
The Broken to Beloved Podcast is for anyone who’s been affected by spiritual abuse, religious trauma, or church hurt and is looking for practical resources to move toward healing and wholeness.
I’m your host, Brian Lee, and I’m so excited to share these conversations with you.
I want this to be a place for deep and meaningful conversations around spiritual abuse and religious trauma. I want to provide you with language to name your experiences and validate your stories, and to give you practical tools that move you toward healing and wholeness.
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Recent Episodes & Show Notes
Many people who have read The Parable of the Sower interpret it as: You have to be the “good soil,” or else.
However, in my conversation with Jeff Chu, he reframes what good soil actually means and h...
When your true face has been hidden for so long, what is it like to finally reveal it?
In this episode, we dive into connection, community, relationships, and what happens when it all falls apart. Ho...
How can the Church transform from a place of harm to a sanctuary of healing and truth? How do we learn to recognize the wolves among the sheep when it's hard to tell the difference? How can anyone hol...
What if the church has been telling women the wrong story about their spiritual gifts for centuries? Historian and author Beth Allison Barr and I dive deep into the forgotten narratives of women's min...
Ever wondered what happens when a birth doula becomes a biblical scholar? In this episode, IÂ chat with Liz Charlotte Grant, whose fascinating path includes helping deliver babies before diving deep in...
"Burn it all down." It's a common cry heard from many who have experienced spiritual abuse or find themselves disentailing from the disorienting process of deconstruction. And for those who have been ...
We're continuing our series on what we value at Broken to Beloved. You can also listen to our previous values, Curiosity over Certainty and Goodness over Wickedness.
This week, I want to talk about h...
This the second episode in a short series on our values. You can listen to our first shared value, "Curiosity over Certainty" in Episode 20 here.
By choosing goodness over wickedness, we affirm the o...
Deconstruction has become a polarized term in the past few years. Added to the arsenal of pastors and church leaders, it’s most often used to to dismiss or demean those who have walked away from their...