Untamed Grace | Christian Deconstruction, Universalism, & Faith Beyond Fear

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail From war zones to church pews, Bob found one truth: grace never stops reaching. In this episode of Slutty Grace, Jeromy Johnson sits down with Bob Hildreth—a pastor, storyteller, and spiritual wanderer who’s walked with both the holy and the hurting. Bob shares his story of religious trauma, healing, and the surprising discovery that grace is far bigger—and far m...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail What if hell isn’t God’s punishment—but our protest? In this episode of Slutty Grace , Jeromy Johnson asks whether hell might simply be the porch outside the party—the place where the “good” and the religious stand, too offended by mercy to step into grace. Through the story of the prodigal son’s older brother, and other moments when Jesus flipped religious expec...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail How do you raise children with love when you were raised with fear?  In this episode of Slutty Grace , Jeromy Johnson talks with Nadyia Horning —a mother, advocate, and survivor of fundamentalist religion—about what it means to break the generational chains of fear and raise children with love instead of control. Nadyia shares her story of growing up in an Indepe...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail Can a good God condemn forever? Can love and justice truly coexist? And if the Gospel is good news, shouldn’t it be good for everyone? In Part 2 of Evangelicalism vs. Universalism , Jeromy and David Artman dive head-on into the debate: hell, judgment, free will, and the moral logic of universal salvation. It’s a passionate, respectful clash between evangelical th...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail What if everything we were taught about hell was wrong—or at least incomplete? What if judgment wasn’t about eternal torment, but transformation? And what if grace is bigger, wider, and wilder than any of our doctrines can hold? In this first part of a two-episode conversation, Jeromy sits down with David Artman , author of Grace Saves All and host of the Grace S...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail If God’s love truly includes everyone, what does that say about how we live, forgive, and belong? In this conversation, Jeromy Johnson and Pastor Chris Jorgensen step into the deep waters of progressive Christianity and Christian universalism—the belief that divine love leaves no one out. Together they wrestle with fear, faith, justice, and the mystery of divine...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail What if you lived your whole life in one room, with only one window to the world? That limited view would become your entire reality—until one day, the door opened, and you discovered more rooms, more windows, more perspectives than you ever imagined.  In this episode of Slutty Grace , Jeromy Johnson shares a story of discovery—an analogy for the Christian journe...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail In this episode of Slutty Grace , Jeromy Johnson sits down with Jacob Kendall—a scholar with backgrounds in theology, social work, public health, and gerontology, as well as an entrepreneur and survivor of two open-heart surgeries.  Jacob’s journey is deeply interdisciplinary, blending science, faith, and lived experience to confront some of life’s biggest questi...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail Have you ever felt like faith and religion was just… exhausting? Like you were carrying the weight of everyone else’s soul? Managing their beliefs, and your own? Living under endless rules and shoulds that always seemed to shift? In this episode, Jeromy Johnson shares how evangelicalism left him spiritually tired—like sleep apnea for the soul. And how discovering...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail Today, Jeromy welcomes a guest who feels less like an interview and more like a reunion. Jonathan Brink and Jeromy have known each other for decades—they’ve asked the dangerous questions together, laughed hard, wept at communion tables, and wrestled with a God who never seems to fit inside our boxes. Jonathan’s journey has taken him through deep wounds, psychedel...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail Belief is never neat. It is both anchor and sail, holding us steady, yet carrying us into uncharted waters. In this episode of Slutty Grace , Jeromy lays down his flag, not with arrogance, but with humility, on one central conviction: God’s love and grace are for all. From wrestling with our human limitations, to reimagining forgiveness as God’s gift (not our tri...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail A bonus episode, this is my raw, initial thoughts and reactions to the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Does God give his love and grace to Charlie? What about the person who pulled the trigger? This puts the radical, expansive, universal, untamed grace of God to the test. This is when it counts. If not now and to these two people, then when?  __________________________...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail We’ve been told the story starts with perfection—paradise lost in a single catastrophic moment. But what if that’s not how it happened? In this episode of Slutty Grace , Jeromy revisits the opening pages of Genesis and the story of “The Fall.” Instead of a flawless world shattered by sin, we’ll explore a different picture: creation as good, but never perfect. Hum...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail This week’s episode is different. No studio, no script—just Jeromy, sitting in his car between appointments, hitting record, and speaking honestly about one of the heaviest doctrines he grew up with: hell. Not the cartoon fire and pitchforks, but the teaching that most of humanity will be tortured forever. For years he felt like he wasn’t even allowed to question...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail In 1974, Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda finally stepped out of the Philippine jungle—29 years after World War II had ended. For nearly three decades he refused to believe the leaflets that told him the fighting was finished. He lived as if peace was a lie. Many of us do the same with God. Jesus declared, “It is finished.” The war is over. But we still live like fug...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail The title might make you squirm—and that’s the point. Grace isn’t polite religion. It’s not tidy, respectable, or safe. Grace doesn’t wait for the worthy. She doesn’t check your credentials. She pours herself out—recklessly, promiscuously, without apology—on saints and screw-ups alike. In this opening episode, Jeromy wrestles with the elephant in the room: the na...

Send Jeromy a Message or Voicemail I’m Jeromy, and this is Slutty Grace. Why call it that? Because grace refuses to behave. She doesn’t ask if you’ve been good, she doesn’t wait for permission, she doesn’t play by religious rules. She gives herself away—promiscuously, shamelessly, to people who don’t deserve it. The respectable have always hated this. They called it wasteful. Dangerous. Scandalous...