Sanctuary Woman with Morgan Strehlow

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, Doing Nothing Is No Longer an Option, 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 think there is a really interesting thread that comes up in this conversation that I'm glad we pulled on. We talk about intersectionality, parenting, idolizing innocence and protecting it at all costs, and reflecting on our own inner Karen.

Buy Jenny's book: https://amzn.to/3KoexSk

More context about Amy Cooper, in case you're curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_birdwatching_incident 

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco. 

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 Orphaned Believers: How a Generation of Christian Exiles Can Find Their Way Home. 

Resources for women recovering from purity culture can be found at https://sanctuarywoman.com/ 

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco. 

Welcome back to Sanctuary Woman! More resources for women recovering from purity culture can be found at https://sanctuarywoman.com/ 

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco. 

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 The Raceless Gospel and Good Faith Media. 

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.

Our guest today is Erin S. Lane, author of the new book Someone Other Than A Mother: Flipping the Scripts on a Woman's Purpose and Making Meaning beyond Motherhood. 

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.

Order Erin's book here.

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.

[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.

To download the accompanying Examen guidebook PDF to journal through the Examen, click here. 

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Music by Jameson McGregor.

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 of the body of Christ.

Pre-order Amy's book.

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.

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.

Pre-order Amanda's book.

Follow Amanda on Instagram @your_body_is_good.

Join the All Bodies Are Good Bodies Facebook group.

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.

We'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.

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.

This is the first episode of our Bodies series. Here at Sanctuary Woman, we are intentional about making our spirituality an embodied one, and repairing the holy connection between our spiritual and sexual selves. So we are going to explore what it looks like to pursue being at peace with our bodies. And there’s no one better to start us off on this topic than Dr. Hillary McBride.

Breath Prayer:

Inhale: Speak to me, Oh God
Exhale: Through this good body.

Inhale: Help me seek wisdom
Exhale: From this good body.

Inhale: Help me know peace
Exhale: With this good body.

Inhale: I hear you, Oh God
Exhale: In this good body.

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.

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Welcome to the fourth and final week of Advent.

We’re almost there! 

HE is almost here!

But… we keep waiting. We keep longing for things to be made right. For a little while longer. 

Today we are waiting with Kat Armas. Kat is a Cuban-American writer and podcaster from Miami, FL who holds a dual MDiv and MAT. Her first book, Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us About Wisdom, Persistence and Strength sits at the intersection of women, Scripture, and Cuban identity. She also explores these topics on her podcast, The Protagonistas, which centers the voices of Black, Indigenous, and other women of color in church leadership and theology.

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.

Welcome to the third week of Advent.

Our guest today is Shannon K. Evans. Shannon is the author of Rewilding Motherhood: Your Path to an Empowered Feminine Spirituality. Writing from the contemplative Catholic tradition, her passion is for an experience of the Divine grows further loving and curious rather than static and complacent.

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Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.

My guest for week two of Advent is Dr. Christy Bauman. Christy is an author, professor and psychotherapist who focuses on the female body, sexuality, and theology. A wife to Andrew, a mother of 4, and a fierce dreamer, passionate about advocating for women, Christy is the author of three books: Theology of the Womb, A Brave Lament, and Coming Home. Learn more about Christy and her Theology of the Womb course and book at https://christybauman.com/. 

CW: Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss

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It’s Advent… The Promised One is finally on his way. 

But he’s not here. Not yet. So we wait… and in this Advent series, we’re going to sit with Mary while we wait... and wait expectantly with her. 

Lectio Divina: The Visitation from Luke 1:26-45 (MSG) 

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I have a special bonus episode for you today with my friend Kayla Craig, creator of Liturgies for Parents and author of To Light Their Way: A Collection of Prayers & Liturgies for Parents that features over 100 liturgies and breath prayers. Written with warmth and welcome, To Light Their Way gives voice to your prayer when words won’t come and is out on October 5 everywhere books are sold. Kayla is also host of the Upside Down Podcast, a place for ecumenical conversations on faith and justice. Kayla and her husband Jonny live in Iowa with their four young kids.

You can learn more about Kayla and her work at KaylaCraig.com and purchase her new book, To Light Their Way: A Collection of Prayers & Liturgies for Parents wherever books are sold.

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Questions in this episode: 

- Should the church even be teaching about sex?

- Is it wrong to m*sturbate as a single woman?

- How would you respond to your husband who refuses to stop watching porn?

- How do I help my husband open up and become more sexually adventurous?

- How can I overcome shame and embrace my sexuality as a single woman?

- What about sex before marriage?

Links and resource mentioned in this episode can be found in the show notes: https://www.morganstrehlow.com/sanctuarywoman/30 

Dr. Camden Morgante is a licensed clinical psychologist and adjunct college professor. She writes and speaks about Christianity, psychology, and gender equality and is currently writing a book on the myths of purity culture.

In this episode, Dr. Camden and I talk about some of the unintended consequences of purity culture and how we can recover and heal from the psychological impacts it has on us, because sex and sexuality is way more about the physical - so much of it is also spiritual, and psychological. Dr. Camden shares some therapeutic techniques that can help us become more comfortable with our sexuality and overcoming sexual shame. 

This episode is for all of us who are trying to navigate away from a toxic or unhealthy view of sexuality and toward a more positive and healthy view of sexuality. 

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