jonathan_foster | 👉🏻jonathan_foster | Substack

Best Substack Introduction Ever

eight things and my substack rhythm

Feb 11, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Open and Relational Theology

57:11

Prayer and Geese with Gayle Hansen, Brown,

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

May 7 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Tori E. Owens, and Gayle Hansen Browne

I Don't Know How to Pray Anymore and You Can Too

✛Upcoming Stuff

Mar 21 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Natural is the New Supernatural: Finding God's Love in Orwell's 1984

What happens when Psalm 23's 'goodness and mercy' show up in Big Brother's world

Jan 13 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Movement is Truth and Truth is Love

When Theology Refuses Reality

Dec 9, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Mimetic Theory

Five Reasons Why Mimetic Theory Might be So Popular with the Right

On intellectual inferiority, cancel culture, and the myth of redemptive sacrifice

Oct 24, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Hidden in Plain Sight: Five Biblical Passages That Reframe LGBTQ+ Acceptance

when being biblical means welcoming rather than condemning

Apr 22, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

The Three Ways Mimetic Theory Helps Me

explaining rené girard's revolutionary framework, why it helps me, and what it might mean for all of of us

Apr 8, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Bringing Mimetic Theory and Open and Relational Theology Together

with bite-sized definitions of both ideas for easy digestion

Mar 25, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Grief

I Don't Know How to Pray Anymore and You Can Too

✛Upcoming Stuff

Mar 21 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Longest Night of the Year

Dec 22, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

1:05:43

grief in the color of holiday

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

Dec 3, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Dina Bell-Laroche, and Leslie Hunt Palumbo

1:01:12

With Paul Young (The Shack)

Well, my apologies to those who were logging on to the Substack Live right at about the time we decided to do something different.

May 30, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster

Podcast

57:11

Prayer and Geese with Gayle Hansen, Brown,

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

May 7 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Tori E. Owens, and Gayle Hansen Browne

1:16:56

Meaning Making in a World that just Might be Meaningless

Loved this conversation with Josh and Jim about meaning, meaning-making, (the meaninglessness of me trying to make meaning!), love, Jesus, christian…

Mar 23 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Jim Palmer, and (Re)thinking Faith

41:49

At the Intersection of Ecology and Justice with Grace Ji-Sun Kim

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Mar 12 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Grace Ji-Sun Kim, and Tori E. Owens

56:56

Of pastors and prophets with Josh Scott

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Jan 15 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Tori E. Owens, and Josh Scott

55:56

A Hell Bent Conversation with Brian Recker

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Oct 31, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Brian Recker, and Tori E. Owens

59:40

A Pathological Conversation with Sarah Fay

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Sep 19, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Sarah Fay, and Tori E. Owens

55:17

Eat the Dirt with Heather Hamilton-No, Really, Do it

A recording from 👉🏻jonathan_foster's live video

Sep 17, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Heather Hamilton, and Tori E. Owens

1:00:37

Macro Conversation bout the Microbiome with John Pohl

I had a great time talking with pediatric gastrointestinal theologian John Pohl about what the microbiome might say about metaphysics (and metaphysics…

Aug 8, 2025 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster and John Pohl

Recent posts

Renewing theological imagination with Steve Watson

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Jun 18 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Tori E. Owens, and Steve Watson

59:13

Transitions with Tracy Tucker

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Jun 11 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Tracy Tucker, and Tori E. Owens

1:00:50

The fullness of life with a Rev. Dr. Erin Edwards

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Jun 4 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Erin Edwards, and Tori E. Owens

52:20

pre-TBC with Tom Oord

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May 26 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Thomas Jay Oord, and Matthew David Segall

23:07

resistance and the empire with Kat Armas

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May 21 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster, Tori E. Owens, and Kat Armas

53:44

Notes in the Middle of Becoming

In the middle of becoming, someone wrote me a series of notes …

May 19 • 👉🏻jonathan_foster