Saints and Sisters

Join us as we stumble along on our faith journey to explore issues of faith and the role that God plays in our lives, through discussions of books, scripture, and the current headlines.

This episode was recorded in June and is the second half of a discussion of the memoir Something Other Than God by Jennifer Fulwiler. In reading the book, both Sherri and Sara were disappointed that she changed from being a pro-choice woman investigating Catholicism, to being...not pro-choice. Up to that point there had been a sliver of hope that we could be Catholic and Pro-Choice and be in God's favor.
In talking about our feelings of disappointment, Amanda pointed out that our disagreements with the church largely fall under the umbrella of sexuality in general. (Birth Control, Pro-Choice/Pro-Life, and allyship for, and honor of people in the LGBTQIA+ community) This is obviously a much larger discussion than a one-hour podcast chat, but it's a start.
Some disclaimers: We dig into some of the weeds that usually make conversations about your stance on abortion come to a screeching halt. This is a real-time conversation between sisters, without fact checking, and we all say at least one thing that is not correct, or that we probably wish we could articulate more clearly. We welcome constructive criticism and rebuke, but also felt like this conversation was worth sharing for anyone that is struggling with the same.
For the next episode we're reading:
Rediscover Catholicism by Matthew Kelly

This week we read the book Rediscover Catholicism by Matthew Kelly, published in 2002 and reprinted in 2010. Kelly posits that there is nothing so bad about Catholicism that cannot be fixed by that which is good about it.
Sherri and Sara were tasked with reading it for the first time, while Amanda re-read it to refresh her memory. Spoiler: It opens with a story about a worldwide pandemic that feels a liiiittle too close to home right now, but after that, there's a lot to dig into!
Next episode we'll be discussing our assignment to watch Session Five of Altaration in order to understand the why's behind the Catholic mass and then to attend twice...tune in!

We took two weeks to read the memoir Something Other Than God by Jennifer Fulwiler- we are taking two episodes to discuss the book because there are a host of issues surrounding sex and sexuality that we feel like need a whole discussion (a lifetime of discussions?) to themselves.
Our audio is still a work-in-progress: we're working on it!

We revisited the 1970 classic Are You There God? It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume as the jumping off point to having a real conversation about where we each are with our relationship to God and religion. Spoiler alert: some of us still feel like a questioning sixth grader!