Myers Park Baptist Church: Theology Upstream Podcasts

We are excited to offer this special episode centered around Bethany Johnson’s new book You’re Doing it Wrong. Listen in as Rev. Boswell and Bethany talk about the book together on the Awakening Shalom Podcast.

In this special Lenten edition of the Awakening Shalom Podcast, Rev. Ben Boswell is joined by special guests in the field of history, medicine, health care, wellness, and end of life concerns to discuss Atul Gawande’s bestselling book Being Mortal.

In this special Lenten edition of the Awakening Shalom Podcast, Rev. Ben Boswell is joined by special guests in the field of history, medicine, health care, wellness, and end of life concerns to discuss Atul Gawande’s bestselling book Being Mortal.

In this special Lenten edition of the Awakening Shalom Podcast, Rev. Ben Boswell is joined by special guests in the field of history, medicine, health care, wellness, and end of life concerns to discuss Atul Gawande’s bestselling book Being Mortal.

In this special Lenten edition of the Awakening Shalom Podcast, Rev. Ben Boswell is joined by special guests in the field of history, medicine, health care, wellness, and end of life concerns to discuss Atul Gawande’s bestselling book Being Mortal.

In the fourth episode of the podcast series, Rev. Ben Boswell and Bethany Johnson conclude their discussion on The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor by engaging Taylor’s “Ten Tools for Radical Self-Love” and discussing toxic media, stress, being olympians at body shame, and of course, the power of amazing grace!

In the fourth episode of the podcast series, Rev. Ben Boswell and Bethany Johnson conclude their discussion on The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor by engaging Taylor’s “Ten Tools for Radical Self-Love” and discussing toxic media, stress, being olympians at body shame, and of course, the power of amazing grace!

In the third episode of the Awakening Shalom podcast Ben and Bethany dive into chapter four of The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor, and they discuss being “nice” Christians, the “tyranny of the should” tone policing, eschatology, Taylor’s unapologetic agreements, and what it means to build a world that works for every_body.

In the third episode of the Awakening Shalom podcast Ben and Bethany dive into chapter four of The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor, and they discuss being “nice” Christians, the “tyranny of the should” tone policing, eschatology, Taylor’s unapologetic agreements, and what it means to build a world that works for every_body.

Awakening Shalom PodcastsShalom is the Hebrew word for the peace, harmony, wholeness, well-being, community, equity, justice, goodness, and beauty that exists when we are living in right relationship with God, ourselves, other human beings, and all created things. The Awakening Shalom podcast is an opportunity for digital faith formation at Myers Park Baptist Church that accompanies the Awakening Series, a year long journey of exploration and discernment which invites all people to learn about current social justice issues and how they impact our faith. Each podcast series is a deep reading of a book that accompanies the theme for the year. In this current series, Rev. Boswell will be joined by Bethany Johnson, Instructor in History and Associate Member of Graduate Faculty of Communication Studies at UNC Charlotte to discuss the book The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor. You can subscribe to the Awakening Shalom podcast on iTunes and listen while driving in your car or working out!   In the second episode of the podcast series on The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor, Women and Gender Studies Professor Bethany Johnson joins Ben Boswell to discuss chapters 2 and 3. Here, Ben and Bethany reveal their earliest memories of body shame, tackle toxic masculinity, body difference, the Body Shame Profit Complex, Body Terrorism, the politics of the body, and Taylor’s Four Pillars of Praxis.