Kendra Arsenaux
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBi, Bi, Bi Book Club. As someone who is biracial, bicultural, bisexual, bilingual, and comes from an agnostic background, but is also finishing seminary, the one thing I have learned is that life is indomitably complex. The intersectionality of multiple identities including our gender, race, sexuality and religious belief don't always perfectly align. So I wanted to create a space that celebrates the "bi"─the duality of our experiences. This is a place for nuance, misfits, and the endless spectrum of color. This is a book club of sorts, and as a book club commentator, each week we will read authors like sacred texts finding meaning and purpose while interacting with our current culture using the unique lens of "bi". I want to complexify rather than simplify. As we encounter the mysterious and unknown, let us stand in awe before we stand in judgment.
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Episodes
False Hope | Survival Guide To Surviving Trauma (Jeremiah 29)
December 18, 2021 23:03 - 28 minutes - 22.7 MBI recently ran across an article in the journal Psychological Science called “The False-Hope Syndrome: Unfulfilled Expectations of Self-Change.” In it, Janet Polivy and C. Peter Herman describe the cycle of failure when we give ourselves unrealistic expectations, faulty self-assessments, and inadequate tools for self-change. It says, “Why do people persist in attempting to change themselves, despite repeated failure? Self-change is often perceived as unrealistically easy to achiev...
The "Mark of the Beast"
October 29, 2021 19:04 - 34 minutes - 28 MBThe Mark of Cain By Kendra Arsenault “16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:15-17). I recently moved to a city that still has “Blue Laws” in place. This is particularly interesting to me because Blue laws show the history of a city and the history of its val...
The Color of Sabbath
October 10, 2021 17:08 - 28 minutes - 24.3 MBEvery since I was a young girl, I have often had dreams that predict something in the future. It’s never a significant something. Sometime’s it’s an old friend that I haven’t connected to in a while, who calls me the next day out of the blue. Other times it’s an odd piece of clothing that I recognize from a dream I had the night before. Once I dreamed of a friend in tears, who I found out the next day her grandmother had just passed away. At this point, I think it’s a pretty univer...
The Power of Ritual Book Review
September 19, 2021 21:01 - 30 minutes - 25.6 MBSummary and reflection of the book "The Power of Ritual" by Casper Ter Kuile.
Bi Bi Bi | Self-Integration and Self-Acceptance
September 11, 2021 15:06 - 30 minutes - 25.7 MBBiracial, bisexual, bicultural, we all hold complex that identities that require us to learn self-integration and self-acceptance. Exploring the story of the tragic mulatto and other "bi" stories of history, we learn how to better engage in spaces of cultural acceptance, not forcing anyone to deny parts of their identity in order to gain greater acceptance in the dominant community.