Season 6 Episode 1: How is it with the soul of Central Appalachia? (00:42:53)
Live from the 2025 Wild Goose Festival, we kick off Season 6 as Joe sits down with Rev. Brad Davis of From Below: Rising Together for Coalfield Justice to ask the question "How is it with your soul?" ...
Season 5 Episode 10: Spilling the Black Girl Tea Part 4 - Spaces and Places (01:11:20)
“Spilling the Black Girl Tea: Unfiltered Stories from the Heart of Appalachia” is a multimedia project built on the fundamental belief that the people who are the least heard have the most important t...
Season 5 Episode 9: Spilling the Black Girl Tea Part 3 - Health and Healers (00:35:29)
“Spilling the Black Girl Tea: Unfiltered Stories from the Heart of Appalachia” is a multimedia project built on the fundamental belief that the people who are the least heard have the most important t...
Season 5 Episode 8: Spilling the Black Girl Tea Part 2: Girls and Curls (01:16:55)
“Spilling the Black Girl Tea: Unfiltered Stories from the Heart of Appalachia” is a multimedia project built on the fundamental belief that the people who are the least heard have the most important t...
Episode 99: Spilling the Black Girl Tea Part 1 - Learning and Leading (01:22:31)
“Spilling the Black Girl Tea: Unfiltered Stories from the Heart of Appalachia” is a multimedia project built on the fundamental belief that the people who are the least heard have the most important t...
Season 5 Episode 6: Wild Goose '24: The West Virginia Water Crisis in Theological Perspective (00:48:29)
Joe talks with Brad Davis and Josh Scott about how colonialist interpretations of the Bible have helped contribute to the social, economic, political, and spiritual exploitation of Central Appalachia,...
Season 5 Episode 5: A renewed focus on justice for WV United Methodists (00:40:02)
Fresh off the 2024 Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church in West Virginia, Heather and Joe take a look at two resolutions that signal a renewed focus on social justice for the denomination ...
Season 5 Episode 4: Water Crisis in Southern West Virginia (00:58:52)
In one of the historically poorest communities in America, thousands of people are going without clean tap water in their homes. And while cities like Flint, MI, and Jackson, MS, deservedly grab natio...
Season 5 Episode 3: Decolonizing Tourism with Caitlin Ware (01:02:00)
We don't often think about tourism as a justice issue, but the displacement of families and communities to provide a more favorable user experience in tourist locations is a very real concern in place...
Season 5 Episode 2: The changing shape of deconstruction (00:54:48)
How is spiritual deconstruction like a lasagna? Is reconstruction a necessary result of deconstruction? Heather Moore and Joe Webb unpack these questions and more in Heather's debut as our new co-host...
Season 5 Episode 1: Deconstructing Grief (00:17:00)
What does grief look like in the midst of spiritual/religious deconstruction? When your beliefs change, what do you hold on in the midst of loss? In the first episode of our 5th season, Joe talks open...
Season 4 Episode 17: Deconstructing Salvation (00:17:25)
Is salvation merely about life after death? Or is there a more immediate, more holistic way of seeing salvation through the lens of liberation? In this episode, Joe riffs on how understanding salvatio...
Season 4 Episode 16: Psychedelic Theology with Kaleb Graves (00:52:30)
As science continues to learn more about psychedelic substances and their use becomes more mainstream for both recreational and therapeutic applications, what do the church and faith leaders need to k...
Season 4 Episode 15: Live at the Wild Goose with Josh Scott (00:44:07)
Recorded live at the Wild Goose Festival on July 15, 2023, Joe talks with return guest Josh Scott about the Bible, progressive Christianity, Appalachian resistance, and West Virginia craft whiskey.
Season 4 Episode 14: Deconstructing Evangelism Part 2 - Decentralizing the Institutional Church (00:21:58)
Is progressive Christianity really gaining momentum? Is there hope for institutional mainline denominations? In this episode Joe takes a second crack at deconstructing evangelistic paradigms in favor ...
Season 4 Episode 13: Rev. Alba Onofrio (a.k.a. Reverend Sex) (01:01:54)
In this episode guest hosts Jenny Williams and Krysta Rexrode Wolfe talk with Rev. Alba Onofrio (they/them), a.k.a. “Reverend Sex” about queerness, activism, healing from spiritual violence, the good ...
Season 4 Episode 12: Where love is absent, God is absent (Bonus Episode) (00:41:40)
If God is love, can God exist where love is absent? In this bonus podcast episode, co-hosts Joe Webb and Brad Davis break down Brad's latest blog post, taken from a Maundy Thursday reflection he wrote...
Season 4 Episode 11: Bible Stories for Grownups with Josh Scott (00:48:25)
We're excited to welcome Josh Scott back to Accidental Tomatoes to talk about his new book, Bible Stories for Grownups, which drops in early April 2023. In this episode, Josh and Joe talk about the im...
Season 4 Episode 10: Deconstructing Evangelism (00:15:28)
Do Christians really have a biblical mandate to convert other people to Christianity? Or should our evangelism have less to do with recruitment than with awakening people to Jesus' alternative worldvi...
Season 4 Episode 9: Corey Turnpenny - Church In The Wild (00:57:33)
For this episode we literally go outside the walls as Joe and Brad chat with Rev. Corey Turnpenny, pastor of Church In The Wild in Windsor, NY. Corey talks about how Church in the Wild came to be, how...
Season 4 Episode 8: I can do all things through a verse taken out of context (00:19:36)
Are you tired of the kind of bumper sticker theology where people throw random Bible verses out in almost every conversation? In this episode, Joe takes on a few of his favorite decontextualized passa...
Season 4 Episode 7: The Brad & Joe Road Show...UMC LEAD Edition (00:31:27)
What kinds of things are innovative United Methodist leaders doing to create more inclusive, justice-oriented, liberation-minded spaces? Joe and Brad discuss their impressions from the recent UMC LEAD...
Season 4 Episode 6: Making music with Daniel Couper (00:52:21)
Singer-songwriter and high school English teacher Daniel Couper joins Joe and Jenny for a conversation about helping high school students record and produce their own album, the joys of creative colla...
Season 4 Episode 5: Have Yourself A Snarky Little Christmas 2.0 (00:32:53)
The Accidental Tomatoes content team revisits one of our favorite episodes from season 3 with an all-new list of grievances about the holiday season. From Hallmark Christmas movies to light displays t...
Season 4 Episode 4: Tom Oord on Open and Relational Theology (00:44:56)
Theologian, author, and speaker Dr. Tom Oord joins Joe for a conversation about Open and Relational Theology, why it's attractive to people experiencing spiritual and religious deconstruction, and wha...
