Deconstructing the Myth

Thanks everyone for being a part of Season 3! In today’s episode I answer listener questions

Today's guest is spiritual director and professor Frank Rogers Jr. who, as a young adult, begin to be deeply tormented by the trauma of suppressed childhood sexual abuse. Wracked by depression, he was on the cliff edge of suicide. From intense despair, he set off on a quest—for answers, for sanity, for a credible God to see him through. We discuss his new book, Cradled in the Arms of Compassion, which details his life story and how he found truly transformational power in the practice of compassion. Rogers shows how he found recovery through a combination of reflective retreats, therapy, creative expression, and an extraordinary application of imaginative meditation, which spiritual seekers and practitioners will find utterly fascinating. The ensuing discovery evolved into the uniquely self-restorative process known as the Compassion Practice.

This one made my cry DTM fam! Such a powerful story.

Book:

https://www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/cradled-in-the-arms-of-compassion/

Website:

thecenterforengagedcompassion.org

Email:

Season 1 guest Nathaniel Schweinberg—and host of Purity Cult Pod—returns to discuss sexuality, various relationship models outside of monogamy, and much more that challenge ideas we’ve been taught in purity culture within Evangelical Christianity.  

Models of Consent

https://www.idcprofessionals.com/blog/defining-consent-from-fries-to-crisp

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/relationships/sexual-consent

The Ethical Slut by Janet W. Hardy

https://a.co/d/fZtsXMB

Instagram:

@puritycultpod

Linktree for all other platforms:

linktr.ee/PurityCultPod

Glossary of Terms

https://www.icloud.com/notes/0e6wcmPfLry-RuqRNrzvM899Q#Glossary_of_Terms

Today I chat with an often requested guest—David Hayward, the Naked Pastor! An artist, former pastor, and exvangelical himself, David beautifull articulates his deconstruction journey, current spirituality, and how it all intersects with his art.

Website:

nakedpastor.com

Instagram:

@nakedpastor

Today I chat with Catherine Quiring, a licensed trauma therapist, self-trust coach, and exvangelical who helps exvangelicals learn to trust their desires and reconnect to their inner wisdom. She is the creator of the Trust Yourself Again Program: Reclaim your Inner Compass after Leaving Evangelical Subculture.

Instagram

@catherinequiring

Courses:

Trust Yourself Again: Reclaim Your Inner Compass After Leaving Evangelical Subculture

https://www.cqcounseling.com/trust-yourself

Covert Narcism in Religious Subculture

https://catherine-quiring.mykajabi.com/offers/RWwjHSJY/checkout

What an inspiring chat I had with author and pastor Kevin Sweeney about his latest book “The Joy of Letting Go.” Kevin shares the various aspects of his spiritual journey, from the point of coming to God after mushrooms, to pursuing seminary yet feeling confined by the rigid parameters he found there set before him. We talk about how so much of the spiritual journey is really composed of the simple but difficult work of letting go.

Instagram:

@kevinsweeney1

Podcast:

The Church Needs Therapy

Books:

The Joy of Letting Go

The Making of a Mystic

Today I have such a fun chat in store for you all with comedian and podcast host Sydney Davis Jr. Jr. We talk about her journey leaving Christianity, discovering her passion for podcasting, and we bond over our love of giving others a platform to share their stories.

Instagram:

@sydneydavisjrjr

Podcast:

Growing Up Fundie

Today I talk with Austin Noll about American Christian culture and how it influenced him deeply in his Los Angeles nondenominational church setting. We discuss why churches can be so harmful and how he believes they might redeem their purpose in a more healthy way.

Instagram:

@austin_noll

Book:

A Jumble of Crumpled Papers

Podcast:

The Crumpled Papers Podcast

Today’s guest is podcast host, author, and mother Liz Enns Petters who chats with me about her childhood anxiety and how it intersected with deconstruction, what it’s like to have a well known a parent in academic theological scholarship, and how parenting during faith transitions has been for her. Instagram:

@lizzennspetters

@deconstructedmamas

Facebook:

Deconstructing Mamas

Lizz Enns Petters, The Deconstructed Mama

Podcast:

Deconstructing Mamas

Book:

Deconstructing Hell

Today’s conversation is with Michael Lecey who I found over at his podcast, A Certain Wandering. Michael shares his deconstruction story as well as how he’s now discovering a rich new spiritual walk. As a therapist and spiritual director who has experienced deconstruction and church hurt first hand, Michael seeks to walk people safely through the thresholds of their lives especially concerning religious and spiritual shifts.

thethresholds.com

@michaelecy

Podcast: A Certain Wandering

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-certain-wandering-podcast/id1581636154