Is Your Activism Actually Hurting You? (And Everyone Else)

About this episode

The episode explores the potential negative impacts of activism on personal well-being and spiritual health.

Send us Fan Mail What if your passion for justice is quietly destroying your soul? In this powerful episode of Colored Commentary, we sit down with Jonathan Walton, author of Beauty and Resistance, to wrestle with a question many activists, church leaders, and everyday people rarely stop to ask: What’s actually driving your justice work: God or your own wounds? From burnout and trauma to ego, identity, and faith, this conversation goes beyond surface-level activism and exposes the deeper f...

People in this episode

Hosts: Markus Lloyd, Antwuan Malone

Guest: Jonathan Walton

Topics covered

• activism
• justice
• spirituality
• burnout
• identity
• faith

Keywords

• activism
• justice work
• burnout
• spirituality
• identity
• faith
• trauma

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Beauty and Resistance

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