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God Help Us Replay – Church
Posted on July 11, 2019 Leave a Comment
How do we move into a place of wholeness and then desire? And then what I love about the church is the collective power it has for good. Jen is a great person to talk to about church: the good, the bad, the unexpected. She has no illusions about the institution and yet she loves […]
God Help Us – Church Clarity
Posted on June 27, 2019 Leave a Comment
Non-affirming policies are, I think, harmful. But there’s an extra level of harm when those policies are covered over and revealed only after a significant level of investment. Can women and queer people be church leaders? Christian congregations hold a wide variety of beliefs on both counts – but all too often, people experience a […]
God Help Us – Interfaith Collaboration
Posted on June 13, 2019 Leave a Comment
The more I’m studying this book that I’ve been told my whole life to study, the more it’s actually causing me to drift away from the world that told me to study it. In this episode, Annie talks with Michael Hidalgo, lead pastor of Denver Community Church. He’s the host of the Changing Faith Podcast, […]
God Help Us – Civility
Posted on May 30, 2019 1 Comment
We need strong leaders who can try to set a different agenda, regardless of what the political consequences might be. That takes some courage. In this episode, presidential historian Mike Purdy joins Annie to talk about about civility in civic discourse and his new book, 101 Presidential Insults: What they Really Thought about Each Other […]
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 – Complicating the Narrative
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 […]
