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The Evolving Faith Podcast

Sarah Bessey

This is a podcast for the wounded, the misfits, and the spiritual refugees to let you know you are not alone. We're here to cultivate love and hope in the wilderness. We believe the story of...

Episodes

20 of 40 episodes

"Doubt can be the thing that pulls you closer to home" with Eric Thomas

We just couldn't help ourselves. Even though our team is busy behind the scenes preparing for Evolving Faith 2023, we just had to drop one m...

27:49Aug 2, 2023

Patchworks of Meaning: Stitching Together Our Stories with Scripture

Surprise! Another bonus episode featuring Barbara Brown Taylor from our 2022 Evolving Faith conference. Barbara skillfully walks us through...

26:48Jun 28, 2023

Blessings Reimagined

In this special episode, Kate Bowler joins host Sarah Bessey for a conversation about the search for spiritual language around blessing and...

52:00May 10, 2023

Benediction

Jeff and Sarah offer a benediction that reminds us of all we've learned from our guests through this season of the podcast. They leave us wi...

13:57Sep 7, 2022

Ask Us Anything

Jeff and Sarah answer questions from the Evolving Faith online community. They discuss their stories of "deconstruction" and shifts in their...

55:27Aug 31, 2022

"We Could Use Some Resurrection" with Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber talks about how we've used the phrase "the Lord" in ways that often paint a very different picture than who Jesus was and i...

34:26Aug 17, 2022

Are You Prepared to Die? with William Matthews

William Matthews opens by asking a powerful question: Are you prepared to die? He describes the nature of horror films and draws parallels t...

40:09Aug 10, 2022

Habitual Gratitude, with B.T. Harman

B.T. opens by acknowledging all of the understandable reasons we have to be angry—racism, homophobia, misogyny, the damage caused by nonaffi...

41:08Aug 3, 2022

We Belong to God, with Lisa Sharon Harper

Lisa opens by sharing about her own realization that the gospel she was taught wouldn't actually be good news for her own enslaved grandmoth...

43:34Jul 27, 2022

"I Want You to Know Freedom," with Jennifer Knapp

Jennifer tells us her own story of publicly coming out in 2010 and discusses the burden placed on the LGBTQ community to disclose deeply per...

42:23Jul 20, 2022

A Guest in Someone Else's Story with Eric Barreto

Eric begins by retelling the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts chapter 8. He explains that the eunuch did something that peop...

39:39Jul 13, 2022

Sacred Mystery and Fierce Love with Kaitlin Curtice

In this episode, Kaitlin discusses her own journey of decolonization and connection to her Potawatomi heritage . She explains that decoloniz...

50:53Jul 6, 2022

Remember the Refrain with Cece Jones-Davis

Cece Jones-Davis takes us to the story of the people of God fleeing captivity through the parted waters of the Red Sea. She describes the so...

38:48Jun 29, 2022

Let God Love You with Danielle Shroyer

This episode of The Evolving Faith Podcast features: A brand new segment of the podcast called Welcome to the Party, Jeff where Jeff reveals...

41:58Jun 22, 2022

The Power in the Story with Jasper Peters

This episode of The Evolving Faith Podcast features: Shocking news that both Fozzie and Sarah fall off of couches when they nap. Jasper Pete...

37:28Jun 15, 2022

The Geography of God, with Sarah Bessey

This episode of The Evolving Faith Podcast features: Very natural chitchat between Jeff and Sarah. So natural. Jeff torturing Sarah by readi...

45:33Jun 8, 2022

A Story of Suffering, with Tanya Marlow

This episode of The Evolving Faith Podcast features: A conversation between Jeff and Sarah about Derry Girls you don't want to miss Tanya Ma...

49:08Jun 1, 2022

A Messy, Mysterious Faith with Pete Enns

Pete tells the story of his own evolving faith and what he learned about being born of the spirit as he wrestled with questions and doubts....

49:35May 25, 2022

The River of Grace, with Jeff Chu

Jeff takes us to Ezekiel 47, where the prophet Ezekiel was exiled from all that he has known. As a divinely appointed tour guide gives Ezeki...

54:09May 18, 2022

Who Told You That You Had To Fit?, with Chanequa Walker-Barnes

In this episode of The Evolving Faith podcast, we hear from Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes as she asks the question, "Who told you that you had...

45:00May 11, 2022