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Is God Hiding? Divine Hiddenness and Non-Sensory Perception - With Thomas Jay Oord
If God is real and loving, why do so many people who sincerely search for God come up empty? Thomas Jay Oord returns to help Josh wrestle with a question that has been nagging him for a while: the problem of divine hiddenness. They start wi
Teilhard 101: A Mystic's Guide to an Evolving Universe - With Andre Del Rossi
What does a Jesuit paleontologist who served as a WWI stretcher-bearer have to teach us about therapy, AI, and finding God in a diaper change? Dr. Andrew Del Rossi, retreat center director and author of Sacred Synergy: Spiritual and Psychol
Can You Have Secure Attachment to God? - With Myron Penner
This week on (Re)thinking Faith, Philosopher Myron Penner returns once again to help Josh work through something that’s been bugging him: what happens when attachment theory gets applied to our relationship with God? The conversation starts
Reading the Bible Against the Bible: the Hermeneutics of the Underside - With Dr. Anthony Pinn
Why would an atheist spend his time with the Bible? Dr. Anthony Pinn is a former AME minister who is now a secular humanist and professor at Rice University. He returns to (Re)thinking Faith to talk about his new book, Biblical Outlaws: Wha
Meaning, Movement, and Mortality: Heidegger Thinking - With Simon Critchley
This week, Dr. Simon Critchley is back, and this time we try to cover Being and Time in a single episode. (Yes... ridiculous... I know!) Simon's new book, Heidegger Thinking, grew out of 35 years of teaching Heidegger and a pandemic-era pod
What is Christian Social Ethics? Exploring Social Ethics and Broad-Based Solidarity Activism - With Dr. Aaron Stauffer
Dr. Aaron Stauffer — theologian, Presbyterian clergy, and author of Listening to the Spirit: Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Value, and Broad-Based Community Organizing — joins Josh to unpack what the Social Gospel actually is, why it became
Can God Save Us? Black Theology, Open Relational Faith, and the Search for Justice - With Rev. Jill Elizabeth
What happens when the God of "God Can't" meets the God of the Black church's "God Is Able"? This week I sat down with my friend, the Reverend Jill Elizabeth — public theologian, ordained Curian Network board member, and self-described "barb
In Search of a Radical God - With John D. Caputo
This week, John D. Caputo returns to talk about his new book, A Radical God: Theopoetics, Phenomenology, and the Future of Religion. Religion has been incredibly busy making itself unbelievable, and the question isn't whether we can save it
Christ and Empire - With Joerg Rieger
This week I was joined by Dr. Joerg Rieger to discuss his book "Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times" and his upcoming class with Homebred Christianity & Dr. Tripp Fuller, "The Christ Empire Couldn't Keep (https://www.homebrew
The Warrior & the Poet: Seeking Thin Places - With Jeff Mount
Most of us have been taught that strength means suppressing emotion, staying stoic, and keeping our true selves hidden. But what if the real power lies in embracing your full humanity—your fears, wounds, and passions? Jeff Mount, a former K
The Emogelicals Get Existential
If you didn't know... The Emogelicals is a crossover show I do with my good buddy Jed over at "Church and Other Drugs". It is a Patreon exclusive monthly show that is a lot of fun! Here is our July episode free for you on the main feed! If
You Don't Need A Calling... You Need A Community - With Damon Garcia
Most people think finding your "calling" is the key to a fulfilling life — but Damon Garcia's provocative new book flips that idea on its head. Instead of chasing some elusive purpose, he argues you are already enough as you are. In this mi
The Intro to Levinas You Didn't Know You Need - With Aaron Simmons
This week, Dr. Aaron Simmons joins me once again and dives deep into Emmanuel Levinas’s groundbreaking philosophy, revealing how ethics begins before ontology, before even our freedom itself, through the powerful concept of infinite respons
Is Death the Most Important Fact About You? - With Todd May
This week I was joined by philosopher Todd May, advisor to The Good Place. Discover why embracing mortality enriches life, how immortality might erode meaning, and why love thrives on vulnerability. Explore the ethics of human extinction, d
The Intro to Existentialism You Didn't Know You Need - With Taylor Thomas
This week, my good friend Dr. Taylor Thomas returns to the podcast. We decided to have a very honest conversation about meaninglessness and the weight of existence. It’s easy to feel lost in today’s world, but there’s power in acknowledging
The Universal, Incorporeal Spirit of Love - With Thomas Jay Oord
This week I was happy to have my good friend and friend of the podcast Dr. Thomas Jay Oord join me once again. Tom recently released volume 1 of his Systematic Theology of Love. We take a deep dive into the volume and get kind of nerdy doin
The Edge of Space-Time - With Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
This week, I had the privilege of hanging out with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein! In this conversation, Chanda shares her journey into physics, the intersection of science and gender studies, the queerness of the universe, and the importance
Condemned to Becoming: Toward an Existentialist Process-Relational Theology
This is an audio essay originally published on my Substack. This essay explores the possibility of joining the Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and the Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. The essay imagines a theology that embra
Conversion Therapy And Other Bad Ideas - With Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez
This week I had the privilege of being joined by Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez to discuss his forthcoming book, "Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Quee Story of Faith & Belonging". I was also joined by a special co-host for this conversation, Dr.
Experiments in Mystical Atheism - With Brook Ziporyn
Most modern debates about faith overlook a profound reality: the divine might be better understood as a dynamic process rather than a static entity. In this mind-expanding conversation, Dr. Brook Ziporyn reveals how mystical atheism, rooted
Non-Shitty Ways to Read the Bible - With Jennifer Garcia Bashaw & Aaron Higashi
In this episode of the Rethinking Faith Podcast, host Josh Patterson engages with Dr. Jennifer Garcia-Bashaw and Dr. Aaron Higashi about their co-authored book, 'Serving Up Scripture: How to Interpret the Bible for Yourself and Others.' The
Multi/Race/Less/Ness: A Process Philosophy of Race - With Jon Ivan Gill
This week I was joined by Dr. Jon Ivan Gill to discuss his latest book, "MultiRaceLessNess: A Process Philosophy". What might a Process Philosophy of Race look like? While it has become widely accepted that race is a social construct, Gill
Unanswered: Prayer as Screaming Into the Abyss
This is another audio essay that can be found on my Substack. Recently I had an idea… a very Emogelical idea. What if I attempted to read “Unanswered” by Suicide Silence as a Radical Prayer? Don’t get me wrong, I’m under no impression that
Love Thy Stranger - With Dr. Bart Ehrman
This week I had the honor of being joined by Dr. bart Ehrman for an engaging conversation about his latest book, "Love Thy Stranger: How the Teachings of Jesus Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West". We ask the question of altruism..
Your Matter Matters - With Will Rose
This week my good friend Will Rose joined me to discuss the intersection of faith and science through the lens of Will's new podcast, 'Your Matter Matters.' We explore themes of curiosity, the importance of community dialogue, and the ongoi
Does the Universe Give a Shit?
Happy Saturday friends! Here is another audio essay from my Substack. In this essay, I attempt to bring together the voices of Alfred North Whitehead and Alan Watts to argue that perhaps the universe does give a shit after all. If you enjoy
The Crucified Earth /// - With Ryan Cagle
This week I was joined by my new friend Ryan Cagle, an ordained minister and eco-justice advocate. Ryan put out and awesome zine called "Crucified Earth" that offers a fresh approach to the Stations of the Cross. We discussed Ryan's journey
A Random Late Night Hang - With Tripp Fuller
It was a Friday night... I was just hanging out not doing much and received a text message from a friend. It was Tripp and he was asking if I would still be up in an hour and if I wanted to hang out and do some late night podcasting. Obviou
On Suicide, Grace, and the To-Come
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." - Albert Camus In this audio essay I wrestle with the v
To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die - With Simon Critchley
This week I had the honor of talking to one of my favorite Philosophers, Simon Critchley! We take a deep dive into profound themes surrounding death, suicide, tragedy, and the role of philosophy in understanding these concepts. We explore h
