jonathan_foster | 👉🏻jonathan_foster | Substack

Best Substack Introduction Ever

Plus Something that Emerges at the Corner of Sexuality and Theology Plus Link to My Snappy AI Dislosure

Feb 11, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Open and Relational Theology

Natural is the New Supernatural: Finding God's Love in Orwell's 1984

What happens when Psalm 23's 'goodness and mercy' show up in Big Brother's world

Jan 13 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Movement is Truth and Truth is Love

When Theology Refuses Reality

Dec 9, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

An Open and Relational Take on Parables

Jesus' parables: radical challenges to religious power structures that liberated individuals from spiritual oppression and institutional control.

Sep 9, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

1:09:34

Mind, body, spirit coherence with Dr. Shaleen Kendrick and Tori Owens

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

Aug 15, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Tori E. Owens, and Shaleen Kendrick, ThD

Mimetic Theory

Five Reasons Why Mimetic Theory Might be So Popular with the Right

On intellectual inferiority, cancel culture, and the myth of redemptive sacrifice

Oct 24, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Hidden in Plain Sight: Five Biblical Passages That Reframe LGBTQ+ Acceptance

when being biblical means welcoming rather than condemning

Apr 22, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

The Three Ways Mimetic Theory Helps Me

explaining rené girard's revolutionary framework, why it helps me, and what it might mean for all of of us

Apr 8, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Bringing Mimetic Theory and Open and Relational Theology Together

with bite-sized definitions of both ideas for easy digestion

Mar 25, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Grief

Longest Night of the Year

Dec 22, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

1:05:43

grief in the color of holiday

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

Dec 3, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Dina Bell-Laroche, and Leslie Hunt Palumbo

1:01:12

With Paul Young (The Shack)

Well, my apologies to those who were logging on to the Substack Live right at about the time we decided to do something different.

May 30, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

1:02:24

The Grief We Carry

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

May 28, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Leslie Hunt Palumbo, and Dina Bell-Laroche

Podcast

56:56

Of pastors and prophets with Josh Scott

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

Jan 15 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Tori E. Owens, and Josh Scott

55:56

A Hell Bent Conversation with Brian Recker

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

Oct 31, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Brian Recker, and Tori E. Owens

59:40

A Pathological Conversation with Sarah Fay

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

Sep 19, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Sarah Fay, and Tori E. Owens

55:17

Eat the Dirt with Heather Hamilton-No, Really, Do it

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

Sep 17, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Heather Hamilton, and Tori E. Owens

1:00:37

Macro Conversation bout the Microbiome with John Pohl

I had a great time talking with pediatric gastrointestinal theologian John Pohl about what the microbiome might say about metaphysics (and metaphysics…

Aug 8, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster and John Pohl

1:04:14

A non-religious conversation with Jim Palmer

A conversation with best-selling author and deconstruction expert, Jim Palmer

Jul 18, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Tori E. Owens, and Jim Palmer

1:03:29

Brian Zahnd and Wood between the Worlds

Fantastic conversation with Brian Zahnd, Tori Owens and Jonathan J. Foster on Christianity, nationalism, writing, the Camino, friendship, and beauty…

Jul 11, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Tori E. Owens, and Brian Zahnd

52:31

When God became White with Grace Ji-Sun

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

May 23, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Grace Ji-Sun Kim, and Tori E. Owens

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