The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Oct 21, 2026 · 36 min · 10 segments
What if the shame you carry about your body is not something Jesus ever asked you to carry? In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pushes back on all the lies that we have internalized about our bodies…
I believe that once we are able to name lies, alternative facts as some people know them, or untruths we might say, once we are able to name them, we can then begin to pay attention to how they shape us, how they inform our thoughts and our ideas about ourselves and about others.
But this kind of unlearning is so difficult, right? Because when you are learning something, you feel as though you're adding to this depth and breadth of who you understand yourself to be, right? You are adding to the person that you think you are, a person you know you are.
And so all too often our bodies, our egos, our persona resists this kind of unlearning.
Because to accept that you have something to unlearn, to accept that perhaps you've internalized some knowledge or a way of thinking that's contrary to what you actually want to believe or how you see yourself requires a profound sense of humility, the ability to recognize that not only might you be wrong, but that you may also be causing yourself or others harm.
And yet we know that unlearning, recognizing that we have made a mistake or something that we perhaps thought or believe is contrary to our own collective flourishing is critical if we are to grow and evolve, if we are to grow and become more Christ-like, if we're to grow in our own maturity.
And so how do we create the conditions, right? How do we foster an environment where people feel safe to admit that they were wrong? What do we have to do to create the space where people feel safe? Because fundamentally, it is about feeling safe.
And I think so much of what I've come to the conclusion of in my own life, and especially talking about bodies, is that even though the things I'm going to talk about, I believe most of us know they are not true, that they are lies, we don't feel safe enough to actually acknowledge them, to actually own them in such a way that they orient our lives, how we see ourselves, that we allow them to change us.
And so this is my hope throughout this series, that we are able to move in this direction.
Last week, we talked about two untruths that were more in the spiritual realm, and today we're going to get more into the physical realm.
And the spiritual untruths we talked about last week centered on this idea that we need to subdue and control the body, or that our bodies don't really matter theologically or spiritually, that it's our spirit.
And we were learning, right, that neither Jesus nor Paul believed in what we might say is body-soul dualism, this idea that our souls are separate from our bodies.
Our spirits, the image of God reflected in us, is what animates our life that is lived out within our bodies.
I believe that once we are able to name lies, alternative facts as some people know them, or untruths we might say, once we are able to name them, we can then begin to pay attention to how they shape us, how they inform our thoughts and our ideas about ourselves and about others.
But this kind of unlearning is so difficult, right? Because when you are learning something, you feel as though you're adding to this depth and breadth of who you understand yourself to be, right? You are adding to the person that you think you are, a person you know you are.
And so all too often our bodies, our egos, our persona resists this kind of unlearning.
Because to accept that you have something to unlearn, to accept that perhaps you've internalized some knowledge or a way of thinking that's contrary to what you actually want to believe or how you see yourself requires a profound sense of humility, the ability to recognize that not only might you be wrong, but that you may also be causing yourself or others harm.
And yet we know that unlearning, recognizing that we have made a mistake or something that we perhaps thought or believe is contrary to our own collective flourishing is critical if we are to grow and evolve, if we are to grow and become more Christ-like, if we're to grow in our own maturity.
And so how do we create the conditions, right? How do we foster an environment where people feel safe to admit that they were wrong? What do we have to do to create the space where people feel safe? Because fundamentally, it is about feeling safe.
And I think so much of what I've come to the conclusion of in my own life, and especially talking about bodies, is that even though the things I'm going to talk about, I believe most of us know they are not true, that they are lies, we don't feel safe enough to actually acknowledge them, to actually own them in such a way that they orient our lives, how we see ourselves, that we allow them to change us.
And so this is my hope throughout this series, that we are able to move in this direction.
Last week, we talked about two untruths that were more in the spiritual realm, and today we're going to get more into the physical realm.
And the spiritual untruths we talked about last week centered on this idea that we need to subdue and control the body, or that our bodies don't really matter theologically or spiritually, that it's our spirit.
And we were learning, right, that neither Jesus nor Paul believed in what we might say is body-soul dualism, this idea that our souls are separate from our bodies.
Our spirits, the image of God reflected in us, is what animates our life that is lived out within our bodies.
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