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God Help Us – Augustine
Posted on May 16, 2019 Leave a Comment
It’s not just my experience – it’s my experience and your experience and somebody else’s experience and how they interact with each other. This episode is dedicated to the great Rachel Held Evans who passed away on May 4, 2019. Please hold her family in your hearts in the wake of their deep loss. […]
God Help Us – Inherent Value
Posted on May 2, 2019 Leave a Comment
As we become more aware of our inherent value, we’re going to start respecting the inherent essence of everybody else around us. Isaac Archuleta – therapist, writer, speaker, founder of iAmClinic, and executive director of spiritual and relational formation at Q Christian Fellowship – joins Annie to talk about desire, its relationship with shame, […]
God Help Us – Privileged Grief
Posted on April 18, 2019 Leave a Comment
That, to me, was so redeeming – this picture of my kids just loving Paula and going, that’s how God sees her too. Jonathan Williams, lead pastor of Forefront Church in Brooklyn, New York, and author of She’s My Dad: A Father’s Transition and a Son’s Redemption joins Annie to talk about what it was […]
God Help Us – Coming Out
Posted on April 4, 2019 Leave a Comment
When I came out, and I chose to go a direction of saying, “I believe God loves me just as I am, without caveats, without conditions,” that was the moment I broke free. Author and advocate Amber Cantorna visits with Annie to talk about her new book, Unashamed: A Coming Out Guide for LGBTQ Christians. […]
God Help Us – Remembering the Most Vulnerable
Posted on March 21, 2019 Leave a Comment
Who’s story’s getting left out? What story’s getting trampled on? How can I be part of lifting those voices to the surface? In this episode of God Help Us, Kelsey Wallace, a PhD student in the Bible and Cultures program at Drew Theological School, joins Annie to discuss the biblical story of Jephthah’s daughter as told […]
God Help Us – Q & A
Posted on March 14, 2019 Leave a Comment
This very special bonus episode of God Help Us was recorded with a live audience at Cedar & Spokes Coffee and Bar in Seattle on March 2nd at an event we called Undoing: Decolonizing our Bodies and Sexuality. This is the audience Q&A session with Gabes Torres, Annie Mesaros, and Tina Schermer Sellers. In this […]
God Help Us – Politics of Purity
Posted on March 7, 2019 Leave a Comment
Something was shifting in culture – we started pumping money into abstinence-only education in 1980 and it peaked in the early ‘90s, the same time that we unrolled the purity movement. It happened across the country – this was a sociopolitical movement, it wasn’t just a church movement. This very special episode of God Help […]
God Help Us – Power & Spiritual Authority
Posted on February 21, 2019 Leave a Comment
As I get to walk alongside folks in a congregational setting, that God is doing this miraculous, beautiful thing – new life that is happening – that has nothing to do with me. In episode 13, Ryan Mather and I discussed the harmful beliefs we all hold. In many ways, this episode is a follow-up […]
God Help Us – Gender Equity
Posted on February 7, 2019 Leave a Comment
“It’s allowing people who have a different kind of take on the universe into positions where their personality affects the culture of the tribe. And that’s a very good thing.” A couple weeks ago, the US Supreme Court lifted injunctions on Trump’s ban on transgender people openly serving in the military, making it possible for […]
God Help Us – Our Harmful Beliefs
Posted on January 24, 2019 Leave a Comment
“These things that people do seem nonsensical, and we may never understand it on an individual level, but they’re doing it for a reason that makes sense to them – even if it causes them physical, emotional, spiritual pain. Otherwise, they wouldn’t do it.” In this episode of God Help Us, I talk with clinical […]
