Episodes

Browse the conversations that have shaped

from deconstruction, equity, and justice, to grief, hope, culture, and the messy work of building a more liberating faith.

Prepared to Drown

Season One - Episode 11

A Bigger Boat: Risk, Faith & Failing Forward

What does faithfulness look like when the outcome we work for never comes? Recorded on the eve of General Council 45, this conversation explores noble failure, institutional change, disappointment, courage, and the stubborn hope that keeps building bigger boats.

Featuring: Sarah Charters

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Season One - Episode 10

Cannonballs & Bellyflops

For the final regular episode of Season One, we hand the mic over to you. Bill, Joanne, and Ricardo respond to listener questions about joy, grace, justice, mental health, caregiving, queer theology, and what it means to do faith out loud in the middle of real life.

Season One - Episode 9

Parting the Binary

What happens when our image of God breaks free from the binary? Against the backdrop of Pride Month and rising attacks on 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, this conversation explores gender, identity, religious trauma, inclusive theology, and the life-saving power of communities where people can live as their whole selves.

Featuring: Rev. Tracy Robertson, K.S. King, Lor Gundersen

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Season One - Episode 8

Dam Good Neighbours

What does it mean to be a good neighbour in a world built to divide us? Drawing on the parable of the Good Samaritan, this episode explores community resilience, housing, youth empowerment, immigration, labour, chosen family, and the kind of neighbourliness that crosses lines instead of guarding them.

Featuring: Laura Istead, Brian Thiessen, Aurelio (Jun) Naraval

Season One - Episode 7

Dinghies and Yachts

‍Why does poverty persist in a world overflowing with wealth? This conversation names the myths of meritocracy, the realities of housing precarity and labour injustice, and the difference between charity and transformation, while asking what a spiritually grounded response to poverty could look like.

‍Featuring: Diana Batten, Derek Cook

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Season One - Episode 6

Water into WiFi

As artificial intelligence reshapes creativity, education, labour, and faith, what parts of our humanity need protecting? This episode explores art, appropriation, perfection, productivity, embodiment, and the uneasy question of whether we are building tools that serve us or idols that reshape us.
Featuring: Bertrand Bickersteth, Aaron Navrady

Season One - Episode 5

The “Love” Boat

What if the stories we inherited about bodies, desire, relationships, and purity were doing more harm than good? This conversation explores purity culture, 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion, conversion therapy, consent, autonomy, disability, aging, intimacy, and the sacred worth of people beyond shame.
Featuring: Diana Wark, Jess Andrews

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Season One - Episode 4

Narcissus at the Well

Rev. Tony Snow joins the conversation to reflect on Indigenous leadership, healing, Christian nationalism, political identity, and the search for hope in a world marked by backlash and division. This episode asks what love, resilience, and community can teach us when old systems resist change.
Featuring: Rev. Tony Snow

Season One - Episode 3

Baptism by Eggnog

What might Christmas still offer in a world of inequality, culture wars, and exhausted goodwill? With Gian-Carlo Carra joining the table, this episode moves through the Nativity, community building, urban design, Dickens, peace on earth, and the possibility of a more human-centred public life.
Featuring: Gian-Carlo Carra

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Season One - Episode 2

Crossing the Styx

Is the world going to hell, or are we learning to name chaos more honestly? Joanne and Ricardo join Bill for a wide-ranging conversation about apocalyptic fear, politics, inflation, war, scarcity, systemic sin, media narratives, and the stubborn hope that keeps planting trees anyway.

Season One - Episode 1

Raging Waters

The pilot episode dives into deconstructing faith: what happens when inherited beliefs no longer hold, and where people find community, justice, and love on the other side. Joanne and Ricardo help launch the conversation with reflections on Christian nationalism, 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion, labour, progressive faith, and the work of rebuilding something more expansive.