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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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe 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 is hosted by Greg Farrand. The show has published 52 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Before God was One: Interview with Dr. Justin Sledge" (30 October 2026, 63 minutes), "Did God Have a Wife? Asherah, Archaeology, and the Forgotten History of Israel's God" (27 October 2026, 14 minutes), and "Judas: The Villain We Thought We Knew - Reexamining Christianity's Most Infamous Betrayal, and the Limits of God's Love" (22 October 2026, 18 minutes).
The Unintentional Heretic publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 18 minutes across 52 episodes.
Booking probability for The Unintentional Heretic is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Unintentional Heretic requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Unintentional Heretic's contact route on record: verified email.
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Greg Farrand hosts The Unintentional Heretic, a religion podcast with 52 episodes published.
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How did the understanding of God evolve in ancient Israel, and what can history, archaeology, and mythology tell us about that process? In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic , Dr. Justin Sledge, creator of the...
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Did the God of the Bible once have a wife? In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic , we uncover the surprising archaeological and biblical evidence surrounding the goddess Asherah, explore how ancient Israel's...
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Was Judas the ultimate villain of the Christian story, or have we misunderstood one of its most tragic and complicated figures? In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic , we reconsider the man who betrayed Jesus...
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Why did Jesus so often teach in stories that confused his listeners rather than giving them clear and direct answers? This episode explores how the parables disrupt our certainty, expose the limits of our usual ways of...
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What if sin is less like a crime demanding punishment and more like a sickness longing to be healed? Drawing on Eastern Christianity, theosis, addiction, and trauma, this episode explores salvation not simply as legal...
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In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores the Eucharist as a spiritual practice and means of grace that is both transcendent and deeply human—bread, wine, bodies, memory, presence, and mystery meeting at the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores breath practice as one of the simplest and most ancient ways of praying, rooted in the biblical image of God breathing life into creation, the Hebrew word ruach as...
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In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores spiritual practice as a way of stepping off the hamster wheel long enough to become aware of our already existing connection with God, one another, and creation...
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In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores liberation theology and the way the Gospel sounds different when it is read from the underside of power, among the poor, oppressed, excluded, and marginalized. Rather...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Episode #32
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...
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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...
Episode #30
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...
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scholar of philosophy and Western esotericism, Esoterica
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member of the Franciscan Sisters of Washington, D.C., Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University, Franciscan Sisters of Washington, DC
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