Unsuitable with MaryB. Safrit

About Unsuitable with MaryB. Safrit

Welcome to Found Family. Every Tuesday, I have honest conversations celebrating the creative ways our guests make community in their actual lives and providing tips about how you can do the same.

Publisher

MaryB. Safrit

Category

education · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Jun 2019

Latest episode

20 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 205 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Cooking Up Better Biblical Interpretation (feat. Jennifer Garcia Bashaw and Aaron Higashi)

   CW: As a heads up, Aaron describes the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, which includes mention of rape. If this is a tender subject for you, please take care while listening. This week, Mary B is joined by biblical scholars Jennifer Garcia Bashaw and Aaron Higashi to discuss their upcoming book Serving Up Scripture: How to Interpret the Bible for Yourself and Others. The book offers accessible tools for interpreting scripture with care, curiosity, and context. Rather than a black and white ...

2. 

   13 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Finding Light in a Fractured World (feat. Rose M. Berger)

   Rose Marie Berger, Senior Editor of Sojourners magazine, is a Catholic peace activist and poet who has worked within social justice movements for more than 40 years. She is the volume editor of Light for the Way: Seeking Simplicity, Connection, and Repair in a Broken World and joins MaryB. to discuss how the book extends the conversations long discussed within the Sojourners community, out into the world while asking what it means to live authentically in this day and age. This discussi...

3. 

   6 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How to Show Up For A Grieving Friend (feat. Shelby Forsythia)

   Shelby Forsythia, a grief coach and author of Of Course I’m Here Right Now: Three Actually Helpful Things to Say to Someone Grieving, joins Mary B to offer practical guidance on how to show up for people in grief. When unsure of the “right” words, many people default to silence rather than risk saying the wrong thing, often leaving grievers feeling isolated. Shelby’s work aims to interrupt that pattern. The title of her book is structured around three simple statements: Of course. I’m h...

Inside a recent episode

Cooking Up Better Biblical Interpretation (feat. Jennifer Garcia Bashaw and Aaron Higashi)

Published 20 Jan 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah, I mean, there's, there's so many, just like there are different reasons and motivations for her cooking, like you can, you can come at it playfully, you can come at it as I'm going to experiment with something that's captured my imagination that I saw on the food network, but I'm going to try and mimic that dish, you know, to the best of my ability with half the ingredients in my kitchen. You can do, you can do that with a Bible too. Something catches your fancy about a passage. And so you ask yourself like, what are some interesting ways that I can interpret this? You can have that same playful exploration. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

40 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

21 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

77

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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