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
Flooding the Rink
S2 - Episode 10
A romance on the ice should not feel radical. Using Heated Rivalry as a way into the conversation, this episode explores hockey culture, queer representation, youth sport, faith used as a weapon, anti-trans policy, and what it would take for sport to become a place where people can show up fully, safely, and joyfully.
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Featuring: Justin Connelly, Laura Leyshon, Rev. Linda Hunter
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S2 - Episode 9
Ships in the Night
Loneliness has become a mental health epidemic, and it lies best when it tells us we are the only ones struggling. This conversation moves through burnout, breakups, ministry expectations, third spaces, social media, queer isolation, and the quiet courage of admitting disconnection in a world that keeps asking us to look fine.
Featuring: Laura Istead, Rev. Karen Medland
S2 - Episode 8
Tainted Wellspring
When fear becomes the organizing story of public life, belonging starts to sound like a threat. This conversation moves through nationalism, scapegoating, newcomer experiences, Christian nationalism, Ubuntu, servant leadership, and the courage it takes to build communities that refuse to let fear have the final word.
Featuring: Scott Payne, Francis Boakye
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S2 - Episode 7
Uncharted Bodies
Your body walks with you into every room, including church, the gym, and the mirror moments you didn’t ask for. From body shame and anti-fat bias to fitness culture, disability, accessibility, and theology that splits body from soul, this conversation asks what it would take to build communities where every body is treated as whole.
Featuring: Rev. Vicki McPhee, Geoff Starling, Karen Medland
S2 - Episode 6
Drawn from the Headwaters
Every story carries power: to liberate, distort, divide, or heal. Moving through Scripture, satire, pop culture, political myth-making, land acknowledgments, survivor-led advocacy, and belovedness beyond performance, this conversation asks what it means to tell the truth without turning it into a weapon.
Featuring: Rev. Dr. Dave Holmes, Robin Padanyi, Nick Johnson
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S2 - Episode 5
Shifting Tides
Outrage is easy. Repair is hard. With Rev. Tony Snow at the table, this conversation moves through public shaming, institutional protection, social media pile-ons, Indigenous truth-telling, restorative practice, and the costly work of rebuilding trust.
Featuring: Rev. Tony Snow
S2 - Episode 4
The Long Thaw
A cold December night, a church basement, and a question that still won’t leave us alone: why do Christmas redemption stories keep finding us when the world feels stuck? From Scrooge and the Grinch to grief, accountability, community, and the long work of change, this conversation asks what it means to choose tables over threads and let grace meet us in person.
Featuring: Aaron Navrady, Val Lieske
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S2 - Episode 3
The Water Remembers
Two minutes of silence can’t carry the whole story. This Remembrance conversation wrestles with courage, grief, civilians and veterans, red and white poppies, moral injury, diplomacy, forgiveness, and what it means to remember war honestly enough to choose peace more faithfully.
Featuring: Cpt. Justin McNeill, Dr. Trudy Govier
S2 - Episode 2
Sink or Sin
A homicide detective and an inclusivity activist walk into a conversation about sin, shame, and repair. From Augustine and Dante to purity culture, policing, Christian nationalism, and everyday harm, this episode asks what accountability could look like when empathy leads the way.
Featuring: David Sweet, Pam Rocker
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S2 - Episode 1
Still Waters
What happens when rest stops being treated as a luxury and starts being reclaimed as a birthright? The Season Two premiere takes on burnout culture, sacred rest, housing, labour, self-care slogans, and the deeper question of what human flourishing might require in a world obsessed with productivity.
Featuring: Gian Carlo Carra, Carolyn Krahn
S1 - 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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S1 - 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.
S1 - 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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S1 - 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
S1 - 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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S1 - 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
S1 - 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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S1 - 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
S1 - 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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S1 - 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.
S1 - 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.