{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Ministry Wives and Women Podcast with Andrea Griffith","title":"When Friends Leave the Church: A Pastor's Wife on Isolation, Counseling, and Hope","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1864,"description":"What do you do when the people who welcomed you into the church are the same ones now walking out the door — and saying hard things about your husband on the way?\nIn this conversation, counselor and pastor's wife Angela Davis sits down with Andrea to talk honestly about the 2020 season when a wave of people left their church, and how she defaulted to her old pattern: isolate, stuff it, hide behind her kids, and quietly let bitterness take root. Angela walks us through what finally moved her — a counselor's curious questions, the Holy Spirit's nudge back toward community, and the slow work of letting Scripture rewrite the narrative she'd been telling herself alone.\nIf you tend to withdraw, numb, fight, or fawn when ministry hurts, this one is for you. Angela reminds us that you cannot be critical and curious at the same time, that some weight is not yours to carry, and that Jesus is still the friend who sticks closer than a brother. You are not alone.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/EiuIGCrfzj8QD0h6cORO3MbZWMmgKYuXVCNPjBE6A9U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMGU3/OGQyMDBkNWExYmY5/MzE2NDc4N2RjNDBi/YTEyZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}