By Words: Honest Faith Talks to Encourage Everyday Christian Women

224. Sex, Shame & Sacred Desire: Reclaiming the Sexual Story for Christian Women (ft. Bridgett Blood)

May 21, 2026

In this episode, I’m joined by Bridgett Blood for an honest conversation about sexuality, purity culture, shame, and sacred desire.For many women, conversations around purity were shaped more by fear, performance, and rigid rules than true wholeness and intimacy with God. In this episode, we explore what purity culture may have been trying to communicate, where the message became harmful, and how we can begin reclaiming a healthier, more honest understanding of sexuality and desire.We talk ab...

223. Suicidal Christians: How to Make the Church a Safe Place to Struggle (ft. Tomy Cummins)

May 14, 2026

Mental health conversations are becoming more common in the Church, but topics like trauma, suicidal thoughts, and deep emotional pain can still feel difficult to talk about openly.In this episode, I’m sitting down with one of my own pastors, Tomy Cummins, for an honest and hope-filled conversation about what it looks like to care for people like Jesus does. We talk about why suicide still feels taboo in many faith spaces, how the Church can become safer for people who are struggling, and why...

222. Growing Up a Good Girl: How Purity Culture & Diet Culture Taught Christian Women to Shrink (ft. Anna Rollins)

May 07, 2026

I used to think holiness meant learning how to want less — less food, less attention, less desire. Less me.Today we’re sitting down with Anna Rollins, author of Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl, to talk about something many of us have felt but didn’t have language for — how purity culture and diet culture quietly taught us the same message: good girls make themselves smaller.We talk about the hidden scripts we absorbed in church and culture, the exhaustion of trying to co...