A Messy Amen

Send us Fan Mail We made it through a whole season of A Messy Amen, and before we dive deeper into Season 2, we’re taking a minute to look back. Season 1 was thirteen episodes of real people telling the truth about the hard stuff. The stuff most of us only ever carry in private. In this recap, we’re revisiting some of the moments that have stuck with me long after the mics turned off. We talked ab...

Send us Fan Mail Part Two with Sunni Henry Man, when Sunni told me part one didn't even scratch the surface, I believed her, but I was not ready for this one. We pick right back up and go deep, and I mean DEEP. Sunni walks us through the last ten years of her life, and honestly, I still get chills thinking about it. Seven strokes. An aortic dissection with less than a one percent survival rat...

Send us Fan Mail What do you do with a life that started in chaos and kept piling on? Abuse, addiction, broken marriages, eating disorders, children with rare diseases, open heart surgery, paralysis, and a moment where Sunni Henry literally died on the operating table and came back. This is not a tidy story. But it is a redemption story, and those are the ones worth telling. In this episode I sit...

Send us Fan Mail Some of the hardest stuff we carry, we carry quietly. We show up on Sunday, we smile, we serve, and nobody knows the candle is burning at both ends until it finally goes out. This week I sat down with Pastor Jim Westheim, who has spent 40 years in ministry, and he got honest about something a lot of us are scared to say out loud. Burnout. Depression. Anxiety. The kind of compassio...

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when the trial comes back... again? This week I'm sitting down with Holly Maltby, who has walked through cancer not once, not twice, but FOUR times since 2019. And just when she thought the hardest part was behind her, a three year battle with anxiety showed up next. Holly gets honest about the panic attacks, the nights she didn't want to be on this earth...

Send us Fan Mail Michelle sits down with Nathanial Souder for one of the most raw and redemptive conversations the show has ever held. From a lonely childhood with no one to turn to, to a blood oath with an outlaw motorcycle club, to being kidnapped, tortured, and escaping with his life, Nathanial's story is not a quiet one. And it didn't stop there. A rare brain condition that no surgeo...

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm sitting down with Savannah Mackie, and I have to be honest, when I first thought about having her on, she was one of those people I might have just assumed had it all together. Varsity volleyball, competitive dancer, president of multiple clubs, everybody's friend. You know the type. But what Savannah shares in this episode is a reminder that the highlight...

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when the people who were supposed to point you to God... made you want to walk away from Him instead? That is exactly where Elizabeth Androl found herself. She grew up in church, loved it, had her name engraved on her very first Bible. But between a legalistic environment, and adults who contradicted everything she believed, she did what a lot of young girls do. She...

Send us Fan Mail What do you say to a kid sitting behind bars who believes the world has already written them off? In this moving and hope-filled episode, Michelle sits down with Mickey Holm, a passionate advocate and volunteer with Forgotten Youth Ministries — a non-denominational Christian nonprofit based in Saginaw, Michigan that has been walking into juvenile detention centers since 1999 to sh...

Send us Fan Mail In this deeply personal and powerful episode, Michelle sits down with motivational speaker, pastor, nonprofit founder, and former All-American running back Brian Pruitt for a conversation about identity, fatherhood, forgiveness, purpose, and what happens when God rewrites your plans. Brian shares the heartbreaking story of how an NFL dream ended overnight after doctors discovered...

Send us Fan Mail This conversation is honest, a little messy, and full of hope. We’re talking about what it looks like to meet God in your brokenness, not once you’ve cleaned it all up. From wrestling with abandonment and feeling unlovable, to slowly learning how to trust God as a good Father… this episode is about letting truth speak louder than the lies. We also get into Bible journaling, not fo...

Send us Fan Mail What if the thing you thought was helping you cope… was actually the thing quietly destroying you? Struggling with addiction, codependency, or feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns? In this episode of A Messy Amen , I sit down with my friend Alyssa to talk about addiction, trauma, and what it really looks like to surrender your life to God, not just in words, but in the hard, uncomf...

Send us Fan Mail What does it look like to trust God when things feel uncertain—or even uncomfortable? In this episode, I sit down with my friend Teresa to talk about learning to hear God’s voice and follow His lead in real, everyday moments. From wrestling with failure and intrusive thoughts to stepping out in bold faith with complete strangers, Teresa shares how God has met her in both the tensi...

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when life doesn’t turn out the way you hoped? We all know the phrase “turn lemons into lemonade,” but what does that actually look like when the pain is real, prayers feel unanswered, and life feels heavy? In this episode, we’re talking about what it means to trust God in the middle of it, not after things get better. Together, we unpack what Scripture really says a...