Christianity On The Spectrum

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, I talked to Dr Punit Shah an autism researcher and Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of Bath.  Link to Dr Shah's full paper: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-87123-001.html

This podcast is the summation of around 10 years of research into autistic Christian and ex-Christian sub-communities. Covering over 26,000 online autistics with interviews with over 500 Christian and Ex-Christian autistics, this podcast is trying to explain how autistic people interact with Christianity, the good, the bad, and everything in between. You can find Jon on Twitter at @ChristianityOn...

In this episode, Jon is joined by Dr Amy Lutz to discuss her book "Chasing the Intact Mind: How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them the Most" This podcast is the summation of around 10 years of research into autistic Christian and ex-Christian sub-communities. Covering over 26,000 online autistics with interviews with over 500 Christian...

In this episode, Jon is once again joined by Alyssa to discuss the book "Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge" This podcast is the summation of around 10 years of research into autistic Christian and ex-Christian sub-communities. Covering over 26,000 online autistics with interviews with over 500 Christian and Ex-Christian autistics, this podcast is tryi...

Christianity on the Spectrum is a podcast about the intersection of ASD 1 and Christianity. It is the culmination of around 10 years of autism research. In this episode I talk about the Double Empathy Problem, a popular construct used in the social model of disability. I talk about how it works, how it doesn't, the support for it and against it, and how and why it should be used or not.   

This podcast is the summation of around 10 years of research into autistic Christian and ex-Christian sub-communities. Covering over 26,000 online autistics with interviews with over 500 Christian and Ex-Christian autistics, this podcast is trying to explain how autistic people interact with Christianity, the good, the bad, and everything in between. You can find Jon on Twitter at @ChristianityOn...

Christianity on the Spectrum is a podcast about the intersection of ASD 1 and Christianity. It is the culmination of around 10 years of autism research. In this episode we take a look at Freddie deBoer's Critique of the Neurodiversity movement.   Video Freddie put out in response to Daniel Bergner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKB6F_VYuZY Freddie's Substack Articles: https://freddiedeboer.subst...

This podcast is the summation of around 10 years of research into autistic Christian and ex-Christian sub-communities. Covering over 26,000 online autistics with interviews with over 500 Christian and Ex-Christian autistics, this podcast is trying to explain how autistic people interact with Christianity, the good, the bad, and everything in between. You can find Jon on Twitter at @ChristianityOn...

In this episode, Jon and Greg go through all your burning questions that didn't fit into one of the themed episodes. If you have any more questions, feel free to email them to me, ask them in the comments, Twitter or Blue Sky

In this episode, Jon is joined by none other than DL Mayfield of the Strongwilled podcast to talk about authoritarian and its intersection with autism.

Well, people wanted me to talk about this for some reason, so I turned on the recording studio and talked at a wall for an hour, hopefully this is helpful for someone.

In this episode, Jon and Christian review a book about liberation theology, specifically autistic liberation theology. We give a fairly thorough review of the book "Peculiar Discipleship: An Autistic Liberation Theology" by Claire Williams. We go through what we liked, what we didn't, things she got right, things she got wrong, and who should read the book. Alternative title: "Do we need an autist...

In this episode, Josiah Leinbach a statistician whose masters thesis covered a Stylostatistical analysis of Paul's Letters, and Jon, a computer engineer whose academic specialty is counter forensics, who has spent a large chunk of his adult life trying to use computational analysis to determine who wrote things on the internet and teaching grad courses on how to do the same thing, team up to expla...

In this episode Jon tries to explain his issues with Critical Scholarship. Admittedly this is a less structured and a more rambling episode, mostly because this is basically two of my special interests colliding which often got me side tracked. My main issue is that many scholars are saying things with a lot of confidence, and I'm like "IDK, I think things are actually more complicated and histori...

This this episode, Jon addresses RFK's recent speech about the supposed autism epidemic, what he got wrong, the real differences between autism prevalence the discourse that has sprung up around it.   Live Stream I did with Nathan (Digital Gnosis) https://www.youtube.com/live/m35jiN-7J7M   Papers cited: https://www.dovepress.com/prevalence-of-autism-in-scandinavian-countries-denmark-norway-sweden-...

In the last episode, Jon talked about why autistic people often get disillusioned and annoyed with Apologetics and many people reached out to ask about a specific example that could be used to illustrate these points. This episode tries to give a specific example of the problem with apologetics for autistic people to follow-up to the previous episode by talking about Christian Complicity in Slaver...

In this episode, Jon, a Computer Engineer that studies and researches the intersection between autism and Christianity, talks about the weird and unique relationship between autism and apologetics, why we like it, why we hate it, why so many of us have an apologetics phase, why a lot of us become disillusioned, by analyzing data from over 26000 online autistics and over 500 long form interviews wi...

In this episode, Jon talks about his research on autistic Christians to answer questions about autistic clergy, monks, nun, consecrated virgins, missionaries and others. He talks about why they take religious vocations, the good aspects and the bad ones as well.   Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

In this episode, Jon, and autistic autism researcher attempts to address a wide host of questions about autism and autistic identity using research from over 26000 online autistics and over 500 long form interviews: Should you identify as autistic? Is calling yourself autistic bad? Is self Diagnosis harmful? Is autism 1, asperger's, or high functioning autism fake autism? and more   Get the podcas...

In this episode Jon and Alyssa talk about why so many autistic people get caught up in Christian Cults, how cults work, why autistic people find them so appealing, what happens when they join and what happens when they leave.   Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

In this episode, Jon an autistic computer engineer and autism researcher tries to explain all of the interesting intersections between fundamentalism and Autistic Christians to Alyssa using data pulled from over 26000 online autistics and interviews with over 500 autistic Christians and ex-Christians.   Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

In this Podcast, Jon, an autistic autism researcher who spends a lot of time researching the intersection between autism and Christianity, talks to Ian, a religious scholar and Pentecostal autistic with a lot of experience within Pentecostalism about   Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

In this episode, Jon is joined by Ben Crosby, an Anglican Priest to talk about MAID and the state of MAID in Canada and the particular implications it has for autistic Christians.    You can find more of Ben's work here: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/culture-of-life/a-canadian-priest-on-medical-assistance-in-dying https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/culture-of-life/where-are-the-ch...

In this episode, Jon, a computer engineer and autism researcher explains how he went about his data collection on over 26000 online autistic Christians and ex-Christians and he answers all the questions that he's gotten about his research.   Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

In this episode, Jon tries to explain his research on autistic Christians to explain trends in attitudes towards Gender Role, Feminism, and Gender Critical Feminism, taking data from over 500 long form interviews, 26000 online personas, and many many more conversations with autistic Christians and ex-Christians.   Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/