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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This Is Not Church Podcast episodes:

May 26, 2025Queer & Christian: A Conversation With Brandan Robertson
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by The Quollective. We are a collective team of writers, poets, musicians, mystics, and cultural commentators who refuse to let injustice go unchecked.
In this episode we chat with Brandan Robertson
Rev.Brandan Robertson is a renowned pastor, author, and public theologian based in Queens, New York. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Pastoral Ministry and Biblical Studies from Moody Bible Institute, a Master of Theological Studies from Iliff School of Theology, and a Master of Arts in Political Science and Public Administration from Eastern Illinois University. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Biblical Studies at Drew University.
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1h 4min
May 19, 2025God's Ex-Girlfriend: A Conversation With Gloria Beth Amodeo
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by The Quollective. We are a collective team of writers, poets, musicians, mystics, and cultural commentators who refuse to let injustice go unchecked.
In this episode we chat with Gloria Beth Amodeo
Gloria Beth Amodeo’s fiction, nonfiction, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Publishers Weekly, The Literary Review, Carrier Pigeon, American Atheist and H.O.W. Journal, where Mary Gaitskill selected a short story of hers as the winner of a fiction contest. Gloria received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, and currently works at an advertising agency in New York City. In 2020, she was featured in the documentary, People You May Know, on Amazon Prime, where she discussed her experiences with Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru) and how the organization is now using big data to convert vulnerable college students. God's Ex-Girlfriend is her debut work. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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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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1h 3min
May 12, 2025Out Of The Blue: A Conversation With Mary Terhune
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by Peelakiiyankwi: Processing Liberation Through an Indigenous American Lens by Ryan Remington. Published by Quoir and available now
In this episode we chat with Mary Terhune
Mary Terhune, R.N., has been involved in the healing arts for over 40 years, journeying from allopathy to homeopathy, body-centered massage, Reiki and energy medicine. She studied at the Renaissance Institute of Classical Homeopathy and has a degree in sociology from Boston College. After practicing in Western medicine in different settings, she discovered natural medicine out of the need to heal herself.
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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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56min
May 05, 2025Reading Romans Right: A Conversation With Keith Giles & Matthew Distefano
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by The Subversive Soul by Phyllis Mathis. Published by Quoir and available soon
In this episode we chat with Keith Giles and Matthew Distefano
Keith Giles is the best-selling author of the Jesus Un series. He has appeared on CNN, USA Today, BuzzFeed, and John Fugelsang's "Tell Me Everything." Keith and his wife currently reside in El Paso.
Matthew J. Distefano is the author of multiple books, including The Wisdom of Hobbits, winner of the 17th annual National Indie Excellence Award for best philosophy book. He is an audio engineer, the producer of the Heretic Happy Hour podcast, cohost of Apostates Anonymous, and is a regular columnist for Patheos. He holds an undergraduate degree in Education from California State University, Chico, and has been in social work for over a decade, currently working as a Professional Service Coordinator in Butte County, California. In addition to his professional life, Matthew enjoys gardening, bicycling, and European football. He is a huge Tolkien nerd who one day hopes to live in Bag End with his wife and daughter. You can find his work at allsetfree.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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1h 6min
April 28, 2025Shame-Sex Attraction: A Conversation With Lucas Wilson
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by How To Not Suck As A Christian by Jeremy Steele. Published by Quoir and available now.
In this episode we chat with Lucas Wilson
Lucas is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto Mississauga and was formerly the Justice, Equity, and Transformation Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Calgary. He is the editor of Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy, and he is the author of At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Literature, which received the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award. His public-facing writing has appeared in The Advocate, Queerty, LGBTQ Nation, and Religion Dispatches, among other venues. He is currently working on two interrelated monograph projects that examine evangelical homophobia and transphobia in the U.S.
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Ideas Digest   Snarky Faith Podcast Wild Olive   Deadly Faith   Spirituality Brew Pub   Faith For The Rest Of Us
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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1h 3min
April 21, 2025The Mender: A Conversation with Hannah Dulaney
The Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by The Subversive Soul by Phyllis Mathis. Published by Quoir and available soon
In this episode we chat with Hannah Dulaney
Born in Southern California to a journalist and an English teacher, Hannah Dulaney doesn’t remember a time when words weren’t it for her. From a young age she was writing short stories and essays about her experiences with faith and family before beginning to explore the realm of poetry more seriously in 2018. When she’s not writing she spends most of her time reading Louise Glück and coming up with new recipes in her home in Portland, Oregon.
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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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59min
April 14, 2025How To Not Suck As A Christian: A Conversation With Jeremy Steele
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by Epilogue: A Novel by K.D. McCrite. Published by Quoir and available April 29, 2025
In this episode we caht with Jeremy Steele
Jeremy Steele is a pastor and writer. He also sucks as a Christian. Jeremy helps people find spiritual beliefs that help them be the best version of themselves and help them find a purpose greater than themselves. His progressive and engaging approach to spirituality has attracted a loyal following of over 100K on social media and a thriving community of members in the Discord group affectionately dubbed 'Not Church.'
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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 2min
April 07, 2025No One Taught Me How to Be a Man: A Conversation With Shannon TL Kearns
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by Peelakiiyankwi: Processing Liberation Through an Indigenous American Lens by Ryan Remington. Published by Quoir, and available now.
In this episode we chat with Shannon TL Kearns
A former fundamentalist who became the first openly transgender man ordained to the Old Catholic priesthood, Shannon TL Kearns believes in the transformative power of story. As an ordained priest, a playwright, a theologian, and a writer all of his work revolves around making meaning through story. His book In the Margins: A Transgender Man's Journey With Scripture is published Eerdmaan's books. No One Taught Me How To Be A Man: What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals About Masculinity is published by Broadleaf Books. Shannon is a co-founder of QueerTheology.com. His work there with Brian G. Murphy has reached more than a million people all over the world through videos, articles, and online courses and community. They have the longest running LBGTQ+ Spirituality podcast in the world. Shannon is a Humanitas New Voices Fellow for 2022 and was a recipient of the Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellowship in 20/21 and he was a Lambda Literary Fellow for 2019 (in playwriting) and 2022 (in screenwriting) and a Finnovation Fellow for 2019/2020. He is a sought after speaker on transgender issues and religion as well as a skilled facilitator of a variety of workshops. Shannon's plays include Laughing, Flexing, Dying, Stories We Tell At the End of the World, Body+Blood, in a stand of dying trees, Line of Sight, Twisted Deaths, The Resistance of My Skin, and Who Has Eyes To See. Shannon's television pilots include: The Family Unit, Transformed, and Freedom, Kansas. Selected recognition: Winner of the ScreenCraft Pitch competition, finalist for Bull City Film Festival for his pilot Transformed, a playwright in residence at the Inge House, Seven Devils' Playwright Conference, Great Plains Theatre Commons, a semi-finalist for the O'Neill, and a finalist for the Blue Ink playwriting award.
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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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1h 8min
March 31, 2025The Empty Bowl: A Conversation With Rikki West
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by How To Not Suck As A Christian by Jeremy Steele. Published by Quoir and is available now.
In this episode we chat with Rikki West
Rikki West is a former spiritual seeker and UC Berkeley–trained scientist who spent decades trying to reconcile scientific explanations of existence with her ordinary, real-life awareness. One adventure at a time, she found her way to a peace and beauty that changed all the questions. Her book Rootlines, a memoir of family healing, was published by She Writes Press in 2020. Mother of Noli and Godmother of Morgan, Rikki loves being outside in the alpine desert of northern New Mexico, where she lives with her wife Jill and and an old Yamaha.
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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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59min
March 24, 2025Until At Dawn We Wake: A Conversation With Charlotte Dalwood
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by the High Minds Podcast
In this episode we chat with Charlotte Dalwood
Charlotte Sophia Dalwood is a Student-At-Law at Prison & Police Law in Calgary, AB, and a Master of Laws student at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto, ON. She holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Calgary, Faculty of Law. Her journalistic reporting and commentary has appeared in CBC News, Xtra Magazine, rabble.ca, and Sojourners. Until At Dawn We Wake is Charlotte’s first book.
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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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59min

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