# Untidy Faith Transforming faith after fracture The Untidy Faith podcast is where we have honest conversations and gentle encouragement for when following Jesus gets messy. Join your host, Kate Boyd - author, speaker, and gentle guide for Christians who are disentangling their faith from culture, rebuilding their relationship with Scripture, and desiring to find joy in following Jesus again - each week to find your life and faith after deconstruction. kateboyd.substack.com Page: Feed: --- ## [Kristel Acevedo | Atonement Beyond Transaction](https://kateboyd.substack.com/p/kristel-acevedo-atonement-beyond) _2026-08-11 · Kate Boyd and Kristel Acevedo_ In this episode of the Untidy Faith Podcast, I sit down with Kristel Acevedo, author of Liberated at the Cross , for a conversation about what we lose when the cross gets flattened into a single transaction—and why a theology that has been used to justify suffering, silence, and submission might actually be the one that sets us free. Topics Covered \* Why picking one atonement theory and calling… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210661325/86a7b3017a2265a1a76c4b473dbe9a79.mp3) ## [God is a Mother Too | Elizabeth Berget](https://kateboyd.substack.com/p/god-is-a-mother-too-elizabeth-berget) _2026-05-12 · Kate Boyd and Elizabeth Berget_ In this episode of the Untidy Faith Podcast, I sit down with Elizabeth Berget, author of Love Like a Mother , for a conversation about what happens when we take maternal metaphors for God as seriously as paternal ones—and why the church’s exclusion of feminine language for God isn’t just theologically incomplete but leaves women spiritually homeless in motherhood. Topics Covered \* What gets… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196817197/a1c78e3a0bf0f9cb920846f83c179c2e.mp3) ## [Celeste Irwin | Trans and Christian](https://kateboyd.substack.com/p/celeste-irwin-trans-and-christian) _2026-04-23 · Kate Boyd and Celeste Irwin_ In this episode of the Untidy Faith Podcast, I sit down with Celeste Irwin for an honest conversation about what it’s like to be trans in Christian spaces—from childhood shame over “transy thoughts” with no language for them, to losing every friend when coming out, to discovering that transition feels like being literally raised to life. Celeste Irwin is a transgender, lesbian woman and a survivor… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195056143/54e563223d153a69d16d582bccfc1e0f.mp3) ## [Alisha Roth | Christians and Divorce](https://kateboyd.substack.com/p/alisha-roth-christians-and-divorce) _2026-03-31 · Kate Boyd and Alisha Roth_ Join me and Alisha Roth for a honest conversation about what it takes to leave a marriage when you’ve done everything “right”—the Christian college, the missionary training, the four daughters—and why the church’s fear and control around divorce leaves women trapped in unsafe situations. Topics Covered \* The question that changed everything and why the answer unlocked self-love Alisha couldn’t… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192661893/e681111cd462a1a8172097a237b16dd6.mp3) ## [Why is Christian Art so Bad? | I Read Something Bad](https://kateboyd.substack.com/p/why-is-christian-art-so-bad-i-read) _2026-03-17 · Kate Boyd_ Join us for this podcast crossover episode! I’m bringing you our I Read Something Bad discussion about bad Christian art. If you’re into spicy fantasy books and spiritual formation, check out I Read Something Bad Podcast biweekly! Today your Matron Saints of Spice are tackling the ever-controversial question of why so much Christian art feels thin, didactic, and aesthetically weak—and just plain… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190836527/8a9e4f9e703b8c91a498c2b8e23f3100.mp3) ## [Matt Matson | Practicing vs Performing](https://kateboyd.substack.com/p/matt-matson-practicing-vs-performing) _2026-03-03 · Kate Boyd and Matt Mattson | BETWEEN_ In this episode … Topics Covered \* Understanding the difference between performance and presence \* How busyness and transactional living keeps us from noticing sacredness, but the deeper barrier is internal fear—not of other people but of what we might reveal if we stopped performing and showed up authentic \* Why conversation as sacrament doesn’t mean using Christianese or performing religiosity,… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189385671/8464bcd8c8ac0f9fadc3d2c8b8fef919.mp3) ## [Shannan Martin | Balancing the World's Heaviness](https://kateboyd.substack.com/p/shannan-martin-balancing-the-worlds) _2026-02-17 · Kate Boyd and Shannan Martin_ In this episode of the Untidy Faith Podcast, I sit down with Shannan Martin, author of Counterweights , for a grounding conversation about how her dad’s blue-collar farm wisdom—”carry something equally heavy in the other hand”—became a daily practice for staying upright in a world that feels increasingly overwhelming. Rather than focusing on “toxic positivity” or the “count your blessings” mantra,… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/188299823/2b1f9b475dcb5dea1cf64800000c3f15.mp3) ## [Joash Thomas | Colonized Christianity](https://kateboyd.substack.com/p/joash-thomas-colonized-christianity) _2026-02-03 · Kate Boyd and Fr. Joash P. Thomas_ In this episode of the Untidy Faith Podcast, I sit down with Joash Thomas, author of The Justice of Jesus , for a conversation about how colonization shaped Western Christianity to resist justice, and what recovering our authentic identities—indigenous, spiritual, and human—has to do with embodying the gospel Jesus actually preached. The Western church’s complicity in colonization didn’t just harm… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186751862/7a20b445de565420f4b76c48f1589fa9.mp3) ## [Marissa Burt & Kelsey Kramer McGinnis | The Parenting Prosperity Gospel](https://kateboyd.substack.com/p/marissa-burt-and-kelsey-kramer-mcginnis) _2026-01-20 · Kate Boyd, Marissa Franks Burt, and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis_ In this episode, I sit down with Marissa Burt and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis, authors of The Myth of Good Christian Parenting , for a sobering conversation about how the Christian parenting industry sold families impossible promises wrapped in biblical authority. Critiquing parenting books is important, but we also need to recognize how movements born from 1970s political fears, biblical counseling… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/184361828/ec97f641d569af6de2abdf8433ca3381.mp3) ## [Daily plans, scheduled by AI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aeJEhAAgbbFr) _2026-01-20 · **Sponsored**_ AI-made daily plans that schedule tasks and protect focus time. ## [Zach Lambert | Rehabbing your relationship with the Bible](https://kateboyd.substack.com/p/zach-lambert-rehabbing-your-relationship) _2026-01-06 · Kate Boyd and Zach W. Lambert_ In this episode, I sit down with Zach Lambert, author of Better Ways to Read the Bible , for an honest conversation about how to read the Bible in ways that bring life instead of harm. This isn’t just about finding better interpretations—it’s about recognizing how literalism, apocalypticism, moralism, and hierarchy have damaged real people, and learning to read Scripture through lenses that center… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/183603280/8485ee7e839a2c4ad2755f76e09bc1f7.mp3)