Katya Baxter (Episode 8)

CONTENT WARNING: Eating disorders Katya Baxter is originally from St. Petersburg, Russia. When she was 16, she hopped on the plane, by herself, and flew over to Boise, Idaho to visit a friend. But instead of a two-week long trip, God had something else in store for her. She ended up staying in Boise and going to …

Bekah Bowman (Episode 6)

Bekah Bowman is a coach's wife, a special needs mom, speaker, and author of Can't Steal My Joy. She is passionate about bridging the gap between churches and families with disabilities.  On this episode, she shares her story raising two sons with terminal illnesses, how joy and grief can coexist, and her vision for how …

Jamie Corbin (Episode 5)

Jamie Corbin is an educator and storyteller who has been navigating whiteness and non-whiteness her entire life thanks to her own interracial adoption at birth and her interracial marriage to her best friend, Kelvin, in 2011.  She is raising her three Afro-Latina daughters to change the world with love, by first loving themselves deeply and …

April Kolman (Episode 4)

April Kolman is the host of the No Ordinary People podcast and while she prefers the conversations she has with other people on the show, in this episode, she gets to share about her own story. She shares how she went from staunch Republican with highly conservative values to writing in the name of social …

Charity Lewis (Episode 3)

Charity Lewis is the host of the podcast Charity Speaks, a candid conversation at the intersection of Christianity, Blackness and Womanhood. Charity has the heart of a shepherd, is a student of Torah, and has a passion to "act justly, love mercy, and live humbly." She is a community advocate with degrees in law and public …

Shawanda Bonner Morgan (Episode 1)

Shawanda Bonner Morgan is a dear friend and a high school teacher in Lakeland, Florida. In this episode, she shares with us about her pandemic wedding, the importance of story, how she connects with her students, and the impact we have on one another. She opens up in a vulnerable way about her own story …

what’s a pro-life voter to do

I’ve only voted in five presidential elections in my life, and often I felt like I was simply trying to choose the lesser of two evils. If I ever threatened to vote independent, my grandpa would try to convince me that I was throwing away my vote. He admitted it wasn’t a fair system, but …

it’s not black OR blue

When I first started using the phrase “Black Lives Matter” in posts about racism, I was surprised at how many people responded by affirming their support for law enforcement. I didn’t understand what one had to do with the other. I reached out to a few friends in law enforcement and asked about their views …

a tale of two countries

The division in the Church has been baffling me. We all know and love Jesus. We’re all seeking to follow him. And we’re ending up in two completely different places. HOW? I’m finally beginning to understand a little more. Several friends that I love and trust have said, “It’s like we live in two different …

this has been broken for a long time…

“The truth is, more and more I’m sharing unpopular words, or at least words that represent unpopular opinions. Being the enneagram two people-pleaser that I am, this has been a difficult position to find myself in. But when I look at how wildly unpopular Jesus was during the last few years of his life, I …