Spiritual Misfits Podcast

What do you do with your faith after crisis — when the casseroles have stopped coming, people have moved on, and you're left in a strange in-between space between who you were and who you are becoming?
Adriel Booker is an author, writer and dual Australian-American citizen whose latest book, Tethered to Hope, grew out of exactly that kind of liminal season — a succession of pregnancy losses, a move from Sydney to South Australia, leaving full-time ministry after 22 years, and a dark night of the soul she wrote through rather than out of. 
In this conversation, Caro and Will sit down with Adriel to explore what it means to be held when you can't feel it, why the shift from believing to beloving matters more than we think, and how we learn to inhabit our bodies and our faith when both feel unfamiliar.
Note: Will needed to (reluctantly!) leave part-way through this interview, in case you notice his absence towards the end. 
Tethered to Hope is available wherever you buy books. 
Find Adriel at adrielbooker.com.
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Does God actually have a specific plan for your life? This is the inaugural Spiritual Misfits 'roundtable', and Will is joined by three friends of the pod — Caro, Mitch, and Becca — to wrestle with a question that came straight from the listener Facebook group. It's one of those topics that can land very personally for many of us: how much of the inertia, anxiety, and lost time that people carry came from being told to wait for divine direction that never came?
The conversation moves through inherited frameworks, purity culture's meticulous God, the gendered politics of who gets the prophecy, and whether the whole question needs reframing — from what is God's will for my life to what is God doing among us, and how do we join in.
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What does AI reveal about where we've located our sense of worth? Graham Hill — theologian, and author of more than 30 books, including his recent release Born, Not Built: God's Children in an Age of AI— joins Will to explore what Christian faith has to say about human dignity in an age of intelligent machines.
They discuss the 'Imago Dei', the difference between truth and plausibility, transhumanism as a contemporary Babel story, and what it looks like practically to raise kids and build communities with wisdom right now.
Get Graham's new book discusses in this episode: Born, Not Built

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After 200+ Spiritual Misfit episodes, Will sits down with long-time friend of the podcast (and new co-host!) Caro Meers to look backwards — and forwards. How did Spiritual Misfits begin? What's kept it going? And what does the next chapter look like with Caro on board? A conversation about community, curiosity, and why this little Australian podcast keeps finding people who need it.
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This conversation with Sally Longley was first published in October, 2024. We're bringing it back because it feels timely and relevant. 
In a world that is loud, violent, and relentless, Sally Longley offers something quietly radical — a way of being present to the chaos without being consumed by it. We talk about Sally's commitment to nonviolence forged in apartheid-era South Africa, the transformative power of silence, Ignatian spirituality, deep listening, and what it might mean to build communities where people can come exactly as they are. 
Connect with Sally's work at longley.com.au
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