ReligiosiTea

About ReligiosiTea

ReligiosiTea is where sacred storytelling meets critical inquiry—an exploration of how religion, spirituality, and health collide, converge, and co-heal. Hosted by Adren, a doctoral student in Health Equity Sciences with a Master of Public Health and a background in anthropology, this podcast bridges the gap between lived experience and academic insight. With deep roots in qualitative research and a passion for testimony, Adren invites listeners into the spaces where belief systems meet bodies, where healing is both clinical and cosmic, and where the divine shows up in diagnosis, doubt, and deliverance. The name ReligiosiTea is a portmanteau of religiosity—a measure of religious participation—and tea, a term from queer and AAVE dialects meaning truth, gossip, and revelation. This isn’t just a show about religion or health—it’s about the stories we whisper, the rituals we survive, and the questions we dare to ask when the stakes are spiritual and embodied. Episodes vary in format—from interviews with people of diverse faiths and spiritual identities, to solo reflections, to commentary on the politics of faith and wellness. Whether you’re devout, deconstructing, or somewhere in between, ReligiosiTea offers a grounded, generous space for complexity, clarity, and connection.

Publisher

Adren Warling

Category

health & fitness · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

19 Feb 2025

Latest episode

21 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

14 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Apr 2026

   Long Steep: Saint-Healers and the Canonization of Public Health

   Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! Someone survives the unsurvivable, the scans look clean, the symptoms vanish, and the doctors can’t give a satisfying reason. That single gap in explanation is where faith often rushes in and where the Vatican builds a case for sainthood. We take you inside the strange, fascinating overlap of religion and health where prayer, medical records, and institutional investigation collide. We i...

2. 

   23 Jan 2026

   A Tall Boy and a Pack of Smokes

   Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! Content Note: This episode touches on mental health, religious disaffiliation, family stress, and folk healing practices, including a brief discussion of an attempted exorcism. Ever wonder what happens when a devout Catholic upbringing meets a restless, science-first mind? In this episode, we sit down with Isela—a self-described fronteriza raised in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands—to talk about ste...

3. 

   27 Nov 2025

   Long Steep: It's Giving Thanks - An Episode on Gratitude

   Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! In this Long Steep, we brew gratitude slowly and intentionally—through theology, psychology, and lived experience. No buzzwords, no toxic positivity, no “be grateful for your trauma” energy. Just real tea. We start with what gratitude actually is: a state, a trait, an act of reciprocity shaped by context and choice. From there, we trace how gratitude shows up across traditions: Christianity, th...

4. 

   24 Nov 2025

   Ghosts, Gods, and Gratitude

   Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! Content Warning: This episode includes discussion of parental death, grief, childhood emotional hardship, spiritual disappointment/anger toward God, anxiety, depression, and references to ghosts/hauntings and spirit work. Please listen with care and step away if you need to. In this episode of ReligiosiTea, Adren sits down with his lifelong friend Raven to sip through a decades-long journey of ...

5. 

   8 Oct 2025

   Long Steep: Psycho - Sacred Delusions and Holy Madness

   Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! Content Warning: This episode discusses symptoms and impacts of psychosis, including hallucinations, delusions, cult dynamics, moral panics, religious trauma, and references to mass suicides and violence. It also touches on stress, trauma, and contemporary political upheaval. Please listen with care, and step away if you need. What if a single vision could ripple through millions of lives? In t...

6. 

   12 Sept 2025

   My Neighbor, the Philosopher

   Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! What happens when traditional religious spaces no longer feel authentic? Marie's spiritual journey takes us from Catholic pews and saint cards to a deeply personal practice centered on finding the divine within herself. The tension between our need for connection and our need for authenticity drives this conversation. Marie describes how her path evolved through Catholicism, Protestant Christi...

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   17 Jul 2025

   Long Steep: Hellfire and Salt - Reflections on Holy War

   Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! This episode discusses heavy themes related to war and religion, including: Graphic descriptions of mental health impacts such as PTSD, depression, moral injury, and substance useMentions of death, grief, and suicideDiscussion of bombings, displacement, and healthcare collapseReferences to Christian nationalism, Zionism, and religiously-justified violenceExploration of spiritual psychosis and...

8. 

   9 May 2025

   Long Steep: White Smoke, Red Flags, the Papacy

   Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! In this Long Steep episode, Adren Warling unpacks the legacy of Francis, the chaos of Trump’s papal cosplay, the rise of Pope Leo XIV, and what it all means for public health, queer dignity, climate collapse, and the politics of salvation. From ordo amoris to holy smoke, this is where theology meets theory, and faith meets fire. Whether you're Catholic or just spiritually nosy, this episode is ...

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   5 May 2025

   The Preacher's Daughter, A Witch

   Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! Content Warnings: This episode contains discussions of: Mental health struggles, including depression and anxietyReligious trauma and themes of spiritual disconnectionParanormal experiences and supernatural encountersDeath and illness, including family health crisesGuns and references to firearm useSexual and sensual content, including dream experiences involving desire and boundariesPlease lis...

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    16 Apr 2025

    Quick Spill: The Science of Prayer

    Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! In this episode of ReligiosiTea, host Adren dives into the complex relationship between prayer, cognitive processes, and health outcomes. From its mental benefits to the potential for stress reduction, prayer can shape how we process emotions and handle challenges—even in clinical settings. Adren also explores the intersection of religion and science, discussing how biases can influence the res...

11. 

    5 Apr 2025

    What the Flock?

    Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! Lucy's faith journey unfolds like many roads less traveled—winding, marked with detours, yet always finding its way back to a divine center. As a Christian attending a Baptist church, she describes herself as "more spiritual than anything," embodying a relationship with God that transcends religious formality. What makes this conversation remarkable is Lucy's candor about the ebb and flow of f...

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    5 Mar 2025

    A non-Holy Trinity

    Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! (Content Warnings) This episode touches on themes of homosexuality, brief mention of sexual assault, and religious trauma. These themes might be difficult for some listeners to hear. Please be advised. (Description) This episode was actually the first episode ever recorded for ReligiosiTea! Even before the introduction. This episode is also one of probably a few episodes that will eventua...

13. 

    19 Feb 2025

    Quick Spill: Constitutional Crisis of Faith

    Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! Welcome to the first Quick Tea Spill episode. This episode discusses recent executive orders from President Donald Trump in February of 2025. Particularly the executive orders on the establishment of a White House Office of Faith and on the Eradication of anti-Christian Bias. These orders leave a lot of questions about how religion will work in the government and what rights governm...

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    19 Feb 2025

    ReligiosiTea Introduction

    Spill your ReligiosiTea directly with the show host! Let us know your reactions, stories, and more! This episode introduces your host for the ReligiosiTea Podcast Adren Warling. This episode gives an overview of Adren's own religious history, the motivations for stating this podcast, the origination of the name, and what to expect as the podcast rolls out. Follow me on Instagram and Threads: @ReligiosiTea You can use the link at the top of the show notes or email me at religiositea@gma...

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