

Christianity On The Spectrum
Christianity On The Spectrum
Christianity on the Spectrum is a podcast about the intersection between autism and Christianity. In the podcast, Jon, an Anglican autistic computer engineer and autism researcher from Canada, tries to explain the data on the intersections between autism and Christianity from over 500 interviews with Christian, ex-Christian, and Christian curious autistics and from reading and analyzing the social media posts of over 26,000 other autistics on the internet.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Apr 13, 2025 • 1h 15min
The Problem with Christian Slavery Apologetics
In the last episode, Jon talked about why autistic people often get disillusioned and annoyed with Apologetics and many people reached out to ask about a specific example that could be used to illustrate these points.
This episode tries to give a specific example of the problem with apologetics for autistic people to follow-up to the previous episode by talking about Christian Complicity in Slavery. Jon tries to explain why slavery apologetics are often not convincing to autistic people, often backfire, and then uses his experience talking about this subject with autistics to suggest a possible solution.
The Gavin Ortlund Video that I reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZImmDmr8pxk
Books Mentioned:
Slavery in Early Christianity – Jennifer A Glancy
Slavery in the Late Roman World AD 275-425 – Kyle Harper
Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World – Katharine Gerbner
From Shame to Sin: Transformation of Sexual Ethics in Late Antiquity – Kyle Harper
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Apr 6, 2025 • 1h 43min
Autism and Apologetics
In this episode, Jon, a Computer Engineer that studies and researches the intersection between autism and Christianity, talks about the weird and unique relationship between autism and apologetics, why we like it, why we hate it, why so many of us have an apologetics phase, why a lot of us become disillusioned, by analyzing data from over 26000 online autistics and over 500 long form interviews with Christian and ex-Christian autistics.
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Mar 9, 2025 • 60min
Autistic Clergy, Monks, Nuns, etc
In this episode, Jon talks about his research on autistic Christians to answer questions about autistic clergy, monks, nun, consecrated virgins, missionaries and others. He talks about why they take religious vocations, the good aspects and the bad ones as well.
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Mar 2, 2025 • 1h 7min
Is Calling Yourself Autistic Bad? And other related questions.
In this episode, Jon, and autistic autism researcher attempts to address a wide host of questions about autism and autistic identity using research from over 26000 online autistics and over 500 long form interviews:
Should you identify as autistic?
Is calling yourself autistic bad?
Is self Diagnosis harmful?
Is autism 1, asperger's, or high functioning autism fake autism? and more
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Feb 23, 2025 • 1h 59min
Autism and Christian Cults
In this episode Jon and Alyssa talk about why so many autistic people get caught up in Christian Cults, how cults work, why autistic people find them so appealing, what happens when they join and what happens when they leave.
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Feb 23, 2025 • 1h 41min
Autism and Christian Fundamentalism
In this episode, Jon an autistic computer engineer and autism researcher tries to explain all of the interesting intersections between fundamentalism and Autistic Christians to Alyssa using data pulled from over 26000 online autistics and interviews with over 500 autistic Christians and ex-Christians.
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Feb 2, 2025 • 2h 26min
Pentecostals, Charismatics, and Autism
In this Podcast, Jon, an autistic autism researcher who spends a lot of time researching the intersection between autism and Christianity, talks to Ian, a religious scholar and Pentecostal autistic with a lot of experience within Pentecostalism about
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Jan 26, 2025 • 1h 7min
Autism and Medical Euthanasia
In this episode, Jon is joined by Ben Crosby, an Anglican Priest to talk about MAID and the state of MAID in Canada and the particular implications it has for autistic Christians.
You can find more of Ben's work here:
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/culture-of-life/a-canadian-priest-on-medical-assistance-in-dying
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/culture-of-life/where-are-the-churches-in-canadas-euthanasia-experiment
https://bencrosby.substack.com/p/on-maid-and-the-canadian-church
https://bencrosby.substack.com
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Jan 19, 2025 • 1h 33min
Research Methods and Other Research Question
In this episode, Jon, a computer engineer and autism researcher explains how he went about his data collection on over 26000 online autistic Christians and ex-Christians and he answers all the questions that he's gotten about his research.
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Jan 12, 2025 • 2h 25min
Autistic Attitudes on Gender Roles, Feminism, and Trans Inclusion
In this episode, Jon tries to explain his research on autistic Christians to explain trends in attitudes towards Gender Role, Feminism, and Gender Critical Feminism, taking data from over 500 long form interviews, 26000 online personas, and many many more conversations with autistic Christians and ex-Christians.
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