Untamed Grace | Christian Deconstruction, Universalism, & Faith Beyond Fear

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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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Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening. 

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Episode written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson. 

Once grace is tamed, it ceases to be grace. Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening.

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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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Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening. 

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.  
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Episode written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson. 

Once grace is tamed, it ceases to be grace. Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening.

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode partnered with QuoirCast, and written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.

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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.

David's Podcast, Grace Saves All.

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Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening. 

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.  
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson. 

Once grace is tamed, it ceases to be grace. Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening.

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode partnered with QuoirCast, and written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.

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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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Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening. 

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.  
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson. 

Once grace is tamed, it ceases to be grace. Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening.

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode partnered with QuoirCast, and written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.

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What if you lived your whole life in one room, with only one window to the world? That limited view would become your entire reality—until one day, the door opened, and you discovered more rooms, more windows, more perspectives than you ever imagined. 

In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson shares a story of discovery—an analogy for the Christian journey, where each tradition, each perspective, and each expression of faith reveals more of God’s truth. Together, they form a fuller picture of God’s reality. And one day, when the windows fall away completely, we will see God’s love in its fullness. Until then, grace invites us to keep exploring.

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Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening. 

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.  
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson. 

Once grace is tamed, it ceases to be grace. Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening.

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.
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Episode partnered with QuoirCast, and written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.

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In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Jacob Kendall—a scholar with backgrounds in theology, social work, public health, and gerontology, as well as an entrepreneur and survivor of two open-heart surgeries. 

Jacob’s journey is deeply interdisciplinary, blending science, faith, and lived experience to confront some of life’s biggest questions: What does it mean to age with dignity? How do we dismantle ageism in a culture that worships youth? And what does grace have to say about mortality, suffering, and the limits of the human body? 

This conversation touches on theology, health, caregiving, and the power of community, offering a vision of grace that is practical, embodied, and radically inclusive.

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Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening. 

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.  
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson. 

Once grace is tamed, it ceases to be grace. Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening.

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode partnered with QuoirCast, and written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.

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Have you ever felt like faith and religion was just… exhausting?

Like you were carrying the weight of everyone else’s soul? Managing their beliefs, and your own? Living under endless rules and shoulds that always seemed to shift?

In this episode, Jeromy Johnson shares how evangelicalism left him spiritually tired—like sleep apnea for the soul. And how discovering the scandalous generosity of God’s grace became like oxygen: steady, freeing, life-giving.

This is a story about trading exhaustion for freedom. About learning that grace doesn’t demand we manage souls, police beliefs, or obey every shifting cultural law. Grace simply invites us to breathe, to rest, to live.

If you’ve ever been worn out by religion, suffocated by expectations, or burdened by the pressure to believe “just right”—this conversation is for you.

Because religion exhausts.
But grace? Grace breathes.

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Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening. 

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.  
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Episode written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson. 

Once grace is tamed, it ceases to be grace. Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening.

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode partnered with QuoirCast, and written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.

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Today, Jeromy welcomes a guest who feels less like an interview and more like a reunion. Jonathan Brink and Jeromy have known each other for decades—they’ve asked the dangerous questions together, laughed hard, wept at communion tables, and wrestled with a God who never seems to fit inside our boxes.

Jonathan’s journey has taken him through deep wounds, psychedelic awakenings, theological deconstruction, and a relentless pursuit of what grace actually means when it collides with real life. He’s wrestled with belonging, with shame, with love, and with discovering along the way that maybe grace was never out of reach.

In this conversation, we talk about how unbalanced masculinity has shaped the church, how feminine energy is resurfacing, and even how AI might push us into a new way of imagining community and trust.

So whether you’re a skeptic, a seeker, or someone still healing from old narratives, this one invites you into the dangerous, boundary-breaking possibility that God’s grace is for all.

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Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening. 

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.  
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson. 

Once grace is tamed, it ceases to be grace. Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening.

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode partnered with QuoirCast, and written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.

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Belief is never neat. It is both anchor and sail, holding us steady, yet carrying us into uncharted waters. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy lays down his flag, not with arrogance, but with humility, on one central conviction: God’s love and grace are for all.

From wrestling with our human limitations, to reimagining forgiveness as God’s gift (not our trigger), to rejecting the picture of an eternal hell of torment—Jeromy invites listeners into a hope-filled vision of a God whose mercy has no boundaries, not even death.

With echoes of Luther’s “Here I stand” and Bunyan’s unwavering conscience, this episode isn’t about final answers, but about choosing where to stand—even if it means erring on the side of grace.

If you’ve ever wondered whether love truly wins in the end… this one’s for you.

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Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening. 

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.  
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson. 

Once grace is tamed, it ceases to be grace. Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening.

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode partnered with QuoirCast, and written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.

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A bonus episode, this is my raw, initial thoughts and reactions to the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Does God give his love and grace to Charlie? What about the person who pulled the trigger? This puts the radical, expansive, universal, untamed grace of God to the test. This is when it counts. If not now and to these two people, then when? 

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Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening. 

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.  
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson. 

Once grace is tamed, it ceases to be grace. Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the rules, softens hearts, and loves without apology. The open, universal, unapologetic love of God. Together we’re building a braver, more honest space. Thanks for your support and for listening.

1. Got a story, question, guest suggestions, or topic idea? Email me.
2. Please share if you believe this show and its message of grace is important in our time—keep it spreading!
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Episode partnered with QuoirCast, and written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.