Liz Blomstedt's guest appearances

Liz Blomstedt

Aligned and Alive

Writing Remix Podcast

Madison Hedlund

Katie Dalebout

Daniel Anderson

Kat Howard

Jack Kerouac

Jordyn Jones

Marissa Lingen

John Murray

Eryn Johnson

Raj Chetty

Matt Owen

Anna Lundberg

Rachael Maddox

Emily Garnett

Marian Bacol-Uba

OwlTail

LEAD

In Episode 24, we talk to Rochelle Gold and Liz Blomstedt about the democratizing potential of multimodal and online writing assignments, embracing new citation practices, navigating inequities on online platforms, and letting students lead the way in digital spaces.

24. Letting Our Students Lead in Digital Spaces w/ Rochelle Gold & Liz Blomstedt

Episode 4: Faith through Divorce with Dr. Liz Blomstedt  Dr. Liz Blomstedt is one of my very best friends who also happens to be brilliantly minded in faith, life, and love. In this episode we talk about: Liz’s story- divorce, faith, coming into her own, finishing a PhD program 4:45 Moving to a new city when you know no one and finding new friends and choosing your friend group intentionally 6:20 Would you recommend anyone move to a city that they know no one? Bravery [bctt tweet="Bravery is sometimes a conscious choice, and sometimes it's the only choice"] 9:30 Losing friends, finding your true tribe (even if they don’t agree with what you’re doing) 11:15 Backstory about Christianity- Alli admitting she is judgmental, some people may not think she’s a Christian 12:45 Maintaining Christian faith through a divorce - Liz had to define faith for herself for the first time 14:25 Confidence in seeking answers for self within faith [bctt tweet="Shame never teaches anyone anything...shame over sex before marriage...shame over divorce...recognizing that we’ve all fallen short and we all need grace + forgiveness"] [bctt tweet="Choices are right for you in the moment, and you learn something from them"] 19:00 Our mutual love of Glennon Doyle 23:00 Sarah Bessey-  “Jesus Feminist” Churches should be made up of different people with different beliefs 24:00 how to find a church when you feel like you don’t fit in at any of them 25:00 Rachel Held Evans-  Searching for Sunday - how to be a liberal christian 30:00 recommendations for someone considering a divorce. Cheryl Strayed advice column-  “Tiny Beautiful Things”  33:00 Choosing to tell the story for yourself 34:30 Advice on how to know if your partner is the one 37:00 Getting married because that’s what everyone else is doing 41:30 when to know if you’re ready to get married 41:45 how can a friend support another friend through a divorce 44:30 how is the church treating women 46:30 Masculine energy from the church, anti-emotionality 48:00 So many instances of women being told to forgive being used as an excuse to not talk about larger issues 51:00 advice for someone struggling in their faith and disillusioned with the church [bctt tweet="God uses imperfect people including you and including people in churches that hurt you"] To view the full show notes visit, www.allio.co/episode4 To join the Facebook community, https://www.facebook.com/groups/alignedandalive/  Listen and Subscribe to the podcast here: Apple Podcasts, Google Play,  Spotify and Stitcher  Social     Do you want to hear more from Alli? Subscribe below! Copyright ©2017 - All Rights Reserved - Allison Owen | Privacy Policy | Photography by Jake Heath

Episode 4: Faith through Divorce with Dr. Liz Blomstedt Dr. Liz Blomstedt is one of my very best friends who also happens to be brilliantly minded in faith, life, and love. In this episode we talk about: Liz’s story- divorce, faith, coming into her own, finishing a PhD program 4:45 Moving to a new city when you know no one and finding new friends and choosing your friend group intentionally 6:20 Would you recommend anyone move to a city that they know no one? Bravery [bctt tweet="Bravery is sometimes a conscious choice, and sometimes it's the only choice"] 9:30 Losing friends, finding your true tribe (even if they don’t agree with what you’re doing) 11:15 Backstory about Christianity- Alli admitting she is judgmental, some people may not think she’s a Christian 12:45 Maintaining Christian faith through a divorce - Liz had to define faith for herself for the first time 14:25 Confidence in seeking answers for self within faith [bctt tweet="Shame never teaches anyone anything...shame over sex before marriage...shame over divorce...recognizing that we’ve all fallen short and we all need grace + forgiveness"] [bctt tweet="Choices are right for you in the moment, and you learn something from them"] 19:00 Our mutual love of Glennon Doyle 23:00 Sarah Bessey- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476717257/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1476717257&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=owenfam-20&amp;linkId=1018b369e79a6f2440e610f2709115fc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “Jesus Feminist”</a> Churches should be made up of different people with different beliefs 24:00 how to find a church when you feel like you don’t fit in at any of them 25:00 Rachel Held Evans- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0718022122/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0718022122&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=owenfam-20&amp;linkId=650c4a08f2627ed9ee31f7ee4d07845f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Searching for Sunday</a> - how to be a liberal christian 30:00 recommendations for someone considering a divorce. Cheryl Strayed advice column- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307949338/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0307949338&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=owenfam-20&amp;linkId=3cb2485e05295287de4d3ec802ae593f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “Tiny Beautiful Things” </a> 33:00 Choosing to tell the story for yourself 34:30 Advice on how to know if your partner is the one 37:00 Getting married because that’s what everyone else is doing 41:30 when to know if you’re ready to get married 41:45 how can a friend support another friend through a divorce 44:30 how is the church treating women 46:30 Masculine energy from the church, anti-emotionality 48:00 So many instances of women being told to forgive being used as an excuse to not talk about larger issues 51:00 advice for someone struggling in their faith and disillusioned with the church [bctt tweet="God uses imperfect people including you and including people in churches that hurt you"] To view the full show notes visit, <a href="http://www.allio.co/episode4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.allio.co/episode4</a> To join the Facebook community, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/alignedandalive/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/alignedandalive/</a>  Listen and Subscribe to the podcast here: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/aligned-and-alive/id1344022154?mt=2" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Iovqkmkbpxip6zlgoul5juyk7ka?t=Aligned_and_Alive" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Google Play</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3zlaZZOZfLDRc1bVeaXwWl?si=bHegqYNZQ_66kJFQT8bOeA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Spotify</a> and <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/alli-owen/aligned-and-alive?refid=stpr" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a> Social <a href="http://www.facebook.com/alignwithalli" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://www.instagram.com/alignwithalli" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/allimarieowen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChF2NIU6Ov4t6v2mvGTmbVA" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Do you want to hear more from Alli? Subscribe below! Copyright ©2017 - All Rights Reserved - <a href="http://www.allio.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allison Owen</a> | <a href="http://allio.co/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> | Photography by Jake Heath

004: Faith through Divorce with Dr. Liz Blomstedt