In this episode, The Unintentional Heretic explores Jesus as a wisdom teacher who came not simply to give us more religious information, but to disrupt our inherited lenses and invite us into the expansive paradigm he called the kingdom of God. This is a call to move beyond head-centered belief into embodied transformation, keeping company with Jesus until his way of seeing becomes our way of seeing.

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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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In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic, we explore the Gospel of Thomas, an ancient collection of sayings attributed to Jesus that did not make it into the Bible but still asks deeply Christian questions about wisdom, awakening, and the kingdom within. Rather than romanticizing it as the “real” Gospel or rejecting it as dangerous heresy, we consider how Thomas can be read with discernment as a strange and compelling invitation to seek, wake up, and discover the life of God nearer than we think.

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In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic, we explore how the rapture, often assumed to be ancient Christian teaching, is actually a modern theological invention that reshaped the imagination of generations of evangelicals through fear, prophecy charts, and the anxiety of being “left behind.” Instead of a Gospel of escape, we return to the deeper Christian hope of incarnation, resurrection, and new creation, where God is not abandoning the world but making all things new.

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In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic, I sit down with Bishop Sam Rodman, the 12th Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, to explore epistemology, the deeply human question of how we know what we know. Together we talk about the lenses that shape how we see reality, how Scripture, tradition, reason, experience, community, and the Holy Spirit help us discern truth, and why humility may be one of the most faithful postures in a world addicted to certainty.

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In this brief Fourth of July reflection, The Unintentional Heretic explores how Christians can love their country with both gratitude and honesty, celebrating America’s ideals while telling the truth about its contradictions. True patriotism is not silence or triumphalism, but a faithful commitment to justice, mercy, and the dignity of every human being.

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