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Growing Up ChurchBelief In God Vs. Hope In GodIf I could describe my relationship with the Lord these past few years it’s that I’ve not lost my belief in God’s existence. However, I do or have struggled to understand what it means to put my hope in God, especially when life hasn’t turned out the way I expected it to.
2024-09-2325 minGrowing Up ChurchForced ReligionGrowing up in church for some, felt like having religion shoved down their throat. My older sister didn’t grow up in church like my other siblings and I. She came to church and Christianity a little later in her childhood. And with that I could see how she could feel like her experience growing up felt forced. So we talked about it. And try to answer the question, what’s the difference between growing up in a religious environment vs having religion forced on you?
2023-07-0535 minGrowing Up ChurchWhere I Been? Again.In this episode, I talk about why there hasn’t been any new episodes of the podcast for about a year and also why I created Growing Up Church and my initial vision for the podcast.
2023-03-3117 minGrowing Up ChurchBelonging/What Does It Mean to Belong?“What benefits do you find in belonging to Jesus?” This is a question a friend of mine and listener of the show asked if I could answer on the podcast. But I struggled to answer the question of belonging because I realized I didn’t feel like I belonged. And that realization led me to ask myself “What does it mean to belong to Jesus?”. So to help me answer this question I invited two other friends of mine to help me answer this question.
2023-02-2025 minGrowing Up ChurchDeconstructing Your FaithDeconstructing one’s faith is a process that I have started to become more aware about through various podcasts and social media posts but also something I know very little about. So in this episode I decided to invite my good friend Grace, co-host of the podcast Graced With Questions, to help me define what it means to deconstruct your faith along with why we don’t talk about that in church.
2022-01-3134 minGrowing Up ChurchThe 2021 Wrap UpIn this episode I reflect on what I learned about myself this year and how I plan on moving into 2022, Lord willing!
2021-12-3113 minGrowing Up ChurchThe Reluctant Bible ScholarI invited my good friend Lydia back to the GUC podcast to talk about her experience abroad in Bible college and how that has changed or even enlightened her personal relationship with God.
2021-09-2332 minGrowing Up ChurchA Social Media ConversationalistOn this episode of Growing Up Church my guest Lauren uses Facebook to have conversations about issues within the Christian church. So in this episode we’re going to talk a little about her decision to have these conversations as well as have her share about her own growing up church experiences.
2021-08-0931 minGrowing Up ChurchWorking Out Your Own Faith Pt. 2Minnie, Melody and Chrissy were guests on GUC last season for the Black Joy episode. In this episode they join me as we revisit that conversation and talk about how walking out their own faith looks like now.
2021-07-1426 minGrowing Up ChurchWorking Out Your Own Faith Pt. 1In this episode I reflect on the events of 2020 and how that has shaped my relationship with church now while also sharing how I’m moving forward in 2021.
2021-05-1121 minGrowing Up ChurchBlack JoyIn the final episode of season 1 of GUC I thought I would switch-gears and share a positive and uplifting story of a few black women finding some joy in the midst of the chaotic world around them.
2020-08-1917 minGrowing Up ChurchWhen Ally’s SpeakThe number of non-black people speaking up and speaking out against police brutality and racism in this country is more than we’ve seen in the past few years. So I spoke to two friends of mine, Jocelyn and Laura about their response as an ally and what you can or should do to be an ally right now.
2020-07-0251 minGrowing Up ChurchBlack and Christian, Dealing With Systemic RacismGrowing up in a predominantly black church I don’t remember many discussions about racism even though it was definitely happening and we were all talking about it outside of church. In this episode, my play cousin Chris Francois and I talk about the impact the killings of Ahmad Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd have had on us personally as well as grappling with our blackness and our Christian beliefs in this country.
2020-06-0553 minGrowing Up ChurchStay Home For What?Not all churches across the U. S. accepted not being able to have service during the pandemic. So in this episode my good friend Craig Fontes and Pastor Helene Robinson of Life Worship Center take a look at the cases some churches have made to justify staying open as well as what that says about “The Church” and where we are.
2020-05-0632 minGrowing Up ChurchRepresentHow do I show people that I’m a Christian? What does that look like? Those were such major questions for me growing up in church. And in this episode I invited my good friend Lydia back to discuss how we attempted to answer these questions in our youth and how we feel about these questions and our answers to them now as adults.
2020-01-1734 minGrowing Up ChurchWhere I Been?This is a special episode where I share with you the listener about how the idea originated and why it’s taken me so long to post another episode since the podcast debuted in October 2019.
2020-01-0108 minGrowing Up ChurchRelationship with Church Vs Relationship with GodIn this episode my good friend Lydia and I discuss our relationship with church versus our relationship with God and the difference between the two.
2019-10-1430 minGrowing Up ChurchGrowing Up Church TrailerA new a podcast about growing up in church and growing up churched hosted by me Trish_Pluggedn. Join me and my guests as we share our stories on our church experiences as well as our perspectives and observations about church culture and our spirituality. Coming this August.
2019-07-1901 min