Slow Train to Heck - Episode 10: When The World Was Black And White

Episode 10: When The World Was Black And White

01/12/22 • 60 min

We're back for 2022, and we're kicking it off with a really great story from Kelsey Garcia, an advanced care paramedic. She shares her journey from a conservative evangelical Christian working at Christian camps, to her work on the front lines of health care witnessing the reality of death and discovering how often, reality doesn't exactly line up with the picture the church paints of the way the world is.
Content warnings for this episode: homophobia, addiction, fatal medical situations, death, residential schools
Check out the song Kelsey mentioned - The Fence (Matthew Shepard's Song), by Peter Katz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ANBqzDFNo

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Episode 9: "Better Than Nothing" Is Not Good Enough

Join Taylor and I as she details her experiences as a Christian missionary and unpacks the ethical issues that are rampant in that arena. We dig into the inherent Western white Christian supremacist side of missions, the inherent attitude of colonization that's wrapped up in it, the manipulative and abusive side of it, and how when women raise red flags about what's going on, they simply are not believed.
Content Warnings: child trafficking, poverty, power abuse, sexual abuse, church abuse, misogyny
The book Taylor mentioned is "Well: Healing our Beautiful, Broken World from a Hospital in West Africa" by Sarah Thebarge.
Lemuel Ministries: https://www.lemuelministries.org/
Lumos: https://www.wearelumos.org/

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Episode 11: Grace, Hope, and Wide Open Spaces

This week I sit down with Deb Walters, a spiritual director and Enneagram facilitator, and chat about her path out of a narrow and isolating Christianity and into a more loving and open Christianity. Among other things, we discuss the pull of Christian supremacy, the dangers of certainty, parenting through deconstruction and giving kids space to follow their own path, the importance of safe spaces for questions, and we even get a bit meta about the "why" of the podcast.
Books Deb references:
"The Holy Thursday Revolution" by Beatrice Bruteau
"The Universal Christ" by Richard Rohr