Slutty Grace | Deconstruction, Christian Universalism, & Faith Beyond Fear
Slutty Grace is a Christian deconstruction podcast exploring Christian universalism, progressive Christianity, radical grace, and faith beyond fear. For wanderers, exvangelicals, doubters, and wounded believers rethinking hell, healing from toxic religion, and rediscovering a God rooted in inclusive love.
This is a space where fear-based faith gets reexamined through radical grace.
Through thoughtful interviews and honest reflection, we wrestle with eternal torment theology, LGBTQ+ inclusion, church harm, and the assumptions we inherited — not to tear faith down, but to rebuild it around love.
Slutty Grace names what polite religion often avoids: that God’s love is wider than we were told, mercy is not scarce, and belonging is not conditional.
If you suspect grace is bigger than fear — you’re not alone.
Written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.
Episodes
33 episodes
Jesus in the Psych Ward: Religious trauma and mental health recovery, with Kristi Williams
What happens when religious trauma collides with mental health crisis—and your old faith doesn’t survive the fall?In this raw and deeply honest conversation, Kristi Williams shares her journey from high-control Christianity to psy...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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46:59
A Workplace Death Changed My Life: Finding God in the aftermath of tragedy, with Chris Jones.
What if God isn’t changing your circumstances… because He’s changing you?In this deeply personal episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy sits down with Chris Jones, host of the podcast Spiritual Hot Sauce, for a raw conv...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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58:26
God Embraces LGBTQ+ People: Thomas Jay Oord on Uncontrolling Love and Queer Inclusion.
If love is the measure of theology, what does that mean for LGBTQ+ people in the Church?In this powerful episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with renowned theologian Dr. Thomas Jay Oord to confront one of th...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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1:00:32
Did I Fail as a Youth Pastor? Listening to a former youth deconstruct evangelicalism.
What happens when a former youth pastor sits down—not to defend his past—but to listen?In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson reconnects with Autumn Lindsey, a former middle-school student from his youth ministry...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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54:30
Poking the Bloat: Religion, Trumpism, and American Christianity with Stuart Delony
What happens when you take Jesus seriously—but can’t take American Christianity at face value anymore?In this episode, Jeromy sits down with Stuart Delony—pastor-turned-satirist, writer, and host of Snarky Faith—fo...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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41:32
Love Will Never Fail: Jason Clark and David Artman on Christian Universalism.
In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson is joined by Jason Clark and David Artman, two of the most influential and trusted voices in the contemporary Christian universalism and universal reconciliation conversatio...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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1:23:52
The Death of Pastor Dave: From religious burnout, shame, and addiction to beloved son.
What happens when everything you thought you were, suddenly vanishes? In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy sits down with his close friend Dave Everly for an honest, unfiltered, and, at times, humorous conversat...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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1:22:40
Unlike Grace, Seasons End: That's a wrap for season one!
Twenty-five episodes. Four months. Hundreds of stories of grace unfolding.In this Season One Wrap-Up of Slutty Grace, host Jeromy Johnson pauses to reflect on the journey so far: from launching a podcast rooted in radical...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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20:36
God Refuses to Give Up: Hope and restoration in the Hebrew narrative, with R.A. Sweeney.
What if the Bible is far more playful, hopeful, and grace-soaked than we were ever told?In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with R.A. Sweeney (Reed), a Hebrew scholar and author whose deep immersion ...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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59:55
God is Not Balanced: Radical love, unapologetic grace, and the God Jesus revealed.
Most of us picture God as balanced—a careful blend of wrath and mercy, justice and love. That’s the God we think we can live with: predictable, measured, safe. But the God Jesus revealed wasn’t safe or predictable at all. He was excessive, extr...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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6:27
You Don’t Deserve Love: The lie that shaped me, and the God who never agreed.
What if the most damaging lie we inherited from religion was that we don’t deserve love?In this episode, Jeromy and Religious Trauma Coach Kristi Williams unravel how shame-based theology shaped us, and how grace tells a different sto...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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34:33
A Hope in Hell: Eternal-torment theology, judgment, and Biblical Universalism, with Benji McNair Scott
What if the scariest doctrine in Christianity was never true in the first place?In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Benji McNair Scott—theologian, author of Hope in Hell, and one of the most c...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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58:32
From Survivor to Heretic: Leslie Nease's journey from fear to freedom.
Leslie Nease, a former evangelical and Survivor China contestant, opens up about the moment her fear-based faith cracked and the grace that finally brought her home.From Survivor to Heretic is Leslie’s raw, courageous story...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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57:56
Too Human for Church: A former pastor’s story of failure, deconstruction, and unconditional love, with Steve White
Sometimes the ones who preached grace the loudest are the ones who have to learn it the hardest.In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson talks with Steve White, a former pastor and seminary-trained worship leader w...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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31:22
(Bonus) Shirts and Skins: When Grace Refuses to Take Sides
We love our sides. Teams, tribes, doctrines, denominations—lines in the sand that give us a sense of belonging, but also someone to fight against. From childhood football games of shirts versus skins to the way churches police communion tables,...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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10:22
Religious Deconstruction: Losing your religion to find your soul, with Michael Camp
Sometimes losing your religion is how you finally find your soul.In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Michael Camp—former missionary, Bible teacher, and author of Faith Funk: How to Break Free from Toxic ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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38:49
(Bonus) Being Held by Grace: It’s all going to work out for good, with Bob Hildreth
From war zones to church pews, Bob found one truth: grace never stops reaching.In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Bob Hildreth—a pastor, storyteller, and spiritual wanderer who’s walked with both the holy and...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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52:23
Hell is Choosing the Porch Over the Party: Loving God yet hating His generosity.
What if hell isn’t God’s punishment—but our protest?In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson asks whether hell might simply be the porch outside the party—the place where the “good” and the religious stand, too offended b...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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28:33
Becoming the Mom I Needed: Parenting beyond fear and religion, with Nadyia Horning
How do you raise children with love when you were raised with fear? In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson talks with Nadyia Horning—a mother, advocate, and survivor of fundamentalist religion—about what it ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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52:41
Evangelicalism vs. Universalism: Part 2—Progressive Christianity and the hope that Love Wins, with David Artman
Can a good God condemn forever?Can love and justice truly coexist?And if the Gospel is good news, shouldn’t it be good for everyone?In Part 2 of Evangelicalism vs. Universalism, Jeromy and David Artman dive head-o...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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41:21
Evangelicalism vs. Universalism: Part 1—Rethinking Hell and the heart of the Gospel, with David Artman
What if everything we were taught about hell was wrong—or at least incomplete?What if judgment wasn’t about eternal torment, but transformation?And what if grace is bigger, wider, and wilder than any of our doctrines can hold?In ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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32:00
Everyone Gets Some: The grace everyone deserves and no one earns, with Chris Jorgensen.
If God’s love truly includes everyone, what does that say about how we live, forgive, and belong? In this conversation, Jeromy Johnson and Pastor Chris Jorgensen step into the deep waters of progressive Christianity and Christian universalism—t...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:01:55
(Bonus) Windows and Reality: Finding Grace in the Diversity of Faith
What if you lived your whole life in one room, with only one window to the world? That limited view would become your entire reality—until one day, the door opened, and you discovered more rooms, more windows, more perspectives than you ever im...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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7:57
Gray Hair Is Beautiful: Aging and death are not our enemies, with Jacob Kendall
In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Jacob Kendall—a scholar with backgrounds in theology, social work, public health, and gerontology, as well as an entrepreneur and survivor of two open-heart surgeries. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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47:38
Life Beyond Religious Exhaustion: Breathing in the freedom of grace.
Have you ever felt like faith and religion was just… exhausting?Like you were carrying the weight of everyone else’s soul? Managing their beliefs, and your own? Living under endless rules and shoulds that always seemed to shift?...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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14:51
