What happens when addiction, trauma, and coping mechanisms collide with faith?

In this episode of Filthy Hope, hosts Rev Ness Williams-Hanke and Rev Jon Humphries are joined by UK actress Elizabeth Meadows to talk openly about addiction recovery, Christianity, and the 12 step journey.

Liz shares how alcohol, sex, and validation became ways of coping with trauma, and how recovery, surrender, forgiveness, and faith led to healing. Ness reflects on her experience with AA, while Jon speaks about the ongoing practice of living in recovery.

This episode explores how hope can be born out of suffering, even in the places church rarely talks about.

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Welcome back to Filthy Hope. Faith without the filters. Brave, compassionate conversations about life’s hardest parts. We're so glad you're with us as we share new stories with new guests soon. Hosted Rev Ness and new co-host Rev Jon.

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Rev Ness comes back to the place the podcast started, at Uniting Heart and Soul church, and shares on taking a short break.

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Pastor Jonty and Rev Ness are joined in the studio by Pastor James Lee from Sydney Hosanna Mission, and Pastor Ammi Ahn. Ammi is a blind missionary who has spent the majority of his life sharing the gospel in some of the most hostile environments in the world.

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Jonty and Rev Ness sit down with Barry Higgins from Uniting World to talk about the role of mission work and the ways that mission can be done ethically.

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Pastor Jonty and Rev Ness ask themselves an uncomfortable question: is church a cult?

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Jonty and Rev Ness are joined by Rev Jon Humphries to unpack the story of the road to Emmaus in Luke chapter 24.

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Jonty sits down with returning guest and friend of the show Rev Dr Sunny Chen to unpack the historical, cultural and theological layers in the Adam and Eve story found in the book of Genesis.

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