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Hello all! We are taking a little break this week (an interlude, if you will) - and we wanted to share a clip from our patreon-only episode this week. If you want to hear the entire episode, you can check it out at https://www.patreon.com/propheticimaginationstation

BUT NOT THE MOST SKIPPABLE EPISODE!Krispin & Kevin Nye discuss "Day by Day" from Jesus Freak, and talk about the heavy weight of daily devotions, perfectionism, and more. Kevin is the author of Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End HomelessnessYou can follow him on Twitter and Instagram.Krispin mentions Kevin's twitter thread about Gospel Rescue Missions, and you can read it here.We’d love for you to consider joining our patreon community to support this podcast. You can find us on Twitter and Instagram.Thanks for Bonnie Downing providing transcription for the episode - which you can read at our website.

This episode, DL talks with her two sisters about their memories of Jesus Freak and the culture surrounding it.You can follow Lindsay Strannigan on twitter and instagram - and also check out her podcast, Holy Ghosting.We’d love for you to consider joining our patreon community to support this podcast. You can find us on Twitter and Instagram.

Krispin talks to Derrick Scott III about "What If I Stumble?" by DC Talk, and discuss "the single greatest cause of atheism in the world today."Derrick Scott III is the creative producer at Studio Wesley. You can follow him on twitter and his work with Studio Wesley on instagram. In the episode, Krispin mentions a Studio Wesley podcast titled, Queer Roots and Black Spirituality.You can find us on Twitter and Instagram.To support our show (we can’t do this without you!), join us on Patreon! You’ll get access to our monthly patron-only episodes (including the entire backlog), as well as occasional zoom hangouts. You can join this community for as little as $1.50 a month!

Krispin and DL interview Peter Choi about DC Talk’s song “Colored People.”Peter Choi is the Director of the Center for Faith and Justice (that DL and Krispin are a facilitators for!). Peter's also a historian with a focus on evangelicalism in eighteenth-century North America.During our conversation, Peter recommends Delores Williams, Shoki Coe, James Cone, and Cole Arthur Riley. He also mentions Henry McNeil Turner. We have a website—check it out for more information. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram.To support our show (we can’t do this without you!), join us on Patreon! You’ll get access to our monthly patron-only episodes (including the entire backlog), as well as occasional zoom hangouts. You can join this community for as little as $1.50 a month!

TW: suicide, sexual abuseKrispin and DL talk about "So Help Me God," developmental psychology and about the organization that partnered to produce the books "Jesus Freaks."Check out the sordid history of Voice of the Martyrs on wikipedia. Also on wikipedia, Erik Erikson's psycho-social stages.We have a website—check it out for more information. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram.To support our show (we can’t do this without you!), join us on Patreon! You’ll get access to our monthly patron-only episodes (including the entire backlog), as well as occasional zoom hangouts. You can join this community for as little as $1.50 a month!

We talked to Jessie McLaughlin about “So Help Me God.” She shares with us about her experience of growing up Christian, the inner turmoil of taking it very seriously, and how she’s been healing from religious trauma through therapy. We love Jessie’s twitter feed where she talks about recovering from evangelicalism, hilarious day-to-day things, and you can see her design work on her instagram.She sings on her husband's record, and our favorite song is Where We’re Going. (The album is Man Overboard by James and the Shame by Rhett McLaughlin, one half of the Good Mythical Morning YouTube). You can hear more about Jessie and Rhett's story of going on staff at Campus Crusade (Cru) and the process of leaving, as Rhett tells is here.We have a website—check it out for more information. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram.To support our show (we can’t do this without you!), join us on Patreon! You’ll get access to our monthly patron-only episodes (including the entire backlog), as well as occasional zoom hangouts. You can join this community for as little as $1.50 a month!

We took some time to talk about the recent shooting in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Focus on the Family, which is located there. We started this podcast analyzing their kid’s radio show Adventures in Odyssey, and covered a whole series that was specifically anti-LGBTQIA+ back in 2019 - the first episode of our season titled “Beginning to Untie the Ties That Bind.”We mention Grace Baldridge’s documentary where they interview Jackie Hill Perry. Also, check out their music in spotify!We also mention the Behind the Bastard’s podcast about James Dobson. Jenna DeWitt has a website of resources for LGBTQIA+ Christians and allies called Invisible Cake Society We have a website—check it out for more information. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram.To support our show (we can’t do this without you!), join us on Patreon! You’ll get access to our monthly patron-only episodes (including the entire backlog), as well as occasional zoom hangouts. You can join this community for as little as $1.50 a month!

Krispin interviews DL about starting out to as a Jesus Freak to wanting to be just like Dorothy Day to wanting to be herself. We talk about the perfectionism of growing up evangelical, and how that pressure can continue, even if you move on from the conservative framework you were raised with.Make sure to check out DL's book Unruly Saint about Dorothy Day and how she started the Catholic Worker.And here's a little article about the ferry in New York named after her.Our most recent patreon-only episode, we discussed 2004's The Village and talked about cults (and whether white evangelicalism is a cult).We have a website—check it out for more information. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram.To support our show (we can’t do this without you!), join us on Patreon! You’ll get access to our monthly patron-only episodes (including the entire backlog), as well as occasional zoom hangouts. You can join this community for as little as $1.50 a month!

Season nine of Prophetic Imagination Station is here!!Before listening, go ahead and check out the music video for Jesus Freak.We’re diving into the iconic album Jesus Freak by DC Talk, track by track.In this introductory episode, Krispin and DL talk about the title track, examining the lyrics and context behind the song Jesus Freak. We have a website—check it out for more information. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram.To support our show (we can’t do this without you!), join us on Patreon! You’ll get access to our monthly patron-only episodes (including the entire backlog), as well as occasional zoom hangouts. You can join this community for as little as $1.50 a month!