In this week's episode, we continue our conversation about negative religious experiences as part of our summer-long series on Religious Trauma. **There is a trigger warning on this episode for conversations related to various forms of abuse, assault, child abuse, estrangement, and corporal punishment. **

Click here to participate in our national Negative Religious Experiences research study, which we discussed in this conversation.

Here is the list of resources mentioned in this episode:

• When Narcissism Comes to Church
• Bully Pulpit
• Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. Our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group may be a starting place for you and we encourage anyone who is deconstructing or processing religious trauma to join.

The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.

In this episode we begin to discuss the research work that Christie Love has been doing exploring religious trauma through a lens of Negative Religious Experiences (NREs). Christie explains her research framework to us and introduces listeners to the first five of the ten NREs that she has identified and gathered data on.

Christie also shared that she has recently begun a national study on this concept that is modeled on a large-scale case study that she completed in SW Missouri in 2023. You can participate in this research by visiting the Research Center online at the Flipped Table Collective website: https://www.flippedtablecollective.com/research-center

If you are interested in reading the full doctoral thesis that Christie did on this topic, you can access her work online at our Flipped Table Collective website as well.

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. Our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group may be a starting place for you and we encourage anyone who is deconstructing or processing religious trauma to join.

The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.

This summer, our podcast is diving deep into the Religious Trauma research that our host, Christie Love, has been working on for many years. In this episode, we look at the six sources of religious trauma that Christie identified in her doctoral research.

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. Our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group may be a starting place for you and we encourage anyone who is deconstructing or processing religious trauma to join.

The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.

We are starting a 10 week summer series addressing components of religious trauma and challenging perspectives in order to bring change and nurture healing.

This firs week is an introductory conversation with our podcast hosts! We are excited that some of the upcoming conversations will include the perspectives and stories of podcast guests!

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. Our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group may be a starting place for you and we encourage anyone who is deconstructing or processing religious trauma to join.

The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.

Our hosts share recommendations for a fiction, non-fiction, and resource book for you to add to summer reading lists. They also share some bonus streaming suggestions to add to your summer binge watching lists.

We hope you enjoy these suggestions as much as we enjoyed compiling them!

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. Our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group may be a starting place for you and we encourage anyone who is deconstructing or processing religious trauma to join.

The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.

We FINALLY shared our exciting news (which we have hinted at for months) in this week’s podcast episode!

We announced that we are launching a new ministry project called The Flipped Table Collective that will be launching on Monday, June 10, 2024. We encourage you to listen to this full episode to hear all of the details of what this new organization will offer to progressive faith communities, faith leaders, and individuals!

As we mentioned in the episode this week, here are some important links to stay connected to this new project as it gets closer to launching in the next month:

1. Join our email mailing list.
2. Connect with our new FB page.
3. Follow us on Instagram.
4. Consider making a one-time donation to our scholarship fund that we talked about in this episode

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. Our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group may be a starting place for you and we encourage anyone who is deconstructing or processing religious trauma to join.

The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.

This week, we welcomed a special guest, Christie's youngest child, Lyn joined us to share some insight into the neurodivergent brain!

This is part 2 in a conversation we had around Neurodiversity in Faith Spaces! Be sure to listen to that episode too!

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. Our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group may be a starting place for you and we encourage anyone who is deconstructing or processing religious trauma to join.

The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.

The conversation this week centered around foster care and the desperate need for the church's involvement in leading the movement around system reform, championing reunification, and prioritizing relational care and support for families that are working towards reunification.

Holly shared the book The Invisible Child, by Andrea Elliott.

We also talked at length about the Family Connection Program that Christie and Holly co-founded in 2018 to provide a safe space and relational support for families working towards reunification.

Trigger Warning: This conversation talks about issues of foster care, family separation, adoption, aging out of care, and mental illness.

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. Our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group may be a starting place for you and we encourage anyone who is deconstructing or processing religious trauma to join.

The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.