Allie Carter describes herself as someone who has always been a seeker. That searching led her through the doors of a church on a Sunday morning when she was hungover, reluctant to be there, and simply keeping a promise to some friends. What happened that morning changed her life.

But following Jesus didn't make everything that came next easy.

Allie opens up about church hurt, losing a community she trusted, realizing she had placed some of her faith in people, and slowly finding her way into a community where she felt safe enough to be fully herself.

We also talk about singleness, loneliness, relationships, self-love, learning to sit with yourself, and the freedom Allie has found in no longer believing she needs to become smaller, quieter, or less of herself to be loved.

And somehow, through all of that, we laughed. A LOT. 😂

This conversation is warm, funny, honest, faith-filled, and unmistakably Allie.

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Stanley Frankart walked into prison with no intention of changing his life. What happened there would eventually change not only his future, but the lives of countless people who would come behind him.

In this conversation, Stanley shares honestly about incarceration, losing his mother while he was still inside, encountering Jesus, and the difficult work of rebuilding a life after coming home. He also shares how those very experiences became part of his calling—from peer recovery and reentry work to advocating for housing, influencing policy, and walking back into correctional institutions carrying something very different than he once did: hope.

Stanley was also one of Danielle's Peer Recovery Support instructors, making this conversation especially meaningful for us.

This is a story about second chances, faith, purpose, and what can happen when the pieces of a life we'd rather erase become the very places from which we serve others.

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If you’ve listened to Worn But Worthy for a while, you’ve probably heard the name Cornerstone Church woven into more than a few of our guests’ stories. In this episode, you get to meet the man leading it.

Pastor Jacob Young joins us for a conversation that gives us a look behind the title, sharing about his family, his faith journey, his path into ministry, and some of the personal experiences that have shaped who he is today.

But we also take the opportunity to ask some of the bigger questions people are wrestling with when it comes to Christianity and the Church. We talk honestly about church hurt, hypocrisy, suffering, belonging, imperfect people trying to represent Jesus, and why Cornerstone has chosen to make room for people to show up authentically without pretending to have it all together.

Whether church has always felt like home, you’ve been hurt or rejected by one, you’ve walked away, or you’re simply curious about Christianity and Jesus, there’s a lot packed into this conversation.

It’s an honest conversation about faith, family, grace, and what church can look like when people are given the freedom to be real, ask questions, and find a place to belong.

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