Spiritual Misfits Podcast
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Sexual Ethics After Purity Culture (Roundtable)
October 3, 2026 · 1 hr 15 minWill, 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…
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Do You Love Your Country Enough to Critique It? (Wes Crawford)
September 26, 2026 · 58 minWes 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 minWill 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…
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'Faithfully Dissident' — Disentangling Christianity from Patriarchy (Chelsea Kim Long)
September 12, 2026 · 1 hr 9 minChelsea 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…
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What Makes a Space Sacred? (Paul Banks)
September 5, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minPaul 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…
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Our Surprising Listeners + AI & the Future Church (with Simon Buckingham Shum)
August 29, 2026 · 1 hr 0 minWill 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…
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Masala Chai Theology: Decolonising & Peacemaking (Fr. Joash P. Thomas)
August 22, 2026 · 53 minFr. 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…
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The 'Displaced Middle' (Adam Gowen)
August 15, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minAdam 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…