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:

July 22, 2024Abundant Lives: A Conversation With Amanda Udis-Kessler
- This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by the Deadly Faith podcast. Deadly Faith is a true crime podcast that explores the world where religion and crime collide.
- In this episode we chat with Amanda Udis-Kessler
- Amanda Udis-Kessler is a sociologist, ethicist, nonfiction writer, songwriter, composer, and liturgist. Her books include Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church (Routledge, 2008), Abundant Lives: A Progressive Christian Ethic of Flourishing (Pilgrim, 2024), and Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective (Anthem, 2024). She is also one of the main contributors to the collection A Liturgy for All Bodies (Cyclical Publishing, 2023). Her chapters and essays appear in an additional 13 books.
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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
- 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 15min
July 15, 2024Honoring The Journey: A Conversation With Leslie Nease
- This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by Breaking Bad Faith by Michael Camp. Published by Quoir and is available now
- In this episode we chat with Leslie Nease
- Leslie Nease, formerly recognized as Sister Christian from Survivor China, boasts a multifaceted background as a former Christian Radio Show Host, Speaker, and Writer specializing in women's ministry. Transitioning from her prominent role in faith-based media, Leslie embarked on a profound journey of deconstruction, reevaluating her former faith tradition. Today, she extends her expertise and empathy to others navigating similar paths through her podcast, "Honoring the Journey," and her coaching enterprise, dedicated to guiding individuals through life and faith transitions.
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- Listen on follow Leslie's podcast Honoring The Journey
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- Heretic Happy Hour Messy Spirituality Apostates Anonymous Second Cup with Keith The Church Needs Therapy
- 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
- 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 4min
July 08, 2024Life After Doom: A Conversation With Brian McLaren
- This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist Podcast. Brian and Troy used to be loyal Christian megachurch leaders. They’re not anymore. This podcast explores life after fundamentalism.
- In this episode we chat with Brian McLaren
- Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. He is a core faculty member and Dean of Faculty for the Center for Action and Contemplation. and a podcaster with Learning How to See. He is also an Auburn Senior Fellow and is a co-host of Southern Lights. His newest books are Faith After Doubt (January 2021), Do I Stay Christian? (May 2022), and Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart (2024). His co-authored children’s book Cory and the Seventh Story was released in 2023.
- You can follow Brian on:
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- Heretic Happy Hour Messy Spirituality Apostates Anonymous Second Cup with Keith The Church Needs Therapy
- 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
- 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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July 01, 2024You Will Always Belong: A Conversation With Matthew Paul Turner
- This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by Bros Bibles and Beer Podcast. Serious conversations on faith and culture while not taking ourselves too seriously, Bros Bibles & Beer is a podcast about life, faith & our favorite beverage - Unpolished and potentially unsafe. Kind of like life. Grace-Peace-Cheers!
- In this episode we chat with Matthew Paul Turner
- Matthew Paul Turner is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Is God Like? as well as When God Made You and When I Pray for You. When the father of three isn’t writing books, he’s photographing interesting people and places, practicing wood carving, and watching his children play soccer. Visit his website at matthewpaulturner.com.
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- Heretic Happy Hour Messy Spirituality Apostates Anonymous Second Cup with Keith The Church Needs Therapy
- 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
- 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 12min
June 24, 2024Hurt And Healed: A Conversation With Ryan George
- This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by Mornings With Schleiermacher by Chad Bahl. Published by Quoir and will be available on July 9, 2024
- In this episde we chat with Ryan George
- Ryan George co-leads Dude Group, a parachurch spiritual adventure community, as well as a serving incubator of volunteers at his church. During business hours, he works as a virtual marketing assistant; and his work has won more than 250 state & national awards for projects spanning 49 states and seven countries. Ryan enjoys conversations about the connection between faith and adventure. His goal is to help you embrace a life of spiritual awareness and discovery. Whether on stage or on social media, he hopes to inspire you to follow Jesus outside your comfort zones. In his books and blog posts, Ryan invites readers to explore a rich faith experience available in the midst of doubt, fear, and pressure. Ryan has traveled to all seven continents and both polar circles across 30 countries, searching for spiritual discoveries. He looks for Jesus in places and activities that don't look like Sunday morning church services. And, because Jesus promised it would happen, Ryan has found profound moments with Jesus in all of them.
- You can follow Ryan on:
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- Heretic Happy Hour Messy Spirituality Apostates Anonymous Second Cup with Keith The Church Needs Therapy
- 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
- 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 9min
June 17, 2024Thriving On A Riff: A Conversation With Bill Carter
- This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by Inking Christ: A Theological Approach To Tattoos by Justin Scoggins. The book is published by Quoir and will be available on July 30, 2024
- In this episode we chat with Bill Carter
- William G. Carter maintains a dual career as a jazz pianist and a Presbyterian minister. He is the pastor and head of staff at the First Presbyterian Church of Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, and the leader of the Presbybop Quartet. A highly regarded speaker, teacher, workshop leader, and composer, Carter is regarded as a national authority on the use of jazz music in liturgical settings. He is the author of eleven books and numerous published articles and the editor of the jazz hymnal Swing a New Song to the Lord: Jazz Resources for Worship. Carter is a graduate of Binghamton University and Princeton Theological Seminary and lives in South Abington Township, Pennsylvania.
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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
- 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 1min
June 10, 2024Rift: A Conversation With Cait West
- This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by A New Way Of Seeing: Meaning In Life And The Christian Vision Of Nature by Pierce Alexander Marks. Available June 25, 2024 and published by Quoir
- In this episode we chat with Cait West
- Cait West is a writer and editor based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her work has been published in The Revealer, Religion Dispatches, Fourth Genre, and Hawai`i Pacific Review, among others. As an advocate and a survivor of the Christian patriarchy movement, she serves on the editorial board for Tears of Eden, a nonprofit providing resources for survivors of spiritual abuse, and cohosts the podcast Survivors Discuss.
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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
- 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 2min
June 03, 2024Exploring Doubt And Deconstruction: A Conversation With Amanda Waldron
- This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by Everything Is The Same, But Exactly Different (And It Always Will Be) Improv, Jesus, And The Radical Affirmation Of Difference by Samuel Tanner. Published by Quoir, and available now.
- In this episode we chat with Amanda Waldron
- Amanda Waldron is the visionary behind the Wonder & Doubt Mentoring Program, a project born from her profound passions for Clinical Social Work and Theology. This program embodies the support she longed for during her own period of deconstruction a decade ago—a transformative time when she reassessed the beliefs she had grown up with. This journey led Amanda to seek therapy, attend seminary, and ultimately earn a Master's degree in Clinical Social Work. Through her mentoring program, she aims to guide others navigating similar paths, ensuring they feel supported and less isolated.
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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
- 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 7min
May 27, 2024Wishful Thinking: A Conversation With Donna Freitas
- This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by the Quoirlings: A Book Club for the Deconstructing Community.
- In this episode we chat with Donna Freitas
- THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO is Donna Freitas’s first adult novel. She has spoken at nearly two hundred colleges and universities about her nonfiction work. She is the author of CONSENT: A MEMOIR OF UNWANTED ATTENTION, as well as ten novels for children and young adults. Donna has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on radio and television, from NPR’s All Things Considered to The Today Show. She has been a professor at Boston University and Hofstra University, and is currently a member of the faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program.
- You can follow Donna on:
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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
- 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 12min
May 20, 2024In The Shadow Of Freedom: A Conversation With Alessandra Harris
- This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by the Deadly Faith Podcast. A true crime podcast that explores the world where religion and crime collide.
- In this episode we chat with Alessandra Harris
- Alessandra Harris doesn't shy away from controversial topics, and writes books that reflect the diversity of her world. In addition to writing fiction, Alessandra is an advocate for mental health and racial justice. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and four children. Her debut novel, Blaming the Wind, was published by Red Adept Publishing in 2016, followed by Everything She Lost in 2018, and Last Place Seen in 2022. Her first non-fiction title, In the Shadow of Freedom: The Enduring Call for Racial Justice, will be released with Orbis Books in 2024. In addition to co-founding and writing for Black Catholic Messenger, her writing has appeared in National Catholic Reporter, America Magazine, US Catholic, The Revealer, Critical Theology, The Catholic Worker, and Notre Dame's Grotto Network.
- You can follow Alessandra on:
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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
- 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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