Irenicast - A Progressive Christian Podcast

Understanding rape culture is a vital issue today.  What is rape culture?  What reality does it reflect?  When did it begin?  Who is responsible for creating it?  This week Jeff, Mona and Allen take …

On the dawn of election day 2016 Jeff, Mona and Allen discuss compassion fatigue.  What do you do when you’re tired of caring?  When you’re tired of believing anything is going to change?  These are …

This week a conversation with Science Mike McHargue author of FInding God in the Waves.  Mike is a fellow podcaster.  He is the co-host of the Liturgists Podcast, host of the Ask Science Mike Podcast…

A God’s Not Dead 2 review is the subject of this bonus episode.  Adam and Dylan are back and join Jeff for another addition of Divine SINema.  This movie takes place in the same town as the first God…

With Halloween 2016 less than a week away from this episode, Jeff and Allen discuss the evolution of Satan.  Depending on our religious upbringing we may take for granted that the existence of Satan …

Mona sits down with Lauren Andrea-Lucia to explore what it means to have multiple religious identities. Lauren grew up in Italy with a Catholic father and a Jewish mother, and finds religious and spi…

In a conversation geared more toward culture than faith Jeff, Mona and Allen explore why young males are disengaging from society.  Far from an agreeable conversation about things we can do to revers…

Is prophecy today simply fortune telling or something else?  Jeff, Mona and Allen discuss this deceptively layered topic.  Much of the time the rhetoric around prophecy, or the prophetic, or even the…

As part of our celebration of International Podcast Day 2016 we are giving you a bonus episode of Irenicast.  Jeff, along with guest co-hosts Adam and Dylan, provide a critical analysis of God’s Not …

Art vs. the artist.  Can bad people create good things?   How closely should we judge someone’s work in view of the person themselves?  Our co-hosts go in, without concrete answers, to mine for clari…

Does pray work?  How is it possible that a post-evangelical podcast like ours has had over 80 episodes without ever talking about prayer?  This episode reconciles this quandary.  Jeff, Mona and Allen…

Does God laugh?  Is God affected by creation and the affairs of people?  Despite getting trapped in a theological hamster wheel of logic, Jeff, Mona and Allen set out to tackle these questions head o…

Joining us this week for a conversation on simply simplicity is second-time guest Adam Loveridge, who steps into an empty co-host chair while Mona is on vacation. He joins Jeff and Allen as they thin…

Guess who’s back, back again?  Allen’s back, tell a friend.  That’s right, our illustrious co-host Allen is back for another conversation on faith and culture.  In this episode, each host reflects on…

Maintaining status quo can be a strong motivation for people in power to suppress questioning and intellectual exploration.  Often in church communities we can feel isolated for asking hard questions…

Many times it is difficult to really understand the plight of any group of people without insight into what life is really like for them.  Inspired by conversation Mona overheard on a city bus, this …

Life, God, community and beer.  These are the pillars of a different type of church model, beer church, introduced to us by guest co-host Jeff, aka Jeff 2.  Jeff 2 shares with us the great value he p…

Experiencing anger in a life-giving way for some may seem like a paradox.  However, every emotion has the potential for good if we seek to understand where it is coming from and are able to control w…

Inspired by a listener comment on a past episode, Jeff and Mona have a conversation about forgiveness.  Forgiveness is not forgetting.  It is all about remembering, reframing and creating healthy spa…

This week we discover the story behind the story: the feminist theology foundations of Irenicast. Mona welcomes to the show Kat, Jeff’s wife (whom you may remember from our family reunion episode), …