Earth Xperiences is a conversation podcast hosted by Dani Daniela, exploring what shapes a human being. Through diverse thoughts, stories, beliefs, and topics, each episode looks at faith, identity, culture, creativity, spirituality, love, healing, race, parenthood, deconstruction, and personal growth. The project asks what we do with the beliefs we hold about life, people, purpose, truth, and anything within this earth experience.
What Happens When You Question 33 Years of Christianity? | Cyndi Savage Rice
“The entire concept of you as a sinner, an unworthy sinner, is the most energy draining thing you’ll ever experience.”
Cyndi Savage spent more than 30 years inside Christianity, including years as a minister and missionary. Then she began questioning the Bible, the ideas she had been taught and the framework she had once used to understand God, morality and herself.
In this Earth Xperience, Cyndi and Dani explore what happens when someone begins rebuilding their worldview outside of Christianity.
The conversation moves through faith deconstruction, biblical interpretation, answered prayer, miracles, good and evil, sin, accountability, love and marriage. Cyndi reflects on anger, questioning long held beliefs and how she decides what information to trust after leaving a belief system she once trusted deeply.
Then we put some of those ideas to the test through the Earth Xperience game, where Cyndi responds in real time to questions about Jesus, the Bible, sin, belief and ideas from her own content.
Consider:
What makes a belief trustworthy?
If you remove the concept of sin, what creates accountability?
Can something feel spiritually real and still be questioned?
What happens to your definition of love when your religious framework changes?
When you leave one belief system, how do you know the next one is any closer to the truth?
28 Sept 2026
A Conversation on SDA, Deconstruction, Love, Work and Self Trust with @saiuridioge
“You have to set a new standard of familiarity for yourself.”
What happens when the beliefs, communities and expectations that once gave your life structure no longer feel honest?
In this Earth Xperiences conversation, Dani sits with artist, creative, speaker and musician Saiuri Diogé for a discussion about faith, identity, work, love and learning how to trust yourself outside of the roles other people assign to you.
Saiuri shares what led her to step away from the Seventh day Adventist environment she grew up in while still maintaining a belief in God. She reflects on the difference between sincere faith and performing righteousness, why she no longer believes questioning religion requires abandoning God, and how deconstruction changed the way she understands herself.
The conversation also moves beyond religion. Saiuri explores why people can repeatedly choose relationships and environments that hurt them simply because they feel familiar, and why changing those patterns may require creating an entirely new standard for what feels normal.
She also challenges ideas about work, productivity and worth. If someone becomes highly skilled at what they do, should finishing faster make their labor less valuable? And when work can be completed without sitting at a desk all day, how much of traditional work culture is actually about productivity and how much is about appearing productive?
Later, Saiuri steps into an Earth Xperiences game where she has two minutes to consider what human abilities may become more important as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable.
This Xperience asks us to consider:
What parts of our identity are actually ours, and what parts were handed to us?
Can someone leave a religious system without leaving God?
How do we distinguish healthy love from something that simply feels familiar?
Are we sometimes calling fear “waiting on God”?
Should greater skill give us more freedom rather than more work?
And as technology becomes more capable, what parts of being human become even more valuable?
Find Saiuri Diogé on Instagram by searching Saiuri Diogé and on YouTube at SIGH_YURI.
Earth Xperiences is a space for conversations about the beliefs, experiences and perspectives shaping how we understand ourselves and one another.
23 Sept 2026
Can You Question Christianity and Still Follow Jesus? with @vene_monae
“If I didn’t know who Jesus was for myself, I would want nothing to do with Christianity.”
Can you question Christianity, challenge church culture and still choose faith?
In this episode of Earth Xperiences, Dani sits down with Vene for a conversation about Christianity, church hurt, Seventh Day Adventism, religious legalism, spiritual experiences, critical thinking and what happens when the faith you inherited begins to raise new questions.
Vene shares how growing up in the Adventist church shaped her discipline, identity and relationship with God. She also opens up about becoming pregnant outside of marriage, how that experience changed the way she viewed her church community and why she began examining beliefs she had accepted for most of her life.
The conversation explores the difference Vene sees between Jesus and Christianity as an institution, why she still has love for the church while questioning parts of it and how she makes room for faith alongside critical thinking.
Vene also shares personal experiences that strengthened her belief in God, including moments when she felt God with her during some of the lowest points of her life.
Later, Dani and Vene examine what faith actually means. If faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen, is belief something we know or something we choose?
They also explore what happens when religious beliefs become harmful, how conviction can turn into condemnation and why disagreement about religion does not always have to become an argument.
Consider:
Can you question your religious upbringing without abandoning your faith?
Can faith and critical thinking exist together?
When does a belief become harmful?
What would a healthier church look like?
Can you love a religious community while challenging the systems within it?
And if faith is something we choose, what responsibility do we have toward people who choose differently?
Vene is a creative, believer and critical thinker whose work explores faith, identity and the ideas that shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us.
She is also the curator of wholesome experiences through Vene Presents.
✨ A Creative, A Believer, A Critical Thinker ✨
Curator of wholesome experiences 🤍
TikTok: @norveneee
Instagram: @vene_presents
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