Upwardly Dependent

By Upwardly Dependent

No matter where you’re from or how you’re wrestling through your faith, you belong here. This space is meant for wrestling. If you've been forced to reconcile new ideas or deconstruct some acquired kn... more

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The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.

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January 23, 2023 04. The White Savior Industrial Complex with Rachel Pieh Jones
Lauren and Rachel Pieh Jones discuss what years of living in a different context teaches us about agency, story, and power. Rachel shares how her Djiboutian neighbors respond to short-term interactions with foreigners who assumed charitable roles, and the long-term rebuilding that was sometimes required after Western travelers disrupted social norms. Rachel shares how she has learned to be a good neighbor in spite of her race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
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Order Rachel’s Book - Pillars, How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus
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42min
January 16, 2023 03. Building Cross-Cultural Bridges That Last with Craig Greenfield
In his new book, Subversive Mission, Craig Greenfield invites his readers to consider their spiritual gifts in ministry in the way they partner with God’s justice. This episode specifically tackles a critical analysis of Jesus’ ministry tools and the subversive manner of teaching. Craig and Lauren talk about the ways culture impacts our understanding of the Gospel, and how we can continue feeling our way towards God despite politicized messages that uphold an earthly empire over a heavenly kingdom.
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Kindred Exchange - Learn more and support ethical missions.
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Missional Type Quiz - Discover which of the 5 missional types you embody most.
Order Craig’s Book - Get your copy of Subversive Mission today.
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38min
January 16, 2023 02. Colonialism & Missions with Mekdes Haddis
As the author of A Just Mission, Mekdes Haddis identifies the history of colonialism in evangelical missions and invites Christians to wrestle with contextualization of their faith. Haddis, originally from Ethiopia, describes her experience assimilating into American churches and the racism she experienced attempting to appropriately inform mission efforts to her home community. Now a missionary to the United States, Lauren and Mekdes discuss how Western mission agencies and churches can be honest about their paternalistic past and center the purest form of the Gospel in their future cross-cultural evangelism efforts.
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Kindred Exchange - Learn more and support ethical missions.
Shop ABLE - Get 15% off your order with the code UPWARD15.
Order Mekdes’ Book - Grab your copy of A Just Mission today.
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43min
January 16, 2023 01. Is Jesus Even Good News? with Sara Billups
Lauren talks with Sara Billups, author of Orphaned Believers, about the current state of evangelicalism and what remains to hold onto for Christians today. They discuss major events of the 1980s that led to the current polarization of politics and faith, and point to the future of the American church, casting hope for a changing religious culture that is being informed by the global Church.
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Kindred Exchange - Learn more and support ethical missions.
Shop ABLE - Get 15% off your order with the code UPWARD15.
Pre-Order Orphaned Believers - Coming January 24th, 2023
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40min
December 30, 2022 Season One: Ethical Evangelism
Welcome to the show where we talk about topics in modern Christianity that are so challenging, they require us to be grounded in something much bigger than ourselves. If you’re here, you’ve likely found yourself hungry for something deeper. You want to find answers for how to hold onto your faith after seeing religion be twisted in a way that has somehow become bad news instead of good. I’m here for all of that too. I’m here for the spiritual wrestle and I’m here to learn more ways that people are finding hope in a God that interrupts our norms and expectations.

Join me on Mondays as we courageously approach challenging conversations together. I'm so glad you're here.

Hosted by the Kindred Exchange Podcast Network
View show notes for this episode at upwardlydependent.com/shownotes/trailer.
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FAQs about Upwardly Dependent:

How many episodes does Upwardly Dependent have?

The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.