Leslie Nease, a former evangelical and Survivor China contestant, opens up about the moment her fear-based faith cracked and the grace that finally brought her home.

From Survivor to Heretic is Leslie’s raw, courageous story of what happens when a lifetime of evangelical certainty begins to crack. Her journey didn’t unravel because of scandal—or fame—but because she finally slowed down enough to listen. To Buddhists. To Mormons. To gay flight attendants. To the very people her fear-based faith had warned her about.

Their kindness undid something in her.
Their humanity sparked questions she had never been allowed to ask.
And the God she discovered as a result didn’t match the God she had been taught to fear.

In this episode, Jeromy Johnson and Leslie walk through the tender terrain of deconstruction, religious trauma, evangelicalism, Christian nationalism, and the long, slow unlearning that leads toward spiritual healing and progressive Christianity. This isn’t a story about losing faith, it’s the story of coming home to a God who was never threatened by doubt, curiosity, or a widening circle of love.

If you’re navigating your own journey out of fear and into freedom, this conversation offers companionship, compassion, and a reminder that you’re not alone. There are more of us out here than you think.

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Sometimes the ones who preached grace the loudest are the ones who have to learn it the hardest.

In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson talks with Steve White, a former pastor and seminary-trained worship leader who lost everything, including his ministry, but found grace waiting in the wreckage. Steve’s story is one of failure, exile, and redemption—proof that God’s love doesn’t stop where religion does.

Together they talk about what happens when you’re too human for church, when your brokenness gets you cast out, and how grace keeps showing up in the very places you were told it wouldn’t. It’s the story of the long road toward self-forgiveness, and the discovery that grace doesn’t just forgive, it rebuilds.

If you’ve ever wondered whether deconstruction, forgiveness, and unconditional love can coexist, this conversation might just restore your faith in grace itself.

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We love our sides. Teams, tribes, doctrines, denominations—lines in the sand that give us a sense of belonging, but also someone to fight against. From childhood football games of shirts versus skins to the way churches police communion tables, we learn to divide the world into “us” and “them.”

But here’s the scandal of grace: God doesn’t play for our team. In Jesus, God kept crossing the lines we defend—eating with sinners, healing enemies, and telling stories where outsiders were the heroes. Grace, by her very nature, is disloyal to our factions. She crawls under fences, sneaks into enemy camps, and embraces those we’d rather exclude.

In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy wrestles with his own history of drawing hard lines and the freedom that comes when those lines dissolve. What if God has already taken everyone’s side? What if grace insists on showing up at both tables—ours, and theirs?

If you’ve ever been wearied by division, or longed for a love bigger than sides, this conversation is for you.

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Sometimes losing your religion is how you finally find your soul.

In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Michael Camp—former missionary, Bible teacher, and author of Faith Funk: How to Break Free from Toxic Religion and Reboot a Healthy Spirituality.

Michael’s story is a roadmap for anyone leaving fear-based faith behind. Together they talk about deconstruction as discovery—what it means to question the beliefs that broke you, to heal from the shame that shaped you, and to rebuild a spirituality grounded in love instead of control.

This episode explores how losing your religion doesn’t mean losing your soul—it’s how you find it again. From rethinking hell and unlearning fear to rediscovering compassion, this conversation invites you to trade certainty for curiosity, and fear for freedom.

If you’ve ever wondered whether your doubts could be holy, or if God could survive your questions, this one’s for you.

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From war zones to church pews, Bob found one truth: grace never stops reaching.

In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Bob Hildreth—a pastor, storyteller, and spiritual wanderer who’s walked with both the holy and the hurting. Bob shares his story of religious trauma, healing, and the surprising discovery that grace is far bigger—and far messier—than he was ever told.

Together they talk about the difference between a transactional God and a transformative one, how fear-based religion taught us to wear masks, and what happens when we finally stop trying to earn divine love and let ourselves be embraced by it. From psych wards to war zones, from theology to therapy, Bob’s story reminds us that grace is not polite, clean, or predictable—it’s relentless.

If you’ve ever wrestled with deconstruction, church hurt, or the fear of being “too far gone,” this conversation will meet you where you are. Because maybe the real tragedy isn’t loving God—it’s refusing to believe He could love everyone else just as much.

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What if hell isn’t God’s punishment—but our protest?

In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson asks whether hell might simply be the porch outside the party—the place where the “good” and the religious stand, too offended by mercy to step into grace.

Through the story of the prodigal son’s older brother, and other moments when Jesus flipped religious expectations, Jeromy explores what happens when divine love feels too inclusive.

It’s a raw reflection on Christian deconstruction, faith reconstruction, and the scandal of universalism—the belief that God’s love is for everyone, even those we’d rather keep out.

After the monologue, Jeromy is joined by  Jonathan Brink for an honest, heart-level conversation about heaven, hell, forgiveness, resentment, and theology—and what it means to follow a God whose grace doesn’t play favorites.

If you’ve ever wrestled with faith, questioned religion’s gatekeeping, or wondered whether grace could really be that wild, this episode invites you to open the door and walk inside.

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How do you raise children with love when you were raised with fear? 

In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson talks with Nadyia Horning—a mother, advocate, and survivor of fundamentalist religion—about what it means to break the generational chains of fear and raise children with love instead of control.

Nadyia shares her story of growing up in an Independent Fundamental Baptist home marked by performance, punishment, and perfectionism—and how she’s rewriting that story through gentleness, connection, and grace. Together they explore parenting after religious trauma, reparenting the child within, and learning to trust the voice inside that says love doesn’t have to hurt to be holy.

If you’ve ever struggled to parent differently than you were raised, or to believe that grace belongs in the messiest parts of family life, this conversation will remind you that healing is possible—and that the story can begin again with you.

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Can a good God condemn forever?
Can love and justice truly coexist?
And if the Gospel is good news, shouldn’t it be good for everyone?

In Part 2 of Evangelicalism vs. Universalism, Jeromy and David Artman dive head-on into the debate: hell, judgment, free will, and the moral logic of universal salvation.

It’s a passionate, respectful clash between evangelical theology and the expanding hope of Christian universalism—a faith that insists every knee will bow, every heart will heal, and love will, in the end, win.

Because if grace is real, it can’t stop halfway.

It has to save us all.

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What if everything we were taught about hell was wrong—or at least incomplete?
What if judgment wasn’t about eternal torment, but transformation?
And what if grace is bigger, wider, and wilder than any of our doctrines can hold?

In this first part of a two-episode conversation, Jeromy sits down with David Artman, author of Grace Saves All and host of the Grace Saves All Podcast, to explore how he came to believe in Christian universalism—the hope that God’s love will, one day, restore everything and everyone.

Together they trace his story from evangelical roots to a faith shaped by progressive Christianity, the early church fathers, and a vision of grace that refuses to end at the gates of hell.

This is the invitation to rethink what salvation really means—and what the Gospel might sound like if love, not fear, had the final word.

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If God’s love truly includes everyone, what does that say about how we live, forgive, and belong? In this conversation, Jeromy Johnson and Pastor Chris Jorgensen step into the deep waters of progressive Christianity and Christian universalism—the belief that divine love leaves no one out.

Together they wrestle with fear, faith, justice, and the mystery of divine abundance—why grace feels unfair to those who think they’ve earned it, and liberating to those who know they can’t. Because maybe God’s justice looks nothing like ours, and that’s good news for everyone.

This isn’t a debate; it’s an exploration of the radical inclusivity of God, where mercy and mystery meet. Because when love stops keeping score, everyone gets some.

So wherever you are on the path—questioning, curious, or clinging to hope—remember: the table is still set. Grace has room for you, and for them, and for us all.

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