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Jailbreak the Sacred

Join Nate Craddock every Tuesday as he talks with leaders, thinkers, practitioners, and activists about the intersection of mainstream religion and alternative spirituality. If you're reconstructing your own spirituality, exploring alternative ways of practice, or just want to be part of healing the world, this is the podcast for you.
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Episodes

Episode 16 — A Crash Course in Miracles with Colin Bedell and mizChartreuse

It’s a great pleasure to welcome not one but two of the most fabulous astrologers I know to the show this week, the inimitable Colin Bedell and mizChartreuse. We became acquainted through the astrology conference world and I reached out to have a conversation with them regarding A Course in Miracles, the seminal 1976 book which has been influential in both of their lives and for thousands (if not millions) of other individuals. ACIM has been an influential source text for both of them, and they'...

Aug 28, 20191 hr 10 min

Episode 15 - Badventist with Bryan Nashed

This week it's a pleasure to welcome my friend Bryan Nashed to the show. Bryan is a spooky boi, tarotist, and podcaster, coming to us from the wild and wooly world of Seventh Day Adventism. Bryan co-hosts the Badventist podcast with Anthony Rodriguez, which, aside from winning this week's portmanteau award, serves as a space for those who grew up Adventist to work on jailbreaking their own sacred stories. The conversation covers: Seventh Day Adventism Staying within a tradition and critiquing it...

Aug 20, 201957 min

Episode 14: Neurodiversity, Pneumadiversity, and Magical Life with Arthur Lipp-Bonewits

Today's chat features a lovely conversation with Arthur Lipp-Bonewits. Arthur is an all-purpose diviner, astrologer, occultist, and ecumenical medium based in New York City where he is studying psychology, gender, and sexuality. Today we're sitting down to talk growing up neopagan and the confluence of religious, spiritual, and magical practice at the margins. Mile markers for our conversation: Growing up neopagan and present challenges with even defining what "neopagan" is Developing sensibilit...

Aug 07, 20191 hr 11 min

Episode 13 - Social [Work] Gospel with Rev. Dr. Sarah Kye Price

Today on the show it’s my privilege to welcome my friend and clergy colleague, the Rev. Dr. Sarah Kye Price. Mother Sarah and I met during the trial-by-fire known as Clinical Pastoral Education back in 2015, and she was recently ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church. In addition to living out her priestly vocation as the priest affiliate at Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Sarah is the associate dean for faculty development at the Virginia Commonw...

Jul 31, 20191 hr 13 min

Episode 12 — Marybois with Andrew Lamont

A little late on the release due to ECLIPSE MANIA, but here we are. It's a privilege to welcome my good friend Andrew Lamont to the show. Andrew is a fiber artist, magician, and astrologer based out of Rhode Island, and today we're sitting down to talk about the process of jailbreaking Catholicism, embodiment and desire, and the importance of ritual work in developing connection to community across the boundaries of space and time. Glad to have a fellow Maryboi on the show. Growing up Deadhead/C...

Jul 18, 20191 hr 12 min

Episode 11 — Dismantling Fear with Jo Gleason

Today on the show it’s my privilege to welcome my good friend Jo Gleason! Jo is an astrologer, former ballet dancer, and writer based out of Oklahoma City. She currently serves as the vice president of the Association for Young Astrologers. This free-form conversation tracks Jo's story through her GOOD CHRISTIAN KID upbringing. We talk about disarming the fear of deconstructing one's beliefs and presuppositions about the world in order to find even deeper foundations in the mystical. Our thread ...

Jul 09, 20191 hr 11 min

Episode 10 - Take this Bread with Flan Park

Today on the show, I’m sitting down with my friend Flan Park. Flan and I have been in each others orbits for several years now, having connected with one another via Gay Christian Twitter. Flan is a children’s librarian living and working in Philadelphia. Their work focuses on bringing whole person, whole family literacy and learning support work to underserved and underrepresented populations throughout the city, as well as researching and generating educational materials around gender affirmin...

Jun 26, 20191 hr 22 min

Episode 9 — Lines in the Sand & Lines in the Soul with Sam Block

Today on the show I’ve got the privilege of welcoming my friend Sam Block, with whom I became acquainted through Spooky Twitter, only to find out that he lives in my hometown, the forested wilds of Northern Virginia. Sam wears many hats; in addition to being a software developer, talented geomancer, and all-purpose magician, Sam is a prolific writer and has a robust online presence through his website, The Digital Ambler. He’s also a fully initiated priest in the Afro-Cuban spiritual tradition k...

Jun 18, 20191 hr 19 min

Episode 8 — Creating through Prediction with Drew Levanti

This week, I sat down with Drew Levanti, a new friend I connected with at the Northwest Astrology Conference in Seattle. Drew is a student of anthropology and of Hellenistic astrology (with some forays into archetypical models of symbolism). Our conversation wends its way through his experience growing up around a heavy-duty New Age community, his work as a student of anthropology, and the role of ethics in shaping our creative engagement with cycles of time measured astrologically. This convers...

Jun 11, 20191 hr 11 min

Episode 7 - The Imaginal Realm with West Ardere

We're on a weird release schedule these days due to circumstances beyond my control, but I'm glad to be back! This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome to the show my friend West Ardere! West is an astrologer and former evangelical based out of Seattle, Washington. Our lovely conversation today circles the drain on ritualized prayer, folk catholica, ancestor veneration, Tolkien, and the role of the imaginal in spiritual practice and the development of a constellation of mythic narratives—aka...

Jun 06, 201955 min

Episode 6 - Sacred Rage with Eve Ettinger

Today we welcome my good friend Eve Ettinger to talk about surviving a Quiverfull cult, the justice of rage, the power of critique, and the process of engaging with the sacred through narrative constellations when circumstance and safety have required you to leave it all behind. Eve is an essayist, tarot reader, and commentator on fundamentalist and homeschool cultures in the United States. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Cosmopolitan.com, Autostraddle, and Glamour UK, and ...

May 21, 201956 min

Episode 5 - Solo Show: The Sacredness of the Everyday

On this week's solo show, I share some thoughts on cultivating the sacredness of the everyday, following a thread that I've been hanging on to since my conversation with Dayna. "All religion is spiritual, all spirituality is religious." What does that mean for the spiritual-but-not-religious crowd? More importantly for our task here, what does that mean for the process of liberating our sacred stories? Passages are from Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul. Music by Purple-Planet.com...

May 15, 201934 min

Initiation & Power with Dayna Lynn Nuckolls

I was #blessed to have this incredible conversation with my friend and colleague, Dayna Lynn Nuckolls. Dayna is a Chicago-based western sidereal astrologer and spiritual practitioner. Our conversation wends its way through Dayna's experience growing up black and Christian and we talk about the spiritual power that erupts from initiatory experiences, a jailbroken Christianity, sidereal astrology, and assembling cohesive narratives from fractured experiences in alignment with the cyclical nature o...

May 07, 20191 hr 18 min

Episode 3 - Spirited Appalachia with the Rev. Kimberly Gibson-Pierce

This week features a wonderful conversation with my friend and clergy colleague, the Rev. Kimberly Gibson-Pierce, about the spiritual uniqueness of Appalachia and the revolutionary undercurrent behind such stereotyped phenomena as snake-handling and poison-drinking in certain pockets of Pentecostalism. Rev. Kim is a commissioned minister in the Disciples of Christ denomination and a scholar of Appalachian history. This discussion broke apart quite a few of my misunderstandings about the region a...

Apr 30, 20191 hr 3 min

Episode 2 - Going Old School with Robert Bailey

For this week's episode, I sat down to speak with my colleague and friend Robert Bailey, a professional astrologer based in Canberra, Australia, to talk religious upbringing, learning medieval astrology to impress a girl, the precarious work of discerning new ways forward after life-altering junctures, and finding one's way back to the religious tradition of youth after taking a long detour. This episode was an absolute treat to record and I'm sure you'll find it delightful. The discussion winds...

Apr 23, 20191 hr 8 min

Episode 1 - Sitting Down and Shutting Up with Andrew Ford

I drove down through the wilds of the Virginia panhandle to sit down with my friend Andrew (Andy) Ford, a quasi-lapsed Episcopalian, Zen practitioner, musician, playwright, and existential bon vivant. Andy shares about his life growing up as a Good Christian Boy and his process of coming out, sitting down, and shutting up, embracing the Dark Night of the Soul, and learning how to escape the samsara cycle of spiritual pursuit. Andy's writing can be found at https://aredstatemystic.wordpress.com/ ...

Apr 14, 20191 hr 2 min

Episode 0 - Overture

In this pre-episode of Jailbreak the Sacred, Nate describes the whole point of the show and explains what "jailbreaking the sacred" is all about. Every Tuesday , listen in as I sit down to talk with leaders, thinkers, practitioners, and activists about the intersection of mainstream religion and alternative spirituality. These are people like me who have experience growing up religious that they are now working to reclaim, often through avenues of different religious traditions such as Zen Buddh...

Apr 14, 201917 min
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