
Conversations at the margins of faith. Excavations interviews scholars, survivors, and spiritual truth-tellers doing the work of recovering what religion buried: centering marginalized voices, bodies, and the theologies that were never supposed to survive. Hosted by Connie Chen.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 6 | Founded | 6 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | ArtsReligion & Spirituality | |||

What does it mean to live by Christian ethics without God at the center? What happens when Marxist theory meets the bars of Rikers Island, the wards of outpatient psychiatric care, and the walls of San Quentin? In this episode of Excavations, Connie ... more
What happens when you stop apologizing for your body and start reading it as sacred text? In this episode of Excavations, I sit down with Ciarra Jones (@thegardeningtheologian) to talk about what it actually means to reclaim the body after religious ... more
What happens when desire meets doctrine and neither will back down?
In this episode of Excavations, Connie Chen sits down with Colten Barnaby for a wide-ranging, unfiltered conversation about the tangled roots of faith, sexuality, and identity. They... more
Join Connie Chen and Dr. Tamice Spencer-Helms for a rich conversation exploring hospice work as a powerful metaphor for helping whiteness face its own death and transformation. Together, we reflect on the sacred interconnectedness of birth and death,... more
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I started listening to the first episode and my first thoughts were "Connie is so poetic. How beautiful..." but as it progressed boom...my tears started rolling. What a power with words she has, not only calligraphed, but written and spoken. Honestly, it felt like daggers to my heart the way she talks so bluntly about George Floyd's death without sugar coating it. I sincerely admire the courage to speak like this to others, in a very educated, eloquent yet truthful way; something I definitely ne... more
This podcast approaches perfection
The delivery is flawless
The subject is timely and eternal
The distance is intimate and far
All of us who write should seek
this impeccable balance
of art and love and empathy
Chapeau Connie Chen chapeau
Ammaaaaazing Connie, I really can't stop adoring the way you've expressed your thoughts in the podcast...It's just the first episode until now, I'm really looking forward to the future ones eagerly.
You've literally put feelings to words do soulfully...I agree to what Jon said, "There are certain feelings, certain emotions that we feel and are simply unable to express them in words cause they're so deep and so heartfelt that describing them isn't just possible." But surely you have that magical ... more
Thoughtful and captivating, Connie walks alongside you through the many expressions that she felt within a given and lived story, just as she is unearthing each momentary observations of the past step by step.
Poignant, articulate, and demanding (but in a good, make-this-world-better, sort of way). Ms. Chen correlates visions of her childhood to a photograph of the worldwide pandemic, to master works of art, and she never skips a beat. My favorite part is the end. I certainly won’t spoil it for you. But she gives us cause to remember we’re all in the same storm but on very different boats.










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