Soul Curious

About Soul Curious

Soul Curious is a sanctuary for the seeker. Through immersive narrative episodes, host Jacob Baccus invites listeners into a wider, deeper conversation about God, meaning, the mystical, and the mystery within us all. Drawing from progressive theology, ancient wisdom traditions, modern psychology, and the raw beauty of lived experience, each episode becomes a quiet invitation to keep questioning, keep seeking, and above all, stay curious.

Publisher

Soul Curious

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jun 2025

Latest episode

23 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

27 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Jan 2026

   Episode 27: Is Religion Still Relevant?

   Walk through the modern West and you will feel it. The churches half-filled, the sanctuaries repurposed, the language of faith softened, replaced, or avoided altogether, surveys announce decline, headlines speak of “the death of religion.”, younger generations claim no affiliation, belief becomes optional, private, negotiable; and yet the hunger for meaning has not disappeared. We still ask ancient questions with modern vocabulary: Who am I? What matters? How should we live? What do we owe one another? What gives life depth beyond survival? So the question before us is not simply, is religion declining? The deeper question is this: is religion becoming irrelevant or is it transforming, mutating, evolving into forms we no longer recognize as “religion” at all? This episode is not a defense of religion, nor an obituary, it is a cultural meditation on what religion has been, what it has lost, what it still offers, and what may yet be emerging. This is Is Religion Still Relevant? Unfortunately we have lost our sponsor and will be unable to continue this journey after next week. To celebrate and of course to mourn we will have a live farewell meeting after our episode next week at 7:30 on zoom. Join us then. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2796391001

2. 

   14 Jan 2026

   Episode 26: Does God Change?

   There is a paradox at the heart of faith, across traditions, God is described as eternal, immutable, unchanging and yet, across history, God appears to change constantly. God has been imagined as warrior and shepherd, as king and parent, as judge and lover, as distant lawgiver and intimate presence, as cosmic order and living mystery. If God does not change, why do our images of God evolve so dramatically? Is God being revealed more fully over time or are we projecting our changing consciousness onto the divine? Is God stable while our understanding matures or does the divine itself participate in becoming? This episode explores one of the most profound questions theology can ask not to resolve it, but to sit inside its depth, because how we answer this question shapes how we pray, how we love, how we suffer, and how we imagine meaning itself. This is Does God Change?

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   7 Jan 2026

   Episode 25: Faith Through the Eyes of a Child

   There is a certain light that belongs only to childhood. A way of seeing the world unguarded, unfiltered, holy in its simplicity. When many of us first learned the language of faith, we learned it as children. Not as doctrine. Not as theology, as wonder, as awe, as comfort, as fear, as belonging, and as story. Even if faith was complicated later in life,even if religion eventually became something we wrestled with, questioned, redefined, or left altogether, there is something unforgettable about faith as a child. The bedtime prayers. The whispered hopes. The sense that the universe was alive, personal, listening. Childhood faith is not naïve, it is imaginative courage. It is the soul’s earliest attempt to make sense of love, fear, mystery, and meaning. Today we revisit that sacred space, not to romanticize it, not to judge it, but to honor it, to understand how childhood faith shapes us, wounds us, nurtures us, and never completely leaves us. This is a journey into the faith of small hands, wide eyes, and honest hearts. This is Faith Through the Eyes of a Child.

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