The Sabbatical Series: Lisa Gungor's Most Beautiful Thing: An Ode to Relativism

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast, where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of
0:05.2	historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness,
0:10.4	and truth. And we are going to continue to do that even while I'm on sabbatical and not recording
0:15.6	full-length episodes until after the new year. But as we were going through some old content,
0:21.9	we realized that there were some posts that only went out to a select group of listeners. And many of you, if you've been
0:26.5	following the podcast for the past two or three years, have not heard these posts. And these are
0:31.6	short answers to tough theological and apologetics questions. Here's today's.
0:52.3	Okay. theological and apologetics questions. Here's today's. You might recognize the name Lisa Gunger as one half of the singer-songwriter duo Gunger, who have written and recorded widely beloved songs
0:55.4	such as dry bones and beautiful things. A few years ago, the Gungers made headlines after revealing
1:01.8	they no longer believe in biblical historical narratives, such as a literal Adam and Eve or Noah's
1:07.8	flood. They even compared these notions to believing in Santa Claus.
1:12.3	For many evangelicals, this came as an utter shock, but for those who were paying attention,
1:18.1	the Gungers had been veering from historic Christianity for a while, and none of this happened in a vacuum.
1:24.0	To help connect the dots, Lisa Gunger recently penned her memoir, The Most Beautiful Thing I've
1:29.7	Seen, Opening Your Eyes to Wonder. The book tracks the couple's spiritual journey from
1:35.7	hyper-legalistic fundamentalism to a more progressive type of Christianity, to atheism, and finally
1:42.2	to a wider spirituality that they no longer necessarily call Christian.
1:47.0	It's beautifully written, and Lisa manages to describe the desert of doubt and loss of faith with
1:52.3	captivating tenderness, honesty, and vulnerability. She shares the pain of being sexually abused
1:58.9	by a church leader as a young girl. She explains the
2:02.2	disorienting control of a cult-like church environment. She takes the reader on a journey from
2:07.7	childhood in a tiny New Mexico town to meeting the love of her life in college, to touring the
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