The Second to Last Supper with Ryan Middledorf

Sister Mary Therese Perez chooses her own religion! Mary is a member of my cohort at Harvard Divinity School and she came to share her journey to becoming a Catholic nun in the Dominican Order. We talk about faith as identity, calls to service, sacrifice, contemplative practice, and a new conceptio…

Jason Adam Sheets chooses his own religion! Jason is a poet, a Master of Theological Studies candidate at Harvard Divinity School, and author of the book The Hour Wasp. In this episode we talk about the spirituality of poetry, the creative process, surrealism, death, symbolism, generational trauma,…

Lindsay Sanwald aka Idgy Dean chooses her own religion! Lindsay is a classmate of mine at Harvard Divinity School who creates and performs amazing psychedelic spiritual surf rock, and she came on to share her musical, creative, and spiritual journey. We also muse on comparative theology, Christiani…

This week’s guest on Choose Your Own Religion is none other than my dad! Rev. Dr. Jody Welker has been a Presbyterian minister for nearly 40 years, and I finally had him on the show to mark my beginning at Harvard Divinity School and my unlikely return to Christianity. We talk about our different t…