Disability, the Beatitudes & “Changing the World” (#307)

Religion on the Mind

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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I sat down with Micha Boyett, author of Blessed Are the Rest of Us and host of The Slow Way podcast, to explore the tension between millennial evangelical dreams and the realities of modern parenthood. We dove into how our generation's almost cinematic vision of "changing the world" manifested through movements like Invisible Children, Shane Claiborne's work, and TOMS Shoes – a fascinating confluence of entrepreneurship and world-saving ambitions. Micha shared her journey from being a 13-year-old Southern Baptist girl with limited ministry options to navigating suburban motherhood and raising a child with both Down syndrome and autism. We discussed how her experience has transformed her understanding of meaning, purpose, and what it means to live a life of impact. In the Patron-only second half, our conversation deepens into questions of disability, human value, and finding new meaning in the Beatitudes. Micha's Instagram | @michaboyett Ace's Instagram | @acefaceismyfriend Highlights: 04:54 Generational Expectations and Identity 20:13 The Complexity of Disability in Society 30:04 Anxiety and Parenting Challenges ___________________________________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Edited by Josh Gilbert (joshgilbertmedia.com -- he is accepting more work!) Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: youhavepermissionpodcast@gmail.com YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by sprungle.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everybody, to you have permission, the show that aims to take both Christianity
0:08.3	and the modern world of science and culture.
0:10.6	Very seriously, my name's Dan Koch.
0:12.6	I'm a licensed therapist.
0:14.3	And today I am joined by Micah Boyette, author of Blessed Are the Rest of Us, nice internal rhyme there, and host of the Sloway
0:23.6	podcast, Micah, we were supposed to do this six months ago. Scheduling got messed up. I've been
0:29.6	anticipating this for nigh on a year. And I'm so stoked to finally be talking to you. Thanks for being
0:36.2	here. Thanks for having me. Thanks for figuring it out. I think the day we are supposed to talk,
0:41.1	you were house sitting for someone having severe plumbing problems. So that's what it was.
0:46.7	Literally, I found the leak. And I happened to be house sitting in them. I happened to find the leak.
0:52.2	I didn't do anything miraculous.
0:59.0	But because I was there, I probably saved them like $5,000 in structural repair. That's a good house sitter.
1:01.3	Yeah.
1:01.9	I mean, just sheer chance.
1:03.3	But still, nonetheless, grateful to be of service.
1:06.9	One thing I want to say up top is this is going to be a patron episode, which means the first half is going to be available for anybody on the standard feed.
1:15.4	Second half is only going to be available for patrons.
1:18.1	That's patreon.com slash Dan Koch.
1:19.8	That's in the show notes.
1:21.0	Because I'm going to share a story that I would be more comfortable with fewer people hearing that I've never shared
1:27.8	before. That is for me among probably like the five or six most spiritually impactful
1:33.7	experiences of my life. But it's just kind of a weird dicey story involves family members.
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