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.
Shame & Certainty
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Podcast Overview
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.
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Publishing Since
2/1/2026
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April 20, 2026
Faith in Free Fall
<p>We all start with a system.</p><p>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.</p><p>Until it doesn’t.</p><p>In this episode, I use the game Kerplunk as a metaphor for belief—how it’s built, how it holds together, and what happens when life starts pulling the sticks out.</p><p>At first, it’s small. A question. An experience that doesn’t fit. You file it away. But over time, those moments stack… until eventually, everything starts to fall apart.</p><p>And then you’re left asking:</p><p>Did I break it?<br>Was it ever true?<br>Do I still belong here?</p><p>But even in the collapse, there’s something underneath it all that still feels real.</p><p>So what if the goal isn’t to rebuild the system…<br>but to step outside of the game entirely?</p><p>This episode is about faith, doubt, and what might be waiting on the other side of certainty.</p>
March 22, 2026
Tapes — God Isn’t Watching Your Tape
<p>We all have tapes.</p><p>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.</p><p>“You failed.”<br>“You missed it.”<br>“That’s who you are.”</p><p>And somewhere along the way, we start to believe God hears the same tape we do—watching, rewinding, keeping score.</p><p>But what if that’s not who God is at all?</p><p>In this episode, we unpack the voices we carry, how they shape our identity, and why the God of the Gospels doesn’t choose the best of the best—but the ones who thought they didn’t make the cut.</p><p>What if God isn’t replaying your failures?</p><p>What if He’s calling you forward instead?</p><p>Listen to Episode 8 — Tapes</p>
March 21, 2026
The Scoreboard Is Gone: A Deep Dive into Philippians 3
<p>Last week I released a short film on Philippians 3 about trophies, identity, and how we build our lives around achievement.</p><p>But there was more there.</p><p>So this is a deeper dive.</p><p>In this episode, we “turn the jewel” on Philippians 3—looking at it through multiple lenses: theological, historical, existential, psychological, and deeply personal.</p><p>Paul lays out a perfect résumé… and then calls it garbage.</p><p>Not because those things were bad,<br>but because they couldn’t answer the deeper question:</p><p><strong>Am I acceptable?</strong></p><p>We explore:</p><ul><li>Why we build identity around achievement, morality, and certainty</li><li>The ancient debate of “who’s in and who’s out”—and why it still matters</li><li>How Paul dismantles the entire system of performance-based belonging</li><li>The collapse of the false self—and what it opens up</li></ul><p>This one is a little more raw. Less polished. More like thinking out loud.</p><p>It’s also a bit of “wet cement”—something I’m still working through in real time.</p><p>If you’ve ever felt like you’re trying to prove yourself…<br>this conversation is for you.</p>
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