It's the pleasure principle oh-oh! This episode uplifts the beauty of pleasure as it relates to sex and just enjoying our everyday lives. If the Bible discusses pleasure, why are we conditioned not to? Christian sexologist and founder of The Intimacy Firm Brittany Broaddus-Smith blesses us with her testimony of how she is spreading the good news of Jesus Christ through the medium of sexual health education. It's giving saved, sanctified, AND sexy. Hallelu!

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Fasten your spiritual seatbelts, we’re talking about dead people today. We're diving into the definition of ancestor veneration and all the ways we honor our ancestors without even realizing it. (Shout out to the funeral programs we collect and the picture of Dr. King hanging in Granny’s living room.) On this episode, we get to hear a heart-warming testimony from A Little Juju Podcast host Juju Bae, a healer and hoodoo who offers encouragement for those called to the work of ancestral healing.

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If prayer alone doesn’t seem like the right solution to life’s challenges, then you’ve stumbled upon the right episode of Sanctified. We're tackling the quiet questions: Which situations do we bring to God in prayer? Which circumstances do we pray AND act on in faith? How do we live with prayers not being answered the way we hoped? Therapist and mortician Tori Dixon’s testimony of how her prayer life led to her vocations offers beautiful perspective. Tori also gives encouragement for those who are considering therapy but may feel conflicted because of their religious beliefs.

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We’ve been bamboozled, y’all. There are some things about Ruth and Boaz (and love and marriage) that pastors left out of their Sunday sermons. So we're seeking clarity. In this episode, Deborah Joy and Lyvonne ask the questions: What does it mean to be equally yoked? And does it matter where you meet your partner? DJ and Lyvonne navigate the answers with candor as they share their own stories of finding love and partnership. Podcast host, wife, and mother Sarah Smith joins the show to deliver a testimony about meeting her husband (he kicked game with an email address in the church parking lot, ya'll) and details the shifts in her faith journey. 

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On the first episode of Sanctified, Deborah Joy and Lyvonne discuss purity culture’s chokehold on the Black church and its impact on Black women and girls. Ya'll, we may be deconstructing all of this for years to come. (Fix it, Black Jesus!) Thankfully, there are folks like educator, facilitator, and storyteller Jameelah Jones to model what liberation looks like in the face of this scam. Jameelah delivers a powerful testimony and shares affirming words to listeners who are struggling to overcome the damage of purity culture.

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Hosts Deborah Joy Winans and Lyvonne Briggs take us to a whole new kind of church every week. Anchored by transparent testimonies, Sanctified centers the real, raw questions and conversations Black women have about faith and spirituality. Whether you’re churched, unchurched or church adjacent, Sanctified is the safe sacred space where nothing is taboo.

Sanctified is a Spotify Original Series, produced in partnership with Jemele Hill’s Unbothered Network, Lodge Freeway Media, and Exit 39.

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