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Life is hard some times! People often long for safe places where they can express their grief, confusion or even anger. Whether you are deconstructing, questioning, or doubting, you are welcome and valued here. When many of us venture out to find healing or relief or adventure, it can often feel like walking out into the Desert. Welcome to our Sanctuary in the Desert. You are welcome to share your thoughts and what you are producing while you are processing. We will endeavor to lean toward t ...
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Copyright 2025 - Stuart Deloney & Karl Forehand While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to recognize patterns. We believe that addressing many of these challenges requires us to examine all aspects of our lives, including: * Toxic Leaders * Toxic/Dangerous Organizations * Our Mental Well-Being * The Things We Learn on the Journey R ...
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Chapter 3 of 24 Are you serious about deconstruction and asking bigger questions? If that’s the case, this book was created for you. As a former pastor, I made the mistake of deconstructing a bit and then trying to start something new, as I was trained to do. The problem with that approach is that I wasn’t ready to begin something new. I hadn’t del…
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Getting to know Stuart Delony The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand [email protected] While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to re…
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27 - Sleazbags, Solidarity, Social Media Haze
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Sleazbags, Solidarity, Social Media Haze The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand [email protected] While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we …
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Chapter 2 of 24 Are you serious about deconstruction and asking bigger questions? If that’s the case, this book was created for you. As a former pastor, I made the mistake of deconstructing a bit and then trying to start something new, as I was trained to do. The problem with that approach is that I wasn’t ready to begin something new. I hadn’t del…
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Chapter 1 of 24 Are you serious about deconstruction and asking bigger questions? If that’s the case, this book was created for you. As a former pastor, I made the mistake of deconstructing a bit and then trying to start something new, as I was trained to do. The problem with that approach is that I wasn’t ready to begin something new. I hadn’t del…
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How to Be Resilient in the Best Way According to the American Psychological Association, resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands. A number of factors contribute to how …
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408 – Moving from Punishment to Discipline – Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz
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Rebecca is a dedicated advocate working tirelessly with both communities and schools across the United States to tackle poverty and heal trauma. Her journey began in 2011 when, as a single mother of three, she fought her way out of poverty and a trailer park. Discovered by a local poverty resolution project, Rebecca’s transformative journey led her…
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25 - Setting Your Own Boundaries and Making Your Own Choices
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Setting Your Own Boundaries and Making Your Own Choices For too long, religion taught us what to think, what to do, and where our boundaries should be set. We developed and learned codependence and helplessness that caused all kinds of issues. Learning to make our own decisions and set our boundaries is challenging at first, but we get better at it…
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407 – An Invitation to Feel – Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz
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Rebecca is a dedicated advocate working tirelessly with both communities and schools across the United States to tackle poverty and heal trauma. Her journey began in 2011 when, as a single mother of three, she fought her way out of poverty and a trailer park. Discovered by a local poverty resolution project, Rebecca’s transformative journey led her…
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406 – Larry & Jill Jordan – Zen Experiences
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The Places We Won’t Go – 4 of 4 Larry Jordan spent 25 years in investment banking, assisting companies, governments, and non-profit agencies in issuing over $10 billion of municipal bonds for capital projects and cash flows. In 2011, he quit his job and sold his house to spend his life in service. He drove veterans to the VA clinic, prepared 1,000 …
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24 - Doing Your Own Research to Avoid Thinking
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“I do my own research.” “Do you have a lab? What method did you employ for your double-blind study? Can you reference the peer-reviewed papers you published?” We usually mean that we watched something online, did a Google search, or found some people who agree with us. Although it’s not something new, it does more than cause us to be wrong; it also…
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405 – Larry & Jill Jordan – Quantum Physics
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The Places We Won’t Go – 3 of 4 Larry Jordan spent 25 years in investment banking, assisting companies, governments, and non-profit agencies in issuing over $10 billion of municipal bonds for capital projects and cash flows. In 2011, he quit his job and sold his house to spend his life in service. He drove veterans to the VA clinic, prepared 1,000 …
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23 - Jim Bakker and How Criminals Make the Best Grifters
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Jim Bakker Jim Bakker remains one of the OG's of televangelist grifters. From the PTL ministry's collapse to his many criminal convictions, he has failed himself through his relentless need to grift and make money from well-meaning people. As he nears the end of his life, he continues to beg other people for money instead of doing something more no…
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404 – Larry & Jill Jordan – Eastern Religions
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The Places We Won’t Go – 2 of 4 Larry Jordan spent 25 years in investment banking, assisting companies, governments, and non-profit agencies in issuing over $10 billion of municipal bonds for capital projects and cash flows. In 2011, he quit his job and sold his house to spend his life in service. He drove veterans to the VA clinic, prepared 1,000 …
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Mutual Aid The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand [email protected] While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to recognize patterns. W…
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The Places We Won’t Go – 1 of 4 Larry Jordan spent 25 years in investment banking, assisting companies, governments, and non-profit agencies in issuing over $10 billion of municipal bonds for capital projects and cash flows. In 2011, he quit his job and sold his house to spend his life in service. He drove veterans to the VA clinic, prepared 1,000 …
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Exposure Therapy and Safe Spaces The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand [email protected] While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to…
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400 – Bruce Epperly – Jesus: Mystic, Healer, Prophet
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Bruce Epperly has served as a congregational pastor and university chaplain, university and seminary professor and administrator, and is a prolific author and lectionary commentator. With over forty years joining pulpit and classroom, Bruce recently retired from congregational ministry after serving eight years as Senior Pastor of South Congregatio…
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The Shincheonji Church of Jesus - South Korea The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand [email protected] While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion…
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399 – Bruce Epperly – Religion and Spirituality
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Bruce Epperly has served as a congregational pastor and university chaplain, university and seminary professor and administrator, and is a prolific author and lectionary commentator. With over forty years joining pulpit and classroom, Bruce recently retired from congregational ministry after serving eight years as Senior Pastor of South Congregatio…
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Franklin Graham - Peacemaker, following in dad's footsteps, or just one of the worst ever power hungry, grifter/enablers of toxic theology and right-wing politics? The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand [email protected] While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we partici…
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398 – Bruce Epperly – Calm in Troubled Times
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Bruce Epperly has served as a congregational pastor and university chaplain, university and seminary professor and administrator, and is a prolific author and lectionary commentator. With over forty years joining pulpit and classroom, Bruce recently retired from congregational ministry after serving eight years as Senior Pastor of South Congregatio…
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16 - Navigating Love & Fascism The Unlearning Curve Podcast Copyright 2025 - Stuart Delony & Karl Forehand [email protected] While many of us yearn for truth and understanding, the systems we participate in often prevent us from attaining genuine freedom in our everyday lives. As we move away from organized religion, we begin to r…
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NEW ALBUM RELEASE A 30+ year music industry veteran, Derek Webb has sold millions of albums as a founding member of Texas-based folk/rock band Caedmon’s Call and ruffled political & spiritual feathers alike during his over 25-year solo career. His latest project, Survival Songs, is no exception. Written and recorded in just one month, the new album…
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Bruce Epperly has served as a congregational pastor and university chaplain, university and seminary professor and administrator, and is a prolific author and lectionary commentator. With over forty years joining pulpit and classroom, Bruce recently retired from congregational ministry after serving eight years as Senior Pastor of South Congregatio…
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