The last year has been a season of disintegration and reintegration and a lot has changed since the last podcast episode. It has been a time of rethinking my calling and discerning what I feel called to now. In this episode, I discuss how my motivations for spirituality as a minister affected my personal identity, church hurt, the way I think my church failed to live up to its promises of offering true freedom from sin and shame, and what I intend to do about all that with and in my own life. I will also share how these changes in perspective affect the future of the content I produce for the Uncensored Wizard Podcast.

Jack Kornfield's "After the Ecstasy, the Laundry" book asks the question, "What happens when the Christian mystic goes shopping?" In this episode I argue for a Christian spirituality that embraces the rhythms of our religious practices- beginning with the season of Lent. 

In this episode I push back against the idea that being sad, depressed, or anxious is bad. Often in church we are led to believe that God wants something better for us, and that we should be happy and joyous. But what if what we feel is important to our growth, even when what we feel doesn’t feel so great?

This week Jessica Chastain won Academy Award for best actress in a leading role for her portrayal of Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye movie  that came out in theaters on September 17, 2021. The film, based on a 2000 documentary by the same name, follows the controversial and scandalous lives of Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband Jim, through the rise and fall of their wildly successful TV ministry based out of Charlotte, NC. A couple of friends and I, including one who played as an extra in the film, went and saw it the night it came out.  In this bonus episode you'll hear from guests Jimmy Humphrey (of Jimmy's Table podcast),  Derek Henson, and me-- three friends, from Pentecostal backgrounds, sit down to discuss our thoughts and reflections on the movie, the greater impact of the Bakker's PTL ministry, and what their story might mean to the modern Evangelical church in America. *Audio is from recorded video chat; live and unedited. *