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What is On Unfolding?
On Unfolding: Learning to Live the Questions is a podcast about what it means to grow as a person in a complicated world.
Ryan and Jennie Denney bring together their experiences as therapists, partners, parents, former evangelicals, and lifelong question-askers for conversations about identity, relationships, faith and deconstruction, mental health, parenting, culture, books, and the stories that shape our lives.
At the heart of the show are the questions that continue to orient us: Who am I becoming? What kind of person do I want to be? What am I responsible for? What has shaped me? How do we create the relationships and communities we want to inhabit?
Through personal stories, ideas from therapy and the humanities, and the kinds of conversations that rarely arrive at tidy conclusions, On Unfolding explores how we might live with greater curiosity, responsibility, connection, and openness to change.
At some point, most of us run into a version of the same question: what the hell? Why is the world like this? Why is the church like this?
Why are our politics like this? Our families? Why am I like this? We've been asking those questions our whole lives, sometimes out loud and sometimes in ways we didn't have the words for yet.
We both grew up in evangelical churches. We met as teenagers and got married young. We've tried to find our place in communities, in ideas, and institutions, and we've come at it from different angles. I tend to work from the outside in, trying to build a map that makes sense of the big picture.
And I work more from the inside out, trying to figure out who I am underneath everything I was handed.
We've been wounded. We've hurt people. We've each gone back to school twice, first looking for answers in theology and more recently in psychology. Now, we work as therapists, sitting with people in their own what-the-hell moments.
And we've discovered that the goal isn't to resolve the questions but to get better at living inside them.
This is On Unfolding, a podcast about learning to live the questions and who we're becoming in the ongoing process of our unfolding lives.
Yeah. It's a podcast on being human. We're glad you're here.