This Is Not Church Podcast

This Is Not Church

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 issues like Black Lives Matter and First Nations' rights. Hosted by passionate individuals who are dedicated to fostering open and inclusive conversations, this podcast delves into the complex journey of deconstructing one's faith, while simultaneously embracing and advocating for the rights and stories of the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as the fight for racial justice within the Black Lives Matter movement and the preservation of First Nations' cultures and rights. With a focus on examining the evolving landscapes of faith and identity, "This Is Not Church" provides a safe and informative space for listeners to engage with narratives of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation, ultimately encouraging a more empathetic and understanding society.

  1. 1d ago

    Grace Sideways: A Conversation With Jack R Reese

    This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by the High Minds Podcast In this episode we chat with Jack R. Reese Jack R. Reese has spent more than fifty years in ministry, serving as a senior pastor, university professor, seminary dean, campus minister, and community activist. He has taught courses in preaching, worship, ministry, social change, and New Testament texts. Beyond the church and academy, he has led nonprofit work addressing poverty and racism, creating pathways for personal and economic advancement through education in the humanities. Reese is the author of At the Blue Hole: Elegy for a Church on the Edge, The Body Broken: Embracing the Peace of Christ in a Fragmented Church, and Grace, Sideways:Field Notes of a Doubting Believer. You can find all things Jack R. Reese related on his website You can purchase Grace, Sideways: Field Notes of a Doubting Believer on Bookshop.org You can connect with This Is Not Church on: Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTube Also check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church related Please like and follow our Quoircast Partners: 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     Radical Love Live     The God Squad 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  2. Aug 10

    Saints, Sinners, And Clickers: A Conversation With Matthew Distefano

    This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by Heretic Happy Hour Podcast In this episode we chat with Matthew Distefano Matthew J. Distefano is the author of multiple books, including The Wisdom of Hobbits, winner of the 17th annual National Indie Excellence Award for best philosophy book. He is an audio engineer, the producer of the Heretic Happy Hour podcast, cohost of Apostates Anonymous, and is a regular columnist for Patheos. He holds an undergraduate degree in Education from California State University, Chico, and has been in social work for over a decade, currently working as a Professional Service Coordinator in Butte County, California. In addition to his professional life, Matthew enjoys gardening, bicycling, and European football. He is a huge Tolkien nerd who one day hopes to live in Bag End with his wife and daughter. You can find his work at allsetfree.com. You can connect with Matthew on: Facebook     Instagram     TikTok You can purchase Saints, Sinners, and Clickers on Amazon.com You can purchase MAGA VS The Bible on Amazon.com Check out all of Quoir's books on their website You can connect with This Is Not Church on: Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTube Also check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church related Please like and follow our Quoircast Partners: 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     Radical Love Live     The God Squad 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  3. Aug 3

    Serving Up Scripture: A Conversation With Aaron Higashi

    This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by Honoring The Journey Podcast In this episode we chat with Aaron Higashi Aaron Higashi is a public Bible scholar with a PhD in biblical interpretation from Chicago Theological Seminary. He writes Bible commentaries, including 1 & 2 Samuel for Normal People: A Guide to Prophets, Kings, and Some Pretty Terrible Men, and answers Bible questions on Instagram at @abhigashi. You can connect with Aaron on: Facebook     Instagram     TikTok You can purchase Serving Up Scripture: How to Interpret the Bible for Yourself and Others on Bookshop.org You can connect with This Is Not Church on: Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTube Also check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church related Please like and follow our Quoircast Partners: 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     Radical Love Live     The God Squad 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  4. Jul 27

    Mother: A Conversation With Andrea M Butler

    This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by In this episode we chat with Andrea M Butler Andrea M. Butler is a graduate of Belmont University, where she earned degrees in theater and music. Her passion for storytelling has since moved to the page, where she writes character-driven fiction that wrestles with faith, politics, and spirituality against a backdrop of Southern culture. When she's not writing she works as a hypnotherapist at Eden Farm, an animal-assisted therapy practice. She and her husband, Jason, and their six children live in Durham, N.C. You can connect with Andrea on: Facebook     Instagram     Substack You can find all things Andrea M Butler related on her website You can purchase Mother: Book 1 on Amazon.com You can connect with This Is Not Church on: Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTube Also check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church related Please like and follow our Quoircast Partners: 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     Radical Love Live     The God Squad 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  5. Jul 20

    The Edge of the Inside: A Conversation With Jeremy Jernigan

    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 Jeremy Jernigan Jeremy Jernigan is a writer, speaker, and recovering megachurch pastor. After two decades in full-time ministry, including serving as a Lead Pastor, he now focuses on helping people rebuild their faith after it breaks. He hosts the weekly Rebuilding Faith series and the biweekly Cabernet and Pray podcast. Jeremy lives in Arizona with his wife and five kids. You can connect with Jeremy on: Facebook     Instagram     YouTube     TikTok You can find all things Jeremy Jernigan related on his website Check out his podcast Cabernet And Pray You can purchase The Edge of the Inside: When Losing Your Place Means Finding Your Soul on Amazon.com You can connect with This Is Not Church on: Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTube Also check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church related Please like and follow our Quoircast Partners: 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     Radical Love Live     The God Squad 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  6. Jul 13

    Dangerous Songs: A Conversation With Richard Bruxvoort Colligan

    This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by the Heretic Happy Hour podcsat In this episode we chat with Richard Bruxvoort Colligan Dr. Richard Bruxvoort Colligan is a longtime musician, composer, liturgical theologian, and author of Dangerous Songs: The Psalms and a Gloriously Disrupted Life. Trough his career, his congregational songs have been published by the ELCA, PC(USA), UCC, and UMC. With a passion for community singing and the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible, he has written songs for all 150 Psalms and has published over fifteen collections of original songs. A graduate of Luther College, he earned his MA in Theology and the Arts from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, and his DMin from Eden Seminary in St. Louis. Richard lives in Rochester, MN with his wife Trish. There he serves Mount Olive Lutheran Church as Director of Spiritual Formation. You can connect with Richard on: Facebook     Instagram     YouTube     Soundcloud You can find all things Richard Bruxvoort Colligan related on his website You can buy Dangerous Songs: The Psalms and a Gloriously Disrupted Life on Bookshop.org You can connect with This Is Not Church on: Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTube Also check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church related Please like and follow our Quoircast Partners: 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     Radical Love Live     The God Squad 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  7. Jul 6

    July Rebroadcast: A Conversation With Arundhathi Subramaniam

    This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Heretic Happy Hour Podcast In This episode we chat with Arundhathi Subramaniam Arundhathi Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet, described as “one of the finest poets writing in India today” (The Hindu, 2010) and “a unique poet of our times... in a league all by herself” (Indian Literature, 2021). Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Poetry 2020 (awarded by India’s national academy of letters), her fourteen books include Love Without a Story (Bloodaxe Books, 2020)and most recently, the Penguin anthology of Indian female sacred poetry, Wild Women (2024). Shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2015, her various poetry awards include the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Zee Women’s Award for Literature, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Mystic Kalinga Award, the Trinity Arts Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, the Homi Bhabha and Charles Wallace fellowships, among others. She has worked over the years as curator, critic and poetry editor, and divides her time between New York, Mumbai, and Chennai. You can connect with Arundhathi on: Facebook     Instagram You can find all things Arundhathi Subramaniam related on her website You can purchase Women Who Wear Only Themselves: Four Travelers on Their Sacred Journeys on Amazon.com You can connect with This Is Not Church on: Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTube Also check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church related Please like and follow our Quoircast Partners: 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     Radical Love Live     The God Squad 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  8. Jun 29

    Pride Month Rebroadcast: A Conversation With Matthew Vines

    This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by Peelakiiyankwi: Processing Liberation Through an Indigenous American Lens  Published by Quoir and is available now. In this episode we chat with Matthew Vines Matthew Vines is the founder of The Reformation Project, a Bible-based, Christian nonprofit that works to advance an orthodox and affirming vision for the church. Vines’s work has been featured in media worldwide, including Time, the Associated Press, and The New York Times. Vines lives in Dallas, Texas. You can connect with Matthew on: Facebook     Instagram     YouTube You can find all things Matthew Vines related on his website You can find more info about the Reformation Project on their website You can purchase God And The Gay Christian on Amazon.com You can connect with This Is Not Church on: Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTube Also check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church related Please like and follow our Quoircast Partners: 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     Radical Love Live     The God Squad 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! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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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 issues like Black Lives Matter and First Nations' rights. Hosted by passionate individuals who are dedicated to fostering open and inclusive conversations, this podcast delves into the complex journey of deconstructing one's faith, while simultaneously embracing and advocating for the rights and stories of the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as the fight for racial justice within the Black Lives Matter movement and the preservation of First Nations' cultures and rights. With a focus on examining the evolving landscapes of faith and identity, "This Is Not Church" provides a safe and informative space for listeners to engage with narratives of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation, ultimately encouraging a more empathetic and understanding society.

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