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Faith and spirituality sometimes leave us with more questions than answers. The Compass podcast shares stories about deconstructing faith, finding meaning, seeking justice, and deepening spiritual connection through contemplative practices and worship. Join fellow spiritual seekers Michelle Maldonado and Ryan Dunn as they seek orientation to the Divine presence in the day-to-day through a Christian perspective. A production of United Methodist Communications.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ryan Dunn turns Christian questions about grace, ethics, suffering, and practice into candid conversations grounded in the pressures of daily life.
Compass keeps asking how faith holds up once it meets ordinary pressure. Ryan Dunn uses guest interviews to connect Christian belief with addiction recovery, grief, work habits, evangelism, artificial intelligence, and the demands of community.
A text-Jesus app enters the conversation, and your questions about AI and faith get company.
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A thoughtful faith conversation about identity, ethics, and community that rewards patient listening.
Tamise Spencer-Helms gives the conversation a grounded center. It treats faith as something that has to survive culture, identity, and daily mess, not float above them.
Recovery, prayer, and humility come together in a grounded conversation about getting realigned with grace.
Ben Gosden's story treats recovery as a return to alignment with values and grace. As a pastor and the author of Grace Rediscovered, he talks about addiction, prayer, humility, acceptance, and the small habits that recovery changes.
A measured look at evangelism as honesty, formation, and everyday witness.
This episode treats evangelism as something steadier than a script. Reverend Ryan Dunn starts with an old joke about why people hesitate to share their faith, then moves into the familiar fears underneath it: being laughed at, sounding judgmental, or not feeling like a credible…
A calm, practical take on AI, accessibility, and digital faith.
Ryan Dunn's conversation with Reverend Nathan Webb keeps coming back to the ordinary ways AI slips into daily routines, then turns toward the harder question of how that changes spiritual practice and neighborly care.
A pastoral conversation that treats grief, grace, and theodicy as lived realities.
Reverend Jabe Largen sits with Ryan Dunn for a conversation that stays with hard questions instead of dodging them. It moves from his upbringing amid the opioid crisis in Appalachia to the slow work of finding grace after loss, with theodicy named plainly throughout.
A grounded portrait of church as shared work, open air, and belonging.
The episode follows Reverend Corey Turnpenny as she talks about Church in the Wild, a nature-focused congregation built around outdoor worship, a camp setting, and shared service.
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.
A steady conversation about spiritual walls, honest community, and the move from nominal Christianity to committed discipleship.
Compass turns a simple question about hitting the wall into a careful look at spiritual walls and the shift from nominal Christianity to committed discipleship.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Ryan Dunn sits down with Aaron Hicks Moon for a conversation about curiosity and faith.
Host Ryan Dunn explores how to cultivate sacred presence during the often-distracting Christmas season.
Host Ryan Dunn teaches listeners about Lectio Divina, an ancient Christian contemplative practice of divine reading.
Ryan Dunn opens with a plain question about AI's place in spiritual life.
Compass asks what happens when a person hits a spiritual wall.
Ryan Dunn talks with Tamise Spencer-Helms about spiritual mixtaping.
Ben Gosden shares a recovery story shaped by faith.
Ryan Dunn opens with a goofy early-2000s video about why people avoid sharing their faith.
Reverend Corey Turnpenny shares the story of Church in the Wild, a nature-focused congregation in upstate New York that blends outdoor worship with seasonal rhythms.
Ryan Dunn opens a reflective conversation with Reverend Jabe Largen on Compass, Finding Spirituality in the Everyday.
Pastor Tyler Sitt discusses navigating faith and politics amid aggressive immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.
Host Ryan Dunn discusses the challenge of being present during the busy Christmas season and explores how the Christmas story teaches about sacred presence.
Bishop Julius Trimble discusses living out faith through social justice, addressing immigration, equity, and societal violence from a Christian perspective.
Ryan Dunn reintroduces an interview with Brian McLaren about faith deconstruction and Christian nationalism.
Host Ryan Dunn introduces a mailbag episode, answering listener questions about faith and spirituality from a Christian perspective.
Ryan Dunn interviews Elizabeth Coolidge Jenkins about patriarchy in the church, women's agency, and re-examining traditional biblical interpretations.
Host Ryan Dunn and Reverend Mark Feldmeier explore challenging questions of faith, focusing on where one sees the action of God and reconciling God's power with suffering.
This episode explores whether the Bible contradicts itself and how to take the Bible seriously while navigating skeptical questions, featuring Reverend Josh Scott.
This episode explores the nature of church and creative ministry with Reverend Jerry Herships, founder of After Hours Denver.
Reverend Ryan Cannaday shares his story of recovery from alcoholism and the role of spirituality and support groups in his journey.