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God Knows Where
A podcast from a recovering Baptist pastor exploring the richness and complexity of Christian faith by untangling it from hollow, institutional religion. Whether you're deconstructing, reconstructing, or just remodeling your childhood faith, host Brett Harris offers space to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and recover hope, knowing that, while we might wonder what this all means and where life is leading us as we wander through it, God knows where.
Join Brett each week for a new episode…
Episodes
God Knows WhereVBS: Coat Check
Was it a coat of many colors? Was it vivid in technicolor? Who knows? All that matters is this story about Joseph and his special garment has liittle to do…
God Knows WhereVBS: Keep Going
We're doubling back today to a story we skipped over just after the Flood. It's that ancient, epic building tale. The Tower of Babel. It's a story that we…
God Knows WhereVBS: Fear the Sheeper
David and Goliath. So much has been written about these two foes that it seems strange to say more. The good news for you is, I'm not really concerned with the…
God Knows WhereVBS: Gleaning Lady
If last week's episode was my favorite story in scripture, today is my second. Let's talk about Ruth and what we learn from her and Boaz...which is different…
God Knows WhereVBS: Grace War
Today is my absolute favorite story for the Bible:Jonah. And we are going to talk as little about the fish as possible. Hope you enjoy! VBS: Very Basic Stories…
God Knows WhereVBS: I Said What I Said
We’re going to keep moving forward and skip over a few familiar stories, some we might come back to later, to meet Moses talking to a bush that’s on fire…
God Knows WhereVBS: Swimming in Grief
We’re moving on from the beginning, but not that far ahead. We all know the story of the Flood, but I think we forget how dark it is when we just think about…
God Knows WhereVBS: Chance the Rapids
I hope y’all are ready to start VBS! Grab some snacks, maybe a vanilla cookie, and some juice. Pull up a carpet square and let’s start talking about some very…
God Knows WhereHealing: War Pigs
There’s one last thing we haven’t talked about when it comes to healing and all the many things Jesus heals folks from in the gospels: how Jesus heals people…
God Knows WhereIntroducing VBS!
Check out VBS (Very Basic Stories), our summer series here at God Knows Where. Kids get all the fun with skits and songs and snacks at vacation Bible school…
God Knows WhereHealing: Catching Strays
Today, Jesus is healing the person we hope never gets healed: our enemy. And to make it harder to comprehend, he’s doing it at his absolute lowest moment. So…
God Knows WhereHealing: No Fear
Today, Jesus is healing us from the one thing no one can come back from: death. And he’s doing it in a really strange way. As always though, there’s a method…
God Knows WhereHealing: Blurred Lines
More than anything else in the gospels, Jesus heals blindness, and there’s one story that’s different than the others. I think it rewires how we look at all…
God Knows WhereHealing: Pro-Voice
Jesus is unequivocally pro-voice in today’s episode as he restores a mute man’s ability to speak and teaches us why we need to listen to those voices that have…
God Knows WhereHealing: Listen Up!
Hope you’ve got some listening ears on today! We’ve got a look at a story where Jesus heals our ears so we can hear better than ever before. Enjoy! Thanks for…
God Knows WhereHealing: Hand Out
We’re healing hands today instead of legs. Well, not us, but Jesus. And the story we’ve got from Matthew, Mark, and Luke, shows us how we can learn to heal…
God Knows WhereHealing: Leg Day
We’re back on our healing journey with a beautiful story about how Jesus heals our legs not for a long leap, but rather for the long haul from Gospel of…
God Knows WhereHealing In Person
This week's episode is short...really short, but with good reason and a little homework for you instead. Don't worry it's fun, good, healing homework. And…
God Knows WhereHealing: Holy Silence
We’re back on our healing journey with a beautiful story about how Jesus helps us see ourselves differently from Gospel of Matthew. I hope you’ve enjoyed the…
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Offshoots: It Didn't Have to be This Way
Once again, we’re (sort of) continuing our newest series on healing, but not quite with a sermon I've preached on Palm Sunday in the past. We'll be back with…
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Offshoots: This Story Has Legs
We’re (sort of) continuing our newest series today on healing with a sermon I recently preached at First Trinity Presbyterian Church. I’m on vacation but I…
God Knows WhereHealing: Symptom Addict
We’re continuing our newest series today on healing with a short story with a big message from the Gospel of Mark. I hope you’ve enjoyed the start to this new…
God Knows WhereHealing: Crowd Control
We’re continuing our newest series today on healing with a look at a story that almost has too much healing for one story. But then again, can there ever be…
God Knows WhereHealing: Grudge Mats
Let's start our conversation about healing with an incredibly simple question Jesus asks: "Do you want to be made well?" It's a great questions but it's not…
God Knows WhereIntroducing Healing!
As much as we're crying out for rest, I think we're clamoring even more for healing. Too often, I've found we're searching for healing from wounds caused by…
God Knows WhereSabbath: 70 Years of Sabbath
The way we read the stories in our tradition matters. And there's one story that we read (or don't) out of order to how it was intended. If we think about it…
God Knows WhereSabbath: Healing Isn't Working
We’re sticking with Jesus today in what I’d argue is the most beautiful example of why Sabbath exists that we have in our tradition. And it comes in the face…
God Knows WhereSabbath: Enough is Enough
We’ve got two stories today, one from Exodus and one from Jesus, about the thing that makes it hardest for us to rest: worry. Take from me, a professional…
God Knows WhereSabbath: Apart or A Part?
As we continue looking at slowing down. Regrounding. At Sabbath, we’re going to do what I think you all may have thought we’d look at last week and go back to…
God Knows WhereSabbath: Should We Stay or Should We Go?
We’re back today with an all new episode looking at sabbath! I don’t know about you but the last of month of the year was an absolute sprint for me. So here at…
God Knows WhereIntroducing Sabbath!
The society we live in throws relentless demands upon us every day. Demands on our time. Demands on our minds. Demands on our bodies. And too often we don’t…
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Lighting Up the Darkness
One year ago today, the first episodes of God Knows Where were published and what a year it's been! Today, we're revisiting not the most listened to or best or…
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Spare Some More Change
Today, we're revisiting the most listened to episode of God Knows Where. I think when you listen to it again (or for the first time...) you'll see why more…
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Merry Christmas from God Knows Where!
Merry Christmas! Hope you and yours had a wonderful day yesterday. As I spend time with my family here’s my take on what the Christmas story is all about…
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Let's Go!
As we're winding ever closer Christmas and we're still #drawingoutadvent over on the Premium Feed, here's another story of folks who are coming or going home…
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Immaculate Perception
As we continue to wind our way to Christmas and we #drawoutadvent over on the Premium Feed, we'll keep looking at stories of folks who are coming or going home…
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Assistant to the Regional Manger
As we wind our way to Christmas and we #drawoutadvent over on the Premium Feed, we'll keep looking at stories of folks who are coming or going home on their…
God Knows WhereDrawing Out Advent: Expectations
Today's episode of Drawing Out Advent is all about those folks who were waiting and hoping all those years ago and how they expected God’s messiah to come as a…
God Knows WhereDrawing Out Advent: Assumptions
We’ll begin our story, like Luke’s, with people just like you and me who assumed a lot about who God was and what God was doing in the world. Many assumed that…
God Knows WhereDrawing Out Advent: Origins
Today's episode of Drawing Out Advent is all about where the Christmas story begins and why the way it's told helps us remember why it matters. Watch Adam…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Speechless
Today’s episode is a bridge in many ways. It’s one more story, the last story we’ll look at it in this series of ones we overlook and avoid for a while, and it…
God Knows WhereDrawing Out Advent: Trailer
For years my family has used an Advent calendar to mark the days leading up to Christmas. Some have been simple countdowns and others brought to you by Lego…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Mind Your Business
We’re starting to wind down this series on the stories we avoid, the scriptures we don’t read in Church, and we’re staying with John’s gospel. The closing…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Reasons for the Seasons
We’re turning back to the gospels today to a story I have absolutely no idea why we don't read in Church. The Gospel of John in particular for a little…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Better Than Ezra
As we continue walking trough stories we never read in church, we’re going to wander through Ezra’s story today. It was surprising to me to see this book never…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Horror Story
Spooky Season is almost over, but we've got one more scary story to talk about this month. The Desolating Sacrilege. The best name for a horror movie that's…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Body Politics
If there was one book in the Bible a good little church kid wasn't supposed to ever read, it was Song of Songs, that book of "erotica" right in the middle of…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Choosing Sides
Whose side are we on? Whose side is God on? Those are big questions we ask, especially when violence erupts. And it's hard to figure out the answers because…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Plant-Ifs
Was Jesus ever on Candid Camera? Maybe Punk'd? If so, it was during this little story in Luke that we never read. And the best news for us is that he didn't…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Trust Issues
Did Jesus have trust issues? According to this little passage from John’s gospel he did. But why? Let’s dig in and find out. "You've Never Read This," is a new…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Eyegiene
This episode is not brought to you by my good friends and eye care professionals at Eye Care Associates and Retina Specialists of Mississippi, but it could…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Oh, Hey Jude!
🎶"Hey Jude, don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better..."🎶 That's what we're doing today. There's this tough (I mean tough) letter in the New…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: To Halve or to Hold
That L is important...this episode isn't about wedding vows, but it is about a choice. It's about a choice we have to make about how we look at this world and…
God Knows WhereYou’ve Never Read This: Male Gaze
Have you ever heard of Dinah? Not the one from "I've Been Working on the Railroad," but the Jacob's daughter, Joseph's sister. Probably not. We ignore her…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Two Chairs
Can you think of something we collectively avoid more than conflict? I can't. Jesus knew we're this way and that's why he responds the way he does in another…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Yeast of Burden
Couldn't help but sing along with Mick Jagger as I pulled this episode together...Turns out Jesus strongly believes that yeast can be a burden to all of us…
God Knows WhereYou've Never Read This: Come Closer
Welcome to the first episode of "You've Never Read This," a new series from God Knows Where looking at stories in our scriptures that fall through the cracks…
God Knows WhereIntroducing You've Never Read This!
New Episodes Are Here! In this new series, "You've Never Read This," we'll be taking a look at some of the stories in our scriptures that fall through the…
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Worried Sicker
Today we’ve got another one of my favorite episodes of God Knows Where. Summer break is over, so this will be the last rerun episode from “I Didn’t Say That”…
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Faithing Off Again
Today we’ve got another one of my favorite episodes of God Knows Where. Summer break is nearly over, so I’m bringing you this early episode from “I Didn’t Say…