Welcome baddies to Called to be Bad. In this episode I talk with professor, anti-racist, anti-oppression and peace educator Regina Shands Stoltzfus who co-authored the book Been in the Struggle: Pursuing an Antiracist Spirituality with Tobin Mi...

 "To me the value is in making sure people know that they are loved and they are created exactly as they are meant to be." On this week’s episode of Called to be Bad, I talk with the Theology Queen, Marge Erin Johnson who is a...

"You know sometimes people feel suicidal and they don't want to die, they just want to stop hurting..."In this episode of Called to be Bad I talk with Reverend Michiko Bown-Kai who is a minister in the United Church of Canada. We first ...

In this episode of Called to Be Bad I talk with Sarah Werner. Sarah is an editor, writer and pastor living in Columbus, Ohio. You can find Sarah’s full bio in the description. Sarah is the author of the book, Rooted Faith: Practices of Living W...

“We don’t have the tools necessary to talk about God…” Today’s episode is co-hosted with Dr. Malinda E. Berry who you may recognize from an episode of Called to be Bad named Toxic Secrets. Dr. Malinda and I had the privi...

"While I was processing my gender, my biggest fear was that I would come out as trans and then be like, 'oh wait, actually no...'"In this episode of Called to be Bad Podcast I talk with  Jenna Reyanne Martin (she, her) a trans woma...

"Sadly some of my colleagues thought I was evil, the administration thought I was evil, a small percentage of my students thought I was evil...." In this episode of Called to be Bad I talk with Scott Okamoto who is a writer, musician, a...

"White people act as if racism doesn't hurt them, but it does." In this episode of Called to be Bad I talk with Darryl Heller and Ben Bouwman about reparations. Darryl is professor of women and gender studies at Indiana University South...

"So my sexuality was like, 'here's how you're supposed to be: you're supposed to be heterosexual, you're supposed to be submissive, you're supposed to be excited any time he is excited. You're not really allowed to say no, or if you say no...sa...

"And the fact that 80 or 85% of the mineral needed to power the green economy, needed to build our electric cars, our solar panels, etc., are located on or near Indigenous lands..." In this episode of CTBB I talk with Sarah Augustine an...

“I could spend hours and days looking for a particular book, and not infrequently I discover I have more than one copy, I’ve discovered not only doubles, but triples, and in the worst case four copies of the same book on my shelf.”In thi...

In this episode I talk with chaplain and author Joon Park about his journey into chaplaincy, how he maintains a non-anxious and non-judgmental presence when faced with all types of people and all types of suffering, and how he carries the stori...

In this episode of  Called to be Bad, scholar Jessie Knippel takes us through the history of colonial witch trials, why certain people groups were targeted as “witches", and the role Christianity played in these hunts. Then we move to the ...

"I feel like black women have been, and always will be, the closest approximation of Jesus Christ's salvific work, in our lives." Shantell Hinton Hill is an engineer, pastor, and poet that centers her justice work around Black Femi...

“In a sense, partisan politics, uncompromising politics are seen as, ‘Well that’s the real problem,’ and I think that moderate politics often does take a side, I just don’t think it has the courage to say it.”In this episode of Called to...

“Transitioning gave me back my body, which is what I expected, right, I expected to have this new relationship with my body and that will be great. What I didn’t also expect, was that transitioning gave me back my faith.”  In this ...

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Wondering where the podcast has been? Check out this mini-episode where I catch you all up on life and ALL the exciting episodes and guests to come in Season 3!!!Link to sign up on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calledtobebad/membersh...

"In 2020, with all the civil unrest, we reached a tipping point of there being more guns than people." In this episode of Called to be Bad I talk all things guns with  Mennonite pastor, adrenaline junkie, and "aspiring pacifis...

"Part of the gun problem in America--the proliferation of guns--has as much to do with policy making approches by Democratic officials as it does pro-gun Republicans..."In part two of this two-part series on guns, I talk with Matt Yoder...

Hey baddies, we are back! After a bit of a break, we are diving in the deep end with an episode on Liberation Theology, Jesus as a protester, Marxism, and more! It was a delight to have Damon Garcia on to talk about his book, "The God Who Riots...

In this episode of Called to be Bad I talk with pastor Melissa Spolar about being part of a "bad church" a.k.a. breaking down what traditional church looks like. Do we need a sermon? Do we need lots of children's programming? Let's re-imagine c...

"I just found it so fascinating that the campaigns that were put out saying that porn is a public health issue were not public health people...they were put out by religious organizations."In this episode of Called to be Bad I talk with...

"Like the idea of god, and who, and what, and where, and when god might be is actually plastic, it actually takes different forms."In this episode of the Called to be Bad Podcast I talk with author and radical theologian Maria Francesca...

"In some ways it is just a reminder that Western Christians don't have a copywrite on Christianity, a copywrite on Jesus, a copywrite on the Bible..." In this episode I talk with theologian, author, professor, and podcaster, Drew G. I. ...