37. Disordered Eating Effects More Than Our Bodies with Isabel Garza, RDN, LD
Release Date: 03/21/2022
47. White Womanhood and Everyday Antiracism with Jenny Booth Potter
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On this episode, I have an incredible conversation with Jenny Booth Potter, a creative producer, storyteller, and co-host of The Next Question, a web series about expanding our imagination for racial justice. She has co-led racial justice trainings across the country for churches and organizations, and is the Chief Content Officer of HerSelf Media, a company that aims to create stories that empower and bring joy to Black women. I recently read her new book, , and was excited when she agreed to join us on the Sanctuary Woman. We talk a lot about purity culture on this podcast, and I...
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46. Faith in Transition with Natalie Drew
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I'm excited to introduce you to Natalie Drew, a Christian who is also a transgender woman. Trigger Warning: Suicide is discussed at several points in this episode. Please do skip this episode if that could be a trigger for you. <3 Connect with Natalie on Twitter: March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility, and you may have heard that the transgender community has been the target of a lot of misinformation and dehumanization as extreme political and religious groups are doing everything they can to keep trans people in the margins of society, unable...
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45. Unsilencing Our Stories to Silence Sexual Shame with Jessica Harris
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Welcome to Sanctuary Woman, a place that invites women to show up with their whole minds and their whole bodies rather than suppress that which the church may have told us is shameful. Many Christian women have nowhere to turn and are looking for the brave spaces, the safe spaces, where their sexual shame can be spoken, set free, and can finally be undone. Our guest today, Jessica Harris, has been there, and she has made it her mission to break the silence, banish the shame, and bring women's struggles into the light of God's grace, liberation, and forgiveness. She understands that when...
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44. Peace, Love & The Body of Christ with Sara Billups
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Sara Billups is a Seattle-based writer and cultural commentator who is completing her Doctor of Ministry in the Sacred Art of Writing at the Peterson Center for the Christian Imagination at Western Theological Seminary. She works to help wavering Christians remain steadfast through cultural storms and continues to hope for the flourishing of the Church amid deep political and cultural division in America. Sara is the author of the new book . Resources for women recovering from purity culture can be found at Instagram: Twitter: Facebook: ...
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43. Let Me Be Hopeful With You
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Welcome back to Sanctuary Woman! More resources for women recovering from purity culture can be found at Instagram: Twitter: Facebook: Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.
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42. An (Un)Racialized Body of Christ with Rev. Starlette Thomas
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Reverend Starlette Thomas joins us to help us see our skin color for what it is and deconstruct what it is not as she pastorally and prophetically disrupts and dismantles the racialized body of Christ so that we can reconstruct and re-member a Church body that reflects Christ and his gospel. Learn more about Starlette's work at and . Show notes can be found at Instagram: Twitter: Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.
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41. Someone Other Than a Mother with Erin S. Lane
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Our guest today is Erin S. Lane, author of the new book . Erin is a writer, theologian, and someone other than a mother. That’s the name of her latest book, by the way. Erin has a master’s degree from Duke Divinity School with a focus on gender studies. Mentored by Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal, she works as a vocational retreat facilitator, helping people discern their wildest questions of purpose. Show notes can be found at Instagram: Twitter: Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.
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40. Body Scan Meditation
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[Original airdate: Feb 8, 2021] On this episode of Sanctuary Woman, I want to invite you to reconnect your mind, with your body, through awareness of your body, listening to what your body is communicating to you. What God is communicating to you, through your body. This episode will lead you through a prayer body scan meditation and close with a reading of Psalm 139. Connect with Morgan: Music by .
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39. Divine & Disabled Bodies with Dr. Amy Kenny
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Our guest today is Dr. Amy Kenny, who says that much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection. Dr. Kenny is a disabled scholar and a Shakespeare Lecturer whose research focuses on medical and bodily themes in literature. Her forthcoming book, My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church, shows that the church is missing out on the prophetic witness and blessing of disability - and until we cultivate church spaces where people with disabilities can fully belong, flourish, and lead, we are not valuing the diverse members...
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38. Abundant Bodies and Faithful Fat Liberation with Amanda Martinez Beck
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Amanda Martinez Beck is a fat activist and body peace coach specializing in the intersection of human dignity, body liberation, and religion. She is the author of Lovely: How I Learned to Embrace the Body God Save Me and the forthcoming book More of You: The Fat Girl’s Field Guide to the Modern World. Amanda is also the co-creator and co-host of the Fat & Faithful podcast. Show notes can be found at Instagram: Twitter: Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.
info_outlineWe're back to continue the conversation about our bodies. Here at Sanctuary Woman, we are intentional about making our spirituality an embodied one, and repairing the holy connection between our mind and our bodies. So we are going to explore what it looks like to pursue being at peace with our bodies. This episode features Isabel Garza, Registered Dietitian and founder of Woman Wise Nutrition. Isabel strives to empower women to be the expert of their own bodies so that they can stop fighting food and start living a full and purposeful life.
Show notes can be found at www.sanctuarywoman.com
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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.