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I Read Something Bad is where spicy romantasy books meet spiritual formation and discipleship.
We're the podcast for everyone who's ever felt like they needed to hide their steamy book covers from their small group or found themselves daydreaming about dragons in the middle of a women’s conference.
We think it’s time to take the shame out of your TBR pile, empower you to love what you love unapologetically, and talk about the issues that matter most to you by thoughtfully engaging with the best romantasy series. This is a book club for the folks who wonder what parts of the Bible are morally grey and what the top romantasy books can teach us about our faith.
Whether you’re here for the spicy faeries or the spiritual formation (or both — we don’t judge), this is a safe space so grab a seat.
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Update frequency:
every 22 days
Average audio length:
53 minutes
English
United States
32 episodes
since Dec. 18, 2024
episodic
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Today we’ve got Dr. Beth Felker Jones joining us to dig into R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis, a dark academia descent into literal hell that doubles as a devastating portrait of PhD formation, academic abuse, and what it costs to believe you’re only a mind.
Topics Covered:
* The academic nightmare that’s a…
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Today your matron saints of spice are tackling the topic of escapism—because apparently reading our silly little books is unhealthy coping, but planning to literally escape all worldly suffering via the Rapture is fine and normal theology. We’re unpacking how escapism is actually a natural human re…
Today we’re diving into Callie Hart’s Quicksilver.
Topics Covered:
* Why Zilvaren’s city structure is secretly showing us exactly how power keeps us fighting each other instead of the real problem
* That Artemis astronaut said WHAT about Earth right before going dark for 40 minutes—and how it conne…
Today we’re diving into Mary Magdalene—the biblical FMC who got completely wrecked by centuries of patriarchal mythmaking that turned her from “apostle to the apostles” into either a prostitute or Jesus’s secret lover.
Topics Covered:
* How we got the myth that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute or s…
Today we’re wrapping up Melissa K. Roehrich’s Legacy series with Dawn of Chaos and Fury.
We’re unpacking how churches structure everything around nuclear families to everyone’s detriment, why Jesus had a cool aunt at the cross and you should aspire to be one too, and how Eviana’s arc is the most co…
Today your Matron Saints of Spice are tackling the ever-controversial question of why so much Christian art feels thin, didactic, and aesthetically weak—and just plain BAD.
We’re getting real about how flattening the Bible into surface-level application points has destroyed our capacity to engage l…
Power Corrupts, Patriarchy Polices, and Why We’re All Rooting for the Dragons
Today Kate, Liz, and Sarah are diving into their first dark romantasy series on the pod—Melissa K. Roehrich’s Legacy Series, books 1-3.
We’re talking about source bonds as weaponized intimacy, how power systems crush ima…
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Today we have a special guest—Brooklyn Stephens from We Choose Welcome—to talk about Wicked and why the people who refuse to watch it because “witches = evil” are exactly the ones who need its lessons on propaganda, authoritarianism, and othering the most.
We’re unpacking how Elphaba…
Today your Matron Saints of Spice are wrapping up Stacia Stark’s Kingdom of Lies series with book four, where Prisca finally gets her crown and we’re learning that pre-disappointment is just stealing from yourself twice—a phrase that will now live rent-free in our heads forever.
We’re unpacking ho…
Today your matron saints of spice are diving into book three of Stacia Stark’s Kingdom of Lies series, where Prisca is processing trauma while everyone tells her she needs to grieve right now, and we’re realizing the pendulum on grief has swung from “suffer in silence” to “perform your sadness publ…
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