Holy Heretics

Scott and Jon are back together and this episode is the first in a brand new season of the Holy Heretics podcast. In this episode, Scott and Jon chat about the ironies of Good Friday, including: pandemics, fear, existential dread, and all of those warm fuzzies. A constant theme throughout this episode is the idea how suffering and crisis reveals the truth that theology is mostly based on experience. Listen, enjoy, and welcome back to the journey! SUPPORT AND CONNECT WITH THE HOLY HERETICS DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics FOLLOW  THE HOLY HERETICS Twitter: @HolyHeretics Instagram: @theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe

While my personal life is between me, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, here are some highlights from my professional life: I was born on April 26, 1951 and circumcised eight days later. (OK, that was personal.) I earned rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in 1981, and a PH.D. in religion from Union Graduate School in 1985. Over the past forty years I’ve been a USAF chaplain, a congregational rabbi, a business consultant, a university professor, and an author of three dozen books on religion and spirituality. In 2010 I was initiated into the Ramakrishna Order of Vedanta Hinduism by Swami Swahananda, and became a 32° Scottish Rite Mason (KCCH). Several years later I founded the Order of the Holy Rascal, and joined another secret society, The Grand Lodge of All Beings. I currently co-direct the One River Foundation (oneriverfoundation.org), write the “Roadside Assistance for the Spiritual Traveler” column for Spirituality & Health Magazine and host the magaz

Today we're to my personal Dr and how he sees the world as a gay professional man and a Christian Mystic.     Connect with our partners at www.wildfoods.co     CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscrib

We welcome Lauren Burba (The Church Witch) back to our show today to talk about planets, stars, Jupiter, and Mars. Oh yeah and.... Witch Craft as well as modern paganism. What it is and what it isn't.   www.facebook.com/thechurchwitc www.themysticandmundane.com/my-stor www.instagram.com/thechurchwitch www.themysticandmundane.com   Check out our friends at www.wildfoods.co   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscrib

We welcome Rev Diaz to our show to talk about her life in a Mega Church family and her own personal journey, crisis of faith, deconstruction of her faith, and how she got out into a wide open spiritual life. You can connect with and her ministry by going to http://mytruthsanctuary.com/   Connect with our partners at www.wildfoods.co     CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscrib

Tony Jones is the author of Did God Kill Jesus? Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution, is theologian-in-residence at Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis, and teaches theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Tony serves as a senior acquisitions editor at Fortress Press, curating the Theology for the People line of books. He’s developed an iPhone app called Ordain Thyself. Tony is the author of many books on Christian ministry and spirituality, including The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier and The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life, and he is a sought after speaker and consultant in the areas of emerging church, postmodernism, and Christian spirituality. Tony served as a pastor and non-profit executive for two decades before earning his Ph.D. in practical theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. He also holds degrees from Dartmouth College (A.B.) and Fuller Theological Seminary (M.Div.). His work has been

We have Father Bob Fabey on the show today to talk the struggling artist from centuries ago. JESUS!! He's the author of the book "Not My Jesus" (Embracing our sacred role in a changing world.) When not practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, traveling, or having coffee with his wife; Bob loves to speak about Dignity in keynotes, conferences, workshops and retreats. He draws upon 20 years of experience with a variety of organizations working with teams and leaders to increase effectiveness. www.bobfabey.com   This pod is brought to you in part by www.wildfood.co Go check out their real wild food products.   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS    DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscrib

We welcome our friend Craig Hostetler from The Black Sheep Experience Podcast to the show to chat about our journey from Fundy Evangelical Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity to finding peace in allot of Eastern thought. We're talking Tao and Zen and how these practices have helped us find deep inner peace and healing. All kinds of great heretical talk.   Also Connect with our friends at Wild Food by going to www.wildfood.co   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscrib    

We are back for SEASON 4!!! Boom!! and we have our friend and Queer Activist Theologian Dr Robyn Espinoza with us. Dr Robyn is Visiting Professor | Duke Divinity School, Durham North Carolina Visiting Scholar | Vanderbilt University Divinity School Activist Theology Project | Founder Currently located in Nashville, TN We are talking about what it means to truly be an activist and sharing in Dr Robyn's background that informs the passion for activist theology. https://irobyn.com/ http://activistheology.co   This Pod is brought to you in part by www.wildfoods.co   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe  

We're getting extra wild with the wild man himself! Spiritual Teacher, Coach, and Author Rainier Wylde, MA is a teacher, coach, podcaster, and author who creates the conditions for deep change in peoples lives. He has studied under leading Western psychologists, Eastern mystics, and contemplative teachers. He lived for over a decade in intentional proximity community, took monastic vows, traveled the world searching for ascended masters, earned a graduate degree in Community Counseling, worked as a clinical psychotherapist with chronically suicidal and self-harming clients, a spiritual director, taught grad school in eco-therapy and evolutionary psychology, and has been certified in CBT life coaching and am a certified vocational specialist. Rainier has co-authored several books, have been published in professional journals around the effects of civilization, spirituality, ecology and men’s issues. He and his partner live in the Cascadia Bio-Region with their four children and two dogs.   https://rewilder.

We're talking with a Sociologist of religion about religion and the rise of the nones. Tricia C. Bruce, Ph.D. is a sociologist of religion and award-winning author of Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Faithful Revolution: How Voice of the Faithful Is Changing the Church (Oxford University Press, 2011/2014). She is coeditor of Polarization in the US Catholic Church (Liturgical Press, 2016) and American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism (Fordham University Press, 2019). Tricia holds an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a BA in sociology and communication from Southwestern University. She is an affiliate of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion and Society as well as adjunct research associate professor of sociology with the University of Texas at San Antonio. Previous appointments include tenured associate professor of sociology at Maryville College and researc

We welcome author, teacher, professor, and Episcopal priest Barbara Brown Taylor to our heretical show today. Barbara Brown Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author, teacher, and Episcopal priest. Her first memoir, Leaving Church (2006), won an Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association. Her last book, Learning to Walk in the Dark (2014), was featured on the cover of TIME magazine. She has served on the faculties of Piedmont College, Columbia Theological Seminary, Candler School of Theology at Emory University, McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University, and the Certificate in Theological Studies program at Arrendale State Prison for Women in Alto, Georgia. In 2014 TIME included her on its annual list of Most Influential People; in 2015 she was named Georgia Woman of the Year; in 2016 she received The President’s Medal at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Mercer University and is working on her fourteenth book, Holy Envy, com

We welcome the Starbucks Pastor, Steve Stone, back to the show to talk about the most recent vote from the General Counsel of the United Methodist church against LGBTQ people serving in their churches. Pastor Steve is a long time friend of the podcast and continues to be a voice for inclusion in our world. This is a great chat and you'll be glad you listened in.   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe

Today we talk with the creator and host of the grounded presence podcast Daniel Powell. Hi, I'm Daniel Powell, author of: Join me as I explore: Authentic Identity, Deeper Community, & Spiritual Evolution ​ I believe life isn't really lived unless you are in deep community, being the most authentic version of yourself, and connecting to the world in a spiritual way. It sounds peaceful and serene but it's not easy to  pursue these type of deep connections. It is, however, very rewarding and deeply fulfilling. I don't have the answers or a neatly organized 5 step program that will explain how to create and maintain inner,  external, and spiritual connectedness. I simply have a wholistic longing to delve deeper into these spaces.   Through this blog I'll share stories, experiences, and thoughts about: unearthing your most authentic identity, pursuing more depth in community, and the process of spiritual evolution. I do this  in hopes of encouraging those of you that are seeking a similar deep connecti

We welcome Lauren Burba to our show to tell her story. She is a Mystic, Holistic, Autentic, Alchemical Life Coach, Esoteric teacher, Medicine Woman, Yoga Teacher, and Astrologer. We're talking about her journey from Charismatic Prophetis to becoming a mystical witch.   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe

We welcome Pete Enns to the show today to talk about the Bible!! Here's what Pete says about himself. I spent half my 20s and 30s in graduate school–first seminary then getting my PhD. I’ve been teaching, writing, and speaking about the Bible for over 20 years. I like to ask questions and I don’t like quick, safe answers to make the hard questions go away. I am an explorer. I’m wired to say, ”Yeah, but. . . .” I’ve gotten into trouble now and then for it. And I love telling Bible stories. Not the stories you might tell your children. In fact, not just stories that are in the Bible–although there’s that, too. I tell stories about everyday normal people and their struggles with the Bible. The Bible is supposed to be the book that tells us what God is up to, but once you start reading, you get more than you bargained for. The Bible is ancient, weird, unfamiliar, from another world and another time. Some of it is bizarre, unbelievable, and even morally suspect. The Bible that tells us about God is a messy book th

Man oh man!! Back on with great friend co-founder Scott Watkins! We're just catching and talking about how the journey continues. Deconstruction, reconstruction, dark nights of the soul and how to cope with life after losing your religion. You don't want to miss this talk!   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe

Josh Grisetti is primarily an actor working in theatre and television. He has no formal training in writing, philosophy or religion. This memoir is his first book - and probably his last, as he has no further aspirations as a writer.   Josh was born in Washington D.C., grew up just outside of Roanoke, Virginia, and was raised in the Southern Baptist Church. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his dog, Cooter, neither of whom have any specific religious affiliation. www.godinmyhead.com https://www.joshgrisetti.com/   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe  

Brian Zahnd is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Brian and his wife, Peri, founded the church in 1981. Brian is also the author of several books, including, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Water to Wine, A Farewell To Mars, Beauty Will Save the World, and Unconditional?: The Call of Jesus to Radical Forgiveness.   Connect with Brian by going to https://brianzahnd.com/   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe

We welcome Dr Spencer Murray to talk about Sexism and Feminism and share with the information he's gathered over the years of experience and formal study. His new book is The Conspiracy of Silence (How religion and patriarchy oppress women). Get Dr Murray's at https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Spender+Murray+book&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ASpender+Murray+book   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe