Inclusive Faith Podcast
Inclusive Faith Podcast is a progressive Christian podcast that provides a space for honest conversations about faith, identity, healing, and belonging. Hosted by Kade Rogers and Dr. Gregory S. Neal, a United Methodist pastor with over 30 years of ministry experience, the show explores topics like LGBTQ+ inclusion, church hurt, scripture, progressive Christianity, and spiritual growth. The podcast aims to create a welcoming environment for those who have felt pushed out or overlooked by the church, including LGBTQ+ Christians and individuals healing from religious trauma.
Episodes
Live-Streaming an Execution: What Would Jesus Do?
What happens when an execution becomes something we’re invited to watch?In this episode of The Inclusive Faith, Kade Rogers and Dr. Gregory S. Neal respond to the United States government’s plan to livestream a military execution and a failed execution in Tennessee. These headlines open a deeper conversation about capital punishment, the sacredness of human life, and what it means to follow Jesus
Spiritual but not religious? We get it.
Spiritual but not religious? Can you believe in God, follow Jesus, and still struggle to trust the church?In this episode of The Inclusive Faith Podcast, hosts Kade Rogers and Dr. Gregory S. Neal have an honest conversation about spirituality, organized religion, church hurt, and finding a faith community where you can belong without hiding who you are.As LGBTQ+ Christian leaders, we understand wh
What My Dog Taught Me About God's Love
What can our dogs teach us about God's unconditional love, grace, and belonging?In this special episode of The Inclusive Faith Podcast, Kade welcomes our very first guest co-host, Chloe, one of his three dogs, for a heartfelt reflection on faith, the love we share with our pets, and what it really means to come home.Having grown up with dogs, Kade knows there's something extraordinary about the wa
What Happens When We Die? Rethinking Heaven and the Afterlife
What happens when we die, and how much of what we believe about heaven actually comes from the Bible?In this episode of The Inclusive Faith Podcast, Kade Rogers and Dr. Gregory S. Neal look beyond pearly gates, clouds, harps, and other popular images of heaven. They explore where those ideas came from, what Scripture says about resurrection and eternity, and why faith does not always require certa
I Survived Conversion Therapy. Here’s What It Did to Me
What does conversion therapy actually do to a person?In this deeply personal episode of Faith in 10, Dr. Gregory S. Neal shares his experience inside a religious conversion therapy program, where he was taught to repeat the words, “I am an abomination,” until shame became inseparable from his understanding of himself and God.Greg reflects on the lasting spiritual and emotional wounds of conversion
What the Hell? What the Bible Really Says About Hell
Is hell really a place of eternal fire and punishment? Would a loving God condemn someone to endless torment, and is that actually what Jesus taught?In this episode of The Inclusive Faith Podcast, Kade Rogers and Dr. Gregory S. Neal ask a question many Christians are afraid to voice: What if everything we have been taught about hell is wrong?Together, they explore what the Bible actually says abou
A Biblical Case for Same-Sex Marriage
Many Christians point to Matthew 19 as proof that Jesus defined marriage exclusively as between one man and one woman. But is that really what Jesus was saying?In this Faith in 10 episode, Dr. Greg Neal examines the question Jesus was actually answering, what Genesis says about human companionship, and why these passages may offer a strong biblical case for same-sex marriage. Rather than condemnin
What It’s Really Like to Be a Gay Pastor
What is it really like to be a gay pastor in the Christian church?In this episode of The Inclusive Faith Podcast, gay pastor Dr. Gregory S. Neal and his husband, Kade Rogers, share an honest conversation about LGBTQ+ inclusion in the church, the challenges of being a gay Christian leader, and their experiences serving together in ministry.Greg and Kade discuss the pressure LGBTQ+ clergy face to re
Faith in 10: What Are You Waiting For?
What are you waiting for?Most of us live as though there will always be more time. We will make the phone call later, have the difficult conversation when the timing feels right, and tell people how much they mean to us the next time we see them.But tomorrow is not promised.In this personal Faith in 10 reflection, Kade considers what Psalm 90 means when it asks God to “teach us to number our days.
The Bible & Homosexuality: The New Testament
What does the New Testament actually say about homosexuality?In Part Two of our conversation about the Bible and homosexuality, Kade and Greg examine the three New Testament passages most often used to condemn LGBTQ+ people: 1 Corinthians 6:9–11, 1 Timothy 1:8–11, and Romans 1:20–27.Together, they explore the Greek words malakoi and arsenokoitai, the cultural world in which these passages were wri
The Bible & Homosexuality: The Old Testament
The Bible & Homosexuality: The Old TestamentWhat does the Bible really say about homosexuality and LGBTQ+ people?For generations, a small group of Bible verses has been used to condemn, exclude, and harm LGBTQ+ people. Often called the “clobber passages,” these scriptures are frequently presented as clear proof that the Bible rejects same-sex relationships. But is that what they actually mean
Faith in 10: Fear Is Not The Gospel
For generations, many Christians have been taught that faith is primarily about avoiding hell: believe the right doctrine, follow the right rules, never question religious authority, and do not step beyond the boundaries someone else has drawn.In this Faith in 10, Dr. Gregory S. Neal examines how fear is used as a tool of religious control and how self-appointed gatekeepers claim the authority to
The Rapture: Biblical Truth or Modern Invention?
What if everything you were taught about the rapture came from a much more recent interpretation than you realized?In this episode of The Inclusive Faith, Kade Rogers and Dr. Gregory S. Neal examine the popular belief that Christians will suddenly disappear while everyone else is left behind. They explore where modern rapture theology came from, whether it is actually supported by Scripture, and h
Faith in 10: Why Do Some Christians Reduce Queer Love to Sex?
Why do some Christians seem unable to talk about LGBTQ relationships without immediately reducing them to sex?In this Faith in Ten episode, Greg reflects on the way queer love is often stripped of its humanity and reduced to sexual stereotypes. But the biblical story of companionship does not begin with sex. In Genesis 2, God identifies isolation as the first human problem: “It is not good that th
Does the Bible Really Say That?
Does taking the Bible seriously mean taking every passage literally?In this episode of The Inclusive Faith Podcast, Kade and Greg talk about biblical literalism, Bible interpretation, and why faithful reading of Scripture requires context, humility, history, and honesty. They discuss the harm that can come when the Bible is flattened into one rigid way of reading, especially for people who have ex
Faith in 10: Dear Comment Section…
The comment section can be funny, exhausting, heartbreaking, and revealing.In this Faith in 10 episode from The Inclusive Faith, Kade Rogers talks about the comments we receive online as LGBTQ-affirming Christians. Some are beautiful. Some remind us why this work matters. And some sound a lot less like the love of Jesus and a lot more like judgment with a Bible verse attached.From “I love you, but
Surviving Conversion Therapy: Greg’s Story
In this deeply personal and extended episode, Kade Rogers talks with his husband, Dr. Gregory S. Neal, about Greg’s experience surviving conversion therapy as a teenager.Greg shares the story of being outed as a young person, being told that being gay separated him from God, and being sent into a conversion therapy program that used shame, fear, Scripture, and aversion practices in an attempt to c
Faith in 10: God in the Pride Parade
Greg just spent several days at PrideFest in Des Moines—talking with people at a church booth, worshiping alongside nearly 30 affirming churches, and walking in the Pride parade.And in all of it, he encountered the presence of God.Faith in 10 is a new bonus series from The Inclusive Faith Podcast featuring short, focused reflections on faith, inclusion, and life—usually in 10 minutes or less.In th
Why We Stayed Christian After Church Hurt
After everything the church did to us, why in the world would we stay?That is a question we get asked often. Why stay in ministry? Why stay Christian? Why remain connected to a church or denomination that caused real harm?In this episode of The Inclusive Faith Podcast, Kade and Greg talk honestly about calling, church hurt, fear, loss, hope, and the complicated reasons they did not walk away. Greg
Our Story: Love, Church Hurt, and Finding Our Way
Our Story: Love, Church Hurt, and Finding Our WayIn episode two of Inclusive Faith Podcast, we share more of our story.How we met. How our relationship grew. And how the church made something beautiful feel complicated, painful, and harder than it ever needed to be.This conversation is personal, but it is not just about us.It is about what happens when people are forced to fight for their own dign
Why We Started Inclusive Faith
Why We Started Inclusive FaithIn the first episode of Inclusive Faith Podcast, Kade Rogers and Dr. Gregory S. Neal introduce the heart behind the podcast and why these conversations matter.After years of talking honestly about faith, identity, church hurt, inclusion, and what it means to belong, Kade and Greg are inviting others into the conversation. This episode shares why the podcast exists, wh
Trailer: The Inclusive Faith Podcast
Welcome to The Inclusive Faith Podcast.This is a space for honest conversations about faith, life, and everything in between. Hosted by Greg and Kade, a married gay couple shaped by years of lived experience in church and ministry, this podcast explores the questions many people carry but don’t always feel safe to ask out loud.If you’ve ever wrestled with belief, identity, or where you belong, you
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