When you grow up with both of your parents as clergy, you learn that church doesn’t just happen on Sundays. Your home is the church. But people experience church in different ways- good, best-intentioned, bad, even very bad. Daughter of an Episcopal priest and a Lutheran pastor, host Beckah Selnick is breaking down what it means to encounter and be held accountable to other people’s very strong and very specific ideas about God, organized religion, faith, and the like. The church shows up in the world, for better or worse, and so do her kids.
Are you ready to start your holiday season? Check out Episode 112 "Red Door Moments" for a list of PK approved Christmas movies, TV, and music!
Today is November 3, 2020. This is a big day. But days pass and new days come. As a gentle reminder of that fact, in this episode, I'll look at what the days from Sunday to Sunday looked like for a priest, a pastor, and two double PKs. Its a week in the life of a double PK.
Did you know that the church still sends missionaries into the world. This is true for all kinds of faith traditions, not just Mormons. I know this because I was one of them. Mission work, at least as I experienced it, was not what you might expect-and that's kind of the problem.
I'm not the only double PK in the world, I'm not even the only double PK in my family. My younger sister, Susannah, joins me to talk about her experience growing up in the church and what the church means to her now that she is an adult.
Clouds, angels, trumpets and pearly gates, all of that could be yours if you pass the hardest test of your life— judgement day. Fail, and it's demon torment forever. Or maybe, that's all made up. In this episode, I talk about the constructs of heaven and hell and how the Kingdom of God might be more familiar than you think.
From getting water at the well, to cleaning up the glass of broken ceilings, women have been serving the Christian church as long as it has been around. In this episode, the work of women and all marginalized people is recognized as valuable.
Clergy and church life are a mainstay in storytelling. Many a television show has tried to accurately represent the church, but to what success? On this episode, I discuss how story structure and representation matter even in comedy.
Have you ever noticed a Bible verse printed on a paper cup? Have you ever wondered why it says “In God We Trust” on our money? Well, it turns out that Capitalism and Christianity go hand in hand- that is if you're buying a certain brand. In Episode 105, I'll discuss patriotism, capitalism, televangelists, and the religious right.
Have you read the Bible from cover to cover? No? Me either, but that doesn't me from exploring ways to interpret the text. In this episode, I talk about biblical literalism and I even do an exegete of Daniel and the Lions' Den as an argument to defund the police.
Organized religion gets a bad rap, and for decent reason, but what happens when the church becomes “the man” and that “man” is your mom?
We've all heard the trope of the preacher's daughter, but how well does it hold up to real life? This episode discusses the how purity culture sets problematic expectations for people beyond the reach of the evangelical tradition that created it.
Do you think you had a lot of rules to follow growing up? Me too, but they weren't always set just by my parents. PK/PK Podcast kicks off with an exploration of what it was like growing up with a pastor for a mom and a priest for a dad.
Church operates in a different way now and church needs to operate in a different way now.
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