Untangled Faith Podcast

10/14/2025

I loved chatting with Mary.

10/14/2025

Mary DeMuth shares what it's like to surrender your reputation. You can hear the entire conversation wherever you listen to podcasts.

10/07/2025

To mark Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I wanted to share this conversation I had with Neil Schori a couple of years ago.

Neil shares some of the common misconceptions about DV, and what we can do to be better friends and ministry leaders.

This is such an important conversation. Would you listen and share it with someone you think would benefit from learning more about this?

You can find this episode wherever you listen to podcasts. Search for Untangled Faith and you'll find this at episode 146.

10/07/2025

I forgot to post this last week! Check out last week's episode (and this week's)

Hillary McBride joins Amy Fritz on the Untangled Faith podcast to unpack spiritual trauma, healing, and how we can create faith communities that avoid replicating unhealthy patterns.

In this episode we:

⭐️Explore who McBride’s new book, Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing, is for and how different groups relate to spiritual trauma.

⭐️Define spiritual abuse and spiritual trauma, and unpack the common misconceptions surrounding these terms.

⭐️Discuss how curiosity and hope can bridge the gap between those who have and haven’t experienced spiritual trauma.

⭐️Address the accusation that spiritual trauma is a “fad” and reflect on the history and reality of spiritual harm, especially for marginalized communities.

⭐️Consider the ethical complexities of sharing stories—both for survivors of spiritual trauma and those hosting podcasts or creating resources.

⭐️Talk through practical ways new communities and organizations can avoid recreating harmful power dynamics and foster safety and agency.

⭐️Reflect on the role of conflict, repair, and personal healing in faith spaces and survivor communities.

⭐️Touch on generational differences in openness to processing and naming spiritual harm and why resources matter for healing.

Check out this episode by searching for the Untangled Faith podcast wherever you listen to podcasts!

09/27/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/untangledfaith/p/get-the-hell-out-of-dodge-how-brene?r=3w462&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

09/23/2025

The podcast is back! And I have one of your favorite guests on this week's show!

Chris Staron, host of the Truce podcast joins me for a conversation about why Christians should pay attention to history, what Chris learned from Napoleon, and how digging into the past can help bust some cultural myths (hint: what it looks like to be a "Biblical" woman or man is pretty interesting when you look at history).

I'd love for you to listen and share it with your friends.

Look for the Untangled Faith podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.

It's good to be back!🥳

09/22/2025

What I read and listened to this week, and some thoughts on the unsustainable political discourse.

This is unsustainable

09/15/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/untangledfaith/p/sunday-sundries-9152025?r=3w462&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

09/02/2025

This reflection from Karen Swallow Prior is powerful.

Five Years after Walking Away the Sadness Deepens

08/04/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/untangledfaith/p/sunday-sundries-832025?r=3w462&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

07/29/2025

This is an important update I wanted you all to read.
I've had serious concerns about Dr. Anderson since reading the TNE report from GRACE and looking at her website. I think we're also overdue for a conversation about the issues/problems of coaching and how it's different than therapy and how lines can be crossed. (Still mostly offline through the end of August, but wanted to share this.)

One of the best-known therapists and coaches working with people suffering religious trauma has been sanctioned by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists for violating the group’s Code of Ethics on boundaries. In a letter dated July 25, Laura Anderson was informed by the AAMFT ...

06/27/2025

In May 2019, Dave Ramsey told a room of hundreds of former coworkers of my husband, that Nathan didn’t have a backbone and lacked integrity. This week, a deposition of Dave Ramsey was posted in which he kinda sorta might say he owes Nathan an apology.

And the employee's spouse Dave said he couldn't control