Life After Leaven w/ Tamice Spencer-Helms
As a follow up to her debut book, Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Mart & George Floyd, Tamice Spencer-Helms is joined by folx from all walks of life and society to talk about picking up the shattered fragments of a faith we used to know. Life After Leaven is a podcast for those seeking to heal from the damage caused by toxic Christianity and rebuild something new and life giving in its place.
Episodes
Meet the Spencer-Helms family and hear our story. From fake names to friend zoning, Tamice and Ellison share about leaving toxicity, finding themselves and finding love.
Life After Leaven is sponsored by Sub:Culture Incorporated, a 501c3 committed to eradicating cultural, social, spiritual, financial, and academic barriers for Black College Students. If you are interested in giving a tax deductible donation toward our work with bla...
Tamice and Rochelle talk about the fear that comes with letting go of evangelicalism in this raw and thought-provoking season finale. What if anything does it mean to walk away? How can we hold on to Jesus? The question for so many these days is whether Jesus is even worth holding on to? We think you know the answer. The real question is HOW do we hold on to Jesus?
Life After Leaven is a podcast where guests from various ...
Erin joins Tamice on this episode and talks about rethinking ways of doing spirituality after white evangelicalism, even in the most unfamiliar ways. Recounting the cost is about thikning about what that real cost of following white Jesus is and how leaving a faith that was once everything to you can lead to some interesting (exciting) places.
Life After Leaven is a podcast where guests from various faiths and background...
Karla talks about knowing the Holy Spirit from a young age, and the ways that relationship was complicated and eventually strengthened by her time in charismatic ministry spaces. As a afro-peruvian woman living undocumented in the states, she offers a unique perspective on the ways that the leaven of whiteness obscures and obstructs our ability to feel any real sense of belonging in these types of ministry spaces.
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When you get coffee from a white person, just know you're in trouble. Tamice and her friend Carol talk about the similarities and differences of the experience of whiteness in Kenya and in the United States. How does whiteness affect relationships between Africans and African Americans? Carol 'learns us today' on this topic and more. This episode is rich and sobering. Hope you're ready!
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What happens when a white person divests and breaks up with white Jesus? What do they root down in? Tamice talks with Alyssa Sieb about recovering what is lost in toxic faith, even for white people.
Life After Leaven is a podcast where guests from various faiths and backgrounds share their perspectives, anecdotes, and insight regarding how to move forward after leaving toxic faith and religion. We’ll be asking the tough q...
In this episode, Tamice and Sarah discuss the need to reframe the way we think about land and belonging. They examine how, for many Black and Indigenous people, land is tied to cultural identity, how colonialism has threatened that relationship, and how this has resulted in deep-seated issues around identity, belonging, and community.
Sarah's Book Reccomendation: Decolonizing Evangelicalism where Dr. Randy Wood...
Nya Abernathy talks to us about the three key elements of an embodied and healthy faith. She tells the story of what it means to be mystic and Pentecostal, and what it looks like to walk one another home.
Life After Leaven is a podcast where guests from various faiths and backgrounds share their perspectives, anecdotes, and insight regarding how to move forward after leaving toxic faith and religion. We’ll be asking the tough quest...
What do we do with Jesus? What do we do with the Word? Tamice welcomes her friend Tabatha to talk about what it has been like to love and follow Jesus outside of whiteness.
Life After Leaven is a podcast where guests from various faiths and backgrounds share their perspectives, anecdotes, and insight regarding how to move forward after leaving toxic faith and religion. We’ll be asking the tough questions and finding creat...
How do you know when it is time to go? Tamice and Rebekah talk about the catalytic moment that led to her family moving away from the west coast back to Chicago. Life After Leaven is a podcast where guests from various faiths and backgrounds share their perspectives, anecdotes, and insight regarding how to move forward after leaving toxic faith and religion. We’ll be asking the tough questions and finding creative solutions to com...
Have trouble envisioning what a church, faith, and community might look beyond on the other side of whiteness and toxic religion? Join me as I talk to my dear friend Amber about the spaces she left, and more importantly, the spaces she's building. Life After Leaven is a podcast where guests from various faiths and backgrounds share their perspectives, anecdotes, and insight regarding how to move forward after leaving toxic fa...
In this episode, Tamice Spencer-Helms talks about the purpose and vision for the podcast. She invites us into the conversations that aided her exodus from toxic religion, and gives us insight into what to expect from each episode.
Life After Leaven is a podcast where guests from various faiths and backgrounds share their perspectives, anecdotes, and insight regarding how to move forward after leaving toxic faith and religion. We’ll...
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