Rose J. Percy-- educator, writer, poet-- talks to use about the concept of the Ruler's Church vs the People's Church. This is a must listen to understand how the Church can be both an institution of liberation and suppression. Apologies: on this episode, it appears that Rose's mic is rustling against her shirt, I've tried to edit it out, but was unsuccessful.
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 118
Rose J. Percy-- educator, writer, poet-- talks to use about the concept of the Ruler's Church vs the People's Church. This is a must listen to understand how the Church can be both an institution of liberation and suppression.
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 117
Bonnie Kristian, an experienced journalist, editor, and author, talks to us about the QAnon Conspiracy theories and why your loved ones may be buying into them.
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 116
Abigail Eernisse, a human trafficking advocate for the past seven years, talks to us about the way human trafficking and gender inequity intersect.
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Tara Teng is an embodiment coach who talks to us about the intersections of faith, embodiment, and justice. I originally planned on doing solely anti-trafficking podcasts this month, but this one was too timely not to share earlier.
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Keonnie Igwe, faith and policy advocate, talks to us about the Capitol Riots and what our response as a faith community should be.
Jan 15, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 114
On today's episode, I interview Starr Davis, the founder of the Starr Institute about the risk factors that lead to trafficking, and how we can prevent them. We also talk a bit about recent events regarding storming the Capitol and why it's so important to fight racism.
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 113
January is human trafficking awareness month, as such I am choosing to feature voices from the past and present who are fighting human trafficking today. First up, I have an episode with Blythe Hill, founder of Dressember, that was recorded when this podcast was just a couple of weeks old. Learn from Blythe about how she started Dressember and the impact it has made.
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 113
Anna Woofenden, pastor, founding member of the Garden Church, and author of "This is God's Table" talks to us about the food justice movement and why confronting harmful systems is important.
Dec 28, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Domestic violence is a pervasive threat the world over, but what do our masculinity scripts have to do with this? More so how do our masculinity scripts specifically found in athletics contribute to the problem? Nicole Lee is pursuing her doctorate in answering this question and guides us through her research today.
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Baptizing Feminism, an in-progress feature documentary, explores the rise of contemporary evangelical Christian feminism as six women oppose an influential movement of Christian right leaders who promote traditional gender roles. On this podcast I ask Kathy, the producer, all about it.
Dec 14, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Laura Jean Truman, who will you hear loves to talk with her hands, shares her journey of deconstruction to conservative homeschooled kid, to queer pastor, to writer. She also interviews me a bit in the process :)
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 110
With all of the shopping choices out there, how does one begin to shop ethically? How do we know our purchase is helping not hurting? In this replay from 2018, I talk to my friend Rachel about how to shop ethically and how she started a company to make this simple.
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 3 min
I needed the reminder about ethical shopping this holiday season and I figured you may too. In this episode recorded in 2018, Anika talks us to about the harms of fast fashion.
Nov 30, 2020•46 min
Ruth Everhart talks to us about her book, The #MeToo Reckoning and helps us understand and identify the Church's complicity in sexual abuse and misconduct.
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Lyvonne Proverbs named one of the "11 women shaping the Church" by Sojourners magazine talks to us about her story of decolonizing her faith and reclaiming self-love.
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Many of us have been in an abusive relationship at one point in our lives or another, but it's often hard to recognize. In today's episode, Wade Mullen, author of "Something's Not Right" talks to us about how abuse functions, how to recognize it, and how to break free of it.
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 107
Rev. Katey Zeh, author of "Women, Rise Up" and newly appointed CEO of Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, talks to us about why she is a pro-choice Christian, and why it's important that we as believers can learn to have a challenging conversation with nuance.
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 106
This episode originally aired in November 2018 and states a case for the pro-life movement to be more than simply pro-birth. Destiny, founder of New Wave Feminists, takes us on a journey where she was finally fed up with being used by the Republican Party for her pro-life vote.
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 106
It's no secret that socialism has been demonized during this election... but is it as bad as people say? This is a slightly rambling conversation I have with Chase Tibbs of Faith and Capital on what exactly socialism, communism, and capitalism is-- and what may be best for society.
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 105
In 1923, Alice Paul tried to pass a constitutional amendment that gave women equal rights, she called it the "Equal Rights Amendment". Almost a century later, it still hasn't passed. Allyson McKinney Timm founder of Justice Revival talks to us about the ERA, why it still hasn't passed, and what we can do to guarantee rights for women going forward. *note: Allyson's mic wasn't working at first, so we used her computer mic which picked up a slight humming from her AC unit. Persevere and listen any...
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 104
Dr. Carolyn West, clinical psychologist and domestic violence researcher, talks to us about Intimate Partner Violence in the lives of Black women and what we can do to support survivors.
Oct 05, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 103
Dr. Camden Morgante talks to us about harmful myths that purity culture teaches us.
Sep 28, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 102
As a freelance filmmaker, Nikole Lim's career allowed her to step in and out of the lives of marginalized people around the world. But when confronted with the prevalence of sexual violence in Kenyan and Zambian communities, she commits to advocating alongside the courageous survivors whose lives have intersected with hers. On today's podcast she talks about her experience listening to and empowering survivors as well as talking to us about her new book "Liberation is Here"...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 101
Sara Robbert, founder of the Moonletter, talks to us about our feminine energy cycle, and why we should pay attention to it.
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Continuing on the topic of adoption, on this episode I get the opportunity to talk to Kesley Vander Vliet Ranyard (aka @fromanothamotha) about her experience of choosing to give her child up for adoption, and her work with adoption agencies.
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Tiffany Henness, a transracial adoptee, talks to us about her experience of realizing the trauma she inherently held as an adoptee and about the need to center adoptee's voices when discussing adoption.
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Tiffany Henness, a transracial adoptee, talks to us about her experience of realizing the trauma she inherently held as an adoptee and about the need to center adoptee's voices when discussing adoption. *note: there is some thumping on my audio track, not Tiffany's, I edited it out the best that I could but it will be evident to listeners. So sorry!
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 97
D.L. Mayfield author of "The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power" talks to us about her experience protesting in the "Wall of Moms" in Portland and the need for Church Folks to examine their own complicity in injustice.
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 96
A global pandemic, conspiracy theories, racial injustice: 2020 has been a hard year for a lot of us. So today on the podcast I talk to therapist Lanta Carol on how we can make it through.
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 95