In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores the lost art of Christian mysticism and why contemplative voices like Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, and Thomas Merton still matter for a faith often shaped by certainty, performance, and control. Mysticism invites us beyond simply believing the right ideas about God and into a deeper experience of union, love, silence, and transformation.

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In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores how the Desert Mothers and Fathers left the growing power and respectability of empire to seek a more honest and transformed faith. Their practices of silence, solitude, prayer, and self examination still challenge us to face the hidden parts of ourselves, resist religious performance, and discover a freedom deeper than certainty.

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In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic, I sit down with Josh Patterson, host of of the popular podcast Rethinking Faith and Director for Creative Content for Ilia Delio’s World Institute for Science, Religion and Culture, to explore the open and relational theology claim that God is not all powerful in the controlling sense many of us inherited. Together we ask whether letting go of omnipotence might help us speak more honestly about suffering, freedom, love, and the God revealed in Jesus.

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