The Models We Live By

On today's episode, we are graced by my dear friend Bridget Black, a Theologian and Spiritual Director based in CA. I hope you enjoy how we get deep into the weeds immediately as we discuss proverbs, disembodiment, and holding space for our experience as cocreators with God.

CW - Brief mention of abuse.

Tamice is the author of the transformative book "Faith Unleavened", an exploration of faith in a society that is dominated by whiteness. She's also the host of the popular podcast "Life After Leaven". In today's episode, she shares her own experiences and insights on navigating faith coming out of a white evangelical church as a black non-binary person.

CW Has themes of sexual abuse.

We're back with Season 3 and as our new tradition dictates, we have to kick the season off with my wife Kim!

Today we're introducing the theme of this season and it's all about how theology has shaped our culture and our pet peeves around that.

Thank you so much for listening and it would be great if you could follow me @michevanessen on all socials.

Next week's episode is with Tamice Spencer Helms and will be out right here on Tuesday, June 6th.

CW - Mentions Sexual Abuse

Welcome to the Season Finale!! Woohoo!

In this episode, we talk with Tommy about how experiences like joys and trauma get to live inside our bodies. But we also talk about how bodies have been historically exploited and controlled.

CW - Medical, anatomical descriptions.

Hey all - I'm taking off in the month of April and in this episode Kim and I explain why.

Looking forward to having many more conversations with ya'll in May!

In today's episode we are joined by Angie Hong, co-founder of Kinship Commons, who is sharing about her upbringing within a Korean-American context, how being othered has hurt her but eventually inspired her to do the work of connection, and how liturgy could fit in the bedroom.

Today we are joined by Mathias Roberts, author of Overcoming Shame and Holy Runaways, the latter of which is up for pre-order right now!

On this episode we talk about our experiences with shame, how we connect with God, and how to try to connect with ourselves again. 

CW - brief mention of rape

Today Brandi Miller from Reclaiming my Theology will be joining us to talk about sex, belonging, and the way we white supremacy has affected the way we interact across genders. 

CW mentions abuse - in today’s episode, we’ll be joined by the folks from refuge radio to talk about their experiences navigating the faith spaces as queer people.

The previous upload had messed up audio, apologies everyone, and thanks to the ones that noticed - for the record, I always want to hear if the audio is messed up! 

CW - This episode talks about themes of abuse and sexual assault.

Today Maddie is joining us again to talk about her experience learning about sex while growing up and her research and opinions on how we can remedy the discomfort when we talk about it.