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
Baptized Patriarchy: When Toxic Masculinity Hides Behind Scripture
In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores how “biblical manhood” often baptizes patriarchy and toxic masculinity with sacred language, constricting men, silencing women, and hiding domination behind claims of biblical order. But Scrip...
The Cloud of Unknowing: Losing Your Grip on God to Fall Deeper into Love
In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores The Cloud of Unknowing and its invitation into a faith that moves beyond analysis, certainty, and the need to master God with the mind. This anonymous medieval text reminds us that Go...
Jesus as Wisdom Teacher: Beyond Belief and Into the Kingdom’s Way of Seeing
In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores Jesus as a wisdom teacher who came not simply to give us more religious information, but to disrupt our inherited lenses and invite us into the expansive paradigm he called the kingdom of God....
The Lost Art of Mysticism: Encountering God Beyond Certainty, Control, and Words
In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores the lost art of Christian mysticism and why contemplative voices like Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, and Thomas Merton still matter for a faith often s...
The Desert Will Tell You the Truth: The Desert Mothers and Fathers, the Shadow Self, and the Search for an Undivided Life
In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores how the Desert Mothers and Fathers left the growing power and respectability of empire to seek a more honest and transformed faith. Their practices of silence, solitude, prayer, and self exami...
