Listen to podcast interviews with audio drama producer Lizzie Goldsmith and author Addie Zierman about When We Were on Fire, evangelical culture, creativity, faith deconstruction, and more.
Charity Campbell and Jay Bakker talk with Addie and Lizzie about the lasting impact of evangelical culture and the stories we tell about faith, fear, and belonging, and the way those narratives shaped identity, community, and spirituality for an entire generation.
Heidi Fischer — in character as Roach, a time traveler from the future — talks with Lizzie about "When We Were on Fire" and growing up evangelical, in this genre-bending episode where audio drama meets interview.
Stephanie Warren talks with Lizzie about the emotional realities of growing up in evangelical spaces, the creative hunger that follows deconstruction, and how the audio drama is like “Adventures in Odyssey … if the characters deconstructed."
Anthony Elio goes behind the scenes with Lizzie into the craft of audio storytelling, the challenges of adapting a memoir into an audio drama, and how themes of evangelical faith and faith deconstruction shaped the project and her own experiences.
Dr. Aaron C. Waldron talks with Lizzie about storytelling as a tool for processing religious trauma, Theopoetics and embodied spirituality, and the role of faith deconstruction in rebuilding a spiritual identity.
Dr. Brittney Doll and Kristin Williams chat with Lizzie about the intensity of '90s evangelical culture, faith deconstruction, and how art and storytelling can help people process their spiritual baggage and move forward.