A Journey of Forgiveness and Renewal
How does someone move forward when the past feels too painful to name?
In this episode of Honest Christian Conversations, I sit down with Mark Sowersby, author of Forgiving the Nightmare, to discuss forgiveness, healing, and the long road to renewal after deep trauma.
Mark shares his story not to revisit the details of his past, but to testify to what God can do when pain is brought into the light. Through our conversation, we explore how forgiveness is not a single moment, but a process—one that requires wisdom, boundaries, faith, and time.
This episode gently invites listeners to wrestle with difficult but necessary questions:
What does forgiveness really mean—and what doesn’t it mean?
How do boundaries and healing work together?
And how can faith offer hope without minimizing pain?
Mark’s journey is a reminder that even the darkest chapters of life do not have the final word—and that healing is possible when we entrust justice, identity, and restoration to God.
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Ana is the host of the Honest Christian Conversations podcast and a prodigal saved by God’s unending grace.
She grew up in a legalistic Christian home where asking questions often felt wrong. In her early twenties, overwhelmed by confusion and hurt, she walked away from her faith. Yet even then, God’s love never stopped pursuing her. At thirty years old—and after a painful second divorce—He brought her back to himself, and she has never looked back.
As Ana returned to Christ, she began rebuilding her faith from the ground up and asked the questions she once feared to ask. Along that journey, she discovered inconsistencies, misplaced teachings, and even lies woven into the Christianity she grew up with. Instead of destroying her faith, this only deepened it. Out of that discovery, she founded Honest Christian Conversations. Ana's heart is to help others navigate the same tension she once lived with: wanting to know the real Jesus while sorting through the noise of deceptive teachings, spiritual manipulation, and “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Everything she creates flows from gratitude for the God who rescued her, restored her, and continues to shape her into who He intended her to be.
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