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Spiritual Misfits Podcast — 235 episodes
The 'Displaced Middle' (Adam Gowen)
Future Church Series: Tanya Riches and the Imago Dei
Is it Ethical to Have Kids? / Would Aliens Change Your Theology?
Future Church Series: Uncle Ray Minniecon and the Scarred Tree
'Fish with Feet: Human Evolution & the Image of God (Janet Kellogg Ray)
Gay, not Queer? Responding to Matthew Vines (Karl Hand)
Post-evangelical parenting? [Replay]
Hope is complicated: faith, climate anxiety and action (Jessica Morthorpe)
Slow Down (a Winter Contemplation)
Queering theology, doubting God, making room (Pearl Nunn, Kevin Crouse, Mitch Forbes)
Pub Theology: apologists, grifters and surprising churchgoers
How should we think about war? Four views (with Micah Hurst and Becca De Souza)
3 spiritual directors walk into a podcast (Sally Jones, Peter Ellem & Kym Dixon)
‘The Fossil of Us’ — what mark will we leave?
The Crisis After the Crisis/Tethered to Hope (Adriel Booker)
Does God even have a plan? Who for? (Roundtable: Will, Caro, Mitch, Becca)
How to be Human in a Machine Age (Graham Hill)
Four years in, and what comes next?
Silence as Resistance (Sally Longley) [Replay]
Is the Resurrection Just a Metaphor?
On Shedding: a Contemplation (Carolyn Meers)
Beyond Binary: AI, Paul, Jesus and Human Consciousness (Ken Davidson)
Stories from the Edges: "Edgewalkers" Book Launch (LIVE)
'My Body is Not a Prayer Request' (Amy Kenny) [Replay]
"Queer Blood and Fire" — the Experience of LGBTQ+ Salvation Army Officers (Brad Watson)
Poetry, Identity, and the Search for Belonging (Andrew Cox)
A Hidden Life in the Attention Economy (Justine Toh)
What if 'picking and choosing' is actually fine? (James McGrath, Beyond Deconstruction)
Pub Theology: the breakdown of our shared reality
Second-time-around spirituality: 'To Rebehold the Stars' (Tiffany Yecke Brooks)
If the world doesn't end and we're still neighbours (Amar D. Peterman)
Can AI be ethical? Can it make us wise? (with Simon Buckingham-Shum)
Holding in the Light (a Contemplation)
O Come All Ye Misfits (with Carolyn Meers and Linda Pesavento)
The Earth is a Prophet Now (Anne Lanyon)
Advent Anticipation in a Time of AI Anxiety
Creating Communities of Sacred Curiosity with Mike Hardie
Embodied Human Wisdom in AI Times (Mikenzie Ling)
How to Pray to a Triune God Beyond Gender (Sally Douglas on Rewilding Prayer)
Pub Theology: Christians, please chill and everyone stop trying to be authentic
(Not) Rescuing the Text (Michelle Eastwood)
Eco-Theology: Tending Soil & Soul (Samuel Dow)
Toxic Theology, Mental Health, Gravity & Grace (Jon Reichardt)
Sara M. Saleh on Palestine, liberation and poetry [Replay]
On Naming God: a Contemplation (Carolyn Meers)
Brian Recker: Reframing Hell, Exchanging Fear for Love
Pub Theology: James Dobson, Charlie Kirk & Universalism
The Divine Gift of Trans Lives & Faith with Steff Fenton
'An Honest Faith': When philosophy & theology meet (Keith Mascord)
Words for Those Who Wander (Poetry by Will Small & Boy Renaissance)
Spiritual Misfits, On the Way (LIVE at 'Words for Those Who Wander')
An Emergency Devotional: Faith in Times of Crisis with Hanna Reichel
The Death of the Whiteness Gospel with Danny Bryant
Safety is Love in Action with Joyce Tangi
Staying Tender in a Hard World | David Gate's 'Rebellion of Care'
A More Christlike God: Bradley Jersak on Faith After Deconstruction
The Future Church Transcends Culture Wars (Panel: Jarrod McKenna, Josephine Inkpin, Mikenzie Ling)
The Future Church is Trans (Josephine Inkpin | FC Conference Keynote)
The Future Church is Nonviolent (Jarrod McKenna | FC Conference Keynote)
God in the Dark: a Winter Solstice Reflection (Carolyn Meers)
The Future Church is Anti-Racist (Radhika Sukumar-White | FC Conference Keynote)
The Future Church is Disability Inclusive (Shane Clifton | FC Conference Keynote)
The Future Church Remembers the Poor (Gershon Nimbalker | FC Conference Keynote)
Should We Use the Word Mission? And How Mysticism Saved My Faith (Karina Kreminski)
In the Doorway: Feminist Complaint Collectives in Australian Christianity (Tracy McEwan, Rosie Clare Shorter and Tanya Riches)
The (Not So) Great Baptist Schism (with Andrew Dodd & Scott Higgins)
Hardwired for Wholeness: The Neuroscience of Embodied Spirituality (with Jana Holland)
The Political Power of Apocalyptic Literature (Robyn Whitaker)
Blood, Wrath & Love: What Actually Happened on the Cross? (with Mitch Forbes)
Reclaiming the Language: Sin and Repentance? (with Karl Hand)
The Cosmic Christ and the Concrete Jesus with Kevin Sweeney
Reclaiming the Language: Salvation? (with Becca De Souza & Carolyn Meers)
Pub Theology: an hour in hell with Mitch and Will
A Non-Binary God // A Fluid Faith with Boy Renaissance
Is Christianity Still Good News? [Replay] with Sally Douglas, Gregg Morris, Will Nicholas & Carlynne Nunn
The Religious Trauma Collective: understanding faith, harm and healing (Jane Kennedy, Sam Sellers & Elise Heerde)
Living 'Wholefarted': Poetry, Protest & Permission with Marla Taviano
Mikenzie Ling: God my Father, Land my Mother
Jonathan Cornford: What if Jesus meant what he said about money?
Sarah Bacaller on 'Apostate: Stories of Deconversion'
Geoff Bullock: after Hillsong...and after that
Jono Ingram on everyday spirituality and sustainability
Liz Charlotte Grant on seeking God in Genesis after losing faith in the Bible
Summer replays: Carolyn Meers on pastoring through deconstruction
Summer replays: Michael Frost & Shane Meyer-Holt on the other side of 'mega'
ad-Vent Live: a Merry Christmas Rant with Mitch Forbes & Ella Evans
Simon Nixon on navigating hard conversations at Christmas
Tanya Riches on leaving Hillsong, church with wombats and real-world theology
Kelly Latimore on Icons, Advent and learning how to see
Joel Hollier and Christine Redwood: Why Future Church?
Tim Whitaker on The New Evangelicals, Christian Nationalism and resisting Trump’s America
David Gushee: After Evangelicalism [a timely post-election Replay]
Will and Joel Small debrief Tim Winton’s CPX lecture (on climate crisis, toxic positivity and today's prophets)
Anna Robinson (from Nomad podcast) on wilderness, wonder and contemplative practices
Sally Longley on violence, silence and Ignatian spirituality
Pub Theology: politics, faith and community action (with Jack Turner)
Scott Erickson (Scott the Painter) is creating a visual vocabulary for the spiritual journey
Pub Theology: Listener questions (hedonism, lament and the limits of language)
Scott Parker: 'Hillsong Boy'
Jason John on sex, evolution and a poem you’ll never forget
Amy Kenny: 'My Body is Not a Prayer Request'
Mental Health and Loneliness with James Aaron and Sarah Bishop
Technology, AI and Spirituality with Aditee Vora, Somerset Drayton and Jonty Cornford
Racial injustice and the Church with Nathan Tyson, Radhika Sukumar-White and Liesl Homes
Navigating eco-anxiety, finding ways forward with Joyce Tangi, Karina Kreminski & Jono Row
‘My Generational Deconstruction’ with Joanna Drayton, Ken Day and Ella Evans
Christine Redwood, Belinda Groves & Nathan Nettleton on the Open Baptists
Karen Pack on starting loved and restoring the erased
Thomas Jay Oord on 'God After Deconstruction'
5 Big Ideas for the Future Church (Future Church Conference Night: Joyce Tangi, Jessica Morthorpe, Karen Pack, Mitch Forbes & Joel Hollier)
The Future Church is...Intersectional (Will Small at Future Church Conference)
The Future Church is....LGBTQIA+ Inclusive (Karen Pack at Future Church Conference)
The Future Church is...Decolonising (Safina Stewart at Future Church Conference)
The Future Church is....Trauma Informed (Joel Hollier at Future Church Conference)
Scott M. Coley on 'Ministers of Propaganda'
Adis Duderija on progressive Islam and process theology
Rachel Collis on doubt, faith and showing up either way
Pub Theology (with Carlynne Nunn) on shame and disappointment
Josephine McDonnell Inkpin on Trans Resurrection Reflections
James Watson wrote a song for Spiritual Misfits (and you can help name it)
Rob Waters (National Poetry Slam champion) on reminders of truth and love
Karen Pack, Tash Holmes & Karl Hand on Queer Christian Pride [Replay]
Will & Hannah debrief 'Prosper'
Emily Hayes (& Mitch Forbes) on learning to listen
Sarah McCammon on 'The Exvangelicals'
Peter Espevoll & Jon Reichardt: death metal, deconstruction & mental health
Kristen LaValley on faith after the formulas fail
Nils von Kalm on lifting people’s dignity
Liz Cooledge Jenkins on 'Nice Churchy Patriarchy'
'Filthy Misfits' (Spiritual Misfits x Filthy Hope crossover episode)
Summer replays: Becca de Souza on God as midwife
Summer replays: Dave Tomlinson on how to be a bad Christian and a better human being
Christmas Liturgy: Subversive Incarnation
Advent Liturgy [Replay - New one coming next week!]
Pub Theology: Tradition vs Progress
Sara M. Saleh on Palestine, liberation and poetry
Noah Small on the nature of God, love and kindness (a little episode with big heart)
Radhika Sukumar-White on lament, suffering and inclusive community
Michael Frost & Shane Meyer-Holt on the other side of 'mega'
Mikali Anagnostis and Gabi Cadenhead on Gen-Z spirituality and Marion St
Olivia Jackson on '(Un)Certain: a Collective Memoir of Deconstructing Faith'
Gregg Morris: examining our 'cultural tales' after the referendum
Is there hope in our heavy world? + Mitch reads the bible.
Benjamin Hastings on honest worship and feeling alone in the flock [Replay]
Grant Wilson, a quadriplegic pastor, on disability and grace
Jarrod McKenna on liberating love and nonviolent resistance
Pub Theology: 'The Experience of David Bentley Hart'
David Gushee: 'Defending Democracy from its Christian Enemies'
Safina Stewart and Bianca Manning: Season of Creation & the Voice
Janet Kellogg Ray on religious science denial and its consequences
Kelly Skilton on neurodiversity, spirituality and digital community
Jesse Mawson on the prison and the monastery
Sally Douglas on Jesus Sophia, the divine feminine and the trinity
Will Nicholas on sci-fi spirituality, apocalypses and interplanetary meaning-making
Pub Theology: Listener questions (Hannah, Mitch & Will)
Pub Theology: should every Christian read the Bible?
Mason Mennenga: theology for the people, from the internet’s youth pastor
Larissa Minniecon on the Voice
Post-evangelical parenting? (Becca De Souza, Carolyn Meers & Will Small)
LIVE: Is Christianity still good news? (Panel: Gregg Morris, Sally Douglas, Will Nicholas, Carlynne Nunn)
Priyanka Bromhead on decolonising faith and 'We are the Mainstream'
LIVE: Pub Theology & Poetry at The Rogue Scholar
Dean Johnston: 'can an atheist plant a church?'
LIVE: Wisdom for the Wilderness (Panel: Joel Hollier, Becca De Souza, Carolyn Meers, Simon Nixon)
God as Mother
Matt Glover on rejection, reinvention and connection
Pub Theology: is God violent? (Hannah, Mitch and Will)
Alexis Halverson: (re)discovering Christianity as a trans person
Jon Owen on 'no us and them'
Tripp Fuller on open and relational theology and resurrection
Good Friday Meditation: Psalm 22 [Replay]
(Dry-ish) Pub Theology for Lent (Hannah, Mitch & Will)
Becca De Souza on God as Midwife
Damon Gameau on 2040, meaning-making and creating social change
Guided contemplation: self-compassion across time
Dr. Rod Pattenden on art, religion and breaking the boxes
WorldPride Panel: Karen Pack, Tash Holmes, Karl Hand
Nicola Morley on overseas mission, coming out and sincerity through changing faith
Brad Brisco on covocational church leadership
Dave Andrews on Christi-anarchy, rejections and interfaith dialogue
Pub Theology: Will, Hannah & Mitch discuss prayer and miracles
Joel Hollier & Steff Fenton on creating trauma-informed church
Rob Buckingham on inclusion without limits
The unholy hustle and the sacred now [Replay]
Dr. Christine Redwood on women, the Bible & the pulpit [Replay]
A poetic Christmas message (final episode of 2022)
Christine Redwood, Josh Dowton & Hayley-Jayne Bernhardt: to be or not to be…Baptist
An Advent Liturgy
Carolyn Meers on pastoring through deconstruction
Tash Holmes on the centrality of creativity to community
Leaving loud (emergency pub theology w. Mitch, Hannah & Will)
Dave Tomlinson on how to be a bad Christian (and a better human being)
Pub Theology: Mitch and Will discuss Rob Bell (after seeing him live)
Rev. Dr Karina Kreminski on the church of tomorrow (and its mission)
Karl Hand on Queer Bible Commentary
The church of tomorrow with Simon Nixon
Bruce Macauley on seeing through the eyes of the other
Dr. David Gushee on Christian humanism after evangelicalism
A 'belonging of misfits' (poems and stories live at Hamilton Baptist Church)
Laurie Wevers on deconstruction, therapy and spiritual direction
Monasteries, mustard seeds and all this mess
Kissing purity culture goodbye (and the pursuit of a better sexual ethic for our kids?)
Pub theology: fracturing denominations (with Mitch Forbes)
Hannah interviews Will about all the things
Jo Saxton on grief, lament, race and gender
Joel McKerrow on removing the blindfolds
Simon Buckingham-Shum on the DNA of communal, creative worship (and 90s dance music)
Graeme Anderson on following Jesus for the next 10 minutes
Cheryl Andrews on shame-free spirituality
Pub theology with Mitch Forbes
Steff Fenton on gender expansive theology
Benjamin Hastings on honest worship and feeling alone in the flock
Mandy Smith on childlike faith and resisting the empire
Scott Higgins & Andrew Dodd Pt 2: lessons of inclusion
Scott Higgins & Andrew Dodd: how Hamilton Baptist became LGBTQI+ affirming
Simon Nixon on a new approach to faith, church and ministry
Affirmations: trust > certainty
Mitch Forbes (pt.2) on why our beliefs about hell matter here and now
The unholy hustle and the sacred now
Mitch Forbes on heaven, hell and universal salvation
Kris Halliday on being gay, Christian & called
Good Friday Meditation: Psalm 22
Dr Christine Redwood on women, the Bible and the pulpit
Power, patriarchy, scandals & where is God in it all?
Dr Joel Hollier on finding a place at the table.
Affirmations: when others misunderstand or judge me
Robyn van der Zee on spiritual abuse and trauma
Hannah Macauley Gierhart on working through the cognitive dissonance
Affirmations: God's love and my doubt.
At my parents table (faith renovations over decades)
Jesus (still) weeps
Guided Reflection (no music) - for when you haven't got it all figured out
Guided Reflection (with music) - for when you haven't got it all figured out.
Bronte Hughes on Jesus & Social Work
Spiritual Misfits: Our Story