Tonight is heavy folks. Ryan's been struggling the last few days with some intense feelings of loneliness and grief. We discuss the importance of reaching out to those who are in AND those who are out. The silence from community and neighbors isn't something that is conducive to people feeling loved and important. We all have a duty to be there for each other, regardless of where we are at in belief, church, religion, and social status. 

Often times in a mixed faith journey, we can become so entrenched in our own beliefs, ways of thinking, and even mourning, that we often can forget where the other person might be in their own head and heart. This week, we discuss ways that we can focus our efforts and attention on how to support the other spouse in where they are at. 

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So......kids......

They bring us joy, happiness and laughter, but cause our hair to go gray, throw our hands up and realize we have no control, and wonder what we've done wrong.  Being facetious of course, but in all honesty, a faith crisis can become a very sticky and more rocky place to navigate when kids are in the picture. How do we teach them? WHAT do we teach them? How do we guide them without the church being the defining authority in our lives. We discuss some of these issues in this weeks episode. 

In this episode, we discuss a vital and yet very personal piece to our puzzle of where we are now, both me being out of the church, and Brandi being more nuanced than she previously was. This week and weekend were heavy for us for various reasons, but some of the issues brought up in conference are things we touch on in this episode. 

Often times, people who lose their faith or enter a faith crisis are labeled as many things, mostly negative. The attitude that, "they're wanting to sin," or, "they were offended" is simply not true in most if not all cases.  There are various reasons as to why someone leaves the church, and the pain that is associated with it, is intense for both the believer and non-believer. We discuss this in this episode. 

This is an intro to us! This will give you a little bit of insight into our story and how we came into our mixed faith marriage after being married for 17 years. We hope listeners will get a bit of understanding about the trials, blessings, and challenges that come from a mixed faith marriage, and hopefully for some, this will give them some hope that this is ok and can work!