Why do empires fall? And what does the collapse of Rome have to do with what's right now? In this episode the Levvy hosts open the third pillar — cultural disintegration — and the conversation moves from power to pride to the cross, with a sharp pivot into AI that nobody saw coming. With 2.4 billion Christians in the world still at each other's throats, the question is whether we're willing to pick up our cross instead of reaching for power.

00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question

02:33 Rome didn't fall in a day — cultural disintegration unpacked

05:14 Is it complex or is simplicity the root?

06:24 Power named as disintegrator

07:42 The Ring of Power as a lens

09:20 Power is a tool

10:08 Lack of unity vs. uniformity — a critical distinction

14:51 Humility as the key and Jesus as the unifier

16:29 The objection — Christianity itself has been used to wield power

18:18 Satan, Hitler, Napoleon — the idea of being above God

22:07 The cross as the countercultural expression of power

23:58 2.4 billion Christians — so why are we still at war?

28:36 Is transformation happening behind the scenes?

30:26 God's movement among the Roma people and the Middle East

33:16 Why isn't it happening here — barriers in the Western church

34:28 AI introduced as a potential integrator or disintegrator

37:27 Why do we need AI? We have Christ

38:02 Either we humble ourselves or something will humble us

41:43 The Tower of Babel — God's issue wasn't the technology

44:43 Takeaway and action step

Mentions:

• The Roman Empire
• The Rings of Power (LOTR)
• Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas
• The Roma People
• Games: Risk & Catan

Next Step: Continue having these conversations with yourself, with others, and with God.

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The relationship didn't fall apart because of them — it's time to ask what you brought to the table!

Every broken relationship has a story, and most of us tell it starting with what the other person did. But what if the real question is: what's your poison? In this episode the Levvy hosts turn the mirror on themselves — exploring the relational disintegrators that live inside us and follow us from relationship to relationship. Ralph traces his divorce back to unhealed wounds from a prior relationship. Leroy names codependency as his own recurring pattern. Lindsay maps the progression from unhealed individual to relational destruction with unflinching clarity. And Adam draws the through line: real relational integration only happens in places where it's safe to be unsafe. The takeaway is personal, vulnerable, and necessary — because what we bring to the table is almost always part of the story.

00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question

01:47 Flipping the script — looking at yourself as the poison

03:16 Making it about self — the core relational disintegrator

04:55 Trust and the self-focus connection

05:52 Divorce, failure, and what God makes beautiful from it

08:39 Inconsiderate — what the root word reveals

09:11 Narcissism — buzzword or finally being named?

12:57 Can you really trust anyone?

14:03 Abiding as the foundation for trust

16:05 Sacrificial love and stepping into unsafe places

20:14 Unhealed wounds from the past poisoning present relationships

26:53 Self-righteousness as a relational disintegrator

29:24 Codependency and looking to others to fill what only God can

32:26 Motivations as the hidden driver of relational disintegration

39:23 Relationships as the crucible

40:53 The fruit of the unhealed individual

45:25 Takeaway and action step

Mentions: Miranda Lambert - Heart Like Mine

Next Step: In the safety of God's love, invite the Holy Spirit to show you what poison you brought to a specific broken relationship. If led, go further: reach out, make amends, or ask someone to show you what you couldn't see yourself.

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"Who told you you were naked?" is still the most penetrating question any of us will ever face. In this episode the Levvy hosts go deep into the personal disintegrators that fracture the self — shame, fear, sin, blame, and self-abandonment — tracing each one back to its root and asking what it actually costs us to believe the lies we've been told about ourselves. With rare vulnerability Leroy shares a childhood moment that introduced shame into his story, Lindsay names the enemy's primary track in her own life, and Ralph maps the progression from shame to fear to blame with disarming honesty. The takeaway: in the safety of the Father's love, it's finally possible to look at the broken places without being destroyed by them.

00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question
02:06 Shame as the primary individual disintegrator
03:25 The Emperor's New Clothes and the experience of nakedness
05:25 The formation of self comes from multiple sources
08:02 The difference between guilt and shame
09:24 Shame, blame, and the progression after the fall
11:34 The blame game — not me, it wasn't me
13:22 Fear as a fracturing agent — which came first, fear or shame?
16:49 Leroy's childhood story — the moment shame entered in
20:02 Children are especially vulnerable to shame-based fracturing
22:36 Ralph's father, comparisons, and the teacher who changed everything
26:12 Words that create narratives — and sin introduced as a disintegrator
27:41 The opposite of love is fear, not hate
29:13 Sin post-cross and the woman caught in adultery
35:32 God hates sin because of how it hurts us
39:15 Getting to the motivations beneath sin
43:08 Self-abandonment as a disintegrator
45:09 Lindsay names the enemy's primary track in her own life
50:02 Takeaway and action step

Mentions: The Emperor's New Clothes — Hans Christian Andersen story referenced by Leroy as an analogy for self-delusion around nakedness and shame

Next Step: In the safety and security of God's love, ask yourself: where has shame entered in? What is the lie at the root? Pray and ask God to show you what's there — and believe that you are clothed.

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The enemy's oldest trick wasn't a temptation — it was a question, and it's still working today!

In this episode the Levvy hosts trace the root of disintegration in our relationship with God all the way back to Genesis, where a single question from the serpent introduced something devastating: the possibility of doubting what God said. From pride to fear to unbelief, the conversation maps the family tree of what separates us from God — and what it actually looks like to say yes to Him in a world that keeps asking "did he really though?" The takeaway is simple and ancient: get to know Him, because that's where belief grows.

00:00 Intro highlights & welcome 

00:42 Episode question introduced: Did God Really Say That? 

02:39 Short answer — and why it gets hazy 

02:52 Pride as the ultimate disintegrator 

03:56 Stubbornness, entitlement, and the moment of the fall 

05:02 The question itself is the trap 

07:17 First Adam vs. second Adam — what went wrong? 

08:08 Not answering the question as formulated 

10:00 Unbelief defined — skepticism toward the word and work of God 

11:29 Jesus responds from belief, not confusion 

12:34 Pride, fear, and unbelief as two sides of the same coin 

14:28 Intimacy and revelation — asking questions in relationship 

16:23 Obedience, blind faith, and the disagreement 

18:27 Adam pushes back — faith is not blind 

20:16 What disintegrates us from God post-resurrection? 

21:27 Identity, belief, and the modern expression of unbelief 

23:37 How do we participate in the reintegration process? 

25:41 How do we recognize God's voice? 

26:27 Openness, hardness of heart, and the family tree of disintegration 

31:07 The word family — unbelief, pride, rebellion vs. belief, humility, childlike 

32:40 God's revelation is consistent with his character 

34:36 Takeaway and action step

Mentions:

John Lennox — Christian mathematician and professor at the University of Oxford, known for his debates defending the rationality of faith.

Next Step: Get to know God; take your questions to Him; ask, seek, knock…

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What if the relationships that challenge you most are actually the ones shaping you most? 

In this episode the Levvy hosts open the horizontal dimension of relational integration — exploring who's really welcome at the table and what it costs us to keep people out. From Leroy's childhood pool story to Ralph's reflection on the Samaritan woman, the conversation moves from personal conviction to a stunning reframe.

00:00 Intro highlights, welcome & episode question

01:29 Growing up at Disneyland and It's a Small World 

03:01 Otherness, curiosity, and what the ride sparked 

03:50 How do we each define culture? 

07:25 Why is culture important and why is it a pillar? 

09:53 The bond quotient introduced 

12:13 Growing up the only Black kid in an Italian neighborhood 

13:52 Openness as a posture of the heart 

14:45 In-group thinking and the danger of unchallenged views 

16:15 The danger of right vs. wrong thinking about culture 

17:47 Differences either spark curiosity or become a threat 

19:35 The World Cup, cultural pride, and self-examination 

21:02 Jesus set a different culture — kingdom culture introduced 

22:47 Kingdom culture as the lens for receiving all other cultures 

25:17 Losing and rediscovering culture through Christ 

26:14 Jesus as a disruptor of every culture he encountered 28:33 Takeaway and action step

Mentions:

• It's a Small World — Disney's iconic ride
• Haiti and the World Cup
• Bocce Ball
• René Spitz — "Hospitalism" (1945) — landmark research documenting that infants deprived of human contact and touch failed to thrive despite adequate physical care

Next Step: Reflect on the culture you grew up in: your home life, your church, your neighborhood, your ethnicity, your family gatherings — and consider how you would describe its beliefs, behaviors, values, and artifacts.

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Who's actually welcome at your table — and who have you been quietly keeping out?

In this episode, the Levvy hosts explore what relational integration really looks like in the horizontal plane of everyday life, from the friction of personality differences to the people we'd rather not invite in. Grounded in the radical, line-redrawing hospitality of Jesus, this conversation is an honest, warm, and sometimes convicting look at why we need each other — even the difficult other — to become who we were made to be.

00:00 Intro highlights & welcome

01:26 Part two of relational integration introduced

02:09 Whoever says yes is welcome at the table

03:18 Jesus's radically open table posture & the great banquet

04:20 The full spectrum of relationships

05:56 The Chosen and the rub of difference

07:37 Why we were made for relationship

08:45 Leaning in when you want to pull away

10:35 Expectations and choosing others over self

12:46 The pool story — the kid kept out of the table

15:28 Jesus and the Samaritan woman

17:01 What dimensions of relationship shape our integration?

19:12 Conflict, Matthew 18, and our relational defaults

22:03 The purpose and function of relationships

23:25 The Trinitarian nature of relationship

26:12 Symbiosis, the body, and why we need each other 29:51 Jesus didn't erase the lines — he redrew them

31:07 Jesus as a scandalous figure

32:08 Sports, unifying goals, and why we can't do it for Christ

34:05 The goal: the marriage of heaven and earth

35:49 Takeaway and action step

The Chosen — An independently produced, crowdfunded dramatic series that portrays the life of Jesus of Nazareth through the eyes of those who knew him, depicting the disciples and other biblical figures as fully human, culturally grounded characters encountering him for the first time. Matthew 18 — Lindsay's reference to the explicit biblical process for handling conflict within the body

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What if the greatest love story ever told isn't just a metaphor — it's a proposal with your name on it?

In this episode, the Levvy hosts explore what it means to integrate with God through the lens of one of Scripture's most intimate and provocative images: the bridegroom and the bride. From Ralph's transformation out of a life of chaos, to Lindsay's long road through suffering toward trust, to Adam's discovery of a God who isn't afraid of pain — this conversation is a tender, honest look at what it actually feels like to be pursued by a love you didn't earn and can't lose.

00:00 Introduction & episode question: Will You Marry Me?

01:51 Who's asking and why

02:52 Marriage imagery in Scripture

03:58 Unpacking the bridegroom metaphor

05:13 The universal desire to be pursued 06:33 Vulnerability and the untamed God

08:09 Running from God and the power of pure love

09:59 Pascal's God-shaped hole

12:40 Growing up in the church and what draws us to God

15:58 How do you know what God is like?

19:10 Called God's bride and inheritance

22:34 Does bride imagery challenge masculinity?

24:58 Marriage, divorce and understanding God's pursuit

26:05 Worthiness and receiving the bridegroom's love

30:16 How has God wooed you? Personal stories

36:41 Takeaway and action step

• Origin of Pascal's "God-shaped hole" Idea
• Conflict Resolution (Matthew 18): Ford Taylor’s Transformational Leadership on "Social Covenant" & "How to Approach Others"
• Job 13:15 Though you slay me, yet shall I trust you.

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One of a kind, wholly unique, and designed for discovery…that’s YOU!

In this episode, the Levvy hosts dig into individual integration — the lifelong process of discovering, accepting, and aligning the many layers of who we are, from personality and story to body, soul, and spirit. After all, before you can love your neighbor as yourself, you have to actually know — and love — yourself.

0:00 Welcome to the Levvy podcast

1:22 Introduction to Three Pillars

2:29 Who are Me, Myself, and I?

3:18 Raw Conversations and Integration

4:18 Parts of Who We Are

7:28 Self-Discovery and Expression

10:14 Finding Authenticity

12:01 Integration into Christ

13:16 Storytelling and Life as a Movie

17:45 Individual Integration and Worship

24:05 Importance of Self-Integration

28:46 Loving Others and Self

31:56 Takeaway and Action Steps

• Billie Holiday - Me, Myself and I
• David Benner - The Spiritual Journey Trilogy

Get alone with the Lord, journal what feels aligned and what doesn't, and use it as a prompt for prayer.

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When the sanctuary becomes an agent of separation, what do we do as Christians?

In What is the Church’s Wicked Problem?, Leroy Case and his co-hosts explore the complex issue of disintegration within the church and broader society. They discuss christ-centered integration, forgiveness, conflict, and the significance of personal responsibility.

00:00 - Introduction: Welcome to the Levvy podcast

00:45 - Co-host Introductions

01:22 - Purpose of the Podcast: Christ-centered integration

02:33 - Background Stories: Relationship history with co-hosts

07:08 - Discussion on Integration: What drew the hosts to the topic

13:23 - The Church's Wicked Problem: Introduction of the main question

15:12 - Exploration of Wicked Problems: Relevance to the church

38:15 - Conclusion and Call to Action: Wrap up and listener engagement

• The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis - An imaginative vision of hell as separation
• The Ten Key Properties that Define Wicked Problems

Reflect this week: Where do you see disintegration personally, relationally, or culturally?

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We are so close to launch! Here's a sneak peek at Episode 01: What is the Church's Wicked Problem? coming, 4/29/26!