Missing Some Pages: A Podcast About Life As We Know It

nneagram with Jessica D. Dickson (Pt. 1) For our first two-part interview, we’re joined by the oft-quoted (on MSP) Therapist, Teacher and Enneagram Coach, Jessica Denise Dickson to talk about how she uses the Enneagram of Personality in a very nuanced and unique way to help people reintegrate those pieces that whiteness requires them to leave behind. @missingsomepagespodcast on Instagram @e_dub867...

Wherein we take a look at the missional origins of the colonial mindset that has brought us to our present day. We touch on the impacts of this hegemonic worldview on indigenous communities and other marginalized identities as well as the decolonizing element of a deconstruction journey that can often put one at odds with their church community. @missingsomepagespodcast on Instagram @e_dub8674 on...

Looking back to our Battle Songs episode, we attempt to re-imagine what we consider to be an Enemy. We look at opportunities to integrate those parts of ourselves that are “othered” by our respective communities by “loving [these] enemies,” as Jesus commands us to do. @missingsomepagespodcast on Instagram @e_dub8674 on Instagram @rondahw on Instagram u/missing_some_pages (Reddit) @missingsomepages...

In this episode, we welcome our very first official guest!! Rohadi Nagassar, author and creator and host of the Faith in a Fresh Vibe podcast joins us to discuss his forthcoming book, “Whole and Human: 40 Meditations for Liberating Body + Spirit”. @missingsomepagespodcast on Instagram @e_dub8674 on Instagram @rondahw on Instagram u/missing_some_pages (Reddit) Patreon missingsomepagespodcast@gmail....

Things get real in this episode where Rondah and Erik discuss the things that sometimes make it tricky to serve in a congregation who hold tightly theological views that we are leaving behind. We talk about why we choose to stay and what often makes that choice difficult. @missingsomepagespodcast on Instagram @e_dub8674 on Instagram @rondahw on Instagram u/missing_some_pages (Reddit) Patreon missi...

Wherein your intrepid podcast hosts take their own Dante-esque journey into the ancient origins of the modern concept of “The Bad Place.” Our conversation takes us from She’ol to Jewish Apocalyptic theology, through the Apocrypha and the Hellenic period to Jesus and Revelation. In the end, we’ll discuss whether we honestly believe it’s a place you can actually go and if there’s even anyone there....

In this episode, we take a look at how Christian colonialism impacted ancient African cultural traditions during the Atlantic Slave Trade and talk about some of the reasons why so many of these traditions have been vilified in modern Christian circles. We discuss the difference between modern traditions within the African diaspora (Santeria, Voodoo, Gullah) and how these traditions are both differ...

Wherein we take a deep look at how millennia of belief in God as Sovereign has led to colonialism, climate crisis, and a disconnected relationship of dominion over the land and all its exploitable resources instead of a kinship with the earth and the cosmos more generally. We discuss how this influences our beliefs about the afterlife and compare what we were told happens after we die to alternati...

In this episode, we talk about 4 (reasonably) well known theories about how Jesus’ death creates atonement. We look at the origins of the English word atonement (originally “at one-ment”) and how that original sense of unity with God has morphed over the centuries into appeasement. We dive deep into Penal Substitutionary Atonement, Moral Exemplar, Scapegoat and Christus Victor theories and try to...

Wherein we chat about the practice of Spiritual bypassing, which is the use of spiritual ideas, beliefs, and practices to avoid addressing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished human development. @missingsomepagespodcast on Instagram @e_dub8674 on Instagram @rondahw on Instagram Patreon missingsomepagespodcast@gmail.com Welcome to Plathville (IMDb) @valariekaur on Insta...

Wherein we discuss the Enneagram of Personality and its impact on our journeys of de/reconstruction and decolonization. We touch on where we first learned about it, the various approaches we’ve studied, and how it can be applied to the 9 Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount. @missingsomepagespodcast on Instagram @e_dub8674 on Instagram @rondahw on Instagram Patreon missingsomepagespodcast@gmail.c...

Wherein we chat about the “accident of the Bible.” The fact that any of the 66 currently canonized books survived the last 2000+ years of history is an actual miracle; let alone the somewhat arbitrary updates and edits that have occurred along the way, making their way into the current translations. We talk about the order of the books, the paucity of Pauline Epistles and much in between! What if,...

Words!! We talk about the game of telephone that is the multitudinous myriad of translations of the Bible that we English speakers have inherited. From biblical puns to wordly whoopsies, we finally learn how it is that a camel came to be positioned to pass through the eye of a needle. Center for Action and Contemplation - Daily Meditation - A Divine Invitation - Dr. Barbara Holmes, Oct 8, 2024 Dat...

Wherein we talk about the evolution of Jesus from a brown-skinned, West Asian member of a colonized people to a lily-white saviour of a “persecuted” middle and upper class of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and (for the moment) Democratic North America (weird, right?!). We discuss the origins of “White People” as a racial concept and how whiteness has co-opted what was meant to be universa...

Following up on the previous episode, we continue our discussion on dismantling whiteness through the songs we sing and what we opt to include. We touch on evolution, reparation, and the trope of failing upward. @missingsomepagespodcast on Instagram @e_dub8674 on Instagram @rondahw on Instagram Patreon missingsomepagespodcast@gmail.com @bipochealingcentre on Instagram BIPOC Healing and Wellness Ce...

Wherein we chat about how songs have the power to impact a listeners emotional state. We discuss how, as worship leaders at our own church, we’ve begun to notice how often the songs establish a sentiment of embattlement and persecution - to listeners primed to associate that persecution with living a Jesus-based life - which is then followed by sermons that reinforce those sentiments, sending peop...

In which Rondah and Erik talk about the concept of re-indigenization, whereby descendants of colonial settlers can find reconnection to the indigenous lands of their ancestors to gain a better understanding the relationship between Indigenous peoples of North America and the lands known as Turtle Island. We go back to the beginnings of our respective de/reconstruction and decolonization journeys t...

S1E3 - Dear Timothy… In which Erik and Rondah talk about 2 Timothy 3:16 and what “God-breathed” actually refers to. We dig into our struggles with what are considered “Biblical principles”, why the Bible is considered authoritative, and how those frameworks support systems that continue to marginalized and other. God Is a Black Woman - Christena Cleveland, book description on Storygraph @christena...

In which our intrepid podcast hosts dive deep into where/how our de/reconstruction and decolonization journeys began. We talk about what de/reconstruction and decolonization mean to us and we introduce our relationship with The Enneagram of Personality and how pivotal it has been in our deconstruction journeys. LINKS: Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day - Kaitli...

In this episode, you’ll meet your hosts, Rondah Worrell-Maik and Erik Williams. We talk about our social locations, what brought us to this place of de/reconstruction and decolonization and what you can expect from the podcast series. You’re diving into the middle of an ongoing conversation that we’ve finally decided to record so that y’all can join in with us! Does deconstruction and/or decoloniz...