Compass Podcast: Finding the spirituality in the day-to-day · United Methodist Communications

[149] Humor, theology, and asking the deepest questions with Erin Hicks Moon

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Aaron says every theology except white male theology gets a qualifier.

Ryan introduces Compass as a show about finding spirituality in everyday life. He frames Aaron Hicks Moon as a podcaster, producer and host of Faith Adjacent, and the author of the upcoming book I've Got Questions. The conversation keeps circling back to the spiritual value of asking questions. Ryan and Aaron treat curiosity as something that can deepen belief rather than weaken it. Aaron reflects on growing up in evangelical culture and on the strain of living with both faith and skepticism. Faith Adjacent comes up as a place where theological exploration can stay honest without getting theatrical. The episode keeps asking what it means to leave hard questions on the table. Humor helps with that. It lightens the room without flattening the subject. Aaron then talks about the wider reading world she entered once she became the resident Bible scholar. She names womanist theologians, queer theologians, theologians of color, and voices outside American, British, or Dutch contexts. That broader range gave her a bigger sandbox to work in. It also changed how she reads scripture. She says interpretation is always shaped by who the reader is. The conversation lands on a sharp point about theology and power. Aaron recalls the idea that every theology other than white male theology has a qualifier, while white male theology gets treated as the default. Howard Thurman and Jesus and the Disinherited come up as especially transformative. The episode closes by pointing listeners toward related Compass conversations with Matthew Ian Fleming and Reverend Bruce Reyes.

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Curiosity, humor, and theology share the same table here.

This conversation treats curiosity as part of faith, not something that pulls away from it. Ryan Dunn talks with Aaron Hicks Moon about asking hard questions, growing up in evangelical culture, and making room for skepticism without letting belief slide off the table.

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For when you want faith questions handled with honesty, curiosity, and a little humor.

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