Spiritual Misfits Podcast
If you’ve ever felt on the fringes of Christian faith this is a safe space for you. Your questions, doubts and hopes are all welcome here. We’re creating conversations, affirmations, meditations and other resources to support you on your spiritual journey and let you know that even if you feel like a misfit, you don’t have to feel alone.
Spiritual Misfits Podcast
Latest Episodes
How do you know when it's time to leave? (Steve Schallert)
How do you know when it’s time to leave a community you love but no longer believe in? And what happens when your body knows before your mind does?Steve Schallert grew up the child of missionaries in a quiet, Quaker-ish corner of Germany...
Magnificent Humanity, Apocalyptic AI? (Robyn Whitaker & Simon Buckingham Shum)
What does a 2,000-year-old book about a talking statue have to say about ChatGPT? And can AI form us, or only perform for us?Pope Leo XIV chose artificial intelligence as the subject of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas,...
Prayer Beyond Words, God Beyond Gender (Sally Douglas, Future Church Series)
In the latest episode of our Future Church Series, Will and Caro listen to two short excerpts from Rev Dr Sally Douglas’s keynote: one on silence and prayer as listening, and one on the names we use for God.Sally argues that much of wha...
Sexual Ethics After Purity Culture (Roundtable)
Will, Caro, Mitch and Becca unpack the purity culture they grew up in: Focus on the Family books, True Love Waits banquets, journals of letters to a future spouse, and the very real fear of dying in your sleep after masturbating.But this...
Do You Love Your Country Enough to Critique It? (Wes Crawford)
Wes Crawford is a church historian and pastor of twenty years, currently vice provost and associate professor of church history at Abilene Christian University.His new book One Nation Over God names what sociologists call "civil...