G(od)-Spot Podcast

S10 - Separation of Church and Hate - John Fugelsang

John Fugelsang is an actor, comedian & broadcaster etc. He hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121. 

Please read his bio on his website. It’s pretty long and impressive.

We talk about his life and faith story, and mostly about his new book – Separation of Church and Hate, an awesome book that everyone should read or listen to.

I loved this conversation and I hope we’ll talk again down the road.

 

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S9, Episode 14 - Blue Christmas - A Christmas Greeting

This is the last episode of season 9. I'm reading a few pages from Diana Butler Bass' new book A Beautiful Year.

I hope you'll have a wonderful holiday and I'll be back in January.

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S9, Avsnitt 14 - Berättelser ur djupet - Mackan Andersson

Mackan Andersson är tillbaka i podden. Oftast pratar vi teologi när han är med, men han är inte bara författare till teologisk litteratur utan också till skönlitteratur.

Nyligen släpptes hans novellsamling Berättelser ur djupet och det är den vi pratar mest om idag. Det är ett jättebra julklappstips. Du hittar den här.

Scrolla gärna tillbaka till föregående säsonger om du vill veta mer om Mackan och hans andra böcker och mycket annat.

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S9, Episode 13 - Vulnerability - David Hayward

David Hayward, aka NakedPastor, is back on the podcast for the fourth time. David is a former pastor, artist, cartoonist who is known worldwide for his paintings and drawings, which are powerful and effective and go straight to the heart. We have a great conversation, as usual, and catch up on what we’ve been up to since last time.

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S9 - Episode 12 - Hell Bent - Brian Recker

Brian Recker is a public theologian, speaker, and writer on Christian spirituality without exclusionary dogma. He is a former evangelical pastor and we talk about his story of life and faith. Most of all we talk about his book Hell Bent in which he explains why we can stop worrying about hell and start focusing on love.

A great conversation and a lot of laughter. Enjoy this episode.

 

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S9, Avsnitt 11 - Gud, fotboll, segling och mycket mer - Lasse Svensson

Dagens avsnitt är ett samtal med Lasse Svensson som är Regional kyrkoledare för Region Syd i Equmeniakyrkan.

Vi pratar om hans resa i tro och liv; det han jobbat med och det han gör nu, samt en hel del annat som bl.a. innehåller fotboll och segling.

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S9, Episode 10 - The Last Voyage - Brian McLaren

Brian McLaren is back on the show! Brian is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. He is a faculty member with the Center for Action and Contemplation. and a podcaster with the CAC’s podcast Learning How to See. He is a co-host of Southern Lights and supports a new progressive ecumenical campus ministry network called ZOE. He has written more than 20 books, including his newest, The Last Voyage (2025), which is what we mostly talk about. This is the fifth time I get to talk to Brian and it’s always such a pleasure. His next non-fiction project, The Beautiful Logic of a Meaningful Life, is in process now, for release in 2027.

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S9, Episode 9 - When Religion Hurts You - Dr. Laura Anderson

Dr. Laura Anderson–a licensed psychotherapist, trauma resolution coach, religious trauma consultant, speaker, author, and educator. She is on a mission to provide religious trauma-informed support and resources to survivors of and those helping survivors of religious trauma, adverse religious experiences (AREs), faith deconstruction, cults, spiritual abuse, and leaving high demand/high control systems.

We talk about her own story and her book When Religion Hurts You, a book I really recommend. She runs the Center for Trauma resolution and recovery and she is one of the hosts of the podcast Sunday School Dropouts, and we talked some about that too.

It was a great conversation and I’m so happy to have talked with her.

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S9, Avsnitt 8 - Helig Yrsel - Mikael Tellbe

Dagens avsnitt är ett samtal med Mikael Tellbe. Mikael är docent i Nya testamentet, lektor i Nya testamentet på Akademi för ledarskap och teologi (ALT) i Örebro, pastor inom Evangeliska Frikyrkan (EFK) och författare.

Han har bl.a. skrivit en introduktion till ’Uppenbarelseboken, Lammet och odjuret’, ’Med framtiden i ryggen’, och en ’Kommentar till Första Korinthierbrevet, Korsmärkt gemenskap’. Han är också författare till ’Tillbaka till framtiden – vad vi påstår, tror och vet om tidens slut’, ’Vad menar vi med att bibeln är Guds ord?’ samt ’Paulus mot väggen’.

Mikael delar med sig om sin resa i tro och liv och vi pratar om hans böcker, hans intresse för fåglar samt om den nya Bibelöversättningen som kommer i början av 2026.

 

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S9, Episode 7 - Gino Theology - Dr. Thomas Jay Oord

Yet another wonderful conversation with Tom Oord. It’s always a pleasure to talk to Tom.

Tom is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is a best-selling and award-winning author, having written or edited more than thirty books. Tom also directs doctoral programs at Northwind Theological Seminary and directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He is known for his research and writing on love, open and relational theology, science and religion, evil and power, and the implications of freedom and relationships for transformation.

Today we talk about a few different topics and about his new word – Gino Theology.

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