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  • How do you know when it's time to leave? (Steve Schallert)

    October 24, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    How do you know when it’s time to leave a community you love but no longer believe in? And what happens when your body knows before your mind does? Steve Schallert grew up the child of missionaries in a quiet, Quaker-ish corner of Germany…

  • Magnificent Humanity, Apocalyptic AI? (Robyn Whitaker & Simon Buckingham Shum)

    October 17, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    What does a 2,000-year-old book about a talking statue have to say about ChatGPT? And can AI form us, or only perform for us? Pope Leo XIV chose artificial intelligence as the subject of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and…

  • Prayer Beyond Words, God Beyond Gender (Sally Douglas, Future Church Series)

    October 10, 2026 · 56 min

    In the latest episode of our Future Church Series, Will and Caro listen to two short excerpts from Rev Dr Sally Douglas’s keynote: one on silence and prayer as listening, and one on the names we use for God. Sally argues that much of what…

  • Sexual Ethics After Purity Culture (Roundtable)

    October 3, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

    Will, Caro, Mitch and Becca unpack the purity culture they grew up in: Focus on the Family books, True Love Waits banquets, journals of letters to a future spouse, and the very real fear of dying in your sleep after masturbating. But this…

  • Do You Love Your Country Enough to Critique It? (Wes Crawford)

    September 26, 2026 · 58 min

    Wes Crawford is a church historian and pastor of twenty years, currently vice provost and associate professor of church history at Abilene Christian University. His new book One Nation Over God names what sociologists call "civil religion"…

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  • Is Hope Still Reasonable? (LIVE in Melbourne with Steff Fenton, Kelly Woods & Jono Ingram)

    September 19, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

    Will Small is joined by Steff Fenton, Kelly Woods and Jono Ingram to discuss the complex nature of hope, the work of cultivating an alternative imagination and a vision of how it might look in community. With beautiful opening words from…

  • 'Faithfully Dissident' — Disentangling Christianity from Patriarchy (Chelsea Kim Long)

    September 12, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    Chelsea Kim Long grew up inside a world that had an answer for everything — until her body didn't cooperate with the script. A traumatic birth, postpartum depression, infertility, and eventually an impossible decision during a quadruplet…

  • What Makes a Space Sacred? (Paul Banks)

    September 5, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    Paul Banks spent his early childhood living in an intentional Christian community — it wasn't perfect, but it 'spoiled' him for church spaces that never quite replicated the taste of an integrated communal life in the same way.  Paul has…

  • Our Surprising Listeners + AI & the Future Church (with Simon Buckingham Shum)

    August 29, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    Will and Caro discuss some surprising findings from the recent Spiritual Misfits listener survey and then continue their series looking back at excerpts from Future Church Conference keynotes — this time, Simon Buckingham Shum's…

  • Masala Chai Theology: Decolonising & Peacemaking (Fr. Joash P. Thomas)

    August 22, 2026 · 53 min

    Fr. Joash P. Thomas comes from a long line of misfits — literally: a St. Thomas Indian Christian whose people had followed Jesus since the earliest days of the church, but were labelled heretics by colonial missionaries who showed up…

  • The 'Displaced Middle' (Adam Gowen)

    August 15, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    Adam Gowen is a Wiradjuri man with deep cultural ties to Ngunnawal and Yuin country, a husband, father of three, not-for-profit board director, and campus manager at the University of Wollongong. In this conversation with Carolyn Meers…

  • Future Church Series: Tanya Riches and the Imago Dei

    August 8, 2026 · 51 min

    We continue our Future Church series where Will and Caro listen back to a highlight excerpt from Future Church Conference and then debrief what it sparks for them as they think about their lives and faith communities. This time, we listen…

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About the show

If you’ve ever felt on the fringes of Christian faith this is a safe space for you. Your questions, doubts and hopes are all welcome here. We’re creating conversations, affirmations, meditations and other resources to support you on your spiritual journey and let you know that even if you feel like a misfit, you don’t have to feel alone.