This Is Not Church Podcast

This Is Not Church
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Aug 4, 2025 • 40min

Tragic Magic: A Conversation With Regan Caruthers

This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Quollective. At The Quollective, we believe in the power of independent media to challenge oppression, amplify marginalized voices, and create real, lasting change.In this episode we chat wit Regan CaruthersRegan’s path was informed by her early schooling where she meditated daily, practiced Tai Chi, and learned about the power of Divine Love and conscious thought. But she would reject these teachings as she sought to fit in and find social acceptance. Quickly rising through the ranks, Regan had a successful career as a Silicon Valley corporate executive in the educational software industry. But corporate ascension, an extra-marital affair, and a tumultuous first marriage were mere reflections of her brokenness and need for deep healing. Once she consciously committed to practicing what she had learned so young, her life began to change. Regan recently moved back to Missouri from Santa Cruz, CA. She’s the founder of Aset Yoga Center and dedicates her life to teaching and helping her clients achieve a more intimate and disciplined inner life. Her compassionate approach creates safe spaces for transformation and wellness, through one-on-one coaching, yoga sessions, and her Ready to Awaken courses. She conducts yoga classes for her community as an act of service at no charge Above all, Regan cherishes her roles as a devoted wife to Jim and a loving mother to her sons, Connor and Ian.You can connect with Regan on:Facebook     InstagramYoui can fins all things Regan Caruthers related on her websiteYou can purchase Tragic Magic on Amazon.comYou can connect with This Is Not Church on:Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTubeAlso check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church relatedPlease like and follow our Quoircast Partners:Heretic Happy Hour     Messy Spirituality     Apostates Anonymous    Second Cup with Keith     The Church Needs TherapyIdeas Digest      Snarky Faith Podcast     Wild Olive     Deadly Faith     Spirituality Brew Pub     Faith For The Rest Of UsJonathan_Foster     Sacred Thoughts     Holy Heretics     Reframing Our Stories     Bros Bibles & Beer      Liminal LivingLove Covered Life     The Social Jesus Project     I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist     Radical Love Live     The God SquadEach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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Jul 28, 2025 • 50min

Church Camp: A Conversation With Cara Meredith

This Quoircasr Podcast episode is brought to you by The Quantum Gospel of Mary and The Lost Gospel of Truth by Keith Giles. Published by Quoir and available now.In this episode we chat with Cara MeredithCara Meredith is a sought-after speaker, public theologian, and development director who found home at a church camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains. After serving in various roles, she continued as a speaker for two decades at camps up and down the West Coast. With a master of theology (Fuller Seminary) and a background in education and nonprofit work, she is also the author of The Color of Life. Her writing has been featured in national media outlets such as The Oregonian, The New York Times, The Christian Century, and Christianity Today, among others. She lives with her family in Oakland, California.You can connect with Cara on:Facebook     Instagram     Threads     SubstackYou can finf all things Cara Meredith related on her websiteYou can purchase Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation on Amazon.comYou can connect with This Is Not Church on:Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTubeAlso check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church relatedPlease like and follow our Quoircast Partners:Heretic Happy Hour     Messy Spirituality     Apostates Anonymous    Second Cup with Keith     The Church Needs TherapyIdeas Digest      Snarky Faith Podcast     Wild Olive     Deadly Faith     Spirituality Brew Pub     Faith For The Rest Of UsJonathan_Foster     Sacred Thoughts     Holy Heretics     Reframing Our Stories     Bros Bibles & Beer      Liminal LivingLove Covered Life     The Social Jesus Project     I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist     Radical Love Live     The God SquadEach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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Jul 21, 2025 • 48min

Saving Face: A Conversation With Aimee Byrd

This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by Bros Bibles & Beer PodcastIn this episode we chat with Aimee ByrdAimee Byrd?is author, speaker, blogger, podcaster, and former coffee shop owner. Aimee is the author of several books, including The Hope in Our Scars, Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and Sexual Reformation. Her articles have appeared in First Things, Table Talk, Modern Reformation, By Faith, New Horizons, Ordained Servant, Harvest USA, and Credo Magazine and she has been interviewed and quoted in Christianity Today and The AtlanticYou can connect with Aimee on:Facebook     Instagram     Threads      TwitterYou can find all things Aimee Byrd related on her websiteYou can purchase Saving Face: Finding My Self, God, and One Another Outside a Defaced Church onYou can connect with This Is Not Church on:Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTubeAlso check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church relatedPlease like and follow our Quoircast Partners:Heretic Happy Hour     Messy Spirituality     Apostates Anonymous    Second Cup with Keith     The Church Needs TherapyIdeas Digest      Snarky Faith Podcast     Wild Olive     Deadly Faith     Spirituality Brew Pub     Faith For The Rest Of UsJonathan_Foster     Sacred Thoughts     Holy Heretics     Reframing Our Stories     Bros Bibles & Beer      Liminal LivingLove Covered Life     The Social Jesus Project     I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist     Radical Love Live     The God SquadEach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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Jul 14, 2025 • 1h 6min

The Cosmic Christ & The Concrete Jesus: A Conversation With Kevin Sweeney

This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Quantum Gospel of Mary and The Lost Gospel of Truth. Published by Quoir and available nowIn this episode we chat with Kevin SweeneyKevin Sweeney was co-founder and lead pastor of Imagine Church—an urban church in Honolulu that is welcoming of all people, sees imagination as the key to the future, chooses authenticity over performance, substance over hype, and quality over quantity. He is the host of podcast “The Church Needs Therapy” and is the author of the books, “The Making of a Mystic: My Journey with Mushrooms, My Life as a Pastor, and Why It’s Okay For Everyone to Relax,” out on May 31st, and “The Joy of Letting Go” which will be out in January 2023. Both on Quoir Publishing. He lives In Honolulu with his wife and co-founder of Imagine, Christine, and their two kids, True and Mikayla.You can connect with Kevin on:Facebook     Twitter     InstagramCheck out Kevin's podcast The Church Needs TherapyYou can purchase The Cosmic Christ and the Concrete Jesus on Amazon.comYou can connect with This Is Not Church on:Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTubeAlso check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church relatedPlease like and follow our Quoircast Partners:Heretic Happy Hour     Messy Spirituality     Apostates Anonymous    Second Cup with Keith     The Church Needs TherapyIdeas Digest      Snarky Faith Podcast     Wild Olive     Deadly Faith     Spirituality Brew Pub     Faith For The Rest Of UsJonathan_Foster     Sacred Thoughts     Holy Heretics     Reframing Our Stories     Bros Bibles & Beer      Liminal LivingLove Covered Life     The Social Jesus Project     I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist     Radical Love Live     The God SquadEach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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Jul 7, 2025 • 1h 1min

The Kingdom Of Man: A Conversation With Eric English

This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Heretic Happy Hour PodcastIn this episode we chat with Eric EnglishEric Scot English writes the UNenlightenment column for Patheos Progressive Christian. Eric also hosts a podcast called UNenlightenment where he interviews leading thinkers in the Christian faith about various topics associated with progressive Christianity and evangelicalism. Eric holds advanced degrees in philosophy and theology.You can connect with Eric on:Facebook     InstagramCheck out Eric's blog UNenlightenmentYou can purchase The Kingdom Of Man on Amazon.comYou can connect with This Is Not Church on:Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTubeAlso check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church relatedPlease like and follow our Quoircast Partners:Heretic Happy Hour     Messy Spirituality     Apostates Anonymous    Second Cup with Keith     The Church Needs TherapyIdeas Digest      Snarky Faith Podcast     Wild Olive     Deadly Faith     Spirituality Brew Pub     Faith For The Rest Of UsJonathan_Foster     Sacred Thoughts     Holy Heretics     Reframing Our Stories     Bros Bibles & Beer      Liminal LivingLove Covered Life     The Social Jesus Project     I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist     Radical Love Live     The God SquadEach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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Jun 30, 2025 • 58min

Women Who Wear Only Themselves: A Conversation With Arundhathi Subramaniam

This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Heretic Happy Hour PodcastIn This episode we chat with Arundhathi SubramaniamArundhathi Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet, described as “one of the finest poets writing in India today” (The Hindu, 2010) and “a unique poet of our times... in a league all by herself” (Indian Literature, 2021). Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Poetry 2020 (awarded by India’s national academy of letters), her fourteen books include Love Without a Story (Bloodaxe Books, 2020)and most recently, the Penguin anthology of Indian female sacred poetry, Wild Women (2024). Shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2015, her various poetry awards include the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Zee Women’s Award for Literature, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Mystic Kalinga Award, the Trinity Arts Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, the Homi Bhabha and Charles Wallace fellowships, among others. She has worked over the years as curator, critic and poetry editor, and divides her time between New York, Mumbai, and Chennai.You can connect with Arundhathi on:Facebook     InstagramYou can find all things Arundhathi Subramaniam related on her websiteYou can purchase Women Who Wear Only Themselves: Four Travelers on Their Sacred Journeys on Amazon.comYou can connect with This Is Not Church on:Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTubeAlso check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church relatedPlease like and follow our Quoircast Partners:Heretic Happy Hour     Messy Spirituality     Apostates Anonymous    Second Cup with Keith     The Church Needs TherapyIdeas Digest      Snarky Faith Podcast     Wild Olive     Deadly Faith     Spirituality Brew Pub     Faith For The Rest Of UsJonathan_Foster     Sacred Thoughts     Holy Heretics     Reframing Our Stories     Bros Bibles & Beer      Liminal LivingLove Covered Life     The Social Jesus Project     I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist     Radical Love Live     The God SquadEach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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Jun 23, 2025 • 59min

The Everybody Gospel: A Conversation With Francis Leeman

This Quourcast Podcast episode is brought to you by The Quantum Gospel of Mary and The Lost Gospel of Truth by Keith Giles. Published by Quoir and available nowIn this episode we chat with Francis LeemanAlong with his wife Linda and some good friends, Fran Leeman has led LifeSpring Church for over thirty years. He is the author of several books and the founder of New Life for Haiti. As a pastor engaged in theological work with Catholic roots and decades in the evangelical stream, Fran believes the Christian faith and the western church are due for, and beginning to experience, their next evolution, one where we realize that love is the beginning, middle, and end of the human and Christian journey.You can connect with Francis Leeman on:FacebookCheck out the website for LifeSpring ChurchYou can purchase The Everybody Gospel: Why and How an Evangelical Church Journeyed from Judgment to the Inclusion of LGBTQ People on Amazon.comYou can connect with This Is Not Church on:Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTubeAlso check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church relatedPlease like and follow our Quoircast Partners:Heretic Happy Hour     Messy Spirituality     Apostates Anonymous    Second Cup with Keith     The Church Needs TherapyIdeas Digest      Snarky Faith Podcast     Wild Olive     Deadly Faith     Spirituality Brew Pub     Faith For The Rest Of UsJonathan_Foster     Sacred Thoughts     Holy Heretics     Reframing Our Stories     Bros Bibles & Beer      Liminal LivingLove Covered Life     The Social Jesus Project     I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist     Radical Love Live     The God SquadEach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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Jun 16, 2025 • 1h 9min

Christ Saves All: A Conversation With Steven HAuse

This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by Only Us: Searching for the Truth about the Identity of God and Humanity by Jaxon Phoenix. Published by Quoir and available now.In this episode we chat with Steven HAuseSteven HAuse is an English language teacher who has lived and taught in Bolivia, Spain, and Japan. He loves learning more about different cultures, exploring theological topics, and watching all kinds of great movies.You can connect with Steven on:Facebook     InstagramYou can purchase Christ Saves All: Christian Universalist Perspectives on Amazon.comYou can connect with This Is Not Church on:Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTubeAlso check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church relatedPlease like and follow our Quoircast Partners:Heretic Happy Hour     Messy Spirituality     Apostates Anonymous    Second Cup with Keith     The Church Needs TherapyIdeas Digest      Snarky Faith Podcast     Wild Olive     Deadly Faith     Spirituality Brew Pub     Faith For The Rest Of UsJonathan_Foster     Sacred Thoughts     Holy Heretics     Reframing Our Stories     Bros Bibles & Beer      Liminal LivingLove Covered Life     The Social Jesus Project     I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist     Radical Love Live     The God SquadEach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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Jun 9, 2025 • 1h 14min

God And The Gay Christian: A Conversation With Matthew Vines

This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by Peelakiiyankwi: Processing Liberation Through an Indigenous American Lens  Published by Quoir and is available now.In this episode we chat with Matthew VinesMatthew Vines is the founder of The Reformation Project, a Bible-based, Christian nonprofit that works to advance an orthodox and affirming vision for the church. Vines’s work has been featured in media worldwide, including Time, the Associated Press, and The New York Times. Vines lives in Dallas, Texas.You can connect with Matthew on:Facebook     Instagram     YouTubeYou can find all things Matthew Vines related on his websiteYou can find more info about the Reformation Project on their websiteYou can purchase God And The Gay Christian on Amazon.comYou can connect with This Is Not Church on:Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTubeAlso check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church relatedPlease like and follow our Quoircast Partners:Heretic Happy Hour     Messy Spirituality     Apostates Anonymous    Second Cup with Keith     The Church Needs TherapyIdeas Digest      Snarky Faith Podcast     Wild Olive     Deadly Faith     Spirituality Brew Pub     Faith For The Rest Of UsJonathan_Foster     Sacred Thoughts     Holy Heretics     Reframing Our Stories     Bros Bibles & Beer      Liminal LivingLove Covered Life     The Social Jesus Project     I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist     Radical Love Live     The God SquadEach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!
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Jun 2, 2025 • 1h 5min

Unless A Seed Falls To The Ground: A Conversation With D. T. Bryant

This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by The Quollective. We are a collective team of writers, poets, musicians, mystics, and cultural commentators who refuse to let injustice go unchecked.In this episode we chat with D. T. BryantD.T. Bryant serves as a priest at St. Mary of Bethany Parish and as a Spiritual Director for The Center for Hope and Healing in Nashville, TN. He is also a co-founder of the Black Mental Health Counselor Reparations Foundation. He is passionate about seeking practical, just, and merciful healing in the world and enjoys life with his wife and four children.You can connect with D. T. Bryant on:Instagram     Bluesky     SubStackYou can find all things D. T. Bryant related on his websiteYou can purchase Unless A Seed Falls To The Ground at Amazon.comYou can connect with This Is Not Church on:Facebook     Instagram      TikTok     YouTubeAlso check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church relatedPlease like and follow our Quoircast Partners:Heretic Happy Hour     Messy Spirituality     Apostates Anonymous    Second Cup with Keith     The Church Needs TherapyIdeas Digest      Snarky Faith Podcast     Wild Olive     Deadly Faith     Spirituality Brew Pub     Faith For The Rest Of UsJonathan_Foster     Sacred Thoughts     Holy Heretics     Reframing Our Stories     Bros Bibles & Beer      Liminal LivingLove Covered Life     The Social Jesus Project     I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist     Radical Love Live     The God SquadEach episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!

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