Audrey Assad on Faith, Deconstruction, and Music as an Outlet for Spiritual Angst
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Audrey Assad is an American-Syrian singer-songwriter who since the start of her career has released 6 studio albums and 4 EPs. She is also the author of the blog 'The Violet Fields' which explores topics such as consciousness and creativity.
Audrey spoke about her childhood growing up in a fundamentalist Christian community and subsequent conversion to Catholicism, her career as a musician and the role music has played in her life, and her public deconstruction from the Christian faith.
You can find her music and blog on her website here: www.audreyassad.com/
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
02:52 What is sacred to you? Audrey Assad’s answer
10:30 Indoctrination, compliancy, and upbringing in the Plymouth Brethren community
19:54 A dichotomous relationship with God: spiritual experiences vs religious dogma
23:08 Unexpected success, and the emotional and healing force of music
32:59 The physical and mystical, the power of embodiment, and conversion to Catholicism
36:10 Fundamental deconstruction, the limitations of language, and an expanded understanding of faith and spirituality
42:33 Breaking tribalism with Love: vulnerability, change, and the experience of connectedness
50:22 Conclusion and Outro
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I love Audrey’s music, the words are so deeply moving. I was struck by the hurt in her, and the damage. My prayer for her is that the words God has given her, and that she has spoken, will in turn touch her deepest heart. She has seen beautiful things of God - such a gift! And her voice brought those things alive. Keep walking and being open. God knows how to love you perfectly.
In every Christians life at times you have to remind yourself to go back to the single most important truth of the Bible and that is that Jesus came out of that tomb just as He said He would and just as the prophets foretold He would. And like His disciples said, " Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."
This breaks my heart. It's another example of why belief isn't the same thing as truth. The anxiety in her life is most obviously caused by beliefs she was taught from a young age. I too took time more than once to deconstruct my beliefs but it never once led me to lose faith. This is actually a part of repentance itself. If repentance is a change in the way we think and believe so that our thoughts, words and actions reflect the Word of God. Then there needs to be a tearing down of false beliefs to come to know the truth. There is only one constant in the universe, one truth, Christ Himself, the Word of God. The one who truly sets us free.
Audrey’s brilliant. I can relate to a lot of this. 🖤
“What is sacred to them….” So just a lot of personal opinions…truth does not exist then, correct?
One world I want no part of is that restrictive view that holds that “I make my own truth, you have/make your own truth.”
That is ultimately a road to nowhere
Gorgeous conversation! Found this podcast because I’m fascinated by the musicians who were classified (willingly or not) as CCM, but are now deconstructing or otherwise departing from common Christian dogmas. Your discussion left me with so much to mull and such a feeling of connection and light. Thank you!
Thanks for listening! Really glad you enjoyed it 😊
I appreciated this interview especially Audrey sharing about her OCD and C-PTSD. I would like to be magnanimous as she is toward the people who promulgate things in which she no longer believes, but religious trauma is real, and there are doctrines, as of eternal hell, that have caused extreme mental harm to people, fueling mental afflictions such as Scrupulosity from which I have suffered. I wrote about it in my autobiography in rhyming couplets. ruclips.net/p/PLs265Lgw53e5lGgODAxqDqqUQR8jTJ2G5
God made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.".
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