Learning to live the questions.
Honest essays and conversations about psychology, relationships, faith deconstruction, and the lifelong process of unfolding.
Essays
Essays on being human, by Ryan & Jennie Denney.
Lose the Script
I passed my dissertation proposal defense. Then my committee told me to lose the script. They could hear that I knew my research when I stopped reading and answered their questions. I believed they meant it. What caught me off guard was how hard it was to believe it about myself.
Whatever Purity Meant
A few minutes earlier, I hadn't known how to hold a steak knife. Now I was old enough to promise what I'd do with my body for the rest of my unmarried life.
The Man Against the Wall
We had been given just enough information to become furious and nowhere near enough information to understand what we were furious about. Looking back, I wonder if that night was one of the first cracks.
Podcast
Conversations on being human, with Ryan & Jennie Denney.
The Cost of Change
Jennie and Ryan talk about what change costs, what it costs not to change, and how to stay in relationship with the people and worlds we've moved away from.
Why are Questions so Threatening?
Jennie and Ryan explore why questions can feel so threatening, how they unsettle inherited beliefs and relationships, and what trust, curiosity, and safety make possible when we become open to change.
Learning to Live the Questions
What happens when certainty stops working? In our first episode of On Unfolding, we talk about the questions that have followed us through faith, marriage,
Trailer
Welcome to our podcast, On Unfolding. New Episodes will be published soon.
