About this episode

The hosts discuss their complex childhood experiences with religion and spirituality, exploring both the challenges and the sense of community it provided.

**Special note to our listeners** Love the show? Help us keep the conversation going! Become a paid subscriber through our ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Your contributions help us continue to make content on issues related to the Asian-American, immigrant, modern parent experience. THANK YOU to our super awesome listeners who have already signed up! -------------------------------------- As a kid, religious stuff can be kind of weird. You're told God might send you to hell, you're forced to sit for hours chanting things that you don't understand, you feel like if you have questions or doubts you are a bad person. Yet for some of us, they also simultaneously offered us a lifeline - a deep community (however flawed), a place to share our gifts, hope of a greater power and goodness, somewhere to turn to when we were at the end of our rope. In this episode, we have a frank conversation about the good, the bad, the weird, the confusing and the beautiful of our religious upbringings. For better or for worse, these experiences were some of the most formative parts of our childhood and we feel people don't talk about it enough. We try to bring our curiosity and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kate Wang, Susan Lieu, Jeanette Park

Topics covered

• faith
• spirituality
• religion
• childhood experiences
• community
• Asian-American
• immigrant experience

Keywords

• religion
• spirituality
• childhood
• community
• Asian-American
• immigrant
• parenting

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