If you’ve ever felt on the fringes of Christian faith this is a safe space for you. Your questions, doubts and hopes are all welcome here. We’re creating conversations, affirmations, meditations and other resources to support you on your spiritual journey and let you know that even if you feel like a misfit, you don’t have to feel alone.
Prayer Beyond Words, God Beyond Gender (Sally Douglas, Future Church Series)
In the latest episode of our Future Church Series, Will and Caro listen to two short excerpts from Rev Dr Sally Douglas’s keynote: one on silence and prayer as listening, and one on the names we use for God. Sally argues that much of what passes for prayer is us talking at God, and that our busyness can be a quiet way of keeping God at a distance. She also makes a bold claim: addressing God only as male is a form of idolatry. And the tradition gives us plenty of other alternative ways of add...
3 Oct 2026
Sexual Ethics After Purity Culture (Roundtable)
Will, Caro, Mitch and Becca unpack the purity culture they grew up in: Focus on the Family books, True Love Waits banquets, journals of letters to a future spouse, and the very real fear of dying in your sleep after masturbating. But this isn't just a look back. They explore what changed their minds, what (if anything) was worth keeping, and what might a better sexual ethic look like now? Want to reach out and let us know your thoughts or suggestions for the show? Send us a message her...
26 Sept 2026
Do You Love Your Country Enough to Critique It? (Wes Crawford)
Wes Crawford is a church historian and pastor of twenty years, currently vice provost and associate professor of church history at Abilene Christian University. His new book One Nation Over God names what sociologists call "civil religion" — the way a nation, in the absence of a shared faith, starts borrowing the shape of one: sacred texts, rituals, symbols, calendar days, revered people — and traces how that borrowing, in American life, has tangled love of country with love of God to the poi...
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