Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medford

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how art reconnects us to our bodies, what the theobros are missing about spirituality, how to keep coming back to prayer, whale song, protests for non-protestors, and how many years it takes to actually get a book published.

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the elitism underneath our definitions of “creativity,” disability as art, the surprising origins of the word “ordinary,” new dreams for the kinds of art we involve in our daily lives, and that feeling when you just have to stick your hands in that one skein of yarn.

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Why being an outsider is a gift, using old words for new concepts, Alicia’s experiences living in China as a Black woman, why the American church is the “Wal-Mart of Christianity,” and the gift of the conservative small group.

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Self-care and community care, the myth of the StrongBlackWoman, how self-care makes our activism more compelling, parenting kids to know themselves, and puppy videos.

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Caroline’s new book, We’ll All Be Free, how January 6 changed her life, gnats and other summer problems, the complexities of writing about race for all of us, the best TV show you’ve never heard of, and what to do about White supremacy besides just weeping.

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I’ve been threatening for a few years now to write a monster post called “How to be Overwhelmed.” When you have a chronic or mental illness, there are hard stops on your capacity to just power through and get things done—but you’ve still got expenses to manage, chores and care tasks to do every day, people in your life who need care, periodic emergencies, and high physical and mental health needs. You end up with a whole routine for how to be overwhelmed. If you’re lucky, you end up with a good one.

I always knew this post would be enormous, but I finally got it written. Now that it’s finished, I’m realizing I got it done by following my own advice: the day came when writing it was just my next right thing. This is an edited version of a post I made in a “Babies due in August” subreddit when I realized I was searching exhaustedly for someone to tell me what I already knew (but was struggling to apply to pregnancy). I figured it was time to write this down for my own reference and for others’.

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Sara and Lyndsey talk evangelicalism’s evolution from the 80s and 90s to today, finding your childhood house on Zillow, learning new ways to pray, the rapture and conspiracy theories, and the many ways to re-find each other after being orphaned by the church.

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Lutheranism, transitioning back to work, pastor-moms and mom-pastors, apologies, snow sledding, and hand-me-downs!

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