In this episode we are joined by a special guest who  bravely shares her story about how she went from a 31 year old virgin to  embracing and reclaiming her sexuality. This episode was SO much fun  and is packed with great insights, hilarious comments and real  conversation about purity culture and sexuality. She is well educated, well traveled, bold, outspoken  and a survivor of purity culture embracing a healthy heaux phase.

Links/Resources

Purity culture, sex therapy

This episode focuses primarily on the topic of adoption -  specifically international and interracial adoption from the perspective  of an adoptee. We will be talking with Rebeka Jones, who some may know  on Instagram by the handle @RebekaInWriting. Rebeka is a writer, mom and  adoptee who creates safe spaces for fruitful discussion surrounding  topics such as faith deconstruction, adoption, anti-racism, culture and  more.

On this episode we will:

Rebeka's topic related book recommendation: The Child Catchers by Kathryn Joyce

In this episode, we talk with Brad Klausman of  @Brad.LifeCoach on Instagram. Brad attended bible college and graduated  with his Masters from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He went  on to serve in full-time ministry for over 20 years. After taking a deep  dive seeking to better understand things and answer some questions he  had related to organized religion and the validity of the Bible he  ultimately made the decision to leave the church.

In this episode you are going to:

We discuss things like the validity of the Bible and how it is  interpreted, when the bible was written, who wrote parts of it, how it  was pieced together to comprise what we know today as the Bible and  more. 

Connect with Brad:

Connect with me on Instagram @SocialDisGraces.

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In this episode, Guest Jessie Alex shares her personal account of  human and sex trafficking in America. Jessie is a survivor or human  trafficking and sex trafficking and walks us through more of her story,  how she has overcome things and what you can do to help advocate or get  help. 

TW: This episode does include discussion related to human trafficking, rape, drugs and various forms of abuse.

Guest: Jessie Alex. Connect with Jessie on her Facebook page Jessie's Awareness Network.

In this episode, Guest Jessie Alex shares her personal  account of human and sex trafficking in America. Jessie is a survivor of  human trafficking and sex trafficking and walks us through what  happened to her. 

TW: This episode does include discussion related to human trafficking, rape, drugs and various forms of abuse.

Guest: Jessie Alex. Connect with Jessie on her Facebook page Jessie's Awareness Network.

In this episode we are joined by poet, musician and deconstructionist  Austin Jenkins. Austin shares his religious background, deconstruction  story and the role that poetry and music have played in his journey.

Book referenced by Austin in this episode: Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans

Connect with Austin:

Instagram @SocialDisGraces

In this episode we  will be speaking with Erin  Billings. Erin is an audio/visual production consultant and project  manager who has worked with Grammy award winning artists. She has a  couple podcasts of her own and is not afraid of tackling some Touchy  Subjects when it comes to things like racism or deconstruction in the  church. Today we are talking about being an ally, especially in white  and Christian spaces.

Connect with Erin Billings

Instagram @SocialDisGraces

TikTok @SocialDisGraces

In this episode, Guest Carol Mullen and I are talking about how the  church treats people in the LGBTQ+ community and why even some of the  things that people often think are the right thing to say are  problematic.