The Unintentional Heretic
The Unintentional Heretic is a podcast for spiritual explorers, questioners, and ever-expanders who believe faith should be deep enough to survive honest inquiry. Together we’ll explore theology, spirituality, doubt, and the evolving search for truth—trusting that God is not threatened by our questions, and that sometimes heresy is just tomorrow’s orthodoxy.
The Unintentional Heretic
Latest Episodes
The Christian Myth: Taking the Story Seriously Without Needing It All to Be Literally True
In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores how Christian stories can carry profound truth without requiring every detail to function as literal history, and how the rise of fundamentalism helped turn certain doctrines into tes...
When the Cross Came with a Sword: Christianity and the Spanish Conquest
In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores how Christianity became entangled with Spanish conquest, colonial power, and the extraction of wealth—often using the language of faith to justify violence and domination. It also lif...
Polydoxy: Is God Bigger Than Christianity?
What if Christianity can be deeply true without claiming that God is only at work within Christianity? In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores polydoxy through process and open and relational theology, asking how we might r...
Is Jesus God? Arius, Nicaea, and the Question That Changed Christianity
Was Jesus always understood by Christians to be fully God—or did that belief emerge through centuries of argument, Scripture, politics, and theological struggle? In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores Arius, the Council of...
The Freedom of Forgiveness: How Self-Compassion, Truth-Telling, and Letting Go Can Loosen the Grip of Resentment.
In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores forgiveness not as forgetting, excusing, or reconciling at all costs, but as a practice rooted in self-awareness, self-compassion, and truth-telling. Drawing on Jesus, modern psycholo...
