In the Shift

Michael Frost

A podcast for when life and faith go off script. Hosted by Michael Frost.

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In the Shift

Episodes (115)

Fri Aug 7th Non-coercive community Pt 6: Is Christianity actually just coercive?
Jun 9th Non-coercive community Pt 5: Belonging
Mar 3rd Non-coercive community Pt 4: The religion of capitalism

In the Shift

Aug 7, 2026
1 hours
141 MB

Episode 115: In the last episode of our series on non-coercive community, we ask the question: what if Christianity is actually just coercive? If that's the case then all this talk of non-coercive community is just pushing against the inherent nature of Christian religious belief, our ideas about God, and the story of Jesus. We discuss belief in an all-powerful God and the concept of hell as eternal punishment/suffering. If these are at the centre of a faith system, then they give rise to something that is fundamentally coercive at its very core. But we also talk...

In the Shift

Non-coercive community Pt 6: Is Christianity actually just coercive?

Michael Frost

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