Found Family with MaryB. Safrit

Welcome to Found Family. Every Tuesday, I have honest conversations celebrating the creative ways our guests make community in their actual lives and providing tips about how you can do the same.

Found Family with MaryB. Safrit is a society podcast hosted by MaryB. Safrit, with 204 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

MaryB. Safrit hosts Found Family with MaryB. Safrit, a society show with 204 episodes published.

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  Cooking Up Better Biblical Interpretation (feat. Jennifer Garcia Bashaw and Aaron Higashi)

  Jan 20, 202645 minS0

  <p>CW: As a heads up, Aaron describes the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, which includes mention of rape. If this is a tender subject for you, please take care while listening. </p><p>This week, Mary B is joined by biblical scholars Jennifer Garcia Bashaw and Aaron Higashi to discuss their upcoming book Serving Up Scripture: How to Interpret the Bible for Yourself and Others. The book offers accessible tools for interpreting scripture with care, curiosity, and context. Rather than a black and white understanding of the text as right or wrong, Bashaw and Higashi invite readers to ask i...

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  Finding Light in a Fractured World (feat. Rose M. Berger)

  Jan 13, 202648 minS0

  <p>Rose Marie Berger, Senior Editor of Sojourners magazine, is a Catholic peace activist and poet who has worked within social justice movements for more than 40 years. She is the volume editor of Light for the Way: Seeking Simplicity, Connection, and Repair in a Broken World and joins MaryB. to discuss how the book extends the conversations long discussed within the Sojourners community, out into the world while asking what it means to live authentically in this day and age. </p><p>This discussion explores several paradoxes: the need for isolation and contemplation in order to better serve community, the g...

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  How to Show Up For A Grieving Friend (feat. Shelby Forsythia)

  Jan 6, 202648 minS0

  <p>Shelby Forsythia, a grief coach and author of Of Course I’m Here Right Now: Three Actually Helpful Things to Say to Someone Grieving, joins Mary B to offer practical guidance on how to show up for people in grief. When unsure of the “right” words, many people default to silence rather than risk saying the wrong thing, often leaving grievers feeling isolated. </p><p>Shelby’s work aims to interrupt that pattern. The title of her book is structured around three simple statements: Of course. I’m here. Right now. These serve as guideposts for offering genuine, supportive language. S...

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  How Belonging Helps Us Resist Empire (feat. Kat Armas)

  Dec 16, 202544 minS0

  <p>Mary B is joined by Kat Armas to discuss her new book, Liturgies for Resisting Empire: Seeking Community, Belonging, and Peace in a Dehumanizing World. This episode begins with Armas offering an invocation — as she does at the start of each chapter of her latest book. Her invocation is aptly a liturgy for resisting empire. Armas focuses on the important of community as resistance because as she says, “friendship… is the death of empire.” It is in community where one finds new ways to resist and care for their neighbor. Empire insidiously convinces us to think in binary and Armas ur...

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  Purity Culture, Mythology, and White Womanhood (feat. Dr. Sara Moslener)

  Dec 9, 202541 minS0

  <p>CW: abortion</p><p>Mary B is joined by Dr. Sara Moslener to discuss her new book After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America. Moslener traces her journey from a high school defender of purity culture to a scholar with a nuanced understanding of how the myth of purity has helped mask elements of white supremacy as Christian values. She reflects on the power of myth as a storytelling tool that — depending on its intent — can yield positive or harmful results. Mary B relates this to the ways myths are being used by the most powerful in t...

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