reverend Lizzie McManus-Dail and Kristin Mockler Young will shut down the idea that women can’t be their feminine selves and preach the gospel at the same time.

If you’re not a girly girl, fear not. This episode is full of ways to fight fear, reconnect with joy and liberate the gentle, compassionate Christianity of Jesus.

Whether they’re in ministry or not, share this episode with someone you know who lives a little outside the box. When you see them, and honor all of the ways God uniquely created them, you remind them that they have permission to live their full sparkly, aesthetic, beautiful lives exactly as God intended.

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You can learn a lot when you stop at the weird. And there’s a lot of weird fun in this episode. Amy Seiffert shares her best tips on how to read the Bible in a way that makes the stories come to life using Holy Imagination to learn from what’s not documented on the page. Amy also brings Old Testament characters to life as she shows us how knowing their stories can help us better appreciate ours.

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From health issues to unexpected loss, Aubrey Sampson has become part of the club that no one wants to be in, the group of people who know what it’s like to walk through deep, compounding grief.

If processing suffering was never part of your faith or religious upbringing, Aubrey will help you understand the holy, and helpful, practice of lament. There is freedom in naming your feelings and being honest with God about where you place your blame.

This conversation will give you permission to feel, rage, doubt or find yourself in a complicated web of uncertainty. And it will also help you find the light in the darkness.

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Whether or not you recognize her name, you probably know Jenn Johnson’s voice. Not only that, but there’s a good chance you’ve been singing her words. As the president of Bethel Music for the last 25 years, Jenn has written songs like Goodness of God, I belong to Jesus and For the One.

This conversation is a peek behind the mega worship curtain as we learn more about the hearts and minds that create the music so many of us sing on Sunday mornings… and in the car where no one can hear us.

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Funny Jesus people are the best people and Jo Saxton is at the top of the list. Jo is a fierce leader who empowers and encourages others and who always makes space to include the gifts and callings she sees so clearly in every other person.

If you’re a leader, treat this episode like professional development that will help you create a more diverse and equitable environment. If you desire to be a leader or you’re just trying to figure out how God wants to use you, this conversation will let you laugh while you learn from one of the best.

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Even as a tenured history professor and best selling author, Beth Allison Barr sometimes feels restricted to another title that she holds, the Pastor’s Wife. Through her research and lived experience, Dr. Barr has discovered patterns that connect the history of the church to the male-dominated field it is today. This conversation will help you understand why things are the way they are as well as how, and why, we should work for more equality in church leadership.

Think of a woman you know who is living out her calling to help people love Jesus and share this episode with her. It will affirm her gifts, equip her to advocate for herself and redefine who she is as a person God intentionally created.

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To read further about women in ministry and the role of women in scripture, here are a few recommended titles:

More than Enchanting by Jo Saxton
Tell Her Story by Nijay K. Gupta
The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight

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If all of a sudden your body didn’t function the way it always has, how would your life change? Would you still be able to enter your church and worship freely if you required a wheelchair or other assistance device? Would your perspective of how God made you change?

The only way to learn and grow is by listening to people who have different lived experiences than our own. Renee Dollenmayer, founder of Even If Ministries, let me ask all of the questions about how - and how not - to treat people with disabilities. Whether it’s physical or mental, visible or invisible, people with differently abled bodies are reflections of God. This episode will help you better understand and honor the Imago Dei in every person you cross paths with.

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When a political corespondent becomes an ordained minister, church and state collide in social justice. Joash Thomas set out to ask the question “If the Gospel of Christ is both physical and spiritual, then why do Western Christians over-prioritize spiritual salvation and under-prioritize justice and liberation for human bodies?”

This conversation will educate you on how recent policy changes in the American government are effecting people and why it should matter to all Christians. It will equip listeners who want to advocate for marginalized people through Jesus’ gospel of love. It will also identify who the oppressor is so we can self-reflect and see which side of justice our behaviors are leading us to.

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Brenna Blain, a contemporary theologian, brings the current problems and issues of the world together with scripture to help people understand how to interact and show up as the body of Christ. In a culture where the church seems divided between legalism and progressive Christianity, she stands in the middle where she finds Jesus.

Brenna has learned from her own experiences that what matters to you matters to Jesus so she’s willing to lean into issues most Christians tends to shy away from. Whether it’s gender dysphoria, drug use or depressive states of mental health, Brenna Blain is encouraging and challenging the church to be a safe place for all people to have taboo, hard conversations in order to find the God who loves them.

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