"Doubt can be the thing that pulls you closer to home" with Eric Thomas
The Evolving Faith Podcast
Sarah Bessey
4.9 • 939 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We just couldn’t help ourselves. Even though our team is busy behind the scenes preparing for Evolving Faith 2023, we just had to drop one more bonus episode featuring R. Eric Thomas’s talk from the 2022 conference. Eric is one of the funniest writers you’ll find on the internet, but he’s also incredibly thoughtful and genuine as he explores his own relationship to faith, blackness, and queerness. Even as he wrestles with the faith he grew up with, he’s a self proclaimed “big old church queen” who hasn’t stopped considering what it means to be fully at home in himself and in the world. This is a good one, friends. We’re glad you’re here.
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| 0:00.0 | We are all looking for belonging. Some of you are listening to this podcast because you've deconstructed your beliefs, maybe you've endured some pain and trauma, |
| 0:09.0 | stood bewildered before a community that once felt so much like family. |
| 0:13.0 | Perhaps what you used to call home isn't really home anymore for one big reason or a thousand reasons. |
| 0:19.0 | Maybe you've landed somewhere completely different. |
| 0:22.0 | Maybe like most of us you're still |
| 0:24.0 | landing. Many of us have found our way here to evolving faith because we are looking |
| 0:29.1 | for healing spaces. We are longing for fellow sojourners and needing room to exhale all of our questions |
| 0:36.1 | and doubts. We yearn to be more connected and less alone. And we're reaching out for others who feel |
| 0:42.2 | the same to know that it's not just us out here |
| 0:45.0 | to know that it's possible to resurrect and reimagine even maybe rebuild |
| 0:50.8 | So this is why we exist to cultivate hope and love in that wilderness. We know we're not alone and neither are you and we are so ready to welcome you to our little outpost so that you can rest, laugh, grieve, create hope, and know that you are loved through and |
| 1:08.2 | through. You're invited to join us, a bunch of folks from all over the world who are making our own beautiful, diverse, and messy table in the wilderness. |
| 1:17.0 | Tickets are now on sale for Evolving Faith 2023. |
| 1:21.0 | We're gathering both online and in person this year on October 14th and 15th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
| 1:27.0 | We're so excited to welcome all of you and speakers such as Krista Tippett, Dante Stewart, |
| 1:33.3 | Nautia Bolts Weber, Dr. Will Gaffney, |
| 1:35.8 | Barbara Brown Taylor, and so, so many more. |
| 1:39.3 | I would absolutely love to see you in Minneapolis |
| 1:42.0 | or online for that Sacred Weekend and I hope that you will find the longing in this little Motley crew too. |
| 1:46.7 | You know bring a friend or ten you can come by yourself. You'll probably make a new friend there. You're not just welcome, you're wanted. So head |
| 1:54.6 | over to evolving faith.com for more information and to register today. Welcome back to the Evolving Faith Podcast. I'm Sarah Bessie and I am so glad to be here with you today. |
| 2:16.0 | If you are looking for a respite in the wilderness of deconstruction and faith shift, well, you have definitely come to the right place. You just can pull up a quilt to our little campfire here. |
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