**CONTENT NOTE**In this episode Jon and I talk about the gender politics in the Barbie movie, and our conversation touches briefly on eating disorders, body image, sexual violence, harassment, and purity culture. Please be aware of these themes and care for yourself accordingly. Make sure you're in a space where that flow of conversation is something you can navigate at the time, and that you drink water and snuggle your pets afterward. You can find Jon's work, podcast and written, at cinema ...

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Quotes today from the books The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin and This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley. Support the Show.

Quotes in this episode taken from I Want You to Be: On the God of Love by Tomáš Halík and A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church by Dr. Wilda C. Gafney. You can listen to "The Kingdom is Yours" by Common Hymnal here, and maybe have tissues nearby if you cry during songs. (The last time I tried to lead this in a congregational setting I literally couldn't finish the song because I was weeping. It's fine.) Support the Show.

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Quotes this week taken from the documentary Crip Camp, which you can stream on Netflix. Blessed are you who wait for tomatoes. Who water and weed and pray for rain and sun.Blessed are you building a highway in the wilderness, Or at least you were, Until you were stopped by the zoning board. Since when does the wilderness have a process for proposals and approvals anyway? Blessed are you who are unexpectedly, wonderfully filled.And you who are becoming acquainted ...

Quotes and information this week drawn from Anna Case-Winters' commentary on Matthew, part of the Belief Series. A Blessing for Advent week 2: Blessed are you who escaped from the vipers nest. Who found yourself growing up in a world that had so thoroughly forgotten the very-goodness baked into its bones and bark that all it offered were tenuous pathways of escaping calamity with the smell of fire on your heels. And only if you kept on the straight and narrow. Blesse...