Spiritual Misfits Podcast

Is violence ever justified? Are there wars Christians should support? If so, what would the conditions need to be? If not, why not?
In this episode Will and Caro are joined by friend of the pod Becca De Souza and Micah Hurst, pastor at Ashfield Baptist Church, to explore four historic Christian frameworks for thinking about war: from crusades and preventative war through just war theory, biblical nonresistance, and Christian pacifism. Along the way they wrestle with the gap between personal conviction and national policy, what nonviolence actually looks like in practice, and whether a world of mutually assured blessing is possible, instead of the current state of play.

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What is spiritual direction — and could it be what your soul has been looking for?
In this episode, Caro sits down with three trained spiritual directors — Sally Jones, Peter Ellem, and Kym Dixon — for a warm, honest conversation about the ancient practice of spiritual accompaniment. Together they explore what spiritual direction actually is (and isn't), how it differs from therapy or pastoral care, why people seek it out, and what it can offer people navigating faith transitions, religious trauma, or simply a longing for something more. All guests share from their own experience — both as directors and as people who have been directed — and the conversation is rich with hard-won wisdom about the spiritual life.
If you've ever felt like you needed a gentle place to land, this one's for you.
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Will has a new collection of poetry out in the world — 'The Fossil of Us' — and Caro interviews him about the themes it explores. Along the way they discuss grief, masculinity, faith and what it means to be human, with Will reading a few poems as they go.

Get the book here in Australia or on Amazon for international orders.
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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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