Mar 05 2025 68 mins
Description:
In this second installment of our special Midlife Renaissance series, the delightful Erin Hicks Moon joins Jen and Amy for a super resonant conversation to discuss what it looks like when the faith that you grew up with bears no resemblance to your current values and what matters to you today. But Erin reassures us that if our faith looked like it did 10, 15, even 20 years ago, we would not be evolving.
Erin is the host and resident bible scholar of the Faith Adjacent podcast and author of I’ve Got Questions: The Spiritual Practice of Having It Out with God. She’s a thoughtful guide for processing our questions, curiosity, and doubt.
Women naturally come into midlife with a posture of comfort in things they are sure of and curiosity to explore the things that they aren’t. There are many people searching for answers in the wilderness of faith but, as Erin reminds us, our questions can lead to a more vibrant and joyful faith.
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Segments
Midlife Glowup: Trying new things
Amy gives an update on her decision to go out on a limb as a newly-minted podcaster and Jen shares what it’s like to date again in your fifties.
Thought-provoking Quotes:
We do spiritual practices to be connected to God and I think we overcomplicate it with rigid checklists. – Erin Hicks Moon
Really working through the grief, and the sadness, and anger of watching your faith be weaponized or coming from a church that has split over something really difficult, or something personal in your life, something on a world stage. I think we have to be honest in that grief. That is a really difficult thing when you’re surrounded by toxic positivity in the church.Sometimes it sucks and we have to be honest about that. – Erin Hick Moon
We can still have a relationship with God, we can still have faith, but it doesn’t have to look the way everyone else says it should look. – Erin Hicks Moon
I’m shocked when I have conversations with people who I really did not know grew up in the church and it turns out we have so many of the same beliefs; we’ve been evolving on parallel tracks but they just choose not to identify that way. – Amy Hardin
I have never met one person who has gone through deconstruction and/or because they wanted to sin more. The overwhelming pattern is that they want to figure this out and at the end of the process, they end up with a faith that is stronger than what they began with. – Erin Hicks Moon
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
I've Got Questions: The Spiritual Practice of Having It Out with God by Erin Hicks Moon
I've Got Questions Guided Journal: Prompts and Practices for Rewilding Your Faith by Erin Hicks Moon
Sarah Bessey - https://www.sarahbessey.com/
Anne Lamott - https://www.instagram.com/annelamott/
Bridgerton - https://www.netflix.com/title/80232398
Eugene Peterson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_H._Peterson
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr
Pastor Trey - https://www.instagram.com/pastortrey05/
Dallas Willard - https://dwillard.org/
Guest’s Links:
Erin’s website - https://www.erinhmoon.com/
Erin’s Substack - https://erinhmoon.substack.com/
Erin’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/erinhmoon
Erin’s Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/erin.hicks.moon
Erin’s Podcast - https://faithadjacent.com/
Connect with Jen!
Jen’s website - https://jenhatmaker.com/
Jen’s Instagram - https://instagram.com/jenhatmaker
Jen’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/jenHatmaker/
Jen’s Facebook - https://facebook.com/jenhatmaker
Jen’s YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/JenHatmaker
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