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Friend of the podcast, Christy Thomas joins us to reflect on where the United Methodist Church is at in its present moment somewhere on the timeline between divorce and reconciliation. Christy is a retired United Methodist pastor from…

In this episode, Jason talks with Amy Laura Hall of Duke University about her upcoming work on muscular Christianity, her most recent book “Laughing at the Devil,” Julian of Norwich, and their mutual affection for Stan the Man.

This week is a real treat! We are sharing Jason’s unedited live talk from the Mockingbird Annual Conference in New York! A huge thank you to Mockingbird for having Jason speak and for recording it as well!

“Orthodoxy is historically defined according to the creeds, and there is nothing at all in the creeds about human sexuality.”

Steve Harper, author of the new book, Holy Love, published today, is our guest for Episode #206. Steve is a former…

In a culture of performancism, virtue-signaling, and enoughness-chasing, Nick Lannon’s new book tells us the good news that Life is Impossible (and that’s the good news). Nick is an Anglican priest in Louisville, a movie buff and sports buff, and a…

Martin Luther said that God loves to hide himself behind his opposites. Though we prove time and again to think we need to strive and succeed so that we might be found acceptable by God or, in succeeding, find God in God’s glory, the God who…

Calvin said the human heart is an idol factory. Augustine said our hearts are restless until they find rest in God. DZ of Mockingbird Ministries and the author of the new book, Seculosity, says we’re more religious than ever before we’re church “in…

Jerry Herships joins the podcast to talk about his newest book, ‘Rogue Saints: Spirituality for Good-Hearted Heathens.’ In this episode, we talk about what exactly Jerry means by “shitty church,” if you are looking for a church how you can avoid one,…