Christy wraps up four years, nine seasons, and 170 episodes by inviting her listeners to watch for a new podcast coming to podcast apps and YouTube in January 2024.Until then you can find Christy on:Substack, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, or

#170 What’s Left of Our Faith - a Rambling Rant (S9E8)

Nov 12th, 2023 18m 56s

Christy shares her frustrations with yet another public Christian leader being accused of sexual and spiritual abuse. She talks about how as our evangelical world falls apart, people's faith is left in ashes. Christy talks about the new Hope Re

#169 When I’m the Problem (S9E7)

Oct 29th, 2023 14m 48s

In today's episode Christy leads us into a uncomfortable examination of our own hearts. Following up last week's episode on social media versus real life, Christy explores our desire to be right, have an opinion, and judge others as wrong. Some

#168 Real Life vs Social Media (S9E6)

Oct 22nd, 2023 16m 13s

Christy contemplates her own experience stepping back from social media the past few months. She shares how she has been intentionally living her real life and thinking about the things and people in it rather than spending spare moments creati

#167 Fear, Faith, and Formulas (S9E5)

Oct 15th, 2023 17m 21s

Christy digs into the difference between fear and worry or anxiety. She takes a look at the many ways we project fear into our future through worry, or choose to fear things that are different rather than learn more about them and get to know p

#166 Why Moralism Isn’t Enough (S9E4)

Oct 8th, 2023 19m 39s

Christy pushes back at the moralistic focus that seems to be creeping into segments of evangelical America. She reminds her listeners that rules, laws, and getting people to be "like us" will never be enough to connect people with God. We don't

#165 Pharisees, Church People, and Repentance (S9E3)

Oct 1st, 2023 15m 40s

As Christy continues talking about American evangelical church culture, she shares a short parable from Matthew 21:28-32. Christy talks about the difference between following the rules and following Jesus. She ponders her own once pharisaical h

#164 Abusive Leaders, Darnel, and the Harvest (S9E2)

Sep 24th, 2023 16m 8s

Christy continues her series on the mess within our modern church by retelling one of Jesus' parables from Matthew chapter 13. The familiar story of the wheat and the weeds, or the wheat and the tares, becomes fresh and new as Christy explores

#163 Babel, Pentecost, and the Megachurch Mentality (S9E1)

Sep 17th, 2023 16m 15s

Welcome back! Christy starts Season 9 by talking about what she calls the "megachurch mentality" and relating it to the story of the Tower of Babel. As Christy breaks down the story of Babel she ties it together with what happened to the early

#162 Did We Succeed at World Domination?

Jul 16th, 2023 11m 40s

Christy contemplates the goal of Bill Gothard's IBLP cult as expressed on Shiny Happy People: world domination. She remembers feeling like that was the goal back in the day--to take over the world one person, church, and city at a time--so that

#161 Is it Gossip or Truth Telling? (S8E20)

Jun 11th, 2023 17m 16s

Christy connects some dots between the teachings of Bill Gothard, founder of IBLP--the Christian cult exposed on Amazon's new documentary Shiny Happy People and Evangelical Christianity. Gothard's teachings on authority (power), obedience (oppr

#160 Shiny Happy People - My Response (S8E19)

Jun 4th, 2023 13m 6s

Christy talks about the new documentary series out on Amazon Prime called Shiny Happy People. The series exposes the cult she grew up in (IBLP) along with its leader, Bill Gothard. The series was harder to watch then Christy thought it would be

#159 Pentecost and the Wild Goose (S8E18)

May 28th, 2023 15m 16s

On Pentecost Sunday, Christy explores the Holy Spirit. She wonders why He gets less attention than the other members of the Trinity and is often either ignored or manipulated. Christy reads pieces of her new book, Religious Rebels, coming out J

#158 The God who Mothers (S8E17)

May 21st, 2023 16m 20s

This episode was originally planned for Mother's Day, but in the uploading process, Christy accidentally uploaded the wrong audio. So we are trying again this week. Knowing we have a mothering God isn't just something we need on mother's day. I

#158 A God Who Mothers - The REAL Episode (S8E17)

May 14th, 2023 16m 20s

On Mother's Day Christy acknowledges the pain that many people feel from loss, heartache, disappointment, and frustration because of our mothers and children, or lack of mothers and children. Then Christy points to the feminine qualities of God

#157 Rebels with a Cause (S8E16)

May 7th, 2023 13m 51s

As Christy prepares to launch her book, Religious Rebels, she is thinking about the things we might need to rebel against these days. Growing up. rebellion was "as the sin of witchcraft" and highly discouraged and/or condemned. But when you squ

#156 Even More Radical (S8E15)

Apr 23rd, 2023 15m 9s

Christy comments on a podcast episode she listened to with Russell Moore and David Platt. As much as she appreciates David Platt's heart for people to be genuine Christians and live lives that please God, she's always felt hesitant about his ap

#155 If We Don’t Reject Lies (S8E14)

Apr 16th, 2023 16m 32s

Christy explores what can happen when we don't actively reject lies we once believed. During her cult days, Christy taught children's seminars that coincided with Bill Gothard's Basic Seminars for adults. While unboxing some old memory albums,

#154 Easter Reflections: Reposted (S8E13)

Apr 9th, 2023 17m 40s

Since Christy is on vacation, she is posting some of her favorite episodes over the years from the Easter season. Christy takes time to ponder her love for Jesus and her awe of His death and resurrection. With passion and emotion Christy invit

#153 Passover with an Unexpected God: Reposted (S8E12)

Apr 2nd, 2023 12m 57s

Since Christy is on vacation, she is posting some of her favorite episodes over the years from the Easter season. Christy looks at the last Passover Jesus celebrated with His disciples. Jesus did not fit the Jews' idea of the Messiah even thou

#152 What Makes Us Vulnerable to False Teachers (S8E11)

Mar 26th, 2023 17m 53s

Christy explores the reasons we humans seem to be so quick to fall for false teaching, false prophets, and cults. This world is broken and we feel it. False teachers and cults often promise a short cut to fix the brokenness. They offer identity

#151 When My Cult Sense Goes Off (S8E10)

Mar 19th, 2023 18m 21s

Christy talks her listeners through a list of things that make her ears perk up and her sixth cult-detecting-sense go off. She then expresses concern over the NAR and the Passion "translation" of the Bible and shares a new book she is reading c

#150 Religious Rebels - An Introduction (S8E9)

Mar 12th, 2023 9m 25s

In this brief episode, Christy introduces her book, Religious Rebels, and reads the introduction. She shares how the publishing process is going and how excited she is for her listeners to get the book in their hands.

#149 Reconstructed Faith - In the Brokenness (S8E8)

Mar 5th, 2023 17m 49s

Christy contemplates the brokenness that brought many of us to the place of deconstructing our faith in the first place. Our world is filled with pain, sadness, heartache, loss, and more. How do we reconcile that reality with the belief in a go

#148 Reconstructed Faith - Biblical Understanding (S8E7)

Feb 26th, 2023 18m 8s

As we reconstruct our faith, we need a foundation to build it upon. In our current Christian culture there are often two views of what to do with the Bible. one side thinks that any doubts or questions are wrong and the other side wants to reje