Non-coercive community Pt 6: Is Christianity actually just coercive?
Episode 115: In the last episode of our series on non-coercive community, we ask the question: what if Christianity is actually just coerciv...
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A podcast for when life and faith go off script. Hosted by Michael Frost.
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Non-coercive community Pt 5: Belonging
Episode 114: We're back and talking about the challenges and possibilities of non-coercive community. In this conversation, Shane and Michae...
Non-coercive community Pt 4: The religion of capitalism
Episode 113: In the Shift is back for 2026, and so is Shane – and we’re continuing our conversations about non-coercive community and how we...
Non-coercive Community Pt 3: The limitations of self-reliance and "opportunity"
Episode 112: In this episode Shane Meyer-Holt returns for another conversation about the journey of engaging in and building non-coercive co...
Why Church - with Petra Bagust
Episode 111: In this collab episode between In the Shift and Sunday Sanctuary, I’m joined by Petra Bagust to discuss “why church?” In this c...
Non-coercive Community Pt 2: When capitalism shapes everything
Episode 110: We continue our series on non-coercive community - a bunch of conversations in which we are exploring the possibilities and cha...
This is not revival
Episode 109: Evangelicalism is having a moment.... some are calling it revival - but I think something else is going on here. This is a shor...
Gender Expansive Faith - with Steff Fenton
Episode 108: Steff Fenton is author of the new book "Gender Expansive Faith: How Trans Lives are Illuminating the Divine, Transforming Femin...
Non-coercive Community Pt 1: Is there a way forward?
Episode 107: This is the first in a series of conversations with Shane Meyer-Holt about the possibilities and challenges in building non-coe...
Holy Hell - with Elise Heerde
Episode 106: Elise Heerde (she/her) is author of the recently published book "Holy Hell: Saved so hard I needed therapy" . In this conversat...
Poly-crisis, climate-crisis, and the need for a moral imagination
Episode 105: Dr Andrew Shepherd is a Senior Lecturer in Theology and Public Issues at the University of Otago, with a particular interest in...
Earthiness, spirituality and relational resonance
Episode 104: James Beck works with an organisation called A Rocha Aotearoa NZ ( https://arocha.org.nz/ ) which is a Christian environmental...
On making it to 100 - Part Two!
Episode 103: Shane has recovered from his table-saw inflicted injury and is back to continue our conversation reflecting on the journey to 1...
Ecology and rethinking anthropocentric spirituality
Episode 102: One of the predominant causes of our problematic relationship with the environment is the belief that humans are superior over,...
Re-thinking the Apocalypse in light of the Climate Crisis
Episode 101: This is the first in a series of 4 episodes exploring the intersection of spirituality and a response to the climate crisis. Th...
On making it to 100 - Part One!
Episode 100: This is it! We've gone and done it. We've made it to episode 100... and this means that we've ascended the mountain of success...
This disruptive moment
Episode 99: In the Shift is back for 2025 - and we kick off this year's pod by looking at what is going on in the world right now. In many r...
God After Deconstruction - with Thomas Jay Oord
Episode 98: Thomas Jay Oord joins the pod for a great conversation on how we might start to think about God in the wake of deconstruction. W...
The alt meaning of being a Christian... (or, what if the creeds totally miss the point?)
Episode 97: This episode explores the language of faithfulness to the way of love (of self, neighbour, other and enemy) along with the subve...
The need for meaning making (and is there a "real" world?)
Episode 96: This conversation explores what it might mean to make meaning on the other side of Fundamentalism/Evangelicalism. As we "leave"...