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Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medfordattending to surprise in an oblivious world with Liz Charlotte Granthow art reconnects us to our bodies, what the theobros are missing about spirituality, how to keep coming back to prayer, whale song, protests for non-protestors, and how many years it takes to actually get a book published.Subscribe to Liz’s newsletter, The Empathy List Get a copy of Lyndsey’s book, My Body and Other Crumbling Empires Get full access to hopeful cynic at lyndseymedford.substack.com/subscribe2024-01-1644 min
Halfway There352: Lyndsey Medford and Releasing Expectations
Lyndsey Medford is a writer and speaker living with a rare autoimmune disorder in the crumbling empire of the American South. Today, Lyndsey shares what her disorder was like as a child, the pressure she felt to make her story a redemptive one, and the kind response of the Lord who only wanted to be with her. We talk about how to develop a holistic view of yourself and the spiritual implications of doing so. Learning to listen to God, to our bodies, and to one another is a crucial discipline for the spiritual journey. Lyndsey reminds...2023-10-3055 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey MedfordCreativity as survival with Heather Calirithe elitism underneath our definitions of “creativity,” disability as art, the surprising origins of the word “ordinary,” new dreams for the kinds of art we involve in our daily lives, and that feeling when you just have to stick your hands in that one skein of yarn.Read a transcript of this episodeGet a copy of Ordinary Creativity: How to Survive with JoyBuy Lyndsey’s book, My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World that is Sick Get full access to hopeful cynic at lyndseymedford.substack.com/subscribe2023-10-1738 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medfordthe gift of the outsider with Alicia J. AkinsWhy being an outsider is a gift, using old words for new concepts, Alicia’s experiences living in China as a Black woman, why the American church is the “Wal-Mart of Christianity,” and the gift of the conservative small group.Read a transcript of this episodeGet a copy of The Gift of the OutsiderBuy My Body and Other Crumbling Empires Get full access to hopeful cynic at lyndseymedford.substack.com/subscribe2023-09-2145 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey MedfordSacred Self-Care in the midst of a care-less world with Dr. Chanequa Walker-BarnesSelf-care and community care, the myth of the StrongBlackWoman, how self-care makes our activism more compelling, parenting kids to know themselves, and puppy videos.Read a transcript of this episodeGet a copy of Sacred Self-Careread After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging by Willie James JenningsBuy Lyndsey’s book, My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World that is Sick Get full access to hopeful cynic at lyndseymedford.substack.com/subscribe2023-08-1745 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey MedfordGetting free in the midst of White supremacy culture with Caroline J. SumlinCaroline’s new book, We’ll All Be Free, how January 6 changed her life, gnats and other summer problems, the complexities of writing about race for all of us, the best TV show you’ve never heard of, and what to do about White supremacy besides just weeping.Click here to read a transcript of this episode.Get a copy of We’ll All Be Free!Stay in touch with Caroline on Instagram.Buy Lyndsey’s book, My Body and Other Crumbling Empires. Get full access to hopeful cynic at lyndseymedford.substack.com/subscr2023-07-2744 min
Leading HumanListening to Our Disconnection with Lyndsey MedfordWe are living in a world that is sick. Both literally sick, with 60 percent of adults in the US living with a chronic illness and rising rates of autoimmune diseases in particular, including long COVID, and figuratively sick, facing ever increasing rates of burnout, anxiety, and disconnection.As a writer, activist, and theology student, Lyndsey Medford was used to critiquing unsustainable medical, environmental, economic, and social systems from a theoretical perspective. But when her autoimmune disorder roared out of remission, she discovered that her own body's systems lived at the very real vortex of all those systems...2023-07-1731 min
Faith and FeminismMy Body and Other Crumbling EmpiresIn "My Body and Other Crumbling Empires" Lyndsey Medford talks to us about the interconnected nature of individual and public health, theology, and her battle with her rare autoimmune disease.2023-07-121h 05
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medfordhow to be overwhelmedI’ve been threatening for a few years now to write a monster post called “How to be Overwhelmed.” When you have a chronic or mental illness, there are hard stops on your capacity to just power through and get things done—but you’ve still got expenses to manage, chores and care tasks to do every day, people in your life who need care, periodic emergencies, and high physical and mental health needs. You end up with a whole routine for how to be overwhelmed. If you’re lucky, you end up with a good one.I always kne...2023-07-1217 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medfordlearning to pray amidst the empire of evangelicalism with Sara BillupsSara and Lyndsey talk evangelicalism’s evolution from the 80s and 90s to today, finding your childhood house on Zillow, learning new ways to pray, the rapture and conspiracy theories, and the many ways to re-find each other after being orphaned by the church.Read a transcript of this interviewBuy your copy of Orphaned Believers Subscribe to Sara’s Substack, Bitter Scrollkeep up with Sara on InstagramGet your copy of Lyndsey’s book, My Body and Other Crumbling Empires Get full access...2023-06-2940 min
Poema PodcastPoema S9 020 | Lyndsey Medford on Her Body & Other Crumbling EmpiresThis week I'm joined by author Lyndsey Medford, who tells us the story of when an autoimmune condition opened her eyes fully to the limitation of being in our bodies within the systems we live in.
Lyndsey talks about how learning to be comfortable in her body with its limitations impacted how she sees and interacts with the world. She also shares how it showed her how to heal and be free from the limitations of the systems we live in, and find a healthy, sustainable life for herself.
2023-06-0543 min
Theology on Tap ChattanoogaMy Body & Other Broken Empires with Lyndsey MedfordWe are living in a world that is sick. Both literally sick, with 60 percent of adults in the US living with a chronic illness and rising rates of autoimmune diseases in particular, including long COVID, and figuratively sick, facing ever increasing rates of burnout, anxiety, and disconnection. As a writer, activist, and theology student, Lyndsey Medford, draws on her experiences with a rare autoimmune disease to illuminate the broader lessons we need to learn, in order to heal what ails us individually and communally. Whether our burnout stems from illness, systemic racism, poverty, or simply sin's separation, we're all...2023-05-3052 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medfordmothering in the midst of patriarchy with Erin Strybis and Kim Knowle-ZellerLutheranism, transitioning back to work, pastor-moms and mom-pastors, apologies, snow sledding, and hand-me-downs! Read a transcript of this episodeOrder The Beauty of Motherhood from your favorite local bookseller, Amazon, Bookshop, Target or Barnes & NobleRead a sample from The Beauty of MotherhoodSubscribe to Erin’s newsletter, NourishFollow Kim on InstagramFollow Erin on InstagramBuy a copy of My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World that is SickSubscribe to Lyndsey’s substack for Crumbling Empi...2023-05-3041 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medfordwhat the work is worthto read the essay form of this episode or subscribe to the paid Substack (with secret podcast feed!), head over to lyndseymedford.substack.com. Get full access to hopeful cynic at lyndseymedford.substack.com/subscribe2023-05-2511 min
Rethinking FaithMy Body and Other Crumbling Empires - With Lyndsey MedfordThis week, Lyndsey Medford joins the podcast to discuss her latest book "My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick". What wisdom can we learn from our bodies and how can healing our bodies help us heal a world that is sick? Enjoy!
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Let It Matter Podcast22: Wholeness, Disability, & Divine Revelation with Lyndsey MedfordIn this episode, host, Kelly Wolfe, is joined by Lyndsey Medford, author of the recently released book My Body and Other Crumbling Empires as:-Lyndsey shares her experience with chronic illness (a rare autoimmune disorder diagnosed in childhood, in remission for several years in older adolescence/early adulthood, and which has returned), disability, and how she has learned to see her illness/disability as a potentially lifelong companion, rather than an enemy. We also discuss:—how our bodies can become sites of Divine revelation, and how she has been met, and ministered to, by God through her body;—burnout, self...2023-05-2250 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medfordthe ecosystem of your lifeto read the essay version of this episode, visit lyndseymedford.substack.com. Get full access to hopeful cynic at lyndseymedford.substack.com/subscribe2023-05-1809 min
The Learner's Corner with Caleb MasonEpisode 352: Lyndsey Medford on Lessons for Healing in a World That is SickIn this episode, Caleb talks with Lyndsey Medford about her book, My Body and Other Crumbling Empires and more.Links MentionedLyndsey MedfordMy Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That is Sick by Lyndsey MedfordCaleb's Substack2023-05-161h 15
A People's TheologyLyndsey Medford: How to Heal a World that is SickThis episode of A People's Theology is sponsored by United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Receive a $1,000 scholarship when you apply and are admitted:unitedseminary.edu/apeoplestheologyMason chats with Lyndsey Medford about her new book, My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick. They chat about Lyndsey's chronic autoimmune disease and the ways our world needs to heal from the systems of oppression that have been created.Guest Bio/Info:Lyndsey Medford is a writer, activist, and sometimes disabled person with a...2023-05-1057 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medfordthe spiritual practice of getting out of bedHello! Next week I’m speaking at the Theology on Tap lecture series at The Camp House in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We would love to see you there!Find the essay version of this episode with links and footnotes, or subscribe to receive this podcast in your inbox, at lyndseymedford.substack.com Get full access to hopeful cynic at lyndseymedford.substack.com/subscribe2023-05-0408 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medfordrelearning citizenship amidst public education's slow demolitionPaul is a good friend, is a favorite read, and this interview is the education they never gave us.read a transcript of this interviewSubscribe to Brutal SouthGet your copy of My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World that is Sick Get full access to hopeful cynic at lyndseymedford.substack.com/subscribe2023-04-1936 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medfordresurrection finds youto read the essay version of this episode, visit lyndseymedford.substack.com. Get full access to hopeful cynic at lyndseymedford.substack.com/subscribe2023-04-1210 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey Medfordwhen they call you an "activist"click here to read this essay (along with lots more links and a couple book reviews!).have you gotten a copy of My Body and Other Crumbling Empires yet? Get full access to hopeful cynic at lyndseymedford.substack.com/subscribe2023-04-0611 min
That Makes Total Sense!Episode 190 – Lyndsey MedfordOne of the areas I have found myself exploring more in the past few years is the theology of disability. What does it mean to be embodied? What does it look like when we come to terms with the fact that most of us will face disability in our lifetimes? How do we experience God … Continue reading Episode 190 – Lyndsey Medford2023-04-031h 00
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey MedfordPracticing presence in the midst of transience with Courtney EllisI’m so thrilled to share today’s interview with Courtney Ellis about how we root into presence in the midst of an empire of transience and disposability. She’s such a warm voice, a good friend, and a hopeful-yet-real, companionable writer. We had a fun time, and I hope you will too. Give it a listen here or wherever you get your podcasts!We talk in this episode about connecting with faraway friends. If this conversation made you think of someone, forward this episode to them. I love getting those emails from my friends!2023-03-2934 min
Crumbling Empires with Lyndsey MedfordIntroducing the Crumbling Empires podcast!Hello! Surprise! It’s the new Crumbling Empires podcast! A show about living here and now, in the midst of crumbling empires, with realism and with hope. Once a month, instead of your usual essay from me, my Susbtack will get an email with a podcast episode. Each episode will be an interview with a different expert on how to make sense of, and live within, a specific crumbling empire.Give it a listen to learn more, and to hear how I’m working within the crumbling empire of the publishing industry (without destroying my soul).To...2023-03-2717 min
Our Island in the City PodcastLyndsey Medford, author of My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons For Healing in a World That is SickLyndsey Medford, author of My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons For Healing in a World That is Sick is our guest today. We discuss living with autoimmune diseases, what wholeness could mean, a chronically ill world, the difference between healing and fixing, the word vocation, and slowness as a tool for creating change. You can find Lyndsey on IG @lyndseymedford and at lyndseymedford.com. 2023-03-0732 min
Reimagining the Good Life with Amy Julia BeckerLessons for Healing in a World That’s Sick with Lyndsey MedfordWhat do our bodies tell us about ourselves and our world? And how do we listen? Lyndsey Medford, author of My Body and Other Crumbling Empires, talks with Amy Julia Becker about physical and social healing and the beauty of limitations and interdependence. They discuss how healing connects to slowing down, technology, food banks, capitalism, and more.___Guest Bio:“Lyndsey Medford lives with a rare autoimmune disorder in the American South and is the author of My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That is Sick. She writes and sp...2023-03-0755 min
Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Disorders & DiseasesMy Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick by Lyndsey MedfordPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634489to listen full audiobooks.
Title: My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick
Author: Lyndsey Medford
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Release date: March 7, 2023
Genres: Disorders & Diseases
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As a writer, activist, and theology student, Lyndsey Medford was used to critiquing unsustainable medical, environmental, economic, and social systems from a theoretical perspective. But when her autoimmune disorder roared out of remission, she discovered that her own body's systems lived at the very real vortex of all those systems' dysfunction. Learning to cooperate...2023-03-076h 45
Let Your Ears Be the Gateway to Knowledge With Full AudiobookMy Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick Audiobook by Lyndsey MedfordListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 634489
Title: My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick
Author: Lyndsey Medford
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:45:26
Language: English
Release date: 03-07-23
Publisher: Christianaudio.com
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Christianity
Summary:
As a writer, activist, and theology student, Lyndsey Medford was used to critiquing unsustainable medical, environmental, economic, and social systems from a theoretical perspective. But when her autoimmune disorder roared out of remission, she discovered that her own body's systems lived at the very real...2023-03-076h 45
Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityMy Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick by Lyndsey MedfordPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick Author: Lyndsey Medford Narrator: Emily Ellet Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: As a writer, activist, and theology student, Lyndsey Medford was used to critiquing unsustainable medical, environmental, economic, and social systems from a theoretical perspective. But when her autoimmune disorder roared out of remission, she discovered that her own body's systems lived at the very real vortex of all those systems' dysfunction. Learning to cooperate...2023-03-0730 min
Soul Care for TherapistsHow to Make Friends with Your Body when you have a Chronic Illness, with Lyndsey MedfordWhat does your relationship with your body look like during periods of stress? How can you improve your communication with your body? Do you feel pressured to say “yes” to everyone when you know that you need to say “no”? In this podcast episode, I speak about how to befriend your body when you have a chronic illness with Lyndsey Medford. We discuss the importance of slowing down and listening to your body, as well as how to draw positive boundaries in your life. Thanks for listening! I'd love to connect with you over on Instagra...2022-03-2341 min
Unlikely Conversations from the Collegeville InstituteBeing Heard into Speech: A Conversation with Rev. Alexis Carter Thomas and Lyndsey MedfordWhat role can fellow writers play in the creative process? And how can a desire to "change the world" backfire?
In this episode we hear a conversation between two writers: Rev. Alexis Carter Thomas and Lyndsey Medford. They met at the Collegeville Institute's Writing for Mystic Activists workshop in 2019 and, since then, have continued to encourage one another in their writing lives. Here, they discuss the dangers of writing to change the world without also being changed as humans, the call for writing as liberation, and how a writing community can help one be "heard int...2020-11-1837 minFaith and FeminismMaking Friends With My Body and GodWe all have struggled to love our bodies. In the patriarchal culture we currently find ourselves in, it seems that there are lots of expectations on bodies and how to make them both pleasing to men and productive. But can we love our bodies for what they are? Without putting any expectations on them? On this episode, I interview Lyndsey Medford about her journey to love her body through chronic illness and adolescence. I hope you check it out.2020-05-051h 05
The Transform Network Podcast - A Progressive Christian PodcastResipiscence 2020 Lenten Devo #16 w/ Guest Lyndsey MedfordSaturday, March 14 Today's guest is Lyndsey Medford, a writer, speaker, activist with the Poor People’s Campaign, and author of the guided journal, Making Friends With My Body and God. She also manages autoimmune disease and a tiny front-yard garden. Lyndsey holds a Master’s degree in Theology from Boston University, but she’s most proud of her improv theater skills and her rescue dog Miya’s dainty high-fives. She writes regularly to her email newsletter, “Justice and Joy,” at lyndseymedford.com. HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Trans...2020-03-101h 17
The Rainy Day Collective PodcastLet's Chat: Enneagram... {60}Collective Listeners- this is EPISODE 60! What?!?!? it has been an amazing journey together and today's episode is perfect for marking the occasion! We asked author Lyndsey Medford to come back and talk the enneagram. There is NOTHING educational about this episode, instead it is just four of us talking about what we know, what we don't, why it matters and why (we believe) everyone should learn about their numbers stat!
We here, at the Collective, are big fans of podcasts! (obvi!) If you're new to the enneagram, or find yourself overwhelmed with where to start, we've included s...2019-12-0445 min
Making Room on the PewEpisode 16: Learning that Advent is a Waiting Game with Lyndsey MedfordLyndsey Medford is a writer, speaker, activist, and author of the guided journal, Making Friends With My Body and God. She also manages autoimmune disease and a tiny front-yard garden. Lyndsey holds a Master's degree in Theology from Boston University, but she's most proud of her improv theater and gluten-free baking skills; her family; and her rescue dog Miya's dainty high-fives. She writes regularly on her email newsletter, "Justice and Joy," and at lyndseymedford.com.
Join us as we talk about what Advent is, why it's important, Mary's role in Advent, and why Lyndsey loves this season...2019-12-0330 min
The Rainy Day Collective PodcastYou Can't Pour From an Empty Cup... {52}In today's episode, Misty and Nikki sit down to chat with Author Lyndsey Medford. Lyndsey shares about the personal health/life things which led her to the creation of her beautiful guided journal "Making Friends with my Body & God."
Simply talking with Lyndsey was so motivating and encouraging! She has a lot of wisdom, and says amazing/brilliant things like "I had to start treating myself as an end, rather than a means to an end." Don't we all!
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facebook.com/lyndseymedford
instagram.com...2019-10-0940 min
The Transform Network Podcast - A Progressive Christian PodcastResipiscence - March 26, 2019 - Lyndsey Medford - Continually NewThe Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. Lyndsey Medford is an indecorous Southerner, an erstwhile evangelical, and an inexpert advocate for justice. She is Director of Discipleship at Two Rivers UMC, a new church start in Charleston, SC, that aspires to be radically inclusive, anti-racist, and creative. She writes regularly about creativity, Jesus, justice, and bodies on Instagram and at lyndseymedford.com.2019-03-2552 min
Lord Have MercyLyndsey Medford's Burnout GuideHave you ever felt entitled to rest? Can taking a Sabbath be an act of social justice? Lyndsey Medford thinks so! And she penned those words in her devotional series, “The Burnouts Guide to Being Human” now available in Our Bible App. I don’t know about you but a discussion about burnout feels quite timely right about now! Tune in as Lyndsey and I take this conversation to whole new and surprising places.2018-12-2032 min
ExvangelicalLyndsey MedfordLyndsey Medford is a post-evangelical writer and blogger. She writes at lyndseymedford.com. Follow her on Twitter @lyndseymedford! The first #exvreads book club book has been chosen! It is \*The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America\* by Frances Fitzgerald. Use this link to buy it! http://amzn.to/2uEthDU More details about the book club discussion will be coming out soon on Twitter and in the Exvangelical Facebook group. The first discussion will happen at the end of August/early September. Follow Blake on Twitter: @brchastain Follow the show on Anchor: anchor.fm/exvangelicalpod Follow the show on Twitter: @exvangelicalpod...2017-08-091h 25