The B-Side Bible: Your backstage pass to what didn't make the sermon.
"They Didn't Teach That At School" has been renamed The B-Side Bible. The B-Side Bible is a playful nod to the forgotten, overlooked, and underappreciated parts of Christianity and the Bible — much like a B-side on an old vinyl record. While the A-sides are the polished, well-known stories you hear in sermons (think Noah, Moses, and Jesus’ greatest hits), the B-sides are the strange visions, fringe characters, obscure rules, and wild moments hiding in the background.
This podcast is your backstage pass to what didn’t make the sermon — the sacred oddities, quirky tales, and theological curveballs that rarely get the spotlight but are just as fascinating.
Mark Kerrigan is a teacher with a bachelor of Education and a Master’s degree in Theological Studies. Mark has been teaching for twenty years and has also written 2 novels.
The B-Side Bible: Your backstage pass to what didn't make the sermon.
Gnostic Christianity - Enlightenment or Heresy
Long before Christianity settled into creeds and councils, it was a field of competing ideas — and some of the most striking came from the movement we now call Gnosticism.
In this episode, we trace the rise of the Gnostics: the teachers who shaped it, the world that produced it, and the ideas that set them apart. We explore their dualistic cosmos, their vision of a flawed material world, the role of the Demiurge, the pursuit of hidden knowledge — and why these ideas became such a challenge to the emerging orthodox church.
This is not about heresy hunting. This is about understanding the diversity and complexity inside early Christianity — and how alternative Christianities grew, argued, adapted, and sometimes survived in the shadows.
Join us as we step back into the second century and meet a Christianity very few people ever learn about — the Gnostic imagination.