The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Oct 21, 2026 · 33 min · 10 segments
What if the shame you carry about your body was never something God asked you to carry? Christian shame about the body runs deep, but we find freedom when we learn that this shame is antithetical to…
We just finished our sermon series after deconstruction, which talked about the ways in which we have had to begin to reconstruct new theologies based on our own maturity as Christians, right? That this kind of progression is typical and actually what's supposed to happen as we practice and develop and cultivate our faith.
This current sermon series now really builds on much of the framework that I tried to set for the last two months.
It's called The Wisdom of Your Body, and it's about healing the body-spirit divide.
So much of the theologies that we We're trying to dismantle some of the old wine, for instance, that we were trying to pour out of that wineskin.
It was built upon this foundational logic that our bodies are somehow separate from our spirits and our souls, that we, in fact, somehow live in our minds and not really in our bodies.
And yet, what is fundamentally true is that we have never known any reality outside of our bodies.
existed, but we are so immersed in being bodies and because our thinking about bodies has been shaped by those cultural frameworks, particularly the ways in which religion plays a part, the way sex and sexuality, class, gender, ability, age, all these things help create a culture where we try to both either forget that we have a body or exist in structures that profoundly remind us of our bodies.
Now, growing up in American culture, we're taught to, especially after we're kids, to really try to control our bodies, to prioritize our minds, that the mind is where we ought to emphasize and put a lot of energy into, and that we're also taught to ignore the signals of our bodies that are sending us because those signals may distract us from getting what it is we actually want.
In this sense, we are often taught to think of our body as a thing, a thing that we have.
who we
And so today we're going to talk about the ways in which American Christianity has played a role in causing us to forget or not pay attention to the stories that our body are trying to tell us.
how this became theologically justified, and what it looks like to kind of peel back the layers of some of those texts that were used to get at the core message that they were saying.
Perhaps, perhaps they weren't telling us what we have thought they were saying all
along.
We just finished our sermon series after deconstruction, which talked about the ways in which we have had to begin to reconstruct new theologies based on our own maturity as Christians, right? That this kind of progression is typical and actually what's supposed to happen as we practice and develop and cultivate our faith.
This current sermon series now really builds on much of the framework that I tried to set for the last two months.
It's called The Wisdom of Your Body, and it's about healing the body-spirit divide.
So much of the theologies that we We're trying to dismantle some of the old wine, for instance, that we were trying to pour out of that wineskin.
It was built upon this foundational logic that our bodies are somehow separate from our spirits and our souls, that we, in fact, somehow live in our minds and not really in our bodies.
And yet, what is fundamentally true is that we have never known any reality outside of our bodies.
existed, but we are so immersed in being bodies and because our thinking about bodies has been shaped by those cultural frameworks, particularly the ways in which religion plays a part, the way sex and sexuality, class, gender, ability, age, all these things help create a culture where we try to both either forget that we have a body or exist in structures that profoundly remind us of our bodies.
Now, growing up in American culture, we're taught to, especially after we're kids, to really try to control our bodies, to prioritize our minds, that the mind is where we ought to emphasize and put a lot of energy into, and that we're also taught to ignore the signals of our bodies that are sending us because those signals may distract us from getting what it is we actually want.
In this sense, we are often taught to think of our body as a thing, a thing that we have.
who we
And so today we're going to talk about the ways in which American Christianity has played a role in causing us to forget or not pay attention to the stories that our body are trying to tell us.
how this became theologically justified, and what it looks like to kind of peel back the layers of some of those texts that were used to get at the core message that they were saying.
Perhaps, perhaps they weren't telling us what we have thought they were saying all
along.
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