Faith and Common Ground

Jesse Kearns and Amber St Clare are the creators of Faith and Common Ground podcast. We are excited to seek out the best interfaith voices in order to provide listeners with concrete ways to transform the world and make it the best place to live.

Faith and Common Ground is a religion podcast hosted by Jesse Kearns, with 51 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Jesse Kearns hosts Faith and Common Ground, a religion show with 51 episodes published.

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  Season 6 Episode 8 From Experience to Action

  Sep 29, 20261h 12mS6

  This month on Faith and Common Ground, Jesse and Amber celebrate their longest episode by welcoming two guests who have turned their personal journeys into opportunities to help others. Former journalist Ashiah Bird shares how she found a new calling helping unhoused people find a place to call home. Then, Austen Marie, host of the Neuro Spicy Mompod, talks about growing up neurodivergent, becoming a teacher, and discovering her passion for educating neurodivergent children and helping their parents better understand and support them. Two very different journeys, one common thread: finding purpose in making a difference.

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  Season 6 Episode 7 After Deconstruction

  Aug 8, 202645 min

  What happens when you’ve been hurt by religion, struggled with addiction, questioned the institutions you once trusted—and yet you don’t walk away from faith? In this episode, we talk with Angelica about her very honest, very complicated, and deeply meaningful spiritual journey. Her story doesn't fit neatly into the categories of “faithful” or “deconstructed,” “orthodox” or “unchurched.” Instead, she has learned to take the pieces of her experience—the good, the painful, the things that worked and the things that didn’t—and integrate them into a faith that is uniquely her own. Angelica is remarkably candid about the choices she has made and the ways her journey might be judged by others. But she also talks about the freedom that comes from recognizing that there isn't always a well-marked path for where we're going. As we wrap up our series on deconstructing from religion, this conversation feels like a perfect off-ramp. Because maybe deconstruction isn't about tearing everything down. Maybe it's about figuring out what is worth keeping—and then beginning to build. Maybe it's time to do some constructing.

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  Season 6 Episode 6 The Courage to Question

  Jul 8, 202655 min

  This week we revisit a conversation we somehow forgot was already in our archives! Emily G. shares her journey of deconstructing from the Mormon church, followed by a conversation with Kathy Fernandes of the Center for Spiritual Living about why faith and intellect don't have to be at odds. Two conversations that remind us there's room for both honest questions and authentic spirituality.

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  Season 6 Episode 5 When Faith Doesn't Fit Anymore

  Jun 29, 202655 min

  What happens when the faith you've inherited no longer fits? In this second episode of our series on religious deconstruction, Amber and Jesse talk with Frederic Jones and Larry Love, authors of Called: A Faith and the Forward-Looking , about "spiritual exiles" and the search for a faith beyond rigid certainty. We also revisit a powerful interview with Emily G., who shares her journey out of the Mormon tradition and the challenges of rebuilding faith after leaving. Join us as we explore questions, doubt, belonging, and the hope that can emerge on the other side of deconstruction.

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  Season 6 Episode 4 Losing Faith While Finding Meaning

  May 22, 202655 min

  For this episode of Faith and Common Ground , Amber and Jesse explore the growing phenomenon of spiritual deconstruction. Drawing from real stories shared online by Christians, Pagans, and New Age practitioners, this episode examines what happens when people begin questioning the beliefs and communities that once shaped their lives. Some leave faith behind. Others rebuild it in new ways. Across very different traditions, surprising common ground emerges in the search for authenticity, healing, and meaning.

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