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Stories from the Edges: "Edgewalkers" Book Launch (LIVE)

March 14, 2026·57 min·4 clips

"There's actually zero evidence for eternal conscious torment in the Bible."

1. Spiritual Misfits Podcast records a live launch for Edgewalkers: Reimagining Faith, Church and Theology, the first book from At The Edges. 2. Will Small hosts the panel, Armin works as copy editor, and contributors Caro, Saini, Kelly, Jen, and Steve each read from chapters tied to their own practice. 3. The launch asks what happens when Christian faith is explored through memoir theology, a genre described as storytelling with theological reflection. 4. The host says At The Edges began 1.5 years earlier and exists to publish stories from people "at the edges of their faith." 5. The opening speech on Gadigal land argues that "stories have the power to change the world" and that words and poetry can shift imagination. 6. Armin says he read the book "10 times" while copy editing and describes editing as helping each writer "shine their diamond." 7. Armin says the chapters shared two common threads: curiosity about what is real and what is true, and experimentation with new forms. 8. Caro says her chapter title is "Mysticism," and she quotes Rainer Maria Rilke's line, "I live my life in widening circles." 9. Caro traces her chapter through Celtic Christianity, desert fathers and mothers, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Julian of Norwich, Meister Eckhart, Hildegard of Bingen, Teilhard de Chardin, Ignatius of Loyola, Benedict, and Brother Lawrence. 10. Carol says her chapter title is "Eucharist," and she links a second-hand bookshop find, J. B. Phillips's Your God Is Too Small, to fresh expressions of church. 11. Carol says her theology shifted from a church-centred view to participation in God's mission and a focus on the meal itself rather than Jesus' power in the feeding of the multitude. 12. Saini names the Tongan word paki-paki, meaning breaking, and says it connects to communion, the road to Emmaus, and Jesus breaking bread for the crowd of 5,000. 13. Saini also explains vahe-vahe as sharing, generosity, acceptance, welcoming, and hospitality, with a gentler tone often associated with women’s gatherings. 14. Kelly says the digital world is not "merely transactional" but an "active habitat of spiritual formation" where belief and belonging take root. 15. Kelly names "awkward live stream silences," "lagging connections," and "unfiltered prayer" as part of the beauty of digital church. 16. Jen contrasts "dunamis" with Jesus' "kinesis" in Philippians 2:6-7 and describes a microchurch that met around a meal table at a Vietnamese restaurant in 2021. 17. Jen says people experiencing homelessness were remembered by name, sat with on the street, and invited to a meal after trust was built over a year of violence. 18. Steve reflects on making as dignified work, cites Melissa Raphael on women knitting in Auschwitz, and says making can be a practical mending of the world. 19. The panel has a fast, informal style with short questions, one-word chapter titles, and live reading snippets designed to make listeners curious. 20. This episode will suit listeners interested in faith deconstruction, fresh expressions, contemplative practice, and independent Christian publishing; skip it if you want tightly edited, single-topic conversations.

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