Wildwood Flower: Stories of Women who Built Country Music is back for Season 2!

Intro episode will drop on October 1st! Available on all platforms.

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Welcome back to the Area Code neighborhood: Feel For the Game.

Nick and Noah return with a series of (mainly basketball) conversations about nostalgic moments in NBA history, current issues plaguing the league, how coping and mental health play a role in sports, and more.

Tune-in as they unprofessionally, but sincerely explore why sports are bigger than just the score of the game. Subscribe now, and follow along to find out how many times Noah makes an unwarranted Kansas Jayhawks basketball reference.

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Portia: "Just hearing her (Jasmine) words - 'We're going to carry it together.' That just means a lot to me because I have felt very alone in dealing with all of this lately. And I felt like I'm fighting a battle that nobody understands or even cares about. And also to have a supervisor who says we’re going to prioritize my health and not my work; we're going to prioritize your family; we're going to prioritize the things that get you well so that your capacity can be more...that means a lot to me."

Jasmine: "Stop crying. We both know how I feel about emotional displays and I don't want to cry."

Jasmine: "You have these Christian people who are living in captivity and enslavement who, against all odds, love the Lord and want to serve him. But they aren't able to, to their fullest, because of their enslavement. All of a sudden, there's this citizenship. There's this opportunity, for the first time, to read God's word, to assemble in churches, to obey what he says about taking care of our families. It's just a beautiful thing. And we aren't saying that you have to celebrate Juneteenth because it's a biblical holiday. But there definitely is a precedent of being grateful for the ways that God has worked on behalf of our people."

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Welcome the newest resident to the Area Code neighborhood:Wildwood Flower: Stories of Women who Built Country Music.

Season 1 premiering on June 4th! Available on all platforms.

To find out more about the podcast, listen to the introductory episode here.

Subscribe and follow on Instagram at wildwoodflowerpod to stay updated on new episodes and special announcements.

Jen: "The Lord continued to cultivate my ministry through opportunities to serve the local church, and also through other women that got put in my life to pour into me as I was growing. It's like, each one teach one, you know? What the Lord does in you is not just for you to become spiritually fat."

Portia: "I recently heard someone talk about how we have become such consumers when it comes to spiritual things, and we don't realize we're not just consumers for the sake of getting it and stacking it and sitting on it; or, as you just said, becoming spiritually fat. We consume to pour out."

On today's episode, Portia experiences a show without interruptions or songs about presidents and Jasmine attends to some business. But joining Portia is Jennifer Lucy Tyler, founder of Soul Circles. Listen in as the two talk about the struggles, joys, challenges and rewards of women's ministry, effective ways to share the Gospel in today's culture, and more.

Jasmine: "We're talking about God's preservation of a persecuted church here in America, and his preservation of a persecuted people here in America, for His glory."

Abena: "And one thing I'd love to point out is the absolute miracle that that is. Besides the suffering and all of that, we are talking about a people who were given a false gospel. Literally, pieces cut out of the Bible; only certain cherry-picked lines of Scripture. Frankly, today, people are led astray with much less effort. But like, I'm talking about people who had been given a false gospel, and somehow God actually was so faithful and present with them that they actually found truth."

Portia: "And God still did it. That's what people don't understand."

Joining Jasmine and Portia today is Abena Ansah-Wright, a PhD. Candidate at Vanderbilt University with a focus on Civil War history. Listen as they discuss the perseverance of the enslaved saints, God's faithfulness to an oppressed people, and the ways in which the church was - and is - implicit in this oppression.

Here is the John Gottman book referenced in today's episode: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert

Portia: "Rest is not a byproduct of the fall. God had to remind me that rest was instituted, and modeled by God, before the fall of man. 'Oh, we have to rest now because we get tired.' No - God showed us how to rest before anything was ever even broken."

Jasmine: "That is tweetable. He showed us how to rest before anything was broke. Amen."

Jasmine: God's way is hard. The Gospel is already offensive. He's already asked for everything from us. Okay? You ain't gotta paint a picture. Your dishes, your diapers, all the sacrifices that you're doing on a daily basis is a tiny picture of what God is asking from you. He asks for so much more than what our careers, than what our motherhood, than what our wifehood can give. Because he asks for everything.

Portia: And we want to rationalize it and attach something to it. And it's not because we really are about God's glory, because if we were about God's glory we'd be confident that what we're doing is for the glory of God.

Portia: And so what would happen if we saw other people, other believers, as family? Like people who still have my love - and I'm not saying passivity, you know what I'm saying? Love still corrects. We still corrected her and told her "No, you don't put poop in Mom's bed."

Jasmine: But I bet you didn't end there. I bet you weren't just like "You don't put poop in the bed and I don't love you anymore." You were like "You don't put poop in the bed. I love you, but don't put poop in the bed."