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Slutty Grace is a Christian deconstruction podcast exploring progressive Christianity, universal salvation, and radical grace. For wanderers, doubters, and seekers rethinking hell, healing from toxic religion, and rediscovering a fearless faith rooted in inclusive love. Contact me to be a guest or have me as a guest on your show. Slutty Grace exists to name what polite religion cannot: that God’s love is wild, untamed, and for everyone. Through raw honesty, playful storytelling, and unapolog ...
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God Refuses to Give Up: Hope and restoration in the Hebrew narrative, with R.A. Sweeney.
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What if the Bible is far more playful, hopeful, and grace-soaked than we were ever told? In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with R.A. Sweeney (Reed), a Hebrew scholar and author whose deep immersion in the original biblical languages reveals a God overflowing with love, humor, and relentless grace. Reed shares how learning He…
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God is Not Balanced: Radical love, unapologetic grace, and the God Jesus revealed.
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Most of us picture God as balanced—a careful blend of wrath and mercy, justice and love. That’s the God we think we can live with: predictable, measured, safe. But the God Jesus revealed wasn’t safe or predictable at all. He was excessive, extreme, even unreasonable in the ways he poured out love and forgiveness. A father who ran wild to embrace a …
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You Don’t Deserve Love: The lie that shaped me, and the God who never agreed.
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What if the most damaging lie we inherited from religion was that we don’t deserve love? In this episode, Jeromy and Religious Trauma Coach Kristi Williams unravel how shame-based theology shaped us, and how grace tells a different story. First, Jeromy unravels the theology that taught us we were born depraved, unworthy, and in need of fixing befor…
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A Hope in Hell: Eternal-torment theology, judgment, and Biblical Universalism, with Benji McNair Scott
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What if the scariest doctrine in Christianity was never true in the first place? In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Benji McNair Scott—theologian, author of Hope in Hell, and one of the most compelling voices challenging the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment. Benji’s journey takes us from his evangelical …
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From Survivor to Heretic: Leslie Nease's journey from fear to freedom.
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Leslie Nease, a former evangelical and Survivor China contestant, opens up about the moment her fear-based faith cracked and the grace that finally brought her home. From Survivor to Heretic is Leslie’s raw, courageous story of what happens when a lifetime of evangelical certainty begins to crack. Her journey didn’t unravel because of scandal—or fa…
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Too Human for Church: A former pastor’s story of failure, deconstruction, and unconditional love, with Steve White
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Sometimes the ones who preached grace the loudest are the ones who have to learn it the hardest. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson talks with Steve White, a former pastor and seminary-trained worship leader who lost everything, including his ministry, but found grace waiting in the wreckage. Steve’s story is one of failure, exile, and…
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(Bonus) Shirts and Skins: When Grace Refuses to Take Sides
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We love our sides. Teams, tribes, doctrines, denominations—lines in the sand that give us a sense of belonging, but also someone to fight against. From childhood football games of shirts versus skins to the way churches police communion tables, we learn to divide the world into “us” and “them.” But here’s the scandal of grace: God doesn’t play for …
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Religious Deconstruction: Losing your religion to find your soul, with Michael Camp
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Sometimes losing your religion is how you finally find your soul. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Michael Camp—former missionary, Bible teacher, and author of Faith Funk: How to Break Free from Toxic Religion and Reboot a Healthy Spirituality. Michael’s story is a roadmap for anyone leaving fear-based faith behind. To…
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(Bonus) Being Held by Grace: It’s all going to work out for good, with Bob Hildreth
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From war zones to church pews, Bob found one truth: grace never stops reaching. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Bob Hildreth—a pastor, storyteller, and spiritual wanderer who’s walked with both the holy and the hurting. Bob shares his story of religious trauma, healing, and the surprising discovery that grace is far b…
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Hell is Choosing the Porch Over the Party: Loving God yet hating His generosity.
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What if hell isn’t God’s punishment—but our protest? In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson asks whether hell might simply be the porch outside the party—the place where the “good” and the religious stand, too offended by mercy to step into grace. Through the story of the prodigal son’s older brother, and other moments when Jesus flipped r…
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Becoming the Mom I Needed: Parenting beyond fear and religion, with Nadyia Horning
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How do you raise children with love when you were raised with fear? In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson talks with Nadyia Horning—a mother, advocate, and survivor of fundamentalist religion—about what it means to break the generational chains of fear and raise children with love instead of control. Nadyia shares her story of growing up …
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Evangelicalism vs. Universalism: Part 2—Progressive Christianity and the hope that Love Wins, with David Artman
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Can a good God condemn forever? Can love and justice truly coexist? And if the Gospel is good news, shouldn’t it be good for everyone? In Part 2 of Evangelicalism vs. Universalism, Jeromy and David Artman dive head-on into the debate: hell, judgment, free will, and the moral logic of universal salvation. It’s a passionate, respectful clash between …
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Evangelicalism vs. Universalism: Part 1—Rethinking Hell and the heart of the Gospel, with David Artman
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What if everything we were taught about hell was wrong—or at least incomplete? What if judgment wasn’t about eternal torment, but transformation? And what if grace is bigger, wider, and wilder than any of our doctrines can hold? In this first part of a two-episode conversation, Jeromy sits down with David Artman, author of Grace Saves All and host …
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Everyone Gets Some: The grace everyone deserves and no one earns, with Chris Jorgensen.
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If God’s love truly includes everyone, what does that say about how we live, forgive, and belong? In this conversation, Jeromy Johnson and Pastor Chris Jorgensen step into the deep waters of progressive Christianity and Christian universalism—the belief that divine love leaves no one out. Together they wrestle with fear, faith, justice, and the mys…
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(Bonus) Windows and Reality: Finding Grace in the Diversity of Faith
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What if you lived your whole life in one room, with only one window to the world? That limited view would become your entire reality—until one day, the door opened, and you discovered more rooms, more windows, more perspectives than you ever imagined. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson shares a story of discovery—an analogy for the Chr…
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Gray Hair Is Beautiful: Aging and death are not our enemies, with Jacob Kendall
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In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Jacob Kendall—a scholar with backgrounds in theology, social work, public health, and gerontology, as well as an entrepreneur and survivor of two open-heart surgeries. Jacob’s journey is deeply interdisciplinary, blending science, faith, and lived experience to confront some of life’s b…
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Life Beyond Religious Exhaustion: Breathing in the freedom of grace.
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Have you ever felt like faith and religion was just… exhausting? Like you were carrying the weight of everyone else’s soul? Managing their beliefs, and your own? Living under endless rules and shoulds that always seemed to shift? In this episode, Jeromy Johnson shares how evangelicalism left him spiritually tired—like sleep apnea for the soul. And …
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Cheating Our Way Into Heaven, with Jonathan Brink
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Today, Jeromy welcomes a guest who feels less like an interview and more like a reunion. Jonathan Brink and Jeromy have known each other for decades—they’ve asked the dangerous questions together, laughed hard, wept at communion tables, and wrestled with a God who never seems to fit inside our boxes. Jonathan’s journey has taken him through deep wo…
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My Confession: Love Offends My Sense of Justice
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Belief is never neat. It is both anchor and sail, holding us steady, yet carrying us into uncharted waters. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy lays down his flag, not with arrogance, but with humility, on one central conviction: God’s love and grace are for all. From wrestling with our human limitations, to reimagining forgiveness as God’s gif…
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(Bonus) Grace for Charlie Kirk and for his killer?
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A bonus episode, this is my raw, initial thoughts and reactions to the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Does God give his love and grace to Charlie? What about the person who pulled the trigger? This puts the radical, expansive, universal, untamed grace of God to the test. This is when it counts. If not now and to these two people, then when? Send Jeromy …
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It Was Good, Never Perfect: Rethinking the “Fall”
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We’ve been told the story starts with perfection—paradise lost in a single catastrophic moment. But what if that’s not how it happened? In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy revisits the opening pages of Genesis and the story of “The Fall.” Instead of a flawless world shattered by sin, we’ll explore a different picture: creation as good, but neve…
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Let's Talk About Hell: Raw and unscripted
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This week’s episode is different. No studio, no script—just Jeromy, sitting in his car between appointments, hitting record, and speaking honestly about one of the heaviest doctrines he grew up with: hell. Not the cartoon fire and pitchforks, but the teaching that most of humanity will be tortured forever. For years he felt like he wasn’t even allo…
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The War is Over: God has already declared peace
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In 1974, Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda finally stepped out of the Philippine jungle—29 years after World War II had ended. For nearly three decades he refused to believe the leaflets that told him the fighting was finished. He lived as if peace was a lie. Many of us do the same with God. Jesus declared, “It is finished.” The war is over. But we stil…
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The title might make you squirm—and that’s the point. Grace isn’t polite religion. It’s not tidy, respectable, or safe. Grace doesn’t wait for the worthy. She doesn’t check your credentials. She pours herself out—recklessly, promiscuously, without apology—on saints and screw-ups alike. In this opening episode, Jeromy wrestles with the elephant in t…
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I’m Jeromy, and this is Slutty Grace. Why call it that? Because grace refuses to behave. She doesn’t ask if you’ve been good, she doesn’t wait for permission, she doesn’t play by religious rules. She gives herself away—promiscuously, shamelessly, to people who don’t deserve it. The respectable have always hated this. They called it wasteful. Danger…
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