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Curated guide to spirituality podcasts in 2026: public-radio interviews (On Being with Krista Tippett), A Course in Miracles study
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Some people come to spirituality podcasts with a question they can't ask anyone at home. They want to know how to begin praying, what to do with grief that won't settle, or whether the faith they grew up with still holds. At their best these shows keep that question company. A good host asks one question more than you would have, and then waits for the answer.
The range is wider than the shelf label suggests. This catalog holds a Spanish-language group reading A Course in Miracles paragraph by paragraph and a self-styled professor teaching Haitian Vodou through breath and prayer. It also has a rancher who talks calving season and then leads a guided meditation, and community-radio conversations about veterans and climate fiction. Some shows ask you to practise, some assume you share their belief, and some ask only that you listen.
Listeners argue mostly about trust. Many want openness without every spiritual assertion being presented as established fact, and room to reflect without being told what to conclude. Wellness talk draws the sharpest objections, because sensible advice can sit right beside unproven theories. This guide keeps those lines visible: the shows hold their beliefs, and we describe the shows.
Long conversations about the inner life
On Being with Krista Tippett sets the standard for the unhurried interview. In Jason Reynolds — On Hopelessness, the Virtue of Stamina, and Showing Grace to Ourselves, recorded before an audience, Reynolds tells a story about Larry, a stranger at a bar who offered an unsolicited opinion about victimhood. Reynolds turns the encounter into a working lesson: he can extend grace while keeping the right to bow out. The episode's advice is plain: "sometimes you got to turn your TV off." Gül Dölen — Psychedelic Science and Radical Healing, taped at the 2025 Aspen Ideas Festival, considers Konrad Lorenz's geese and critical periods in the brain. The conversation is candid about the gap between real-world data and what regulators require. The gentlest of the three is Roberta Bondi — What is Prayer and How to Begin. It draws on the Desert Fathers and Mothers and on Bondi's anxious early marriage, when her husband Richard's lack of any sense of time sent her worrying.
Aura Room works on a smaller scale. Early in Losing Memory, Finding Meaning: A Journey Beyond Identity and Consciousness with Jessica Taylor, host Archita notes that some statements reflect personal belief. That is the right frame for Taylor's account of a 1969 head injury that erased her memory of her husband and children.
Spirit in Action, hosted by Mark Helpsmeet, treats faith as fuel for public repair, and it has handed episodes to other producers. Imagine 2200 & Thrutopia: Visioning During Climate Changed gives the microphone to Peterson Toscano for a discussion of climate stories that show the messy route through a crisis. Real Military, During & After, from What Wakes Me Up carries Patricia Stansbury's veterans' testimony. One man describes a flashback at a downed traffic signal and months without a home, and another veteran speaks about wanting to die. It is unvarnished and needs care.
Teaching a tradition in its own words
Some shows exist to explain one tradition on its own terms, and they ask for patience. The Agua Cedito Show teaches Haitian Vodou. Early in Episode 59 for Honoring the Ancestors, Met Bawon, and Gran Brijit in Haitian Vodou, the host asks listeners to breathe three times and pray. He then explains that honouring ancestors means memory, accountability and innovation to him. He also corrects a familiar misreading: Bawon, who he says manages the transition out of life, is presented as necessary rather than evil. In Episode 50: Honoring the Revolutionary Spirits of the Petwo Nation in Haitian Vodou, the host stops to warn listeners before describing the brutality of slavery in colonial Haiti. At 112 minutes, it is a commitment.
LECCIÓN DEL DÍA Y ENSEÑANZAS DE UCDM offers communal practice with A Course in Miracles, in Spanish. In Debe haber una Alternativa (3 Dias para el Despertar – 01) — Unirse con Su Enseñanza III, participants are asked to raise a hand and halt the reading whenever a paragraph touches something. The pace is slow and unglamorous, which is the appeal.
Other single-tradition teaching sits nearby. In Studying Kabbalah #kab_eng, a lesson on Rabash treats a bad feeling as a prompt to turn toward the Creator. Inspiration and Transformation offers Hindu counsel on staying present with emotion. To go further, see the Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam guides.
When the faith you inherited is up for discussion
Deconstruction means examining inherited beliefs and deciding which still hold, and it has its own corner here. Spirit Outspoken, hosted by Jaisa Engasser and Rachael Loney, approaches it from a Christian upbringing and a widening mystical practice. Episode 87: Jim Crow and the Pulpit: How the Church Preached Racism as God's Order is the one to hear. It traces the doctrine of discovery, then lynching postcards, which makes for hard listening. It arrives at Zacchaeus as a biblical model of material repair. Elsewhere the hosts joke that "you don't have to throw baby Jesus out with the bathwater," and that line captures their temperament.
IN SEARCH OF GOD WITH BADAA is looser. Nigel Greer, who goes by Ill Butter, says he always starts with a round of applause for his listeners. In Episode 68 GOD’s KINGDOM (a new series)Getting What You Want - IN SEARCH OF GOD WITH BADAA, he promises that "everybody is invited to the table." Byte Sized Blessings stays with testimony. In Interview: Rev. Dr. Keith Haney ~ Our Voices Can Heal Worlds!, the Lutheran pastor recalls police demanding his ID minutes after he arrived at seminary in St. Louis, and he calls it hilarious. The host replies, "I am getting angry for you." The Christianity and Christian Living guides go deeper into Christian practice itself.
Practice you can do while listening
Guided practice changes the arrangement: the episode asks you to close your eyes. Psychic Cowgirl® mixes ranch life with meditation. In Wise Guide, Alignment, and Ranch Life, Shannon Lachman talks about a wet calving season and Todd the Highland, who trailed her on a morning walk. Later the episode guides listeners to meet a wise guide and offers a practical exit: "Just pause the podcast and carry on."
Living Oneness Gathering, led by Sue Dumais, is slower and more cosmic. The guided journey in e.56: Why Do I Feel So Nervous? Guided Journey to Heal Fear & Anxiety approaches fear in the body with a stated limit: "we're not forcing. We're inviting." In e.58: Embrace Your Wholeness & Embody Your Divine Radiance, listeners are encouraged to sit in silence for at least 33 minutes.
Modern Life and Spirit Podcast is more instructional. Why the Question You Ask Spirit Matters More Than the Answer #254 gives listeners a test for their own motives: "am i asking this to feel safe or am i asking this to understand". Near the end of that episode, a disclaimer says the show is not medical or psychological advice.
Awakening, mediumship and the question of proof
The loudest part of the field is awakening talk, and it is where testimony and evidence most need separating. Awakening Code Radio, broadcast live on KXFM by Eric Rankin and Michelle Anderson, is warm radio. Staying Human in the Digital Age with Derek Rydall turns worry about AI into an argument about human wisdom. Just Be® ~ Spiritual BOOM, hosted by Eden Koz, ranges further. In 206 Chase Tuten~CE5, Author, Explorer: Racism, Agnostic, CE5 Experiences, Dr. Steven Greer, Hare Krishna, Football & Publishing Truths, the guest calls himself analytical and says he needs "to see proof." He describes three hours of projecting mental images from the Milky Way down to his own location. He then describes seeing what he calls an interdimensional craft, which he says moved him away from agnosticism. The account is vivid, and it is his.
Health claims call for the same care. In Past Lives - Maybe We Have Done This Before, Holistically Speaking ties thyroid problems to what the host calls the witch wound. That is the show's belief. Spiritual Awakening with Shaz works as blunt coaching. You’re Not Blocked. You’re Addicted to the Problem argues that people can cling to struggle because it gets them noticed.
Mediumship continues on the Psychic & Mediumship page and manifesting on the Manifestation & Law of Attraction page. The Religion & Spirituality guide maps the wider category.
Where to start
- New to prayer: On Being with Krista Tippett, Roberta Bondi — What is Prayer and How to Begin.
- Curious about Vodou from the inside: The Agua Cedito Show, Episode 59 for Honoring the Ancestors, Met Bawon, and Gran Brijit in Haitian Vodou.
- Rethinking an inherited church: Spirit Outspoken, Episode 87: Jim Crow and the Pulpit: How the Church Preached Racism as God's Order.
- An anxious evening: Living Oneness Gathering, e.56: Why Do I Feel So Nervous? Guided Journey to Heal Fear & Anxiety.
- Faith that rolls up its sleeves: Spirit in Action, Imagine 2200 & Thrutopia: Visioning During Climate Changed.
Featured shows below are part of the PlayNext catalog. Updated weekly.
Featured shows
10 shows, described rather than listed
Each has a short write-up and a note on what it does best here.
Public-radio-grade long-form interviews with religious leaders, poets, scientists, activists. Editorial breadth covers spiritual traditions and secular meaning-making equally.
Spirituality at the intersection of climate, activism, progressive religious thought. Interview-and-essay format from a progressive editorial frame.
Reads A Course in Miracles' daily lessons. The most accessible entry point to ACIM study via podcast.
David Hoffmeister's A Course in Miracles teaching events and Q&As. Longer-form ACIM context.
Additional A Course in Miracles content. Three ACIM shows on the slate signals the study community's continuing podcast appetite.
Awakening / consciousness-shift / sovereignty register. Interviews with figures who position their work as awakening-related.
Daily-affirmation-and-faith register with short-format *Byte* episodes plus longer interview episodes.
Psychic and mediumship-curious interviews and listener-story episodes. Mainstream-accessible register.
Psychic-medium content interwoven with rural-Western-American lifestyle framing. Distinctive voice on the slate.
Manifesting-and-abundance sub-genre. Joe-Dispenza-adjacent content; format trades on testimonial-style abundance claims.
Where to start
6 routes in, one per reader
*Shai Held — On Love, and Judaism* is the entry.
Daily-lesson format is the entry. Pair with *A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Podcast*'s David Hoffmeister teaching events for deeper context.
*Imagine 2200 & Thrutopia: Visioning During Climate Changed* is the entry.
*Mayan Cosmology & Sacred Time (with Christine Hernandez)* is the entry. *Psychic Cowgirl®*'s rural-Western framing is an alternative voice.
*Neil Gaur and the Incubator Projects for New Earth Consciousness* is the entry.
Short Joe-Dispenza-framework episodes are the entry. Know the editorial register before listening.
Glossary
Speak the language
Cultural pattern of exploring religious and metaphysical questions without committing to a single tradition. Has been one of the dominant threads in North American religiosity for the past three decades; produces most of this slate's editorial range.
1976 New-Thought spiritual text with its own ongoing study community. Has produced multiple podcast formats (daily-lesson readings, teaching events, Q&As, study circles). Three ACIM-specific shows on this slate signal the community's continuing podcast appetite.
Sub-genre that frames spiritual practice in terms of attracting financial or relational outcomes. Often Joe-Dispenza-adjacent. *Affirmation to Manifestation* is the slate's clearest example; format trades on testimonial-style claims.
Sub-genre that frames spiritual content as part of a collective awakening or consciousness-shift narrative. *Awakening Code Radio* is the slate's example; tradition has roots in 1960s-70s New Age literature plus more recent New-Earth-consciousness framing.
Sub-genre running long-form public-radio-quality interviews with religious figures, poets, scientists, and activists. *On Being with Krista Tippett* is the slate's clearest example and the genre's mainstream flagship.





















