This Is Not Church Podcast

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This Is Not Church podcast offers a compelling and thought-provoking exploration of the intersections between deconstruction, activism, spirituality, and the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as vital issue... more

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August 25, 2025Found Family: A Conversation With MaryB Safrit
This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Subversive Soul by Phyllis Mathis. Published by Quoir and available now.
In this episode we chat with MaryB Safrit
MaryB. Safrit is a NYC-based writer, podcaster, and speaker passionate about helping folks who fall through the cracks of the church reclaim their agency and create found family in their right-now lives. She's also your friendly neighborhood bisexual, a recovering people pleaser, and hospitality nerd. Her podcast, Found Family with MaryB. Safrit, celebrates the creative ways guests are making community in their actual lives and is available wherever you get podcasts. She writes regularly on Substack at marybsafrit.substack.com. Follow her on Instagram, Threads, and TikTok @maryb.safrit and check out her cheeky, empowering merch on her website, marybsafrit.com.
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Love Covered Life   The Social Jesus Project   I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist   Radical Love Live   The God Squad
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1h 4min
August 18, 2025The Triumph Of Life: A Conversation With Rabbi Irving Greenberg
This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by Everly and the Little Red Door by Dannika Roggie. Published by Quoir and available now
In this episode we chat with Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
Rabbi Irving Greenberg is a preeminent Jewish thinker, theologian, activist, president of the J.J. Greenberg Institute for the Advancement of Jewish Life, and senior scholar in residence at Hadar. He is the author of five books, including For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity
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Love Covered Life   The Social Jesus Project   I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist   Radical Love Live   The God Squad
Each episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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1h 5min
August 11, 2025Asylum Seekers: A Conversation With Cristina Rathbone
This Quoircasr Podcast episode is brought to you by The Quantum Gospel of Mary and The Lost Gospel of Truth by Keith Giles. Published by Quoir and available now.
In this episode we chat with Cristina Rathbone
Cristina Rathbone is an award-winning journalist, Episcopal priest, and spiritual director. She is the author of The Asylum Seekers: A Chronical of Life, Death, and Community at the Border, On the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High School and A World Apart: Women, Prisons, and Life Behind Bars. In partnership with Episcopal Migration Ministries, she founded Neighbor to Neighbor, a national network that supports congregations as they accompany newly arrived asylum seekers. Rathbone is the mother of two sons and lives in Massachusetts.
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Love Covered Life   The Social Jesus Project   I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist   Radical Love Live   The God Squad
Each episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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57min
August 04, 2025Tragic Magic: A Conversation With Regan Caruthers
This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Quollective. At The Quollective, we believe in the power of independent media to challenge oppression, amplify marginalized voices, and create real, lasting change.
In this episode we chat wit Regan Caruthers
Regan’s path was informed by her early schooling where she meditated daily, practiced Tai Chi, and learned about the power of Divine Love and conscious thought. But she would reject these teachings as she sought to fit in and find social acceptance. Quickly rising through the ranks, Regan had a successful career as a Silicon Valley corporate executive in the educational software industry. But corporate ascension, an extra-marital affair, and a tumultuous first marriage were mere reflections of her brokenness and need for deep healing. Once she consciously committed to practicing what she had learned so young, her life began to change. Regan recently moved back to Missouri from Santa Cruz, CA. She’s the founder of Aset Yoga Center and dedicates her life to teaching and helping her clients achieve a more intimate and disciplined inner life. Her compassionate approach creates safe spaces for transformation and wellness, through one-on-one coaching, yoga sessions, and her Ready to Awaken courses. She conducts yoga classes for her community as an act of service at no charge Above all, Regan cherishes her roles as a devoted wife to Jim and a loving mother to her sons, Connor and Ian.
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Jonathan_Foster   Sacred Thoughts   Holy Heretics   Reframing Our Stories   Bros Bibles & Beer   Liminal Living
Love Covered Life   The Social Jesus Project   I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist   Radical Love Live   The God Squad
Each episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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40min
July 28, 2025Church Camp: A Conversation With Cara Meredith
This Quoircasr Podcast episode is brought to you by The Quantum Gospel of Mary and The Lost Gospel of Truth by Keith Giles. Published by Quoir and available now.
In this episode we chat with Cara Meredith
Cara Meredith is a sought-after speaker, public theologian, and development director who found home at a church camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains. After serving in various roles, she continued as a speaker for two decades at camps up and down the West Coast. With a master of theology (Fuller Seminary) and a background in education and nonprofit work, she is also the author of The Color of Life. Her writing has been featured in national media outlets such as The Oregonian, The New York Times, The Christian Century, and Christianity Today, among others. She lives with her family in Oakland, California.
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You can purchase Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation on Amazon.com
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Jonathan_Foster   Sacred Thoughts   Holy Heretics   Reframing Our Stories   Bros Bibles & Beer   Liminal Living
Love Covered Life   The Social Jesus Project   I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist   Radical Love Live   The God Squad
Each episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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50min
July 21, 2025Saving Face: A Conversation With Aimee Byrd
This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by Bros Bibles & Beer Podcast
In this episode we chat with Aimee Byrd
Aimee Byrd?is author, speaker, blogger, podcaster, and former coffee shop owner. Aimee is the author of several books, including The Hope in Our Scars, Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and Sexual Reformation. Her articles have appeared in First Things, Table Talk, Modern Reformation, By Faith, New Horizons, Ordained Servant, Harvest USA, and Credo Magazine and she has been interviewed and quoted in Christianity Today and The Atlantic
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Love Covered Life   The Social Jesus Project   I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist   Radical Love Live   The God Squad
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48min
July 14, 2025The Cosmic Christ & The Concrete Jesus: A Conversation With Kevin Sweeney
This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Quantum Gospel of Mary and The Lost Gospel of Truth. Published by Quoir and available now
In this episode we chat with Kevin Sweeney
Kevin Sweeney was co-founder and lead pastor of Imagine Church—an urban church in Honolulu that is welcoming of all people, sees imagination as the key to the future, chooses authenticity over performance, substance over hype, and quality over quantity. He is the host of podcast “The Church Needs Therapy” and is the author of the books, “The Making of a Mystic: My Journey with Mushrooms, My Life as a Pastor, and Why It’s Okay For Everyone to Relax,” out on May 31st, and “The Joy of Letting Go” which will be out in January 2023. Both on Quoir Publishing. He lives In Honolulu with his wife and co-founder of Imagine, Christine, and their two kids, True and Mikayla.
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Love Covered Life   The Social Jesus Project   I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist   Radical Love Live   The God Squad
Each episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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1h 6min
July 07, 2025The Kingdom Of Man: A Conversation With Eric English
This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Heretic Happy Hour Podcast
In this episode we chat with Eric English
Eric Scot English writes the UNenlightenment column for Patheos Progressive Christian. Eric also hosts a podcast called UNenlightenment where he interviews leading thinkers in the Christian faith about various topics associated with progressive Christianity and evangelicalism. Eric holds advanced degrees in philosophy and theology.
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Love Covered Life   The Social Jesus Project   I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist   Radical Love Live   The God Squad
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June 30, 2025Women Who Wear Only Themselves: A Conversation With Arundhathi Subramaniam
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In This episode we chat with Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet, described as “one of the finest poets writing in India today” (The Hindu, 2010) and “a unique poet of our times... in a league all by herself” (Indian Literature, 2021). Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Poetry 2020 (awarded by India’s national academy of letters), her fourteen books include Love Without a Story (Bloodaxe Books, 2020)and most recently, the Penguin anthology of Indian female sacred poetry, Wild Women (2024). Shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2015, her various poetry awards include the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Zee Women’s Award for Literature, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Mystic Kalinga Award, the Trinity Arts Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, the Homi Bhabha and Charles Wallace fellowships, among others. She has worked over the years as curator, critic and poetry editor, and divides her time between New York, Mumbai, and Chennai.
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Love Covered Life   The Social Jesus Project   I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist   Radical Love Live   The God Squad
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59min
June 23, 2025The Everybody Gospel: A Conversation With Francis Leeman
This Quourcast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Quantum Gospel of Mary and The Lost Gospel of Truth by Keith Giles. Published by Quoir and available now
In this episode we chat with Francis Leeman
Along with his wife Linda and some good friends, Fran Leeman has led LifeSpring Church for over thirty years. He is the author of several books and the founder of New Life for Haiti. As a pastor engaged in theological work with Catholic roots and decades in the evangelical stream, Fran believes the Christian faith and the western church are due for, and beginning to experience, their next evolution, one where we realize that love is the beginning, middle, and end of the human and Christian journey.
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You can purchase The Everybody Gospel: Why and How an Evangelical Church Journeyed from Judgment to the Inclusion of LGBTQ People on Amazon.com
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Love Covered Life   The Social Jesus Project   I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist   Radical Love Live   The God Squad
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