The Zeitcast with Jonathan Martin

On the preachiest podcast ever...if you "have no choice," then "choosing" God is never truly possible.

The only road you’ve got, is the road you’re on now. So whether you’re a word of faither naming it & claiming it, or a new ager making all the right affirmations, denial is only going to take you so far. The holy path, the sacred path, doesn’t entail pretending, but rather attending to where you actually are. #theroadawayfromgod is out today, wherever books are sold!

Okay so maybe you didn't exactly ask me for a "master class" on preaching, but if I was asked to do one...and only had about an hour to do it...this is everything I would say. And of course I would take an extra ten minutes, because I am, in fact, a preacher.

Vulnerability! Social commentary! Wild non-expert riffing! All the things to love or hate about this podcast, winding around to reflection on ADHD and Christian spirituality.

Recorded immediately after the shooting at a hospital in Tulsa, OK tonight. The gods that we worship are "free" in all the wrong ways--and unfortunately when we believe in a deity that does whatever they want, we tend to "go and do likewise." What if this idea of freedom isn't the whole story, and these questions about "rights" aren't the best questions? "In New York freedom looks like/too many choices."--U2

A provocative, heartfelt talk on gun violence and idolatry, and how progressive culture is unable to give a thoroughgoing account of evil. Also, maybe the clearest example ever of JUST HOW NICHE this podcast really is!

Can you imagine what it would be like to try to preach some kind of sermon the morning after you get married? Well this is what it sounds like when I do it. A very vulnerable, tender, real life resurrection story...as the road continues, through the city beneath the sea!

Leaving home isn't easy. In this deeply personal talk, Jonathan delves into the age-old question: CAN you ever really come home again? The start of the Road Away from God book tour, with our good friend Brian Zahnd, from St. Joseph, MO.

how God doesn't fill our "need" for certainty, how God's response to our doubt isn't to overwhelm our senses so that there is no alternative but to believe, the crucifixion of Jack Sparrow and Iron Man, how Scripture de-stabilizes us in a way that makes trust necessary rather than making us sure.

Jonathan's Dad makes his long-awaited first appearance on the Zeitcast...on his 76th birthday!!! We talk about how he's changed, what he would do differently, and what it looks like to love and be loved in relationship with people who don't see the world the same way we do.