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Reclaiming My Theology
Reclaiming My Theology is a podcast and community taking our theology back from ideas and systems that oppress. My name is Brandi Miller, some of you know me as @brandinico in online spaces. For over a decade, I have been exploring, unlearing, and reimagining my faith outside of systemic oppression and want to bring you along with me! Each season of the podcast will be a deep dive into a form of systemic oppression and ask how the values of oppressive ideas shape our hearts, minds, politics, and lived experiences. There are so many things to reclaim our theology from: white supremacy, patriarchy and misogyny, capitalism, homophobia, ableism and more. As we launch our first season, we will be reclaiming our theology from white supremacy. Each episode, I will talk to a guest about how the attributes of oppressive ideologies have infiltrated how we see ourselves, each other, and God. We will learn from marginalized communities who practice a different way, and seek to create a more just faith experience together.
Episodes
111 episodes
...from Empire: Evangelism w/ David Gate
In this episode, Brandi is joined by poet and creative David Gate to talk about evangelism and the ways the modern western approaches to it prime Christians toward colonialism, accepting propaganda, ...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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...from Empire: Soul Care and Empire w/ Hailey Mitsui
In the episode Brandi is joined by Hailey Mitsui of Soul Reparations to talk about how we can sustain and give attention the well-being of our souls in the midst of ever-loudening imperial realities.OUR 2024 ADVENT DEVOTIONAL ALL OF...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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1:04:51
...From Empire: State Violence w/ Cassie Chee
In this episode, Brandi sits down with activist Cassie Chee to talk about how state violence is developed, normalized, and can be resisted in the Christian imagination and in our politics. If you like what you hear you can subscribe, ra...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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1:06:28
...From Empire: How We Learn Empire w/ Mariko Clark
In this episode, Brandi is joined by author and storyteller Mariko Clark to talk about how we learn empire and the development of imperial values in how we raise our children and really, how we learn as adults what was never explicitly framed f...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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57:14
...From Empire: Messiahs, Kings, and Rulers w/ Barnabas Lin
In this episode, Brandi is joined by Barnabas Lin to talk about messiahs, kings, and rulers. They discuss the many ways that reliance on so-called sovereign leaders to save them has led not only to idolatry and dysfunction, but also greater enm...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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1:18:27
...From Empire: What is Empire? w/Scott Hall
In this inaugural episode of Reclaiming [our] Theology from Empire, Brandi is joined by Scott Hall of White People Work to talk about the basics of empire in and out of scripture. This episode was ...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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1:16:05
...Purity Culture: Season Finale Q and A pt. 1 (w/ Erna Kim Hackett)
This episode part one of a two part Q and A session as we close out this series on purity culture. In this part, we discuss questions about attraction, sexual exploration, what the point of marriage and sex are, some questions about asexuality ...
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Season 6
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Episode 27
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1:06:55
...From Purity Culture: TradWives w/ Allison Sanders
In this episode, Brandi is joined by Allison Sanders to talk about tradwives. They dive into the history of this broader idea and the ways that it reinforces the binaries, roles, and expectations that build what we know of as purity culture.
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Season 6
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Episode 26
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1:18:27
...From Purity Culture: The Politics of Purity Culture w/ Dr. Sara Moslener
In this episode, Brandi is joined by Dr. Sara Moslener, author of Virgin Nation to do a survey of the politics and history of purity culture. They discuss that purity culture, birthed out of political movements, entrenches us more deep...
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Season 6
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Episode 25
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59:02
...From Purity Culture: Desire w/ Dr. Hillary McBride
In this epsiode, Brandi is joined by registered psychologist Dr. Hillary McBride to talk about desire. They discuss the ways the desire is tamped in Christian space in ways the stunt or delay development and ways that we can come back to oursel...
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Season 6
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Episode 24
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45:49
...From Purity Culture: Christian Romance w/ D.L. Mayfield
In this episode, Brandi is joined by D.L. Mayfield to talk about Christian romance- the industry, the reality, and the implications. They explore the tenants and construction of Christian romance as...
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Season 6
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Episode 23
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1:08:15
Reclaiming Our Theology in the Wilderness w/ Sarah Bessey
In this episode, Brandi is joined by Sarah Bessey to talk about how we hold onto our spirituality and personhood when we find ourselves outside of the spaces and ideas that formed us. You can find Sarah's work, including her new book
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...From Purity Culture: Virginity w/ Erna Kim Hackett
In this episode, Brandi is joined by Erna Kim Hackett (@liberatedtogether) to explore the concept of virginity, its cultural implications, its theological roots and how it separates us from ourselves, others, and inhibits our relationship...
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Season 6
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Episode 22
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1:24:51
...From Purity Culture: Militarism w/ Camille Hernandez
*note- due to a technical glitch, Brandi's audio clips and cuts a bit, our apologies for the technical issues and thank you for your patience.___In this episode Brandi is joined by author, theologian, and poet
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Season 6
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Episode 21
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1:07:25
...From Purity Culture: Consent w/ E Kole
In this episode, Brandi is joined by E Kole to talk about consent- what it is, how we learn it, and the places in out spirituality that keep us from being able to do it well. If you like what you hear you can subscribe, rate, revie...
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Season 6
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Episode 20
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1:17:09
...From Purity Culture: Sacred Self Care w/ Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes
In this episode Brandi is joined by psychologist, professor, and preacher Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes to talk about Sacred Self Care. They discuss the ways that our distorted views of God and self prevent us from being able to create spaces of c...
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Season 6
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Episode 19
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58:59
...Purity Culture: Reimagining Sex and Intimacy After Purity Culture w/ Jenny Hall
In this episode Brandi is joined by artist and creative Jenny Hall to talk about the role that symbols and images play in our conception of purity culture/ ourselves in it. They explore images, new and old, and ask how engaging with new or new ...
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Season 6
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Episode 18
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1:08:22
Reclaiming Our Theology w/ Brandi Miller (and guest host Erna Kim Hackett)
In this episode the tables are turned as Erna Kim Hackett (@liberatedtogether) dialouges with Brandi, the host of Reclaiming My Theology about what the last three years of this work have meant, what we have learned together, how Creator has sho...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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53:38
...From Purity Culture: Fetishization w/ Bianca Mabute-Louie
In this episode, Brandi is joined by Bianca Mabute-Louie (@beyonkz) to talk about fetishization. They discuss the ways that this particular form of reducing people to singular attributes creates the context for violence, assimilation, and ultim...
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Season 6
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Episode 17
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1:16:23
...From Purity Culture: Privacy w/ Elizabeth Moraff
In this episode, Brandi is joined by Elizabeth Moraff to talk about the intersection of purity culture and privacy. They talk about the theologies used to violate privacy as well as the role of privacy in out holistic becoming. If ...
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Season 6
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Episode 16
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1:31:22
...From Purity Culture: Partner Violence w/ Tamice Spencer-Helms
In this episode, Brandi (she/her) is joined by Tamice Spencer-Helms (she/they) to talk about partner violence. They discuss the ways that Evangelical Christian theolgoy both creates the context for and a limit to the pathways out of partner and...
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Season 6
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Episode 15
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1:05:42
...From Purity Culture: Marriage, Sex, and Purity Culture w/ Ben and Andrea Emerson
In this episode, Brandi is joined by Ben and Andrea Emerson to talk about the impacts of purity culture on relationships- marriage in particular. They talk about the expectations given about and before marriage and the ways that the tools we ar...
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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1:15:46
...From Purity Culture: Self-Suppression w/ Arielle Estoria
In this episode, Brandi is joined by Arielle Estoria about self-suppression, how we learn it, the impacts it has, and how our theology/relationship to got gets warped in the in between. They also discuss her new book
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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1:01:43
...From Purity Culture: Reclaiming the Bible From Purity Culture w/ Marty Solomon
In this episode, Brandi is joined by Marty Solomon of the BEMA podcast, to talk about the questions that we are often led to ask about the bible, sex, dating, purity culture, and relationship to one another. They explore both interpretation str...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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57:32
...From Purity Culture: Men, Masculinity, and Purity Culture w/ Jonathan Walton
In this episode, Brandi is joined by friend Jonathan Walton to talk about man, masculinity, and purity culture, specifically the ways that men are taught a theology of dominance, exploitation, emotional stuntedness and repression in the teachin...
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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1:07:45