Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper in

their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it. I am

so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because every

woman is a fielogen. Hello listeners, welcome back to Verity Podcast. I am so

excited to be recording this episode with an actual voice. If you've listened to

the last two weeks, you know that I was on the struggle bus when it came to my

voice, but thanks to a round of antibiotics and steroids, I am finally able to

breathe again, and I'm doing so much better after 35 days of being sick. So

thank you for praying for me. Thank you for listening to the podcast, and a big

shout out to Joseph, my editor, who had to edit through all of the coughing on

those last two episodes. So hopefully this one is a much better experience. This

week we're talking about something that is so near and dear to my heart. We're

talking about reconstructing after legalism. And if you followed me for a

little bit, you might not know this, but for the last 10 years, one of my passions has

been talking about rebuilding a Christian faith after legalism or coming out of

legalism into a truly free Christian life. Now, I didn't grow up in a super legalistic

environment. We'll talk about this in a second, but I did grow up adjacent to it,

and I did adopt a lot of legalistic tendencies growing up around and sort of inside

purity culture, which was just pervasive in the Christian world when I was a teenager.

And so I was affected by legalism to some degree, although there are people who have walked

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