Untangled Faith Podcast

09/23/2025

The podcast is back! And I have one of your favorite guests on this week's show!

Chris Staron, host of the Truce podcast joins me for a conversation about why Christians should pay attention to history, what Chris learned from Napoleon, and how digging into the past can help bust some cultural myths (hint: what it looks like to be a "Biblical" woman or man is pretty interesting when you look at history).

I'd love for you to listen and share it with your friends.

Look for the Untangled Faith podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.

It's good to be back!🥳

09/22/2025

What I read and listened to this week, and some thoughts on the unsustainable political discourse.

This is unsustainable

09/15/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/untangledfaith/p/sunday-sundries-9152025?r=3w462&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

09/02/2025

This reflection from Karen Swallow Prior is powerful.

Five Years after Walking Away the Sadness Deepens

08/04/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/untangledfaith/p/sunday-sundries-832025?r=3w462&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

07/29/2025

This is an important update I wanted you all to read.
I've had serious concerns about Dr. Anderson since reading the TNE report from GRACE and looking at her website. I think we're also overdue for a conversation about the issues/problems of coaching and how it's different than therapy and how lines can be crossed. (Still mostly offline through the end of August, but wanted to share this.)

One of the best-known therapists and coaches working with people suffering religious trauma has been sanctioned by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists for violating the group’s Code of Ethics on boundaries. In a letter dated July 25, Laura Anderson was informed by the AAMFT ...

06/27/2025

In May 2019, Dave Ramsey told a room of hundreds of former coworkers of my husband, that Nathan didn’t have a backbone and lacked integrity. This week, a deposition of Dave Ramsey was posted in which he kinda sorta might say he owes Nathan an apology.

And the employee's spouse Dave said he couldn't control

06/11/2025

When Lori Anne Thompson talks, I listen.

In April of 2023 she joined me on the podcast for a candid and powerful conversation about healing and some of the pitfalls she is trying to avoid in the advocacy space.
She understands the toll trauma can take and knows how difficult it can be for so many of us in the evangelical Christian world to care for our own souls.

You can hear this episode wherever you listen to podcasts. I'd love to have you listen.

06/09/2025

Jennifer Lyell died on Saturday, June 7th. She was only 47.

Many of you who have found your way to this page have followed her story. Some of you know her personally. There are no adequate words. Her body paid a heavy price for the trauma she endured by too many and for too long. I know that many of you feel this loss deeply. It is right to feel broken hearted and angry.

Jen is dearly loved and is already deeply missed.

In her honor, today, I want to remember her as someone who loved children and so wanted them to see the kind and good Savior whose love sustained her.

-Amy

(I'm still away from social media for the summer, but I wanted to honor Jen and mark this loss. Please feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] if you need anything.)

06/04/2025

Aaron Armstrong and I had a great conversation about how easy it is to get distracted by second tier theological issues when we're still struggling with avoiding heresy about foundational theological issues.

06/04/2025

Raise your hand if you've ever felt awkward in a new church when it's not your time to serve?
Waiving my hand wildly here!
Aaron Armstrong shared his experience on the podcast this week.

06/04/2025

Aaron Armstrong joins Amy Fritz on the Untangled Faith podcast to talk about church transitions, making peace with a season "being" instead of "doing" at a church, avoiding accidental heresy and what we think about Christian book endorsements (and what happens when endorsements come from folks who didn't read the book!)

And Amy talks about how she awkwardly introduced herself to Aaron and his wife Emily when she first met them. 🤣