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Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #24: My Religious Deconstruction Story, Pt. 5In this final chapter of my religious deconstruction journey, I talk about how my relationship with the faith and religion of my past looks and feels today, particularly in the context of tumultuous social and political upheaval in the United States. I acknowledge both the gifts I have received from the faith and religious community of my past, as well as a continued and growing anger and frustration in the face of the rising popularity of Christian Nationalism. I also express my raw and candid thoughts about the institutions that have seeded and nurtured the obsession to replace liberal...2025-05-0243 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #23: My Religious Deconstruction Story, Pt. 4As my religious deconstruction story continues, I come full circle to the memory of my father, David, where nearly 20 years after his death I find an opportunity for inner reconciliation and peace. With the help of a good friend to walk me through a healing ceremony out in the wild deserts of Southern California, I find forgiveness, healing, redemption, and release. This episode concludes with a song...the only song I have ever written about my father directly. It walks through all the complex emotions I've had in relationship to him over the years. The children's voices at the...2025-05-0227 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesMy Religious Deconstruction Story: Part 3In this episode I recount the years where I was getting ready to graduate from college but having little to no direction as to where to go in life and what to do next. A serendipitous chain of events in my senior year of college opened the door to an unexpected pathway which led me to go to graduate school where I studied to become a therapist. This proved to be a frutiful time of personal, spiritual, and educational enlightenment and renaissance for me, and I still recount those years as some of the most fulfilling and illuminating of...2025-04-2540 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesMy Religious Deconstruction Story: Part 2In this episode my story resumes around my early college years and the particular struggles I was having and developing around that time. Having covertly lost my faith in the church of my upbringing and my larger faith in God beginning to erode rapidly, I set out to look for answers and the truth beyond the familiar confines of my religious community; outside the borders of its theological tenets, assumptions, and presumptions. Giving myself the gift of this freedom did come with a cost. I had left my community and its various safety nets behind. This episode concludes with...2025-04-2549 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesMy Religious Deconstruction Story: Part 1Religious deconstruction is a path of transition, like so many other transitions that all of us go through in life. It has the components of loss, crisis, confusion, grief, and anger. It also includes catharsis, wisdom, joy, anticipation, and the opportunity for new life to arise out of the ashes of an old one. My deconstruction journey begins for me at the age of 10, when our family learned that my father was diagnosed with cancer and ends in the middle of my high school years, particularly at the age of 16, when my father lost his battle with cancer, and...2025-04-2531 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #19: Laura Lewis-Barr: Inner Work Through Short Films, Pt. 2Laura Lewis-Barr is an award-winning screenwriter, stop-motion filmmaker, and educator. Laura writes comedy features. As a filmmaker Laura's focus is on animating fairy tales and mythic stories that explore personal and collective transformation. She is inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Jack Zipes, and Marie-Louise von Franz. Laura creates her short films in the basement of her house in Chicago, IL, where she resides.2025-03-2027 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #18: Laura Lewis-Barr: Inner Work With Short Films, Pt. 1Laura Lewis-Barr is an award-winning screenwriter, stop-motion filmmaker, and educator. Laura writes comedy features. As a filmmaker Laura's focus is on animating fairy tales and mythic stories that explore personal and collective transformation. She is inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Jack Zipes, and Marie-Louise von Franz. Laura creates her short films in the basement of her house in Chicago, IL where she resides.2025-03-2035 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #17: Apokalypsis: A Time of Turmoil & RevelationThe term Apokalypsis is a Greek word that denotes a "revelation" or an "unveiling." It is the term from which we derive the modern word apocalypse. Unlike modern, fundamentalist religious movements that interpret this idea to mean the literal end of the world, the original term denotes something different, if no less harrowing. The moment of revelation, in both Biblical and mythical literature always heralds a change to come, and typically no small change, but rather something very big and profound which will impact an entire people, nation, or in our case today, yes, the entire world. It hearkens...2025-03-1425 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesMythic Imaginations: Same Podcast, New Title!2025-03-0105 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #15: Stories With Bear, Part 2: Learning To Be "Hollow-Boned"In this episode, Bear shares some of his experiences interacting with the Aboriginal communities he met with during his time Australia. Bear also introduces us to the concept of being “hollow-boned,” as he recalls his work in facilitating sweat lodges, which is a stance that a person must take in order to “hold space” for others. We also explore the power of intention and balance as mechanisms for both growth and healing in our lives, as Bear talks about using past traumas as more of a “springboard rather than an anchor,” as he puts it. We end our time talking abou...2025-02-0931 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #14: How To Walk Through HellThe human race is in the middle of treacherous, tumultuous, and dangerous times. We are in the middle of what the Greeks called "Apokalypsis," which means a moment of "revelation," or a "lifting of the veil." Such moments in human history are accompanied by fear, confusion, and chaos. In this episode I talk about the psychological realities of hell, and how we can learn, collectively, to walk through such difficult times together. 2025-02-0309 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #13: The Divine Feminine & Divine Masculine, Pt. 3: A Conversation With Dr. Amy FerrellIn this third and final installment of my conversation with Dr. Amy Ferrell, we explore together how the human Shadow provides us with a potential path into the deeper wisdom of ourselves, as well as exhibiting a warning to us, should choose to ignore it. We explore how our current culture and society have been neglecting to deal with its own collective shadows and our observations of the results of this choice.2025-02-0242 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #12: The Divine Feminine & Divine Masculine, Pt. 2: A Conversation With Dr. Amy FerrellA continuing conversation about apprehending the nature of the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine archetypes where we explore how different stories we have each adopted throughout our lives have shaped us both for good or for ill, where those stories came from, as well as exploring an aspect of the nature of the Divine Masculine as our capacity as human beings to "hold space," both for ourselves and for others. The conversation continues to further explore how our perception of these binaries points the way toward more complex and non-binary realities of human existence as we all strive to...2025-02-0242 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #11: The Divine Feminine & Divine Masculine, Part 1: A Conversation With Dr. Amy FerrellThe Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine archetypes in myths and fairy tales are both powerful symbols and powerful binaries, between which the human race investigates more of its own fullness and wholeness in the underlying unity of non-binary spaces. These archetypal symbols and energies are qualities which belong to all human beings, regardless of sex or gender, and as such are capable of being manifest and nutured in all of us. In part one of this three part series, Dr. Amy Ferrell and I engage in meaningful dialogue about our own experiences and encounters with each of these powerful...2025-01-1141 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #10: The Tale of the Half-ManThe stories which invoke such powerful, archetypal imagery as that of the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine energies are both timeless and ageless. These images, or symbols, are divine forms of energy that belong to all human beings. In this sense they are not restrained to either gender or sex. What happens, however, when we as a species begin to impose our own ideas of sex, gender identity, and patriarchal demands on these timeless images? The Tale of the Half-Man is a story which can invite us into this particular conversation. This episode is an introduction to a four...2025-01-1115 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #9: Reconciliation: I Carry All My Stories With MeThe work of inner reconciliation is not the work of getting rid of different parts of ourselves, including our own darknesses. The work, instead, is about accepting and taking responsibility for every part of ourselves, continually learning to bring them into balance with each other.2024-12-1408 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #8: Stories With Bear: Wisdom Stories From A Native American Perspective, Pt. 1Daniel Gray Bear, or "Bear" Calderon is a healer, elder, and wisdom figure who comes to us from the Mescalero Apache community. He is a master storyteller and a holder of space for those on a journey of healing and wholeness, having facilitated many sweat lodges and working one on one with individuals learning to listen, embrace, and follow their own paths of curiosity, healing, and growth. In this episode Bear shares with us some wisdom from the medicine wheel, a story about a grandfather and a grandson learning about love and commitment and ending our time with a...2024-12-0739 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #7: The Wizard of Oz: An Exploration In Mythological InterpretationThere are many different ways to engage and interact with stories. In this episode I provide but one example of the interpretation of a story where each character and component of the story itself is understood as being an aspect of the protagonist's personality, in this case, Dorothy from Kansas. From this perspective, the land of Oz is a metaphor for Dorothy's unconscious self, and all the characters in the story, from the cowardly lion to the wicked witch, are all different aspect of Dorothy's own personality. 2024-12-0226 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #6: The Art & Practice of WholenessWholeness is not something we achieve. Wholeness is what we already are. Our individual and collective journeys to realize and retrieve a connection with our own inner wholeness is a journey of re-remembering that which we have forgotten, that which we have lost sight of. Much of the first part of life consists of ego-building; learning to skills, trying new things, and figuring out our own identities as we grow and develop. At some point, the call changes in our lives, away from ego-building and back into re-remembering the full essence and truth of our individual selves...the truth...2024-11-1618 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #5: Trickster & The Tension of OppositesLiving in a world that feels as though it could not be more polarized, introducing the concept of balancing the tension of the opposites feels more crucial than ever. This episode investigates the purpose of learning to balance these tensions and why that is important to us as individuals and as communities. The Trickster motif will be introduced to observe the crucial role it often plays at luring us into these stories of tension that lie within, and how these tensions get projected outwardly into our world.2024-11-0937 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #4: Parts, Stories & The Human ShadowIn an effort to recognize and embrace the sanctity of living stories, as well as the sanctity of the human individual, this episode explores the nature of the different parts of the human psyche as well as the different stories of ourselves those parts are carrying for us. In addition, I reintroduce the concept of the human Shadow, and why it is important to understand its nature and role in our lives as we learn to see and work with more of our own hidden stories.2024-10-1624 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #3: The HUMUS of Humbleness & HumilityThe Latin root word HUMUS means "of the ground," or "of the earth." In this episode I explore this idea related to the concepts of humbleness and humility, inviting us not only to reimagine those words differently, but also to explore why our capacity to delve back into the Humus is important in our efforts, not only to engage our own inner stories, but stories from myth and fairy tales as well.2024-10-1524 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #2: Curiosity & ShameIn this episode I wanted to expand a little more on the concept and practice of curiosity, specifically in contrast to the experience of shame, and shame stories that we can collect over time and read ourselves into. This episode concludes with how we can begin to utilize the tools and practice of curiosity to find healing for ourselves from our own shame stories. 2024-10-0320 min
Myth & Fairy Tale Podcast: How Stories Shape and Change Our LivesEpisode #1: Welcome & IntroductionWelcome to this podcast! In this episode I will be introducing myself as well as some of the foundational ideas and concepts that form the heart of what this podcast is about and where the journey of engaging with stories more deeply and meaningfully can lead us. This episode is the first of a six-part series where I lay out these concepts and principles more in depth, and talk a little more about how engaging specifically with myths and fairy tales can help us shed some light on our own hidden worlds and the hidden stories we carry about...2024-09-3029 min
LGBTQ Archives - Stand Up For The Truth PodcastSome of the Biggest Stories From 2019
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What are some of the top news stories of 2019 from a biblical Christian worldview? David and Crash discuss as many as possible on today’s podcast! From all of us at Stand Up for the Truth and Q90 FM, have a great new year! 2020… Wow!
Olive Tree Ministries founder, author Jan Markell states:
Another year draws to a close, and anyone who is discerning the times, knows that headlines today are a herald of His coming. …The spirit of Antichrist is alive and well; Breaking news can be distre...2019-12-3153 minWorldview Archives - Stand Up For The Truth PodcastSome of the Biggest Stories From 2019
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What are some of the top news stories of 2019 from a biblical Christian worldview? David and Crash discuss as many as possible on today’s podcast! From all of us at Stand Up for the Truth and Q90 FM, have a great new year! 2020… Wow!
Olive Tree Ministries founder, author Jan Markell states:
Another year draws to a close, and anyone who is discerning the times, knows that headlines today are a herald of His coming. …The spirit of Antichrist is alive and well; Breaking news can be distre...2019-12-3153 minAbortion Archives - Stand Up For The Truth PodcastSome of the Biggest Stories From 2019
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What are some of the top news stories of 2019 from a biblical Christian worldview? David and Crash discuss as many as possible on today’s podcast! From all of us at Stand Up for the Truth and Q90 FM, have a great new year! 2020… Wow!
Olive Tree Ministries founder, author Jan Markell states:
Another year draws to a close, and anyone who is discerning the times, knows that headlines today are a herald of His coming. …The spirit of Antichrist is alive and well; Breaking news can be distre...2019-12-3153 minProgressive Christianity Archives - Stand Up For The Truth PodcastSome of the Biggest Stories From 2019
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What are some of the top news stories of 2019 from a biblical Christian worldview? David and Crash discuss as many as possible on today’s podcast! From all of us at Stand Up for the Truth and Q90 FM, have a great new year! 2020… Wow!
Olive Tree Ministries founder, author Jan Markell states:
Another year draws to a close, and anyone who is discerning the times, knows that headlines today are a herald of His coming. …The spirit of Antichrist is alive and well; Breaking news can be distre...2019-12-3153 min
All the Books!E234: New Releases and More for November 12, 2019This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss All-American Muslim Girl, Secondhand, Wild Life, and more great books.
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Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale by Adam Minter
Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs by Keena Roberts
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Ronnie and Markell Make A PodcastEpisode 53: Special Guest-Matthew Bordenave of DC ComicsRonnie and Markell geek out with Matthew Bordenave. He's responsible for animating great DC Comics animation movies and tv shows like Young Justice Season 1-3, The Dark Knight Returns part 1 and 2 and Justice League Action to name a few. Matt has also work for Marvel , Disney and Nickelodeon.
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The Children's Book PodcastDenis MarkellDenis Markell (@DenisMarkell), author of Click Here to Start, stops by the podcast to talk about setting a mystical adventure in a mundane space, making the kid characters feel real, and the notion that just because you haven't found the solution doesn't mean that there isn't one (you just have to keep trying). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/childrens-book-podcast/message2016-12-021h 04
ESCHATOS MINISTRIESA Reply to Jan Markell's "Understanding the Times" Prophecy Conference and Ed Hindson Likening Prewrath to Beating Your Wife - Ep 45I first talked about Jan Markell’s sensational, pretrib, annual, Bible prophecy conference. It represents the typical pretrib conference that is not very helpful for people to learn about Bible prophecy.
Second, I played a clip of pretrib teacher Dr. Ed Hindson from last year’s Markell’s conference. It was full of rhetoric claiming that prewrath teaching is tantamount to beating your wife. You can see the video clip below where he shows a picture of an abused woman on his powerpoint for the audience!
I gave two responses to Hindson’s bad theology.
Fi...2015-08-0930 min