GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher - The Podcast

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this special edition of What’s Your Spiritual Story? , philosopher Abigail Rosenthal sits down with her husband, Jerry L. Martin , for the most extended and personal telling of her spiritual story to date. Drawing on her memoir, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, Abigail traces the formation of her inner life from an Edenic childhood and early encounters with loss...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this episode of Radically Personal , Jerry L. Martin turns to the work of American philosopher and psychologist William James to explore how divine reality is encountered in lived experience. Drawing from The Varieties of Religious Experience , Jerry reflects on James’s influence on the philosophy of religion and his claim that religion begins not with doctrines or...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this year-end intimate dialogue, philosophers Jerry L. Martin and Abigail L. Rosenthal return to one of the most enduring questions in philosophy and theology: why evil persists, and what that persistence reveals about God.  Drawing on Jerry’s prayer experiences and Jon Levenson’s Creation and the Persistence of Evil , the conversation explores the idea of an evolv...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In Episode 263 of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast , philosopher Jerry L. Martin reflects on one of the most enduring and difficult questions in philosophy and theology: the problem of evil . In this From God to Jerry to You episode, Jerry describes a pivotal moment near the end of his spiritual journey, when what he calls the “impossible puzzle” finally came togeth...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this episode of What’s On Our Mind , Scott Langdon and Jerry L. Martin explore truth-seeking beyond reductionism. Drawing on Radically Personal , lived experience, acting, spiritual stories, and prayer, they ask how we know what’s real—and why meaning cannot be reduced to just chemistry.  The conversation ranges from new atheism and scientific exclusivism to Stoici...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! What’s Your Spiritual Story? is a continuing series from God: An Autobiography, The Podcast that invites real people to share the journeys that shaped their spiritual lives. Each episode explores how the search for meaning, identity, and connection unfolds through personal experience—and how God meets us in surprising ways. In this week’s conversation, Amanda joins Dr...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! What if theology is not a set of inherited doctrines, but life seeking understanding?  Learn more in Jerry’s latest book, Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age, and subscribe for weekly episodes that explore God, spiritual experience, and the ongoing journey of the soul. In this second installment of Radically Personal, philosopher Dr. Jerry L. Ma...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this week’s episode of Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue, Jerry L. Martin and Abigail L. Rosenthal explore how God communicates through intuition, dreams, insights, and the quiet promptings that redirect a life.  Their conversation speaks directly to listeners who wonder why God can feel hidden and how to recognize a true divine nudge. Jerry reflects on the...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this week’s episode of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, Jerry L. Martin explores one of the most practical and urgent spiritual questions we face: How do we know what we’re meant to do with our lives—and how do we tell when God is guiding us? Drawing on the Hindu concepts of dharma and swadharma, Jerry explains the difference between our role-based responsibilit...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this deeply moving episode of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast , philosopher Richard Oxenberg —co-author of Two Philosophers Wrestle With God —shares his full spiritual story for the first time. His journey begins with childhood tragedy: witnessing the sudden death of his seven-year-old sister. The shock shattered his early understanding of God, safety, and reali...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! How do we recognize when God is gently guiding us? Is it a voice, a feeling, or a moment of connection we might almost overlook? Scott shares a simple encounter at a bagel shop that turned into a surprising moment of synchronicity — a reminder that a radically personal God often reaches us through quiet intuition and ordinary experiences.  Jerry reflects on why these...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! What does it feel like when God guides you from within? For Laura Buck, that quiet voice has been there all along, leading, nudging, comforting.  In this intimate spiritual story, Laura opens up about growing up between religious worlds, learning to trust intuition over expectation, and discovering that God speaks through the feelings we often overlook. She shares pow...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! Radically Personal is a new series exploring how divine reality reveals itself within the lives of individual seekers. Based on Dr. Jerry L. Martin’s newest book, Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age , the series invites listeners to rethink what it means to encounter the divine as intimately present and personally responsive. Each episode follow...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! When can love—and even pain—become a form of revelation? In this powerful dialogue, Dr. Jerry L. Martin and Dr. Abigail L. Rosenthal trace the mysterious link between romantic love, moral conscience, and divine communication. Abigail shares two defining experiences of spiritual discernment: a moral act that cost her a lifelong family bond, and the unexpected moment sh...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! What happens when a lifelong agnostic philosopher prays for the first time—and God answers? In this episode, Jerry L. Martin reflects on the experience that transformed his life and inspired God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher. Through love, gratitude, and trust, Jerry moves from intellectual doubt to an intimate conversation with the Divine. He shares how...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this What’s On Our Mind episode, we ask: how do you know when a task has your name on it?   In a noisy world full of choices, it can be hard to discern your true path. Is it just hard work, or a sign you’re on the wrong road? We explore stories of callings, intuition, and spiritual discernment, and how energy, peace, and prayer become signposts for purpose. Through...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! Five years. 250 episodes. Countless stories of faith, struggle, and discovery. This milestone episode of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast is a deep reflection on what it means to grow spiritually through suffering, to find joy again, and to experience divine love as a personal reality. In this special episode, Scott, Jerry, Abigail, Laura, and Mandi come together to...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this wide-ranging conversation, Jerry and Abigail pick up where last week’s episode left off, turning from the idea of swadharma — one’s unique calling — to how that calling actually plays out in a real life. Jerry reflects on the Bhagavad Gita ’s teaching that it is better to follow your own duty, even imperfectly, than to live someone else’s well.  Abigail shares...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! What does the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata , often called “India’s Iliad,” have to say about your life today?  In this From God to Jerry to You , philosopher Jerry L. Martin shares what God revealed to him while praying through the pages of this vast epic and its centerpiece, the Bhagavad Gita . God’s surprising message is clear: the purpose of life is not to escape...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this episode of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, host Scott Langdon and philosopher Jerry L. Martin explore the meaning of the New Axial Age: a transformative era of spiritual development that God revealed to Jerry during their dialogues.  What does it mean that “the old religions are coming apart, yet there is a renewal of religious spirit”?  Together, Scott an...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! What’s your spiritual story? In this episode of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast , philosopher Jerry L. Martin sits down with Joel Weiner to explore a journey that moves from childhood faith, through rejection, to rediscovery and renewal. Joel grew up in a Jewish home in Philadelphia, went through Hebrew school, and walked away from synagogue life right after his ba...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this episode, Jerry and Abigail return for their fourth conversation in the series Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue, exploring the most profound theme of God: An Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher : the New Axial Age. The term “Axial Age,” introduced by philosopher Karl Jaspers, describes the pivotal era when some of the world’s greatest spiritual figu...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this episode of From God to Jerry to You , Dr. Jerry L. Martin explores a profound and timely revelation: the arrival of a New Spiritual Axial Age.  God’s message to Jerry wasn’t just about retelling a familiar story; it was about reframing it for an era in which the world’s faith traditions meet, interact, and evolve in ways never before possible. Jerry shares how...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! In this moving episode of What’s On Our Mind , Scott and Jerry revisit one of the most difficult questions in spiritual life: why does suffering exist?  Drawing from God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher , they reflect on God’s response to Jerry’s early questions about pain and meaning. God doesn’t minimize suffering—He calls it “the law of growth in the uni...

Questions? Comments? Text Us! What’s your spiritual story? In this heartfelt episode of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast , Dr. Jerry L. Martin sits down with hospital chaplain Rosemarie Proctor to explore a life of evolving faith, profound loss, and deep spiritual wisdom. Rosemarie’s journey began in a strict Catholic upbringing, where fear-based teachings about heaven and hell shaped her childh...