10/27/2026
“What would it feel like if you really believed the universe was benevolent?”
It was the first theological question anyone had ever put to Alexis, a nonprofit leader at that time, and it landed like what she calls a “good grenade.”
It didn’t fix her anxiety overnight. But it cracked something open.
She’d been living, without naming it, under a kind of capitalist theology, where money is the be-all, and a single donor’s yes or no got to rule her emotional world.
That one question widened the scope from this fundraising cycle to the entire universe. And it put her on her back heel about how she understood value itself.
A few years later, she was in seminary, chasing exactly that question. It reshaped her life and her work.
So what "good grenades" have you landed on? What risky conversations have changed the trajectory of your life and career?
From episode 141 of Risky Conversations with Jamie Lee: How to Raise Money and Get Paid Well Without Betraying Your Values. Available on all major platforms.
