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Hosted by Greg Farrand · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 36 episodes
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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.
Greg Farrand hosts The Unintentional Heretic, a religion show with 36 episodes published.
In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic, I sit down with National Latino Missioner for the Episcopal Church Karla Sikaffy duPlantier to explore how Latino ministry is reshaping the Episcopal Church through hospitali
In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores how Christianity and Buddhism can speak to one another without forcing either tradition to become something it is not. Rather than treating Buddhism as a threat to Chri
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 b
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 rem
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 ca
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 ma
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
In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic , I sit down with Josh Patterson, host of of the popular podcast Rethinking Faith and Director for Creative Content for Ilia Delio’s World Institute for Science, Religion and
In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic , we explore how the rapture, often assumed to be ancient Christian teaching, is actually a modern theological invention that reshaped the imagination of generations of evange
In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic , I sit down with Bishop Sam Rodman, the 12th Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, to explore epistemology, the deeply human question of how we know what we know. Together
In this brief Fourth of July reflection, The Unintentional Heretic explores how Christians can love their country with both gratitude and honesty, celebrating America’s ideals while telling the truth about its contradict
In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic , we explore whether God must be understood as all powerful in the traditional sense, especially in light of suffering, tragedy, and the painful claim that even the death of a
In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic , we explore Christian nationalism as a distortion of the Gospel that confuses love of country with worship of country and replaces the way of Jesus with the logic of empire.
In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic , we explore how Mary Magdalene was transformed by centuries of church tradition from the first witness to the resurrection into a symbol of sexual sin and repentance. Her sto
In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic , we explore the Great Schism of 1054, when the Eastern and Western churches formally split after centuries of theological, political, cultural, and linguistic tension. It is
In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic, we explore Gnosticism—the ancient Christian movement that taught salvation comes through awakening to the divine spark within—and the profound influence of Platonic philosoph
For centuries, Christianity wrestled with a profound question: are our bodies, desires, and passions obstacles to God or places where God is revealed? In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic, we explore how Greek du
In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic, we explore how Christianity gradually shifted from being a movement centered on following the way of Jesus to a religion increasingly focused on worshiping Jesus and defining
In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic, Greg explores the history and evolution of biblical inerrancy, distinguishing it carefully from literalism while examining how modern Christianity came to equate certainty wi
This episode explores the fascinating evolution of Satan from “the accuser” within the divine council of ancient Israel to the cosmic devil of modern Christianity, revealing how ideas about evil, suffering, and spiritual
Ilia Delio
member of the Franciscan Sisters of Washington, D.C., Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Justin Sledge
professor of philosophy and religion · Esoterica
1 appearance on this show
Sam Rodman
Diocese of North Carolina
1 appearance on this show
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The Unintentional Heretic is hosted by Greg Farrand. The show is categorised under religion (spirituality) and has published 36 episodes.
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