The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
The Allender Center Podcast features Dr. Dan Allender and his team engaging topics on healing and restoration through the unique intersection of theology and psychology. Through questions submitted by listeners, stories, interviews, and conversations, we engage the deep places of heartache and hope that are rarely addressed so candidly in our culture today. Join us to gain refreshing insight into understanding your story, handling relational struggles, recovering from trauma and abuse, and more.
The mission of The Allender Center is to help people tell their stories with awareness and integrity, and to train them to listen to the stories of others with care, artistry, and skill so that they may foster redemption and healing in their lives. The Allender Center is a pioneering organization committed to boldly engaging the impact of trauma and abuse, providing healing and teaching to individuals, couples, and communities, and training professionals to listen and enter into stories in a way that facilitates transformation and hope. For information on all our programs and live events, visit theallendercenter.org
The mission of The Allender Center is to help people tell their stories with awareness and integrity, and to train them to listen to the stories of others with care, artistry, and skill so that they may foster redemption and healing in their lives. The Allender Center is a pioneering organization committed to boldly engaging the impact of trauma and abuse, providing healing and teaching to individuals, couples, and communities, and training professionals to listen and enter into stories in a way that facilitates transformation and hope. For information on all our programs and live events, visit theallendercenter.org
Episodes
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Oct 25, 2019 • 21min
What Men Wish Men Knew About Sexuality
In this episode of The Allender Center Podcast, Dan is joined by Jay Stringer, Sam Lee, and Wendell Moss to discuss misconceptions about men's sexuality, the impact of fear and shame, and how men's sexuality is deeply connected to one's culture, rac
Oct 18, 2019 • 25min
Becoming an Anti-Racist, Part Two
Dan and Wendell Moss continue their conversation about what it means to become an "anti-racist" and discuss the impact of white supremacy in unexpected places, the impact of assimilation into white evangelicalism, and policies that contribute to the d
Oct 11, 2019 • 22min
Becoming an Anti-Racist, Part One
Dan and Wendell Moss, a member of The Allender Center Teaching Staff, begin a conversation about the implications of the phrase "I am not a racist" and what it means to instead become an "anti-racist." We invite you to join us and ask: Are we will
Oct 4, 2019 • 22min
Planning and Remembering Weddings, Part Two
Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton continue their conversation on planning and remembering weddings and unpack the idea that weddings reflect both death and resurrection and, much like life, great joy and deep sorrow.
Sep 27, 2019 • 23min
Planning and Remembering Weddings, Part One
Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton, Director of Organizational Development at The Allender Center, have a conversation about planning and remembering weddings and what it means to hold both joy and heartache at these momentous events.
Sep 20, 2019 • 23min
Facing Failure, Part 3
Dan and Becky Allender reflect on what it means to experience failure and address it in a way that allows our lives to grow, both relationally and individually.
Sep 13, 2019 • 22min
Facing Failure, Part 2
On this week's podcast, Dan Allender a series on facing our failures and discusses how unnamed failures can accumulate to become part of ourselves which opens the door to "the idolatry of perfectionism." How then, Dan asks, will we engage failure in
Sep 6, 2019 • 22min
Facing Failure, Part 1
On this week's podcast, Dan Allender launches a new series on a topic that cuts to the very quick of our being and identity: failure. No one can escape failure, and yet there is a need for a better way to address our failures. Using a personal story, Da
Aug 30, 2019 • 22min
Aging, Part Three
Dan and Becky Allender have a conversation about what it means to embrace aging by owning limitations, moving forward in kindness, and holding both the levity and gravity of aging together.
Aug 24, 2019 • 24min
Aging, Part Two
Dan and Dr. Keith Anderson continue their conversation about the reality of aging and what it means to embrace a slower, yet deeper pace that accompanies this new season of life.
