In this episode of The Unintentional Heretic, I sit down with Bishop Anne Hodges Copple, a bishop in the Episcopal Church, to explore authority and the role of women in the church. Bishop Anne reminds us that the full dignity, calling, and leadership of women have been present from the beginning, woven through Scripture from Genesis 1 onward, and that the church is still slowly awakening to a truth God has been revealing all along.

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This episode of The Unintentional Heretic explores St. Benedict and the Rule of St. Benedict as one of Christianity’s quiet revolutions, a way of life rooted in listening, prayer, work, humility, stability, hospitality, and shared community. In a culture shaped by speed, noise, anxiety, self expression, and constant distraction, Benedict invites us into a different rhythm, one that forms us slowly into people of deeper presence, peace, and love.

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This episode of The Unintentional Heretic explores the Inquisition as one of the most sobering examples in Christian history of what happens when faith becomes entangled with fear, certainty, institutional power, and coercion. We look at the medieval, Spanish, and Roman Inquisitions and ask how a tradition centered on the mercy and compassion of Jesus could come to justify forced conversions, torture, and even death in the name of protecting truth — and what that history still warns us about today.

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