A Conversation with Carolyn Baker, Author of Confronting Christofascism - 194

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In this episode Bonnie sits down and has a compelling conversation with Carolyn Baker PhD mostly about her newest book, Confronting Christofascism: Healing the Evangelical Wound. It is no secret that since 2016 the United States has felt as though it is on its last legs as a democracy. Carolyn shares with us many of her perspectives on why that is the case from her book.

This conversation includes many of the things we are not supposed to talk about at the dinner table: religion and politics. Specifically the marrying of fascism and a large portion of American Christianity. Carolyn’s revolutionary mindset is on full display when she expands on a terms like religious terrorism and her books namesake, Christofascism.

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RELEVANT LINKS

From Our Conversation with Carolyn Baker

• Carolyn Baker (Website)
• Carolyn Baker (Author Page)
• • Confronting Christofascism: Healing the Evangelical Wound (Kindle Edition) by Carolyn Baker (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
  • Healing the Evangelical Wound: The End of Religious Authoritarianism by Carolyn Baker (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Billy Graham (American Evangelist)
• Josh Hawley (American Politician)
• Thomas Cotton (American Politician)
• Christopher Hedges (American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author and television host)
• American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion by Marlene Winell (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Texas Senate Bill 8 (Texas Abortion Law)
• George Walker Bush (43rd President of the United States)
• Jimmy Lee Swaggart (American Pentecostal Televangelist)
• Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion by Pema Chodron (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• The Cloud of Unknowing (an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century)
• New Age
• Jungian Therapy
• The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism by Andrew Harvey (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German Lutheran pastor, theologian)
• James Finley (Clinical Psychologist and Author)
• The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)

MORE ON OUR GUEST CAROLYN BAKER

Carolyn Baker’s mission is to create islands of sanity in a sea of global chaos. This mission necessitates the development of a variety of emotional tools alongside a commitment to spiritual transformation. Through her multifaceted outreach via webinars, podcasts, live workshops, books, and articles, as well as one-on-one life coaching, Carolyn is touching the lives of thousands to assist them in deeply adapting and becoming resilient in the face of the unprecedented changes confronting humanity.

Hundreds of people have worked with Carolyn in recent years to receive guidance around living and loving in turbulent times. Carolyn also offers spiritual counseling to provide meaning and purpose in a time of personal and collective suffering.

Carolyn believes that one of the key tools we need for navigating the global crisis is solid information. For nearly a decade, Carolyn has published a comprehensive Daily News Digest, seven days per week unless she is traveling. This amazing, subscription-based newsletter contains key stories on economics, the environment, world news, civil liberties, civil unrest, and cultural trends—and contains a unique Inspiration section that offers options for responding to our planetary predicament.

Carolyn graduated from Michigan State University, the University of Colorado, and Columbia Pacific University. She was a psychotherapist in private practice for eleven years and a college professor of psychology and history for ten years. Carolyn is the author of numerous books, and she lives and writes in Boulder, Colorado.

For more on Carolyn Baker go to CarolynBaker.net

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