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June 08Wired For Wonder: A Conversation With Aaron Hanbury
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In this episode we chat with Aaron Hanbury

Aaron Cline Hanbury is a writer and editor. He's the editor of Common Good magazine, which he helped found in 2019, and the previous editor of RELEVANT magazine. Aaron lives in the Atlanta area with his wife and daughters.

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1 hr 4 min
June 01The Conspiracists: A Conversation With Noelle Cook
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In this episode we chat with Noelle Cook

Noelle Cook is an author, filmmaker, and researcher who explores how identity, belief, and belonging shape extremist communities—especially among women. Her book, The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging (2026), draws on five years of immersive fieldwork to trace the gendered and cultural roots of conspiratorial thinking. She is also Associate Producer of The Conspiracists, a feature documentary by Page75 Productions. Cook’s work bridges academia and media, offering a grounded, human look at how ordinary people come to believe extraordinary things.

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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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58 min
May 25Racial Justice For The Long Haul: A Conversation With Christine Jeske
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 Christine Jeske

As an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Wheaton College (PhD, University of Wisconsin, MBA, Eastern University), Christine Jeske joins with others to consider how to live good and just lives in this multicultural world. She worked for a decade in microfinance, refugee resettlement, community development, and education while living in Nicaragua, China, and South Africa. She currently shares an old farm named the Sanctuary with an ever-shifting combination of chickens, sheep, pigs, raspberries, weeds, guests, two grown children, and one wonderful husband. In The Laziness Myth, she explores what goes wrong with work and what people do about it. In Racial Justice for the Long Haul, she offers practical research on how people pursue a more just world.

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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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1 hr 1 min
May 18The Tribulation Survival Guide: A Conversation With Stuart Delony
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In this episode we chat with Stuart Delony

Stuart Delony is a former pastor, current cynic, and future resident of the New Jerusalem HOA complaints committee (pending appeal). He hosts the Snarky Faith podcast and writes weekly columns interrogating faith and culture with equal parts wit and fire. He’s survived megachurches, mission trips, and multiple theological detoxes. His book, The Tribulation Survival Guide, is his field manual.

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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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52 min
May 11We Mend With Gold: A Conversation With Kristin T Lee
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In this episode we chat with Kristin T Lee

Kristin T. Lee is a writer whose work has appeared in Christianity Today and Sojourners, and a primary care physician serving Boston's Chinatown community. She writes about faith, culture, books, and solidarity at The Embers and is a contributing columnist to The Covenant Companion. Her passion is highlighting literature written by Asian and BIPOC authors via book reviews and reading groups on Instagram. Lee's work is informed by her experiences as an adoptive mother, host to refugees, and friend to those affected by incarceration.

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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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56 min
May 04The Three Of Us: A Conversation With Nat, Bethany, And Jon
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by Rituals for Heretics by Jeremy Steele. Published by Quoir and available now.

In this episode we do not have a guest. It is just the three of us chatting it up.

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You can purchase Bethany's book Stepping Into Lent: A 40 Day Reflection on Loss, Lack, & Belovedness, In the Wilderness With Jesus or Stepping Into Advent: Making Space to Recognize the Nearness of God on Amazon.com

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58 min
April 27Of Course I'm Here Right Now: A Conversation With Shelby Forsythia
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by The Edge of the Inside: When Losing Your Place Means Finding Your Soul by Jeremy Jernigan. Published by Quoir and available now.

In this episode we chat with Shelby Forsythia

Shelby Forsythia (she/her) is a grief coach, author, and podcast host. In 2020, she founded Life After Loss Academy, an online course and community that has helped dozens of grievers grow and find their way after death, divorce, diagnosis, and other major life transitions. Following her mother’s death in 2013, Shelby began calling herself a “student of grief” and now devotes her days to reading, writing, and speaking about loss. Through a combination of mindfulness tools and intuitive, open-ended questions, she guides her clients to welcome grief as a teacher and create meaningful lives that honor and include the heartbreaks they’ve faced. Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, Bustle, and The Oprah Magazine.

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1 hr 3 min
April 20Quantum Theology: A Conversation With Keith Giles, Mo Thomas, Nish Dubashia, And Brandy Anderson
This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Heretic Happy Hour podcast.

In this episode we chat with Keith Giles, Mo Thomas, Nish Dubashia, and Brandy Anderson

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.

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Mo Thomas has been told on numerous occasions that he should stick with crashing cars for the auto industry (which he's done for 30 years in the Detroit, MI area), instead of attempting to write about theology. This seems like good advice, as he has no seminary degree, limited ministry experience, no impressive titles that lend any credibility . . . and engineers aren't often known for their writing. He decided to write this book anyway. In fact, NOT writing it wasn't an option.

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Nish Dubashia, Born in London (England) in 1966 (13th March @ 9:47 AM, so Taurus ascendant and Jyeshta Nakshatra), Nishad spent his childhood absorbed in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, and started receiving formal spiritual training from Theravadin Buddhist monks and a Chinese Taoist master in 1984. With the exception of a few days spent in hospital in 2008, Nishad has maintained some kind of spiritual practice based on those early foundations every day since then. The core of his practice at the current time is Buddhist meditation supplemented by deity and guru yoga.

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Brandy Anderson is a Spiritual Director, Jungian Coach, and the author of Through the Veil: A Glimpse into the Afterlife, which received a Silver Nautilus Award for its contribution to spiritual exploration.

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52 min
April 13To Rebehold The Stars: A Conversation With Tiffany Yecke Brooks
This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by Rituals for Heretics by Jeremy Steele. The book is available now by Quoir

In this episode we chat with Tiffany Yecke Brooks

Tiffany Yecke Brooks holds an MA in spiritual formation and a PhD in English. She has taught college-level writing and literature courses and has more than twenty years of experience as a professional editor and writing coach. She has been the lead or contributing author on dozens of books and is the author of Gaslighted by God: Reconstructing a Disillusioned Faith and Holy Ghosted: Spiritual Anxiety, Religious Trauma, and the Language of Abuse.

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42 min
April 06For The Love Of Women: A Conversation With Dorothy Littell Greco
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In this episode we chat with Dorothy Littell Greco

Dorothy Littell Greco writes about how the gospel is meant to change everything. Her most recent book, For the Love of Women, focuses on misogyny. She is a member of Redbud Writers Guild. Dorothy has also worked as a professional photographer for more than forty years. When she's not rearranging words or making photos, she loves to kayak, travel, bike, and concoct gluten free desserts. You can find more of her work on her website (dorothygrecocom) or by following her on Instagram (@DorothyLGreco) or Facebook (Words&Images by Dorothy Greco).

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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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57 min

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