Misfit Faith

Misfit Faith


Latest Episodes

37. VATICAN’T (Catholicism Without All the Uplifting Parts): Week 9 — God’s Risky Atheism
August 28, 2018

In this season finale episode of Misfit Faith, I conclude my Vatican't series by suggesting that perhaps the entire Gospel has always been about God working himself out of a job (as in, humanity will eventually outgrow our need of him). We hear a...

36. VATICAN’T (Catholicism Without All the Uplifting Parts): Week 8 — Humanity 2.0
August 20, 2018

In this episode of Misfit Faith I discuss what Christianity might look like on the other side of our deconstruction and the death of our old idol-God, and I share how that my own journey has caused me to rethink what it means to be human. We hear a...

35. VATICAN’T (Catholicism Without All the Uplifting Parts): Week 7 — The Absurdity of the Cross
August 06, 2018

In this episode of Misfit Faith a turn my attention to “atonement theory,” suggesting that perhaps some things are better left ambiguous. We hear a snippet of Peter Rollins discussing Christianity and the Absurd, after which I answer a...

34. VATICAN’T (Catholicism Without All the Uplifting Parts): Week 6 — The Dangers of an Early Easter
July 30, 2018

In this episode of Misfit Faith I explore the space between crucifixion and resurrection, suggesting that we must exercise an atheistic faith in order to allow our old ideas sufficient time in the tomb before they re-emerge. I share a clip of a...

33. VATICAN’T (Catholicism Without All the Uplifting Parts): Week 5 — Divine Atheism
July 23, 2018

On this episode of Misfit Faith I delve deeper into Jesus’ own confrontation with the void during his crucifixion, going as far as to suggest that in his cry of dereliction, God became an atheist. We hear a trinitarian argument from the Daily...

32. VATICAN’T (Catholicism Without All the Uplifting Parts) – Week 4: The Death of God
July 18, 2018

In this episode of Misfit Faith we look to the cross in order to discover exactly what “embracing the void” looks like (turns out it’s a real bummer). We hear from Peter Rollins about the message that Christianity frees us from the expectation...

31. VATICAN’T (Catholicism Without All the Uplifting Parts) — Week 3: Quantum? I Barely Knew Him! (With Diarmuid O'Murchu)
July 09, 2018

In this episode I revisit the topic of the lack or void we feel at our core, bringing the principles of quantum theory to bear upon the issue and seeking to show that unknowing lies at the very core of existence itself. I am joined by psychologist and...

30. VATICAN’T (Catholicism Without All the Uplifting Parts) — Week Two: The Gospel According to Satan
July 02, 2018

In this episode of Misfit Faith I discuss the origins of the American Gospel which promises wholeness and wellbeing to those who jump through the right hoops (hint: its source has a forked tongue). We hear from Peter Rollins about the church as a...

29. VATICAN'T (Catholicism Without All the Uplifting Parts) — Week One: Avoiding the Void
June 25, 2018

In this episode of Misfit Faith I launch a new series seeking to bring some of the ideas of the thinkers I have been reading for the last several years with my own “Catholish” worldview. We begin with a discussion of the lack or void that we all...

28. Fear and Loathing in American Christianity
June 18, 2018

In this episode of Misfit Faith I explore the utter lack of moral and spiritual credibility on the part of American Christianity, especially in the light of the crisis at our border. We hear some thoughts from Brian McLaren on church in the Trump age,...