The Evolving Faith Podcast
1) "Doubt can be the thing that pulls you closer to home" with Eric Thomas
We just couldn’t help ourselves. Even though our team is busy behind the scenes preparing for Evolving Faith 2023, we just had to drop one more bonus episode featuring R. Eric Thomas’s talk from the 2...Show More
2) Patchworks of Meaning: Stitching Together Our Stories with Scripture
Surprise! Another bonus episode featuring Barbara Brown Taylor from our 2022 Evolving Faith conference. Barbara skillfully walks us through how to own our ever evolving relationship with scripture. Sh...Show More
3) Blessings Reimagined
In this special episode, Kate Bowler joins host Sarah Bessey for a conversation about the search for spiritual language around blessing and praying without certainty. Kate also fields questions from t...Show More
4) Benediction
Jeff and Sarah offer a benediction that reminds us of all we’ve learned from our guests through this season of the podcast. They leave us with the blessing that God loves us, and that with God’s Spiri...Show More
5) Ask Us Anything
Jeff and Sarah answer questions from the Evolving Faith online community. They discuss their stories of “deconstruction” and shifts in their faith practices, as well as how to walk through faith evolu...Show More
6) "We Could Use Some Resurrection" with Nadia Bolz-Weber
Nadia Bolz-Weber talks about how we’ve used the phrase “the Lord” in ways that often paint a very different picture than who Jesus was and is. She tells us that in the time that Jesus was on earth, “L...Show More
7) Are You Prepared to Die? with William Matthews
William Matthews opens by asking a powerful question: Are you prepared to die? He describes the nature of horror films and draws parallels to the experience of being Black in America. He then takes us...Show More
8) Habitual Gratitude, with B.T. Harman
B.T. opens by acknowledging all of the understandable reasons we have to be angry—racism, homophobia, misogyny, the damage caused by nonaffirming Christians, and so much pain all around us. But B.T. r...Show More
9) We Belong to God, with Lisa Sharon Harper
Lisa opens by sharing about her own realization that the gospel she was taught wouldn’t actually be good news for her own enslaved grandmother. This crisis of faith took her to the Book of Genesis, an...Show More
10) “I Want You to Know Freedom,” with Jennifer Knapp
Jennifer tells us her own story of publicly coming out in 2010 and discusses the burden placed on the LGBTQ community to disclose deeply personal information. She shares what she’s learned in the proc...Show More