- Can we reclaim "Conservative" Language? - Can we borrow "Christian" terms & lingo? - Can we social justice our way out of physiological burdens? - It is irresponsible to rid ourselves of all expectations that don't feel like fit us? - Can masculine energy really be toxic? Or is it just toxic behavior? - What does it mean to "take a back seat" as someone with "privileged identities"? - Does being mixed give us a leg up on finding nuance? - Are we able to place nuance where there is none (or...
Nov 21, 2022•34 min•Season 10Ep. 6
In today's episode, Lauren + Adam discuss: - A family member recently telling us they think we are going to hell. - We chat about how everyone we know, makes an exception for a loved one that passes - believing they’ve gone to heaven, regardless of religious belief. No one attends a funeral of a loved one saying, “Too bad they’re in hell”. - Believing someone is going to hell, without being upset about it means you’re either entirely unloving or you don’t really believe it. - We compare the Bibl...
Nov 07, 2022•26 min•Season 10Ep. 5
In this episode, Lauren + Adam discuss: - Being present and the distraction of technology. - We touch on cancel culture. - We ask if being physically present is even necessary in the future. - If you keep following your curiosity - eventually, someone might ged mad. How to handle that. - We discuss how to align with someone in the way their brain asks questions - Not the conclusions they come to. - We navigate the difficulty of asking uncomfortable questions online, because IRL conversations are...
Oct 31, 2022•48 min•Season 10Ep. 4
In this episode, Lauren + Adam discuss: - Lauren's personal experience from the social chaos that occurred after a photo with some of her close friends, celebrating liberation from purity culture, was shared online. - This entire experience from start to finish is incredibly nuanced + we couldn't possibly cover everything. We hope you hear our hearts. - Adam speaks on allowing others to live in their joy. - We discuss that many people find themselves - again - giving away their power, and lackin...
Oct 24, 2022•49 min•Season 10Ep. 3
In this episode Lauren + Adam discuss: - How healthy masculinity actually encourages play. - Subverting appropriation by reclaiming your OWN heritage. Adam shares on his search for his Norse ancestors' spiritual practices. - Reimagining Spirituality as a contemporary Indigenous woman (Lauren). - What true healthy masculinity looks like. Aka - Knowing, caring for, providing for, interceding for others in times where they don’t or can’t for themselves. It’s a protection energy we can aspire to. Ad...
Oct 17, 2022•31 min•Season 10Ep. 2
In this episode, Lauren + Adam Discuss: - Finding spirituality through humanity. - Desperate times call for desperate prayers. - Choosing to explore the spirituality of our ancestors - what they believed that they could be interacting + interfacing with to bring growth + healing in the world. - It takes some bravery to speak boldly on something. It takes the greatest bravery to be vulnerable enough to stand for something AND allow space for that to change. @deconstruct.pod @laurendeleary @adamfr...
Oct 10, 2022•29 min•Season 10Ep. 1
Cori is passionate about LGBTQ+ equality, freedom from sexual shame and talking about “taboo” subjects. She is an enneagram 4, and loves to deep dive about the vastness of emotions. She grew up Southern Baptist in Arkansas but after coming out at 22, her faith changed substantially. She is still fascinated by the person of Jesus but, like a lot of us - she has some issues with the church. Fun fact: she is firefighter in Washington! @corilatousek @deconstruct.pod @laurendeleary @adamfrost.officia...
Apr 21, 2022•56 min•Season 9Ep. 12
CHRISTENA CLEVELAND Ph.D. is a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. She is the founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal as well as its sister organization, Sacred Folk, which creates resources to stimulate people’s spiritual imaginations and support their journeys toward liberation. An award-winning researcher and former professor at Duke University’s Divinity School, Christena’s work has appeared in magazines ranging from Essence to Christianity Today. S...
Feb 21, 2022•47 min•Season 9Ep. 9
We cover abortion and personal stories surrounding abortion. Listen with an open heart & remember we are all human beans just truly trying our best. @godisgrey @deconstruct.pod @laurendeleary @adamfrost.official https://msha.ke/godisgrey/
Jan 02, 2022•1 hr•Season 9Ep. 7
Kat Harris is the host of The Refined Collective Podcast, and Co-Founder of the online publication The Refined Woman. Her first book Sexless in the City hit bookstores April 2021. She coaches and equips women all over the world in dating, relationships, singleness, sexuality, faith and how to build a renewed and healthy biblical sexual ethic rooted in freedom, truth and grace as opposed to the oh-so-common shame and fear narratives so many experienced growing up in evangelical culture. She belie...
Nov 07, 2021•49 min•Season 9Ep. 5
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Oct 31, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 9Ep. 4
Today we have Kevin Garcia. A Digital pastor, spiritual coach, author and speaker, woo woo vibey ass bitch. Passionate about helping people create spiritiual practices to heal from spiritual trauma and crafting miraculous lives. Ex-evangelcial, queer and expansive spiritualist, sometimes christian, often a witch. https://linktr.ee/thekevingarcia @thekevingarcia @deconstruct.pod @laurendeleary @adamfrost.official
Oct 24, 2021•56 min•Season 9Ep. 3
This weeks episode is a bonus episode in between our eighth and ninth season. We had the honor of speaking on the podcast stage at the wild goose festival this year. We go through our story and how we got here. What’s next? 😌
Oct 03, 2021•36 min
Mimi Cole is a graduate student currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling. She is passionate about disordered eating and obsessive compulsive disorder, and started deconstructing her faith during college. When her experiences with scrupulosity were named for her - it was an incredible first step in her healing. She is continuing to do a lot of work around what She wants spirituality to look like in her life and to heal from the religious traum...
Aug 09, 2021•47 min•Season 8Ep. 14
Stephanie Green is a queer single mama of 2 amazing cisgender kids and 1 epic trans boy. She was raised in an evangelical home and spent half a lifetime working for christian ministries, but she slowly deconstructed for over a decade before finally leaving religion, church, and - as happens for a lot of people - most of her community. She’s a beautiful writer and poet. @lovestephaniegreene @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost @deconstruct.pod https://linktr.ee/lovestephaniegreene
Aug 02, 2021•57 min•Season 8Ep. 13
Tara Teng is an Embodiment Coach who works in the intersections of spirituality and sexuality. She helps people find their way back to their bodies, overcome shame, and dismantle purity culture in a way that is in alignment with their values and beliefs so that they can build a healthy, sexual ethic and thrive in freedom and wholeness. https://linktr.ee/misstarateng @misstarateng @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost @deconstruct.Pod
Jul 26, 2021•56 min•Season 8Ep. 12
Yeamah Logan is a Queer woman of African descent who identifies as Christian. She helps LGBTQ+ Christians make peace with their sexuality and faith. She is passionate about reuniting the queer community with a God who loves, accepts and affirms them. She was baptized in the seventh Day Adventist tradition and ended up in a charismatic non-denominational, hyper-grace Bible college with a masters in Biblical studies.
Jul 19, 2021•55 min•Season 8Ep. 11
Hannah Moon is an intuitive coach focused on helping those with a religious upbringing to deconstruct their own ideas, beliefs, and fears to live an authentic and joy-filled life. She is an inter-faith, inter-spirituality coach who believes there is truth weaving through all cultures and practices guiding us to love, inner divinity, and wholeness. Hannah began her own deconstruction journey after being faced with the reality that the dreams she was pursuing were for the approval of those around ...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 8Ep. 10
Dr. Laura Anderson is a Psychotherapist specializing in complex trauma focusing on sexualized violence, domestic violence and religious trauma. She is Co-founder of the Religious Trauma Institute and founder of the Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery which is an online coaching practice with all of their practitioners specializing in working with people who have experienced religious trauma, adverse religous experiences, faith deconstruction, healing from purity culture, & more. @relig...
Jun 28, 2021•57 min•Season 8Ep. 9
Andrew Kerbs aka deconstruct everything on Instagram grew up as a Seventh-day Adventist in the Bible Belt. He is currently a licensed therapist and writer. He is most passionate about helping people deconstruct harmful religion and learn to live a life that is meaningful to them. @deconstruct_everything @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost @deconstruct.pod @traumaresolutionandrecovery
Jun 15, 2021•49 min•Season 8Ep. 7
Anjelah and Manny host a podcast along with their friend Brandon called nights at the roundtable where they talk about faith, love, life, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of all of those ideals. Anjelah is an actress and a comedian Manny is a music artist (used to be in the Christian music industry ) and they have been married for 10 years. @anjelahjohnson @manwellreyes @nightsattheroundtable @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost @deconstruct.pod https://linktr.ee/nightsattheroundtablepodca...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 8Ep. 6
Liz Milani is Co-Owner and author at The Practice Co. Creating space for holistic and embodied spirituality. Liz writes daily devotions through a faith lens to lead people to their truest self. https://www.thepracticeco.com @thepracticeco @liz.milani @deconstruct.pod @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost
May 31, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 8Ep. 5
Jonathan Merritt is one of America’s most popular writers on issues of faith and culture. He is author of several critically-acclaimed books, including Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words are Vanishing - and How We Can Revive Them, named “Book of the Year” by the Englewood Review of Books. Jonathan is an award-winning contributor for The Atlantic, a contributing editor for The Week, and a regular columnist for Religion News Service. He has published more than 3000 articles in re...
May 24, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 8Ep. 4
Lauren and Adam here. Today, we decided to put our sassy pants on and talk all things meme culture, tik tok and dishing out our best hot takes. Enjoy. @deconstruct.pod @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost
May 17, 2021•46 min•Season 8Ep. 3
Erica Smith is a sexuality educator with over 20 years of experience in the field. She's known for her signature Purity Culture Dropout Program, developed in 2019 to teach folks recovering from purity culture all of the accurate, comprehensive, queer inclusive, trauma informed sex ed that they missed. Previously she worked with young women and LGBTQ+ youth in the juvenile justice system and in HIV prevention. Erica did not grow up in a religious environment, but tailors her sex education to folk...
May 10, 2021•52 min•Season 8Ep. 2
SUSAN COTTRELL is an international speaker whose TEDx talk has 1.5 million views. OutSmart magazine called her “The Mother of All MamaBears.” The Advocate dubbed her “our favorite affirming matriarch.” She is a prominent voice for the LGBTQ community and their faith parents who has been featured on ABC’s 20/20, Nightline and Good Morning America, on NBC News Out, and as a contributor on the Our Bible app. She is a public theologian and through her nonprofit organization—FreedHearts—Susan champio...
May 03, 2021•47 min•Season 8Ep. 1
Josh and Adrian are former evangelical worship leaders, pastors, church planters who started Dirty Rotten Church Kids Podcast as a means to process life on the other side of the evangelical bubble. Equal parts heavy and light, the duo unpack their stories, interview incredible guests and hear from their listeners the Bad Apples with the hope that "it's all gonna be okay". @dirtyrottenchurchkids @deconstruct.pod @laurendeleary @adamfrostofficial https://linktr.ee/DirtyRottenCK
Apr 05, 2021•58 min•Season 7Ep. 13
Spilling the tea. Catching up. What’s been going through our minds lately. HE GOD SHE GOD THEY GOD NO GOD. listen to the episode to hear where that comes from.
Mar 29, 2021•40 min•Season 7Ep. 12
Nikki Mayeux is a queer ex-Evangelical writer and educator from the strangest city in the Deep South, New Orleans. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans and works in special education advocacy. She also performs public storytelling and produces SANCTUARY, a performance series uplifting stories of religious trauma and deconstruction. Her work has been featured in Infection House, Dinner Bell, Room 220, Ginger Zine, and elsewhere. Her debut chapbook, Ordinary T...
Mar 22, 2021•49 min•Season 7Ep. 11
Brenda Davies is the Author of On Her Knees & creator of God is Grey, where she advocates for sex positive, lgbtq+ affirming, science-believing faith. In this episode - we talk about women and MONEY.
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 7Ep. 10
