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Emily Snook and Amy Fritz keep talking about grief. In this episode, we talk about how suffering in community can help us as we work through grief.  What happens when your strengths and your weaknesses are putting you at odds with your community? Emily shares her thoughts on how she has seen this play out…

During Season 4 of the Untangled Faith Podcast, Amy Fritz has invited some of her friends to help her talk about the grief process. In this episode they navigate the grief mosaic and especially talk about anger. Kat Wilkins fills in some of the blanks of their story. Emily Snook and Amy keep talking about…

Author and Therapist, Connie Baker joins Amy Fritz for a conversation on grief and denial. Kat Wilkins shares the second part of her family’s story of a painful church experience and the role denial played as they attempted to make sense of a confusing time. Emily Snook shares how living with a rare blood disorder…

Curtis Chang, consulting faculty at Duke Divinity school and host of the Good Faith Podcast, joins Amy Fritz for a conversation about grief and hopelessness. This episode kicks off a season focusing on grief. Kat Wilkins and Emily Snook also share some of their own stories of grief. Kat Wilkins: [00:01:55] Emily Snook: [00:05:46] Curtis…

I’ve been doing a deep dive on all things grief. This makes me super fun at parties. This season, I hope to walk us through the stages of grief. These are stages that are squishy. They bleed into each other. We don’t process grief in a way that allows us to check off boxes finishing…

Author and former pastor, Remy Diederich joins Amy to talk about his book, Broken Trust: a practical guide to identify and recover from toxic faith, toxic church, and spiritual abuse. Remy shares his story of being away from a physical church for 5 years and what he learned about spiritual abuse, and the surprising spiritual…

Krispin Mayfield joins Amy Fritz for a conversation inspired by a tweet: “Has anyone ever stayed at a church to make a change. . . ?” The decision to stay or leave is full of nuance and situational specific issues. Krispin brings up some things to consider when making this decision. What kind of influence…

Everyone is talking about deconstruction and what that means when it comes to Christians. And what about the verses that tell us not to neglect meeting together as believers? What does “meeting together” even mean? How do we process all of this if we’ve been hurt in a faith community? Ryan Ramsey joins Amy Fritz…

Veteran religion journalist, Bob Smietana, joins Amy Fritz for a conversation about what it’s like to be a religion reporter, the insider baseball of faith communities, the factors he considers when deciding if he should cover a particular story, handling sexual abuse accounts without adding unnecessary trauma, and his thoughts about the response by Ramsey…