Slutty Grace | Christian Deconstruction, Universal Salvation, Fear-less Faith
Jeromy Johnson
23 episodes
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What if the most damaging lie we inherited from religion was that we don’t deserve love? In this episode, Jeromy and Religious Trauma Coach Kristi Williams unravel how shame-based theology shaped us, and how grace tells a different story. First, Jeromy unravels the theology that taught us we were born depraved, unworthy, and in need of fixing before love could find us. Through the lens of grace, Jesus’ encounters with the “undeserving,” and the wounds left by shame-based religion, this episod...
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What if the most damaging lie we inherited from religion was that we don’t deserve love? In this episode, Jeromy and Religious Trauma Coach Kristi Williams unravel how shame-based theology shaped us, and how grace tells a different story. First, Jeromy unravels the theology that taught us we were born depraved, unworthy, and in need of fixing before love could find us. Through the lens of grace, Jesus’ encounters with the “undeserving,” and the wounds left by shame-based religion, this episod...
What if the most damaging lie we inherited from religion was that we don’t deserve love? In this episode, Jeromy and Religious Trauma Coach Kristi Williams unravel how shame-based theology shaped us, and how grace tells a different story. First, Jeromy unravels the theology that taught us we were born depraved, unworthy, and in need of fixing before love could find us. Through the lens of grace, Jesus’ encounters with the “undeserving,” and the wounds left by shame-based religion, this episod...
What if the scariest doctrine in Christianity was never true in the first place? In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Benji McNair Scott—theologian, author of Hope in Hell, and one of the most compelling voices challenging the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment. Benji’s journey takes us from his evangelical roots through academic study, historical theology, early-church perspectives, and the breathtaking possibility that God’s love truly has no limits....
Leslie Nease, a former evangelical and Survivor China contestant, opens up about the moment her fear-based faith cracked and the grace that finally brought her home. From Survivor to Heretic is Leslie’s raw, courageous story of what happens when a lifetime of evangelical certainty begins to crack. Her journey didn’t unravel because of scandal—or fame—but because she finally slowed down enough to listen. To Buddhists. To Mormons. To gay flight attendants. To the very people her fear-based fait...
Sometimes the ones who preached grace the loudest are the ones who have to learn it the hardest. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson talks with Steve White, a former pastor and seminary-trained worship leader who lost everything, including his ministry, but found grace waiting in the wreckage. Steve’s story is one of failure, exile, and redemption—proof that God’s love doesn’t stop where religion does. Together they talk about what happens when you’re too human for church, when yo...
We love our sides. Teams, tribes, doctrines, denominations—lines in the sand that give us a sense of belonging, but also someone to fight against. From childhood football games of shirts versus skins to the way churches police communion tables, we learn to divide the world into “us” and “them.” But here’s the scandal of grace: God doesn’t play for our team. In Jesus, God kept crossing the lines we defend—eating with sinners, healing enemies, and telling stories where outsiders were the heroes...
Sometimes losing your religion is how you finally find your soul. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Michael Camp—former missionary, Bible teacher, and author of Faith Funk: How to Break Free from Toxic Religion and Reboot a Healthy Spirituality. Michael’s story is a roadmap for anyone leaving fear-based faith behind. Together they talk about deconstruction as discovery—what it means to question the beliefs that broke you, to heal from the shame that shaped you, an...
From war zones to church pews, Bob found one truth: grace never stops reaching. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Bob Hildreth—a pastor, storyteller, and spiritual wanderer who’s walked with both the holy and the hurting. Bob shares his story of religious trauma, healing, and the surprising discovery that grace is far bigger—and far messier—than he was ever told. Together they talk about the difference between a transactional God and a transformative one, how fe...
What if hell isn’t God’s punishment—but our protest? In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson asks whether hell might simply be the porch outside the party—the place where the “good” and the religious stand, too offended by mercy to step into grace. Through the story of the prodigal son’s older brother, and other moments when Jesus flipped religious expectations, Jeromy explores what happens when divine love feels too inclusive. It’s a raw reflection on Christian deconstruction, faith ...
How do you raise children with love when you were raised with fear? In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson talks with Nadyia Horning—a mother, advocate, and survivor of fundamentalist religion—about what it means to break the generational chains of fear and raise children with love instead of control. Nadyia shares her story of growing up in an Independent Fundamental Baptist home marked by performance, punishment, and perfectionism—and how she’s rewriting that story through ge...
Can a good God condemn forever? Can love and justice truly coexist? And if the Gospel is good news, shouldn’t it be good for everyone? In Part 2 of Evangelicalism vs. Universalism, Jeromy and David Artman dive head-on into the debate: hell, judgment, free will, and the moral logic of universal salvation. It’s a passionate, respectful clash between evangelical theology and the expanding hope of Christian universalism—a faith that insists every knee will bow, every heart will heal, and love wil...
What if everything we were taught about hell was wrong—or at least incomplete? What if judgment wasn’t about eternal torment, but transformation? And what if grace is bigger, wider, and wilder than any of our doctrines can hold? In this first part of a two-episode conversation, Jeromy sits down with David Artman, author of Grace Saves All and host of the Grace Saves All Podcast, to explore how he came to believe in Christian universalism—the hope that God’s love will, one day, restore everyth...
If God’s love truly includes everyone, what does that say about how we live, forgive, and belong? In this conversation, Jeromy Johnson and Pastor Chris Jorgensen step into the deep waters of progressive Christianity and Christian universalism—the belief that divine love leaves no one out. Together they wrestle with fear, faith, justice, and the mystery of divine abundance—why grace feels unfair to those who think they’ve earned it, and liberating to those who know they can’t. Because maybe Go...
What if you lived your whole life in one room, with only one window to the world? That limited view would become your entire reality—until one day, the door opened, and you discovered more rooms, more windows, more perspectives than you ever imagined. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson shares a story of discovery—an analogy for the Christian journey, where each tradition, each perspective, and each expression of faith reveals more of God’s truth. Together, they form a fulle...
In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Jacob Kendall—a scholar with backgrounds in theology, social work, public health, and gerontology, as well as an entrepreneur and survivor of two open-heart surgeries. Jacob’s journey is deeply interdisciplinary, blending science, faith, and lived experience to confront some of life’s biggest questions: What does it mean to age with dignity? How do we dismantle ageism in a culture that worships youth? And what does grace hav...
Have you ever felt like faith and religion was just… exhausting? Like you were carrying the weight of everyone else’s soul? Managing their beliefs, and your own? Living under endless rules and shoulds that always seemed to shift? In this episode, Jeromy Johnson shares how evangelicalism left him spiritually tired—like sleep apnea for the soul. And how discovering the scandalous generosity of God’s grace became like oxygen: steady, freeing, life-giving. This is a story about trading exhaustion...
Today, Jeromy welcomes a guest who feels less like an interview and more like a reunion. Jonathan Brink and Jeromy have known each other for decades—they’ve asked the dangerous questions together, laughed hard, wept at communion tables, and wrestled with a God who never seems to fit inside our boxes. Jonathan’s journey has taken him through deep wounds, psychedelic awakenings, theological deconstruction, and a relentless pursuit of what grace actually means when it collides with real life. He...
Belief is never neat. It is both anchor and sail, holding us steady, yet carrying us into uncharted waters. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy lays down his flag, not with arrogance, but with humility, on one central conviction: God’s love and grace are for all. From wrestling with our human limitations, to reimagining forgiveness as God’s gift (not our trigger), to rejecting the picture of an eternal hell of torment—Jeromy invites listeners into a hope-filled vision of a God whose mercy...
A bonus episode, this is my raw, initial thoughts and reactions to the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Does God give his love and grace to Charlie? What about the person who pulled the trigger? This puts the radical, expansive, universal, untamed grace of God to the test. This is when it counts. If not now and to these two people, then when? Send us a text—We’d love to keep the conversation going. _______________________________________________________ Grace doesn’t hold back. She breaks the...
We’ve been told the story starts with perfection—paradise lost in a single catastrophic moment. But what if that’s not how it happened? In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy revisits the opening pages of Genesis and the story of “The Fall.” Instead of a flawless world shattered by sin, we’ll explore a different picture: creation as good, but never perfect. Humanity’s choices—ours and theirs—have shaped the world not through one great fall, but through generations of ripples. And in the midd...
This week’s episode is different. No studio, no script—just Jeromy, sitting in his car between appointments, hitting record, and speaking honestly about one of the heaviest doctrines he grew up with: hell. Not the cartoon fire and pitchforks, but the teaching that most of humanity will be tortured forever. For years he felt like he wasn’t even allowed to question it. But the truth is, many of us wonder: Does this make sense? Is this love? Is this even God? Naming the absurdity might be the fi...
Slutty Grace | Christian Deconstruction, Universal Salvation, Fear-less Faith
What if the most damaging lie we inherited from religion was that we don’t deserve love? In this episode, Jeromy and Religious Trauma Coach Kristi Williams unravel how shame-based theology shaped us, and how grace tells a different story. First, Jeromy unravels the theology that taught us we were born depraved, unworthy, and in need of fixing before love could find us. Through the lens of grace, Jesus’ encounters with the “undeserving,” and the wounds left by shame-based religion, this episod...
