Holy Heretics

We welcome the real Dr Phil back to the Holy Heretics podcast to talk about not just crossing the bridge but helping to build the new world. www.phillipnikao.com   Recognized as a Passionate Voice of Oneness, Reason, and Relevance, Dr. Nikao is blazing new trails in the vast world of business, success, psychology, and science-based spirituality. In his raw and compelling style, he has evolved from the corporate desk to entrepreneur, from institutionalized religion to transformational practicality, from following the crowd to leading it. Dr. Nikao believes that within every person is a spark of genius, creativity, and passion. His pursuit in life is laser focused on connecting people to that spark in consciousness and manifest reality. Along the way, he has discovered that the conventional systems of change and growth are often severely lacking, and mediocre at best. So Dr. Nikao has taken the road less traveled, often at great personal sacrifice, to help pave the high road of empowered living,impactful prosperity, and authentic success. Growing up in an Amish home set the stage for Dr. Nikao’s life-journey, experiencing early in life the difficulty and pain of “breaking out”, yet the reward and joy of life transformation. With Degrees in both religion and neuroscience, and his Doctorate in Psychology, Dr. Nikao continues to lead and study from a perspective of finding practical solutions to life’s complexity. His passion for life-transformation quickly led to public speaking early in life, which in turn brought Nikao face-to-face with the incredible need for personal life-coaching, a real and touchable process that brings practicality to information. In 1999, Dr. Nikao developed and implemented a highly successful Life Coaching team, and yet again, built bridges between the mass audiences in his public speaking career with the personalization of life-coaching. In his journey, he has spoken before thousands, even sharing the stage with leaders like Zig Ziglar, Rudolph Guliani, and Margaret Thatcher. He has traveled to other countries, spoken and lectured in high schools and colleges, and is a confidant to business and spiritual leaders across the country.   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe!    

We talk with Adam about his journey and how he's still an evangelical pastor with a desire to grow past what the church at large has become. This is a great talk y'all!     CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe!

While my personal life is between me, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, here are some highlights from my professional life: I was born on April 26, 1951 and circumcised eight days later. (OK, that was personal.) I earned rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in 1981, and a PH.D. in religion from Union Graduate School in 1985. Over the past forty years I’ve been a USAF chaplain, a congregational rabbi, a business consultant, a university professor, and an author of three dozen books on religion and spirituality. In 2010 I was initiated into the Ramakrishna Order of Vedanta Hinduism by Swami Swahananda, and became a 32° Scottish Rite Mason (KCCH). Several years later I founded the Order of the Holy Rascal, and joined another secret society, The Grand Lodge of All Beings. I currently co-direct the One River Foundation (oneriverfoundation.org), write the “Roadside Assistance for the Spiritual Traveler” column for Spirituality & Health Magazine and host the magazine’s podcast “Essential Conversations with Rabbi Rami (spiritualityhealth.com). And through it all I have wrestled with my addiction to food. (Ah, again with the personal. http://www.rabbirami.com/ twitter.com/rabbirami   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe

Today we're to my personal Dr and how he sees the world as a gay professional man and a Christian Mystic.     Connect with our partners at www.wildfoods.co     CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscrib

We welcome Lauren Burba (The Church Witch) back to our show today to talk about planets, stars, Jupiter, and Mars. Oh yeah and.... Witch Craft as well as modern paganism. What it is and what it isn't.   www.facebook.com/thechurchwitc www.themysticandmundane.com/my-stor www.instagram.com/thechurchwitch www.themysticandmundane.com   Check out our friends at www.wildfoods.co   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscrib

We welcome Rev Diaz to our show to talk about her life in a Mega Church family and her own personal journey, crisis of faith, deconstruction of her faith, and how she got out into a wide open spiritual life. You can connect with and her ministry by going to http://mytruthsanctuary.com/   Connect with our partners at www.wildfoods.co     CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscrib

Tony Jones is the author of Did God Kill Jesus? Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution, is theologian-in-residence at Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis, and teaches theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Tony serves as a senior acquisitions editor at Fortress Press, curating the Theology for the People line of books. He’s developed an iPhone app called Ordain Thyself. Tony is the author of many books on Christian ministry and spirituality, including The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier and The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life, and he is a sought after speaker and consultant in the areas of emerging church, postmodernism, and Christian spirituality. Tony served as a pastor and non-profit executive for two decades before earning his Ph.D. in practical theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. He also holds degrees from Dartmouth College (A.B.) and Fuller Theological Seminary (M.Div.). His work has been awarded grants from the Lilly Endowment and the Templeton Foundation. He co-owns an event planning company and produces several leadership conferences each year. Tony is married, has three children, and lives in Edina, Minnesota. In his spare time, he trains his yellow lab, Albert, and takes Albert hunting for ducks, grouse, and pheasants. http://tonyj.net/#sthash.fMgjiKRw.dpbs   https://www.wildfoods.co     CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe    

We have Father Bob Fabey on the show today to talk the struggling artist from centuries ago. JESUS!! He's the author of the book "Not My Jesus" (Embracing our sacred role in a changing world.) When not practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, traveling, or having coffee with his wife; Bob loves to speak about Dignity in keynotes, conferences, workshops and retreats. He draws upon 20 years of experience with a variety of organizations working with teams and leaders to increase effectiveness. www.bobfabey.com   This pod is brought to you in part by www.wildfood.co Go check out their real wild food products.   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS    DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscrib

We welcome our friend Craig Hostetler from The Black Sheep Experience Podcast to the show to chat about our journey from Fundy Evangelical Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity to finding peace in allot of Eastern thought. We're talking Tao and Zen and how these practices have helped us find deep inner peace and healing. All kinds of great heretical talk.   Also Connect with our friends at Wild Food by going to www.wildfood.co   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscrib    

We are back for SEASON 4!!! Boom!! and we have our friend and Queer Activist Theologian Dr Robyn Espinoza with us. Dr Robyn is Visiting Professor | Duke Divinity School, Durham North Carolina Visiting Scholar | Vanderbilt University Divinity School Activist Theology Project | Founder Currently located in Nashville, TN We are talking about what it means to truly be an activist and sharing in Dr Robyn's background that informs the passion for activist theology. https://irobyn.com/ http://activistheology.co   This Pod is brought to you in part by www.wildfoods.co   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe  

We're getting extra wild with the wild man himself! Spiritual Teacher, Coach, and Author Rainier Wylde, MA is a teacher, coach, podcaster, and author who creates the conditions for deep change in peoples lives. He has studied under leading Western psychologists, Eastern mystics, and contemplative teachers. He lived for over a decade in intentional proximity community, took monastic vows, traveled the world searching for ascended masters, earned a graduate degree in Community Counseling, worked as a clinical psychotherapist with chronically suicidal and self-harming clients, a spiritual director, taught grad school in eco-therapy and evolutionary psychology, and has been certified in CBT life coaching and am a certified vocational specialist. Rainier has co-authored several books, have been published in professional journals around the effects of civilization, spirituality, ecology and men’s issues. He and his partner live in the Cascadia Bio-Region with their four children and two dogs.   https://rewilder.net/   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe

We're talking with a Sociologist of religion about religion and the rise of the nones. Tricia C. Bruce, Ph.D. is a sociologist of religion and award-winning author of Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Faithful Revolution: How Voice of the Faithful Is Changing the Church (Oxford University Press, 2011/2014). She is coeditor of Polarization in the US Catholic Church (Liturgical Press, 2016) and American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism (Fordham University Press, 2019). Tricia holds an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a BA in sociology and communication from Southwestern University. She is an affiliate of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion and Society as well as adjunct research associate professor of sociology with the University of Texas at San Antonio. Previous appointments include tenured associate professor of sociology at Maryville College and research assistant professor with Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA). Tricia has conducted applied research for clients including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and is a frequent television, radio, podcast, and print media commentator on social issues. Her work explores the sociological dimensions of religion, Catholicism, organizations, social change, congregations, immigration, race, cities, social movements, and more. She resides in Knoxville, Tennessee, where you’ll find her singing, playing guitar or mandolin, in barre class, drinking a vanilla latte, walking the town with Brandon, or building legos and making slime with her 7- and 9-year-old.   https://triciabruce.com/ @TriciaCBruce on twitter   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe

We welcome author, teacher, professor, and Episcopal priest Barbara Brown Taylor to our heretical show today. Barbara Brown Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author, teacher, and Episcopal priest. Her first memoir, Leaving Church (2006), won an Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association. Her last book, Learning to Walk in the Dark (2014), was featured on the cover of TIME magazine. She has served on the faculties of Piedmont College, Columbia Theological Seminary, Candler School of Theology at Emory University, McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University, and the Certificate in Theological Studies program at Arrendale State Prison for Women in Alto, Georgia. In 2014 TIME included her on its annual list of Most Influential People; in 2015 she was named Georgia Woman of the Year; in 2016 she received The President’s Medal at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Mercer University and is working on her fourteenth book, Holy Envy, coming from HarperOne in April 2019. Her work has been translated into five languages. https://barbarabrowntaylor.com/   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe

We welcome the Starbucks Pastor, Steve Stone, back to the show to talk about the most recent vote from the General Counsel of the United Methodist church against LGBTQ people serving in their churches. Pastor Steve is a long time friend of the podcast and continues to be a voice for inclusion in our world. This is a great chat and you'll be glad you listened in.   CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe

Today we talk with the creator and host of the grounded presence podcast Daniel Powell. Hi, I'm Daniel Powell, author of: Join me as I explore: Authentic Identity, Deeper Community, & Spiritual Evolution ​ I believe life isn't really lived unless you are in deep community, being the most authentic version of yourself, and connecting to the world in a spiritual way. It sounds peaceful and serene but it's not easy to  pursue these type of deep connections. It is, however, very rewarding and deeply fulfilling. I don't have the answers or a neatly organized 5 step program that will explain how to create and maintain inner,  external, and spiritual connectedness. I simply have a wholistic longing to delve deeper into these spaces.   Through this blog I'll share stories, experiences, and thoughts about: unearthing your most authentic identity, pursuing more depth in community, and the process of spiritual evolution. I do this  in hopes of encouraging those of you that are seeking a similar deep connection to the self and the world. ​ https://www.thegroundedpresence.com/ CONNECT WITH AND SUPPORT THE HOLY HERETICS      DONATE www.patreon.com/holyheretics  FOLLOW THE HOLY HERETICS... www.twitter.com/holyheretics www.instagram.com/theholyheretics Email: theholyheretics@gmail.com   DON'T FORGET... Rate, Review, and Subscribe