Stay ConnectedBecoming Church is where we explore how the message and movement of Jesus isn’t just about becoming Christians, it’s about becoming The Church the world needs.
Hosted by Kristin Mockler Young, this podcast dives into the surprising ways faith shapes, and is shaped by, our real lives: family, politics, justice, culture, and beyond.
Copyright: © 2022
Sometimes you know you’re being boxed in, sometimes you don’t because you’ve never been exposed to anything else. If you’ve only ever lived with one interpretation of the Bible, one version of Christianity and one pursuit of figuring it all out… here’s another perspective to consider in “The Other Side of Certainty” where you’ll find the freedom to let go of toxic religion while still holding on to Jesus.
This episode has all the behind-the-scenes author talk that you won’t get from Kristin on other podcasts. She shares what made her cry, what made her the villain of her own story, and who might need a warning label for the book. After she chats with Naeem Fazal, stick around for a sneak preview of Chapter One of The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work.
RELEVANT LINKS:
Click here to take the Holy Burdens quiz.
Click here for extended Pre-Order Bonuses!
Follow @kristinmockleryoung and @mosaicclt on Instagram.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work” on Amazon or Bookshop.org or read Chapter One to see if it's right for you!
If you already ordered The Other Side of Certainty, enter your order # for your pre-order bonuses!
We talk a lot about wanting connection, an invitation, inclusion of belonging. But when the opportunity arises, we tend to choose the comfort of our schedules or preferences. We stay distracted and disconnected. We even bail if someone shows up that we don’t particularly want to hang out with.
Pastor Ian Simkins wants to turn the table so we can see it from both sides. Being offered a seat is great, but so is being the one to pull out a chair. Sitting with people who vote differently, live differently, annoy us or have maybe even hurt us makes it a lot more complicated. But presence is more than hospitality - it asks us to consider what we’re willing to sacrifice in order to make room for genuine community.
RELEVANT LINKS:
Grab Ian’s book “Every Table an Altar” from Bookshop.org or the Becoming Church resource list on Amazon.
Follow @kristinmockleryoung and @mosaicclt on Instagram.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work” on Amazon or Bookshop.org or read Chapter One to see if it's right for you!
If you already ordered The Other Side of Certainty, enter your order # for your pre-order bonuses!
Healthy friendship isn’t about giving everyone equal access. (If even Jesus had varying levels of connection, we don’t have to let everyone in the group chat.) While you don’t need to have a DTR with all of your friends, Wayne Francis is here to help us understand how relational clarity is an important part of meaningful connection.
This episode will teach you how to stop blaming social media for your FOMO, what it looks like to grieve the end of a friendship well, and what red flags to look for that, just maybe, the friend who needs a lesson in true connection is… you.
RELEVANT LINKS:
Grab Wayne’s book “Make Friends with Anyone: Practicing God’s Design for Real Friendship in a Lonely World” from Bookshop.org or the Becoming Church resource list on Amazon.
Find your friend style at ShowMeMyFriends.com
Follow @kristinmockleryoung and @mosaicclt on Instagram.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work” on Amazon or Bookshop.org or read Chapter One to see if it's right for you!
If you already ordered The Other Side of Certainty, enter your order # for your pre-order bonuses!
In many churches, Sunday mornings look more like a concert than a worship service, but the intelligent lighting is not to blame. Instead of corporately worshipping in a communal faith, many services are led by a small team, creating a culture of experts and observers.
Faith Eury Cho wants the church, the body of Christ, to get back to full participation where everyone accepts the calling, equipping, activation and sending out of all followers of Jesus. This episode will help you not just wish for, but expect, holy spirit intervention in your life.
RELEVANT LINKS:
Read Chapter One of The Other Side of Certainty here.
Grab Faith’s book “Unlikely and Anointed” from Bookshop.org or the Becoming Church resource list on Amazon.
Follow @kristinmockleryoung and @mosaicclt on Instagram.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work” on Amazon or Bookshop.org or read Chapter One to see if it's right for you!
If you already ordered The Other Side of Certainty, enter your order # for your pre-order bonuses!
We often credit the formation of our faith to our Sunday School teachers, youth group leaders and the pastors of our churches. But Kristin Kobes DuMez has research to show how our Christian discipleship is being formed outside the church just as much, or more, as it is on Sunday mornings.
Her best selling book “Jesus and John Wayne” looked at the history of white, male evangelical Christianity and the . her new book, “Live, Laugh, Love” explores how catchphrases, lifestyle brands and (yes, still) the patriarchy have shaped white, evangelical women for decades.
RELEVANT LINKS:
Read Chapter One of The Other Side of Certainty here.
Grab Kristin’s books “Jesus and John Wayne” and “Live Laugh Love” from Bookshop.org or the Becoming Church resource list on Amazon.
Follow @kristinmockleryoung and @mosaicclt on Instagram.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work” on Amazon or Bookshop.org or read Chapter One to see if it's right for you!
If you already ordered The Other Side of Certainty, enter your order # for your pre-order bonuses!
Believing in yourself isn’t prideful, no matter what you’ve been told. When you understand and accept your inherent value, you’re showing God that you believe in His divine creativity.
Marshawn Evan Daniels - previous Miss America contestant, attorney, entrepreneur, The Apprentice contestant, and reinvention strategist - is now the author of Worthy Girl, a children’s book that will inspire and encourage worthy girls to become worthy women.
This episode is for everyone who’s tired of shrinking to fit the expectations of other people, or anyone who was raised with the spiritual narrative that their worth comes from appearance, performance or production. It’s time to believe you were created for a purpose so you can start living in your purpose.
RELEVANT LINKS:
Grab Marshawn’s books “Worthy Girl: Believing in God’s BIG Purpose for You” or “Believe Bigger: Discover the Path to Your Life Purpose” from our bookshop.org list to support local bookstores or from the Becoming Church resource list on Amazon.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Head to WorthyGirlWorld.com for a discussion guide and discounted pricing.
Join Kristin for “One More Question” on Substack with this special listener only discount.
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work”
Follow @kristinmockleryoung and @mosaicclt on Instagram.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work” on Amazon or Bookshop.org or read Chapter One to see if it's right for you!
If you already ordered The Other Side of Certainty, enter your order # for your pre-order bonuses!
Can you care about beauty without being vain? Does putting effort into your appearance automatically make you prideful?
Jessica Honegger explains why she’s so publicly honest about her skincare, Botox and cosmetic procedures, but this conversation is about so much more than the things other people can see.
If you’ve ever felt shame or judgement for the caring about fashion, getting injections, or simply choosing to participate in your own aging process, this episode will help you find freedom from the opinions of others, learn to trust your own body, and understand how beauty has always been connected to human dignity.
RELEVANT LINKS:
Get some handcrafted, globally inspired accessories for yourself or a gift from Noonday Collection, plus 10% off your first order.
Grab Jessica’s book “Imperfect Courage: Live a Life of Purpose by Leaving Comfort and Going Scared” from our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon!
Follow @kristinmockleryoung and @mosaicclt on Instagram.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work” on Amazon or Bookshop.org or read Chapter One to see if it's right for you!
If you already ordered The Other Side of Certainty, enter your order # for your pre-order bonuses!
Christians are supposed to be different, yet we often live with the same fears as people who don’t know God. Pastor Ryan Lokkesmoe is here to gently ask the question, have we become accidental pagans in the ways we worship God?
If you agonize over the exact wording of your prayers, push yourself to do all the right things to make God happy or you secretly struggle to believe that God actually loves you, this episode will help you
RELEVANT LINKS:
Grab Ryan’s book “Accidental Pagans: Untangling the Roots of Our Fears About God and Discovering Who He Really Is” from our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon!
Follow @kristinmockleryoung and @mosaicclt on Instagram.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work” on Amazon or Bookshop.org or read Chapter One to see if it's right for you!
If you already ordered The Other Side of Certainty, enter your order # for your pre-order bonuses!
Healing doesn’t come as instant answer. It’s often not even a final destination. Ike Miller is here to explain how the slow, vulnerable work of becoming healthier can lead to restoration with God, within ourselves and with each other.
If you’re living with volatile relationships, mental health battles, the pursuit of satisfaction or wounds from the choices of other people, you’re right in the place that Jesus came to reach. Not only will he meet you there, he can share your struggles and bring you to complete restoration. This is a conversation for battered hearts in a broken world.
RELEVANT LINKS:
Grab Ike’s book “Theology that Heals: How the good News of Jesus Not Only Saves Us but Makes Us Whole” from our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon!
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Join Kristin for “One More Question” with this special Becoming Church discount.
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work”
Follow: @ikemiller | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt
Follow @kristinmockleryoung and @mosaicclt on Instagram.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work” on Amazon or Bookshop.org or read Chapter One to see if it's right for you!
If you already ordered The Other Side of Certainty, enter your order # for your pre-order bonuses!
Empathy is increasingly being framed as a threat to truth, but John Pavlovitz argues it’s not weakness, it’s a strength that Jesus modeled even as he confronted harmful systems.
This episode covers Christian masculinity and the ways we define strength, the grief of leaving fear-based theology, deconstruction and the spiritual exhaustion that comes with trying to embody the words and ways of Jesus in a divided world.
Share this episode with someone trying to disentangle their faith from what John calls a “Jesus-less Christianity” to discover something much bigger on the other side.
RELEVANT LINKS:
Grab “Here and Now and Small and Close” or John’s other books like “If God is Love, Don’t be a Jerk: Finding a Faith that Makes Us Better Humans” our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon!
Take the Holy Burdens Quiz
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work”
Follow: @johnpavlovitz | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt
Follow @kristinmockleryoung and @mosaicclt on Instagram.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Preorder Kristin’s book “The Other Side of Certainty: How to Follow Jesus When Easy Answers No Longer Work” on Amazon or Bookshop.org or read Chapter One to see if it's right for you!
If you already ordered The Other Side of Certainty, enter your order # for your pre-order bonuses!
Our TOPPODCAST Picks 
