The Broken Book Bible Podcast
Considering the Bible's saintly reputation, it packs surprising gore, horror, and depravity. As well as beauty, wisdom, and tedium. For millennia, the Bible has held Western culture captive to its strange stories of ancient people trying to figure out God.Maybe you're not religious, but you're curious about the Bible. Maybe you grew up in church, but you're looking for a new way to relate to the Bible. Welcome! We're Sam and Amanda. We're obsessed with the Bible. Sam is a liberal Presbyterian who became post-modern by studying the Bible too much. Amanda is a mystic naturalist Unitarian Universalist with Reformed and Evangelical roots. We are wrestling with what the Bible can mean in the midst of radical questioning, faith changes, depression, and self-doubt. We hope you'll join us as we appreciate, dissect, criticize, defend, and generally nerd out about the Bible from our progressive religious perspectives.
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The Broken Book Bible Podcast
Faith Transitions: The Veil is Thin - Episode 6
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Amanda
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Episode 6
Amanda describes her faith journey from conservative Christianity to agnosticism and finally into the progressive Unitarian Universalist (UU) tradition. She describes how within conservative Christianity, she struggled with 'small q questions,' faith problems she believed had answers. But later, she discovered 'Big Q Questions," problems with her faith for which it didn't seem possible for there to be satisfying answers. And these Questions eventually led out of conservative Christianity into agnosticism and the UU.
The journey was difficult, in particular sharing her faith change with family, friends, and her church and seminary community, most of whom were Christians. But through difficult and vulnerable conversations, Amanda came to realize that the differences between conservative and liberal religion were not so insurmountable as she had thought. The veil is thin.
This Minisode is a recorded sermon delivered at All Souls Community Church of West Michigan, a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Grand Rapids. http://www.allsoulscommunity.org/
P.S. If this recording is too quiet, we are sorry! If it's really hard to listen at this volume, you may want to skip to Gideon, Episode 6, at which point we have fixed this issue.