Bryan and Anthony grew up in the Adventist church and test out various beliefs, old and new. Sponsored by http://thehaystack.tv/
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Join Nate Craddock every Tuesday as he talks with leaders, thinkers, practitioners, and activists about the intersection of mainstream religion and alternative spirituality. If you're reconstructing your own spirituality, exploring alternative ways of practice, or just want to be part of healing the world, this is the podcast for you.
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Returning without the Haystack’s backing, what do we want the Badventist to be? What do we need to hear and talk about given the current apocalypses?Bryan's Spectrum article:https://conversation.spectrummagazine.org/t/but-this-dream-seemed-so-real/19909By The Badventist
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Bryan and Anthony rant and cull the emotions from the #GCAC2019. Anthony gets all worked up about non compliance, Bryan tells you why you shouldn't care so much about things.Follow us @badventism on Twitter and Instagram!Sponsored by The Haystackthehaystack.orgBy The Badventist
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Episode 16 — A Crash Course in Miracles with Colin Bedell and mizChartreuse
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It’s a great pleasure to welcome not one but two of the most fabulous astrologers I know to the show this week, the inimitable Colin Bedell and mizChartreuse. We became acquainted through the astrology conference world and I reached out to have a conversation with them regarding A Course in Miracles, the seminal 1976 book which has been influential…
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Episode 15 - Badventist with Bryan Nashed
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This week it's a pleasure to welcome my friend Bryan Nashed to the show. Bryan is a spooky boi, tarotist, and podcaster, coming to us from the wild and wooly world of Seventh Day Adventism. Bryan co-hosts the Badventist podcast with Anthony Rodriguez, which, aside from winning this week's portmanteau award, serves as a space for those who grew up A…
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Episode 14: Neurodiversity, Pneumadiversity, and Magical Life with Arthur Lipp-Bonewits
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Today's chat features a lovely conversation with Arthur Lipp-Bonewits. Arthur is an all-purpose diviner, astrologer, occultist, and ecumenical medium based in New York City where he is studying psychology, gender, and sexuality. Today we're sitting down to talk growing up neopagan and the confluence of religious, spiritual, and magical practice at …
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Episode 13 - Social [Work] Gospel with Rev. Dr. Sarah Kye Price
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Today on the show it’s my privilege to welcome my friend and clergy colleague, the Rev. Dr. Sarah Kye Price. Mother Sarah and I met during the trial-by-fire known as Clinical Pastoral Education back in 2015, and she was recently ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church. In addition to living out her priestly vocation as the priest affilia…
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Episode 12 — Marybois with Andrew Lamont
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A little late on the release due to ECLIPSE MANIA, but here we are. It's a privilege to welcome my good friend Andrew Lamont to the show. Andrew is a fiber artist, magician, and astrologer based out of Rhode Island, and today we're sitting down to talk about the process of jailbreaking Catholicism, embodiment and desire, and the importance of ritua…
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Episode 11 — Dismantling Fear with Jo Gleason
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Today on the show it’s my privilege to welcome my good friend Jo Gleason! Jo is an astrologer, former ballet dancer, and writer based out of Oklahoma City. She currently serves as the vice president of the Association for Young Astrologers. This free-form conversation tracks Jo's story through her GOOD CHRISTIAN KID upbringing. We talk about disarm…
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Episode 10 - Take this Bread with Flan Park
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Today on the show, I’m sitting down with my friend Flan Park. Flan and I have been in each others orbits for several years now, having connected with one another via Gay Christian Twitter. Flan is a children’s librarian living and working in Philadelphia. Their work focuses on bringing whole person, whole family literacy and learning support work t…
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Episode 9 — Lines in the Sand & Lines in the Soul with Sam Block
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Today on the show I’ve got the privilege of welcoming my friend Sam Block, with whom I became acquainted through Spooky Twitter, only to find out that he lives in my hometown, the forested wilds of Northern Virginia. Sam wears many hats; in addition to being a software developer, talented geomancer, and all-purpose magician, Sam is a prolific write…
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Episode 8 — Creating through Prediction with Drew Levanti
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This week, I sat down with Drew Levanti, a new friend I connected with at the Northwest Astrology Conference in Seattle. Drew is a student of anthropology and of Hellenistic astrology (with some forays into archetypical models of symbolism). Our conversation wends its way through his experience growing up around a heavy-duty New Age community, his …
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Episode 7 - The Imaginal Realm with West Ardere
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We're on a weird release schedule these days due to circumstances beyond my control, but I'm glad to be back! This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome to the show my friend West Ardere! West is an astrologer and former evangelical based out of Seattle, Washington. Our lovely conversation today circles the drain on ritualized prayer, folk catho…
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Episode 6 - Sacred Rage with Eve Ettinger
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Today we welcome my good friend Eve Ettinger to talk about surviving a Quiverfull cult, the justice of rage, the power of critique, and the process of engaging with the sacred through narrative constellations when circumstance and safety have required you to leave it all behind. Eve is an essayist, tarot reader, and commentator on fundamentalist an…
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Episode 5 - Solo Show: The Sacredness of the Everyday
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On this week's solo show, I share some thoughts on cultivating the sacredness of the everyday, following a thread that I've been hanging on to since my conversation with Dayna. "All religion is spiritual, all spirituality is religious." What does that mean for the spiritual-but-not-religious crowd? More importantly for our task here, what does that…
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Initiation & Power with Dayna Lynn Nuckolls
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I was #blessed to have this incredible conversation with my friend and colleague, Dayna Lynn Nuckolls. Dayna is a Chicago-based western sidereal astrologer and spiritual practitioner. Our conversation wends its way through Dayna's experience growing up black and Christian and we talk about the spiritual power that erupts from initiatory experiences…
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Episode 3 - Spirited Appalachia with the Rev. Kimberly Gibson-Pierce
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This week features a wonderful conversation with my friend and clergy colleague, the Rev. Kimberly Gibson-Pierce, about the spiritual uniqueness of Appalachia and the revolutionary undercurrent behind such stereotyped phenomena as snake-handling and poison-drinking in certain pockets of Pentecostalism. Rev. Kim is a commissioned minister in the Dis…
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Episode 2 - Going Old School with Robert Bailey
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For this week's episode, I sat down to speak with my colleague and friend Robert Bailey, a professional astrologer based in Canberra, Australia, to talk religious upbringing, learning medieval astrology to impress a girl, the precarious work of discerning new ways forward after life-altering junctures, and finding one's way back to the religious tr…
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Episode 1 - Sitting Down and Shutting Up with Andrew Ford
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I drove down through the wilds of the Virginia panhandle to sit down with my friend Andrew (Andy) Ford, a quasi-lapsed Episcopalian, Zen practitioner, musician, playwright, and existential bon vivant. Andy shares about his life growing up as a Good Christian Boy and his process of coming out, sitting down, and shutting up, embracing the Dark Night …
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In this pre-episode of Jailbreak the Sacred, Nate describes the whole point of the show and explains what "jailbreaking the sacred" is all about. Every Tuesday, listen in as I sit down to talk with leaders, thinkers, practitioners, and activists about the intersection of mainstream religion and alternative spirituality. These are people like me who…
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