Exploring Different Religions, Asking the Hard Questions, and Healing from Sexual Abuse with Logan Green

**Olivia Burnett** (0:00)
Logan, welcome to Twenty Something. I am so grateful and so stoked that you're here. Your platform has been one that I have watched for a while, and I've had lots of people recommend you to come on the podcast because what you share is so authentic and real. So, really glad to have you in the studio today.

**Logan Green** (0:16)
Thank you, thank you, I'm stoked.

**Olivia Burnett** (0:18)
Me too. So, for the person listening, what is going to change about their life, their mindset, based on our conversation today?

**Logan Green** (0:26)
Well, I'm not a pro, I'm not an expert.

**Olivia Burnett** (0:29)
Me neither.

**Logan Green** (0:30)
My hope is that you, whether you're a victim of sexual abuse or not, one, if you're a victim, that you'll find courage to talk about your abuse and courage to step into dark places. And two, if you simply just know somebody, because I promise you that you do, even if you don't currently know that you know somebody, that you'll be able to know how to be a safer space for somebody to talk about their sexual abuse and be a shoulder for someone else to lean on. That would be my hope for you to get out of this pod. We'll do our best. No promises.

**Olivia Burnett** (1:08)
That's like one of the most probably important and sensitive topics we could ever talk about. So thanks in advance for being vulnerable about it. And I'm really excited for this conversation. I think it's probably one of the most important ones we can have. So let's get into it.
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Hey, it's Liv, and welcome back to Twenty Something. Sorry about my sick voice, but hopefully I'm channeling Phoebe's sexy sick voice energy here. But if not, I'm sorry. But I want you to picture this, and you probably won't have to try that hard because I think it's something that we feel all the time. Well, let's say you walk into a place that's supposed to feel really certain. An office, a bank, a party, a church, and you look around and everyone seems grounded, like they know exactly what they're doing, exactly what they believe. They know where they belong and what their strengths are. They have it figured out. They're wearing the right outfits on the right path with the right answers. And you're just standing there thinking, huh, I don't know if I feel that. I don't know if I've ever felt that. How are they so sure? How are they so confident? So let's say that instead of pretending, you start searching, you start asking questions, the hard ones. You say the things you're not supposed to say out loud. You feel the emotions that you don't always know what to do with. You try different spaces, different communities, different jobs, different ways of looking at the world, maybe even different ways of understanding God, faith, a higher power and meaning just to see if something clicks. Not because you're lost in some big, dramatic way, but it's okay if you are. But it's just because you're in the middle of figuring it out. You're figuring it out in real time. And if we're being so honest, that's what most of us are doing anyways.
Today's conversation is with Logan Green, and that's exactly where he is, and he doesn't pretend to be anywhere else. He's asking the hard questions. He's explored the emotions and faith across so many different religions and spaces instead of landing somewhere definitive where he's still processing. He's still trying to understand what he believes and why.
He also opens up about something deeply personal, his experience of being sexually abused as a child, and the layers of shame, confusion, religious guilt, and everything that followed. It shaped a lot of how he saw himself and how he saw God and how he navigated the world for a long time. So if that's something that might be difficult for you to listen to, I just want to give you a clear heads up that this episode includes discussions of childhood sexual abuse and touches on themes of trauma, shame, and religious guilt. We don't go into graphic detail, but it is a real and honest conversation about his experience. So if you need to skip this one, take a break, or come back to it later, that's completely okay. Please make sure to take care of yourself first as you listen.
You know, but what I appreciate so much about this conversation is that there's no polished conclusion, there's no perfectly wrapped up lesson. It's just honest. It's about faith, healing shame, and what it looks like to sit in the middle of your story without having it figured out yet, and how to actually navigate that.