Episodes

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March 30, 2023

Amanda, Lex, and Denise Soler Cox: The Struggle to Belong, & How a Night at a Bar in Miami Changed Everything!

In this episode, we talk about generational change and belonging with Denise Soler Cox. We share our own struggles to belong and investigate what it means to belong, even in the in-between space of identity and culture.
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March 16, 2023

Amanda, Lex, & Dr. Philip Butler talk Transhumanism, Artificial Intelligence & Religion

Dr. Philip Butler is an international scholar whose work primarily focuses on the intersections of neuroscience, technology, spirituality, and blackness. Dr. Butler speaks to the vital need for black folks to engage in challenging questions about current and rapidly developing human enhancement. In this episode, we talk about the changing of our bodies and technologies.
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March 2, 2023

Amanda, Lex, & Ian Silverii: Religion's In Our Politics: It's Inescapable

Ian is a political strategist, dad, and the first gentleman of the seventh congressional district in Colorado. We discuss the tension between incrementalism and revolutions and how religious ideologies influence our political mindsets.
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Feb. 16, 2023

Change is Disruptive - Choose Mindfulness

Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde, an interfaith practitioner of Buddhism, brings unique insights into how our understanding of God shapes the way we navigate change in ourselves and change in the world. She shares practical methods from the Zen Buddhism tradition that invites us to consider the inevitability of Change and how to navigate the disruptions.
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Feb. 2, 2023

Amanda, Lex & Dr. Miguel De La Torre: Screw With the Structures & Change Your God

On this season of complexified, we are exploring CHANGE. And we're asking how our ideas of God shaped the way we navigate change, personally, politically, and culturally. Today, we have Dr. Miguel De La Torre, professor of social ethics and Latino Studies at Iliff. School of Theology. Author of 42 books.
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Jan. 19, 2023

Amanda & Lex on Season 3: "Change: The Only Lasting Truth"

“All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God is Change”― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents. This quote in Butler's post-apocalyptic novel is the basis for our season 3 episodes. In this interview, Amanda and Lex talk about the complexities of change and what you can expect from this new season!!