Bonus Drop: Sunday School for Misfits & the Power of Tentative Christianity

Tamanda introduces us to a podcast that deeply moved her: Sunday School for Misfits, created by theologian and public educator Dr Selina Stone.

Tamanda shares how she first met Selina through a chance encounter at a ‘Life Beyond the PhD’ residential - a connecting moment that led to a research collaboration which exposed her to Selina’s unique approach to theology, which is as rigorous as it is compassionate. 

Across academia, community, and the digital pulpit, Selina brings a voice that holds space for questions, contradictions, and deep cultural and spiritual complexity. In this episode, we weave clips from Sunday School for Misfits with our own reflections and conversations and explore what makes Selina’s work feel so needed, especially for those of us raised in traditions that didn’t always leave room for our full selves.

Together, we explore faith beyond binaries, rage as revelation, and what it means to sit with the messiness of belief in the wake of spiritual harm. From Pentecostal pews to decolonial theology classrooms, this is a conversation for those trying to make peace with a God that doesn’t always make sense, and a church that often makes even less.

It’s for the seekers, the doubters, the ones who left and the ones who stayed. And for anyone who needs a reminder that theology can be a place of tenderness, resistance, and unexpected belonging - if only we allow ourselves to stay in the space of the grey.

🎧 Listen to Sunday School for Misfits by Dr Selina Stone on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts:

https://open.spotify.com/show/1JqJflcsFV3F67FZci8hPJ?si=5de6a4d54bed449a

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