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This week, I'm joined by my new friend Nancy Gwyn, known as NCBLUDOT on Tiktok

Nancy was born and raised in North Carolina but recently relocated to Atlanta with her partner Scott. She was a worship leader in the evangelical church for over 20 years and has been on the path of deconstruction and healing for 8 years. She is passionate about sharing the freedom that comes with deconstructing from the church as well as challenging other exvangelicals to seek deeper healing and education about how the church drives White Supremacy Culture and how all of that has effected our personalities and how we show up in the world.

This week, I welcome back Ang and Jon Austin. This time, we talk about love. What is it? How do we think about it after leaving evangelicalism?

This week, I spoke, once again with Stephanie, The Exvangelical Xennial. This time, we talk about what's next in the journey of building an Exvangelical community via TikTok.

Ron Dawson, aka "blerdronner" on social media, is the author of the satirical memoir, "Dungeons N Durags: one black nerd's comical quest of racial identity and crisis of faith", and is the host of the podcast with the same name on the Ebony Podcast Network.

You can find his book here:

https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Dungeons-n-Durags/dp/B0BYPJRKMB/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1681701830&refinements=p_27%3ARon+Dawson&s=books&sr=1-3

In this episode, I share a portion of the last Easter sermon I every gave...

Carissa Shaw pastor’s kid and former pastor’s wife who left behind a life of church work to pursue healing and finding who she is apart from who she was told she should be. On top of being an online food content creator, Carissa uses her platform on Instagram and Tiktok to share her journey of recovery from spiritual abuse, purity culture, Christian homeschooling, losing a parent to COVID, and more.

She can be found at @carissaexplainsnothing26 on TikTok and Instagram and @CarissaExplainsNothing on Twitter.

This week, I'm joined by Shane Claiborne

Shane is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author.  He worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia.  He heads up Red Letter Christians, which is a movement of folks who are committed to living "as if Jesus meant the things he said."

Shane’s books include his classic The Irresistible Revolution, Jesus for President, Jesus, Bombs and Ice Cream, Executing Grace, Beating Guns, and his newest book, Rethinking Life which was just released in February 

His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. His work has appeared in Esquire, SPIN, Christianity Today, TIME, and The Wall Street Journal, and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera to CNN and NPR.

For more information about Shane, check out his website:

http://www.shaneclaiborne.com/

Michelle, known as ChelletheHeretic, The Unconvinced Daughter in the deconstruction space, is a pastor's kid and former Christian, and is now an atheist. Her

You can find her content on TikTok at the following link:

https://www.tiktok.com/@chelle_the_heretic

Francesca Taylor is a mindset coach and owner of Metanoia Mind, a coaching business centered around being a safe space for Black and Brown men and woman to explore, integrate and come back to aspects of Self, discovering new patterns to transform their lives. As a Graduate of Liberty University, she is a former Christian who worked heavily in the church for 5 years as a Children's Director. Currently working on establishing her own podcast and is in the process of writing a book.

This  week, I talk, once again, with Sarah J.  Ruthless. Sarah Ruthless is a Chicago-based writer, performer and  artist. They use their background as both an ex-church and ex-YWAM kid  to help process their own religious trauma, and hopefully provide some  comic relief to the many others working through it too.

You can check out some of Sarah's work below:

http://www.sarahjruthless.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwH_G04n12K81dHNdlysgnQ

https://www.tiktok.com/@sarahjruthless?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc