Ep. 47 Spiritual Trauma

Episode 47 will pull back the curtain on some of the trauma that is caused by institutions and especially religious institutions. Yes, we're going there...we're talking about the church, the Black church. This conversation is well overdue. Dionne understands that so many of us have been wounded by places that should have been safe and we can't let our wounds fester in the dark any longer, we are worthy of the sanitization and healing of light and truth. Dionne Brown discusses spiritual trauma, sexual harassment and the experience of being black balled that left her with physical, spiritual and emotional scars that she has done the exhaustive work of healing. This episode will take you on a full range of emotions.

Author Dionne Yvette Brown dives into her new book "Deinstitutionalizing God: A Minister's Journey on Leaving Church to save her Faith". The book describes her spiritual journey while also analyzing organized religion. Dionne is not your typical minister, she keeps it real and this is a provocative, entertaining and potentially healing conversation.

 

Dionne Yvette Brown is a minister of the gospel who has been duly anointed by God, but refused ordination by the institutional church. She has been driven by education, excellence, and ethics all her life. Those qualities did not serve her well in the church. A cataclysmic experience led her to discern her call to ministry in November 1995. She subsequently quit her job and moved to Atlanta sight unseen to pursue theological studies in 1997. Her pastor withheld ordination from her because she would not relent to his sexual harassment. Not one to be deterred, she left her denomination and finished seminary without ever abandoning her vocation. 

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