Send us a Message Ever felt the pressure to paste on a smile when your heart is heavy? We dive straight into the paradox of positivity—how hope can heal, and how “forced cheerfulness” can quietly wound people who need space to lament, confess, and be seen. From Scripture’s witness to Jesus weeping to the everyday contradictions we all recognise in church car parks, we explore how a culture of performance forms and how to replace it with presence. We talk through the inputs that shape the sou...
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Send us a Message Ever felt the pressure to paste on a smile when your heart is heavy? We dive straight into the paradox of positivity—how hope can heal, and how “forced cheerfulness” can quietly wound people who need space to lament, confess, and be seen. From Scripture’s witness to Jesus weeping to the everyday contradictions we all recognise in church car parks, we explore how a culture of performance forms and how to replace it with presence. We talk through the inputs that shape the sou...
A candid conversation on spiritual abuse, resilience, and joyful, non-weaponised Christianity
CoffeePods
1 hour 4 minutes
3 weeks ago
A candid conversation on spiritual abuse, resilience, and joyful, non-weaponised Christianity
Send us a Message A child in Gothenburg thanks his dad for sharing fruit, and suddenly the whole room remembers what faith is supposed to feel like—sweet, simple, and freeing. From that quiet moment, we trace a sharper line into the places where religion twists: the backlash to the appointment of Dame Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, the old reflexes of control and fear, and the patterns that turn churches into machines for shame. We name spiritual abuse clearly, not to sensational...
CoffeePods
Send us a Message Ever felt the pressure to paste on a smile when your heart is heavy? We dive straight into the paradox of positivity—how hope can heal, and how “forced cheerfulness” can quietly wound people who need space to lament, confess, and be seen. From Scripture’s witness to Jesus weeping to the everyday contradictions we all recognise in church car parks, we explore how a culture of performance forms and how to replace it with presence. We talk through the inputs that shape the sou...
