In this episode, we are talking about the bad theology that has led to incredible harm and for women, the LGBTQ community and scores of young people around sexual purity. We will share stories about our own experiences where it was often not okay to be our true selves within religious institutions. Together, we wonder we might hold the tension, and what do we do with the stories we grew up with.

All of my guest are students at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology

• Kenna Height pursuing a Master’s of Divinity
• Mary Pauline Diaz-Frasene: pursuing a Master’s in Theology & Culture
• Sonja Lund: pursuing a Master’s of Divinity

00:00 Introductions & stories

12:00 Avoidance of the body

15:15 Mistrusting self

20:15 The harms of denying desire

24:00 Women supporting women

38:09 Original sin & the problem of the creation story

• Institutional Betrayal
• Rachel Held Evans
• Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner
• Hebrew Bible by Robert Alter
• Whole-Body Sex: Somatic Sex Therapy and the Lost Language of the Erotic Body by Melissa Walker
• Freyd, J.J (1997) Violations of Power, Adaptive Blindness and Betrayal Trauma Theory. Feminism & Psychology. 7(1):22-32. 29.
• Lorde, Audre. “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.” In the Sisters Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley: Crossing Press, 1984

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