All episodes

KJ Ramsey | Joy That Doesn't Require Your Life to Get Better

Kat Armas | How Colonialism Shaped What You Believe About God

Anna Rollins | Purity Culture and Diet Culture Taught You the Same Thing

Kristin Mockler Young | Why Certainty Isn't Faith

Tyler Hill | From Original Sin to Original Goodness

Kristel Acevedo | Atonement Beyond Transaction

God is a Mother Too | Elizabeth Berget

Celeste Irwin | Trans and Christian

Alisha Roth | Christians and Divorce

Why is Christian Art so Bad? | I Read Something Bad

Matt Matson | Practicing vs Performing

Shannan Martin | Balancing the World's Heaviness

Joash Thomas | Colonized Christianity

Marissa Burt & Kelsey Kramer McGinnis | The Parenting Prosperity Gospel

Zach Lambert | Rehabbing your relationship with the Bible

Jared Stacy | Conspiracy Thinking in American Evangelicalism

2 Samuel 23 & 24 | Are we great yet?

Beth Allison Barr | Becoming the Pastor's Wife

2 Samuel 21 & 22 | When Victors Write the History

Hidden Grief of Deconstruction | Mandy Capehart

2 Samuel 20 | The god of Christian nationalism

Embodied Faith Beyond Evangelicalism | Rohadi Nagassar

The Desert Fathers and Mother | Lisa Colon Delay

2 Samuel 19 | Split Loyalty

Money, Power, and Faith | Malcolm Foley

Julia Rocchi | Asking Better Spiritual Questions

Sharifa Stevens | Honest Prayer

2 Samuel 18 | The Tragic End of Absalom

Liz Charlotte Grant | Reclaiming Scripture After Evangelical Upbringing

Jennifer G. Layte | The Pilgrimage of Faith

MaryB. Safrit | Learning to Belong

2 Samuel 17 | The Cycle of Violence

Self Care and Communal Flourishing

Reading Scripture with the Wesleyan Quadrilateral

White Supremacy in Deconstruction Spaces

2 Samuel 16 | Empire Business

Erin Moon | Dealing with Doubt and Holding onto Hope

What are God's pronouns?

Jonny Morrison | Does your "good news" pass the vibe check?

2 Samuel 15 | Which King Do We Serve?

Pricelis Perreaux-Dominguez | Trauma-Informed Church

Prophecy: Future Telling or Truth Telling?

Dr. Camden Morgante | The Trauma of Purity Culture

For the Heretics and Apostates (And Whatever Else They Call You)

2 Samuel 14 | Living From a Father Wound

The Women in Jesus's Genealogy and God's Heart for Justice

A Covenant Keeping God

Chris Morris | Harmful Ideas on Mental Health

How to Avoid Bad Theology

2 Samuel 13 | How Generational Sin is Passed Down

How does God describe God?

Sarah Westfall | How to Belong Wherever You Are

Christianese: "Love On"

2 Samuel 12 | Does everything happen for a reason?

How to Choose a Bible Translation

Marlena Graves | Social Justice in Spiritual Formation

Social Media Guidelines for a Polarizing Time

2 Samuel 11 | Adultery or Assault? Bathsheba's Story

Rethinking Righteousness | A New Paradigm for the Gospel

Meredith Miller | Reading the Bible with Your Kids After Deconstruction

2 Samuel 10 | How David's Alpha Male Energy Hurts the Church Today

Jenai Auman | Ingrouping and Outgrouping in Spiritual Environments

2 Samuel 9 | Confronting Harmful Disability Storytelling Tropes

Robert Callahan | How White Supremacy Distorts the Gospel

2 Samuel 8 | King David or a Bear?

Eugene Kim | The Future of the Church

2 Samuel 7 | Prophecy and Propaganda

Prasanta Verma | Fighting Ethnic Loneliness Together

Is Taylor Swift mocking Christianity? | TTPD, Religious Imagery, and Reading Well

Dr. Sandra Glahn | Rethinking Scholarship on 1 Timothy

2 Samuel 6 | The "Undignified" Faith of David

Dieula Previlon | Healing from Church Trauma

2 Samuel 5 | Balancing Altruism and Ambition

Kaitlyn Schiess | Navigating Political Idolatry in the Church

2 Samuel 3-4 | Fickle Allegiances

Trey Ferguson | Engaging Our Imagination Toward Wholeness

1 Samuel Wrap Up

Building a Resilient Faith for a Lifetime

1 Samuel 30 & 31 | A Tragic End

1 Samuel 28 & 29 | Ghost Stories

How to Deal with Spiritual Impostor Syndrome

1 Samuel 26 & 27 | Is David Likeable?

6 Myths About Reading the Bible

1 Samuel 24 & 25 | David (Barely) Keeps His Cool

1 Samuel 22 & 23 | Cat and Mouse

1 Samuel 20 & 21 | Calculated Risks

1 Samuel 18 & 19 | Family Rivalry

1 Samuel 16 & 17 | Meet David ... Twice

1 Samuel 15 | Winning and Losing

BONUS: Messy Life and Messier Faith

1 Samuel 13 & 14 | Rash Actions

1 Samuel 11 & 12 | Hello and Goodbye

1 Samuel 9 & 10 | Not All Who Wander Are Lost

1 Samuel 7 & 8 | The Downfall of Spiritual Dynasties

An Untidy Faith with Trey Ferguson

1 Samuel 5 & 6 | A god's reaction to the presence of God

1 Samuel & Violence featuring Robert Monson (Bonus Episode)

1 Samuel 3 & 4 | Is God just our mascot?

1 Samuel 1 & 2 | What is Sin?

1 Samuel Introduction | Reading When Your Relationship with Scripture is Complicated