Parenting Forward
150 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 155 ratingsCindy Wang Brandt helps parents heal from religious trauma, break toxic cycles, and raise children with healthy spirituality and conscious citizenship. She is an author, speakers, conference host committed to helping parents raise kids for a better world. The Parenting Forward podcast features interviews with thought leaders from progressive faith and non-faith spaces, resources to create better practices in parenting and life with children. We believe parenting is revolutionary, that if we change the way we parent, we can change the world. Join us!
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049: Train Up Your Child in Their Own Way
August 26, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBIn this episode we get to discuss progressive parenting backed by research from child psychology. Ellen, with a child psychology background and Molly, as a progressive faith minister, show us how science and faith can support us in seeking the answers to parenting like, “How do we raise empathetic children?” Informative AND inspiring, be sure to check out their book, Bless this Mess, linked below in our notes! Links (affiliates included): Bless This Mess - https://amzn.to/2Z5Ij9z Pa...
048: The Trauma of an Evangelical Upbringing with Jamie Lee Finch
August 12, 2019 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBJamie Lee Finch is a body and relationship coach and the author of You Are Your Own. She speaks articulately and precisely about the trauma of evangelical, authoritarian environments arising out of her own painful experiences. We have an insightful conversation on how trauma manifests in our bodies, how we can welcome our bodies back into alignment to become our teachers, and how parents can reinforce our children’s intuition and void the trauma of authoritarianism. Links (affiliates incl...
047: Simplicity Parenting with Kim John Payne
July 29, 2019 08:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBWith the Parenting Forward Conference coming up in two months, I answer some FAQs as well as play an extended clip from the actual conference to give you a taste of what it will be like. My guest is Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting, a book that was hugely influential in my own parenting. I loved his entire talk so I hope you’ll enjoy the clip that I share in today’s episode! Links (affiliates included): Kim John Payne’s website - https://www.simplicityparenting.com/about-si...
046: Grieving RHE, Fox News & Empty Nesting with Carol Howard Merritt
July 15, 2019 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBI have recently returned from a month long travel in the United States, so while I’m catching up with work, I invited my friend, Carol Howard Merritt, to join me in a more casual, shoot-the- breeze conversation about my time back in the States, specifically attending Rachel Held Evans’ funeral, appearing on a Fox News radio show, and Carol shares her thoughts about empty nesting in a feeble attempt to make this episode vaguely about parenting, haha. Hope you enjoy our conversation! Links (...
045: The Bible, feminism, and liberation for children
July 02, 2019 08:00 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBI am traveling in the U.S. for the month of June and doing one event in Denver, Colorado for my book launch. Because many of you likely could not join me in Denver, I recorded the talk I gave at the event. It’s about the Bible, feminism, and liberation for children--light topics! Hope you enjoy. Parenting Forward the Conference!!! - https://www.parentingforwardconference.com Join us at the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt Parenting Forward, the B...
044: How the Enneagram Helps Us Parent
June 17, 2019 08:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBHannah Paasch is the author of Millenneagram, a witty, hilarious, and also incredibly incisive book on how to access our truest self using the tool of the Enneagram. She and I chat about her own upbringing, whether we should type our children, and how parents can use the Enneagram to become a better parent. You will love how good she is at bringing to surface all the things that we live and experience but don’t have the language to express. Don’t miss this interview or her book, it’s a beaut...
043: Conservative Christian Parenting Clash with Mainstream Parenting Research
June 03, 2019 08:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBDr. Joseph Lee is a mental health professional practicing in California. A while back we had a casual conversation in which he mentioned that conservative Christian parenting is often in opposition with mainstream mental health research. I latched on to that statement and asked him to come on to my show to talk about some of these things. It was a rich and nuanced conversation about none other than parenting and progressive faith. Hope you learn from Dr. Lee as much as I did! Links (affili...
042: Art and Parenting at Intersectional Identities
May 20, 2019 08:00 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBEvery child is creative. But so often we drive creativity out of children, whether it’s religious fundamentalism, market forces, or the way institutional schooling is structured, we don’t give children permission to be who they are and let them create accordingly. Adrienne Nieves, community abstract artist, and I talk about art and parenting and the intersection of various oppressions in today’s rich episode. You will learn perspectives and stories you haven’t heard before. Addye’s friendly ...
041: Sparkles and Sequins for Boys
May 06, 2019 08:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBI talk to Rebecca and Eva, the founders of Boy Wonder, a campaign to create clothing for boys that feature unicorns, rainbows, sparkles and sequins. The mission is to expand the palette of expression for boys so that all children can live out loud who they authentically are inside. Rebecca and Eva drop some serious parenting wisdom as they talk about their product. I learned so much from them, and can’t wait to see them make waves with Boy Wonder. Links (affiliates included): Princess...
040: Short Term Missions Trips - Corey Pigg
April 22, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBMy conversation partner today is Corey Pigg, the creator of the podcast, Failed Missionary, and I invited him to join me in tackling the subject of Short Term Missions, as we are coming up on STM season. In full disclosure, Corey and I are actual friends, so our conversation flowed easily into some deeper thoughts re: parenting, therapy, but I decided to keep all of those segments in the show and invite you into our conversation in hopes that they’ll be helpful to you. In this show, we te...
039: Clarity is Reasonable - George Mekhail
April 08, 2019 11:47 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBClarity is reasonable. Ambiguity is harmful. I love the mission of Church Clarity to raise the standards of clarity for churches to present their policies clearly on their websites so that those who choose to participate in these communities are not harmed by bait-and-switch ambiguity. Here’s my conversation with one of the founders of Church Clarity, George Mekhail, who is a parent of two kids. We talk about how to raise our children in understanding what words mean and to let your yes be y...
038: Social Justice Cram School for Kids - Kristina Wong
March 25, 2019 08:00 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBKristina Wong is a performance artist who has created a youtube series called Radical Cram School, a show about social justice, revolution, and how to be powerful in the body that you have. The class features Asian girls to center and empower their voices and help them understand the world they live in. We are joined in this episode by Teddy Chao, the producer of the show, and we hear about how his desire for his girls to find their voices inspired the show. Be sure to check out Radical Cr...
037: My Exvangelical Testimony
March 11, 2019 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27.6 MBIn parenting our children forward in faith, it is a good and beautiful exercise to share our faith stories with them. However, parents often struggle, especially those who have experienced spiritual trauma, in knowing how to tell our stories without passing on faith baggage. Today, I tell my faith shift story, what I’m calling my Exvangelical Testimony, not just to share with you, but in hopes that you’ll find the courage to tell your faith story to your children and community. Links (A...
036: Homophobia in Faith Spaces with Trey Pearson & Susan Cottrell
February 25, 2019 09:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBOne of the harsh realities of parenting is that in order to teach our children about love, sometimes we have to tell them about hate. This is the truth in confronting homophobia in the world. I have on my show today, Susan Cottrell, author and speaker who works with parents of faith who are raising LGBTQ children, and Trey Pearson, the Christian singer/songwriter who came out as gay publicly a few years ago. We talk about the impact of raising children in homophobic environments, how that im...
#ExposeChristianSchools - Chris Stroop
February 18, 2019 09:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MBChris Stroop and I connect online because we are both #EXvangelicals, which is a term coined by our mutual friend, Blake Chastain, who has a podcast by the same name. It means that evangelicalism is both a shaping influence of our lives and a system we have rejected. Chris has an academic background on Russian history and for now most well known for his writing and hashtag activism, which has been featured in many mainstream news outlets. Chris has been instrumental to me, particularly in li...
The Progressive Asian American Parent - Liz Lin
February 11, 2019 09:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBLiz Lin is a writer and co-founder of the Facebook group Progressive Asian American Christians. We took the opportunity to geek out about facebook groups and what it’s like to admin for fairly large groups and foster online community in this way. Liz tells me her faith shifting stories, what kind of faith and values she’s raising her children with. And as both of us are Asians, we get into the complexities of Asian parenting values and how it conflicts with progressive values. We end up with...
MAGA Teens and Dismantling White Supremacy with our Kids
January 28, 2019 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBThis episode is in response to the MAGA teens from Covington Catholic High School interacting disrespectfully to an Indigenous elder. This story prompts a conversation about white supremacy, media, children/teens/minors, so this episode is dedicated to unpacking all those layers. I give my opinions on the incident and examine the complicated intersections of systemic oppression and how children participate in these systems. Lastly, I give concrete advice on how parents can raise children to ...
Raising Transgender Children - Laurie Frankel
January 14, 2019 09:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBAt the end of the year, lots of people love posting round-ups of their favorite books. I was lazy and didn’t do a round up even though I read lots of good books, but IF I WERE to have done one for 2018, at the tippy top of the list would for sure be a novel titled, This is How it Always Is, by Laurie Frankel. Now, most of the authors I host on this show are non fiction authors, because parenting thought leaders usually write, well, parenting books, so it’s rare that I chat with a fiction ...
Progressive Children’s Book List -Ashia Ray
December 31, 2018 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBI’ve long admired the work done by Ashia Ray in her book curating website called Books For Littles. Her list of children’s books that help children understand privilege is TOTAL FIRE: http://www.booksforlittles.com/silence-is-violence/ She opens up about her own story and why she started doing this work. We talked about why books are a disarming way to talk to children about hard topics like privilege and oppression. I asked her how we can help change the problem of the children’s lit...
Breaking Free from Purity Culture - Linda Kay Klein
December 24, 2018 09:00 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBLinda Kay Klein, author of PURE, and I talk all things purity culture in evangelicalism. We define what purity culture is, how deeply it is embedded in both the culture and our psyche as young women growing up in it. Linda shares the science behind why it takes a long time for many of us to break free. Of course, we also cover parenting and how we can raise our girls, and boys, to dismantle Patriarchy, and introduce better sex education. And we dove into the dark subject of sexual assault an...
Dismantling Toxic Masculinity with Mike Reynolds
December 17, 2018 09:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBToxic Masculinity is the root of many of our evils in the world today. I ask Mike Reynolds, the founder of Everyday Girl Dad to join me in helping dismantle toxic masculinity. He gives practical tips on how to disrupt locker room talk and how to model healthy masculinity. Mike shares his cross stitch project which you all will LOVE. Be sure to check them out on his website below in the link! Links: Mike Reynold’s website: https://everydaygirldad.com Join us at the Parenting For...
When a Pediatrician Faith Shifts - Joani Lea Jack
December 10, 2018 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBIt’s hard to believe we haven’t had a pediatrician on the show about parenting yet! This oversight ends today! So honored to have Dr. Joani Lea Jack on the show. She’s a pediatrician who grew up in the conservative Bible Belt culture of the South. She tells me about meeting her a resident who is gay, and how listening to the story of that man changed the course of her faith. She penned a blogpost called Unfolding Miracles that is both heartrending and medically informative (see below link...
How to Talk about Death with Children - Kay Bruner
December 03, 2018 09:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBAn unimaginable tragedy happened to one of our previous podcast guests, Kay Bruner. She lost her 28 year old daughter in the summer of 2018. I’ve invited her back on to our show to talk about death, this intrusion into her family life and turned her world upside down. We share tips on how to talk to children about death, as Kay is caring for her granddaughter. We talk about deconstruction of faith and what our beliefs are about the afterlife and what that means when it actually hits home. ...
How to Parent while going through a Spiritual Migration with Brian McLaren
November 26, 2018 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBBrian McLaren, like many of us, grew up fundamentalist and then evangelical, and he has been a thought leader in forging a path forward to finding a way to sustain faith that is inclusive and healthy for the world. I am honored to invite him onto the show today to give us some of his predictions of what the faith landscape will look like as our children grow into adulthood. In addition to a bird’s eye view, Brian gives some really practical tip for how to talk navigate literal readings of ...
Episode 25: Good Christian Sex with Bromleigh McCleneghan
November 19, 2018 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBThere’ no getting around the awkwardness of talking to kids about sex, but it’s also a critical conversation to have if we want our children to grow into healthy sexuality. Parenting Forward is here to help! Join my conversation with Bromleigh McClenghan, pastor and author of the book, “Good Christian Sex,” as we help navigate the landscape of faith and sexuality, and how we can best equip our children with the tool to form their own sexual ethic. We address masturbation, what does it mea...
Little Faith Podcast Crossover
November 13, 2018 19:36 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBBecause I’ve been traveling, I’m running a bit behind schedule. While I work to recover and get back on schedule, I wanted to run a crossover episode with Little Faith: A Podcast for Parents Who Doubt. Havilah interviews me so hopefully listeners of Parenting Forward will enjoy hearing the roles reversed and hear more of my Parenting Forward story in depth. We talk about my cultural background, my faith, and the ways my kids are surprising me these days. Havilah is a warm, inviting pod...
Episode 23: First Q&A Episode! Special Guest: Brad Jersak
November 05, 2018 08:00 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBThis show is our first Q&A format! I answer questions from what to do if grandparents are spouting Right Wing rhetoric at my teenage son, to how to talk about the cross with 6 year olds, to how to raise our children to care about social justice. Special featured guest, Brad Jersak came on the show to give us insight into framing the crucifixion for children - thanks so much Brad! Let me know what you think of the advice column format, and submit question for the next round of Q&A at ci...
Episode 22: Surviving a Cult with Carly Gelsinger
October 29, 2018 07:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBMy guest today grew up in a cult and tells her story in her memoir, Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith. We talk about why adolescents and teenagers are particularly drawn to community, supernatural experiences, and what it looks like to parent teens without taking advantage of their vulnerabilities. Carly recently had a piece on Huffington Post go viral in which she talks about purity culture and how it leads to big swaths of evangelicals who support Brett Kavanaugh—we discuss how ...
Episode 21: Interfaith Parenting with Susan Katz Miller
October 22, 2018 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBOne of the pillars of progressive faith parenting is inclusivity, connecting with people of all religions and faiths instead of drawing dogmatic boundaries. Because of this, I think it is a critical conversation to have with interfaith families and children who are raised to be religiously literate in more than one faith. I asked around for who to talk to about this subject and overwhelmingly everyone said, Susan Katz Miller, is the go-to person. She was raised interfaith and identifies ...
Episode 20: Raising White Kids in a Racially Unjust World
October 15, 2018 07:00 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBRaising white kids is to raise children in a vexed location, at the intersection of whiteness and childhood. White children experience the smog of toxic white supremacy and yet are often silenced and rendered incapable of navigating racial tensions and build meaningful relationships with peers of color. Today, I invite Jennifer Harvey, the author of Raising White Kids to help shed some light on why parents of white kids should care about raising race conscious children, and how to begin d...
Episode 19: Andi Cumbo-Floyd - Infertility, Miscarriage, Entering Parenthood at 43
October 08, 2018 07:00 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBAndi Cumbo-Floyd is a writer, editor, and writing coach, who recently entered the season of motherhood at the older age of 43. She struggled with infertility and miscarriage before giving birth to her baby boy Milo, and she share vulnerably of that emotional roller coaster to parenthood in this episode. Andi lives on a farm in rural Virginia, and we talk about parenting in that context and how to navigate the racial makeup of her family in the rural South. Welcome to the farmhouse, mak...
Episode 18: Stereotypes of Mixed Race Children Debunked - Sharon Chang
October 01, 2018 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB“Domination is built by binaries.” My guest today explains why the race conversation in America is often flattened to the black and white binary and erases other race and mixed race folks. Sharon Chang is an author and race activist and we have an interesting and informative conversation about her mixed race family and how parents of all children can make the world more kind and inclusive for mixed race children. One of the most critical things is becoming aware of stereotypes that are...
Episode 17: What Shall We Tell The Children in Trump era?
September 24, 2018 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBWhen November 2016, and the election results were final, many of us were shocked, scared, and confused. Parents, in particular, couldn’t fathom how we could talk to our children when violations of basic decency were put on display and voted in the highest office in the United States. Cheryl and Wade Hudson speak to us today with their gentle demeanor and years of wisdom on exactly how we should respond. They decided to publish an anthology as a gift to children everywhere to let them know...
Episode 16: Should I Raise my Children in Church - Barbara Brown Taylor
September 17, 2018 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBBarbara Brown Taylor is an Episcopal priest, teacher, best selling author, and one of the most profound voices for spiritual seekers and wanderers. It was a treat to get a chance to ask her questions about what it means to parent children into healthy spirituality. We chat about: The spirituality of her childhood What it means to embody healthy spirituality How caring for animals teach us to be attentive in this world How children show us what it’s like to be fully human How to ...
Episode 15: 7 Spiritual Child Protection Policies
September 10, 2018 07:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBToday I am sharing 7 spiritual child protection policies to ensure that while raising our children in faith, we are minimizing the risk of them being harmed by toxic doctrines. These policies can act as a guide in your everyday parenting, or to check against your children’s faith communities or schools. To sum up, the seven spiritual child protection policies are: Don’t convert a child. Don’t limit a child’s spiritual imagination. Give permission to feel the full range of human e...
Episode 14: Amanda Meisenheimer - Progressive Children’s Minister
September 03, 2018 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBAmanda Meisenheimer is a progressive children and families minister. She creates music and curriculum to help families raise children with healthy spirituality, and I am excited to have her on the show to share the resources she’s created for all of us. Amanda and I start the show with the intense and complicated topic of adoption, as she is the adoptive mother of two children, and how she has changed and repented of some of the views surrounding adoption ethics. Then we talk about ...
Episode 13: Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
August 27, 2018 07:00 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBRabbi Sandi Eisenberg Sasso is the author of several award winning children’s books on spirituality including God’s Paint Brush and In God’s Name. In this show, we talk about: How she became the first woman to be ordained as rabbi in the Reconstructionist movement. Why she began publishing children’s books. How she ensures complex ideas about God are distilled into accessible language for children. How to read the Bible with question marks with children. How to raise children wi...
Episode 12: Kaitlin Curtice - Decolonizing Faith as a Native American Parent
August 20, 2018 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBMy guest today is Kaitlin Curtice, Native American Christian author and speaker, and a mother of two boys. Kaitlyn shares with us how she embodies race, religion, & resistance in her identity and her work. I ask Kaitlin: - how to raise our children with a decolonized faith how Native American traditions provide a much needed perspective to our parenting via cultivating a relationship with the land, place, and mysticism. Kaitlyn’s boys both started school and she talks about all her fe...
Episode 11: Carol Howard Merritt - Healing Spiritual Wounds
August 13, 2018 07:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBImportant to Parenting Forward is the practice of parenting ourselves, specifically, to name our past wounds and engage in the work of healing. Breaking cycles of pain and shame means dealing with our own childhood trauma first. In this show, I invite author, speaker, and pastor, Carol Howard Merritt, who wrote the book, Healing Spiritual Wounds, to address how we might move through our spiritual wounds to give our kids the best chance of healthy spirituality. We talk about how to form...
Episode 10: Mihee Kim-Kort Queering Our Faith
August 06, 2018 07:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBMihee Kim-Kort is a Presbyterian minister, speaker, and author of several books including her most recent one titled, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith. It is Mihee’s coming out story and is a beautiful book that expands our notions of what it means to be human. In the show, we talk about what it means to embody an intersection of identities, and how that impacts the way we raise our kids. We talk about what queerness does for Mihee’s faith, how it impac...
Episode 9: Andrew Grant-Thomas at Embrace Race
July 30, 2018 07:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBAndrew Grant-Thomas is the co-founder, along with his partner, Melissa Giraud, of the organization, Embrace Race. Their vision is to help provide parents resources to talk about race with their kids, and their website is chock full of wonderful resources, please be sure to check it out. In this episode, I ask Andrew: why parents are hesitant to speak race with their children, how to respond when our children make embarrassing remarks about people’s skin color in public, whether we sho...
Episode 8: Melissa Greene - Parenting with Rituals & Community after Faith Shift
July 23, 2018 11:27 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBMelissa Greene is a musician, most notably a member of the Christian group, Avalon, from the years 2002-2009, bringing us lots of hit songs. She served as a pastor at Grace Pointe in Tennessee, which is known for its progressive positions, including being LGBTQ affirming. And just recently, she has left that position and are now the founder, alongside Anna Skates, of the intentional community Imaginarium. Melissa is married and the mother of two children. Melissa feels like my sister f...
Episode 7: Parenting without Certainty of Faith
July 16, 2018 07:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBThis show addresses some common fears and anxieties of those who are parenting with shifting faith. I am on a mission to convince parents that although it may not be the easy path, parenting with shifting faith actually gives us an advantage in parenting, especially in these unstable times of massive faith changes in the larger climate. Links (affiliates included): The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle Healing Spiritual Wounds by Carol Howard Merritt Hannah Gadsby: Nanette on Netfli...
Episode 6: Hayden Brandt - Anxiety and Saving the World
July 09, 2018 07:00 - 15 minutes - 14.7 MBThis is a special episode of Parenting Forward where I get to feature my own son, Hayden Brandt, who is 12 years old at this time of recording. I *obviously* love him but I also think you will too because he is articulate and fun and really quite emotionally intelligent. In this episode I ask him to share some light hearted things like what he does for fun as well as serious issues like justice and his struggle with anxiety. I hope you enjoy our conversation! Links: Undertale - Frisk ...
Episode 5: Danielle Shroyer - Original Sin is Damaging for Children
July 02, 2018 08:30 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBBy far, one of the most damaging doctrines to children is the Original Sin doctrine, and I try to advocate against it as much as possible. Thankfully, I can point people towards Danielle Shroyer’s work on this subject, how to view the Garden story, what Jesus atonement means, etc. if we were to do away with the Original Sin. I learned a ton, and I hope you do too! Links (affiliates included): Danielle on twitter Original Blessing by Danielle Shroyer Original Blessing by Matth...
Episode 4: Bruce Reyes-Chow - Don’t Be An Asshat
July 02, 2018 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBBruce Reyes Chow is someone I have followed for a long time. I have him on today to discuss his parenting book that he co-wrote with his wife, called Rule #2: Don’t be an Asshat. This interview moves along very quickly as we discuss a smattering of the rules in his book, some serious, and some are just fun life hacks! I have a special note at the end of this episode about where we land on the faith spectrum, what voices are welcome, and which ones are not so much. I hope that gives a clea...
Episode 3: Kay Bruner - Boundaries
July 02, 2018 07:30 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBThere were so many things I could’ve interviewed Kay about, she is such a treasure trove of wisdom, but I know boundaries, especially for those of us who grew up without them, is so helpful and can literally be life-changing. In this episode, I ask Kay to share about boundaries, how to become aware of them, how to set them with our parents, and how to raise our children with healthy boundaries. Links (affiliates included): Kay Bruner Website Faith Shift Boundaries As Soon As...
Episode 2: Melvin Bray - Composting Toxic Stories
July 02, 2018 07:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBI always learn so much when I talk to Melvin Bray, he’s brilliant and kind and resourceful. I ask him to tell us about the COMPOST acronym which helps us determine whether a story is worth telling: Confess more than prescribe Opposing forces in dynamic with each other Meekness to admit other interpretations Pose more questions than answers Others-interestedness Susceptibility to harm Tradition as a living word - God is still speaking He also shares why him and his wife d...
Episode 1: Five Pillars of Progressive Faith Parenting with Daniel Kirk
July 02, 2018 06:30 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBIn this episode I invite Dr. Daniel Kirk onto the show as my co-host to introduce the five pillars of Parenting Forward. They are: Fluidity of Faith Egalitarianism vs. Hierarchy Activism for equality Connection over boundaries Learning to REIMAGINE stories Links (affiliate links included): Daniel Kirk Twitter Jesus have I Loved but Paul A Man Attested by God: The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels Captain Fantastic John Steinbeck books Faith Forward Rais...
Welcome to Parenting Forward!
June 25, 2018 18:06 - 14 minutes - 13.8 MBThis is our pilot episode to introduce Parenting Forward, the new podcast exploring the intersection of parenting and progressive faith. I share a little bit of my own story, introduce some of the conversations we’ll host, and say hi to the world in podcast format. I’m so excited about this new adventure, and hope you’ll subscribe and follow for thoughtful and helpful conversations to help you parent! Links (affiliate included): Faith Shift by Kathy Escobar Facebook Grou...