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 th

Episode 8 Season 4 with Rabbi Rami Shapiro

Sep 18th, 2019 1h 6m

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 He

Season 4 Episode 7 "The Widness of God's Love and being Gay" With Dr John Destito

Jun 19th, 2019 46m 57s

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

Season 4 Ep 6 "Interview with the Church Witch" Lauren Burba

Jun 12th, 2019 53m 57s

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.themys

Season 4 Ep5 "Mega Church and Beyond" with Rev LaDonna Paulk Diaz Diaz

Jun 5th, 2019 1h 1m

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 ministr

Season 4 Ep 4 "Did God Kill Jesus?" with Tony Jones

May 29th, 2019 48m 59s

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 Semi

Season 4 Ep 3 "Not My Jesus Not Your Jesus" with Bob Fabey

May 22nd, 2019 52m 25s

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,

Season 4 EP 2 "Go East Young Man" with Craig Hostetler

May 15th, 2019 1h 8m

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

Season 4 Episode 1 "Activating your activism" with Dr Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

May 8th, 2019 50m 50s

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 Sc

Season 3 Ep 11 "Men Gone Wild!" with Rainier Wylde

Mar 29th, 2019 56m 54s

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 W

Season 3 Episode 10 "Rise of the NONES" With Dr Tricia Bruce

Mar 19th, 2019 57m 41s

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 (

Season 3 Ep 9 "Holy Envy" with Barbara Brown Taylor

Mar 12th, 2019 49m 36s

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),

Season 3 Episode 8 "Casting Stones" with Steve Stone

Mar 5th, 2019 53m 17s

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

Season 3 Episode 7 "Grounded" with Daniel Powell.

Feb 27th, 2019 54m 32s

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 live

Season 3 Episode 6 "Into the mist with a WITCH."

Feb 19th, 2019 1h 5m

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 bec

Season 3 Episode 5 "What the BIBLE actually does" with Pete Enns

Feb 12th, 2019 55m 49s

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 f

Season 3 Ep 5 "Back Together!!" with The infamous Scotty!!

Feb 5th, 2019 1h 1m

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

Season 3 Ep 4 "God in my head" with Josh Grisetti

Jan 30th, 2019 54m 28s

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

Season Episode 3 "Postcards from Babylon" with Brian Zahnd

Jan 22nd, 2019 1h

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

Sexism, Feminism, and the conspiracy of silence with Dr Spencer Murray

Jan 15th, 2019 58m 49s

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). Ge

Season 3 Episode ! with Carlton Pearson

Jan 9th, 2019 59m 47s

Carlton Pearson (born 1953) is an American Christian minister.[1] At one time, he was the pastor of the Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center Incorporated, later named it Higher Dimensions Family Church which was one of the largest churches in

Thankful AGAIN!! With DIANA BUTLER BASS.

Nov 15th, 2018 1h

Lets talk Gratitude and thanksgiving with the amazing Diana Butler Bass. Boom! Diana Butler Bass is an author, speaker, and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture. She holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke Un

GRATEFUL TEASER with Dr Diana Butler Bass

Nov 2nd, 2018 12m 40s

Episode 17 "Love without limits" with Dr Jacqueline A Bussie

Oct 24th, 2018 46m 50s

We welcome Dr Bussie to our show to talk about what limitless LOVE means to her. Dr. Jacqueline Bussie is an award-winning author, professor, theologian, public speaker, and student of life in all its messy beauty. Her books include Love With

Episode 15 "In God We Trump Reissued" with Christopher Malony

Oct 17th, 2018 58m 21s

The Holy Heretics podcast welcomes Christopher Maloney to talk about his film In God We Trump. In the most surprising election results of modern times, Donald J. Trump defied expectations to become the 45th president of the United States. Tho