Launching July 1, 2025
Pull up a chair. Pour something hot. Listen close.
This summer, something thoughtful stirs in the world of faith and audio. Beginning July 1, 2025, two new podcasts arrive not with fanfare, but with the quiet confidence of friends pulling up beside you, ready to talk about things that matter. Fresh Ground Theology and The Distracted Christian are twin offerings, distinct in tone, united in aim. Together, they seek to bridge the rift between head and heart, between ancient truth and everyday ache.
They don’t shout. They sit with you. They ask questions. They listen. And they believe that honest theology can be as rich as a pour-over at sunrise.
Fresh Ground Theology
In Fresh Ground Theology, theology isn’t dispensed from a pulpit or a platform. It’s passed across the table like a mug still steaming. Hosts Nate and David don’t just talk about Scripture. They dwell in it. They trace its textures, feel its weight, and taste its meaning. Each episode is a slow pour: thick with historical memory, rich with nuance, and grounded in the belief that theology should nourish, not numb.
In the early episodes, the focus is Genesis. Blessing and curse. Dominion and fall. Nate and David explore how divine boundaries can carry mercy, and how the image of God shapes human calling even now. This is theology not as ivory tower, but as living room study with side-trails through Church history, quiet reflections on Hebrew roots, and the occasional detour into coffee brands worth sipping.
By episode five, they pivot into a wry and critical read of The Boniface Option by Andrew Isker. They follow the story of Saint Boniface and Thor’s Oak not for spectacle, but as a lens for talking about boldness in a world that no longer speaks Christian. The critique? The book’s thunder is more political than theological. But in that tension, Nate and David find space for a deeper question: How do we confront a pagan age without becoming combative caricatures of ourselves?
Later episodes steep themselves in the mystery of the Eucharist. This isn’t a surface-level tasting flight of doctrines. It’s a full-bodied exploration of communion as presence, as memory, as participation. Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant views are not flattened, but laid side by side with reverence and curiosity. Even pagan rites are considered not to blur lines, but to highlight the radical nature of the Christian meal: a table where mystery becomes meat and presence pours itself out.
Throughout, Nate and David keep their tone light but respectful, sharp but generous. There’s laughter, yes. But also silence. And in that silence, space for the sacred.
The Distracted Christian
Faith in the Fog. Hope in the Hollow.
Where Fresh Ground Theology stirs the intellect, The Distracted Christian enters the ache.
This podcast whispers rather than teaches. It is part reflection, part lament, part quiet hope woven together by the raw beauty of those who know what it is to wait in the dark. Inspired by The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross, the first season walks with listeners through the hard, holy places where God feels absent and faith becomes something grittier than certainty.
Episodes unfold like candle-lit stories: a mountain vision that haunts, a mental spiral that won’t release, a prayer whispered when language fails. Each installment wades into themes that are rarely spoken aloud in Sunday school like the silence of God that feels like abandonment.
Scripture remains a steady heartbeat throughout: Job’s scraping sorrow, Paul’s thorn, Christ’s lonely night in Gethsemane. These aren’t sermon illustrations. They are companions for the soul that doesn’t know what to say anymore.
“What if your darkest moment isn’t God’s absence,” the host asks, “but His most urgent presence?”
This is not theology for the tidy. It is for the tear-stained and the spiritually short of breath. It doesn’t promise clarity. But it does promise companionship.
Why Two Podcasts? Because the Church Has Two Needs.
The Church is tired. We are over-informed and under-formed. We scroll, we doubt, we strive. Some of us long for roots of deep theology, thick with history. Others simply want to know they’re not losing their minds or their faith.Fresh Ground Theology tends the mind. The Distracted Christian touches the soul. Together, they offer a faith both thoughtful and tender. A faith with calluses and compassion.
Coming July 1, 2025
Where to Listen:
- Apple Podcasts
- Spotify
What You’ll Hear:
- Fresh Ground Theology: long-form theological conversations steeped in sacrament, Scripture, and church tradition.
- The Distracted Christian: narrative reflections for the overwhelmed and the quietly faithful.
Who It’s For:
- The curious and the contemplative.
- The doubting and the diligent.
- The burned-out pastor and the faithful barista.
- Anyone who’s ever whispered, “There has to be more than this.”
So grab your mug. Settle in.
Faith. Depth. Coffee.
We begin July 1.
Fresh Ground Theology 
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