Dr. Wade Mullen joins Amy for the second part of their conversation about impression management in Christian institutions. They talk about the cost of being a bystander who chooses to speak, Mullen's hope for the future, and Mullen does an analysis of the Ramsey Solutions response to a request for comment on an article they…

Author, speaker, and professor, Dr. Wade Mullen, joins Amy Fritz for a conversation about impression management. In 2018, Mullen earned a PhD in leadership and did his dissertation on how evangelical organizations use impression management strategies in the wake of an image-threatening event. He specifically focused on Mars Hill Church, Sovereign Grace Ministries (now Sovereign…

Miranda Kokes joins Amy for a frank conversation about how they hung on to their friendship when Amy limped away from the church they attended together and Miranda stayed. How can you be a good friend when you're in two different spaces? What do you do when you are still in a community you love,…

This episode is part 2 of the conversation that Amy Fritz and Melissa Hogan started in the previous episode. Amy shares more of what she was seeing in Ramsey Solutions that felt very similar to news of scandal with other Christian ministries and leaders. In this conversation Melissa and Amy talk about over two dozen…

Amy Fritz is joined by Melissa J. Hogan for a conversation about how they realized they were connected to an unhealthy organization. Melissa is an author of the upcoming book Afraid of the Doctor. She's also a lawyer, rare disease awareness advocate, and she consults on clinical trial design and patient outcome measures. In other…

Amy Fritz is joined by pastor and chaplain Ryan Ramsey.  Join them for a discussion on Ryan’s deconstruction of the role of pastor,  and why he advises people with church hurt not to move on, but to move in.  They round out this conversation with a discussion about how to respond to reports of church…

Season 2 of the Untangled Faith Podcast will drop on June 23rd, 2021! In this season Amy will invite you along to show you how she processed what it was like for her family to leave a spiritually abusive environment that left her with lots of questions. How did we end up here? What just…

For the final episode in this season, Amy Fritz catches up with her guests that shared their stories in previous episodes. Jeff and Sarah Owens share what has happened since the podcasts aired, including what surprised them. Colleen shares how her current pastor responded to hearing her story and how she ended up mentioned in…

Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer have a conversation with Amy Fritz about their book, A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing. Scot, Laura, and Amy talk about why pastors don’t always publicly speak up when they see victims tell their story, where the term “wounded resisters”…

Sarah and Jeff Owens share what happened when they asked their church to support a third-party investigation into the abuse allegations against Sovereign Grace. Helpful Links:Part 1 of the Owens’ StorySomething’s Not Right: Decoding the Hidden Tactics of Abuse and Freeing Yourself from its Power by Wade MullenHealing Spiritual Abuse by Ken BlueEscaping the Maze…