From Believing to Being…. a new podcast

Happy 2022! To kick off the new year, I wanted to share a new endeavor with you….

I’m excited to announce the official launch of From Believing to Being, a podcast about pursuing meaningful spirituality after faith deconstruction.

The show is available directly at https://anchor.fm/from-believing-to-being/, or via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

I’m joined by my co-host, Dave Navartil of the blog and website Pondering Elephant. Early in 2021, we connected in a group called ‘Exvangelical but Still Christian’. After learning we were both bloggers seeking to navigate this post-Evangelical spirituality, we struck up an ongoing conversation about insights from books we were reading, podcasts we were listening to, and various other resources. We realized that we shared many spiritual experiences and perspectives in common – most notably having both encountered mystical experiences in 2019 and both being drawn to mystical spirituality and philosophy through teachers like Richard Rohr, Eckhart Tolle, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Sam Harris, Alan Watts, Mooji, and Rupert Spira.

Through our conversations in this podcast, we explore general themes like faith deconstruction, Christianity, mysticism, enlightenment, consciousness, and many more. Our initial conversations center around questions and concepts like, “who am I?”, “what is presence?”, “what does this faith transition look like?”, “what are spiritual paths and are they necessary?” etc.

Overall, we have no set objective with this podcast – just a continual and evolving dialogue around our experiences, successes, struggles, and everything we’re learning along the way.

This has been a really fun way to continue exploring spirituality and personal growth and my hope is that you will feel like you are part of the conversation as well. Sometimes it helps to talk these things out and have a safe space to discuss new interesting ideas and process some of the challenges or experiences you’ve had. We hope that you will email us at Frombelievingtobeing{at}gmail.com and let us know if the topics resonate with you or what you’d like us to cover.

It’s not a podcast discussing religious trauma or ragging on the church or anything like that – we both honor and respect our christian backgrounds and can see more and more how that faith continues to play a role in our lives.

If you’ve left your faith, have doubts, or are simply feeling pulled into a deeper way of being, we hope that this podcast will encourage and inspire you, and reassure you that you are not alone on this journey.