What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.

A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel.

They think they're better than us.

Who do you think you are?

I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.

She's punishing me.

You destroyed my family.

I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.

A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.

My name is Dan Koch.

Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.

And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make liberal converts.

I want this show to be a resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as former Christians and non-religious

folks, anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions about God, science, prayer, fate,

suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given bad answers to those good questions, often by people with pure intentions. I want to say that

you have permission to take both Christianity and the modern world very seriously.

And I hope to facilitate that by introducing you to people seeking God across the Christian spectrum,

engaging hard questions in a multitude of ways.

Thanks for listening.

My guest this week is Ashley Davis Gavila, and I found her work when I was doing research around my own dissertation stuff.

Now, I actually recorded this conversation with her before my conversation with Paula Swindle, and that episode aired a few weeks back,

varieties of spiritual abuse or religious abuse, whatever we called it.

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