Slutty Grace | Christian Deconstruction, Universal Salvation, Fearless Faith
Slutty Grace is a Christian deconstruction podcast exploring progressive Christianity, universal salvation, and radical grace. For wanderers, doubters, and seekers rethinking hell, healing from toxic religion, and rediscovering a fearless faith rooted in inclusive love.
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Slutty Grace exists to name what polite religion cannot: that God’s love is wild, untamed, and for everyone. Through raw honesty, playful storytelling, and unapologetic theology rooted in progressive Christianity, deconstruction, and inclusive spirituality, this podcast gives voice to the doubts we were told to silence and reclaims grace as reckless, scandalous, and universal.
We’re here for the wanderers, the wounded, the seekers, and the secretly-doubting leaders—for the exvangelicals, mystics, and questioners healing from toxic religion—anyone who suspects love might be bigger than fear, and grace more promiscuous than judgment.
Each episode is an invitation to explore Christian universalism, radical inclusion, divine love, and spiritual freedom—to question boldly, rethink hell and assumptions, hope fiercely, and discover that, in the end, love always wins.
That’s what we want to explore with you: the scandalous, beautiful, untamed love of God. Engaging conversations, honest reflections. Slutty Grace. Let’s sit with the mystery.
Written, hosted, edited and produced by Jeromy Johnson.
Episodes
26 episodes
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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20:35
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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1:00:02
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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34:40
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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58:39
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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58:03
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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31:29
(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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38:56
(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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52:30
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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28:40
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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52:49
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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41:28
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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32:08
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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1:02:02
(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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47:45
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
Cheating Our Way Into Heaven, with Jonathan Brink
Today, Jeromy welcomes a guest who feels less like an interview and more like a reunion. Jonathan Brink and Jeromy have known each other for decades—they’ve asked the dangerous questions together, laughed hard, wept at communion tables, and wre...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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57:48
My Declaration: Here I Stand on Gods Love for All
Belief is never neat. It is both anchor and sail, holding us steady, yet carrying us into uncharted waters. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy lays down his flag, not with arrogance, but with humility, on one central conviction: G...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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9:28
(Bonus) Grace for Charlie Kirk and for his killer?
A bonus episode, this is my raw, initial thoughts and reactions to the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Does God give his love and grace to Charlie? What about the person who pulled the trigger? This puts the radical, expansive, universal, untamed gra...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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5:08
It Was Good, Never Perfect: Rethinking the “Fall”
We’ve been told the story starts with perfection—paradise lost in a single catastrophic moment. But what if that’s not how it happened?In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy revisits the opening pages of Genesis and the story o...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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7:57
Let's Talk About Hell: Raw and unscripted
This week’s episode is different. No studio, no script—just Jeromy, sitting in his car between appointments, hitting record, and speaking honestly about one of the heaviest doctrines he grew up with: hell. Not the cartoon fire and pitchforks, b...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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13:50
The War is Over: God has already declared peace
In 1974, Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda finally stepped out of the Philippine jungle—29 years after World War II had ended. For nearly three decades he refused to believe the leaflets that told him the fighting was finished. He lived as if peace ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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6:30
Slutty Grace: What's in a Name?
The title might make you squirm—and that’s the point. Grace isn’t polite religion. It’s not tidy, respectable, or safe. Grace doesn’t wait for the worthy. She doesn’t check your credentials. She pours herself out—recklessly, promiscuou...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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