Accidental Tomatoes

Sep 29 2024 100 ep. 48 mins 2
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A podcast for people trying to embrace spirituality beyond the fences of institutional Christianity

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Season 5 Episode 10: Spilling the Black Girl Tea Part 4 - Spaces and Places

Sep 29 2024 71 mins  
“Spilling the Black Girl Tea: Unfiltered Stories from the Heart of Appalachia” is a multimedia project built on the fundamental belief that the people who are the least heard have the most important things to say.The storytellers in the project are Black girls and women who call West Virginia home — part of a vibrant but often overlooked group that comprises less than 2.5% of

Season 5 Episode 9: Spilling the Black Girl Tea Part 3 - Health and Healers

Sep 22 2024 35 mins  
“Spilling the Black Girl Tea: Unfiltered Stories from the Heart of Appalachia” is a multimedia project built on the fundamental belief that the people who are the least heard have the most important things to say.The storytellers in the project are Black girls and women who call West Virginia home — part of a vibrant but often overlooked group that comprises less than 2.5% of

Season 5 Episode 8: Spilling the Black Girl Tea Part 2: Girls and Curls

Sep 15 2024 76 mins  
“Spilling the Black Girl Tea: Unfiltered Stories from the Heart of Appalachia” is a multimedia project built on the fundamental belief that the people who are the least heard have the most important things to say.The storytellers in the project are Black girls and women who call West Virginia home — part of a vibrant but often overlooked group that comprises less than 2.5% of

Episode 99: Spilling the Black Girl Tea Part 1 - Learning and Leading

Sep 08 2024 82 mins  
“Spilling the Black Girl Tea: Unfiltered Stories from the Heart of Appalachia” is a multimedia project built on the fundamental belief that the people who are the least heard have the most important things to say.The storytellers in the project are Black girls and women who call West Virginia home — part of a vibrant but often overlooked group that comprises less than 2.5% of

Season 5 Episode 6: Wild Goose '24: The West Virginia Water Crisis in Theological Perspective

Jul 16 2024 48 mins  
Joe talks with Brad Davis and Josh Scott about how colonialist interpretations of the Bible have helped contribute to the social, economic, political, and spiritual exploitation of Central Appalachia, including the WV water crisis, at the 2024 Wild Goose Festival. (Our apologies for the extra bit of background noise...this episode was recorded live in an open area without studio co

Season 5 Episode 5: A renewed focus on justice for WV United Methodists

Jun 14 2024 40 mins  
Fresh off the 2024 Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church in West Virginia, Heather and Joe take a look at two resolutions that signal a renewed focus on social justice for the denomination in the Mountain State and beyond.Show links:Hope for McDowell: https://hopeinthemountains.com/donate/ (please specify “Hope for McDowell” on the donation page)From Below: Rising To

Season 5 Episode 4: Water Crisis in Southern West Virginia

May 07 2024 58 mins  
In one of the historically poorest communities in America, thousands of people are going without clean tap water in their homes. And while cities like Flint, MI, and Jackson, MS, deservedly grab national headlines for their water issues, the Southern West Virginia Coalfields are now decades into a water crisis with few answers on the horizon. In this episode, Brad Davis and Caitlin

Season 5 Episode 3: Decolonizing Tourism with Caitlin Ware

Apr 02 2024 62 mins  
We don't often think about tourism as a justice issue, but the displacement of families and communities to provide a more favorable user experience in tourist locations is a very real concern in places like Appalachia, where connection to the land runs deep and where infrastructure to support a tourist economy lags significantly behind. In this episode, Heather and Joe sit down wit

Season 5 Episode 2: The changing shape of deconstruction

Mar 03 2024 54 mins  
How is spiritual deconstruction like a lasagna? Is reconstruction a necessary result of deconstruction? Heather Moore and Joe Webb unpack these questions and more in Heather's debut as our new co-host!

Season 5 Episode 1: Deconstructing Grief

Feb 02 2024 17 mins  
What does grief look like in the midst of spiritual/religious deconstruction? When your beliefs change, what do you hold on in the midst of loss? In the first episode of our 5th season, Joe talks openly about how old constructs no longer work for him following the death of his father, and how therapy and community are filling the void.