The Church Needs Therapy

Phil Wood comes on and interviews me for the 1 year episode--we talk about the best times of the past year with the podcast, my forthcoming book, and why we all need to trust the River.

In this episode, we talk about how Frank helped start the pro-life movement and the religious right and why he came to regret it, how most “family values” are actually a form of misogyny, and how mothering can help save the planet.

How growing requires us to let go of our old forms of security, why changing is so scary, and how the Spirit keeps calling us forward

In this episode, I talk about how growing affects our relationships, how institutional acceptance gets in the way of real change, and how there is something we need to let go of in order to keep moving forward.

We talk about how we have fallen out of relationship with the earth and one another, the sacred essence of all things, and why we need to keep listening to what our soul already knows.

A blessing for all of us this holy and hard day.

In this episode, I talk about PRIDE, how the church’s judgment makes them miss out on joy, and why the only boundaries that exist are the ones that are within us.

Dr. Labberton is president of Fuller Theological Seminary, and in this episode, we talk about how people leaving the church actually gives us a diagnosis of the state of the church, what God has been revealing in the church during Covid, and how real worship is always a threat to toxic forms of power.

In this episode, I talk the “God Bless USA” Bible, the Christian resistance to Critical Race Theory, other things that can frustrate me momentarily, and why the Body of Christ is still so beautiful

We talk about the cost of authenticity, the future of the faith, and what happens when you fall in love with another woman while you’re on staff at an evangelical mega church.