Unbound Love

Month: September 2026

Read it for yourself!

September 30, 2026 admin 0

What if some of the things you’ve been told “the Bible says”…aren’t actually what the Bible says? This week on Unbound.Love, Gayle and Natalie are talking about something that sounds simple but can be surprisingly radical: Read it for yourself. Because Scripture isn’t just something to have interpreted for us. We can read it. Question it. Wrestle with it. Study the history. Compare translations. Pay attention to context. And sometimes discover that what we inherited as “biblical” may have a lot more to do with culture than Scripture. We talk about interpretation and bias, the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, exegesis versus eisegesis, the danger of deciding what we believe and then searching Scripture for ammunition—and why good scholarship doesn’t take the Bible away from us; it can help us encounter it more deeply. And underneath all of it is a pretty simple invitation: Don’t just trust what you’ve heard.Open the book.Read for yourself. You might be surprised by what—and who—you find there

What does UNBOUND mean to you?

September 23, 2026 admin 0

At this year’s Wild Goose Festival, that was the question. So Gayle and Natalie grabbed a microphone, wandered around the Goose, and asked people what unbound means to them. The answers took us places. Freedom from fear-based religion. Belonging. Becoming your authentic self. Letting go of the doors that simply will not open. Being “loosely tethered” enough to follow where God leads. Freedom from the expectations, guilt, labels, pain, and old stories that keep us from becoming who God created us to be. And maybe our favorite description: “unshoulding” ourselves. Letting go of all those I should be this and I should do that voices long enough to discover grace. Because perhaps being unbound isn’t about being disconnected at all. Maybe it’s about being connected to God and one another without being confined – free enough to move, grow, love, heal, and become. This week on Unbound.Love, hear the voices of the Wild Goose—and then join us as we meander through what their answers stirred up in us. And drop us a line, What does UNBOUND mean to you? Wild Goose Anna Golliday

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Live from the Wild Goose Festival With Sarah Cunningham

September 16, 2026 admin 0

We are live from the Wild Goose Festival, and we’re sitting down with Sara Cunningham, founder of Free Mom Hugs, for a conversation about faith, family, regret, courage, and the transforming power of love. Sara shares her journey from struggling to accept her gay son to becoming an accidental activist and a fierce advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. We talk about deconstructing harmful theology, finding chosen family, knowing when to stop arguing—and why courage is contagious, but takes practice. There are tears, laughter, a little Jeep-related heartbreak, and a whole lot of hope. Pull up a chair and join us for this deeply honest conversation about what can happen when love becomes bigger than certainty.

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Thoughts, Prayers, and a Little More Dolly

September 9, 2026 admin 0

What if “thoughts and prayers” aren’t the problem—what if the problem is when that’s where we stop? Gayle and Natalie wrestle with prayer, action, James’ insistence that faith without works is dead, Bonhoeffer’s costly grace, and the difference between caring and simply saying we care. And, along the way, Dolly Parton gives us a pretty good picture of what faith looks like when it gets its hands dirty. Prayer matters. But maybe prayer isn’t the end of our response. Maybe prayer is where our response begins.

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Where Is God When the Unthinkable Happens?

September 2, 2026 admin 0

Can there really be a place where God is absent? In this episode of Unbound Love, Gayle and Nataliecontinue the conversation that began with Natalie’s pilgrimage through places connected to Etty Hillesum and the Holocaust. This time, they wrestle with a much harder question: Can a place become so filled with suffering, cruelty,and evil that God simply isn’t there? Natalie begins with a haunting poem preserved from Auschwitz that describes Birkenau as a place “forgotten by God.” That language becomes the launching point: When we call somewhere God-forsaken, do we actually believe God has forsaken it? Or are we describing what happens when human beings become so disconnected from God—and from one another—that their actions become godless? The conversation turns toward a challenging theologicalpossibility: perhaps there are no places without God unless human beingscreate them. God may remain available, but we can become so separated fromcompassion, empathy, and one another that we no longer recognize—or choose to participate in—the divine presence around us. Join us on this journey as we explore the idea that humanbeings are remarkably capable of convincing ourselves that our desires are God’s desires.