Take a listen as I recap season 1 and share some insights about what the first season of Soul Sojourn has been like for me.  And I'll share a bit about what is to come with season 2 and when. 

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen today. The life of our soul is a journey with many twists and turns. This journey has times of discovery, growth, disruption, examination, perplexity, and harmony. Soul Sojourn is a podcast that plans to explore this journey of the soul; considering the different segments of the journey, the different stops we make along the way, and the divergent paths that we can take as unique people with distinctive life experiences. Soul Sojourn hopes to provide room for diverse expressions of faith and welcomes questions and doubts about the journey of the soul. It recognizes that so often there is mystery in life and faith, questions that have no answers, and deep levels of uncertainty and precarity that are present in our lives. I look forward to what is to come, what future stops we’ll take along the journey together. I’ll see you at the next stop.

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On this episode I continue my conversation about feminism with my friend Donna Hoff-Grambau.  We talk about the fact that the personal is very political and about how power structures have marginalize women have been institutionalized in our culture.  We explore the idea of the power of sisterhood and the deep connection that women share due to the ways we have experienced marginalization and oppression in our lives.  

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen today. The life of our soul is a journey with many twists and turns. This journey has times of discovery, growth, disruption, examination, perplexity, and harmony. Soul Sojourn is a podcast that plans to explore this journey of the soul; considering the different segments of the journey, the different stops we make along the way, and the divergent paths that we can take as unique people with distinctive life experiences. Soul Sojourn hopes to provide room for diverse expressions of faith and welcomes questions and doubts about the journey of the soul. It recognizes that so often there is mystery in life and faith, questions that have no answers, and deep levels of uncertainty and precarity that are present in our lives. I look forward to what is to come, what future stops we’ll take along the journey together. I’ll see you at the next stop.

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This week on Soul Sojourn we talk feminism with Donna Hoff-Grambau, a new friend who was involved with the 2nd wave of feminism in the 1960's who has amazing stories to tell about the passion she feels about elevating women's voices in our world.  We had so much to talk about this will be a 2 part episode.

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen today. The life of our soul is a journey with many twists and turns. This journey has times of discovery, growth, disruption, examination, perplexity, and harmony. Soul Sojourn is a podcast that plans to explore this journey of the soul; considering the different segments of the journey, the different stops we make along the way, and the divergent paths that we can take as unique people with distinctive life experiences. Soul Sojourn hopes to provide room for diverse expressions of faith and welcomes questions and doubts about the journey of the soul. It recognizes that so often there is mystery in life and faith, questions that have no answers, and deep levels of uncertainty and precarity that are present in our lives. I look forward to what is to come, what future stops we’ll take along the journey together. I’ll see you at the next stop.

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Episode 9 of the podcast explores issues surrounding the true self, intuition, and authenticity.  Join me as I share excerpts from Parker Palmer's book "A Hidden Wholeness" and reflect on the changes that have taken place in my own life over the past year and a half surrounding authenticity and intuition as I have come to recognize and embrace my true self.

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen today. The life of our soul is a journey with many twists and turns. This journey has times of discovery, growth, disruption, examination, perplexity, and harmony. Soul Sojourn is a podcast that plans to explore this journey of the soul; considering the different segments of the journey, the different stops we make along the way, and the divergent paths that we can take as unique people with distinctive life experiences. Soul Sojourn hopes to provide room for diverse expressions of faith and welcomes questions and doubts about the journey of the soul. It recognizes that so often there is mystery in life and faith, questions that have no answers, and deep levels of uncertainty and precarity that are present in our lives. I look forward to what is to come, what future stops we’ll take along the journey together. I’ll see you at the next stop.

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In this episode I welcome my friend Martha Johnson to the podcast to talk about her very different Christian faith upbringing.  Martha is a new friend who has generously shared herself with me over the past 6 months.  She is an amazing human with an amazing life story and in this episode she shares just a fraction of that amazing story - the story of growing up in liberal Christian spaces and what that looked like for her.  

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen today. The life of our soul is a journey with many twists and turns. This journey has times of discovery, growth, disruption, examination, perplexity, and harmony. Soul Sojourn is a podcast that plans to explore this journey of the soul; considering the different segments of the journey, the different stops we make along the way, and the divergent paths that we can take as unique people with distinctive life experiences. Soul Sojourn hopes to provide room for diverse expressions of faith and welcomes questions and doubts about the journey of the soul. It recognizes that so often there is mystery in life and faith, questions that have no answers, and deep levels of uncertainty and precarity that are present in our lives. I look forward to what is to come, what future stops we’ll take along the journey together. I’ll see you at the next stop.

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This week on the podcast I welcome my second guest co-host and we talk about some systems of oppression that are a part of our lives.  We touch on patriarchy and then talk about a number of other systems that seek to exert power over people and lead to harm.

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen today. The life of our soul is a journey with many twists and turns. This journey has times of discovery, growth, disruption, examination, perplexity, and harmony. Soul Sojourn is a podcast that plans to explore this journey of the soul; considering the different segments of the journey, the different stops we make along the way, and the divergent paths that we can take as unique people with distinctive life experiences. Soul Sojourn hopes to provide room for diverse expressions of faith and welcomes questions and doubts about the journey of the soul. It recognizes that so often there is mystery in life and faith, questions that have no answers, and deep levels of uncertainty and precarity that are present in our lives. I look forward to what is to come, what future stops we’ll take along the journey together. I’ll see you at the next stop.

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In this episode I explore how we are conditioned to deal with negative emotions in our culture and faith structure.  Many times we are told to count our blessings and be positive.  Toxic positivity is a common response to the hard stuff of life and can be very damaging for us.  Join me as I explore this concept.

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen today. The life of our soul is a journey with many twists and turns. This journey has times of discovery, growth, disruption, examination, perplexity, and harmony. Soul Sojourn is a podcast that plans to explore this journey of the soul; considering the different segments of the journey, the different stops we make along the way, and the divergent paths that we can take as unique people with distinctive life experiences. Soul Sojourn hopes to provide room for diverse expressions of faith and welcomes questions and doubts about the journey of the soul. It recognizes that so often there is mystery in life and faith, questions that have no answers, and deep levels of uncertainty and precarity that are present in our lives. I look forward to what is to come, what future stops we’ll take along the journey together. I’ll see you at the next stop.

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This episodes patriarchy and some views on gender roles with the first guest co-host on the podcast, Jenn's husband Mike.  Together they talk about how patriarchy and specific ideas about gender roles have affected them, how they have placed them in gender straightjackets and how they are seeking to find a better balance of equity in their marriage.  

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen today. The life of our soul is a journey with many twists and turns. This journey has times of discovery, growth, disruption, examination, perplexity, and harmony. Soul Sojourn is a podcast that plans to explore this journey of the soul; considering the different segments of the journey, the different stops we make along the way, and the divergent paths that we can take as unique people with distinctive life experiences. Soul Sojourn hopes to provide room for diverse expressions of faith and welcomes questions and doubts about the journey of the soul. It recognizes that so often there is mystery in life and faith, questions that have no answers, and deep levels of uncertainty and precarity that are present in our lives. I look forward to what is to come, what future stops we’ll take along the journey together. I’ll see you at the next stop.

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This episode explores the issue of free will in the framework of Christianity. If you believe in God, how do you view God’s heart toward humanity?  This is really at the core of the issues surrounding free will and predestination.  Who is God and how does God purpose to interact with humanity?  The God I know is a loving God who welcomes all into relationship who desire relationship.

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen today. The life of our soul is a journey with many twists and turns. This journey has times of discovery, growth, disruption, examination, perplexity, and harmony. Soul Sojourn is a podcast that plans to explore this journey of the soul; considering the different segments of the journey, the different stops we make along the way, and the divergent paths that we can take as unique people with distinctive life experiences. Soul Sojourn hopes to provide room for diverse expressions of faith and welcomes questions and doubts about the journey of the soul. It recognizes that so often there is mystery in life and faith, questions that have no answers, and deep levels of uncertainty and precarity that are present in our lives. I look forward to what is to come, what future stops we’ll take along the journey together. I’ll see you at the next stop.

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The philosophies of faith Jenn explores in this episode are ones that seek certainty - seek set answers and hope to find the right way, but as with the changing seasons and seasons of turmoil in our world swirling around us, certainty is elusive.  The concepts Jenn explores in this episode are foundational concepts or terms, foundational theologies of the background of her story.  The focus of the episode today is fundamentalism  - “A form of religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture; or as a strict adherence to the basic principles of any subject of discipline.”  

There is an addiction to certainty which I believe drives the fundamentalist perspective and I understand the appeal.  It’s nice to feel like you have it all figured out - that it’s all settled and you don’t have to wrestle with things anymore.  But as I walked through my shift in faith I could no longer make peace with the certainties that they had settled. 

Life is full of gray - we want it to be all black and white, cut and dry, we don’t want to live in the in-between places of changing seasons that leave us questioning what life will be like from day to day.  It would be easier that way for sure, to live in the black and white, in the certainty - but it’s just not how it is.    

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen today. The life of our soul is a journey with many twists and turns. This journey has times of discovery, growth, disruption, examination, perplexity, and harmony. Soul Sojourn is a podcast that plans to explore this journey of the soul; considering the different segments of the journey, the different stops we make along the way, and the divergent paths that we can take as unique people with distinctive life experiences. Soul Sojourn hopes to provide room for diverse expressions of faith and welcomes questions and doubts about the journey of the soul. It recognizes that so often there is mystery in life and faith, questions that have no answers, and deep levels of uncertainty and precarity that are present in our lives. I look forward to what is to come, what future stops we’ll take along the journey together. I’ll see you at the next stop.

To connect with me visit https://www.facebook.com/soulsojournpod/
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