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Stories about "Holy Runaways" with Guest Matthias Roberts
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Stories about "Holy Runaways" with Guest Matthias Roberts

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What are your favorite movies or TV shows about holy runaways? You know –stories that feature characters who felt different or othered, and ran away from those who labeled them?
What shows and films do you love about those who freely embraced being “different”?

My guest this week is Matthias Roberts, therapist, theologian and author of
Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion.
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MY GUEST MATTHIAS ROBERT’S PICKS


Confessions of a Shopaholic

Leaning Into the Wind

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldworthy Working with Time

Song of the Sea

The Way He Looks

MY PICKS

Unorthodox*

*Exclusively on Netflix


Queer Eye*

*Exclusively on Netflix


The Last Kingdom

The Gospel According to André

MY GUILTY PLEASURE OF THE WEEK

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

(There are a bunch of holy runaways but, I admit, I have no idea where are they running to?)


SOME BONUS PICKS

Pose

Midnight Mass*

*Exclusively on Netflix


Wolfwalkers*

*Exclusively on AppleTV+


NOW WHAT ARE YOUR PICKS?

What's good holy runaway movies or TV shows have you watched that you want added to our What’s Good? EPIC! Watchlist? Let me know! Leave your recommendations in the comments section below.


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Black Eyed Stories: What's Good?
From Marcie Alvis Walker, the author EVERYBODY COME ALIVE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS and the creator of the popular Instagram feed Black Coffee With White Friends, happy conversations about TV shows & movies that are bonafide good things (or good guilty pleasures) worth watching in a sometimes dreary & bleak world.
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