Hello, friends. I want to give a content warning before we begin today's show.

Our subject matter has to do with evangelical Christianity and parenting in the United States.

For some of you, this content will be welcomed.

For others, it may be triggering.

I found the conversation rich and life giving.

I hope you will too. I know many of you have reached out to me

privately asking for a show like today's. For me personally this episode feels like a risk.

I'm coming out from behind a carefully arranged curtain

and revealing aspects of myself

that I don't typically share with the Brave Rider community.

I don't want my personal story

to be a distraction from the high quality work

we do in Brave Rider.

Brave Rider is a non-Sectarian company that happily celebrates and includes members

who hold a wide variety of worldviews, religious beliefs, non-religious beliefs, backgrounds, and political

perspectives. I have cultivated this atmosphere with care since we began back in

January 2000. The person I am, however, is a specific person who has

gone on my own journey through adulthood, evaluating my beliefs in an ongoing way.

You will learn more about me today.

What you won't hear is a statement of faith or non-faith.

I hope you'll hold me gently and hear me with an open heart.

I love all of you and am here for each one of you as you are today.

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