Podcasts

“UUCF shares these resources for exploration, not as an endorsement of every theological position expressed. Together, they reflect the diversity, vitality, and faithful challenge of progressive Christianity today.”

1. Reclaiming My Theology
   Hosted by Brandi Miller, this podcast examines how white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and other systems of oppression have shaped Christian theology. Miller brings intellectual clarity, spiritual depth, and an explicit commitment to reclaiming Christianity from ideas that diminish human dignity. An especially strong fit for UUCF’s anti-racist commitments.

2. Faith for Normal People
   Pete Enns and Jared Byas host accessible conversations about faith, doubt, justice, spiritual practice, and life beyond theological certainty. Guests address such subjects as racism and greed, womanist ethics, Christian nationalism, nonviolent resistance, biblical interpretation, and interreligious understanding.

3. Truth’s Table
   Hosted by Black Christian women Christina Edmondson and Ekemini Uwan, Truth’s Table explores race, gender, politics, culture, and spiritual life through a robust Christian lens. Although its hosts may not adopt the “progressive Christian” label in every respect, the podcast belongs on any anti-racist Christian resource list because it centers Black women’s experiences and theological wisdom rather than treating them as supplements to white progressive Christianity.

4. The Liberation Theology Podcast
   Jesuit priest David Inczauskis offers a clear and substantial introduction to Latin American liberation theology. Episodes examine foundational thinkers, biblical interpretation, Christian responses to poverty and oppression, and the conviction that theology must begin with the experiences and struggles of marginalized people.

5. Homebrewed Christianity
   Tripp Fuller brings theologians, biblical scholars, philosophers, and public intellectuals into lively, often playful conversations. With more than 500 episodes, the program offers an unusually rich exploration of process theology, radical theology, biblical scholarship, religious pluralism, ecological thought, and Christianity after conventional orthodoxy.

6. Inverse Podcast
   Hosted by theologian Drew G. I. Hart and peace activist Jarrod McKenna, Inverse describes itself as a Bible study seeking to “take the Good Book back from the haters.” Its conversations foreground anti-racism, decolonization, nonviolence, Indigenous perspectives, liberation, and the disruptive social vision of Jesus.

7. Queer Theology
   Created by Brian G. Murphy and Shannon T. L. Kearns, this extensive archive approaches Christian scripture, theology, and spiritual practice from unapologetically queer and transgender perspectives. It is especially helpful for LGBTQ+ Christians—and for congregations seeking to move beyond mere inclusion toward receiving queer experience as a source of theological insight. The original podcast concluded after ten years, but its archive remains valuable.

8. The Word in Black and Red
   A leftist and liberationist Bible study podcast that reads scripture as a resource for healing, solidarity, and collective liberation. The hosts place biblical texts in conversation with capitalism, empire, class struggle, anarchism, and contemporary movements for justice. It is one of the more explicitly radical choices on this list.

9. Straight White American Jesus
   Religion professors Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller—both former evangelical ministers—analyze white Christian nationalism and the religious forces shaping authoritarian politics. More cultural and political analysis than devotional podcast, it helps listeners understand how race, masculinity, nationalism, and power became intertwined with American Christianity.

10. The New Evangelicals Podcast
    Hosted by Tim Whitaker, this program features pastors, scholars, activists, and cultural commentators seeking a more inclusive and justice-centered Christianity. It is particularly accessible to listeners disentangling Christian faith from biblical literalism, exclusion of LGBTQ+ people, partisan identity, and Christian nationalism.