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Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Amanda Allen
81 episodes
3 days ago
Did your parents take you aside before church to remind you that the argument they had on the way to Sunday School was “family business”? Have you been told more than once that you need to control your facial expressions? Do you know every word to both Michael W. Smith’s “A Place in This World” and Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”? Do you love a good deep dive on movies and books and music? Yeah? Me too. Hello. I’m Amanda, and we’re going to be friends. Let’s talk about all the good stuff.
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Did your parents take you aside before church to remind you that the argument they had on the way to Sunday School was “family business”? Have you been told more than once that you need to control your facial expressions? Do you know every word to both Michael W. Smith’s “A Place in This World” and Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”? Do you love a good deep dive on movies and books and music? Yeah? Me too. Hello. I’m Amanda, and we’re going to be friends. Let’s talk about all the good stuff.
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Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 76: The Winter Doldrums

January lasts approximately 18 years, so I think it’s safe to say we’ve all succumbed to some Winter Doldrums. But let’s try and reframe it and embrace some good things about winter - even the sad parts!

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9 months ago
18 minutes 12 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 75: Aging Like Fine Grape Juice with Brett Duncan

This week, we’re continuing our series Aging Like Fine Grape Juice and I’m talking to my long-time friend, Brett Duncan. Brett is one of those friends who, no matter how long it’s been since you’ve seen each other, you can pick right back up with like no time has passed. He’s also the creator of Uncle Dunc’s Sticker Shoppe, and if you have a Kindle, it’s THE place to go for all the cool sticker decorations (www.uncleduncsstickers.com)! Plus, we talk about all the ways that life can change and the unexpected paths it can take. We’re very wise, guys. Oh, and Slim Chickens - I’m totally serious about that collab.

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10 months ago
31 minutes 10 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 74: Top 10 Books of 2024

I read 121 books in 2024 (yay me!), but don’t worry - I’m not going to talk about every single book on this episode. I’ve narrowed it down to my 10 favorites! What were your top 10 books in 2024? Let me know!

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10 months ago
20 minutes 56 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 73: New Year, New(ish) Me

Happy New Year! It’s 2025 - can you believe it? And Resting Church Face is back (and this time, I really mean it)! Let’s talk about things we did a great job with in 2024 and some things we can work on - and when I say “we,” I mean “I.”

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10 months ago
17 minutes 8 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 72: Fall Is Fall-ing

Aaaaand we’re back, friends! I’m so pumped to start recording new episodes of Resting Church Face again, and what better way to start than talking about my favorite season of all time? That’s right - it’s autumn! So let’s talk about all the best movies, music, books, and tv shows that are just waiting for us out there in the melancholy and cozy weather.

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1 year ago
24 minutes 3 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 71: Travel Plans

Last week, I asked all of you on Instagram and Facebook to send me some of your favorite vacation and travel memories and you sent me some great ones! So let’s talk about all the best places we’ve been and the places we want to go. Also, Tina Arena.

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1 year ago
19 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 70: Let’s Actually LOL
I think everyone would agree - the world is cuh-razy right now (I’m looking at you, America), and I don’t know about you, but I need to get out of my own head for maybe an hour. Or 2. Or 24. So let’s talk about things that make us laugh - like, out loud - and make life just a little more bearable. And fun!
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1 year ago
18 minutes 29 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 69: Book & Movie Tropes
There are so many tropes (recurring themes) in books and movies. A lot of them are good, but some of them are just awful. Like, really awful. So let’s talk about them! Also, dinosaurs.
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1 year ago
17 minutes 49 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 68: Secondhand Embarrassment
Secondhand embarrassment is defined as happening “when someone feels embarrassed or uncomfortable after witnessing another person experience something embarrassing.” Or, as the youths say, CRINGE. So let’s talk about the things that make us blush for other people. Also, The TikTok.
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1 year ago
15 minutes 17 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 67: Summer Glimmers
Summer is here! It is definitely hot, but not necessarily miserable. This week, let’s talk about summer glimmers - those little moments every day that just ignite a little spark of joy inside us. Also, tea that tastes like foggy rain. It’s a thing.
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1 year ago
17 minutes 41 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 66: Story Time With Amanda: The Skink Incident of 2024
This week, I want to tell you a story about a new phobia that was unlocked for me - a skink got into my house (not a skank - that would be a very judgmental phobia), and it has almost made me…unhinged. Let’s talk about it.
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1 year ago
21 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 65: Books - Spring Roundup Pt 2
Here’s the second part of our roundup of spring books! Settle in and let’s talk about books 16-31 (even though I’m off by one number for the majority of the episode - but don’t worry, I figure it out at the end!)!
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1 year ago
28 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 64: Books - Spring Roundup Pt 1
🎵 June is bustin’ out all oooooover 🎵 and it’s time for our roundup of books I read this spring. I feel like I’ve been on a good book streak for the past couple of months, and I can’t wait to share them with you! (And yes, there are some ghost stories. Because it’s me.)
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1 year ago
26 minutes 8 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 63: Aging Like Fine Grape Juice with Alana Allen
This past weekend was Mother’s Day, and I thought it was a perfect time to continue our series on Aging Like Fine Grape Juice and having a good conversation with my mom, Alana Allen! I loved doing this so much, and as much as I thought I knew about my mom, she surprised me with stories I’d never heard (and isn’t that the way it always works with our parents?). She’s also a really smart lady, so I think she sprinkled in some great advice into this chat, too. And…The Beatles!
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1 year ago
49 minutes 3 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 62: Stop Talking About Women’s Bodies
Oof. This was a hard episode to record. The Met Gala was this week, and once again, we are being bombarded with critiques of women’s bodies. Are they too fat? Too thin? On Ozempic? Did they get plastic surgery? Was it good plastic surgery? Was it bad? And so on and so on until - seemingly - the end of time. And guys? I’m sick of it. Why can’t we just stop talking about women’s bodies? So let’s talk about that.
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1 year ago
50 minutes 30 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 61: Taylor Swift & The Tortured Poets Department, Pt 2
Get the Kleenex ready guys - we’re doing a deep dive on the second half of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Dept. Anthology! And just trust me. We are going to feel everything. And we’ll (mostly) like it, because melancholy can be fun when it’s done well!
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1 year ago
47 minutes 26 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 60: Taylor Swift & The Tortured Poets Department Anthology, Pt. 1
Love her or hate her, Taylor Swift is probably the biggest star in the world right now. And she has a new album with 31 songs on it (yes - 31!) Oh my word, all the feelings. And I do mean AAAAALL the feelings. Let’s do a deep dive on why we all have an opinion about this music and the woman behind the music - and warning - you might need a nap afterwards. To paraphrase our Millennial Poet Laureate, we love her, but it might be ruining our lives (but in a good way?).
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1 year ago
1 hour 7 minutes 15 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 59: Movies That Transport Us
Life is hard. And as much as I think Killers of the Flower Moon is an excellent piece of cinema, sometimes I don’t want to be reminded that people can be awful and everyone was sweaty in the 1930s because there were no air conditioners. Sometimes I want to be transported to a place that is totally and completely unlike my everyday reality. So let’s talk about movies that sweep us away and make us happy at the same time.
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1 year ago
26 minutes 7 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 58: A Royal Apology
A few days ago, Catherine, Princess of Wales (or as we all call her, Princess Kate), announced that she was undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. The world was stunned, and most were rightly ashamed, since the conspiracy theories surrounding her public “disappearance” had reached fever pitch. And everyone was wrong. How did we get here? Why did we go after Kate and her family the way we did? How do we keep it from happening again? Let’s talk about it.
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1 year ago
30 minutes 39 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Episode 57: Spring Glimmers
Spring is finally here! Trees are green again, flowers are blooming, and let’s just decide to ignore the pollen for a while. On this week’s episode, let’s talk about the little moments of joy that spring is…springing on us. I had to. And I’m not even sorry.
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1 year ago
25 minutes 2 seconds

Resting Church Face with Amanda Allen
Did your parents take you aside before church to remind you that the argument they had on the way to Sunday School was “family business”? Have you been told more than once that you need to control your facial expressions? Do you know every word to both Michael W. Smith’s “A Place in This World” and Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”? Do you love a good deep dive on movies and books and music? Yeah? Me too. Hello. I’m Amanda, and we’re going to be friends. Let’s talk about all the good stuff.