Hosted by Mark Roskowske · 🇺🇸 us · EN · 11 episodes
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Shame & Certainty is a podcast about the inner life — where faith, doubt, art, work, and the stories we tell ourselves collide. Each episode explores how spirituality, creativity, culture, and modern life shape who we are becoming. Drawing from myth, scripture, music, and lived experience, this show doesn’t offer easy answers, but a space to stay present with the questions. For anyone caught between shame and certainty, longing and meaning, this is a place to think, wonder, and breathe.
Mark Roskowske hosts Shame & Certainty, a religion show with 11 episodes published.
We all start with a system. A way to understand the world—life, death, right and wrong, what happens next. Some of it we choose. A lot of it is handed to us. And for a while… it works. Until it doesn’t. In this episode,
Show notesWe all have tapes. Moments that replay on demand—failures, regrets, the things we wish we could undo. Over time, those memories stop feeling like the past… and start sounding like the truth. “You failed.” “You missed it.
Show notesLast week I released a short film on Philippians 3 about trophies, identity, and how we build our lives around achievement. But there was more there. So this is a deeper dive. In this episode, we “turn the jewel” on Phil
Show notesSomewhere in the attic there are boxes of trophies. Plaques. Certificates. Little monuments to moments when you were winning. As kids, the trophies sit on shelves in our bedrooms. As adults, the trophies change shape. Ti
Show notesSome things we hide in plain sight. A bottle pushed behind other bottles in the cabinet. A prescription tucked into the back of a drawer. Food wrappers buried at the bottom of the trash. Most of us have something we don’
Show notesWe live in a microwave culture. Everything is instant. Food. Shipping. Entertainment. Answers. So it’s no surprise we often expect spirituality to work the same way. We want quick breakthroughs. Instant transformation. A
Show notesWhat happens after faith stops working? In this episode of Shame & Certainty, I reflect on the moment after disillusionment—the season when certainty has cracked and walking away feels tempting. We explore why experience
Show notesIn this episode of Shame & Certainty, we begin a new series exploring what I call the Great Thinning—the quiet hollowing out of modern life. Drawing from early experiences in ecommerce and the rise of the modern internet
Show notesIn this episode of Shame & Certainty, I return to a moment from college that quietly changed everything — the first splinter that made it impossible to hold my faith the same way again. We talk about how post-Enlightenme
Show notesThis episode is a pause in the middle of a loud week. It begins with the feeling many of us share lately — that every news cycle contains a decade’s worth of events, outrage, and contradiction. Instead of chasing the lat
Show notesIn this first episode of Shame & Certainty, we sit with two voices most of us know too well: the inner critic and the deeper longing beneath it. It starts in a quiet basement on a Sunday morning, with the familiar soundt
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Shame & Certainty is hosted by Mark Roskowske. The show is categorised under religion (spirituality) and has published 11 episodes.
Shame & Certainty has published 11 episodes.
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